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Speaker 1: Clp. She joins me on the line. Good morning, Murray.

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Speaker 2: Claire, Good morning Katie and your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got seven minutes and sixteen seconds so that

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Speaker 1: we keep things very fair this morning. Are you ready.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it, Murray Claire. Why have you decided to

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Speaker 1: put your hand up and run again in the seat

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Speaker 1: of Brettan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie, I actually love the role that I play

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Speaker 2: here representing our community out here in Palmerston. I remember

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Speaker 2: when I was growing up, you know, it was it

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Speaker 2: was safe to ride our bikes around and to play

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Speaker 2: in the local parks, and you know, being raised by

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Speaker 2: our parents who were working tirelessly in the community for

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Speaker 2: service clubs. It's a real sense of community and it's

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Speaker 2: very much like that out here at Palmerston as well.

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Speaker 2: But unfortunately, you know, even though together with the amazing

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Speaker 2: community I have who bring concerns and ideas to me constantly,

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Speaker 2: and we're constantly you know, sorting things out and problem

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Speaker 2: solving together and getting new things around, we still have

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Speaker 2: these underlying challenges that we live with. And of course

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Speaker 2: that is you know, the crime, the impacts it has

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Speaker 2: on our families. You know, the feeling of not being safe,

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Speaker 2: you know, when you're visiting the shops, you're going to

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Speaker 2: public places, you're catching buses even just to leave your home.

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Speaker 2: I mean, these are issues that have been raised with

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Speaker 2: me for the entire time that I've had this role,

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Speaker 2: and you know, it's it's something to be able to

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Speaker 2: help the community and get things done, but we've got

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Speaker 2: to address those absolutely underlying issues and that's where you know,

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Speaker 2: I've driven every single day to try and make a

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Speaker 2: difference in that space.

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Speaker 1: What would you say the biggest achievements for you over

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Speaker 1: the last four years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, We've done a lot together as a community. And

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Speaker 2: one of the things I believe in is that ideas

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Speaker 2: and concerns they come from the community, which is why

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Speaker 2: I'm out and about every single day. I'm constantly, you know,

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Speaker 2: knocking on people's doors, doing activities in areas where people

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Speaker 2: can come to and share these ideas and concerns. And

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Speaker 2: sometimes there are small things Katie and you know, like

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Speaker 2: their street signs, or they're fixing verges or either things

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Speaker 2: upgrading parks or cleaning up things, and those things are

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Speaker 2: important because if you let them go, which we've seen

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Speaker 2: in other areas, then they become big things, so you know,

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Speaker 2: they're important to people and they get frustrated. Other big

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Speaker 2: things that we've been able to achieve, things like the

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Speaker 2: Bakewell shopping Center as an example, it was the only

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Speaker 2: shopping center in the whole of the top end that

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Speaker 2: didn't have security guards, so we were seeing a lot

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Speaker 2: of antisocial behavior. There are a lot of thefts. The

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Speaker 2: customers that would go there didn't feel safe, and the

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Speaker 2: staff that work in those shops. So as a community

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Speaker 2: we work together. We lobbied hard for the owners to

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Speaker 2: be able to stand up full time security in addition

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Speaker 2: to the one they had at the bottle shop, which

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Speaker 2: didn't cover the other areas of the center. And that's

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Speaker 2: still going now and that the people that go to

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Speaker 2: Bakeel now tell me how that's been fabulous. Other examples

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Speaker 2: it needed new garden beds, it needed graffiti painted. And

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Speaker 2: I worked with the owners and had the help of

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Speaker 2: the community to make sure that we could make that,

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Speaker 2: you know, look like a nice place, a nice place

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Speaker 2: to work. If you work there or of course visit

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Speaker 2: those kinds of things that they are important to people

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Speaker 2: out here. You know, we want to have a nice community,

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Speaker 2: We want to be a bit proud of what we've got.

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Speaker 2: And so in addition to things like the figure issues

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Speaker 2: course we me and my team have been fighting to

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Speaker 2: change legislation and to strengthen the laws, and I mean

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Speaker 2: every opportunity in media and parliament, we are banging that

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Speaker 2: that out of everything they're doing and all the money

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Speaker 2: they're investing, unless they change the laws, things are going

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Speaker 1: Mark Claire, one of the other questions that we've been

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Speaker 1: asked by our listeners to ask you and Tony this

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Speaker 1: morning is what can I please ask both potential members

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Speaker 1: what they're going to do about the itinerants camping around Palmerston.

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Speaker 2: Katie, this has been an ongoing issue for as long

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Speaker 2: as I can remember, and it's certainly not getting any better.

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Speaker 2: In fact, it's getting worse. And you know, I have

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Speaker 2: and like, it's just not okay that people, often with

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Speaker 2: their children, can come and you know, set up like

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Speaker 2: set up camp if you like, around our public spaces,

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Speaker 2: and of course that's where the issues really start. They

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Speaker 2: do is take your kids to play in the park,

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Speaker 2: and we can't even do that here in Palmerston because

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of times where these these people that

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Speaker 2: are sleeping. I have worked with police, with counsel with

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Speaker 2: But do you know what, Katie, it doesn't work because

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Speaker 2: the laws aren't there to be able to deal with

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Speaker 2: the problem drinking when it occurs, and so the people

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Speaker 2: to be able to deal with it, and there's nowhere

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Speaker 2: for these people to go. Like. It's okay to say

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Speaker 2: that we should do more things out Bush and get

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Speaker 2: them out there, but a lot of these families don't

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Speaker 2: want to be out Bush. They want to be living

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Speaker 2: in town. We don't have sufficient housing for them to live.

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Speaker 2: We don't have sufficient services which are functioning effectively enough

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Speaker 2: to be able to invest in root causes of these issues.

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Speaker 2: You know, why are they there in the first place?

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Speaker 2: Where can we get them to live? You know, we

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Speaker 2: need to work together to do that, and so far

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Speaker 2: we've just seen it get worse and not better.

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Speaker 1: Mary Claire, just over a minute to go, I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you the mold and oval. It's something I

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Speaker 1: know it's not in your electric but it's something we've

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Speaker 1: been speaking quite a bit about the impact to sporting

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Speaker 1: clubs on not being able to use it. What should

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Speaker 1: the COELP be doing and what would the COLP do? Katie?

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Speaker 2: This has been an ongoing issue, and I mean for

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Speaker 2: as long as I can remember as well, the club

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Speaker 2: reports to me and other local members about how the

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Speaker 2: graph never gets watered. It's a bureaucratic nightmare, that's what

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Speaker 2: it is. We've got all these different areas of government

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Speaker 2: that are supposed to be responsible and they just pass

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Speaker 2: the buck around. And what we are absolutely determined to

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Speaker 2: do is to break through all of that nonsense nonsense

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Speaker 2: to find a solution, because we should be able to

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Speaker 2: have our kids playing their sport on these ovals. I mean,

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Speaker 2: why do we have some ovals that are beautiful and

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Speaker 2: some that are not. It's just a problem that's crazy

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Speaker 2: to think. So I'm absolutely determined to find a solution.

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Speaker 2: I know Matthew Curl, the candidate Blaine, He's been working

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Speaker 2: hard in this space as well, and we're just we're

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Speaker 2: going to make sure this happens.

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Speaker 1: Mary Claire fifteen seconds to go. Why should people vote

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Speaker 1: for you?

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Speaker 2: Katie? I have an absolute far on my belly, Like

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Speaker 2: I'm raising my family here in Palmerston and have for

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Speaker 2: a very long time. I get out of bed every

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Speaker 2: single day, fight for the families, fighting for them to

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Speaker 2: feel safe, to have their cost of living reduced. I'll

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Speaker 2: continue to fix those other issues that happen around the community,

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Speaker 2: like anyone that knows me and Parmesan already knows. And

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Speaker 2: if you're new to the area and you haven't met

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Speaker 2: me yet, you know you'll see me around it because I'm

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Speaker 2: about everywhere.

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Speaker 1: Mary Claire, thank you so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Good to speak with you, and we'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: again very soon.

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Speaker 2: And to you Katie, thank you, and thank you to listen.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much that