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Speaker 1: Lord Mayor Convat Scalas, who joins me in the studio

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Speaker 1: get icon, good morning.

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Speaker 2: I can understand why you're running late. There were some

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Speaker 2: burning issues at the moment.

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Speaker 1: There certainly are. People are really pretty concerned about these

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Speaker 1: school counselors. So we will talk more about that throughout

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Speaker 1: the morning. But Corn first off, we know that there

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Speaker 1: has been a thirty percent hike in commercial waste face

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Speaker 1: and concerns have been raised by the Palmerston Council. It

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Speaker 1: means at the City of Palmerston residents, all their residents

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Speaker 1: are going to be slugged more on waste collection one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars A torn talk us through why

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Speaker 1: this decision was made.

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Speaker 2: Well, the rubbi step we've run at the moment, it's

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Speaker 2: actually used by three councils Litsfield, Palmerston and Darwin. Unfortunately

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Speaker 2: the expenses are not shared by the three councils. They

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Speaker 2: only said by council City of Darwin. In the past

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Speaker 2: few years we have to spend a lot of money

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Speaker 2: to bring the rubbistep up to standards and to comply

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Speaker 2: the requests by EPA, and I think it's unfair that

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Speaker 2: they eat down rate pairs pay the bills and the

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Speaker 2: others that not pay their fairs here, so increase, and

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Speaker 2: that was a reasonable increase for other councils to pay

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Speaker 2: per ton. It's not very expensive. It might sounds thirty percent,

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Speaker 2: but if you put the real terms, it's not very expensive.

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Speaker 2: At the same time, what we ask in asking separate

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Speaker 2: your rabbish, don't mix green waste with commercial with the

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Speaker 2: domestic waste, because then makes very complicated. We can't really

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Speaker 2: charge you separately, so we charge your bulk.

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Speaker 1: So there been a bit more like kind of advanced

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Speaker 1: notification that it was going to go up in that

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Speaker 1: sense for them, so that they could maybe have made

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Speaker 1: some changes to accommodize.

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Speaker 2: Well, my understanding is that the City of Parments is

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Speaker 2: already charging more than what they pay their rate payers.

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Speaker 2: And my understanding is they've got a rubbish reserve already

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Speaker 2: in place with quite a few million dollars in it.

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Speaker 3: So obviously we didn't charge a lot if they can

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Speaker 3: make a reserve.

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Speaker 2: But again, when EPA turns up to our door steps,

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Speaker 2: they don't give us previous notification.

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Speaker 3: They turn up and says you have to fix that.

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Speaker 2: You have to fix that because this Rubbi is step

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Speaker 2: operating for the past thirty forty years and we actually

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Speaker 2: pay up paid now the problems of the past. So

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Speaker 2: you have to also to remember that our proposals going

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Speaker 2: out for three weeks for public comments. City of Parmastore

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Speaker 2: already written to us about it, expressive concern and certain

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Speaker 2: we'll respond to their consents.

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Speaker 1: In writing, Corn, are you starting a rubbish war with

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Speaker 1: the Palmerston Council here?

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just asking to pay the first year. I

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Speaker 2: don't think that the people in Waguri or Wulagi or

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Speaker 2: Tiwi would be very pleased to subsidize Palmerston.

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Speaker 1: Now let's move along. I'm keen to see if there's

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Speaker 1: any updates on the r V park Bandilla Beach that

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Speaker 1: you and I had spoken about a little while ago.

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Speaker 3: Where's it all, ash, Look?

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Speaker 2: It closed on Friday and I just could make clear

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Speaker 2: because there's a lot of misinformation about the Bandilla. First

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Speaker 2: of all, Bandila dow Will had the master plan in place.

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Speaker 2: They wanted to a master plan and we wanted to

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Speaker 2: put a dog park. The government kept to the party

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Speaker 2: and it says, look, how about we give you some

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Speaker 2: money to actually beautify the place. Which that's a great idea.

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Speaker 2: Now this money there are in the budget for next year,

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Speaker 2: we received any money from the government yet, because you

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Speaker 2: don't receive money from the next year's budget and hopefully

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Speaker 2: well receive three three and a half million dollars. Because

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Speaker 2: of that proposal by the government, we put the dog

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Speaker 2: pack on hold, so much point of putting a pack

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Speaker 2: there if we have digged out later. We also decided

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Speaker 2: that if we're going to actually get rid of get

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Speaker 2: rid of the reef ruff in Bandilla, we activated the

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Speaker 2: best way to activate, do a trial. Bring some harvest

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Speaker 2: ten or fifteen harvest there temporarily to park because there

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Speaker 2: are facilities and the moment the people lights traffic, it's

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Speaker 2: in the area. The people that cause the problems now

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Speaker 2: currently they will move away, they go somewhere else.

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Speaker 3: We put that to the public. We expect their response.

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Speaker 2: I know the local member has encouraged the public of

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Speaker 2: his electorate to oppose it.

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Speaker 3: That's his pos Yes, well, that's something you have to

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Speaker 3: ask bread, not me.

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Speaker 1: So you're saying that he's actively gone out and done as.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I believe now that people follow his advice

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Speaker 2: and opposing You know, he's done that I saw the

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Speaker 2: Listleship put in it in the leaflets. Yes, I mean

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Speaker 2: it's surprising because we're trying to do something to work

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Speaker 2: together with the government to get rid of the ref

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Speaker 2: ruff and that's a good proposal. It's not creating new

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Speaker 2: caravan park. It's just bringing ten or fifteen Harvis on

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Speaker 2: a trial base to see how it operates. And at

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Speaker 2: the same time you have a beneficiary.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll see if we can get brands on the

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Speaker 1: show and find out a bit more so a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a while we sit.

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Speaker 2: So we went to see the results the outcome. When

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Speaker 2: we get the outcome, I will set and let you know.

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Speaker 1: Corn moving along. Just finally, I know you've got an

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Speaker 1: event coming up that you are keen to tell us about.

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Speaker 2: What is us A big event that's actually the down

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Speaker 2: in the National Drug Boat Festival to three.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a big event. We've caught significant.

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Speaker 2: Number of people from Southeast Asia's coming to participate. We've

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Speaker 2: got pit from them, passa pit from Kupang, Prick from Delhi,

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Speaker 2: people from Quanzo, sen Jen and Shintau. It's not only

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Speaker 2: to be a competition, but the dragon Boat, which a

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Speaker 2: big thing for Asian countries, but also is going to

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Speaker 2: be a trade show afterwards, many many local businesses and

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Speaker 2: overseas business participating. We want to use our position with

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Speaker 2: a friendly and sister cities in Asia to promote Darwin

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Speaker 2: as a place to do business or to come and

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Speaker 2: do business here. The feed staff I got from the

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Speaker 2: visit we did in then Passa. A lot of business

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Speaker 2: have benefited by other hiring stuff for their businesses or

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Speaker 2: for the agricultural sector.

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Speaker 3: So it looks that it works and we want to continue.

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Speaker 1: Well con no doubt. We'll talk more about that closer

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Speaker 1: to the dice. Thank you as always for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you