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Speaker 1: Well, we are now going to be heading across.

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Speaker 2: I believe that we have got Let me just make

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Speaker 2: sure I've got everything lined up. I've got to make

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Speaker 2: sure I've got my stop watch working, got to make

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Speaker 2: sure we got the buzzer ready. And I think that

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Speaker 2: I've now got Andrew McKay on the line. Andrew, good

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Speaker 2: morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you too, Katie.

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Speaker 2: Mate.

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Speaker 1: Did I pronounce your surname correctly.

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Speaker 3: Then mckaye's more preferred pronouncing Kayle.

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Speaker 2: Good on you, Andrew, Thank you so much for your

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Speaker 2: time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to get started? Happy to let's do it? Mate?

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Speaker 1: Why did you decide?

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Speaker 2: Well, actually, what job were you in before putting your

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Speaker 2: hand up for the election? So?

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Speaker 3: I currently work as a hands on data analyst for

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Speaker 3: a large primer producer in the lift shield area. So

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Speaker 3: I'm out in middle point and more or less on

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Speaker 3: the numbers guy for the farm. So all right, reports

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Speaker 3: I generated, puts, analyzed reports, get all the numbers together

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Speaker 3: and work out how many fisher's got and involved in

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Speaker 3: the long term planning, the production, forecasting, all that long

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Speaker 3: term stuff. So I'm no stranger to sitting down and

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Speaker 3: having to play with the Previously to that, I used

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Speaker 3: to work as a FI FI Lab tech at the

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Speaker 3: forestry plantation on Maavele Island for a while and I

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Speaker 3: do have a degree in mathematics.

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Speaker 2: Now, how long have you lived out in the in

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Speaker 2: the rural area or in the Litchfield municipality.

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Speaker 3: So moved out here when I was seven or eight

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Speaker 3: years old and then went on to Girueen Primary School

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Speaker 3: and then did my full schooling at to midmen and

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Speaker 3: I'm still in Girleen.

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Speaker 2: And why did you decide to put your hand up

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Speaker 2: for the mayor's job?

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Speaker 3: Simply put, I think Litchfield deserves better than what they've

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Speaker 3: got at the moment. So I love the rural area

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Speaker 3: growing up here, cod bike riding, that motorbike riding and fishing,

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Speaker 3: and it's just it needs to stay rule. I'm not

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Speaker 3: a post at every development, but I'd love to see

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Speaker 3: it it continued to be a great place to grow up.

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Speaker 3: And the reason I put my hand up really was

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Speaker 3: I thought how the current council was running. Started attending

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Speaker 3: counter meetings about two years ago. It was just appalled.

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Speaker 3: Constant bickering, constant disregard to the community, constant disregard to

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Speaker 3: the community groups, especially the Humpy Blue Bowls Club. They

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Speaker 3: got really turfed in the last year and I was like, well,

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Speaker 3: you know, if you say something going wrong, you can

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Speaker 3: you can have a go or you can sit on

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Speaker 3: the sidelines and just you know, so so rocks, I guess,

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Speaker 3: And what.

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Speaker 2: Do you see as being the big issues in the

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Speaker 2: Lichfield municipality.

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Speaker 3: So I say the biggest issue is being affordability and

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Speaker 3: living within our means. Now, Litchfield isn't going to be

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Speaker 3: a city of Melbourn. It's not going to be a

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Speaker 3: city of down in the City of Brisbane. You know,

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Speaker 3: we have very limited rate income. I think it should

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Speaker 3: stay that way, so we have to spend for our ability.

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Speaker 3: You know, at the moment every year they go all right,

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Speaker 3: expenses have gone up by seven percent, we're going to

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Speaker 3: raise rates by five percent. And they never stopped to consolidate.

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Speaker 3: They've got this current plan rate hikes for the next

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Speaker 3: five years. They hid that away on the last line

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Speaker 3: of the budget. Love that ten percent next year. So

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Speaker 3: I were saying not in the following they raised rates

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Speaker 3: five percent this year, seven percent last year, and they're

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Speaker 3: just trying to nickel and go on residents Now, if

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Speaker 3: you've got to have a budget, you know, you've got

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Speaker 3: to spend within your means. You know, you can't just

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Speaker 3: keep accruing dead and chewing through your savings. Then it

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Speaker 3: just doesn't work long term.

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Speaker 2: Now, what taking those issues into account, how do you

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Speaker 2: sort of see yourself as the best place to work

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Speaker 2: with the community in an effort to try and fix them.

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Speaker 3: So I got to think of myself as quite approachable.

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Speaker 3: During this campaign. I've answered every phone call that's come

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Speaker 3: my way, every email, and I think being able to

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Speaker 3: work with the community groups will be essential to make

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Speaker 3: sure we get the best service for our reserves. And

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, I'm just willing to

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Speaker 3: have a go. You know, if you say someone struggling

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Speaker 3: to reverse a trailer down the boat ramp, you know

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Speaker 3: you give them a hand, and if they keep messing

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Speaker 3: it up and they jacking off the trailer, and sometimes

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Speaker 3: you're going to get the driver's teat to have a go.

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Speaker 3: I may not be the most experience standard. I think

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Speaker 3: I'm by far the youngest, but you know, if you

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Speaker 3: don't have a go, you never know.

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Speaker 1: And why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 3: Because I'm willing to have a go, and I'm willing

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Speaker 3: to listen. I'm okay with being wrong, and I'm sure

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Speaker 3: if I get in occasionally I'll make a decision. And

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Speaker 3: you know, i'd appreciate people call me out when I

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Speaker 3: do do something wrong as leny of candidate, and I'm

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Speaker 3: willing to learn from my mistakes and try to get

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Speaker 3: on the job, do it the best best possible job

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Speaker 3: I can do.

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Speaker 2: And Andrew, just finally, you know you've got a little

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Speaker 2: bit of time left.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything that you'd like to say.

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Speaker 3: I just love to shout out Patrick care if he's listening.

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Speaker 3: He's a Matthew fan of yours.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, good on youre Patrick.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening, mate, Thank you so much. Andrew McKay.

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Speaker 2: Mackay sorry it was was nice. Sorry mate, not make

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Speaker 2: sure I get that pronunciation right. Thanks for your time

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Speaker 2: and all the best.

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Speaker 3: You have a lovely day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,