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Speaker 1: And joining us live in the studio is the Lord

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Speaker 1: Mayor of Darwin conbat Scarlets.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Coln, Good morning Katie. And looks like Christmas

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Speaker 2: is going to be a very interesting affair this.

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Speaker 1: Year, isn't it. You know, we know that we've got

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Speaker 1: an additional hot spot with South Australia. Now it's looking

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Speaker 1: like Melbourne will be open though it looks like it.

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Speaker 2: But again, we have got a vaccine, so you only

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Speaker 2: get another person or two or three persons to be

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Speaker 2: sick with coronavirus and then we're back in the spot

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Speaker 2: where we're about six months ago. We have to be

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Speaker 2: very very careful. And I heard the Chief Health Officert

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Speaker 2: today say we become complacent. I think we have. And

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Speaker 2: just driving around down Friday night at the different bargs,

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Speaker 2: you can see what's happening. I think we are complacant.

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Speaker 2: So guys, take all of disinfected again, clean your hands,

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Speaker 2: rub it around and keep your distance because the last

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Speaker 2: thing we need is to have this one here and down. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we're lucky until now and we've done the right thing,

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Speaker 2: but one mistake can ruin everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we are going to talk more about it.

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Speaker 1: We're going to catch up with the Australian Medical Soation

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Speaker 1: a little bit later this morning, Con, I've got a

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Speaker 1: message here from one of our listeners, get Ikiti. When

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Speaker 1: Con comes on this morning, could you please ask him

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Speaker 1: now that the unimproved capital value of my property has

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Speaker 1: decreased by twenty five thousand dollars, will my rights decrease? Accordingly,

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Speaker 1: says that tech stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd love to because I will be benefiting two.

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Speaker 2: But the reality is the uniprove capital values can go

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Speaker 2: up and down. Don't remember anybody ringing saying, oh my

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Speaker 2: any proof capital value went out by one hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars. Can you please increase my rates? Because

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Speaker 2: the antipro capital value does not erect related to the rates.

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Speaker 2: The rates are actually the fast ere of all of

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Speaker 2: us pay for the service provided by council. Yes, sometimes

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Speaker 2: then proof capital value will go down. However, I haven't

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Speaker 2: seen any of our contracts, for example, to remove rubbish

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Speaker 2: or maintain parks going down. They keep going up. We

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Speaker 2: have to find this money. The only option is with COVID,

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Speaker 2: we kept the rates zero, increase nothing at all. Nobody

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Speaker 2: paid any extra. The only way to do the same

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Speaker 2: thing is to cut services. Now, if you don't like

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Speaker 2: your libraries or your parks mode every four weeks, or

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Speaker 2: a childcare center subsidy, or the parks having lights, please

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Speaker 2: let me know and we'll consider it. Their rags will

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Speaker 2: it's zero until the end of the financial year. Then

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Speaker 2: when the new budget comes we reconsider it. We don't

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Speaker 2: want to make My intention is actually not to rely

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Speaker 2: heavily on rags to finance the council. If we can

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Speaker 2: find a way to utilize the property, we've got to

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Speaker 2: make money in order to keep the raids cupped somewhere,

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Speaker 2: that would be the idea. But until that happened, rates

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Speaker 2: we have to either increase moderately or if there is

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Speaker 2: a COVID situation again, council has to consider what we'll do.

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Speaker 1: Con One of the other questions that was put to

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Speaker 1: me was actually someone got in contact with us here

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Speaker 1: at the station last week was about the trees on

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Speaker 1: Kavanagh Straight, So the ones outside you know where the

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Speaker 1: stonehouses and a few of those thereas that there. Apparently

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Speaker 1: some of those trees have been removed.

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Speaker 2: Yes they have, and they they were removed because they

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Speaker 2: were actually about to die or fall down. Unfortunately, the

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Speaker 2: trees when we're planted at the time, we're not planned

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Speaker 2: it properly. Putting a tree and covered with bitchumen, that's

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Speaker 2: nothing for the roots of the system. It cooks them.

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Speaker 2: And because they were cooked, these trees will not grow.

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Speaker 2: Look at the trees in Garamilla one year now, how

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Speaker 2: beautiful they look. And this tree has been there for

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Speaker 2: thirty years and they do nothing, nothing at all. We

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Speaker 2: have to actually make sure that the trees, and we

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Speaker 2: have done that. The trees will plant. Now they're plant properly,

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Speaker 2: so they're not cooked by the bitchmen and they keep growing.

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Speaker 1: So will they be replaced?

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Speaker 2: They be replaced. That's the next plant we're doing. Look

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Speaker 2: at the other side of Cabanas Street, how beautiful the

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Speaker 2: trees look, how quickly they grow. This one they're struggling.

