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Speaker 1: And I'm very pleased to say that.

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Speaker 2: Joining me in the studio right now is the Greens

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Speaker 2: candidate for the Fanny Bay by election, Jonathan Parry.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having me, yere.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you in this studio. We really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time.

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Speaker 2: Now, Jonathan, the big issue, well, the big thing that

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Speaker 2: a lot of people have been talking about in this

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Speaker 2: by election is the fact that some of the candidates

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Speaker 2: do not live in the electorate. Firstly, do you live

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Speaker 2: in the electorate.

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Speaker 3: I've got an answer for you, Katy, and it is yes,

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Speaker 3: I do live in the electorate. I think I'm the

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Speaker 3: only candidate who lives in the electorate.

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Speaker 1: Is that right? So did you grow up in the

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Speaker 1: electorate or what's your background?

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Speaker 3: So my background, I'm a legal aid lawyer. I've worked

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Speaker 3: in the justice sector for nearly a decade now, but

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Speaker 3: born in Brizzy and moved up here from Melbourne, but

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Speaker 3: ben in perap the entire time I've been up here.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So a true blue member of the electorate of

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Speaker 2: Fanny Blake.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I look, I own there, I bought an

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Speaker 3: apartment there. I'm invested in the community, and I want

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Speaker 3: to do right by my home now, because you know

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Speaker 3: when you meet people on the street and they go,

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Speaker 3: oh yeah, I moved up to Darwin for two weeks

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Speaker 3: and never left. I am the textbook. I'm the poster

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Speaker 3: child for that. It didn't take me long to get here,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, I'm not leaving.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's good. It is always good to hear. I

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Speaker 2: love it when I hear stories like that. Now do

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Speaker 2: you think that living in the electric gives you a

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Speaker 2: needge over the other candidates?

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Speaker 3: I think it does, if only to say that I

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Speaker 3: don't have to promise that I'm going to move to

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Speaker 3: the electorate if I win, because I'm already there. And

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Speaker 3: the other thing is that you look, I'm in touch

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Speaker 3: with my community. I'm in touch with colleagues and friends

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Speaker 3: that live there. And really, for me, it's like it's personal.

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Speaker 3: Of course it is. It's my home and I want

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Speaker 3: to do right by my home.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: What do you see is the major issues in the.

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Speaker 3: Electrocy Look, I've been talking to shopkeepers, to retirees and

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Speaker 3: to young families and three main things come out. For me,

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Speaker 3: it's justice issues and it's not about being tough on crime.

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Speaker 3: Because being tough on crime is dumb on crime. I

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Speaker 3: want to be smart on crime and invest in actual

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Speaker 3: solutions for issues in the community. That's especially true for shopkeepers.

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Speaker 3: I know young families are concerned about the future for

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Speaker 3: their children. They're concerned about the future of the territory

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Speaker 3: and the environment that we all love here, and so

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Speaker 3: that's why I'm campaigning on climate. And the last thing

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Speaker 3: is accountability. Lots of people I've been talking to have

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Speaker 3: been saying that their phone calls to the previous representative's

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Speaker 3: office have gone unanswered, and I just don't think that's representation.

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Speaker 3: So the third thing is accountability, and it's taking the

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Speaker 3: major parties to task and being an actual voice for

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Speaker 2: I guess some people out there listening will think it

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Speaker 2: can be quite difficult to do that. You know, if

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Speaker 2: you're not part of one of the major parties, i e.

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Speaker 2: You know, the Labor Party or the Coop. What would

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Speaker 3: I disagree. Actually, Look, I'm of the community and i'd

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Speaker 3: be there as an advocate. As I said, I've been

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Speaker 3: and I know what real justice looks like for communities,

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Speaker 3: so I'd be an advocate. I do right by them,

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Speaker 3: and I do right for them.

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Speaker 2: Now, why do you feel as though your best placed

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Speaker 2: with the issues that you spoke about before? Why do

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Speaker 2: fix them. To put it very bluntly, I.

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Speaker 3: Guess to put it very bluntly because I know the issues.

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Speaker 3: I know that the strategies that have been put in place,

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Speaker 3: the previous quote unquote solutions being tough on crime just

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Speaker 3: don't work. Locking up kids doesn't work. We know that

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Speaker 3: we've seen that for you know, tough on crime has

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Speaker 3: we should be smart on crime. Thing about the client,

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm here for the Greens. You can tell

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Speaker 3: that I'm concerned about the future for the climate. But

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Speaker 3: I don't come from an environmental background, which is why

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Speaker 3: I've been listening to people. I've been listening to experts

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Speaker 3: about what's actually important and what needs to be done

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Speaker 3: to ensure a future for our families and accountability. I

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Speaker 3: read you know I'm looking at what the things are saying,

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Speaker 3: and I'm looking at what the issues are and I'm

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Speaker 3: taking notice and I'm asking questions and if i don't

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Speaker 3: know something, I'll ask.

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Speaker 2: Now. When it comes to crime and anti social behavior,

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Speaker 2: it's been a massive issue for some of the for

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Speaker 2: some of the business owners and some people that are

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Speaker 2: to be smarter when it comes to when it comes

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Speaker 1: What do you reckon needs to be happening.

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Speaker 3: Early intervention, alternative means of keeping these kids off the street.

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Speaker 3: It's not lock them up and throw away the key.

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Speaker 3: It's given something to do. You know, these are not

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Speaker 3: bad kids on the street, and territorians aren't. You know,

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Speaker 3: these territory kids are not bad kids. They just need

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Speaker 3: need some guidance, which is why we should be investing

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Speaker 3: in mentorship that works, teaching these kids to love their

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Speaker 2: Now, a question that's come through from one of our

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Speaker 2: wondering do you support the turf club funding being cut?

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Speaker 3: What I find interesting about that is the lack of

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Speaker 3: transparency and the lack of you know, understanding about why

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Speaker 3: these decisions have been made. There's been question marks over

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Speaker 3: the Tough Club for a number of years now, and

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Speaker 3: because it seems like they're evading and they're dodging, and

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Speaker 3: as a I can tell you, as an advocate, as

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Speaker 3: a lawyer, I'd be asking those tough questions to make

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Speaker 3: sure that people get the answers they deserve.

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Speaker 2: Now, Jonathan, one of the things that we've been speaking

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Speaker 2: about really heavily this morning is cost of living, specifically

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Speaker 2: petrol prices and the fact that these petrol prices are

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Speaker 2: we've spoken to Eden Bell from the AAANT just a

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Speaker 2: happening to try and ease this cost of living which

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Speaker 3: Look, that's a really great question and it's exactly what

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Speaker 3: the Greens have been saying for years. We saw at

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Speaker 3: the last election, the climate election, about big companies and

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Speaker 3: big corporations, oil and gas companies taking responsibility and paying

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Speaker 3: their fair share for Australians and for Territorians, the subsidy

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Speaker 3: has been given out by government to these big companies.

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Speaker 3: I'm not flowing through and I don't think that's fair

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Speaker 3: and I don't think that's right, and I think the

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Speaker 3: people Fanny Fanny Bay deserve better.

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Speaker 1: Just very quickly, before I let you go, why should

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Speaker 1: people vote for you?

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Speaker 3: Because I provide a real alternative and if nothing else,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to terrify the other parties to sit up,

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Speaker 3: take action and listen.

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Speaker 2: Well Green's candidate for Fanny Bay, Jonathan Perry, I really

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Speaker 2: appreciate your time this coming.

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Speaker 1: Thanks