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Speaker 1: Now we know that East Darnham Regional Council is progressing

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Speaker 1: the call for formal recognition of Aboriginal community controlled local

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Speaker 1: got three motions which are going for consideration and endorsement

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Speaker 1: to the General Meeting of the Local Government Association, which

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Speaker 1: is legant as many people will know it today here

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Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory. Now I'm really pleased to say

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Speaker 1: got the East Dannham Regional Council President lap Along Daramanji.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to your laff Along.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, ye.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us. And we have also

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Speaker 1: got the CEO Dale Keane. Good morning to you Dale.

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Speaker 1: Great great to have you both in the studio. I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your time and I know that we have

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Speaker 1: got this situation today we're the call for that formal

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Speaker 1: recognition of Aboriginal community controlled local government councils. Those three

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Speaker 1: motions happening today at Lagan and at the meeting Dale,

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Speaker 1: I might go to you first what are these motions

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Speaker 1: and what will they mean for the Arnham region.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for that look, absolutely, there's three important motions and

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Speaker 3: we're really confident. We've been talking to the mayors and

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Speaker 3: and they're really supportive as so you know, as other

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Speaker 3: motions were put up in the past were really you know,

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Speaker 3: we're all in the same boat on this. So but

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Speaker 3: the first real thing about it is about the recognition

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Speaker 3: by the Anti Australian governments of the current Aboriginal control

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Speaker 3: of local government in the Northern territory. It's really unique

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Speaker 3: a It's not like down South Sydney, Melbourne even o

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Speaker 3: there as South Australia and so on. There's such a

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Speaker 3: control in terms of Aboriginal population and the board members

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Speaker 3: and local authorities in each and every community gay so

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Speaker 3: that is there. But we are finding we really want

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Speaker 3: to work constructively with government when we work in closing

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Speaker 3: the game and working the voice, which is meeting Indigenous voice,

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Speaker 3: which is about local and regional control and say in

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Speaker 3: a voice yep.

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Speaker 4: And also anti government's local decision making.

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Speaker 3: That's been a policy for four years that we can

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Speaker 3: make the difference as a bridge and lap Along will

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Speaker 3: took that more in a second A. But the bridge

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Speaker 3: with all the additional people, the tos, the clans and

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Speaker 3: all of people, young women, old, some people don't always

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Speaker 3: have the voice as strong as others. When we're talking

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Speaker 3: about how to improve an engage your community with the

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Speaker 4: Indigenous levels specifically.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm happy to see Warren snow in there today

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Speaker 3: But there's been thirty one point eight million dollars and

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Speaker 3: it's been allocated in the budget.

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Speaker 4: For the voice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the proportion of that for the six areas

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Speaker 3: of not just having government come in and and til

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Speaker 3: can sort of listen or see the listen and go away.

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Speaker 3: But actually where you write things down, you follow up

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Speaker 3: already for fourteen years. And all the pre accounts, the

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Speaker 3: the next bit about that is just to ensure that

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Speaker 3: that federal policy A that's just been endorsed in December

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Speaker 3: last year is in line with all really that local government,

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Speaker 3: local decision making when it comes in line with that,

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Speaker 3: so you don't have government going out there fed's one

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Speaker 3: see it all together and all connected. And look the

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Speaker 4: Councilors can't get one dollar because.

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Speaker 3: They're not recognized as Aboriginal only, which are really important

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Speaker 3: to a and we work with them all the Averaginal corporations,

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Speaker 1: Along How important is it that's some of these change happens,

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Speaker 2: I reckon talking as First Nations.

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Speaker 5: Leader, a strong leader in the community where I come from,

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Speaker 5: Millian Gimbee in northeast Crocodile Islands of eastern anam Land. Right,

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Speaker 2: Of commonality between the government and.

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Speaker 5: People in the remote community as we call ourselves community control,

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Speaker 5: local government and local authorities. We needed our voice into

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Speaker 5: the top level of what we're enhancing and what we

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Speaker 5: I mean today is the twenty first century. We need

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Speaker 5: to start walking together to build that capacity in what's

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Speaker 2: The your law, I guess yep.

