1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,759 Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is the COLP 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: candidate for fong Limb, Tanseil Rahman. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 2: Good morning to your tansel. 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 3: Good morning Katie. How are you? Yeah? 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: Really good? Lovely to have you on the show. Now, 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: you've got seven minutes and a series of questions. 7 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 2: Are you ready to get started? 8 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 3: Let's do it? Katie? 9 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 2: All right? 10 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: Terns, why did you decide to put your hand up 11 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: to run for the seat of pong Limb. 12 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 3: So, Katie, I think the territory needs problems solvers in parliament, 13 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 3: people with professional skills and real world experience to help 14 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 3: get the territory back on track socially and economically. I 15 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 3: think we all know and feel, both of us that 16 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 3: have lived here for a long time, but the territory 17 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 3: is not great social and economic shape, and frankly speaking, 18 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 3: without some fundamental change of direction, things are only going 19 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 3: to get it a lot worse. We all know our 20 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 3: economy is undeniably the worst performing in the country and 21 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 3: that's just not going to change until we can restore 22 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 3: confidence to investors and businesses and people in the territory 23 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 3: that the empty kind is going to be better managed. 24 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 3: So look in a Nutshelle, I decided it was time 25 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 3: to try and help and basically put up or shut 26 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 3: up in Tansil. 27 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: Why do you think that you're the best person for 28 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: the role based on you know, maybe previous jobs that 29 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: you've had or experience throughout the community and through the 30 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: work that you've done. 31 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 3: Yeah. Sure. Look, I was lucky enough to be raised 32 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 3: here on a really strong and stable and sensible Selk 33 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 3: government which gave me a fantastic public education, you know, 34 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 3: a lovely housing commission home to grow up in, excellent 35 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 3: healthcare and infrastructure that actually got built. And that all 36 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 3: gave me the chance to succeed in life. And as 37 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 3: a function of that, I did well in school and 38 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 3: I went to University of Sydney, which is where I 39 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 3: did my economics degree and my law degree and my 40 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 3: music degree, and then luckily got an opportunity on a 41 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 3: scholarship to also go and do a PhD at the 42 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: University of Oxford. And when I was at Oxford, I 43 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 3: researched competitiveness in the global market for skilled migrants. My 44 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: area of professional expertise is advising governments, private act the 45 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 3: institutions multinationals about how to grow populations and grow a 46 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 3: skilled workforce. And so I decided to come back to 47 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 3: the territory to try and help with that problem. And 48 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 3: so I initially came back here to work with the government, 49 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 3: and then after a while I realized that frankly speaking, 50 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 3: I needed a strong advantage to be able to help 51 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 3: problems solve from and so as a result, put my 52 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 3: hand up to be pre selected by CLP. 53 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: Tansil. 54 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: Someone's been in contact with us and said, you know, like, 55 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: how can people sort of trust you're running for the CLP. 56 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: They believe that you had put your hand up to 57 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: run for Labor as well. 58 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 2: Is that correct? 59 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 1: No, that's not. 60 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 3: Entirely true, Katie, but you can't correct all falsehoods. It 61 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 3: is true that I joined the Labor Party last year 62 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: for two months from November until January this year, and 63 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 3: I did so because I wanted to work with the 64 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:51,679 Speaker 3: government of the day to see if I could help 65 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 3: problems solve. But what I discovered very quickly was that 66 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 3: Territory Labor sadly doesn't have much interest in new people 67 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 3: or new ideas or facing problems in the territory anymore. 68 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 3: And so, you know, it just became a point of exercise. 69 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 3: I resigned and I reached out to the COLP and 70 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 3: I asked them, look, i'd like to involved, is this 71 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 3: going to be a problem, And to their credit, they 72 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 3: were welcoming with me. 73 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: Now, what do you see as being the biggest issues 74 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: in the electorate of form LAMB. 75 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 3: Look, the issues are the saying across the territory in 76 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 3: the sense that we all are hearing about crime and 77 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 3: the cost of living because there's such acute problems now, 78 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 3: but more generally across Steeled Path than Arrow's, Walnut Bay View, 79 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 3: Barrama Northcrest, you get a consistent message about the absence 80 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 3: of opportunity here. People just don't have the preconditions to 81 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 3: succeed anymore in the territory and that's why so many 82 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 3: of them report oneting to leave. We know that's the case. 83 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 3: I mean, the territory I grew up in, Katie was 84 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 3: a place where you wanted to be able to afford 85 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 3: a luster, pay your rental, your mortgage, and not get stabbed. 