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Speaker 1: But we are going to head across right now and

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Speaker 1: catch up with Minister Jinsen Charles. Now he'd actually taken

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Speaker 1: to Facebook yesterday and sent a letter, as I understand it,

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Speaker 1: to the City of Darwin to ask about that clean

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Speaker 1: up post cyclone and to see whether there may be

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Speaker 1: able to be verge collection of green waste. Now, Jensen Charles,

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Speaker 1: the minister joins me on the line. Good morning to you, Jensen.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katy, and good morning to our listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, Minister, as I understand it, you've written, I think

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Speaker 1: to the City of Darwin about the verge collection for

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Speaker 1: green waste. Why did you decide.

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Speaker 2: To do that? I need to admit clear so I

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Speaker 2: haven't done that as a minister. I have done us

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Speaker 2: a member for Sanderson on behalf of the residents of Wargaman, Vulagi,

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Speaker 2: Anula and Marra. The reason being when I was out

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Speaker 2: on a boat on Sunday and been working with the

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Speaker 2: community to us as with the cleaner. That's something that

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Speaker 2: people ask me because there was a similar kind of

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Speaker 2: service provided to people after cyclone markers. So they asked

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Speaker 2: whether I could race with the City of Darwin to

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Speaker 2: have like a similar sort of service because that was

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Speaker 2: expectations from the people.

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Speaker 1: And so what kind of situations are you seeing in

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Speaker 1: your electorate at the moment, Jins and now are there?

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Speaker 1: Have you got quite a few seniors that maybe struggling

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Speaker 1: a little?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I do have seniors. I do have like individual

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Speaker 2: like single mothers who are struggling. And this morning I

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Speaker 2: had visited one person leaving by herself and got like

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Speaker 2: two trees leaning over to her house. So I was

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Speaker 2: able to provide the number she conducted with in t

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Speaker 2: years and organ booked a time with them. So hopefully

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Speaker 2: that will get done in the next few days because

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Speaker 2: it's and I think they're asso saying the risk as well,

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Speaker 2: like how risk it is, and they're doing their trias

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Speaker 2: process and making that have and when it comes to

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Speaker 2: specifically the green Bay, so on Sunday morning, people start

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Speaker 2: to come out to the streets and then helping each other,

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Speaker 2: and they were making sure they're getting their neighbors were okay,

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Speaker 2: and they were providing that extra hand and by lunchtime

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Speaker 2: they were like piles of green waste everywhere, and at

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Speaker 2: that point there were no facility opened, so they had

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Speaker 2: no choice other than leave it on the words at

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Speaker 2: that point in time because the shoal Bay was closed

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Speaker 2: and the government made the decision on Monday to open

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Speaker 2: the Hidden Whiley because the Shoalbey was closed and it

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Speaker 2: was only available for the commercial operators.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's been a difficult one. It does

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Speaker 1: seem as though people are sort of starting to, you know,

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Speaker 1: to understand now that they're able to head out there

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Speaker 1: to Hidden Valley. We'd spoken to the operator a little

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Speaker 1: bit earlier this morning. I guess, you know, for some people,

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Speaker 1: it maybe that they've got an enormous amount of green

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Speaker 1: waste that they're trying to get out there, or you know,

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Speaker 1: like we've spoken about those sceneors, just trying to get

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Speaker 1: it out so able to be coordinated a little bit

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Speaker 1: more easily. Jensen as a local member, I know we'd

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Speaker 1: spoken earlier this morning as well to a wonderful local

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Speaker 1: business who's got the big skip pins. Accidentally called them

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Speaker 1: tippins earlier, but the skippins out in some of the

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Speaker 1: different suburbs following on from cyclo markers, they had well,

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Speaker 1: another business I'm assuming had those big skip bins out

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Speaker 1: in different suburbs. Do you reckon that would be something

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Speaker 1: that would be helpful as well.

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Speaker 2: I would say, like everything additional thing would be helpful

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Speaker 2: because when it comes to seniors and then people who

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Speaker 2: struggled with their daily leaving, so we can't expect them

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Speaker 2: to taking the greenways to the tip because some older

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Speaker 2: people that I'm trying to assist in my community are

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Speaker 2: the people who are struggling to even to manage their

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Speaker 2: loan at differnt of the words. So if there is

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Speaker 2: an expectation those people are going to take these things

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Speaker 2: to the tip like a thing that's impossible. So what

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Speaker 2: I would like to see as a local member that

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Speaker 2: there is a solution for this, and I think how

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Speaker 2: we can work together with the council and the governments

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Speaker 2: And I need to like, I need to add that

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Speaker 2: that I spoke to the mayor this morning and I'm

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Speaker 2: waiting for a formal response because there are trees that

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Speaker 2: was like the count was on the council land that

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Speaker 2: was kind of like fallen across to the property that

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Speaker 2: people actually chopped into pieces and kept it on the verge.

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Speaker 2: So it's not just like people are concerned about like

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Speaker 2: the green base from their property because they stepped up

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Speaker 2: and then make sure that they're supporting the community. They're

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Speaker 2: helping others to get out of their driveway. So there

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Speaker 2: are there was like a goods, like a people work

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Speaker 2: together to make sure like to support each other. Now

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Speaker 2: it's support a board like I think the council and

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Speaker 2: the government to looking about like I think how we

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Speaker 2: can put one step forward and then support that because

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Speaker 2: at the end of the we want all back to

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Speaker 2: business as usual, and we are seeing that we are

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Speaker 2: in that direction, but we don't want to have this

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Speaker 2: people concerned about this too much.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jins and Charles, I think it's a really fair

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Speaker 1: point to make, and one that obviously you are making

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Speaker 1: as the local member. I really appreciate your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: I know you've had to step out of Parliament, so

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Speaker 1: I'll let you go.