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Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now from the colp.

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Speaker 1: It is Matthew Cole. Good morning to you, Matthew, Morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: How are you going in morning to your listeners?

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Speaker 1: Really good? Now we've got about seven minutes to get

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Speaker 1: through a series of questions.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready, I'm ready.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it all right, matt Why did you decide

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Speaker 1: to put your hand up to run again?

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Speaker 2: So this is my home, Katie. So mum and dad

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Speaker 2: moved up to the nt for work back in the fifties.

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Speaker 2: They settled on a farm outside Bachelor. I remember my

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Speaker 2: brother buying his first home in Malden off the plan.

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Speaker 2: They had to clear the scrub and build his house

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Speaker 2: when he had his second child. My sister lived in

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Speaker 2: Grace nearly fifteen years. I've been connected to Parmeerston for

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Speaker 2: a long time. It all started for me back in

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Speaker 2: the twenty seventeen crime crisis when you couldn't drive around

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Speaker 2: Parmeston without seeing smashed and stolen car as a band

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Speaker 2: on the side of the road. And the final straw

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Speaker 2: for me was when a maid of mine was to

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Speaker 2: go on a work trip to Alice and as you do,

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Speaker 2: forgot to lock the back door. One night, got up

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Speaker 2: in the morning, his car keys were gone, his wallet

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Speaker 2: was gone, his wife's purse and wedding rings were gone,

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Speaker 2: and out the front his car was gone. So that family,

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Speaker 2: who are very dear friends of ours, they were turned

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Speaker 2: upside down for weeks on end because they had you know,

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Speaker 2: his car and her car and kids to get around

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Speaker 2: and they had back to one car for weeks on end,

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Speaker 2: just because a couple of young criminals decided to go

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Speaker 2: for a joy ride one night. And the thing is,

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Speaker 2: I'm not someone who can just stand by and complain,

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Speaker 2: like a lot of people were complaining, you know, and

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Speaker 2: comments on Facebook. But I'm the sort of person if

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Speaker 2: something's wrong and I can do something about it, I

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Speaker 2: want to put my hand up. I want to get

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Speaker 2: in there. I want to try and fix it or

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Speaker 2: want to do something. So that's why I put my

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Speaker 2: hand up in twenty twenty. But unfortunately since then, you know,

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Speaker 2: nothing's really changed. In fact, it's gotten worse. So we

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Speaker 2: don't have a lot of time. But last night I

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Speaker 2: was on Emory ave you yep because people were messaging

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Speaker 2: me and just long story short, there's a low level

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Speaker 2: riot that was going on. So I went there and

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Speaker 2: checked it out and I was shocked, Katie. I was

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Speaker 2: shocked by what I saw there. What was alleged to

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Speaker 2: be a stolen vehicle doing burnouts up and down the street.

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Speaker 2: There was just constant fights. One of the people living there,

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Speaker 2: called trip Below, was on the hold for five minutes,

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Speaker 2: couldn't get through. Finally got through, logged a job half

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Speaker 2: an hour. Forty minutes later when I left, still no police,

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Speaker 2: you know, And it's our police are doing a fantastic job.

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Speaker 2: They're brilliant. I've got a lot of constituents for a

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Speaker 2: police They are just swamped and they don't feel that

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Speaker 2: they're supported by this government. So I put in my

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Speaker 2: hand up because the problem we have is a failed

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Speaker 2: government that isn't serving the needs of territories. It isn't listening.

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Speaker 2: The only way that anything will change is if we

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Speaker 2: change the government.

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Speaker 1: Matthew, why do you think you're the best person for

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Speaker 1: the roles? And based on your previous work experience or

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Speaker 1: work that you've done in the community.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. So, my background is I got a bachelor in

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Speaker 2: computer science from Northern Territory University back in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and four. So I've worked as a software engineer, a

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Speaker 2: team lead and a project manager building large complex systems

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Speaker 2: for various for the Northern Territory government. So any public

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Speaker 2: servants listening, I've worked on my HR and everyone uses

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Speaker 2: my HR every week. So I also grew up on

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Speaker 2: a farm outside Bachelor. That was the family business. There

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Speaker 2: was a small business. Money was always tight. How I

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Speaker 2: earned my pocket money when I was a kid. My

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Speaker 2: dad had would get two forty four going drums and

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Speaker 2: if I filled them all the way up with chicken manure,

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Speaker 2: then I'd get five dollars, so you know, and that

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Speaker 2: would go down on the mango trees. So that was

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Speaker 2: how I earned my pocket money when I was a kid.