86 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 3: And frankly, we had a laid back, pretty good lifestyle 87 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 3: and those fundamentals are just not getting addressed at the moment. 88 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 3: So you know, we can restore some confidence to our parliament, 89 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 3: to our economy the territory is going to be in 90 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 3: bad shape. 91 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: Well based on those issues, why do you think that 92 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: your best place to work on them or to get 93 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: stuck into them and fix them. 94 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 3: Look, I can honestly say I'm offering more economic muscle 95 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 3: than you know a lot of people have been able 96 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 3: to offer in Parliament for a long time. And I 97 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 3: can steer us, in partnership with my cop colleagues towards 98 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 3: responsible fiscal management. I mean, because you just can't have 99 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 3: a two hundred and fifty thousand person declining population and 100 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: twelve billion dollars of debt and so a little to 101 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 3: show for it. So you know, we will work towards 102 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 3: creating a sustainable economic growth model where we save money, 103 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 3: make money and stop wasting money, not just think about 104 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 3: how to spend it the whole time. 105 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: Now, in terms of some of the local issues, do 106 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: you support Saint Vinnie's moving out of the electorate. 107 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 3: Absolutely, But I supported moving permanently and durably somewhere and 108 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 3: not temporarily being relocated prior to an election, which is 109 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 3: exactly what's happening right now. The fact is, until we 110 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: find a perm a sensible place for those services to 111 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 3: be offered. Sture Park can't be redeveloped or improved, So yes, 112 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 3: I hope we'll find a permanent place to put it. 113 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,119 Speaker 3: But Labor has squandered the opportunity to fix that problem 114 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 3: over the last four years, despite promising to do so 115 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 3: at the last election. 116 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: Now in terms of people are sleeping near and drinking 117 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: near the fire station up the top of the hill 118 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: there towards well towards sort of will know, I'm assuming 119 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: you know where I mean on the Stewart like towards 120 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: the Stuart Highway. What would you do to stop that 121 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: issue that a lot of people have been in contact 122 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 1: with us about, Katie. 123 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 3: The issues socioeconomic dysfunction wise are commonplace across the territory, 124 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 3: not just in Warmer. They're in Woodruff for cars on fire. 125 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter which issue we're talking about. Things are 126 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 3: crumbling here because of the absence of leadership and clarity. 127 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 3: And you know, there has to be more for everyone here, 128 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 3: more in public health, housing, education and infrastructure to be 129 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 3: able to provide for people. And that's what we're failing 130 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 3: to do here, which is why you've got rough sleepers 131 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 3: and people suffering. 132 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 2: Now do you live in the Electric. 133 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I live in Stuart Park and I think 134 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 3: it's extremely important for local members to live in the 135 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 3: areas they seek to represent, to be properly connected to 136 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 3: their local communities. 137 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 2: Now we've got just over a minute to go. 138 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: Why should people vote for you? 139 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 3: Look, people should vote for me because I'm interested in 140 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 3: problem solving for the benefit of an NT and because 141 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 3: I'm a kid from Karama who grew up here and 142 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 3: went to school here and understands the place. And you know, 143 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 3: I want to ensure you and your family have access 144 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 3: to the same opportunities to succeed that I received here 145 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 3: in the past. And those things are only going to 146 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 3: be able to be provided if we can rebuild the 147 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 3: economy under the CLP government. 148 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: About thirty seconds to go to Hansel. Anything else you'd. 149 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 3: Like to add o, Katie, I can't miss my chance. 150 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 3: It's still on festival time, So if anyone needs a 151 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 3: break from politics and would rather hear me singing or 152 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 3: play some saxophones, I'm going to make my own modest 153 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 3: contribution to entertainment this week by doing some large jazz 154 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 3: gigs in the Finland Electric. So if anyone's free popping 155 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 3: out of finding email on Friday or the One Mile 156 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 3: Brewery on Saturday. We'll gone to beat your club on Sunday. 157 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 2: Well, Tanzil, good to speak with you this morning. 158 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: Dansel Rahman, the c LP candidate, thanks very much for 159 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: having a chat with us as part of our Meet 160 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: the Candidate series. 161 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 3: No thank you.