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Speaker 1: So this morning we are going to kick off with

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Speaker 1: the incumbent, Kate Warden, whose name and voice you will recognize.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Kate.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. Glad to be with you.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you on the show. Now, Kate, we've

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Speaker 1: got seven minutes for you and our Meet the Candidates series.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to get started?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? One hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it all right, Kate? Why have you decided

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Speaker 1: to put your hand up to run again?

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Speaker 2: Look, Katie, it's very simple. I am very, very lucky

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Speaker 2: to be the member for Sanderson. It's an absolute privilege

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Speaker 2: and you know, as you know, I've been door knocking

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Speaker 2: that electorate for now nine years and it's something I've

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Speaker 2: literally done every single week that I've been elected, and

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Speaker 2: I love it. It is such a privilege to serve

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Speaker 2: people in the way that I do. And I think

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Speaker 2: a lot of people don't see the everyday work that

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Speaker 2: we do in the electorate and how we work and

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Speaker 2: the different things that we help out with, but you

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Speaker 2: know we will any day. Can take me from helping

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Speaker 2: out getting an age care referral, helping people with visas,

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Speaker 2: you know, some of those issues, assisting with where crime hotspots, occur.

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Speaker 2: Just all of that stuff, working with our school councils

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Speaker 2: to get things and also making really important community collect connections.

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Speaker 2: So I've done a lot of work over those nine

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Speaker 2: years and I've absolutely loved it. It is such a privilege,

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Speaker 2: and I'll continue to work every single day for my community,

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Speaker 2: and you know, very very proud of some of the

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Speaker 2: things that I've achieved. And definitely most recently, you know,

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Speaker 2: I've advocated really strongly around the buyback of licenses around

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Speaker 2: places like being all of shops because of the antisocial behavior,

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Speaker 2: and we have now achieved that well, I've achieved that

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Speaker 2: with our government and now we're seeing a massive decrease

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Speaker 2: in antisocial behavior and around an aller and I know

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Speaker 2: the shop keepers that are very very happy, as are

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Speaker 2: our community. So being able to do those things really

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Speaker 2: targeted things and also bring community together. You know, I

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Speaker 2: established the men's groups back in twenty sixteen or seventeen

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Speaker 2: and that's going strong, and that brings people together in

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Speaker 2: our community. So looking at the things where there's difficulties

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Speaker 2: and challenges, but also making sure that we can do

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Speaker 2: things where we can have an effect on people's everyday

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Speaker 2: lives and perhaps championing the things that people can't do

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Speaker 2: for themselves. It's just so important and it is satisfying,

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Speaker 2: but it's also it makes me incredibly proud, and I

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Speaker 2: know it's a great privilege to be in this role.

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Speaker 1: Kate, what do you see as being the biggest issues

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Speaker 1: in the electorate from that door knocking that you've done.

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Speaker 2: So, I'll talk to people about crime on the doors.

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Speaker 2: I never take a backward step on that, Katie, but

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Speaker 2: I will let you know that when I was elected

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Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, people were talking about crime then and

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Speaker 2: we had some very specific issues with a local charity

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Speaker 2: that was feeding people and they were flocking in and

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Speaker 2: causing lots and anti social behavior, and I stepped in

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Speaker 2: at that stage to help out with that. And I'll

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Speaker 2: often do that in hot spots. So when you know,

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Speaker 2: that's the beauty of being engaged with your community and

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Speaker 2: always draw knocking as you can get that information you

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Speaker 2: know very much firsthand, and along with social media and

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Speaker 2: making sure that I monitor and seeing what's going on

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Speaker 2: in my community, I'll do that so's that is one thing.

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Speaker 2: The cost of living is really starting to buy it

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Speaker 2: for people. So helping out where I can with that,

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Speaker 2: particularly engaged with all our charities and making sure that

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Speaker 2: people are accessing services if they need it. But Katie,

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Speaker 2: you'd be surprised about the sorts of things that people

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Speaker 2: come in to see me about. I've always worked on

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Speaker 2: a Saturday every you know, since I've been first elected.

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Speaker 2: I've had my office open on Saturday for people that

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Speaker 2: are working, and I get lots of people that come through,

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Speaker 2: and I help people with everything from fleeing domestic violence

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Speaker 2: and helping them get engaged. I help people get their

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Speaker 2: driver's licenses. I help people put their resume together. It

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Speaker 2: seems something small, particularly for new migrants, so that they

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Speaker 2: can get a job, having a look at that and

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Speaker 2: helping them so lots of things. It's very very broad,

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Speaker 2: and often I'll help broker issues around council issues, so

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Speaker 2: I work across every level of government in this role.

