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Speaker 1: Warning me live in the studio right now is the

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Speaker 1: Lord Mayor of Darwin combat scarlets for the first time

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: That case New Year, and of course it's the Year

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Speaker 2: of the Tiger. Yes, the day before was the Chinese

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Speaker 2: or a new Year, so our Chinese community here celebrating.

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Speaker 2: I know it's going to be a very subtuous celebration.

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Speaker 2: No lion dances anymore because of the COVID situation. I

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Speaker 2: understand fully what the problem is. As you know, we

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Speaker 2: got nearly a thousand CA's a day now in the territory.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to get any better with

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Speaker 2: school starting and everything else.

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Speaker 3: No, I agree.

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Speaker 1: I do think that we're going to see more cases

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Speaker 1: with school gone back, and I think we'll Yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: certainly going to see that peak reached.

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Speaker 3: I don't know when exactly.

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Speaker 2: Most people have been immunised. They have got it like

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Speaker 2: a light flu, not severe, but people they are not immunized.

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Speaker 2: They're finishing hostel and as you probably.

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Speaker 1: Noticed, everybody I know my whole family had COVID over

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Speaker 1: Christmas and neither of my children were immunized yet.

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Speaker 3: But they're both very healthy and managed very well.

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Speaker 4: That run out very well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's us the oldest looking copy the children.

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Speaker 1: Now can the my Darwin vouchers. They're a great initiative.

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Speaker 1: Another round announced yesterday, Well we did.

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Speaker 2: We had one hundred thousand dollars left from the previous

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Speaker 2: round that run in August. Remember we had the lockdown

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Speaker 2: and we'll put some money out. But this time the

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Speaker 2: gunmer said, look, if you put the my down votes

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Speaker 2: are out, we're going to give you two dollars for

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Speaker 2: every dollars. So last night we had a meeting and

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Speaker 2: I increase put the motion and increase the amount that

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Speaker 2: the country would put from one hundred thousand to two

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. With the government giving another four hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars to us, that means six hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: There the multiplier effect was seven times. That means the

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Speaker 2: six hundred thousand dollars will have a multiplier effect and

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Speaker 2: there will be four point two million dollars spent in

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Speaker 2: the local economy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look, it's a great initiative, I know, and it's not

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Speaker 1: council's responsibility will end up being the territory and federal government.

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Speaker 1: But the worry is that some of our businesses are

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Speaker 1: doing it incredibly.

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Speaker 2: We're doing our best to support our businesses. We make

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Speaker 2: the my Darwin platform available to all the councils in

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Speaker 2: the Northern Territory for free so that you can use

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Speaker 2: it if they like to. But look, four and a

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Speaker 2: half million dollars in the Darwin business is not bad

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Speaker 2: and we'll restrict to retail and hospitality. So if people

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Speaker 2: can go out, if people want to go out, please

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Speaker 2: do go out.

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Speaker 4: Support the local businesses.

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Speaker 2: They're your neighbors, the people that will employ your kids,

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Speaker 2: the people that will probably make donations, the supporting clubs

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Speaker 2: your kids play, so support them so they can support them.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is the thing.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the restaurant owners that I know around town,

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Speaker 1: of parents from school and and you know, wonderful Territorians

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Speaker 1: that are gone through a tough patch.

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Speaker 2: And in the past three weeks have been talking to

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Speaker 2: these people. They told me they had a really rough time.

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Speaker 2: It's not only the COVID, it's a fact we can't

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Speaker 2: find workers.

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Speaker 4: Then the other we've got the supply problem.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, triple whammy, terrible employment and supplies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really tough going. There is no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: So when will they become available to my Darwin vals.

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Speaker 2: Will start making available after Saint Valadine's Day, That's what

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Speaker 2: the industry telling us. We know January is always slow,

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Speaker 2: we've just come to come in when things slow down.

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Speaker 3: Good stuff. Hey.

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Speaker 1: One of the other issues that I'm keen to talk

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Speaker 1: to you about, and it's something that I've really noticed

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Speaker 1: around the city at the moment, is people sleeping rough,

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Speaker 1: but also people publicly intoxicated. One of the areas that's

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Speaker 1: been incredibly bad is the longest Stuart Highway and one

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Speaker 1: of those buildings in Stuart Park where it is no

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Speaker 1: longer a car yard but previously was. There's literally people

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Speaker 1: becoming an increasingly difficult situation for the council.

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Speaker 2: We've got problems with people sleeping rough. One of the

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Speaker 2: problems is because the communities were closed, people couldn't go back.

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Speaker 2: We had people from Tiwy complaining they had to stay

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Speaker 2: we've got now that car yahd it's a private property.

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Speaker 2: People were coming under there and unfortunately I can't step in.

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Speaker 2: We had to use the legislation that stands. I have

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Speaker 2: to tell you we cleaned once then some bleeding hearts.

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Speaker 2: We gave the matrices and furnitures and some of the

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Speaker 2: friends that we picked up yesterday that had the price

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Speaker 2: tag of the outlet still.

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Speaker 3: There, so furniture to squash.

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Speaker 2: Yes, somebody had the money to spend to provide them

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Speaker 2: with the matrices to sleep there, and chairs and other things.

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Speaker 1: And look, homelessness is an incredibly large issue.