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Speaker 1: And how important is it as well? You know when

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Speaker 5: Also, well, I'm I've got a great passion to try

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Speaker 5: on those young people that we wanted to seccur you

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Speaker 5: from where they are. But we need the heart of

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Speaker 1: Long do you feel as though we're getting to the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there is little that is happening, but we needed

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Speaker 5: work together and to enhance a breakthrough together and walk together.

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Speaker 1: And with this meeting that's opening today with legant you know,

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Speaker 1: and really make sure that you are bridging that gap.

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Speaker 5: Well, I guess talking hard to heart, Sol to soul

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Speaker 2: As you're from manham Land.

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Speaker 5: I wanted the heart of the government to work with

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Speaker 2: This is the twenty first century.

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Speaker 5: It's a call of wakening, a great call of wakening

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Speaker 4: And you'd like Lapelungs.

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Speaker 3: We'd like to invite Chancey Paik the Minister of Local

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Speaker 3: Government's invited and keen to wait his response and other

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Speaker 4: Do you want to talk about that level of inviting

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Speaker 3: Proper way ceremony, right, you had that bond with the people, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and then start proper discussions.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I reckon. We wanted the minister I don't know

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Speaker 5: the directory to come and visit our community. It's good

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Speaker 5: that we can have orientation to say this is the

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Speaker 5: country where we belongs to. We have been struggling back

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Speaker 5: in the days. We have seen a lot of our

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Speaker 5: people involving in politics and all those other stuff in government.

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Speaker 5: Building that alliance saying enough, it's enough, it's a bad time.

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Speaker 5: We need to listen, listen very carefully and talk for

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Speaker 5: the truth telling is initiative at the moment.

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Speaker 1: And so Lap Belong, you are inviting you want to

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Speaker 1: see the Minister Chancey pay head out there to the

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Speaker 1: community in that in that traditional way.

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Speaker 2: We wanted to welcome him to the country so that I.

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Speaker 4: Was there and I would look forward to his when

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Speaker 4: he's able to do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, I really appreciate you both coming in this morning.

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Speaker 1: I think it's really important, you know, to hear from

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Speaker 1: you both. I appreciate your time. I know it's a

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Speaker 1: busy time today as well. There's a lot happening, Lap Belong.

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Speaker 1: I understand as well that you have got have you

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Speaker 1: got a rock band?

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Speaker 5: Well, going back to nineteen seventy nine, Yeah, we started

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Speaker 5: up as Black Wizard Band.

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Speaker 5: I've when my brother passed away, so I picked up

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Speaker 5: the sales seventy nine, nineteen seventy nine, and then we

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Speaker 5: we're called Winning a Band then, yep, and today we're

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Speaker 5: still Winning a band. Did some recordings back in nineteen nineties.

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Speaker 5: In nineteen ninety six we did another second album and

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Speaker 5: that was called Dreamtime Wistay Modern Time Vision. The first

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Speaker 5: one nineteen nineties, it was a dream Time Shadow. But

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Speaker 5: the second one, I was there in the studio with

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Speaker 5: a fame of Goanna.

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Speaker 2: What's his name? He was playing in the Goanna band.

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Speaker 5: Shane Howard, Shane Howard, So we were there together.

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Speaker 2: He was there with me, and yeah, we had a

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Speaker 2: good time there.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'd love to hear some of your music.

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Speaker 4: Plain to night.

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Speaker 3: I understand that the Local Government Association dinner pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: Oh that is wonderful. Well, Like I said, I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you both coming in this morning and speaking extensively

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Speaker 1: to us. I reckon, it's really important you know that

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Speaker 1: everybody around the Northern Territory here's the work that is

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Speaker 1: happening out in the East Dannham region at the moment.

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Speaker 1: So I really appreciate you both coming in today. East

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Speaker 1: Darnham Council President lap Along Dara Maji, thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for your time today and I also appreciate your

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Speaker 1: time today, Dale Keen, CEO of the Eastdarnham Regional Council.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you again soon.

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Speaker 5: Honor for coming to your studio. I admire that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: No We really appreciate you taking the time to come

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Speaker 1: and have a chat with us today, so thank.

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Speaker 2: You, thanks very much.

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Speaker 1: It is just eight minutes away from eleven o'clock and

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, I don't know. Well, we're going

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Speaker 1: to have a bit of queen here, but I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I reckon I'd rather hear Lap Belongs band, so I'm

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Speaker 1: going to have to do that another day