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Speaker 1: I'm very pleased to say.

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Speaker 2: Joining us on the line right now is Cindy Bevengary Roberts,

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Speaker 2: who's running as an independent.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Cindy.

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Speaker 3: Yes, good morning everyone.

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Speaker 1: Ow are you yeah? Wonderful?

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Speaker 2: Hey, We've got seven minutes and a number of questions

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Speaker 2: to get through.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as long as you don't shoot the messenger, no.

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Speaker 1: You'll be right, all right, Cindy, Well start the clock.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: Why did you decide to put your hand up to

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Speaker 2: run in the seat of Drysdale.

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Speaker 3: Because I think, look, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: I stand for the people, and I feel like the

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Speaker 3: major parties have let us down on many levels as

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Speaker 3: a people of this of this continent, end of the territory.

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Speaker 3: And that's one of the reason why I put my

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Speaker 3: hand up. Because in order for there to be changed,

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Speaker 3: you've got to be the change, and we need change.

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Speaker 3: So I put myself out in the ring. So if

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Speaker 3: I'm there for the people, So if the people fully

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Speaker 3: want change and they do want a voice that actually

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Speaker 3: cares about our community and cares about the people, will

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Speaker 3: I'm here. So I'm given them an opportunity, you know,

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Speaker 3: for that change.

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Speaker 2: Cindy tell me based on your previous jobs or previous

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Speaker 2: work in the community, Why do you think you're the

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Speaker 2: best person for the job.

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Speaker 3: Well, at the end of the day, I don't know

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Speaker 3: if I'm the best person for the job. I think

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Speaker 3: there's many of us throughout the community that could, you know,

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Speaker 3: that have done a lot of work throughout our communities

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Speaker 3: in the past and and and and in present today

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Speaker 3: that that should be put in the end up. But

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Speaker 3: you know, at the end of the day, I'm very

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Speaker 3: How can I put it, I'll put it in the

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Speaker 3: right words. I'm an activist. I'm an activist. I'm a protester,

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Speaker 3: and and people will hear my voice and they will

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Speaker 3: know when I'm present because I'm about community. I'm about

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Speaker 3: the people. I'm about a lot of things. I care

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Speaker 3: about kind I care about our water, I care about,

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Speaker 3: you know, our families. I care about our children, you know.

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Speaker 3: And I care about our local businesses. I care about

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Speaker 3: you know. I'm just I just got a lot of

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Speaker 3: you know, things that I carry too as an individual.

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Speaker 3: You know, I can't speak for everybody out there, but

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Speaker 3: look as a community, and you see that the neglect

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Speaker 3: have been looking after and their constituents locally. You know,

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Speaker 3: at a grassroots level and a community level, we've been neglected.

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Speaker 3: And this is another reason why I feel I'm a

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Speaker 3: best candidate because I'm a grassroots woman and I know

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Speaker 3: the issues and the concerns and everything that we've got

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Speaker 3: throughout our community. A lot of these people that put

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Speaker 3: their end up, you know, many of them are being

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Speaker 3: fed with a silver spoon. So many of them don't

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Speaker 3: really know the deeper the deeper roots and the deeper

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Speaker 3: issues and the deeper concerns. And this is where we

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Speaker 3: need to fix it, and we need to get it right,

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Speaker 3: and we need to be going to the source of

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Speaker 3: things and not band aid solutions.

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Speaker 1: Christ All right, well Katie.

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Speaker 2: You're speaking to Katie now, Yeah, you're right, No, no worries.

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Speaker 1: Hey, what do you see as being.

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Speaker 2: The biggest issues in the electorate at Cindy.

