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Speaker 1: Joining us live on the line right now is Caleb Burke,

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Speaker 1: who is indeed running for the Labor Party.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Caleb.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Katian Gadata. All your listeners now, mate, We've.

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Speaker 2: Got seven minutes and a series of questions. Are you ready?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, mate, let's do it all right. Why did you

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

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Speaker 3: Well, Katie, So, I left Defense in twenty seventeen, moved

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Speaker 3: back to the territory post offense and sort of embedded

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Speaker 3: myself into the community. So I've got involved in a

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Speaker 3: lot of the sporting clubs around Palmerston. So I've coached

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Speaker 3: out at the Raiders, done some time at the Bagpies.

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Speaker 3: Currently I'm now out at Molden Oval. I know that's

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Speaker 3: been a hot topic on your show recently, so I've

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Speaker 3: been with the Sharks and the crops out there and look,

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Speaker 3: just listening to all the issues throughout the years of

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Speaker 3: what's going on. Some people have asked me as well,

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Speaker 3: you know, why don't you put your hand up and run?

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Speaker 3: And I've just been waiting in the background having a

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Speaker 3: look at it, and I think one of the key

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Speaker 3: things that made my mind was Eva Lawler. So her

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Speaker 3: decisive direction and leadership is definitely one of the the

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Speaker 3: key reasons I'm running being ex Defense. Her mission statement

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Speaker 3: out there is let's get the territory working, and look,

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Speaker 3: that's something definitely I can get behind and support one

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Speaker 3: hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Now, based on your previous work experience or work that

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Speaker 1: you've done in the community, why do you reckon you're

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Speaker 1: the best person for the job.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So look my previous work experience over a decade

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Speaker 3: in Defense, so I was a tank commander as well,

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Speaker 3: also deployed to Afghanistan when I was nineteen, so I

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Speaker 3: do have some leadership experience. Did two and a half

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Speaker 3: years as a recruit instructor. Now currently I'm the union

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Speaker 3: addictus for the aw in the Northern Territory, so working

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Speaker 3: on negotiations out there in the oil and gas industry,

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Speaker 3: supporting our workers rights out there. But more importantly it's

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Speaker 3: being in the community. So I'm out there every day

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Speaker 3: that we kicked off our preseason on Monday for the

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Speaker 3: crops and actively engaged in the community, listening to them

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Speaker 3: and you know, always putting their concerns first above my own.

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Speaker 1: Now, in terms of what you see is the biggest

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Speaker 1: issues in the electrode. I'm assuming you've been out on

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Speaker 1: the doors. What are people telling you?

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Speaker 3: Yep, four feet So I've been out on the doors,

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Speaker 3: door knocking a lot. The first thing is surprised. Look,

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Speaker 3: they haven't really seen a member of Parliament knocked their doors,

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Speaker 3: so I was quite interested to see that Lee has

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Speaker 3: been out there country. To all the Facebook posts, you've

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Speaker 3: been in every other electorate but our own. But look,

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Speaker 3: the biggest one is crime. So we've got property crime,

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Speaker 3: people breaking into the houses. Another key issue with anti

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Speaker 3: social behavior, and that's contributed to secondary supply of alcohol.

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Speaker 3: So you know, they're definitely the forefront of the issues there.

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Speaker 3: Quite recently, it's been broached to me is sort of

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Speaker 3: my stances where I sit on the voluntary assisted dying space.

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Speaker 3: So look, I'll come out clear with it my conscious

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Speaker 3: so it will be a yes if I'm elected into government.

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Speaker 3: I've got my many reasons for you, but that's the

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Speaker 3: short format. And then also what about the reproductive rights

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Speaker 3: of people, So that's come up quite recently. In short,

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Speaker 3: I'm pro choice, shouldn't believe government should be involved in

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Speaker 3: those decisions making processes, nor should men in the government

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Speaker 3: be in charge of those decisions.

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Speaker 2: So they are the biggest issues being raised at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, currently, so crime, the any social behavior. Like you said,

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Speaker 3: those two as of the last week, the reproductive issues

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Speaker 3: and the voluntary assistant dying space have been questions asked

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Speaker 3: me and to want to know clearly what my stance

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Speaker 3: was on them. All.

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Speaker 1: Right now, why do you think you're the best person

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Speaker 1: for the job?

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Speaker 3: I looked to put it bluntly, I'm not a yes man,

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Speaker 3: so I'm not going to give people the answers they

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Speaker 3: want to hear. And additionally, you know, throughout my career,

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Speaker 3: I've always value added to a team. If there's a

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Speaker 3: problem there, I'm not just going to come up there

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Speaker 3: screaming that there's a problem. You going to provide solutions

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Speaker 3: to that or work with the committee and get the

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Speaker 3: solutions to the problem, not just screaming that there's something wrong.

