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Speaker 1: But joining me live in the studio as he does

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Speaker 1: each week about this time. It is the Lord Mayor

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Speaker 1: of Darwin, Peter Styles. Goodboarding to your Styles. E morning, Katie,

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Speaker 1: good to have you in the studio. Now the cyclone cleanup, well,

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Speaker 1: the City of Darwin's twenty twenty five pre cyclone cleanup,

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Speaker 1: I should say it's now complete. Eight hundred and eighteen

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Speaker 1: tons of waste. What kind of weird and wonderful things

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Speaker 1: did the council collect this year?

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Speaker 2: Well, how about turn and fourteen tons of scrap metal

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Speaker 2: just lying around the place. That was a good one.

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Speaker 2: Seventy four tons of white goods, so fidges, but we

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Speaker 2: can't take fidges with third in them.

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Speaker 1: That's that's a no name gross as well writing food.

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Speaker 2: And just e waste you know, like TVs and things

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Speaker 2: like that that are broken. Yep, another couple of tons

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Speaker 2: of that. But more importantly we diverted thirty six percent

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Speaker 2: of that away from landfill and recycle it and reuse it.

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Speaker 1: So what's the go in terms of like some of

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Speaker 1: those white goods and you know, TVs and stuff, do

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Speaker 1: you guys, does the council sort of go through or

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Speaker 1: do you take it out to the dump and they

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Speaker 1: check whether any of it's in working order that can

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Speaker 1: be like resold or is it just a matter of

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Speaker 1: it bang, you know rubbish.

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Speaker 2: No, they will go through and because obviously what goods there,

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Speaker 2: they're going that pile and scrap metal going that pile,

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Speaker 2: so they make different piles of stuff and then if

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Speaker 2: it can be reused or recycled, then that goes across

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Speaker 2: to the recycling shop and repurposed.

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Speaker 1: Now I know that some like most locations are now

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Speaker 1: well by the look of it, every location is actually

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Speaker 1: done when it comes to the precyclone clean up. We

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Speaker 1: did get an email from one of our listeners, Helen though,

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Speaker 1: saying that they're building in the city they actually they

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Speaker 1: haven't had their cyclone collection done. Like I can let

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Speaker 1: you know the details off air if you like, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: she's just sort of wondering whether there is going to

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Speaker 1: be some kind of way that they might be able

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Speaker 1: to still have the council come and collect whatever rubbish

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Speaker 1: the people in that building have got.

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Speaker 2: So probably not, Katie. What happens is there a contractors

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Speaker 2: Floyd to go around and collect all this stuff. Once

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Speaker 2: that contract's finished, then you know, we don't sort of

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Speaker 2: have the same facilities that we did win the cyclone

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Speaker 2: cleanups up, So if you I mean, we can look

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Speaker 2: at that whether or not they were contacted. But my

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Speaker 2: understanding was that the communication went out to the public

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Speaker 2: as to when they're going to do the actual cleanup.

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Speaker 2: There were signage at the streets saying we're doing this street,

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Speaker 2: and then there were signage saying we finished the street,

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Speaker 2: we moved to the next street. So it was fairly

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Speaker 2: well out there, but some people may have missed it. Unfortunate.

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Speaker 2: But if that was the case, then they'll have to

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Speaker 2: take it to the dumpers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well no, because she's contacted the counselor as well

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Speaker 1: said that on the website it had given the dates

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Speaker 1: the residents. Though you know, they obviously adhered to those dates.

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Speaker 1: They now being advised that it's illegal dumping and that

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Speaker 1: they're going to have to organize that collection themselves, but

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Speaker 1: they reckon that they did go by the dates that

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Speaker 1: were on the website. It was on Knuckie Street, So

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Speaker 1: I might give you that detail after we look at

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Speaker 1: that and follow it up. I know there's a few

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Speaker 1: bits and pieces going on around the place. Certainly something

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Speaker 1: a bit more positive is the Ride to Work Day?

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Speaker 1: When is that happening? I had the day here somewhere

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Speaker 1: and I'll be able to find it. Well, it's happening,

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Speaker 1: I think a little later this month. I'm just trying

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Speaker 1: to find it as well. It is Smith Street the fifteenth,

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Speaker 1: so it's actually tomorrow. There you go, tomorrow happening. It

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Speaker 1: is to celebrate or it is a ride through Brecky

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Speaker 1: is happening at Raintree Park. That's happening on the fifteenth

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Speaker 1: of October seven am until nine am. So the first

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Speaker 1: fifty commuters to arrive by active transport can get a

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Speaker 1: free coffee. So you've got to get there fast. If

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Speaker 1: you're slow, you're not going to get a free coffee.

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Speaker 1: By the look of it.

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Speaker 2: I think the operative where there's active transport.

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Speaker 1: Because it's actually today, I think the right's the National

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Speaker 1: Ride to Work Day today. So I'm a bit slow there, Starzy,

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Speaker 1: But tomorrow is when the event's happening, So come.

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Speaker 2: In and get a coffee. If you're one of the

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Speaker 2: first fifty, I'd love to have a chat with you

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Speaker 2: and perhaps if you're a bit late, will to get there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right, hey, Starzy. One of the other

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Speaker 1: things that was raised with us in the leading to

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Speaker 1: the council election, and I don't know whether this is

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Speaker 1: something that's been put on your agenda, but we've definitely

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Speaker 1: had people contact us about this over the last week

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Speaker 1: or so. Is the parking at some of the soccer facilities,

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Speaker 1: the junior soccer facilities. I don't know if that was

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Speaker 1: raised with you throughout the election campaign, but certainly the

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Speaker 1: former mayor and I had had some fairly robust discussions

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Speaker 1: about the parking there and people getting fined in some

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Speaker 1: of those locations. I think the broader issue though for

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Speaker 1: a lot was it there actually isn't enough space to

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Speaker 1: be able to park in some of those community soccer ovals.

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Speaker 1: Is that something that's been raised with you?

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Speaker 2: It has been, Kadian. I've asked the CEO the council

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Speaker 2: to actually put that on the agenda, to do some

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Speaker 2: sort of review on parking in general right across the board,

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Speaker 2: because it's an issue that a lot of people are

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Speaker 2: concerned about and I think we should have a bit

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Speaker 2: of review as to what we can do to resolve

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Speaker 2: some of those issues.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me, in terms of you mentioned last week,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be some town hall meetings. We don't

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Speaker 1: have any date yet for those though.

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Speaker 2: Do we No, not yet. I'm trying to work out

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Speaker 2: one for mid November yep. And just to clarify town

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Speaker 2: hall meetings, these are not formal meetings. These are informal

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Speaker 2: meetings where you can come down and talk to your counselors,

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Speaker 2: talk to the Lord mayor raise issues and concerns. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to try and get a sausages going at these

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Speaker 2: events so that we can also have a bit of

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Speaker 2: a camaraderie with people out there and get to have

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Speaker 2: a social chat as well.

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Speaker 1: Now, just another question coming through. So if you haven't,

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Speaker 1: if you've still got your cyclone waste out on the verge,

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Speaker 1: it's now your responsibility asking That's what that person's asking you.

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Speaker 1: So basically that's all the cyclone cleanup on the Council's

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Speaker 1: part is done now, correct, So you are I have

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Speaker 1: to if you've left your waist out on the verge,

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Speaker 1: you've got to get rid of USh.

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Speaker 2: Well, some people have put inappropriate waste out there. There's

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Speaker 2: been a spest's put out there and as I said,

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Speaker 2: with fridges with food in them, these are things that

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Speaker 2: the Council will not take. So if people have put

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Speaker 1: Hey, just on the soccer ovals. We're talking there about

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Speaker 1: the parking, but I understand that they're also football in Tea.

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Speaker 1: In conjunction of course with the council, have opened as

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Speaker 1: well a new change room at bag at Oval they have.

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Speaker 2: I went out there for the opening of it. It's

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Speaker 2: a great facility. There's four different chaine rooms that caters

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Speaker 2: for men and women and boys and girls, referees. They've

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Speaker 2: got the medical facilities out there, so it's a really

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Speaker 2: good initiative. It's funded by the territory government and the

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Speaker 2: federal government and it's just a terrific facility that young

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Speaker 2: get into sport.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it gets so busy at soccer. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've been there on a Sunday morning, but it

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Speaker 1: gets so busy that are for Darwin's playing.

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Speaker 2: I reckon well, it's great to see people out on sport.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that Counselor has tried to do

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Speaker 2: in conjunction with the Territory governent the federal government is

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Speaker 2: to get more lighting out there so people can play

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Speaker 2: the evening.

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Speaker 1: And so is that something that you're going to be

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Speaker 1: looking at at some of those different sporting ovals to

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Speaker 1: try and to try and sort of get something like

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Speaker 1: that moving.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Katie. I'm very happy to go and knock on

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Speaker 2: a few doors the territory government the federal government to

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Speaker 2: get lighting for our facilities out there, and if they're

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Speaker 2: not responsible, we're going to kick some doors in as well,

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Speaker 2: and just loudly. And so this is what we need

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Speaker 2: for our young people because it does get hot up

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Speaker 2: here and you don't want kids run around getting heat

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Speaker 2: stroke and things like that. If we can help it.

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Speaker 1: Well, and if we can sort of like if we

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Speaker 1: can make those ovals a bit more accessible, and if

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Speaker 1: there's potential then for them to be able to play

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Speaker 1: for some age groups in the evenings or to train

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Speaker 1: in the evenings, it then helps to solve some of

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Speaker 1: those parking issues as well. If you can change the

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Speaker 1: draw ever so slightly to fit some more games in exactly.

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Speaker 2: And that's where you know a lot of these facilities

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Speaker 2: want to be. They don't want to use them into

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Speaker 2: the evening for training purposes. Sometimes you know you can't

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Speaker 2: have matches at night because if the lights aren't there.

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Speaker 2: But certainly training into the evening is something that we're

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Speaker 2: looking at.

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Speaker 1: Well, Peter Styles, the Lord Mayor of Darwin, good to

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Speaker 1: speak with you this morning. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: your time.

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Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure coming here. It's a highlight of

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Speaker 2: my week.

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Speaker 1: Can you must be of a boring week? You're going

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Speaker 1: to have to get something more exciting to happen.

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Speaker 2: Stylesy will talk about parking, we'll talk about buses doing

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Speaker 2: the loop around the city, and oh.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt going to be plenty to discussing.

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Speaker 2: On the agenda and good I'd be happy to chat

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Speaker 2: with you about all those things. Well we've got more time.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Good on you, Peter Styles, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you,