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Speaker 1: Early last month, the Northern Territory Electoral Commission Will had

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Speaker 1: to restart the boundary redistribution after an administrative error. In

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Speaker 1: a pressure release at the time, the Northern Territory Electoral

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Speaker 1: Commission said that they'd failed to meet the legal requirements

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Speaker 1: of the Northern Territory Electoral Redistribution and the whole process

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Speaker 1: had to be redone for the redistribution to be lawful.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line is the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: Electoral Commissioner Ian Logan. Nathan, good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Ian, Good morning Katie now and where.

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Speaker 1: Are things at now with this process?

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Speaker 2: So Katie, what happens today is that the first report

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Speaker 2: for the redistribution has been released and it's on the

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Speaker 2: NTC website and certainly that report that's going to propose

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Speaker 2: some changes to electoral boundaries that'll impact the election next

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Speaker 2: year in August.

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Speaker 1: And what are some of those proposed changes that are

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Speaker 1: in that report?

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Speaker 2: For some of the changes so as they relate to Dale,

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Speaker 2: Darwin as a whole is approximately two and a half

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Speaker 2: thousand electors below quota, so there's been some adjustment to

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Speaker 2: the electoral boundaries within the Darwin divisions and moving some

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Speaker 2: electors from Palmerston to to sort of balance electors overall

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Speaker 2: in relation to Palmerston. Palmerston is approximately a thousand electors

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Speaker 2: over quota and we have the rural divisions about two

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty under quota. So the proposal that we

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Speaker 2: have is to move Marlow Lagoons to Nelson and there's

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Speaker 2: adjustments within the Palmerston divisions to keep the suburbs in

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Speaker 2: the same divisions.

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Speaker 1: So what area does Marlow Lagoon currently sitting?

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Speaker 2: What electorate is So currently Marlow Lagoon is in the

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Speaker 2: division of.

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Speaker 1: Spillit, Yeah, right, and so the proposal is that it

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Speaker 1: moved to Nelson.

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Speaker 2: That's correct.

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Speaker 1: And so what about then you'd said that Darwen, we're

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Speaker 1: like we're low on you know when it comes to

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Speaker 1: those numbers. So presumably some of the Palmerston area or

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Speaker 1: somehow that will change to actually be included in Darwin.

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Speaker 1: How would that work?

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Speaker 2: That's correct. So at the moment you've got areas like

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Speaker 2: in the Berrama and in the North Quest area they're

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Speaker 2: currently in a Palmestan division. They will move to fong

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Speaker 2: lim or it's proposed to move to fong Limb. Under

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Speaker 2: the first proposal, interesting.

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Speaker 1: So what's the process now in terms of that first

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Speaker 1: proposal coming out or the report coming out? What's you

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Speaker 1: know what feedback? I guess can what's the process for

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Speaker 1: people providing feedback?

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Speaker 2: So the process is that people have till the twenty

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Speaker 2: ninth of November. They can obviously email us their suggestions

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Speaker 2: and the committee will look at those suggestions and then

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Speaker 2: print its next report.

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Speaker 1: And how de has this been as a result of

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Speaker 1: that former administrative era, Katie.

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Speaker 2: We would have hoped to we would have without that

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Speaker 2: eraror we would have produced the final boundaries in October.

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Speaker 2: We are hoping that we can produce the final boundaries

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Speaker 2: in early December.

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Speaker 1: And do you reckon that gives people long enough?

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Speaker 2: As I said that these boundary changes won't have an

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Speaker 2: impact until the territory election in August next year. Certainly

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Speaker 2: you know that there certainly has been I suppose the

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Speaker 2: word for it, it's been unfortunate, but we've made an error.

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Speaker 2: We've been upfront in relation to the era, and we're

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Speaker 2: certainly trying to move as quickly as we can to

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Speaker 2: finalize the redistribution process.

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Speaker 1: So in just going through those different areas that may

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Speaker 1: change or those different electoral boundaries that may change which

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Speaker 1: seats are in for sort of the biggest shakeups from

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Speaker 1: the draft report.

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Speaker 2: Look, certainly the seats in Palmerston. We'll see some changes

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Speaker 2: in terms of the Ruld. Sorry, in terms of the

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Speaker 2: remote division, the division of Malka is currently fifteen percent

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Speaker 2: over quota. I should probably sort of said right at

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Speaker 2: the beginning that the quota is the average of electors

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Speaker 2: per division. So what we're looking to do is what's

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Speaker 2: proposed to do is move some electors from Malka to

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Speaker 2: the division of Arnham and that we'll see that that

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Speaker 2: will still leave both divisions over quota.

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Speaker 1: All right, So that's sort of in the more remote

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Speaker 1: area you said as well, some changes in Palmerston by

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Speaker 1: the sounds of it, for more sort of towards Darwin

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Speaker 1: or more inner city. It'll be more picking up some

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Speaker 1: of those people from other areas.

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Speaker 2: Look, that's correct. So, like I said, we're going to

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Speaker 2: move some electors from Palmerston and some electors from Nelson.

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Speaker 2: We'll move into Darwin divisions and then there's some adjustments

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Speaker 2: in relation to the boundaries within Darwin to balance electors.

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Speaker 2: We've seen significant growth in the New Head area and

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Speaker 2: so that leaves the division of one guri over quota.

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Speaker 2: So there's some adjustments there to balance selector numbers.

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Speaker 1: Now, and I know there'll be some people listening who

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Speaker 1: their eyes will be glazing over a little bit hearing this,

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Speaker 1: thinking how does it impact me? But the fact is

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Speaker 1: it's going to impact plenty of different areas in the

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Speaker 1: sense that you need to know who you're planning on

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Speaker 1: voting for, So you need to know which area or

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Speaker 1: which you know electra you fall into. If people are

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Speaker 1: listening this morning and they want to sort of check

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Speaker 1: that report out, I know a lot of the political

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Speaker 1: pundits will have already done so, but where can they

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Speaker 1: head to?

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Speaker 2: Certainly they can go to the NTC website. The report

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Speaker 2: is up, there will be up there shortly, yep. And

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Speaker 2: they've got an opportunity to provide some comments. Just you know,

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Speaker 2: this is a first proposal, so the process is that

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Speaker 2: people can review the proposal, give us some comments before

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Speaker 2: the proposal is finalized. Can I say to our territory

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Speaker 2: electors are certainly in the lead up to the election,

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Speaker 2: there will be a campaign to let people know in

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Speaker 2: terms of which division that they're enrolled, so that people

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Speaker 2: are aware, especially those that have moved division in terms

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Speaker 2: of who they possibly will be voting for in August

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: YEP, Well Northern Territory Electoral Commissioner Ian Logan Nathan always

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Thanks very much for having a chat

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Speaker 1: with me today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katy, thank you