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Speaker 1: Well, it is a busy morning in here and joining

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Speaker 1: us live in the studio right now, the Lord Mayor

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Speaker 1: of Darwin convat Scalis. Good morning, Conn, Good morning Kate,

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Speaker 1: oh very well, Conn. Busy, busy Now. We had quite

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Speaker 1: a few people messaging through yesterday with different issues that

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Speaker 1: they'd like us to raise with you. Now. The first

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Speaker 1: off this morning, and I know that you are already

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Speaker 1: onto this. A few people calling through about the Palestinian

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Speaker 1: flag being painted on the middle of the Stuart Highway.

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Speaker 1: Perap there is a war memorial park that was vandalized

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Speaker 1: by the same group in Nightcliff. Also at the Jetty.

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Speaker 1: Somebody else had been in contact and saying that there

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Speaker 1: was free Palestine messages plastered on heritage signs at the

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Speaker 1: Nightcliff Foreshore. Andrew and Leanna, you know, he rang in

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Speaker 1: and well he's like, everybody's pretty annoyed that this is

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Speaker 1: everywhere around Darwin. Is that the Council's responsibility to get

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Speaker 1: read off? What's the process here?

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Speaker 2: I'm not just annoyed, I'm really angry.

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Speaker 1: Gate.

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Speaker 2: I got the information on Sunday. I went down to

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Speaker 2: the Jety and I had to look at it. I

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Speaker 2: saw the signs and I say to the people who

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Speaker 2: did it, yes, I expect you got the point of view,

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Speaker 2: and I don't disagree with it. Some of us share

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Speaker 2: your point of view. But what I'm really angry with

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Speaker 2: you is vandalizing the signs that the army had in

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Speaker 2: Nightly for a long time. This is this army defended

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Speaker 2: Australia and value defending your bloody right to protest, and

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Speaker 2: you go and saving all these message on top of

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Speaker 2: this one, so total disrespect for and at the end

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Speaker 2: of the day, obviously you don't like the rights you've got,

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Speaker 2: because if you did, you wouldn't then deface the signs,

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Speaker 2: especially the signs you put people off. Even you put

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Speaker 2: the people off against the Palestine that some people think

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Speaker 2: it's a right course to argue about. But there is

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Speaker 2: a way to do it. You do not go out

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Speaker 2: and paint on signs that we all respect and we

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Speaker 2: should respect. The Jetti. I can live with it. I

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Speaker 2: don't have a wrong with that one. We can paint

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Speaker 2: over it. But to do that one with a pain

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Speaker 2: that we can eraise, and we have not to prossibly

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Speaker 2: replace all the science in.

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Speaker 1: Night which ones now need to be replaced.

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Speaker 2: They actually signed free Palestine and everything else a free

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Speaker 2: gaza because they painted with the pain that the council

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Speaker 2: went to actually erase it and yesterday straight away and

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Speaker 2: we couldn't. So we're working together with the government because

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Speaker 2: we've got a responsibility to remove graffiti. But what I

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Speaker 2: say is.

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Speaker 1: One of the things like war memorial.

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Speaker 2: Science, it's heredience it science that points out the heritage

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Speaker 2: place in Nightcap where the army was camping and was

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Speaker 2: defending us to in nineteen forty.

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Speaker 1: And I painted all over the pend over it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, where's the sense there? Tell me you want

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Speaker 2: to protest, I don't have a problem. You want to

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Speaker 2: write a message on the asphalt, so b it, but

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Speaker 2: not on this kind of of science. You just put

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Speaker 2: a lot of people off. Even people probably were sympathetic

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Speaker 2: with your course now they said, stuff it. We don't

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Speaker 2: want to know. You did more damage to your coast

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Speaker 1: And also though I do not think it's appropriate when

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Speaker 1: you're defacing things that then it's going to cost the council,

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Speaker 1: i e. Rate payers, me, everybody else exactly money to

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Speaker 1: get sorted out. Con what's the process now for counsel

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Speaker 1: in terms of removing all of this stuff.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to we're using some different equipment, different material today,

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Speaker 2: trying to remove as much as we can. If we're

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Speaker 2: luking the pend can be erased, that's fantastic. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: we have to actually go and replace them at a cost,

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Speaker 2: at a cost. But again, why tell them there isn't

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Speaker 2: Why that's.

