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Speaker 1: If you just joined us. We are continuing our Meet

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Speaker 1: the Candidates series and we are in Sandersen right now

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Speaker 1: and joining us live on the line is the colp's

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Speaker 1: candidate Jins and Charles. Good morning to you, Jensent.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you on the show now, Jensen, are

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Speaker 1: you ready to get into us?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I am.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it all right. Why did you decide to

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Speaker 1: put your hand up to run for the seat of Sanderson, Katie.

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Speaker 2: I am a registered nurse with experience in intensive kier

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Speaker 2: k unit, emergency department, mental health and alcohol and DRUGTS

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Speaker 2: services and also I have like leadership experience at a

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Speaker 2: director level in mental health, alcoholic drug services and overseeing

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Speaker 2: the forensic disability services. And back in twenty eleven I

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Speaker 2: came to Australia to have a better opportunity with my

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Speaker 2: wife and we have two girls, the only one born

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Speaker 2: in New South Wales and the younger one born in Darwin.

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Speaker 2: This is not the same place. I knew that ten

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Speaker 2: years ago when I arrived in Darwin. So the current

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Speaker 2: the alcohol related harm in the community, including the domestic

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Speaker 2: violence and assault on friendline workers increased significantly over the

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Speaker 2: last few years. And as a friendline clinician over the

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Speaker 2: period of years and also been working in the leadership.

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Speaker 2: I have seen that doctors, other hospital staff, paramedics and

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Speaker 2: police officers are becoming the target of these perpetrators who

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Speaker 2: need help from the same people they assault. So that's

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Speaker 2: when I decided, like almost twelve months ago, that I

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Speaker 2: am going to put my hands up for the pre

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Speaker 2: selection with the Controllable Party. And that was specifically after

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Speaker 2: I observing the way the government handled things after two

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Speaker 2: boys in their early twenties were killed in March and

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Speaker 2: May twenty twenty three. So I decided to take the

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Speaker 2: hard year and I put my hands up for the

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Speaker 2: selection within the Country Leavel Party and I decided to

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Speaker 2: run for the election this time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a big decision to make, particularly you know,

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Speaker 1: given your background in the medical field, it's a big

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Speaker 1: decision to make, and it sounds like it was something

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Speaker 1: that you were pretty passionate about. How do you sort

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Speaker 1: of see your previous experience in your previous work, how

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Speaker 1: do you think that that would help you if you

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Speaker 1: were to become the local member.

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Speaker 2: So I have worked in leadership roles in the health

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Speaker 2: sector and in the community for the last few years.

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Speaker 2: So I know the problems FIRS stand as I was

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Speaker 2: on the front line as a clinician or as a volunteer,

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Speaker 2: so I was able to address many of these issues

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Speaker 2: within my scope and take the community forward. But I

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Speaker 2: have seen there were like number of times the solutions

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Speaker 2: were offered, but there were no much traction in terms

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Speaker 2: of taking that on board because that was like a lowority.

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Speaker 2: And what I've seen was about like over the time

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Speaker 2: this law priority became like a high priority at the moment.

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Speaker 2: So I always believe in the prevention strategies. As most

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Speaker 2: of us know, prevention is better than cure. I can

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Speaker 2: say about like youth crime is a classic example that

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Speaker 2: I see. So we have to wait for such a

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Speaker 2: long time to have the common sense now in my opinion,

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Speaker 2: the destruction to the territory and for many cities that

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Speaker 2: have been already done like Alice Springs, Catherine and we

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Speaker 2: can see that thing in Darwin as well, So we

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Speaker 2: are normalizing these behaviors with no consequences. And also whilst

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Speaker 2: I has been donknocking in Sanderson since I started sorry

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Speaker 2: pre selected in February, so I met like many older

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Speaker 2: women in their late sixties and seventies who do not

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Speaker 2: go out individually as they are worried about being targeted.

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Speaker 2: So I have seen like local shops in Vogerman and

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Speaker 2: Anela have closed in the last few months. So people

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Speaker 2: are struggling to survive here and they need support from

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Speaker 2: the government at least to be safe in the community.