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Speaker 1: Now, based on some of the issues that you've spoken

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Speaker 1: about just before, and the concerns being raised on the doors,

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Speaker 1: how would you get stuck into trying to fix those issues?

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Speaker 3: Well, I can talk about one that we're trying right

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Speaker 3: now really hard to and that's the sport. You know,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to bring it back to that, and I

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Speaker 3: see it a lot in our community. You know, there's

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Speaker 3: just some directionless kids out there that need good role

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Speaker 3: models in our community. And that's why I'm sorry invested

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Speaker 3: into our sport in the junior sports especially, And I'll

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Speaker 3: go to that mold and over issue. So you know,

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Speaker 3: if they're not getting direction from an adult, they're looking

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Speaker 3: to someone who's going to tell them what to do.

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Speaker 3: And now I've seen it firsthand. A sixteen year old

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Speaker 3: boy comes up and tell these kids, Hey, you know

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Speaker 3: there's no coach here, let's go and throw rocks at cars.

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Speaker 3: So off they've gone when they've tried to do the

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Speaker 3: right thing in the first instance. So you know what

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Speaker 3: we're really pushing out there is, you know, we need

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Speaker 3: some role models in our community. Step up, give these

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Speaker 3: kids direction and tell them the right thing to do.

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Speaker 3: Otherwise this is going sheep and following anybody who tells

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Speaker 3: them any sort of direction.

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Speaker 1: Now we've still got a couple of minutes, so five minutes,

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Speaker 1: so two minutes to go.

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Speaker 2: But why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 3: Well, like I said, you know, I'm no nonsense to

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Speaker 3: the problem. I'm under no illusion that it is a

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Speaker 3: tough seat to win. I heard it constantly, there's a

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Speaker 3: very safe steal piece seat, but I think leader has

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Speaker 3: taken that for granted over the eight years of being there.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'll give you a straightforward answer to some

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Speaker 3: of the decisions. Look, they will be weighed and measured

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Speaker 3: into my why I've come to those, But it's always

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Speaker 3: put in the community first, what the electric wants. It's

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Speaker 3: not specifically my need. It's listening to all those voices

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Speaker 3: and tolating the answers and then putting that to government

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Speaker 3: and saying, hey, this is what spill it wants and

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Speaker 3: this is the community expectation to be done.

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Speaker 1: Caleb's still got a bit over a minute to go.

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Speaker 1: About a minute twenty five anything else you want to add?

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Speaker 3: Yep, I personally earned quick so I could give a

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Speaker 3: great shout out to Jacob Brandt, the president, all the Trocks.

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Speaker 3: You know, I heard all through this the start of

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Speaker 3: the mold and Oval, but look, he needs a big

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Speaker 3: shout out for all the work he did in the

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Speaker 3: background there to get that oval back where it was.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, we got our pre season started off

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Speaker 3: on Monday. I'm the head coach of the women's but

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Speaker 3: also a junior coach so well, and is to call

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Speaker 3: out everybody as well. If you're not involved in the

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Speaker 3: community club, put your hand up, get involved to be

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Speaker 3: a volunteer. It's great for the community and you've make

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Speaker 3: great friends as well. So that's my biggest shout out

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Speaker 3: to everybody. Just put your hand up, be that role

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Speaker 3: model for these kids. Let's turn their wives around and

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Speaker 3: give them the proper direction they need.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Caleb, but while I've got your mate for we've

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Speaker 1: got forty seconds left. I hope you don't mind me

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Speaker 1: asking how is the mold and over looking out there?

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Speaker 2: Are you guys back on there? Able to train again?

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Speaker 3: Bloody green? Mate? Yeah, training on Monday which was great.

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Speaker 3: So unfortunately for the women's team who like coach, it

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Speaker 3: was a lot of cardio. But yeah, greatly appreciated. But look,

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Speaker 3: all that hard work done in the background unnoticed, definitely

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Speaker 3: needs a shout out and great work to all those involved.

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Speaker 1: Anything else you want to add, You've still got ten seconds.

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Speaker 3: Look, mate, I'm back in ebri in one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: Like I said that cleansition statement, get the territory work

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Speaker 3: in something I can back in and let's get it done.

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Speaker 1: Well Kayler book the ALP candidate for the Seed of Spill.

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Speaker 1: It good to chat with you this morning. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for your time.

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Speaker 3: Cheers made I have read day you two