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Speaker 1: How many did you have to remove?

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Speaker 2: We actually removed about four and there are another four

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Speaker 2: to be removed. But it's actually the space between the

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Speaker 2: Nake Street and the post office. But they will be

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Speaker 2: replaced with trees that we plant it properly, so we

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Speaker 2: avoid the same mistakes when we dug out.

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Speaker 1: That's what's rights with me is because apparently there's some

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Speaker 1: type of little bird that actually they goes in there?

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Speaker 1: Will they then go to the new trees.

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Speaker 2: Wildlife is very versatile. They will find another tree to

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Speaker 2: perch very very quickly. The other thing, of course is

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Speaker 2: we'll put the right trees and they keep growing, will

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Speaker 2: attract worldwidelife in the m trees.

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Speaker 1: All right, con quite a few or quite a bit

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Speaker 1: has happened since the last time we spoke, and I

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Speaker 1: understand that the Darwin community are going to be the

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Speaker 1: beneficiaries of a new public art project in Bisentennial Park.

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Speaker 2: The dream of my life. We are I mean, we

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Speaker 2: did with the murals and everybody loves them, but we

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Speaker 2: need more than the murals. The only public art I

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Speaker 2: can see at the moment is the statue of Stuart

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Speaker 2: in them all and that's it, whim seeing anything else.

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Speaker 2: So what we're doing now with partner with the Larrakia people,

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Speaker 2: we want to develop a public sculpture that Bystandia Park

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Speaker 2: to represent the Larrakia people of the Darwin So we

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Speaker 2: release a tender. My dream is actually to start with

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Speaker 2: that and then depict all the social history of Darwin.

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Speaker 2: We know we came to have the Chinese came here

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Speaker 2: to build a railway and go to the the gold mines.

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Speaker 2: Why we don't have this there? We had Indonesian people

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Speaker 2: coming here, Why would they have this there? Where the Greeks,

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Speaker 2: the kid the team is why we don't have in

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Speaker 2: the lark in the Pasidenta Park a series of statues

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Speaker 2: of these people that actually contributes completely to.

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Speaker 1: The I reckon we get made a few mite Because

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Speaker 1: we're so multicultural in the North.

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Speaker 2: We can do it. We can do it. They don't

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Speaker 2: have to be massive. We can actually can see other

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Speaker 2: places a serious I mean twenty statues lined up and

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Speaker 2: each of them represent facts of lives in that particular city.

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Speaker 2: We can do it here, and we will start doing it,

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Speaker 2: and we can do public art and other places, not

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Speaker 2: only the the Larochie sculpture.

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Speaker 1: When can we expect? When is that? When are you

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Speaker 1: hoping to get have that sort of im place we want?

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Speaker 2: We're going out for tender. We're going to release a

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Speaker 2: tender and we'll see what people come up with, and

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Speaker 2: then we'll make a decisions which one will pick up.

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Speaker 2: The moment you pick up something, it's very quick to

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Speaker 2: develop it. It's just going through the decided to make

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Speaker 2: something like that and then putting out the ten.

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Speaker 1: Well conbat scaluts. It's always good to catch up anything

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Speaker 1: else we should know about very quickly.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you had a chance to look at an

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Speaker 2: annual report, which as we released last week, that was

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Speaker 2: a great reading because it shows everything we did to

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Speaker 2: keep the raids capped at zero percent increase, to employ

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Speaker 2: the Green Army, the money we sped to actually bail

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Speaker 2: out the city through the COVID nineteen. The other thing

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Speaker 2: that's actually very very proud of Kate is council now

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Speaker 2: has the very first reconciliation action plan. All these years

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Speaker 2: living in a multicultural city, as you said, with a

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Speaker 2: big population being of a digitous origin, we never had

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Speaker 2: an a reconciliation plan. Now we do one, and I

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Speaker 2: thank very much everybody from the council who countriveted the

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Speaker 2: creation of this one and also reach a Figil. He

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Speaker 2: came to the launch and he performed the first ever

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Speaker 2: salt water ceremony in Lake Alexander, which thirty years and

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Speaker 2: now I've never seen it before. It was absolutely fantastic

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Speaker 2: and it shows how well we can work together with

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Speaker 2: our indigenous people and how well we can learn from them,

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Speaker 2: and how well can work to make this place a

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Speaker 2: beautiful place and a better place.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely combat scarlets, Lord Mayor of Darwin. Good to catch

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Speaker 1: up with you.

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Speaker 2: And when you leave, now just drive down Smith Street.

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Speaker 2: We just finished the.

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Speaker 1: Beautific knocking off. Now I've got to stie on.

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Speaker 2: Two mid die that's okay. Mid Days is a better

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Speaker 2: than light is better.

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Speaker 1: Good on. You can't thank you