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Speaker 1: Well, we are indeed continuing our discussions with some of

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Speaker 1: the meoral candidates, and we've not been down to Catherine

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Speaker 1: yet to find out who is running. So we thought, well,

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Speaker 1: let's head on down to Catherine this morning and find

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Speaker 1: out a little bit more about some of the candidates. Now,

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Speaker 1: we don't have the chance to catch up with every

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Speaker 1: one of them today, but as I said on the

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Speaker 1: show yesterday, those that we've missed throughout the different areas

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Speaker 1: we are going to try and get back to over

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Speaker 1: the coming days. So certainly doing our best to try

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Speaker 1: and get through all the people who've put their hand

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Speaker 1: up for me right across the top end in our

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Speaker 1: major town centers. But joining me on the line right now,

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Speaker 1: we have got Joanna Holden who's put her hand up

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Speaker 1: for me in Catherine. Good morning to you, Joanna.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are yeah? Really good? Great to have you on

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Speaker 1: the show. Now, Joanna, we've got six minutes and a

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Speaker 1: series of questions. Are you ready to get started?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Why not?

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

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Speaker 1: to put your hand up to be the mayor of Catherine.

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Speaker 2: Look, I am passionate about Catherine. She's my home. She

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Speaker 2: is just a beautiful place, and I think that she's

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Speaker 2: looking for a bit of strong leadership that listens and

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Speaker 2: acts and works with the community. I think there's what

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Speaker 2: I'm hearing is there's a bit of a disconnect between

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Speaker 2: councils and community. So I think we need to get

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Speaker 2: that back, Joanna, what connection back?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Now, in terms of qualifications and work experience, what

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Speaker 1: qualifications or work experience do you have would you think

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Speaker 1: make you best placed for the position.

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Speaker 2: So I've worked across all three tiers of government, so federal, state,

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Speaker 2: and local, and in local government I did the compliance

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Speaker 2: and the business planning and also the financial management. So

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Speaker 2: I think they're important skills to have, particularly good good governance.

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Speaker 2: You know, good governance, I think is the foundations of

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Speaker 2: a good council, and so knowing the acts and the

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Speaker 2: by laws and the roles in the sposabilities are critical

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Speaker 2: to leading a team of counselors to get the job done.

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Speaker 1: Now, in terms of some of the issues being experienced

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Speaker 1: in Catherine that counsel deal with, what do you see

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Speaker 1: as being the most important issues for counsel to work through?

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Speaker 2: So I think to start with, we need to So

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Speaker 2: I've been. I've spent the last couple of weeks listening

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Speaker 2: to people and there is a list of things. One

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Speaker 2: of the key issues is around rubbish, and that encompasses

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Speaker 2: a whole range of of matters such as the new

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Speaker 2: really bins, recycling, the dump hours, the tip the rubbish

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Speaker 2: hip shops. So I think that that is a priority

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Speaker 2: for people. I think they want the town to be

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Speaker 2: tidied up, the graffiti dealt with, the rubbish, dealt with,

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Speaker 2: you know, so putting a bit of pride back into

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Speaker 2: the community by making it look good, putting the water

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Speaker 2: onto the gardens, you know, all those sorts of things

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Speaker 2: to give people pride in their home. So I think

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Speaker 2: their priorities, and then I think we need to be

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Speaker 2: working any social behavior is impacting everybody. Counsel is limited

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Speaker 2: in what it can do, but we can certainly advocate

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Speaker 2: loudly and strongly on behalf of our community to have

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Speaker 2: these issues addressed.

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Speaker 1: Now, I mean you've sort of touched on on your

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Speaker 1: commitments as well throughout that question, But what would you

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Speaker 1: say are the top three commitments that you would make

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Speaker 1: if you become the mayor.

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Speaker 2: So I'll give you a commitment that I've been making

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Speaker 2: to people on an individual level, is that my door

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Speaker 2: will be open if people want to come and talk

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Speaker 2: to me, if they've got an issue, my door is open.

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Speaker 2: I will listen. I will then investigate, you know, have

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Speaker 2: back to them. So my first promise is an open door,

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Speaker 2: a listening, ear, and then follow up. The second one

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Speaker 2: is that I will I want to set the counsel

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Speaker 2: up for success, So I want us to be very

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Speaker 2: clear about you know, our roles and responsibility, you know

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Speaker 2: what the requirements are, so all that good governance stuff.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the second thing to set in place,

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Speaker 2: because those good foundations make for good decisions and goods,

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Speaker 2: you know, for achieving in the future. And then I

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Speaker 2: think the third thing I'd have to say, Look, we've

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Speaker 2: got to do something about the rubbish. I'm sick of

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Speaker 2: trash talk yep.

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Speaker 1: Is there plenty of rubbish around? Is there?

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Speaker 2: I think there's a whole range of issues around the

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Speaker 2: rubbish people being able to access it. When they can't,

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Speaker 2: then that leads to illegal dumping, which then you know,

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Speaker 2: obviously that causes litter, and that makes the placebook untidy.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a bit of confusion around what's happening

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Speaker 2: with the new bin system. So yeah, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of I think there's a lot of issues and questions

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Speaker 1: Johanna, you've got about two minutes left. A question we've

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Speaker 1: been asking all of the candidates. Are you a member

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Speaker 1: of a political party or have you ever been?

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Speaker 2: I am not a member of a political party. I

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Speaker 2: never have been, and I don't think party politics belongs

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Speaker 2: at the local level. I think local government is grassroots.

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Speaker 2: It's about representing your community and me. That's Catherine. I'm

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Speaker 2: here to fight for Catherine. I'm not here to fight

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Speaker 2: for anything else but Catherine. That's my political party. Katherine.

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Speaker 1: Now you've still got about a minute and a half left.

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Speaker 1: Why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 2: People should vote for me because I am I've got

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Speaker 2: strong leadership skills. I intend to listen to our community.

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Speaker 2: I intend for the council to get back to that

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Speaker 2: grassroots listening and acting. And it doesn't have to be

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Speaker 2: big staff Katie. But what I'm hearing from the community

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Speaker 2: is they're not looking for big, multi million dollar projects.

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Speaker 2: They're just looking for small things that I keep going

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Speaker 2: back to the dump oping hour. To me, that's a

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Speaker 2: small issue and it should be an easy fix.

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Speaker 1: Well, Joanna Holden, good to catch up with you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Good to find out a little bit more about why

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Speaker 1: you've decided to put your hand up.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you, Katie, thank you for your time, thank

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Speaker 2: you for breat that you two