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Speaker 1: Let's get into discussing what our candidates stand for and

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Speaker 1: who is running when it comes to the mayor position

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Speaker 1: here in Darwin. Now, we are doing this across the board,

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Speaker 1: were trying our best to catch up with as many

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Speaker 1: of the candidates as possible and well, heading to Darwin

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Speaker 1: today and we are kicking things off with the current mayor,

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Speaker 1: Convat Scalas, who joins me on the line. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Con, Good morning Katie. Now, Con, we've got

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Speaker 1: a few questions to get through and you've got six minutes.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to get started? Fire up? All right?

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Speaker 2: Con?

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Speaker 1: Why have you decided to put your hand up and

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Speaker 1: run for mayor again?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't like leaving a job have done. I

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Speaker 2: need to finish it and there are quite a lot

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Speaker 2: of things that have to be done in Darwin and

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Speaker 2: I want to continue to deliver for the community. To

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Speaker 2: think we already started. We're doing a review of the

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Speaker 2: saved parkings at the time. I wanted to finish and

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Speaker 2: there are a number of projects that have been done

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Speaker 2: before and I want to deliver the community more infrastructure

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Speaker 2: that it gives you. An example, the cas Airina Childia

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Speaker 2: Center is in urgent need of attention. It needs to

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Speaker 2: be upgraded. Korama does not have a child heare, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: That needs to be upgraded. We have to install lights

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Speaker 2: in playgrounds for public safety. We want to actually organize

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Speaker 2: to have more lights in ovals, built change rooms and toilets,

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Speaker 2: especially now that boys and girls playing sports and more

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Speaker 2: girls actually playing sports more than before. As there are

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Speaker 2: need for families to be looked after. I want to

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Speaker 2: continue the Christmas patient which is very popular. I want

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Speaker 2: to have a family days out that cost nothing for

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Speaker 2: families take their kids and entertain them. And certainly what

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Speaker 2: I would like to do which actually in the past

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Speaker 2: few days become a burning issue, I would like to

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Speaker 2: offer the council land, if possible, to the territory government

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Speaker 2: and federal government to establish a nursing home. So peoples

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Speaker 2: tend to be locked in a hospital in Palmerston occupying

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Speaker 2: one hundred beds that we need desperately in the health sector,

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Speaker 2: we can provide a facility in Darwin right well.

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Speaker 1: Con we might get a little bit more to that

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Speaker 1: in a moment. But in terms of qualifications and work experience,

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Speaker 1: what qualifications and work experience do you have which you

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Speaker 1: think make you best placed for the position of may Well.

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Speaker 2: Katie. You have to remember that we went through cyclone.

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Speaker 2: Marcus and I led the council to the recovery stage

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Speaker 2: and a year two years later we got the pandemic,

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Speaker 2: the COVID nineteen pandemic, and once again with mildly to see,

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Speaker 2: the council came trumps up. We help the communities, we

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Speaker 2: helped the businesses within my Darwin vouchers. I have managed

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Speaker 2: to lead a council of thirteen individuals with their own

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Speaker 2: agendas and their own personalities, and we didn't have any problems.

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Speaker 2: We actually come up really working together, even with our differences.

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Speaker 2: Other councils to the territory had administration put on them.

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Speaker 2: Our council has done really good job. It's financially sound

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Speaker 2: and it's putting every year about sixty million dollars to

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Speaker 2: the local economy. Despite the difference of opinions of thirteen individuals,

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Speaker 2: we have managed to deliver very much for our local community.

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Speaker 1: Con what do you see as the most important issues

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Speaker 1: in Darwin in the Darwin municipality, look.

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Speaker 2: I hear a lot of card dates that they've got

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Speaker 2: ideas about things like juvenile detention, juvenile training and public safety.

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Speaker 2: We have to remember that the local government in the

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Speaker 2: territory is very strictly controlled by the Local Government Act,

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Speaker 2: and not many people seem to have read that one

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Speaker 2: because the Act prescribed exactly what the council can and

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Speaker 2: can do. I can't organize the police, I can't have

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Speaker 2: detention centers. I can't build housefold before homeless people because

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Speaker 2: I have neither the power, not the resources or the expertise.

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Speaker 2: But I'm very happy to work with the government in

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Speaker 2: this stage is to actually make it a reality. What

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Speaker 2: the community needs in the community needs ability, and the

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Speaker 2: community needs to be provided with infrastructure to deserve, for example,

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Speaker 2: fixing the back paths, fixing the stone water drains, fixing

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Speaker 2: the roads, having the libraries open, providing events for juvenile

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Speaker 2: young people, young families and senior territories as well. There

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Speaker 2: are things we can do and things we can't do.

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Speaker 2: If I can't do it, I stand up and say sorry, guys,

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Speaker 2: I can't do that one. It's beyond that capacity. But

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Speaker 2: the things I can do it I will do it.

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Speaker 1: Cotton, we've got just over two minutes saved. What are

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Speaker 1: your top three commitments to voters? I mean you mentioned

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Speaker 1: one before about potential land. What are your top three commitments.

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Speaker 2: My top commedan is to continue grinning Dowin. We need trees,

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Speaker 2: we need more trees. We planted seventy thousand and gave

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Speaker 2: away seventy thousand trees in the past few years. I

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Speaker 2: want to continue that one. If you look the changes

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Speaker 2: in now in the past few years, you realize what

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Speaker 2: the difference some trees make. Have a look at daily Street,

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Speaker 2: Goida Road, Bradshaw Terrors the Annula green Belt. The other

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Speaker 2: one is I would like to upgrade the Casuna childcare center.

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Speaker 2: That's a priority for me and new childcare. And in Carama,

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Speaker 2: I like to upgrade the facilities in the night give pool.

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Speaker 2: We deliver a twenty seven million dollars cas arena. A

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Speaker 2: quotic center. Poor nightlift needs attention. And I'm not talking

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Speaker 2: about the pool itself. I'm talking about the kiosk, the

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Speaker 2: change room and the toilets and important as I said

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Speaker 2: to you before, and I'm very strong of that. One

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Speaker 2: is a nursing home facility for Darwin.

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Speaker 1: Now, corn are you a member of a political party

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Speaker 1: or have you other ever been? I know some people

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Speaker 1: will know the answer.

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Speaker 2: To that, I think everybody knows the answer to that.

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Speaker 2: I was a political party, I was a minister in

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Speaker 2: the Label government. But I made a promise in twenty

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Speaker 2: seventeen when I was the first elected as a mayor,

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Speaker 2: I will not be a member of the party, and

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Speaker 2: since twenty seventeen I have been a member of any party.

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Speaker 1: Corn Are you going to be preferencing people or are

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Speaker 1: there preferences? What are your preferences for I.

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Speaker 2: Would prefer I would preference people that I think they

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Speaker 2: can do the job, and I will not preference people

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Speaker 2: that I think they're actually out there for just for

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Speaker 2: the sake of it. And I say that because none

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Speaker 2: of the candidates are apart from the current elected members,

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Speaker 2: has attended in the past four years a council meeting,

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Speaker 2: and when we had an open day to provide advice

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Speaker 2: to candidates, only four temed up. So there are people

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Speaker 2: out there that decided to stay to put her hand

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Speaker 2: up for mayor. But I question they are why they

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Speaker 2: want to do that one if they've got any other

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Speaker 2: ideas to promote themselves now to go to a bigger

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Speaker 2: and better job in the territorial federal parliament. But I

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Speaker 2: would preference people that deserve to be preferenced.

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Speaker 1: So who do you think who are the top of

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Speaker 1: your list?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a very mix. But I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: There are some people that go to the bottom of

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Speaker 2: the list, and there's some people go in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the list, and some other people that will go

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Speaker 2: in the top of the list. Some of the current

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Speaker 2: elected members that I know there are somewhere in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the list. You have to remember, preferences very

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Speaker 2: political too.

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Speaker 1: Corn. That is all we've got time for. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for your six minutes and letting us know

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Speaker 1: why you should continue on as may my pleasure. Thank

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Speaker 1: you