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Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio for the last time for

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. It is the Lord Mayor of Darwin

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Speaker 1: convat Scarlets.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you coh o Katie.

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Speaker 3: And what twenty twenty one has it been? Oh my

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Speaker 3: you twenty twenty was not any better.

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Speaker 2: No, it's been a pretty wild couple of years, hasn't it.

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Speaker 3: Conn It has and I think it will continue to

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Speaker 3: be for a while. It's a new variant now. I

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Speaker 3: believe there are three cashun Yolara, so I'm counting the

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Speaker 3: days to see when it will happen in Darway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's it.

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Speaker 1: We had those two, those two cases, those two blokes

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Speaker 1: I believe in their thirties that had flown into Lara

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Speaker 1: from Brisbane I think, and then now close contact of them.

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Speaker 1: The government announced yesterday or the acting Chief Minister, No,

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Speaker 1: the Health minister it was sorry, announced yesterday that press conference.

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Speaker 1: So all lies certainly on that situation today.

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Speaker 3: Just make sure you keep wash your hands, use the disinfectant,

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Speaker 3: keep your distances if necessary. I know it's going to happen.

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Speaker 3: Its inevitable because all the borders and are open. People

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Speaker 3: can fly from here to there and everywhere. But just

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Speaker 3: take the precautions advised by the expert.

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Speaker 2: Not Facebook.

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Speaker 1: That's right, yeah, exactly, And con I know that it's

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Speaker 1: been a busy year for the council.

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Speaker 2: It always is.

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Speaker 1: You and I have discussed quite a number of times

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Speaker 1: over the last few weeks the situation with the e scooters. Now,

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Speaker 1: earlier in the week, we actually caught up with the

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Speaker 1: mother of a young woman who'd fallen off one of

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Speaker 1: those e scooters over the weekend and had injured herself

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Speaker 1: fairly badly. Take a listen to what Kim had to

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Speaker 1: say to us on the show on Monday.

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Speaker 4: Quite literally, she could have actually like being in a

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Speaker 4: wheelchair now for the rest of her life. We're just

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Speaker 4: waiting to find out.

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Speaker 2: She was drunk.

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Speaker 4: She'd been at a Christmas party. But even she said, Mum,

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Speaker 4: they should have breatalizers on them, so if you're over

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Speaker 4: the lemma or you can't get on them, they won't start.

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Speaker 2: Thank You's on.

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Speaker 4: Board with combat Scarlas too, saying that so if he

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Speaker 4: needs somebody that's actually been injured to stand up and

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Speaker 4: say something needs to be done, she said she's quite

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Speaker 2: So that was Kim.

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Speaker 1: A bit earlier in the week, there con and it's

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Speaker 1: always like it is pretty sad when you hear that

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Speaker 1: someone's fall to often hurt themselves. But it does just

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Speaker 1: really reach right the concerns around people drinking and getting

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Speaker 1: on these a scooters.

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Speaker 3: Kim, I really sympathize with you. I hope your daughter

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Speaker 3: is not injured badly and she's not going to spend,

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Speaker 3: as you said, her life in a wheelchair. Unfortunately, it's

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Speaker 3: very common. You know, we have a couple of drinks

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Speaker 3: and we think she'll be right. I can't take my car.

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Speaker 3: I get a Scuda now twenty kilo on s Paraur.

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Speaker 3: You fall off, you can injure yourself very badly. That's

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Speaker 3: what I say. One of the things we're going to

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Speaker 3: put to Neuron is on certain days to lock the

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Speaker 3: in Brisbane. There is a reason to do that one.

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Speaker 3: So if people go to let's say Mitchell Street, have

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Speaker 3: a few drinks, not one or two or even three,

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Speaker 3: but they've got more than that, then just walk on

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Speaker 3: You're on two wheels going twenty kulums per hour. Something

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Speaker 3: for you. I sympathize again with your daughter and her injuries.

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Speaker 3: She made a mistake and unfortunately too many people make

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Speaker 2: After a few days, yes.

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Speaker 1: Hi, con I do remember now they're obviously earlier in

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Speaker 1: the week we learned that your CEO.

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Speaker 2: Scott Waters, is going to be leaving.

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Speaker 1: Obviously disappointing to see the loss of your CEO.

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Speaker 3: I spoke to Scott. Actually, Scott came and saw me

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Speaker 3: our stuff. We were really well together. We had no problems,

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Speaker 3: no argument. You hear in other councils in other states.

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Speaker 3: We decided we're going to do the best for Darwin.