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Speaker 1: Right, corn, I want to ask as well. We got

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Speaker 1: a phone call earlier in the weekend, also message so

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Speaker 1: yesterday about the Bundla Beach skate Park. You know it's

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Speaker 1: this beautiful new three point five million dollar bundlea beach

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Speaker 1: skate park. Really disappointed this person was. There was a

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Speaker 1: group of thirty people there at five pm on Saturday, drinking, swearing,

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Speaker 1: well just rubbish all around the place, the bin overflowing,

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Speaker 1: you know, like for you must be annoyed by it

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Speaker 1: as well. You've done accounts.

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Speaker 2: I'm annoyed when I see that happening in Bandillas, very

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Speaker 2: annoyed when I see this happening in Nightcliff where the

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Speaker 2: barbecues are. These are for everybody uses, not for an

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Speaker 2: exclusive group of people we got the same as a

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Speaker 2: skating straight away. We proceed to send the patrols there.

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Speaker 2: Now we've got joint patrols with the police, the public

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Speaker 2: Order unit and the rangers keep an eye on it,

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Speaker 2: and we will actually enforce every regulation about drinking and

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Speaker 2: creating rubbish and players. This is not your pack, this

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Speaker 2: is our pack, and we prepare to reclaim it back

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Speaker 2: and give a hard time to every idiot, any idiot

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Speaker 2: who goes there and ruin it for everybody else.

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Speaker 1: Col before I let you go, I know the Citizen

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Speaker 1: of the Year awards for twenty twenty sixty calling forh

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Speaker 1: nominations already. Yes, we are awesome.

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Speaker 2: The version for that is because we have to start early.

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Speaker 2: You see, we've got the elections as well, and we

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Speaker 2: have to A month will be lost because we're going

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Speaker 2: to care taken mode. So we call an election. If

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Speaker 2: you know anybody who'd done something good, if you know

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Speaker 2: anybody who does that the good in your neighborhood, a group,

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Speaker 2: a sporting group, a policeman, an old person, a young

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Speaker 2: person that helps the family, please nominate them, because if

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Speaker 2: we don't recognize them, we're missing out as a community.

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Speaker 2: We have to recognize these people and honor of these

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Speaker 2: people that do under community.

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Speaker 1: Con One other very quick one. I understand there was

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Speaker 1: a temporary closure by a centennial park, the walkway bridge

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Speaker 1: which is there at Aquasaying now. It was from Tuesday

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Speaker 1: the twenty second, due to reopen today, I believe at

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Speaker 1: some point for essential repair works. Do you know how

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Speaker 1: it's all tracking.

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Speaker 2: It's a very very difficult environment which exposed the sault.

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Speaker 2: All the time we inspect them and we find something,

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Speaker 2: we repair them because we don't want anybody to help

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Speaker 2: them himself with himself. It takes time. Some of the

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Speaker 2: material they're not we can't source it locally and we

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Speaker 2: have to bring in the state. But it's going to

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Speaker 2: be drobened soon as soon as possible. It depends on

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Speaker 2: the extent of the walks he has to be done

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Speaker 2: and how it's done.

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Speaker 1: Convats Galus, the Lord Mayor of Darwin. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if we get to catch up with you one more

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Speaker 1: time before the because because.

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Speaker 2: Next week this weekend, we're going to care mind the elections.

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Speaker 2: But I'll be always available and.

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Speaker 1: We will be catching up, I'm sure with all the

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Speaker 1: meyoral candidates. Con thank you as always for your time.

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Speaker 1: We greatly appreciate it, and certainly have over the last

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Speaker 1: few years. We'll talk to you next week, though probably

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Speaker 1: as the mayoral candidate, looking forward to thank you. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: Con