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Speaker 1: And joining me live in the studio the Lord Mayor

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Speaker 1: of Darwin convat Scarlets.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Conn, good morning, and nice to see you

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Speaker 2: barking in your studio.

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Speaker 3: This is it's wow. I can't believe Lash.

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Speaker 1: I've been saying, hey.

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Speaker 3: Hoddy, hell, this is better than my office.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it strange? After like you've been visiting us in

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Speaker 1: that studio and more than yep, when Pete Davies was

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Speaker 1: still a large you know, we've like we have been

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Speaker 1: in that studio for such a long period of time

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Speaker 1: and now to be in a brand new studio.

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Speaker 2: The window you can see nice outside, the beautiful part

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Speaker 2: daily street of really good.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Now there's money going on. I

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Speaker 1: know the City of Darwin schooling for nominations for the

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Speaker 1: Lord Mayor All Awards. They recognize individuals with a disability

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Speaker 1: who've made an outstanding contribution. Con tell me who can

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Speaker 1: nominate for the awards, Katie.

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Speaker 2: Actually we've got two awards, the Lord Mayor Awards first mentioned,

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Speaker 2: but we've got this Sason of the Year award as well.

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Speaker 2: But let me start with the Lord Mayor Awards. Were

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Speaker 2: looking for people with disability. We have done something to

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Speaker 2: make a difference to the community and especially to people

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Speaker 2: with disabilities. We've got the Rising Start Award, which is

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Speaker 2: awarded to person under twenty five years old who makes

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Speaker 2: an ongoing contribution to their school, the workplace, or the

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Speaker 2: community advocating for the rights and wellbeing of people with disability.

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Speaker 3: And then we've got a Champion Award for a person more.

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Speaker 2: Than twenty five years old, or any person who does

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Speaker 2: exactly the same. Look people say people disability, I say

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Speaker 2: people with ability, because some of these people have got

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Speaker 2: physical abilities, disabilities, and they can do things that I

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Speaker 2: actually only dream of doing. I can't imagine how people

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Speaker 2: confine at say in a wheelchair, can go and study,

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Speaker 2: become a lawyer or something like that. Takes a lot

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Speaker 2: of personal strength and something to do it. And I

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Speaker 2: take my hat off to all these people. So if

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Speaker 2: you know anybody who's done a significant contribution to people

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Speaker 2: with disability in our community, you've got until Friday, the

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Speaker 2: first of November twenty twenty four to actually nominate them.

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Speaker 2: We are going to award the person or the persons

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Speaker 2: at the divers Ability Fun.

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Speaker 3: Day in December twenty four. Awesome.

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Speaker 2: And then we've got the City of the year. Again,

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Speaker 2: we've got a lot of people out there. They do

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Speaker 2: things and very quietly, not because they expect to be recognized,

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Speaker 2: because they want something about it, but because they believe

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Speaker 3: Things in a community.

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Speaker 2: So we ask for nomination for the Citson of the

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Speaker 2: Year for an individual who is an outstanding leadership, active

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Speaker 2: citizenship and service to the community. For the Young Citizens

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Speaker 2: of the Year a young person and a group because

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Speaker 2: a lot of people individuals, but also there are groups

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Speaker 2: that do a lot of good work out there and

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Speaker 2: they never recognized. Please nomination close first of the over

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and we would announce them as Australians

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Speaker 2: and Australia the ceremony in January twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Food stuff, good stuff. Hey con. We've had a couple

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Speaker 1: of people messaging through wondering on a totally different topic

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Speaker 1: about the tree removal as Jingly Water Gardens, as there

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Speaker 1: had to be some trees removed there.

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Speaker 2: We only remove trees if we consider them to be

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Speaker 2: a danger to the community. We had a situations where

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Speaker 2: trees that they look very very healthy snap and kill people.

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Speaker 2: We had incidance happening in council land and in school

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Speaker 2: first sign that something is wrong, we actually remove them.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time we make sure we plant

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Speaker 2: not one, but two or three or four trees to

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Speaker 2: to arrive, so when we plant it there'll be water

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Speaker 2: We had a number of trees with vandalized in Progress Drive.

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Speaker 2: We keep planting them and somebody keeps ripping them off

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Speaker 2: and throwing the middle of the street. You see, I

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Speaker 3: They're all over.

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Speaker 2: Live and two things like that. But rest assure every

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Speaker 2: look around to see how beautiful down looks, even now

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Speaker 2: that's a dry season. In addition to that, on Saturday morning,

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Speaker 2: the esplan and pick up a six pack, not of beers,

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Speaker 2: but of trees. We're giving native trees to all our

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Speaker 2: dour residents. Two thousand trees to be given away last

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Speaker 3: Thirty there were none left.

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Speaker 2: People queuing up seven o'clock talking about three four five

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Speaker 2: plant it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all good stuff. So that's on Saturday morning.

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Speaker 2: Were Saturday morning, twelfth of October at the Esplanade.

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Speaker 1: At the Esplanade. Awesome now corn in terms of the

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Speaker 1: kinetic structure of Bandilla Beach, wherez it as?

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Speaker 2: It's in a container coming up to Darwin as we speak.

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Speaker 2: At the moment, je X got a contract to actually

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Speaker 2: remodel and reduce Bandilla. The roads are closed either side.

