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Speaker 1: Well, we are going to now head across and catch

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Speaker 1: up with our next candidate. I believe we've got Doug

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Speaker 1: Barden on the line. Good morning to you, Doug.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie and listening.

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Speaker 1: Doug will give you five minutes, mate, because we accidentally

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Speaker 1: didn't tell everybody that we've gone to to three, so

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Speaker 1: let's go with five minutes. Are you ready to get started?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, when you're ready, All.

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Speaker 1: Right, let's start with what job were you in before

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Speaker 1: putting your hand up for this election.

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Speaker 2: I've been a counselor for Southward since twenty fifteen and

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Speaker 2: been developing my Very Springs property and some small investment

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Speaker 2: properties around town. I was also the owner of the

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Speaker 2: Lake Resort in Caravan Park, which also had a licensed

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Speaker 2: restaurant over one hundred caravan sites, and we also had

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Speaker 2: water speed jetsp new and paddleboat businesses on the same site.

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Speaker 2: So I am aware of all responsibilities organization must contend with,

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Speaker 2: such as liquor licenses, boarding house licenses, by regulations, payrolls, taxes,

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Speaker 2: work health and safety, marine licenses, Department of Health laws.

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Speaker 2: I was also the licensee of the restaurant for over

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Speaker 2: ten years and how.

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Speaker 1: Long have you lived out in the rural area.

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Speaker 2: I'm a bond bred Darwin boy, and I have lived

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Speaker 2: in the rural area for well. We've owned the property

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Speaker 2: here since nineteen seventy and I've lived here since before

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven on and off, and then back at

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Speaker 2: Penny Baby with my parents. We didn't have electricity in

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Speaker 2: the rural area in nineteen eighty seven. And yep, ye, Now, why.

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Speaker 1: Did you decide to put your hand up for the

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Speaker 1: mayor's job.

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Speaker 2: I believe I have achieved a lot for my area ready.

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Speaker 2: These achievements is being able to get council to lease

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Speaker 2: Mirror Square at Southport Township from the anti government and

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Speaker 2: obtaining a small said meeting room there. I worked very

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Speaker 2: hard to get Oxford Roges, Harves and William Road likes

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Speaker 2: on Road, Skycreek Road Field as well as the Mango Roads.

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Speaker 2: I am able to analyze council reports in order to

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Speaker 2: make sure rate payers are getting value for money. Such

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Speaker 2: examples would be the mobile Workforce said. One of the

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Speaker 2: reports told us that the mobile Workforce said was going

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Speaker 2: to cost in the vicinity of one point four million

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Speaker 2: dollars when we've already been given a grant for two

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for two hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty five thousand back in and I was able to

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Speaker 2: analyze that report to get that costing down to four

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty thousand dollars. And on budges other things

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Speaker 2: was the proposed business community at seven Patsalou Road, which

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Speaker 2: was a bad deal. I was able to stop that

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Speaker 2: deal from happening, preventing the rating system coming into Litchfield.

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Speaker 2: I was able to stop that. I am able to

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Speaker 2: work with the people in recreation reserves and am very

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Speaker 2: happy to listen in order to find solutions within the municipalities.

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Speaker 1: And what do you see as being the big issues

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Speaker 1: in the Litchfield municipality?

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Speaker 2: Rates increasing by ten percent next year, they're nine percent

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Speaker 2: the year after and eight percent the year after. As

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Speaker 2: for the adopted municipal plan is a very large issue

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Speaker 2: in my eyes. Services such as roads based reserves, libraries

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Speaker 2: are also very important. We need to find efficiencies within

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Speaker 2: the administration to continue these services as had been done

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Speaker 2: in previous councils. In the past, councils has worked very

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Speaker 2: hard with the community volunteers committees in these recreation reserves

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Speaker 2: which has saved councils tens or hundreds of thousands of

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Speaker 2: dollars and the reserves have become a big affet to

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Speaker 2: the council and the community. I'm a great believer in

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Speaker 2: the statement that community effort is essential. Previous councils have

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Speaker 2: been able to administer the budget and provide these services

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Speaker 2: without the proposed massive rate rises and build infrastructure at

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Speaker 2: the same time by working with the community and intend

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Speaker 2: and I intend doing to say. Another major is the

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Speaker 2: KWANDI is the sorry the proceed to one holds parmasan

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Speaker 2: council land grads. I will work with the MTG to

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Speaker 2: make sure that this Cowandi and Holts stays with this

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Speaker 2: field and its developed sensibly in think with our values

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Speaker 2: with the hospital and the jails. This NTD development will

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Speaker 2: increase Thistfield Drake Rake pays baith and meaning council can

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Speaker 2: give their resid and more services.

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Speaker 1: Doug, You've only got about thirty seconds left, mate, Why

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Speaker 1: should people vote for you?

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Speaker 2: I believe I already have a proven record being I'm

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Speaker 2: a Bronze and Bred territory, extensive business knowledge and experience,

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Speaker 2: member of many committees, including Howard Springs quote Litchfield Livingston

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Speaker 2: Recreation Reserve, Very Springs Recreation Life member of the Very

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Speaker 2: Springs Volunteer Bush By every dade, remember the Palmerston reason

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Speaker 2: Be Business Association, past member and president of the Old

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Speaker 2: Howard Springs Golsh Club.

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Speaker 1: Oh Doug, we have run out of time mate, Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for your time this morning. Doug Barton

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Speaker 1: all the very best.

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Speaker 2: Thank thank you Katie, and thank you for listeners listening

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Speaker 2: to me and please give us a tick on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Doug. Thank you mate,