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Speaker 1: And joining me live in the studio right now is

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Speaker 1: the Lord Mayor of Darwin. Conbat Scarlet's good morning to ukon.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Kate, and what a beautiful day.

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Speaker 3: It is a bit humid, but hey it's sunny and

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Speaker 3: everybody in down especially the tourists, love it.

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Speaker 4: They do.

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Speaker 2: That.

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Speaker 4: Humidity though, is certainly creeping back in unfortunately con there

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Speaker 4: is funny to cover off on. But I do want

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Speaker 4: to know.

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Speaker 1: Tonight's the last council meeting, isn't it before the elections.

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Speaker 3: This is the last council meeting before we go to

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Speaker 3: kretakem out on the fourth or fifth of August. This

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Speaker 3: is the four years of the council that we just

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Speaker 3: had and I have to say that it was a

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Speaker 3: great council.

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Speaker 2: As a council, we achieved a lot.

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Speaker 3: If you look around town you will see a totally

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Speaker 3: different Darwin that you will see four years ago. And

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Speaker 3: not only the trees, but also the infrastructure of the playgrounds,

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Speaker 3: the lights at the ovals. The previous council could make

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Speaker 3: up its mind for four years. Remember the saga with

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Speaker 3: Easter with the garden oval lock.

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Speaker 4: It was yeah, there was. It took a long time.

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Speaker 2: The novel is there.

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Speaker 3: But we've got the Baggot, and we've got the Maluk

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Speaker 3: and we've got the Nightcliffe one. So from nothing we

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Speaker 3: went to four. And suddenly one of the interesting things

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Speaker 3: is that we paid a lot of attention to the suburbs.

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Speaker 3: I visit the other day moil shopping center that now

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Speaker 3: the work you're finished, it is totally unrecognizable, beautiful, beautiful gardens.

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Speaker 3: The Wargaman again was a gravel pit. Now it's a

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Speaker 3: bloody oasis, which is really really good.

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Speaker 2: Not forget.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the thing you're going on about in Lake Alexander

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Speaker 3: that's been finished and been a complex.

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Speaker 4: Well, I am glad that that has happened.

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Speaker 1: And I have no doubt Corn that you will have

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Speaker 1: an election pitch coming everybody's way in the coming weeks.

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Speaker 1: And I do want to ask you about a couple

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Speaker 1: of other issues that continue to bubble along.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: One of those is definitely the day that has been

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Speaker 1: decided for letting off fireworks. Now, last time you and

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Speaker 1: I spoke, we spoke about this and discussed this and

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Speaker 1: discuss the concerns about the rubbish and that kind of

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Speaker 1: thing that's always a concern.

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Speaker 4: But the fire danger since and your veris to the Council.

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Speaker 3: The smallest to the government, the smallest issue collected very

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Speaker 3: quickly and collected themselves.

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Speaker 2: The data I think is a big issue.

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Speaker 3: Now we rote to the government, will receive a reply

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Speaker 3: from the Chief minusic who says no, he sticks to

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Speaker 3: his gun.

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Speaker 2: And it's going to be the twenty ninth of August.

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Speaker 3: Since then, other people came up very very vocal, let's

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Speaker 3: feel so our council came again and said, chiplice change it.

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Speaker 3: It's a fire danger. I think the day is not right. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I understand the Chief Minister wants to celebrate Freedom Day.

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Speaker 3: That's fantastic. But my prediction is most likely we have

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Speaker 3: a fire band, complete fire band, and then I could

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Speaker 3: be fire work.

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Speaker 1: So com do you think that the Chief Minister just

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Speaker 1: actually needs to take a step back here.

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Speaker 4: And go do you know what, no fireworks this year?

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Speaker 3: Well he does have to actually say no farwer this year.

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Speaker 3: You can just say we can do it later this

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Speaker 3: year when they we have more wet conditions, or let's

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Speaker 3: this year put a ban on it and will start

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Speaker 3: again next year.

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Speaker 4: So change the die.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's very simple. I don't know why he's

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Speaker 3: not changed the date. But it's the Chief Minister. Here's decision,

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Speaker 3: and if something goes wrong then he's nobody else to

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Speaker 3: blame but himself.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's you, the Palmerston Council and Literfield Council.