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Speaker 2: It's going to work has already started. As you've seen

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Speaker 2: the planets. It's going to be from a place where

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Speaker 2: people get drunk and fight and everything else that your behavior,

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Speaker 2: place for skateboarding, place for kids to run their bikes.

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Speaker 2: It's going to take time, but the first stage it's

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Speaker 3: Speak, three and a half million dollars altogether to spend

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Speaker 1: When do you anticipate that first stage is going to

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Speaker 3: Hopefully we're finished by the Seber.

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Speaker 2: If everything holds and then we don't have as severe rainfall,

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Speaker 2: they already start working out. I don't think we're going

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Speaker 2: to have rain for the next three days. The bomb

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Speaker 2: predicts the weekend we might have some rain.

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Speaker 3: That's fine. As long as does work during work days,

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Speaker 1: So you're happy with the rain on the weekends, So

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Speaker 3: So people can work. And what are the trees of

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I know there's been a bit of controversy

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Speaker 1: of course around the kinetic sculpture, but I think that

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Speaker 1: people will be quite happy to see Bundilla Beach actually

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Speaker 2: We're doing at the moment. And talking about Cyclon Tracy,

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Speaker 2: I'm writing to the Mint, the Australian Mint, arguing about

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Speaker 2: to issue a commemorative coin for Cyclon tracing despite the

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Speaker 2: argument that Chyclon trace was a regional event. I argue

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Speaker 2: and I say, no, it was an event of national

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Speaker 1: Not say that it was an event of national significance.

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Speaker 2: Our building codes change the way we treated people after disasters,

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Speaker 2: way we evacuate people. That had a significant impact in Australia.

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Speaker 2: It has to be commemorated. Yes, Actually it's actually waiting

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Speaker 2: my signature on my desk as we speak. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to send to them and I'm happy. Actually they don't

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Speaker 2: notice for them because they're delayed. Happy to have it

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Speaker 2: in January, February, March. But something to commemorate the event

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Speaker 2: which actually changed the face of Australia, change the face of.

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Speaker 1: Northern australiayeah, I agree. I think it should happen. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a bit of a farce at they're saying

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Speaker 3: Well, they did for the Blue Mountains, they did the

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Speaker 2: To say that Chocolate Treasure was not a big event, really,

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Speaker 2: it's like telling me bombing off DOWI was not significant.

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Speaker 1: Well, it seems ignorant to me.

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Speaker 2: It seems to me that they don't want to do

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Speaker 1: Yeah, corn, I do want to ask you just very

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Speaker 1: quickly before I let you go. I know that some

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Speaker 1: new by laws have come into effect on October two,

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Speaker 1: ending the grace period for households with chocks and roosters.

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Speaker 1: What are the caps.

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Speaker 3: Now to roosters and twenty chicken and.

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Speaker 1: So you can still have twenty chalks in a residential way.

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Speaker 2: I argued, no roosters and not chicken. I'm waiting to

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Speaker 3: Arguing about oh, you want to more work up. No

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Actually I said twelve chicken like it was before, and

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Speaker 2: no roosters because of the problems we cause with the roosters.

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Speaker 2: When three o'clock in the morning, a bloody rooster decides

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Speaker 2: and Neble complain to us, Well, I need to and

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Speaker 2: see how we go. As before, you don't need the

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Speaker 2: roosters to have eggs. You don't have to edit chucks

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Speaker 2: to have eggs and you can have. I had four

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Speaker 2: the week eggs with no problem at all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, well, let's wait and see exactly what happens here.

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Speaker 1: So they could still be some change in that space

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Speaker 2: Well, we we'll find out what happened, because Bilos can

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Speaker 2: always change.

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Speaker 3: Takes time and effort, but we can do it.

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Speaker 2: But before I go, let me tell you that we

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Speaker 2: got about eight hundred tons of cyclon clean up.

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Speaker 3: We've finished the cyclon cleanup.

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Speaker 2: Please do not put things out in your in your

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Speaker 2: to the tip. It costs you. Nothing is still free.

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Speaker 2: You've got a talken with your rates or if you

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Speaker 2: give you one take them out. It's amazing how many

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Speaker 2: amazing how many we picked up. The good news is

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Speaker 2: forty percent being diverted away from landfill, and we salvaged

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Speaker 2: the metal.

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Speaker 1: The anything like really interesting found that I've told you.

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Speaker 2: About, well they told me they found quite a bit

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Speaker 2: of oil i've seen or packed. Despiteify we said, don't

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Speaker 2: put them out big equipment that soon be there, but

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Speaker 2: they just scraped in because it was less than two

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Speaker 2: meters long. But again we picked them up as a

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Speaker 2: good will change treasures.

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Speaker 1: So you didn't know.

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Speaker 3: You didn't find any bar of gold or anything else.

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Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what a lot of people probably

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Speaker 2: they made the household because people put things out and

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Speaker 2: within two days half of it's gone.

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Speaker 1: I am not joking. We put our an old leaf

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Speaker 1: blower and also I can't remember what it was, an

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Speaker 1: old lawn mower. They were picked up within like twenty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Yep, I've found that one. I've put things in my

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Speaker 2: yard and boy, nothing was left by the afternoon, even

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Speaker 2: all television that it was visible broken.

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Speaker 3: to take the tip. But look we did it. People

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Speaker 1: Absolutely that's the main thing. Combat. Scarlis Lord Mayor of Darwin.

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Speaker 1: Always good to catch up. You're here for the day,

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Speaker 1: worries ready to co host. Good on you can thank

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