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Speaker 1: Next up and joining us on the line is Danny Everly.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you. Danny.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. How are you yeah?

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Speaker 1: Really good? Now, Danny, We've got about six minutes. I've

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Speaker 1: got a number of questions to get through. Are you ready?

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Speaker 2: I am, 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: be me?

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Speaker 2: So, Katie, As you would know and a lot of

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Speaker 2: your listeners know, I was a member of the tenth

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Speaker 2: Council for a period of time, about ninety percent of

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Speaker 2: the term. I think I calculated out and I really

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Speaker 2: did love the time that I had on council and

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Speaker 2: working with the community and being able to address community

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Speaker 2: needs and advocate for them. So I having, you know,

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Speaker 2: the local government elections now come up, I thought, well,

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Speaker 2: it's it's a prime opportunity for me to put myself forward.

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Speaker 2: I make you know, statements and would like to see

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Speaker 2: a few things happen slightly differently, and so in order

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Speaker 2: to do that, rather than just sitting back and you know,

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Speaker 2: being a keyboard warrior, I am putting my hand up

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Speaker 2: and wanting to take that step and represent the community.

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Speaker 1: Danny. Some might be asking, why have put your hand

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Speaker 1: up to be there when you step down from your

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Speaker 1: counselor position not too long ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Katie, And that's a that's a completely fair question. Now,

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Speaker 2: there was a there was a matter that I'm told

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Speaker 2: of during that period of time, and it's probably you

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Speaker 2: know that matter in itself and how that was handled

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Speaker 2: as to why I am now putting my hand up

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Speaker 2: as well in the maror position. So you know what

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Speaker 2: did occur that there's some confidentiality around that, and I

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Speaker 2: don't want to go into everything in detail, but I

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Speaker 2: wasn't comfortable with it and felt that at the time

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Speaker 2: it was certainly better for me to step away and

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Speaker 2: look after me and my family in that process as

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Speaker 2: opposed to you know, try and I don't know but

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Speaker 2: if I use the word site just the appropriate terminology.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, certainly, putting health and mental health especially first

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Speaker 2: was the process that I took in in that situation, Danny.

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Speaker 1: In terms of qualifications and work experience, what qualifications or

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Speaker 1: work experience do you have which you think makes you

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Speaker 1: best placed for the position.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's Katie, So I hold her a Bachelor of Business.

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Speaker 2: I'm also currently doing my honors degree. I've got a

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Speaker 2: partial law degree, but decided that I wasn't going to

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Speaker 2: be a practicing lawyer, so I haven't completed that. I've

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Speaker 2: been a volunteer on a lot of boards for many

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Speaker 2: many years, notably the Top End Women Legal Service. I

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Speaker 2: think I'm coming up to nine years as a board

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Speaker 2: member with that organization. I've been working in the community

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Speaker 2: in various roles for many many years. I've been in

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Speaker 2: partisans for twenty two years now. I've held seeing your

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Speaker 2: leadership positions in every tier of government, so I do

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Speaker 2: know the understanding of the inner workings of cross government relations

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Speaker 2: and being able to navigate those complexities at times and

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Speaker 2: work within a bipartisan approach that is absolutely necessary within

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Speaker 2: local government to achieve results. And I'm out there in

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Speaker 2: the community, so I think I know our community quite well.

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Speaker 2: I'm speaking to people on the ground on a daily basis.

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Speaker 2: Just this morning, I met up with the land Care

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Speaker 2: volunteers out at Mitchell Creed Catchment to go through their

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Speaker 2: planning and look at what they see as the priorities

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Speaker 2: for that area moving forward. As well. I'm a strong

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Speaker 2: advocate for our youth and our youth in sports, and

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Speaker 2: so I put my money where around mouth is in

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Speaker 2: that sense, and I sponsor a number of the local

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Speaker 2: clubs and I'm also an advocate for our seniors, so

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Speaker 2: I'm a sponsor for the Parmesan Richfield Seniors Group and

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Speaker 2: have needs for the last few years as well.

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Speaker 1: Now, in terms of issues out in Palmerston, what do

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Speaker 1: you see as being the most important issues in Palmerston, Katie?

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Speaker 2: Like, we're everywhere and I think Parmas is not unique,

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Speaker 2: the territory is not unique. But across Australia we've got

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Speaker 2: an increase of any social behavioral crime and yes they're

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Speaker 2: not local government issues per se, but we've certainly got

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Speaker 2: a role to play there. And within our older suburbs

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Speaker 2: across Palmerston we've got an issue with lane waves and

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Speaker 2: this is a big one for me. We've got laneways

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Speaker 2: and we've got unlipped areas, so open spaces where it's

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Speaker 2: areas where people can just congregate and congregate quite easily

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Speaker 2: with whether it's alcohol, whether it's fighting, whether it's they're

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Speaker 2: getting together to work out where to next. But these

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Speaker 2: are certainly areas where I'd like us to see from

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Speaker 2: a NTY government and local government coming together to have

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Speaker 2: a look at what we could do to mitigate and

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Speaker 2: really reduce some of the confirms that are going on

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Speaker 2: in these spaces. Another one is around, particularly when we're

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Speaker 2: talking local government sorry the older suburbs, is that we've

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Speaker 2: got a situation where it feels as though in the

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Speaker 2: last couple of years we've moved our focus from the

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Speaker 2: whole of Palmerston to more just the growth and the

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Speaker 2: new and shiny, and unfortunately, what's that what that has

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Speaker 2: done is that the areas that are older and that

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Speaker 2: you know, when you're older, you need a bit more

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Speaker 2: love sometimes, and so they've really gone downhill. So what

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Speaker 2: I'd like to see as a really peel back and

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Speaker 2: get everything up to a standard so the whole of Palmerston.

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Speaker 2: Palmerston's a place for people, and so we want people

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Speaker 2: to have pride in their place. And once we've got

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Speaker 2: pride in our place, you know, and our neighbors start

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Speaker 2: to see that, you know, oh you're taking a bit

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Speaker 2: more careful, I'll take a bit more care in mine

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Speaker 2: as well. So it's you know, it's bringing the whole

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Speaker 2: of Palmerston back up to that level so that we

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Speaker 2: can really hold on to our community members and encourage

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Speaker 2: them to have that pride in place again.

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Speaker 1: Dunny, we've run out of time, but I have got

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Speaker 1: a question that I will need to ask you. I'm

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Speaker 1: asking all the candidates. Are you a member of a

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Speaker 1: political party or have you ever been?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie, I do in the Labor Party in June

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, prior to the anti government elections. Am

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Speaker 2: still a member of that party. However, I've made the

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Speaker 2: statement before I do not believe that party politics have

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Speaker 2: a role in local government.

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Speaker 1: Well, Danny, everly good to speak to you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank so much, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you