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Speaker 1: It is thirteen minutes away from eleven o'clock. And well,

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Speaker 1: we're going to head across right now and catch up

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Speaker 1: with our old mate, Jerry Wood. Good morning to you, Jerry, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Katy. Not too much stress on the old bit

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Speaker 2: very much.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've been our friends for a long time. You've

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Speaker 1: been our friend for a long time, Jerry. That's what

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Speaker 1: I made.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, Jerry.

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Speaker 1: Or before I ask you about these boundary changes, mate,

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Speaker 1: how the petrol price is looking out in the rural area.

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, terrible, but I don't think we knew anything

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Speaker 2: about it. The world has gone a bit crazy, and

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Speaker 2: that craziness is affecting the world supplier fuel. And of

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Speaker 2: course it's a market, and that market reacts to what's happening.

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Speaker 2: And we're at the bottom end of the chain, and

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Speaker 2: we paid more because that's the way it is. I

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Speaker 2: don't like it, but I'll use my I've got a tricycle.

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Speaker 2: I use that a fair bit of gay shopping and

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Speaker 2: that doesn't cost any fuel. Yeah, that's better for me. Well,

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Speaker 2: it might make more people use public transport. I know

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Speaker 2: we have two express buses going from the rural area

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Speaker 2: every morning, and I'd love to see more people park

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Speaker 2: their cars in the parking area is set aside and

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Speaker 2: homp to Do and cool Inger and I think that's

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Speaker 2: that's one way to save some money and avoid the

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Speaker 2: extra prices of the increasing prices.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is something that we can all look at.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've got a regular jobing down, then you

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Speaker 2: need to just go there and back every day. You

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Speaker 2: will catch us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, Jerry, I am just looking out in the

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Speaker 1: Litchfield area today with the with the hang on. Let

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Speaker 1: me double check. I think I'm on the diesel prices

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Speaker 1: here and the Sampalms roadhouse a dollar eighty eight. What

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Speaker 1: a pack of legends they are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it cost me that much to get out there.

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Speaker 2: And still if you've got someone coming back in and

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Speaker 2: tell them to throw a few Jerry Cans on the back,

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Speaker 2: it might make a few dollars on the side.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good time, good plan. Now, Jerry, we've got you

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Speaker 1: on the show this morning because there's been a bit

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Speaker 1: of talk about these boundary changes and what they're going

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Speaker 1: to mean. I know that Palmerston, it's meant that they're

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Speaker 1: sort of picking up some of the industrial area. But

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Speaker 1: you want to have a chat to me as well

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Speaker 1: about what it potentially means for the rural area and

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Speaker 1: the hospital. Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Well, the government has said and the Chief Minister has

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Speaker 2: come out and said, well, we're going to put five

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Speaker 2: thousand blocks of land out past the hospital into what

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Speaker 2: they call always a fancy named greater Holds, well just

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Speaker 2: gought Holts, no greater than any other part of Holes.

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Speaker 2: But the area there is rural. We've asked for years

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Speaker 2: for that to be developed as a rural subdivision. There

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Speaker 2: is a moratorium on boards at the moment, but we

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Speaker 2: know that there's been quite a few rural subdivisions developed

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Speaker 2: And there's no reason why the government couldn't continue with

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Speaker 2: what was planned for that area. That it would be rural,

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Speaker 2: and we do understand that there would be need to

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Speaker 2: be some sort of suburban development around the hospital. But

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Speaker 2: you know what I see is a government that is

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Speaker 2: hats lacking in vision, unlacking in you might say, an

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Speaker 2: effort to build a new city of Wdell, because what

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Speaker 2: you're doing is starting to look for a spot, well,

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Speaker 2: we can put some houses there. There's another vacant plan somewhere.

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Speaker 2: I will put some houses there. That's sort of, you know,

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Speaker 2: not real planning. It's sort of convenient sort of planning

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Speaker 2: for a new city. And what I'm hoping is that

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Speaker 2: my two local members, Jerrem Mailey who's took over from

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Speaker 2: maybe able to convince the CLP that here's an opportunity

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Speaker 2: feeling THELP is supporting the government on this issue, whereas

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Speaker 2: that was done about ten years ago on developing Wordell.

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Speaker 2: So there was a company that came up from both

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Speaker 2: a lot of that area has some environmental restrictions. It's

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Speaker 2: know where they've taken that into account. They've also built

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Speaker 2: Center there, which I think is a load of rubbish

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Speaker 2: in the rural area and if you look at the maps,

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Speaker 2: they show suburban development right up against the fence. So

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Speaker 2: I just think they would be far better off to

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Speaker 2: develop that land in one or two hect their blocks

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Speaker 2: give people the option of having instead of buying in

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Speaker 2: raising a family. As I always say, with a few

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Speaker 2: a bit of space to people. And I still think

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Speaker 2: the healthiest place to bring up kids is where they

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Speaker 2: can do things for themselves, not always relying on sitting down,

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Speaker 2: playing on the on the computer or on the phone,

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Speaker 2: but have a bit of space where they can get

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Speaker 2: out and do practical things.

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Speaker 1: Get out and about well.

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Speaker 2: I just think that that's one of the advantages living

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Speaker 2: the government doesn't recognize. And I just think that this

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Speaker 2: out and put plans forward for developing a good sustainable

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Speaker 2: other thing you could prossibly do with a new city.

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Speaker 2: I've mentioned that some years ago. Is you know that

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Speaker 2: which is fairly limited in it. It's possible expansion because

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Speaker 2: a lot of the land around it is very wet.

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Speaker 2: But I've always thought that building a new town or

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Speaker 2: city of Widell, you could look at building something like

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Speaker 2: you have it Moraman, maybe not as busy, but a

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Speaker 2: light aircraft area where people could have hangars there. There

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Speaker 2: could be workshops there, and we could have an airstrip

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Speaker 2: there which was not associated with the raft base, one

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Speaker 2: that could be privately run for those people using light aircraft,

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Speaker 2: and perhaps they could reduce the cost of people using

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Speaker 2: the raft base, but also still be fairly close to

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Speaker 2: the town.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jerry, I think there's certainly a lot lot there

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Speaker 1: for people to take in and a bit further discussion about.

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Speaker 1: But we'll make sure that we do talk more about it. Mate,

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Speaker 1: we've missed you on the radio. It's good to have

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Speaker 1: you back on.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I haven't lived anywhere. I've got any work

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Speaker 2: to do on the weekend. Yeah no, no, no shortage

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Speaker 2: your work.

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Speaker 1: Well, don't worry. We'll start talking to you a bit

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Speaker 1: more and uh and chat to you a bit more

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Speaker 1: on here I reckon.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all on you Jerry.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to talk to you this morning. Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you.