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Speaker 1: The Lord Mayor of Darwin, convat Scarlet's Good morning Conn.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Kate, and start feeling already like Christmas. December

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Speaker 2: twenty five days to go, Gill.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, con the first of December, and I

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Speaker 1: did want to talk to you about this. What's the

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Speaker 1: council got lined up for Christmas this year?

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Speaker 2: Sixty three different events starting from this Friday with the

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Speaker 2: lighting of the Christmas Tree at the mall. Then of

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Speaker 2: course you'll continue with the Sunday Cave and on Sunday

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Speaker 2: we've got Carols by candlelight. And that's only the beginning

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Speaker 2: because we've got the event starting from Friday all the

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Speaker 2: way to the twenty fourth of December. So it is Christmas,

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Speaker 2: it feels like Christmas, and of course it's not happy

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Speaker 2: Holidays or season greetings. Is Merry Christmas Toology and Conn.

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Speaker 1: You've been so keen to make sure that we know

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Speaker 1: that you're certainly not going to be the Grench that

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Speaker 1: takes away Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Not of course. And not only that, but we are

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Speaker 2: on the twentieth of December we're launching the second of

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Speaker 2: the second round of down with vouchers. So not only

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Speaker 2: we give you beautiful decoration, lighting, trees and everything else.

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Speaker 2: But we give you some more money to spend in

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Speaker 2: our city and of course support yourself and the economy

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Speaker 2: and the local business.

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Speaker 1: That is wonderful. I think it'll be great to have

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Speaker 1: those vouchers roll out again. Con was a decision made

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Speaker 1: about parking, whether there's still going to be that free

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Speaker 1: parking period over the Christmas bright.

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Speaker 2: Well, from previous experience, we find out that a free

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Speaker 2: parking not increased flaw in the city. But what we

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Speaker 2: know is you put the votus out and everybody is

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Speaker 2: in the city spending money in the local shops and

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Speaker 2: the local businesses, and that what's important at the other

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Speaker 2: end is people they park in the city, their money

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Speaker 2: will go to the vouchers and that would provide more

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Speaker 2: money for us to spend not only in December but

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Speaker 2: also in January.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so no free parking this year because that money

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Speaker 1: is actually going to go into the vouchers instead.

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Speaker 2: Well, we thought if we put free parking, there's no

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Speaker 2: guarantee that the money we're flow into the economy. But

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Speaker 2: putting the vouchers out, we know very well that's going

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Speaker 2: to flow in the economy because the previous experience.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look I think sometimes you know, especially in

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Speaker 1: the COVID year, we've got to make sure that that

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Speaker 1: money is being spent most appropriately. And if it has

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Speaker 1: been found that the best draw card is the vouchers,

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Speaker 1: then it does sound like it's money probably better invested

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Speaker 1: than going the free parking rush.

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Speaker 2: And also, not forget we had about nearly six months

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Speaker 2: of free parking, which actually it's a big one for

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Speaker 2: the council but also helping pick the local people. But

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Speaker 2: we found out that putting out money with my vouchers

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Speaker 2: is actually it's a better result to the local economy.

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Speaker 2: And also many many people said it was a really

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Speaker 2: good idea because they save a lot of money in

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Speaker 2: restaurants and coffee shops and everywhere else.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, convat scarlets. It does sound as though though

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Speaker 1: the council is really putting it on for Christmas, no

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Speaker 1: doubt about it. When it's so those lights are they

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Speaker 1: already up in the mall.

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Speaker 2: I want to see you six thirty in the afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I'll be there in seven thirty. I will turn on

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Speaker 2: the lights of the Christmas tree. We've got two choirs

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Speaker 2: and we've got a lot of events happening, and of

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Speaker 2: course if you're and young kids, Saturday from lunch time

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Speaker 2: and Sunday will be the Santa's Cave quite open. Take

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Speaker 2: your kids visit there, have talked to the Santa, take

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Speaker 2: photos with Sunda. And then Sunday afternoon go to the

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Speaker 2: Amphi Theater for Carl's Back kind of light.

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Speaker 1: Oh good stuff. Convat Scholars, Lord Mayor of Darwin, good

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Speaker 1: to speak with you. Thanks so much for your chat.

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Speaker 2: This morning, and I'll talk to you about Christmas next week.

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Speaker 2: More and more coming.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good mate. Thank you