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Speaker 1: Kate, on the issue of crime, we have had people

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Speaker 1: contact us, you know, who have said that they weren't satisfied,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the way in which you dealt with

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Speaker 1: crime when you were the police minister. Sort of looking

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Speaker 1: at that in your electorate, why do you feel that

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Speaker 1: you're the best place to combat that issue?

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Speaker 2: Still Katie. You know, no matter what job you're in,

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Speaker 2: you're going to criticism and you're never going to make

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Speaker 2: everybody happy. I think we have to accept that. But

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Speaker 2: I am very proud we got a you know, Michael

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Speaker 2: Murphy came in as a new commissioner under my leadership,

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Speaker 2: and I also kicked off the police review, which has

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Speaker 2: now seen that very big investment coming in. I've also

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Speaker 2: done a whole range of stuff across my community, getting

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Speaker 2: CCTV in there, bringing in and working very very closely

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Speaker 2: with our local police. It's the things that in PHAPS

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Speaker 2: don't see that I think are making a big difference

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Speaker 2: for people. So there's always going to be that people

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Speaker 2: that are critical. There is also going to be people that,

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Speaker 2: you know, didn't feel that I responded exactly how they wanted.

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Speaker 2: I accept that this job doesn't come without challenge, but

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Speaker 2: I'm always up for the challenge, and I'm always very

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Speaker 2: very upfront with people and happy to meet with them

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Speaker 2: and walk through those issues with them.

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Speaker 1: Okay, two minutes to go. One of the other issues

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Speaker 1: that we've spoken to you about before, but it continues

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Speaker 1: to be a concern is Sandersen Middle School. Oval tell

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Speaker 1: us where things are at there and what your commitment

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Speaker 1: is for Sanderson Middle School level.

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Speaker 2: Sure, so we have seen hooning on that oval and

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Speaker 2: really unsafe practice. Totally acknowledged that, but I have lobbied

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Speaker 2: hard and the Education Department have agreed now to put

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Speaker 2: bollards in. I believe the early work for that has started.

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Speaker 2: I've asked them to absolutely talk with the people that

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Speaker 2: currently use the ovals to understand how they put those bards.

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Speaker 2: I did because you know there's details that can't be missed.

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Speaker 2: You have to make sure you've got gates so that

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Speaker 2: a car can legitimately come on the oval to remove

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Speaker 2: the goalposts and change them over as our sports change.

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Speaker 2: But I also want to work much more longer term

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Speaker 2: with the clubs that are there to make sure that

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Speaker 2: we can establish a nice little spot. We've done some

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Speaker 2: good work in at my Lack Oval, and if you've

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Speaker 2: been out there and seen that the new center that's

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Speaker 2: out there for football, I want to do something very

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Speaker 2: similar at Sanderson and I'm working through at the moment

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Speaker 2: how we can do that. So I've been a big

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Speaker 2: champion for that, and we have got those vollads going

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Speaker 2: in and we have to make sure that that surface

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Speaker 2: is fit for purpose and we're doing all of that cake.

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Speaker 1: Forty seconds left. Why should people vote for you.

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Speaker 2: I've been a very strong voice for Sanderson over my

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Speaker 2: last eight years being elected, but I've worked incredibly hard

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Speaker 2: for nine years. My commitment is one hundred percent there.

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Speaker 2: I will continue to work for the people of Sanderson.

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Speaker 2: They are amazing people. And it is as I said,

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Speaker 2: I am so lucky to be in this job. It

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Speaker 2: is a great privilege and not one I take for granted.

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Speaker 2: And also ready and always able to step up and

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Speaker 2: take on a ministerial role in our government. And I'm

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Speaker 2: really really a strong part of the Labor Lawler team,

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Speaker 2: and going forward, I want to continue to do that

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Speaker 2: and have a very strong voice not just for my

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Speaker 2: community on the small issues, but on the big issues

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Speaker 2: of government as we go forward. It is a great

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Speaker 2: privilege to be the mem Kate.

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Speaker 1: Very good timing, Our time is up. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for your time this morning, and thanks for taking

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Speaker 1: part in our Meet the Candidates series.

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Speaker 2: No problems. It's always lovely to speak to you, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you