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Speaker 1: Well, joining me on the line right now is the

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Speaker 1: CLP candidate Gary Strachan.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Gary.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, thanks for having on your show.

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Speaker 1: NT If I pronounced your name correctly, your surname correctly.

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Speaker 1: I know I've always said Strachan, but somebody else had

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Speaker 1: said to me, No, I think it's Strawn.

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Speaker 2: Can you clear it up for me.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's definitely Stracken. But don't worry. I've been called.

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Speaker 2: Work, haven't we? All all right?

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Speaker 1: Gary, Well, you've got seven minutes to answer a series

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Speaker 1: of questions.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready to get started?

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Speaker 3: Ready to go?

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Speaker 2: Let's do it?

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Speaker 1: Why did you decide to put your hand up to

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Speaker 1: run in the seat of Johnson.

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Speaker 3: Look, I've been living in the territory now for forty

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Speaker 3: four years, and I love the territory lifestyle. But over

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Speaker 3: the last eight years or so under Labor, I've seen

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Speaker 3: an increase in crime and any social behavior, and I

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Speaker 3: decreased in businesses around it, around the city, around the

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Speaker 3: territory in general. You just have to walk down the

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Speaker 3: mall to see how many empty shops there are to

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Speaker 3: realize that something start right. And I had two shops

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Speaker 3: myself in the city, and I've closed them down. And

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Speaker 3: I was even next door to John John ice Creams

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Speaker 3: for two years in Knuckie Street, and I know the

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Speaker 3: issues he's been facing, and I understand he's closing this Saturday.

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Speaker 3: We all had the same kind of issues, being threatened

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Speaker 3: with knives or to be stabbed. It's just signs being

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Speaker 3: thrown in the streets. It's just terrible. So business insurance

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Speaker 3: has gone crazy, no population growth, reduced tourism and locals

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Speaker 3: are scared to go to the shops because of the

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Speaker 3: crime and any social behavior. So in the last few years,

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Speaker 3: I personally have reduced my staffing levels. I was six

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Speaker 3: staff plus one in my shop and by the time

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Speaker 3: I finished a few years ago, I was found a

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Speaker 3: one staff member and myself. So there's a wave of

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Speaker 3: businesses closing their shops and they're really sadly. They're they're

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Speaker 3: considering their future and a lot of these business people

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Speaker 3: are moving away. So you know, that's why I joined

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Speaker 3: the sea ORP. Basically, I decided that I wanted to

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Speaker 3: run because I believe the CEOP is the only party

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Speaker 3: with a plan to rebuild the territory and a strong

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Speaker 3: team that can get the territory back on track. So

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Speaker 3: I'm as you'd probably know that I'm a community minded

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Speaker 3: person because I set up the many of your listeners

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Speaker 3: will know, I set up the Deadly Hairded program, and

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Speaker 3: with that it was to sort of build people's skills

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Speaker 3: and to help find employment, to break the cycle of criminality,

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Speaker 3: and to restore self esteem and purpose of life. So

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Speaker 3: a lot of this stuff has been in youth detentions,

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Speaker 3: mental health, drug and alcohol. And I've traveled to a

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Speaker 3: lot of different communities, so you know, I have to

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Speaker 3: some great success success turning these young people around, and

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Speaker 3: that's why I think I'll be a valuable member if

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Speaker 3: I'm luckily enough to be elected as a member.

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Speaker 1: You've already touched on what you see as being some

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Speaker 1: of the biggest issues. I mean, are there other things

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Speaker 1: that people are raising with you when you go out

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Speaker 1: in your door knock.

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Speaker 3: Yes, people are. People are actually had enough, you know,

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Speaker 3: the crime that is just out of control. People are

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Speaker 3: scared to go to their local shops and it's clear

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Speaker 3: that the softly softly approach it's just not working. We

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Speaker 3: need to be much tougher on crime. But we thought

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Speaker 3: those still need to have some education, so we need

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Speaker 3: to sort of rehabilitate as well. So that's what we're

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Speaker 3: finding when we're going to most of the when I'm

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Speaker 3: knocking on the doors. The second to that and way

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Speaker 3: way behind us. Costs are living, Yeah, you know, costs

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Speaker 3: are living is getting out of control. And that's all

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Speaker 3: because we're not building our economy and you know, the

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Speaker 3: insurances are going up because of the crime, Tourists aren't coming.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's just out of control in that way.

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Speaker 2: Now, in terms of St.

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Speaker 1: Vinnie's, I know that it is the electoral boundaries have

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Speaker 1: changed to some degree, so it's sort of I think

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Speaker 1: it falls now under Fanny Bay, but it is the

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Speaker 1: move of Saint Vinnie's is something that people in your

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Speaker 1: electorate as well have raised as a concern. Do you

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Speaker 1: support Saint Vincent de Paul moving into Coconut Growth.

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Speaker 3: So the way I see it is that these sort

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Speaker 3: of services need to be in the industrial areas. I

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Speaker 3: think Coconut Grove is sort of fairly residential, even though

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Speaker 3: it's got I have a business there myself in Coconut Grove.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of the problems that you know, are

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Speaker 3: faced with when you bring a service like some Vinnie

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Speaker 3: into the area. Means a lot more antisocial behavior and

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Speaker 3: break into houses and things like that. So I think

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Speaker 3: the better solution would be somewhere in Berrima or somewhere

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Speaker 3: like that where there's less houses and more industrial.

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Speaker 2: Do you live in the Electric Garry?

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Speaker 3: I have just sold my place in the city and

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Speaker 3: I'm moving into the Electric I have three children. One

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Speaker 3: is a special niche child, so that soul goes to

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Speaker 3: numb Luck School, and so running from one school to another,

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Speaker 3: especially when I've been away in communities a lot, my

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Speaker 3: wife is running between one place, one school and another

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Speaker 3: and they all start at the same time, so it

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Speaker 3: means that it's impossible to have the children at school

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Speaker 3: at the same time. So I am definitely moving into

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Speaker 3: the electorate. That was whether I was running or not.

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Speaker 3: I need to be close to that special needs school. Gary.

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Speaker 1: In terms of the development of gas, I know that

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Speaker 1: you are a former member of Territory Alliance at the

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Speaker 1: last election. Do you support the development of gas, particularly

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Speaker 1: on shore gas.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I definitely support well regulated on shore gas. You know,

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Speaker 3: power bills are concerned to my electorate as well, and

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Speaker 3: we need cheaper energy if we want the economy to

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Speaker 3: grow here in the Northern Territory. You know, we've got

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Speaker 3: grout and go minds that are winding down and we

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Speaker 3: need the next project to grow our economy. This is

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Speaker 3: important for all of us because the customer living is

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Speaker 3: going to keep going up and we need that investment.

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Speaker 3: Garrett know that Territory Alliance was sort of you know,

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Speaker 3: anti anti gas.

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Speaker 1: But that.

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Speaker 3: Was a party policy. I had no control over that.

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Speaker 1: Gary, we've only got twenty seconds really quick one. Do

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Speaker 1: you know where your preferences are going to go?

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Speaker 3: Yes, well that's going to be a CLP decision.

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Speaker 2: Yep, all right, basically yep.

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Speaker 1: We've only got a couple of seconds left. So why

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Speaker 1: should people vote for you?

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Speaker 3: Well, I've got so much real world experience. I've been

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Speaker 3: in the territory for forty four years. I've been a

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Speaker 3: business owner, director of an offer profit, I've been a lawyer.

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Speaker 3: I know what's needed to tackle the crime and I've

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Speaker 3: seen it from every angle and also in particular use

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Speaker 3: crime and how to rehabilitate. And it's really important that

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Speaker 3: I join as a strong team.

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Speaker 2: Oh we've run out of time. Gary Strachan, great to

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Speaker 2: speak with you this morning, the CLP candidate.

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Speaker 3: Thank you that's a headress the lawyer. We can talk

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Speaker 3: under water.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for speaking with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Much appreciated.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you,