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Speaker 1: Now we know that pre selection for the CLP closed

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Speaker 1: in a number of electorates on Friday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: As I understand it, and as.

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Speaker 1: We head into an election year, many are starting to

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Speaker 1: wonder who both the COLP and the ALP are going

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Speaker 1: to run and what they'll stand for, and in the

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Speaker 1: colp's case, if there really is still the chaos and

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Speaker 1: dysfunction that the Labor Party claims there is. Now joining

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Speaker 1: me on the show is former Chief Minister of the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory and current CLP President Shane Stone.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to.

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Speaker 3: You, Good morning, Kay, and good morning to all your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, Shane, how has the pre selection gone so far?

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Speaker 3: Well, we have over forty applications across electorates. I've never

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Speaker 3: seen so many, and they are quality people and they

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Speaker 3: are all committed on the very theme of someone has

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Speaker 3: to do something and that someone is me, So they

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Speaker 3: have all made a personal commitment to put themselves out there.

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Speaker 3: We need to recover the are the economy, we need

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Speaker 3: to make the territory safe again. So these are very

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Speaker 3: committed people and we will start our pre selections next weekend.

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Speaker 2: So over forty people have put their hands up.

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Speaker 3: We have over twelve for Port Daaruen alone twelve.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And these are people who I don't think would normally

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Speaker 3: get involved with the political party, but they've lost confidence

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Speaker 3: and they just don't believe that Labor is capable of

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Speaker 3: governing the territory going forward.

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Speaker 1: I guess many would see Port Darwin and indeed Fong

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Speaker 1: Limb as quite winnable seats for the COLP based on

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Speaker 1: last elections results. What about some of those other electorates.

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Speaker 1: Have you got a good number in other electorates?

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Speaker 3: Well, we have multiple candidates all through the northern suburbs

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Speaker 3: and I thought we might have struggled, but the people

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Speaker 3: who stepped up said count me in. Someone has to

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Speaker 3: do something, and I've decided that someone is me. So

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Speaker 3: it's going to be hotly contested in some areas. I

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Speaker 3: of course held Port Darwin for ten years and used

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Speaker 3: agree that that is probably a seat that was always

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Speaker 1: So are you confident that you'll have strong candidates in

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Speaker 3: Yes, I am.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me in terms of you know, I guess,

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Speaker 1: in terms of what you deem as winnable, are there

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Speaker 1: that you do deem as winnable, Well, that.

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Speaker 3: Would be a marginal seats campaign. But look, the territory

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Speaker 3: is a small jurisdiction and in all my years, including

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Speaker 3: previously as COLP president back in the eighties, we always

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Speaker 3: took the view that every seat was up for grabs,

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Speaker 3: so you didn't ever assume there was anything as a

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Speaker 1: Now what do you see as being the major issues

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Speaker 3: Well, it's instilling confidence back into who comprises the government,

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Speaker 3: but most importantly rebuilding and repairing the economy and making

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've just heard horrendous stories up here, but

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Speaker 3: it's not just crime in isolation. The economy has collapsed.

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Speaker 3: The worst performing economy in Australia now that's official. COMPSEEC

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Speaker 3: have made it very clear. I mean when I retired

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Speaker 3: back in nineteen ninety nine, we were the lead economy

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Speaker 3: I suppose I could be a bit on the generous

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Speaker 3: the moment, but it's consistent the worst economy in Australia, Shane.

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Speaker 1: Some people are very unhappy with the current lay of

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Speaker 3: Are they I believe they are and I wouldn't have

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Speaker 3: I've helped them shape policy promises that will be made.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they should go out too far and

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Speaker 3: level how that plays out. Look, it's pretty straightforward. Repair

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Speaker 3: the economy, make the territory safe, give us a sense

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Speaker 3: Labor government. Three chief ministers in one term, Shane.

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Speaker 1: Is there still chaos and dysfunction as the Labor Party claims?

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Speaker 1: I mean, are we going to wind up in a

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Speaker 1: situation even as even as you're trying to pre select

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Speaker 3: Look, it's always fun being involved in a political party.

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Speaker 3: But can I say it's all very well for Labor.

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Speaker 3: They are so lacking in confidence in their own organization

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Speaker 3: they cancel their annual conference. So come on, fair go

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Speaker 3: we're running central Council meetings, We're running management committee. Yes,

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Speaker 3: you will always have diversity of opinion within the room,

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Speaker 3: but that's because you know, we're a pretty interesting group

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Speaker 3: of territorianes just wanting to make the place better.

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Speaker 1: Now, in terms of in terms of sort of diversity,

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Speaker 3: Yes, without having to actually go out and twist people's arms.

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Speaker 3: So there's a good spread of women in there, and

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Speaker 3: It's just happened organically.

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Speaker 1: I do want to ask you, because you are the

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Speaker 1: In terms of the discussions that we've been having over

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Speaker 1: Vic River area, do you feel as though it's been appropriate,

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Speaker 3: Well, it's not just the pastorlessness, not just the Vic River,

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Speaker 3: it's also the Stuart Highway. And look, you don't have

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Speaker 3: too many really top level jobs to do in government,

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Speaker 3: but one of them is to keep food on the shelves.

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Speaker 3: And when the highway went down, I dug a bit

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Speaker 3: deeper on that. I mean, I'll give the Queensland Labor

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Speaker 3: as the Coordinator General. They subscribe to the principle of betterment,

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Speaker 3: in other words, put back better. So if the colvid's

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Speaker 3: build a bridge. Here we had a section of the

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Speaker 3: and this territory government sat on its hands, so.

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Speaker 2: You reckon they could have done more.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely more, And I kept my counsel. I didn't

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Speaker 3: who saw the photos of the soupermarkets with no food,

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Speaker 3: I mean, heavens above that that hasn't happened since the

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Speaker 3: sixties fifties. So government failed miserably and just adds the

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Speaker 3: whole fabric of a government that's lost its way and

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Speaker 3: doesn't know what it's doing.

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Speaker 2: Shane, A very quick one before I let you go.

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Speaker 1: It's being reported nationally that Senator just nampajimper Price has

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Speaker 1: shut down rumors that she could leave the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: to run for the House of Representatives in former Prime

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Speaker 1: she could neither confirm nor deny those plans. Is she

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Speaker 1: leaving the territory?

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Speaker 3: Well at the Management Committee on Friday night, and we

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Speaker 3: don't normally disclose matters that have discussed, but just Center

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Speaker 3: was very keen to reassure people that there was no

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Speaker 3: such plan, and in fact, there have been invitations for

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Speaker 3: Macpherson on the Gold case. Jacinta makes it very clear

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Speaker 3: she's committed to the territory and I think this is

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Speaker 3: just a lot of media talk. I mean it's interesting

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Speaker 3: that she is very popular right around the country.

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Speaker 1: Well, Shanestone, the president of the country Liberal Party, really

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Speaker 1: good to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you coming on the show.

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Speaker 3: Please to be here.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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