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Speaker 3: We all understand that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, like it's not okay to have people

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Speaker 1: then drinking into all hours of the night and somewhere

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Speaker 1: where they shouldn't they, Katie, And.

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Speaker 4: That's my problem.

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Speaker 2: It might make you feel good giving them furniture and

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Speaker 2: food and everything else, but that allows them to have

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Speaker 2: more money to drink. The other thing, of course, is

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Speaker 2: with that particular premises are it's going to be converted

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Speaker 2: to a petrol station, so it's going to be demolished

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Speaker 2: very very soon. But until then it was unsecured. They

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Speaker 2: even broke the door, they started using them.

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Speaker 4: I called the police.

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Speaker 2: Police went there and with the real estate Edgent, the

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Speaker 2: representative of the owner.

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Speaker 4: Who lives in the state.

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Speaker 2: They secured the place, but the people were squatting outside.

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Speaker 2: So yesterday for a second time, we went and cleaned

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Speaker 2: the place completely, removed all the matters of the thing

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Speaker 2: and wish you dying voice to the owner because under

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Speaker 2: our legislation, if you don't do yourself, we'll do it

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Speaker 2: for you and.

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Speaker 4: You have to pay for it. Something you're doing exactly

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Speaker 4: the same every time it happened.

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Speaker 3: It's not the only area of concern.

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Speaker 1: I know that along East Point, for example, went for

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Speaker 1: a round there over the last few days and there

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Speaker 1: has been an increased number of drinking.

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Speaker 2: If we go in, we pick up all the bedding

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Speaker 2: and everything else, We throw them away and they come

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Speaker 2: back again. They get supplied somewhere somewhere and they camp again.

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Speaker 2: The problem we've got to the moment is PEP locked

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Speaker 2: out of the communities.

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Speaker 4: There were nowhere to go.

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Speaker 2: There's not enough place for them to stay there.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have something in the city constructed. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that that was the right location, but what is

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Speaker 1: what needs to happen here?

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Speaker 2: We had the Marara that was actually specifically for them.

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Speaker 2: They only pay five dollars a night, they can sleep

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Speaker 2: in a clean bed, they can have a shower, but

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Speaker 2: you're not allowed to drink there.

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Speaker 4: So a lot of people choose not to go there.

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Speaker 2: But I understand it's fully fully booked by people they

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Speaker 2: actually want to live distantly. Some other people they just

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Speaker 2: want to live rough and they decide to leave rough.

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Speaker 2: But again my problem is.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've had this issue before.

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Speaker 2: About it before we love the community stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's exactly right, and we have had this

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Speaker 1: issue in the past and there's been flooding and things

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Speaker 1: like that. People from communities not able to get back.

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Speaker 1: But if we know that we're in that situation, well

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Speaker 1: we've got to find somewhere for them to.

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Speaker 2: I argue about it for more accommodation, or at least

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Speaker 2: think before you make a decision. If you're going to

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Speaker 2: have one hundred people from one part their community here,

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Speaker 2: how about you tell these people to go back to

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Speaker 2: the community quickly because you're going to close the community. Now,

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Speaker 2: if the argument is they might get COVID, it's more

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Speaker 2: likely to get COVID here because if you look how

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Speaker 2: they live one on top of the other. No masks nothing,

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Speaker 2: it's more likely to get COVID and going to have

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Speaker 2: serious implications.

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Speaker 1: Well, convat Scarlets, the Lord Mayor of Darwin. We always

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time, no doubt there's going to be plenty

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Speaker 1: more to talk about throughout the year.

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Speaker 2: And of course I have to tell you that last

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Speaker 2: night a decision of the Council they changed the name

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Speaker 2: of the elected members from.

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Speaker 4: Aldermen to Councilors.

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Speaker 2: Jurisdiction in the Northern Territory and the only capital city

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Speaker 2: that used their cake title of Aldermen, so it became

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Speaker 2: considable before.

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Speaker 1: I let you go, actually very quickly. That person who'd

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Speaker 1: done the burnouts on the Espanade, now that was atrocious.

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Speaker 1: When I saw those photos last week, I couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 3: I thought idiot.

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Speaker 4: Would do that. You're going to press the button to

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Speaker 4: cut better?

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Speaker 2: Not But I'm telling you that now we advise the

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Speaker 2: police will provide it for mister.

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Speaker 4: Police.

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Speaker 2: Police checked the TV and the advisers. They've got a suspect.

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Speaker 2: They arrested somebody and they're going to charge for stealing

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Speaker 2: a car and doing all these stupid things.

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Speaker 3: In a secretary is it all looking down there now?

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Speaker 3: Is it back to the rain?

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Speaker 2: And thank god we actually moved very quickly put topsoil

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Speaker 2: and we put seeds and fertilizer.

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Speaker 4: It's start looking good.

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Speaker 2: We've got another twenty days till the seventeen days till

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Speaker 2: the bombing of Darwin Day.

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Speaker 4: Hopefully it will be okay.

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Speaker 2: But how somebody in his right mind will go then

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Speaker 2: do something stupid like that.

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Speaker 1: I better not say what I'm thinking either, Convet Scarlus,

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Speaker 1: good on you.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you soon. A good day, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That is the Lord Mayor of Darwin. Convet Scarlus