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Speaker 3: One is well, as you know, I'm a I'm a

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Speaker 3: that Palmerston itself is a city and and and the

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Speaker 3: surrounding suburbs are being neglected. So I'm about community, I'm

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Speaker 3: about the people I'm about families, but one is our

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Speaker 3: community has been neglected. And secondly, I'm concerned about I

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Speaker 3: want accountability. I want to know where all the money

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Speaker 3: the question is is where's all the money? And and

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Speaker 3: secondly I feel there's there's a lot of things and

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Speaker 3: I look, I'm just going to raise it. I don't

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Speaker 3: I want I want fracking band from the Northern Territory

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Speaker 3: because water is a source of life and it affects

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Speaker 3: They're only just a few of the things that I

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Speaker 3: stand for. But I'm really really you know, I put

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Speaker 3: and I really hope that we can achieve something as

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Speaker 3: at this point in time.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Look, do you know, Cindy, I always admire when people

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Speaker 2: put their hand up and you know, have a crack.

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Speaker 2: Why do you think that you are the best person

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Speaker 2: for the role. You know, when you look at some

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Speaker 2: just sort of discussed.

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Speaker 3: Look, yes, because they've had an opportunity to make a difference,

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Speaker 3: and they have gone against the people. The major parties

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Speaker 3: have failed us on many levels. And as an independent

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Speaker 3: that they have let down our communities, you know, national

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Speaker 3: you know, territory, territory, territory and why you know, being

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Speaker 3: a territory. But they have failed us in every area

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Speaker 3: possibly when it comes to the territory, the people and

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Speaker 3: what you know, and and and just just the territory alone.

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Speaker 3: They have failed us and they have they have not

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Speaker 3: been listening to the people and about what the people want.

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Speaker 3: But it's being about profit before the people. And this

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Speaker 3: is where it needs to cease in the territory. You know,

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Speaker 3: we need more of us putting our ends up that

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Speaker 3: if we were territory, you look at the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 3: we should be wealthy. But where's all the money going.

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Speaker 3: Why is our community suffering? Why is palm used and

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Speaker 3: looking like you know, it's dead. We've got vacant buildings.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's no prosperity here. You question everything you

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Speaker 3: look at the communities. There's nothing for our kids. There's

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Speaker 3: nothing going on in our communities. You see the neglect.

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Speaker 3: So where's all the money territory. We sorry, No, you're right,

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Speaker 3: I'm very very passionate.

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Speaker 1: No, you're right. Hey, we've got just over a minute

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Speaker 2: So I want to give you the opportunities to ask

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Speaker 2: why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 3: Because I'm about the people, and I'm here for the people,

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Speaker 3: you know, and I'm a grassroots woman, as you all know,

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Speaker 3: I'm a First Nations woman. But I'm about the people.

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Speaker 3: I'm about everybody, and I would love to have a

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Speaker 3: first thing I'll be asking for is a community consultation

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Speaker 3: day for the community, our whole community on what is

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Speaker 3: You know, it's about the people, and it's about what

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Speaker 3: my need. This is about everybody, you know, what the

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Speaker 3: people want because we're we've had enough of people that

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Speaker 3: are you know, the major party is not listening anymore.

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Speaker 3: And first and another thing, Katie, before we go offair,

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Speaker 3: what I wanted to also talk about was the crime rate.

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Speaker 3: You know, let's get to the source of it. We

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Speaker 3: we've got out here, Let's fix it, you know, because

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Speaker 3: many don't care about it, but I do because I

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Speaker 3: know what the problem is and where it's coming from.

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Speaker 3: You know, just one of the problems of what's going

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Speaker 3: on in Palmerston. But we need to have an overall

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Speaker 3: community discussion about how we can fix this as a

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Speaker 3: community a whole, not as individual or thinking someone as

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Speaker 3: the best answer for it. It's like, no, this is

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Speaker 3: a community problem. You need to do it as a

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Speaker 2: Well, Cindy, we have just run out of time. I

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Speaker 2: really appreciate you having a chat with me this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for making sure that we got hold

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Speaker 2: of you. I really appreciate it. Thanks Cindy.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't prepared for any your all goodness everybody and

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Speaker 3: to everyone out there, love you, no worry.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Cindy, Thank you