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Speaker 2: So the shop owner who I met a couple of

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Speaker 2: months ago in the Bulagi told me the building owner

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Speaker 2: had to spend more than one hundred thousand dollars to

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Speaker 2: make the shop safe. And you are not able to

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Speaker 2: find any glass on the shop facing the public at

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Speaker 2: the moment. So like what I really wanted to do

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Speaker 2: that thing? What I think like I will be part

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Speaker 2: of a team who can make sensible decisions to address

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Speaker 2: the road courses and some immediate measures to tackle the

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Speaker 2: current problems that we are facing at the moment. So

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Speaker 2: I believe I'm the right person with experience to complement

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Speaker 2: the current team to form a wider solution.

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Speaker 1: Jison, I'm assuming you have been outdoor knocking. What are

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Speaker 1: the biggest issues that people are raising with you when

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Speaker 1: you do get out and about in the electric.

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Speaker 2: So I think one of the major concern is about

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Speaker 2: like the crime and the antisocial behavior. And for many

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Speaker 2: of the suburbs, like the Anula, Wagerman Bulagi, the cubs.

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Speaker 2: When I'm going like, I think most of the houses

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Speaker 2: go like at least two or three big dogs, and

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Speaker 2: I think the people are saying they are really concerned.

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Speaker 2: And even I have seen like a thing fences up

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Speaker 2: to two point one meter high. So normally I was

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Speaker 2: able to manage up to one point eight meter high

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Speaker 2: putting my catch or I can call out loud, but

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Speaker 2: I think when it comes to a two point one

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Speaker 2: meter and I haven't seen that have like in many

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Speaker 2: places across Darwin. I have seen that in Alie Strings

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Speaker 2: when I visited once, but I think I'm seeing like

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Speaker 2: I think people are putting those kind of like measures

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Speaker 2: and that's the biggest concern. And like I mentioned, like

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Speaker 2: the in Vogumen and also in Annula, the local shop

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Speaker 2: has been closed over the last few months, so that

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Speaker 2: means like I think they have to move out to

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Speaker 2: the larger shop in centers, and the lot of people

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Speaker 2: are finding it hard actually to go on to the

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Speaker 2: big shoping center because they are afraid that they've been

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Speaker 2: going to be targeted by the people out there now.

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Speaker 1: Jinson, we've got a minute thirty left to go. I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you the Sanderson Middle School. It's a

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Speaker 1: ocation that's been raised with us after anti social behavior

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Speaker 1: and people hooning on that oval meant that the local

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Speaker 1: rugby clubs haven't been able to use the oval for training.

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Speaker 1: Is this something you've been following and what would you

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Speaker 1: do to sort it out?

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Speaker 2: So I've been in communication with Lloyd Robertson over the

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Speaker 2: last couple of weeks and I talked to him and

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Speaker 2: I thing had like some messages and I've been talking

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Speaker 2: with our leaders as well. Everythink we are just going

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Speaker 2: to come up with a planet or like what we

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Speaker 2: can do. But for me, it's a place that a

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Speaker 2: lot of kids and also the young people are coming

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Speaker 2: and making sure like it's in they're active in the community.

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Speaker 2: So we want like facilities like this for the community

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Speaker 2: for them to have like that opportunity to have an interaction,

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Speaker 2: a place where everyone can come together. So that's going

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Speaker 2: to be one of the things that I will be

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Speaker 2: taking forward as a priority for Sanderson.

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Speaker 1: Tinson thirty seconds left. Why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 2: So have all the outline my grown and skills would

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Speaker 2: bring into Parliament as a representative from Sanderson if I'm

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Speaker 2: going to be elected, so CLP has a range of

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Speaker 2: policies and plans to reduce crime, rebuild economy and restore

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Speaker 2: the lifestyle of Territorians, including the resident of Sanderson. If

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Speaker 2: I'm given an opportunity, I will do my best to

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Speaker 2: make constituents of Sanderson proud as an elected member representing

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Speaker 2: them in the Northern Territory Parliament.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jenson Charles, perfect timing, just on seven minutes. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so very much for having a chat with us

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Speaker 1: this morning and letting Territorians know a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie for the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: Thank you