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Speaker 3: He did the best for Thatwhen I wish him all

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Speaker 3: the best. It's our loss. But NOSA gets a really

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Speaker 3: good CEO. So now we'll be going out for you

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Speaker 3: to get some somebody good and I'll look forward to

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Speaker 3: get somebody as good as Scott.

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Speaker 1: So what is the process in terms of recruiting a

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Speaker 3: Well, council make a decision actually to proceed with the advertising,

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Speaker 3: and it's fair to advertise to give the opportunity to

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Speaker 3: we probably appoint in recruitment agency like we did previously,

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Speaker 3: and then waiting for the applications. I hear already people

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Speaker 3: for counsel. Then now every time we advertise a job

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Speaker 3: we get about fifty or sixty applications.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I know that's that process.

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Speaker 1: Last time round of using the recruitment agency, it was

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Speaker 1: very costly obviously in terms of the expense, it did

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Speaker 2: I can't remember exactly how much, but I remember you

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Speaker 2: just a lot of money.

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Speaker 3: Any more likely money will spend And the reason for

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Speaker 3: that is we got Scott. I mean, that was a

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Speaker 3: really good investment for us. We got a really good

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Speaker 3: CEO that actually achieved a lot. Now there are not

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Speaker 3: many local agencies, most of them are in the state. However,

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Speaker 3: get the final folio with the applications, they're already been

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Speaker 3: to us who says, look, these are the four or

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Speaker 1: The last time, and so do you anticipate that you

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Speaker 1: will go through the same process and it's going to

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Speaker 1: cost one hundred grand.

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Speaker 3: Again, I don't know how much is going to cost

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Speaker 3: the thing is having somebody that actually have a pool

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Speaker 1: We did with Scott well, can anything else on the

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Speaker 2: I know that we are just how it's away from Christmas.

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Speaker 3: We've got a really good program for next year. Of course,

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Speaker 3: the swimming pool, we will not close it in the

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Speaker 3: wet season. We're not that stupid. We're close it where

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Speaker 3: the drive starts and we'll start working casual. Now that's right,

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Speaker 3: and then we see the eccentditary development. We already advertised

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Speaker 3: for a faction of design brief and we're asking people

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Speaker 3: to express in there, so we're goun on that one.

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Speaker 3: We'll proceed with that, creating Darwin. We just finished our

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Speaker 3: last giveaway of trees. We gave about ten thousand trees

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Speaker 3: we gave two thousand trees. So there's more doew trees

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Speaker 3: out there planted by our residents. And thank you very

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Speaker 3: much for that. And we'll continue to do the same

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Speaker 3: thing in the next year. More trees, more beautification. People

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Speaker 3: want to actually say that they changed even better in

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Speaker 3: the next couple of years. The next year.

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Speaker 1: Well, contact scarlets, We always appreciate your time on the show.

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Speaker 1: You turn up every single week and you never get

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Speaker 1: too offended when I ask you crazy stuff, which I like.

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Speaker 3: We offended if you don't ask this question, is Kadye.

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Speaker 3: We know each other for a long long time in

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Speaker 3: different circumstances. I know you're doing your job probably, and

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Speaker 3: I'm going to give you the answer that people want

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Speaker 3: to hear. I'm not going to mince my.

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Speaker 2: Word so as well, and that's fine.

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Speaker 1: But the thing I like as well is that at

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Speaker 1: different times and I've raised issues with you, I are

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Speaker 1: the crossing at East Point, for example, the issue that

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Speaker 2: About the dog park.

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Speaker 1: You and I had spoken on numerous occasions about the

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Speaker 1: you do actually go away, and you make changes if

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Speaker 1: they are required, which I think is really important.

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Speaker 3: This is my role. My role here is not where

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Speaker 3: It's actually listening to what people have to say. Sometimes

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Speaker 3: Sometimes they've got their story mixed up. But my role

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Speaker 3: Respond to people, fix it if it's broken, and if

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Speaker 3: it's not broken, explain to them why we're not going

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Speaker 3: to fix it because simply it's not broken. But the

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Speaker 3: things you're rest And thank you very much for people

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Speaker 3: ringing in and telling us that I'm in Darwin, but

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Speaker 3: I can't be everywhere all the time. If you see

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Speaker 3: something broken, let us know.

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Speaker 1: World well contat Scarlet. So I hope you have a

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Speaker 1: lovely Christmas. We'll catch up with you in.

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Speaker 2: The new year.

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Speaker 3: Medic Christ all of you and your families, and a

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Speaker 3: happy new year. Stay safe, listen to the experts. We

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Speaker 3: have difficult times, but we can overcome.

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Speaker 2: Good on your con Thank you,