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Speaker 3: Now I don't know about the palmers about. It comes

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Speaker 3: with the fire, the volunteer fire brigade. Everybody who's actually

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Speaker 3: dealing with fires knows somebody and says, please do something.

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Speaker 2: The other option I said before is just limited working.

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Speaker 2: You do it. You can do it in middle Bitch,

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Speaker 2: you can do it in fred.

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Speaker 3: Pass, so in areas where it can actually control it

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Speaker 3: and you have equipment ready and something goes wrong, and

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Speaker 3: tell people who don't wait for it next year.

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Speaker 2: This year is it's a strange situation. Look what's happening

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Speaker 2: around us. Let's hold back, but I don't know. We

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Speaker 2: express our opinion loud and clear.

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Speaker 4: And what did he say?

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine is the date?

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Speaker 4: So just came back and said that's the day. No discussion.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Well, there's a lot of people very concerned about this,

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Speaker 1: So I just I'll be really interested to see how

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Speaker 1: it goes well. Interested probably isn't the right word, because

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Speaker 1: if we end up with, you know, with a terrible

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Speaker 1: situation where there's more fires around the place.

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Speaker 4: It's not going to be interesting. It's going to be

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Speaker 4: pretty bloody frightening.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to say I told you so. The

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Speaker 3: best thing to do is let's rethink it. I mean,

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Speaker 3: sometimes you get and you can make a tough decision,

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Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, people says, yeah,

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Speaker 3: will the right decision.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what happened.

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Speaker 4: Corn.

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Speaker 1: Another thing I'm keen to ask you about is we

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Speaker 1: know the Chief Minister came out yesterday and said the

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Speaker 1: plans around the way for the biggest parade that Darwin's

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Speaker 1: ever seen. Those two hundred Olympic athletes are going to

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Speaker 1: be quarantined at Howard Springs and are going to be

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Speaker 1: given a ticket type parade or a hero's return. It's

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Speaker 1: been dubbed and this is something that you, as the

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Speaker 1: Lord Mayor and the City of Darwin supports.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: I might not agree in everything with the Chief Minister,

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Speaker 3: but this is something I totally agree and I totally

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Speaker 3: support it.

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Speaker 2: It would be a great idea.

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Speaker 3: It would be the first sea that I can have

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Speaker 3: a ticket parade for our Libyans. Let's not forget some

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Speaker 3: of them the swimmers trained in our parap pools. So

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Speaker 3: Chief Minister, if you're listening, please go ahead with it,

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Speaker 3: and You've got my full support. I'll be there with

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Speaker 3: you and other territories cheering our Libyans when they come

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Speaker 3: and they finish the quarantine after fourteen days in our

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Speaker 3: Howard Springs.

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Speaker 2: It is a great idea, go ahead with who would.

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Speaker 4: Pay for it? Who futs the bill?

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that one of the governments would pay

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Speaker 3: for it for it. But again, at the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, is is this important thing or actually these

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Speaker 3: people actually dedicate their time, their effort and their work

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Speaker 3: to make us proud as Australians. These guys are in

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Speaker 3: very different circumstances now in Tokyo in the middle of

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Speaker 3: the pandemic, you know, doing their bit for Australia, and

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Speaker 3: I'm so proud for them doing it there watching them.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter if you can first or second or third,

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Speaker 3: the fat that you managed to be in the Olybic Games,

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Speaker 3: it's very important you a week first.

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Speaker 1: I really hope that it does happen. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a great idea. Hopefully we have some of those medal

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Speaker 1: winning athletes as well, quarantining it how it springs, because

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Speaker 1: we don't know yet which ones.

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Speaker 3: Will be called the rest of Australia. We're watching that

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Speaker 3: way with no restriction, not lockdown. Doing a ticket parade

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Speaker 3: for our a Libyans. You can't buy this publicity, doesn't

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Speaker 3: matter how much money you can spend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Conbat scarluts, we better leave it. They're always good

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Speaker 1: to catch up with you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the short of today.

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Speaker 3: But one thing I want to say is you're going

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Speaker 3: to see me next week again because we've got more

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Speaker 3: news coming up.

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Speaker 2: Even if we're in care take it, but things happen

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Speaker 2: in that we just have to keep it do not

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Speaker 2: shut down.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we just have to keep it non.

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Speaker 2: Campaign absolutely absolutely, Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Con good to catch up with every day, you too,