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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now, The Lord Mayor

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Speaker 1: of Darwin conveat Scarlas.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Con.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie con Thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: For your time.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, this vaccine mandate is looming. How is that looking

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Speaker 1: from the council's perspective, it's.

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Speaker 3: Looking very good. Actually, we've got a very small number

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Speaker 3: of people that express concern about vaccination, some for their

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Speaker 3: own reasons, some that've got medical situations. We believe that

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Speaker 3: it would be a very very small number by Friday.

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Speaker 3: And I hate to say that one, but thanks very

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Speaker 3: much so that lady that lied, look her from teeth

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Speaker 3: about where she went. A lot of people in the lockout,

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Speaker 3: A lot of people went to vaccination clinics on the

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Speaker 3: last weekend and we had a record vaccination in the

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Speaker 3: last few days.

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Speaker 1: So Corn, you said a very small number, how many

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Speaker 1: are we talking within council?

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Speaker 3: We believe it will be less than ten at the

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Speaker 3: moment that actually for their own reasons don't want to vaccinate.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know what they will do. I don't

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Speaker 3: know what the conviction is, how strong it is, and

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Speaker 3: neither've got other ways of actually will find a job

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Speaker 3: because mandar vaccinations throughout the territory. Exactually now happened Western Australia, Queensland,

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Speaker 3: other states and also in private business even will Wards

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Speaker 3: and calls demand all the stuff to be manti vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: Also from the council's perspective, what are you going to

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Speaker 1: be doing like as of Monday? If one of those

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Speaker 1: people who've said that they're not going to get vaccinated

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Speaker 1: rocks up to work, what happens.

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Speaker 3: We've got three hundred and seventy seven employees. We will

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Speaker 3: continue to provide services as usual. The number of that

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Speaker 3: we're talking about so small it wonn't have any impact

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Speaker 3: on our services. Our labraries are open, they will open

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Speaker 3: during the lockout and they will continue to be open

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Speaker 3: on Monday and from there on rabbits will be collected.

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Speaker 3: The parts will be a mode. Every service will provide

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Speaker 3: will continue to be provided.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, are you or is somebody else to think?

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Speaker 1: Council are going to have to sort of approach them,

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Speaker 1: check their vaccine status and if they're not vaccinated.

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Speaker 2: Us on to live well.

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Speaker 3: The instruction by the Chief Health Officers are clear if

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Speaker 3: you're not vaccinated by Friday the twelve, at least the

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Speaker 3: first vaccine. You can't go to work. If you turn

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Speaker 3: up to work, you get in this building, you get

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Speaker 3: five thousand dollars. Fine. If we turn a blind eye

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Speaker 3: led them to come into the building, we face sixty

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Speaker 3: five thousand dollars. Fine. This is not something that is

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Speaker 3: our discretion. This is the law of the territory. We

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Speaker 3: have to comply with it.

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Speaker 2: Con are all those aldermen vaccinied?

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Speaker 3: I believe all of them. Some of them will had

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Speaker 3: the first vaccine last week. My information is that everybody

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Speaker 3: has at least one vaccination. The majority has two.

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Speaker 2: Now onto something very different.

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Speaker 1: I understand that the talk at the moment of an

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Speaker 1: avenue of Ponciana trace.

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Speaker 3: He become very popular after I've put a photograph of

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Speaker 3: Ponciano flowering in East Point. There are different reviews. Some

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Speaker 3: people says it's an indiview species. Well, so is frand

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Speaker 3: japanni and the Tamari tree, and of course Pride of

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Speaker 3: India and mangos and so on. We have imported a

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Speaker 3: lot of trees in Australia. Some people say they're weed. Well,

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Speaker 3: everything can turn a weed if you don't look after it.

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Speaker 3: But the reality is not a declar weed coffee boost is,

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Speaker 3: but not point ciana. If you plant trees, you look

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Speaker 3: after them. We have them in our gardens, we've got

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Speaker 3: in our public spaces, and most importantly, they don't fall

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Speaker 3: down during cyclones. I like pointsiannos. Other people don't. But

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Speaker 3: again it has to be a differential opinion. I think

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Speaker 3: point channers add color to Darwin some of our native

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Speaker 3: trees that don't have this colorful flowers. And let's make

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Speaker 3: doubt different. You go down south and you see avenues

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Speaker 3: of jacarandas or avenues of golden showers. We don't want

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Speaker 3: to be boring. Let's put some color analyzes and so coon.

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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do have these beautiful, colorful red

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Speaker 1: trees everywhere or what are you planning?

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Speaker 3: Well, we can actually do like we planted Pride of

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Speaker 3: India in Daily Street. Now they're flowering when you travel

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Speaker 3: there because the beautiful pink purple clouds coming out a

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Speaker 3: think Goida road will look creative. We plant poincienos there

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Speaker 3: together with the French appanage adding color to our suburbs.

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Speaker 3: It will be a great opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And so there's at this point in time no specific

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Speaker 1: place where you want to sort of see this avenue

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Speaker 1: of Pointsianas, but it's something that you'd like to see

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Speaker 1: in lots of different areas.

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Speaker 3: We had a tree committee. I'm going to reconvin it.

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Speaker 3: Have a look at again how well we win, what

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Speaker 3: kind of plants we plant it. Can we change the

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Speaker 3: trees we plant and we can have more colors and

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Speaker 3: after that finishes we'll have more information.

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Speaker 1: Well, convat Scarlets, the Lord Mayor always good.

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Speaker 2: To catch up with you. Let me go, let me

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Speaker 2: know how you go with the.

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Speaker 3: With the tuity meeting and make sure you know about it.

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Speaker 3: Good on you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks con