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Speaker 1: And I believe I've got on the line right now,

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Speaker 1: let me just double check where I'm going. I've got

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Speaker 1: Liz Clark on the line. Good morning to you, Liz.

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Speaker 2: Ah, Good morning Katie. How are you today?

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Speaker 1: Really well? Now you've got four minutes? Are you ready

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Speaker 1: to get started?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, yes, let's do it all right.

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Speaker 1: Now. What job were you in before putting your hand up? Well,

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Speaker 1: before you became me?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was doing part time work. And I was

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Speaker 2: also an alderman on council for the last thirteen years,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, a council has I've been a part of

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Speaker 2: council for that long?

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Speaker 1: And how long have you lived in Catherine?

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Speaker 2: I been in Catherine for fifty two years, so I've

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Speaker 2: seen the town grow from a very small area, you know,

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Speaker 2: a small town, to what it is today and all

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Speaker 2: the modern things we have yep.

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Speaker 1: And why did you decide to put your hand up

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Speaker 1: for the mayor's role?

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Speaker 2: Originally it wasn't something I had intended doing. When when Miller,

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Speaker 2: who was our last mayor, when she was very ill

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Speaker 2: she and she resigned, I was approached by a couple

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Speaker 2: of other aldermen that asked me would they would I

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Speaker 2: put my hand up and I did and yeah, and

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Speaker 2: I got the role.

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Speaker 1: And Liz, what do you see as being the big

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Speaker 1: issues in Catherine at the moment?

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Speaker 2: I think the biggest issues we have right now made

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Speaker 2: me a shortage of housing for people. You know, we do?

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Speaker 2: You know we we And we also need to upgrade

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Speaker 2: some of our facilities, like the AFL Oval. They need

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Speaker 2: a bigger oval. But certainly if we can address the

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Speaker 2: housing situation so that people can more, people can will

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Speaker 2: stay here. One of the problems we have is because

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Speaker 2: they can get the job, but they can't get a

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Speaker 2: house to live in. We've had even people that have

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Speaker 2: had to stay in the caravan park because there's not

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Speaker 2: been enough housing available or rental housing.

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Speaker 1: Even at least taking those issues into account, why do

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Speaker 1: you feel that you're the best place to work with

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Speaker 1: the community in an effort to fix them.

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Speaker 2: I think that one of the things I've tried to

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Speaker 2: do is try to connect with as many people as possible.

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Speaker 2: I'd like, you know, and my biggest thing is that

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Speaker 2: is in our next term is to do a strategic plan.

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Speaker 2: I would like the community's inputs, particularly business, our indigenous

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Speaker 2: community as well as our locals to put something into

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Speaker 2: our strategic plan which will draw I've what our future

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Speaker 2: of counsel. And I will be going around personally to

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Speaker 2: see a lot of these people because I know that

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Speaker 2: sometimes people don't always get to come to meetings. We're

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Speaker 2: hoping to have a few, yeah, and I'd like to

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Speaker 2: hear from from the community what they would like to

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Speaker 2: see for the future of Catherine. That that's my goal

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Speaker 2: at least.

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Speaker 1: Just finally, why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to think that they you know, whether

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Speaker 2: they think I've done a good job in the last

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Speaker 2: eight months. You know that I that I will do

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Speaker 2: what I say I'm going to do. And I did

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Speaker 2: get on well with a lot of people here. People

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Speaker 2: know who I am and what I've done in the

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Speaker 2: community over the years, so and I have had a

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Speaker 2: lot of support from people. So I'm hoping that they

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Speaker 2: will vote for me as mayor if they have the

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Speaker 2: confidence that I can do the job.

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Speaker 1: Well. This Clark, you've come in with ten seconds to spare.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time this morning. All

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Speaker 1: the very best on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks. That's Lis Clark there are well. One of the

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Speaker 1: other candidates to put their hand up, obviously for the

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Speaker 1: mayor's position in Catherine