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Speaker 1: Now, still plenty of you need to get out and

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Speaker 1: candidates who've put their hand up to give them the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to speak to you, our listeners, and also the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to learn a little bit more about what they

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Speaker 1: stand for. Now, the next candidate to chat with us

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Speaker 1: this morning is the colp's candidate Angon Purdell.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Good morning, Katy, and good morning

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Speaker 2: to all your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, good to have you in the studio. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like you're a bit crook, so we appreciate you joining us. Now,

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Speaker 1: why did you decide to put your hand up to run?

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Speaker 3: So, Katie, this is personal for me.

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Speaker 2: My wife was ossulted in Nightcliff back in end of

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen or early twenty seventeen. Yeah, it was terrifying.

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Speaker 2: As her husband, it was very devastating. Um. So crime

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Speaker 2: is not just about ouslt uh, it's it's the fear

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Speaker 2: that it stays with you. So the fear that it

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Speaker 2: could happen to anyone.

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Speaker 1: Yes, what happened, didn't your wife? Situation?

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Speaker 2: So we were both international student at that time, and

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Speaker 2: my wife was studying nursing. Of course, as international student,

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Speaker 2: you can't afford two cars. We only had one vehicle,

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Speaker 2: and I was driving around. I was in the city

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Speaker 2: and my wife was at Casarina City Campus stadying. Uh.

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Speaker 3: And then when see.

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Speaker 2: Cast boss uh to come to store Park it was

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Speaker 2: she was physically assaulted by teenagers in boss. They snatched

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Speaker 2: her back, slapped on her face and yes she was

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Speaker 2: really helpless.

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Speaker 1: Goodness, mat did I end up getting charged?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: What I can regularly see rank police?

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Speaker 2: Uh? And then police said is anyone hurt? And then

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Speaker 2: no one was hurt. Yeah, that's it. And because we

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Speaker 2: can all agree on that that you know, like feared

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Speaker 2: policing resources, well else not good as compared to today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, look, I do hope that your wife is okay,

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Speaker 1: but I can understand why that may have made you

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Speaker 1: go all right, Well, I want to put my hand

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Speaker 1: the local member. John, do you live in the electrosh Look?

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Speaker 2: Nightcliffe has saved my adult life and I have spent

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Speaker 2: majority of my adulthood in Nightcliffe, particularly Coconut Group but

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Speaker 2: currently I live just across Trawer or in Nightliffe, but

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Speaker 2: Nightcliffe is home for me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you do live in the electrosh.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me sorry, I live just across.

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Speaker 1: Trawer okay, so just outside Okay, Now, what do you

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Speaker 1: see has been the major issues in the electros?

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Speaker 2: So since the very first day I have you started

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Speaker 2: door knocking and listening to people, what I'm hearing is

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Speaker 2: crime and cost of living. So crime is clearly the

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Speaker 2: like especially younger Australians like me, whether it be ranting

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Speaker 2: so those two issues have been there, yeah, proud.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well look, safety is one which has been raised

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Speaker 1: with us a lot on this show. What would you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so basically measurity of constituents, would love to call

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Speaker 2: the current policy station as wide elephant. So my first

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Speaker 2: priority would be loving and pushing for a Nightcliff police

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Speaker 1: So if the current government though haven't already sort of

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Speaker 2: Look, the thing is CLB is trying hard to crack

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Speaker 3: Electorate as well.

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Speaker 2: But what would change is we will have a real

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Speaker 2: talk directly with the minister, talk directly with the government

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Speaker 2: as to herd constituents have issues, really really issues there.

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Speaker 1: Now do you think that the that the relocation of St.

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Speaker 3: Great question?

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Speaker 2: And I have heard and understand the concents of residence

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Speaker 2: you know, like community safety and appropriate services mostly together.

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Speaker 2: The the CLB government is actively working with Venice to

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Speaker 2: identify the required funding and as for as I'm aware,

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Speaker 1: Now, you're a relative unknown for a lot of people

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Speaker 1: I thought, I don't know a lot about him. What

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Speaker 1: do you currently what do you what do you currently do?

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Speaker 1: For a living.

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Speaker 3: So I'm a solid sator.

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Speaker 2: I got admitted as a lawyer last year in the

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Speaker 3: Young gun in politics as we can agree on that.

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Speaker 1: All right. And so so are you working as a

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Speaker 3: No, No, I'm not working.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right. You seem to stumble a little bit

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Speaker 2: Look sill Be supports well regulated gas industry, and as

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Speaker 2: far as I understand, there are checks and balances in places,

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Speaker 2: and I support well regulated industry.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So do you support middle.

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Speaker 3: Ye, same as Lavery does.

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Speaker 1: And fracking in the gas development yep, you support.

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Speaker 3: That, yes, correct?

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Speaker 1: All right, how do you think that you know, how

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Speaker 1: do you think sort of the development of fracking and

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Speaker 2: Look, I think the first thing first is for ANTI

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Speaker 2: gas minerals, et cetera. So the idea is having that

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Speaker 1: All right, before I let you go, why should people

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Speaker 1: vote for you?

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Speaker 2: Katie and all the listeners. I'm new to politics, but

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Speaker 2: not new to service.

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Speaker 3: I'm a lawyer.

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Speaker 2: I have taken worth of honorable supreme good to work

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Speaker 2: with integrity.

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Speaker 3: Who I am today.

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Speaker 2: What I am today is territory saved me and now

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Speaker 2: it's time for me to give back, particularly for Nightcliffe

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Speaker 2: electorate where I spend entirety of my adulthood. And if

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Speaker 2: someone has questions as to what makes unjoint different from

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Speaker 2: other candidates, so all candidates went for various electorate In

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Speaker 2: other words, seasonal politicians as in electorate shopping. I'm new, fresh,

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Speaker 2: with a strong voice and committed to people of Nightcliffe

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Speaker 2: with no political history and as I whether it's beoor

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Speaker 2: knocking or listening to people directly, Nightcliffe needs a voice

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Speaker 2: at the decision making table. And if I'm elected, I

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Speaker 2: have automatic seat at the table with a majority. The

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Speaker 2: other parties set in the minority. So people of Nightcliffe

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Speaker 2: want change. I can deliver that change. Uh.

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Speaker 3: And also Nightcliffe is.

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Speaker 2: Person where my wife is assaulted, so I want no

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Speaker 2: one to go through that fear.

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Speaker 1: Andrew Piddell, the COLP candidate for Nightcliff, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us on the show this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Katy and you're listeners.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.