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Speaker 1: Now, it was a very interesting by election over the

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Speaker 1: course of the weekend. If you live in Fanny Bay,

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Speaker 1: Probably not as many voters as we would have liked

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Speaker 1: an interesting outcome. Now, on first preferences, the colp's country

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Speaker 1: or the country Liberal Party has been Hosking was ahead

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Speaker 2: Labour's tally was thirty.

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Speaker 1: Three percent on first preferences, with nineteen percent going to

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Speaker 1: the Greens. But as we know obviously when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the two party preferred vote, well, mister Potter held

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Speaker 1: fifty two percent of the two party preferred vote when

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Speaker 1: Labour declared victory. So it was certainly a very interesting race,

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Speaker 1: I think, is the way that I would describe it.

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Speaker 1: And there is a swing against the Labor Party, there's

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Speaker 1: been a bit of a swing towards the Greens and

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Speaker 1: a bit of a swing towards the CLP. But joining

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Speaker 1: me in the studio right now is Brent Potter from

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Speaker 1: the Labor Party.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Brent.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Katie morning listeners.

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Speaker 2: Now, were you surprised by the results on the weekends.

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Speaker 3: I think you're a surprised in any outcome. At the

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Speaker 3: end of the day, you work three weeks to get

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Speaker 3: to election day and hear the outcome. Obviously, low voter turnout,

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Speaker 3: that was a bit of a surprise. But I'm really

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Speaker 3: really happy and eternally grateful for the constituents for the

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Speaker 3: opportunity to serve them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 1: Really disappointing, I Reckon to see that low voter turnout.

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Speaker 2: What do you attribute that to?

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Speaker 3: Well, they have just gone through a federal election recently.

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Speaker 3: There's some council by elections coming up as well, I think,

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Speaker 3: But ultimately by elections are difficult. People come out to

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Speaker 3: vote when they're unhappy, you know, we've seen that before.

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Speaker 3: That could indicate that people were fairly comfortable. Also, you

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Speaker 3: in the morning. People may just got busy as well.

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Speaker 1: Do you, Reckon, I've had anything to do with the

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Speaker 1: fact that neither you or been live.

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Speaker 2: In the electorate.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't have thought so. I think at the end

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Speaker 3: of some people may have voted that way. But I

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Speaker 3: think people will measure you on what you can do

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Speaker 3: for the elector and the best candidate regardless of where

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Speaker 3: they geographically live.

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Speaker 1: Now, you didn't win on primary votes and the swing

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Speaker 1: towards the COLP it is a large one.

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Speaker 2: What do you think.

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Speaker 1: I think that the you know that that vote sees

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Speaker 1: to the Labor Party and the government.

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Speaker 3: Right now, Well more people voted against the Conservative Party

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Speaker 3: Green Labour. So that's that's first and foremost. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we have a two party preferred system. That's the system

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Speaker 3: that we have. You know, he did win the primary

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Speaker 3: vote and some in the boots, but when you look

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Speaker 3: at Catherine, you look at you look at Brennan, for

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Speaker 3: say that the primaries, that's irrelevant. You went on two

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Speaker 3: party preferred, that's all we got to and that was

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Speaker 2: Well, look it does so.

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Speaker 1: So I mean when you look at the numbers from

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Speaker 1: ninety four With those primary numbers. When you compare that

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Speaker 1: I mean comparatively to the COLP, it's a big change.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we need to get more people out to vote,

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Speaker 3: you know. So what I've got to do over the

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Speaker 1: So do you think that there's any message from the

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Speaker 3: Oh, listen, I agree completely any social behavior we need

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Speaker 3: are some short term stuff we need to do right now.

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Speaker 3: And as I said going through the campaign, I had

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Speaker 3: a solution for addressing those in the Electric around the

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Speaker 3: So I can deliver on those and I think that'll

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Speaker 2: Now, what are your main priorities?

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Speaker 1: Do you sort of start working today or how does

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Speaker 3: I do start working today. As I found out, I

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Speaker 3: the community space may be a bit different. I'm going

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Speaker 3: to plunk a table out there after lunch so people

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Speaker 3: we'll walk the streets again, talk to people. But today

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Speaker 3: next general election.

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Speaker 2: Are you pretty excited to sort of hit the ground running?

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Speaker 3: Stoked? Absolutely stoked. Had a bit of the morning wake up.

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Speaker 3: You know, you have your coffee with the kids, and like,

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Speaker 3: that's the first coffee I've had in about three weeks

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Speaker 3: at home, and oh well, we're starting a new job today,

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Speaker 3: so let's get onto it and let's get it done.

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Speaker 1: Now. The big question, I think from a lot of

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Speaker 3: I said, we're going to move as soon as we can.

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Speaker 3: Property price or properties availability is very small there. But

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Speaker 3: where if anyone is selling or renting, give us a yell.

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Speaker 3: If you're a realist that agent you've got something, give

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Speaker 2: Committed now, Brent, I know this.

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Speaker 1: In the last week of the campaign there was some

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Speaker 1: mud slinging about your previous work experience. What would you

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Speaker 3: It's nothing more than mud slinging. It was completely declared

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Speaker 3: perceived conflict of interest. It's a great project for the territory.

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Speaker 3: It's going to create hundreds of jobs. They've already sold

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Speaker 3: there is a product that someone wants to buy. It's

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Speaker 3: gone through independent assessment from the depart one of the

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Speaker 3: big four consultancies. Great project, completely declared nothing more than

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Speaker 1: So, Brent, when do you get to move into the

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Speaker 1: actual office you said, you're putting a table out there today.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the Tuesday, so officially get sworn in

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Speaker 3: Parliament next Tuesday, so you actually can'tot occupy, I believe,

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Speaker 3: and the Electric they're going to confirm it. But the

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Speaker 3: office is owned by the Ledges until such a time.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: And I think that the electoral commissions still got to

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Speaker 1: finalize everything as well this week, don't they. So be

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Speaker 1: an interesting week for you, I'm sure finding your feet

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Speaker 1: and working it all out. We really appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: this morning. All the best and congratulations

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Speaker 3: Thanks Katie, Thanks, thank you,