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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now is Coda Patel,

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Speaker 1: who is the colp's candidate. Good morning, Coda.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, and good morning to old listeners.

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Speaker 1: Coda. We've got seven minutes and a series of questions.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to get started?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm ready, Katy.

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Speaker 1: Coda. Why did you decide to put your hand up

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Speaker 1: to run for the state of Casarina, Katie.

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Speaker 2: As you know, I've traveled around the world since two

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Speaker 2: thousand and two. I had finished my Bachelor of Arts

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Speaker 2: in hotel management on beautiful island called Cyprus and then

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Speaker 2: moved to Melbourne in two thousand and eight. In Darwin,

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Speaker 2: we moved to with my wife in twenty twelve, where

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Speaker 2: I found that Darwin was very relaxed place to leave

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Speaker 2: our work and invest We decided to settle with my

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Speaker 2: family permanently here to enjoy rest of our life with

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Speaker 2: the best lifestyle. I believe yeap my bod children were

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Speaker 2: born here in Northern Territory. In twenty nineteen, I took

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Speaker 2: a no leap of faith and venture into entrepreneurship, acquiring

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Speaker 2: ownership of donating at casual Ina Shopping Center. I have

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Speaker 2: witnessed under current labor government our economic economy was going

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Speaker 2: backwards and crime is getting out of control at social

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Speaker 2: behavior is very bad at Consunior shopping center. This is

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Speaker 2: all because of the poor decision making by current labor

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Speaker 2: government where they have destroyed our lifestyle, you know, and

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Speaker 2: mental stability. When I came to Darwin, CLP government was

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Speaker 2: in power, and I never seen this mass that current

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Speaker 2: government has met and has created to our lifestyle. So

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Speaker 2: I believe CLP party only party in Northern Territory who

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Speaker 2: can deliver and restore our stell back to normal. So

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Speaker 2: I called myself enough is enough, and I decided to

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Speaker 2: join and fight my lifestyle that I used to love

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Speaker 2: for the future. And I wanted to make sure that

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Speaker 2: it's all available for our children where they can study,

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Speaker 2: work and enjoy the same lifestyle we go and we enjoyed.

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Speaker 2: So I'm very proud to be part of the CLP

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Speaker 2: team where I can contribute my expertise to rebuild the economy.

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Speaker 1: So Cutter, why do you think that you're the best

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Speaker 1: person for the role based on your previous experience, through

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Speaker 1: your work and through the community.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So with my background in you know, in management

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Speaker 2: and business, I always work in hospitality industry and I

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Speaker 2: have a business at Scheduler shop in Center Center and

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Speaker 2: I think we all understand that all small business if

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Speaker 2: need a first parity is the safety and we all

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Speaker 2: work hard to grow with our economy as well. So

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Speaker 2: me and my wife have decided to open a business

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Speaker 2: and try to work and make our future here. And

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Speaker 2: I've been working hard with you know, all multiculture communities

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Speaker 2: in northn Serburg. I speak different languages as well. I

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Speaker 2: have a great community engagement that will help me to

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Speaker 2: represent my electorate and the knowledge of challenges that I'm

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Speaker 2: aware of in that area will prepare me to fight

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Speaker 2: with the CLP party kind of what do.

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Speaker 1: You see as being the biggest issues in the electric.

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Speaker 2: Sokatty When I don'tknock my electorate and talk to a

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Speaker 2: small businesses around, I've found two main common issues that

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Speaker 2: have come along with at first is a youth crime

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Speaker 2: and antisue shall be at the scheduled our shopping center

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Speaker 2: as well as which is I have felt myself if

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Speaker 2: you remember my staff were attacked and we had a

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Speaker 2: chat about that one as well of the youth kids

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Speaker 2: kids through the eggs at my staff. I found also

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Speaker 2: there's a new business next door to me, and he's

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Speaker 2: always complaining and talking about the tap in his tore

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Speaker 2: that those little young kids coming in and walking in

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Speaker 2: and out with the free stuff and no one can

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Speaker 2: do anything. My elderly a customers also getting attacked and dropped,

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Speaker 2: you know at the shopping center. The class in the

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Speaker 2: shopping center centers are always mashed, you know, and the

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Speaker 2: people are talking about it. Yeah, Coose stores, you know,

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Speaker 2: the Cool Store and the little land they had to

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Speaker 2: do renovations to, you know, to stop this tape happen

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Speaker 2: like it's happening every day. So I believe said a

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Speaker 2: load of issues with the antisue shell behavior and crime.

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Speaker 2: It just become a part of our everyday routine life,

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Speaker 2: which is I think we need to stop this asthmech

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Speaker 2: we can. And another example, Friday's the longest trading hours

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Speaker 2: in Scheduler shopping center.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: I remember back then we used to be busy until

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Speaker 2: almost thirty till late and we were sometime getting out

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Speaker 2: nine to nine pm, nine nine thirty pm. But now

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Speaker 2: where people are so scared to come for shopping after

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Speaker 2: five pm, so I'm started closing between six to seven now,

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Speaker 2: So my trading hours has dropped on the shopping shopping

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Speaker 2: hours which is nine to nine.

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Speaker 1: Coda. We've got just over a minute thirty left, but

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Speaker 1: I've still got a few questions to ask you. What

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Speaker 1: would you do to combat these issues at the shopping center?

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Speaker 2: I believe I will support CLP class which is based

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Speaker 2: on time we build, economy and safety of our streets.

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Speaker 2: And I think we need more policies around that make

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Speaker 2: a lost more tougher and consequences around that where we

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Speaker 2: can have driving economy around that. I believe. So if

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Speaker 2: you fix those three issues that CLP is trying to target,

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Speaker 2: I think we will come along very well.

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Speaker 1: Toda, just under a minute to go. Do you support

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Speaker 1: the development of leaypoint.

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Speaker 2: About the lead point? Yes. I support any development or

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Speaker 2: projects that will strike the right balance between environment and

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Speaker 2: economic growth.

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Speaker 1: Do you support the development of onshore gas?

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Speaker 2: Yes. I think CLPS are only the party that will

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Speaker 2: always support gas and deliver it. I believe the gas

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Speaker 2: is very key component for I think of our growing economy,

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Speaker 2: Kenneth is very necessary to be work around that as well.

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Speaker 1: Coda. Fifteen seconds to go. Why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 2: So in the territory there's a thousand people that are

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Speaker 2: living territory in I think yearly, and I want this

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Speaker 2: to stop. I want them to stay here and enjoy

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Speaker 2: the lifestyle that we used to enjoy. So with my

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Speaker 2: real word management experience and understanding of communities need, I

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Speaker 2: believe I will be committed addressing the vision of prime

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Speaker 2: economic decline and the raising cost of living CODA.

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Speaker 1: We have unfortunately run out of time. We've got to

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Speaker 1: try and keep it as fair as possible. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you having a chat with us this morning. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us on the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie, Thank you