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Speaker 1: Now, if you heard our interview with the Lord Mayor

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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier this morning, we certainly raised some

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Speaker 1: concerns that business owners have raised with me about the

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Speaker 1: City of Darwin's works in the cbday. Now it's got

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Speaker 1: many people asking why there hasn't been further consultation with

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Speaker 1: businesses and why works are happening now. We spoke a

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Speaker 1: lot about the situation on Smith Straight, but my understanding

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Speaker 1: is that there's some concerns around proposed works to happen

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Speaker 1: on Kavanar Straight. Now joining me on the line is

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Speaker 1: the owner of the iconic Delaney's Country and Western store,

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Speaker 1: Dwin Delaney. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you on the show. Dwinn, tell us

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Speaker 1: a little bit more about what the council has told

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Speaker 1: you is going to happen with this work on Kavanar Straight.

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Speaker 2: Well, last week, I mean I ran into them basically

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Speaker 2: standing out front of the corner of the shop. That's Monday,

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Speaker 2: and you know they're all standing at the clipboard. I said,

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Speaker 2: what's going on? They said, well, we're going to rip

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Speaker 2: this up and put tyles down. I said, when you're

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Speaker 2: going to do that? Like soon? So I said, like

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the high season and the busiest

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Speaker 2: footpath is Darwin. So I was like, you know, why

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Speaker 2: now and why here? And they couldn't really couldn't tell me,

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Speaker 2: and they wanted it's all part of the beautification of

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Speaker 2: darn apparently. Yeah, but you know it's just going I

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Speaker 2: don't know how long my door is going to be closed.

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Speaker 2: Excuse me because they couldn't tell me.

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Speaker 1: Well, and this is the thing doing like it's going

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Speaker 1: to have an impact on your business. I raised it

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Speaker 1: with the me this morning. Con was on the show

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Speaker 1: with us today, so I asked him about it. He

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Speaker 1: said that there's not a time frame at the moment

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Speaker 1: that they still need to consult with all the business owners.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how.

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Speaker 2: It's a trial. It's a trial, by the way, It's

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Speaker 2: just a trial. And they're gonna put it right in

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Speaker 2: the middle darwn. I mean, there's he's a place that

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Speaker 2: I could trial this. This it's a black tie anyway,

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Speaker 2: and to me, it's you know, it looks slippy to me,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to get a red a lot of heat.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be very very hot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So dun obviously you're worried about it. Happening right

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Speaker 1: outside you'll be it's not just your business, like, that's

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Speaker 1: one of the busiest areas.

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Speaker 2: Correct. What do you think it.

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Speaker 1: Will mean in terms of you know, the like for

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Speaker 1: you if they go ahead with this in the dry.

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Speaker 2: Season, Well, it's going to cost a lot of sales.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know you're foot traveling immediately. And the

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Speaker 2: other thing is, well, you know, you don't know how

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Speaker 2: long they're going to be there. Long it is it's

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Speaker 2: going to be. You know there's this development over here

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Speaker 2: in Smith Street. Well, they have been there for some

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Speaker 2: time now, and I've heard stories about thirty percent down.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is the thing. We actually caught up with

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Speaker 1: a couple of the business owners. They're on Smith Straight

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Speaker 1: and they're really upset about what it's meant for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and having those it's hard enough for retail in

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Speaker 2: the city as it is. Everyone everyone's tough, and so

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Speaker 2: you know, the city councils should be promoting you know

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Speaker 2: that's my landlord pays the pays their rates and they're

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Speaker 2: not cheap.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right. It's bloody expensive. There's no doubt

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Speaker 1: about dueen. What do you think needs to happen here?

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Speaker 1: I mean, does the council need to go.

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Speaker 2: Back to the drawing do it? Honestly, I think they

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Speaker 2: could do the trial somewhere else where it's it's not

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Speaker 2: so busy, you know, go for your life, you know,

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Speaker 2: if it's not going to be causing a disruption to

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Speaker 2: a lot of businesses. And I'm sure there's plenty of

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Speaker 2: places they can do the trial. And for mine, I

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Speaker 2: find that, you know, a black tile is going to

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Speaker 2: be going to be hot, and they tell me that,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's got all the grip in the world.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't look it's those tiles with a little they've got

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Speaker 2: a little crinkles in them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I can't I just can't see it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Douean, have many of the other like what are

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Speaker 1: the other businesses that are sort of around you around Nucky.

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Speaker 2: Street and they're not aware of it?

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Speaker 1: How is that possible? But this is the whole reason

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Speaker 1: we're in this situation that we're in on Smith Street,

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Speaker 1: you know, like they said that there wasn't enough consultation beforehand. Now,

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Speaker 1: con did say this morning on the show that apparently

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Speaker 1: the Smith Street project had fun linked to the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory government, so they had to have a complaint, you know,

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Speaker 1: like they had to. It had to be sort of

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Speaker 1: you know, there was strings attached. I suppose for one

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Speaker 1: of a better word with this one. He reckons it's

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Speaker 1: a Darwin City Council project. But you know, really, if

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Speaker 1: you're going to be disrupting the businesses nearby, you've got

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Speaker 1: to go and talk.

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Speaker 2: To them, I reckon. And as I say, it could

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Speaker 2: be done anywhere else and down. Yeah, you want to

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Speaker 2: do this trial and it just don't do it here

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Speaker 2: and in the middle of the high susiness.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, don look, we'll keep talking about it. Can

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Speaker 1: you let us know whether the council does get in

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Speaker 1: contact with you and does try to consult in some way,

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Speaker 1: because I think you know, that was the commitment that

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Speaker 1: con had made when he was leaving this morning, that

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Speaker 1: they were going to make sure that they spoke to

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Speaker 1: all of you guys. Well, I hope so too. Good

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Speaker 1: to talk to you, mate, Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: your time this morning. Thank you