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Speaker 2: Money was tight.

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Speaker 1: I learned.

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Speaker 2: I learned the value of a dollar and not spending

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Speaker 2: money that I didn't have. And I'm not afraid to

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Speaker 2: get in and get my hands dirty fixing things. I've

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Speaker 2: also been involved in you community groups for twenty years

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Speaker 2: as a youth leader, and then I've spent seven years

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Speaker 2: working as a gymnastics coach for Darwin Gymnostics Club. So

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Speaker 2: there I was coaching gymnastics to kids, teenagers, young adults.

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Speaker 2: And one thing that I learned there was that young

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Speaker 2: people need physical activity, and they need structure, you know,

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Speaker 2: they need discipline. We have a lot of young people

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Speaker 2: in Palmerston unfortunately, and they lack structure in the home

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Speaker 2: and that's resulting in a lot of the behaviors that

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Speaker 2: we're seeing at in public now. They need positive role

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Speaker 2: models and sports is a great way to get them

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Speaker 2: into a healthy community. I've seen this happen at Raiders,

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Speaker 2: you know, a couple of years ago on a home

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Speaker 2: on a training night. You know, some people came in

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Speaker 2: with a bad attitude and their friends, the coaches, the

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Speaker 2: committee members you know, had a young do and said look, hey,

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Speaker 2: you can't behave like that here. So they pulled their

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Speaker 2: heads in, you know, and everyone got along. You know.

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Speaker 2: It's a great family environment and it's a great place

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Speaker 2: to build that to in a young person's life. So

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Speaker 2: that's why I'll always be backing the Raiders, the Crocs,

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Speaker 2: the Sharks, barber the Parma Boxing Club, any community group

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Speaker 2: that provides a positive environment for young people.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll be behind them, Matthew in terms of

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Speaker 1: we're at five minutes, only two minutes to go. In

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Speaker 1: terms of the mold and oval, I mean, that's something

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Speaker 1: we've spoken a lot about on the show. What do

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Speaker 1: you think could have been done differently or how would

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Speaker 1: you handle that better?

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Speaker 2: So to start with Katie, I just want to thank

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Speaker 2: you for your advocacy on that one, because honestly, without you,

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Speaker 2: I don't think that would have they would have got fixed.

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Speaker 2: That is, unfortunately, just a classic case of red tape,

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Speaker 2: you know, and it's no one's fault in you know,

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Speaker 2: the creation is problems, no one's fault. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: just OVAL's belonged to schools, sports club comes along. You know,

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Speaker 2: the assets are managed by one agency and coordinated by another.

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Speaker 2: But the problem is you need you need a champion,

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Speaker 2: You need someone to cut through the red tape and

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Speaker 2: make sure that things happen because, unfortunatetionally, when something you

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Speaker 2: know is everyone's responsibility, it's no one's responsibility they need

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Speaker 2: So if I've been in there, and I think Mary

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Speaker 2: Claire had in previous years been working hard to try

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Speaker 2: and get that resolved, if I'd been in there, I

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Speaker 2: would have been working with the departments and following up

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Speaker 2: and making sure that things were resolved in a timely manner.

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Speaker 1: Matthew one minute to go. Why should people vote for you.

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Speaker 2: Look, Katie, I give a shit. Excuse my language, that's

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Speaker 2: all right. This is my home. This is my home,

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Speaker 2: right like the amount of doors I've drawn off, the

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Speaker 2: stories that people tell me, it breaks my heart, right,

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Speaker 2: this is this not acceptable? You know, it's not acceptable

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Speaker 2: that people are who've got to get up at six

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Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, have a low level riot going

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Speaker 2: on outside their house, have stolen cars, you know, doing burnouts.

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Speaker 2: The senior citizens are getting their homes invaded, you know,

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Speaker 2: and suffering long term trauma. You know, the people are

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Speaker 2: afraid to let their outside of their front gate because

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Speaker 2: of the broken glass, and you know the things that

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Speaker 2: they might encounter. If the people of Blaine have will

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Speaker 2: put their faith in me, I promised to be a

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Speaker 2: champion for them, for the people of Woodruff, Molden and Bellomack,

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Speaker 2: and I'll be working hard every day for them, the

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Speaker 2: same way I've been working hard for the last ten months,

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Speaker 2: you know, three years.

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Speaker 1: Really well, Matthew, we have run out of time. I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate you having a chat with us this morning.

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Speaker 1: All the best.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks you