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Speaker 1: And joining me live in the studio as he does

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Speaker 1: about this time on a Tuesday morning. It is the

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Speaker 1: Lord Mayor conbat Scarla.

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Speaker 2: This morning, Corn, good morning, and I've got some great

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Speaker 2: news to start, because I know you asked for it,

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Speaker 2: and some people already asked for it.

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Speaker 3: We had two big bob trees.

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Speaker 2: In the car back in the countill where the new

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Speaker 2: building will go, and of course we had to remove

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Speaker 2: the trees, but we decided in staid to actually cut

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Speaker 2: them and throw them away.

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Speaker 3: What can we do with them?

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Speaker 2: And the bob trees They've been dug out and be

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Speaker 2: relocated north west at the cost of the of the

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Speaker 2: building company that's going to build our civic center.

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Speaker 1: So moving them out to North Crest, that's right. Are

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Speaker 1: they gonna survive?

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Speaker 2: Look, I know that there's a guy in Catherine that

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Speaker 2: the exports, believe it or not, from Catherine Bob's and

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Speaker 2: palm trees to the United Arab Emirates and they survive.

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Speaker 2: So I've got faith that if they look after them,

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Speaker 2: they plan they properly, they will survive.

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Speaker 4: But again I'm assuming they're not like the How big

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Speaker 4: are these?

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Speaker 2: They were big, but not as giant as the one

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Speaker 2: in front of the universe. The younger the tree is,

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Speaker 2: the more challenges you've got to survive rather than old ones.

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Speaker 4: Should we have tried to move them somewhere in the

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Speaker 4: city first.

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Speaker 2: Well, the problem is we're in the city. Because you

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Speaker 2: can't bring them in the c in our park. It

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Speaker 2: has to be somewhere. Probably not a good idea because

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Speaker 2: they're just generating their parks, and because doing that one

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Speaker 2: and putting a lot of water to water the grass,

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Speaker 2: that would probably a better opportunity for them to survive.

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Speaker 1: Look, I you know, I don't know what's the right

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Speaker 1: or wrong thing to do with the bow abs, but

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Speaker 1: I'm sure people will have opinions throughout the morning who

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Speaker 1: are quite passionate about them. I mean, is it like, so,

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Speaker 1: are you gifting them to the developer?

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Speaker 2: What's the yes, Well, the developer offered to take them

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Speaker 2: away at their own cost. And so I mean, why

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Speaker 2: I want to cut the trees down and would chip

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Speaker 2: them when there's an opportunity to.

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Speaker 4: Actually what's going to happen with them?

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Speaker 2: Well, most of the trees we cut down, we would

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Speaker 2: chip them, trying to recycle them and put them in

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Speaker 2: our parks. But the two I wish them luck and

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Speaker 2: I wish them to survive, and I will be going around.

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Speaker 4: To have a look at that hopefully they do.

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Speaker 1: And I've no doubt people are probably messages about that

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Speaker 1: as the interview.

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Speaker 3: Goes on Facebook checking it out. Exactly a lot of

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Speaker 3: experts coming up.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Smith straight. I understand

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Speaker 1: the Darwin City retailers have written to the council on

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Speaker 1: behalf of traders after it was revealed that the project

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Speaker 1: has again been delayed. As I understand it, it was

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Speaker 1: initially said the project will be complete in June, then July,

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Speaker 1: and now it's going to be the end of August.

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Speaker 2: Notice, isn't It's going to be different stages of the project.

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Speaker 2: The whole project will finish at the of August, but

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Speaker 2: the area in front of the once I'm really concerned

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Speaker 2: about the people that were the shops, is going to

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Speaker 2: finish in about a week week and a half.

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Speaker 4: And there is going to be done in a week

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Speaker 2: Seven of jud And the original for that is because

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Speaker 2: as you do in Darwin, we found an undocumented mens

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Speaker 2: water means where we're digging and there is also some

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Speaker 2: assets by TELSLRA that has to be fixed by the organization.

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Speaker 2: We try our best and we actually divided the project

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Speaker 2: now in many stages.

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Speaker 3: Last days.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're finished twenty seven of August by the stage

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Speaker 2: in front of the shop.

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Speaker 1: It's really clear in my brain where exactly is going

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Speaker 1: to be complete by the in a week and a.

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Speaker 2: Half, starting from Naki Street, going back towards the word,

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Speaker 2: so the area where the people that have got their

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Speaker 2: that would be finished soon and the rest would be

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Speaker 4: So finished in a week and a half.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well we're expecting that to happen, and hopefully we'll

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Speaker 2: not discover another undocumented uset because we're digging Darwin and

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Speaker 1: Because it like for the retailers to contact the council.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously I've been included on emails that have

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Speaker 1: gone from some of those traders as well to council

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Speaker 1: where they're really worried because they're receiving correspondents from Council

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Speaker 1: that's saying that it's going to you know that the

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Speaker 1: dates that they're being given and then you're giving it's

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Speaker 1: different dates.

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Speaker 2: No, the days we give them, and the CEO gave

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Speaker 2: it in your d you're here, yes, said would be

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Speaker 4: But they're not even recent correspondence as well.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you that yesterday I again talked

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Speaker 2: to the CEO and I asked exactly the same question,

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Speaker 2: because I'm really really good finish as as possible. And

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Speaker 2: the assurance I got from the CEO is it's going

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Speaker 2: to be the latest of the twenty seventh of June,

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Speaker 2: and the reason for that is because.

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Speaker 3: We found things we didn't expect to find.

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Speaker 2: But the area in front of the shops, I've been

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Speaker 2: assured by the CEO it will be finished by the twenty.

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Speaker 4: So is that up to where, like what area?

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Speaker 1: Because there's shops you know, like m can't stop for example,

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Speaker 1: you know the others right up to the Darwin Hotel, okay,

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Speaker 1: and what about the others then, well the.

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Speaker 2: Others actually it's naja an empty shop. There's a travel agency,

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Speaker 2: a massage parlor and a park and some banks which

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Speaker 2: are actually quite a few empty shops. But we're doing instead.

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Speaker 2: So as we're finishing it, we're opening and remove the

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Speaker 2: fast so like up.

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Speaker 1: To where the old thrawbies for example, that's not going

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Speaker 1: to be complete.

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Speaker 3: That's going to be complete.

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Speaker 2: It is going it's going to be completely before by

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Speaker 2: the CEO on the twenty seventh of furniture.

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Speaker 4: Okay, because I know those traders are listening this morning,

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Speaker 2: Very well how concerned they are. Yeah, I'm concerned because

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Speaker 2: I know it affects probably their trade.

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Speaker 4: And I'm a absolutely The problem.

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Speaker 2: I have is this was a thing dropped to us

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Speaker 2: by the previous government. Here's the money. They made the

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Speaker 2: to finish by then. They didn't give us any opportunity.

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Speaker 2: It was not very well planned. Let me tell you that.

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Speaker 3: One.

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Speaker 2: We try to do the best we can with what

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Speaker 2: we've got and our concern As I did before, and

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Speaker 2: I'm saying again is these people have actually been affected

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Speaker 2: by resolute fishes and everything else. But look, let it

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Speaker 2: finish and see what a difference will make.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look, I really hope it does, because I

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Speaker 1: know it's been a struggle for some of those businesses.

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Speaker 1: Con let's talk about the city of Darwin obviously having

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Speaker 1: the launch of the newly revitalized bun Dilla Beach. That's

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Speaker 1: happening on Friday from four o'clock.

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Speaker 4: What's planned well.

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Speaker 2: I would love to see everybody there. It's a place

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Speaker 2: that completely redone. If you've been there before, you've seen

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Speaker 2: what it was, an expanse of nothing of bitchmen.

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Speaker 3: Now have a look. Go take a drive today if

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Speaker 3: you can.

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Speaker 2: You will see expanses of greenery, beautiful places to sit

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Speaker 2: two dog parks, one for small dogs, one for big dogs.

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Speaker 2: There are places where kids can do skateboarding, the places

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Speaker 2: where people actually can go and play basketball. Our recipa

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Speaker 2: will be there, The down Saltiers would be there doing

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Speaker 2: some magic with the basketball ball, and there will be

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Speaker 2: food vans as well. And of course it's a nice

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Speaker 2: opportunity to take the family and go out near the

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Speaker 2: city because there's nothing else a part of Regardless. You

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Speaker 2: go to the wharf and you go to East Point,

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Speaker 2: but there's nothing in this point really apart from the

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Speaker 2: greenery and everything else. But Bandilla was totally different. It

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Speaker 2: would be something that actually people can go, can have

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Speaker 3: And what we would do we want to actually do.

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Speaker 2: The foot vans regular, not every day, but bring it

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Speaker 2: in let's say the weekend, and that will also benefit

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Speaker 2: the other the other the ski club and the other

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Speaker 2: organizations are there because people will overflow and people go there,

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Speaker 2: sit there, admire the sunset.

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Speaker 1: Let's area absolutely activate the area. Hey can a couple

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Speaker 1: of quick listener questions. I've got one here, Hi Kaddy,

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Speaker 1: can you ask them why the city has been The

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Speaker 1: City of Darwin's been removing footpaths in Nakara and putting

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Speaker 1: top soil back in place. I won't have to go

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Speaker 1: to the mud racing this wet season. You can just

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Speaker 1: watch Australia Post go by.

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Speaker 2: Well, we remove the old footpaths to bitchmen ones because

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Speaker 2: they're actually beyond repair. But we only remove that one

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Speaker 2: if there's already a concrete one on the other side

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Speaker 2: of the road. The new standard just the footpaths going

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Speaker 2: one side of the road. And I know Akara, I

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Speaker 2: walk that area for a long long time and there

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Speaker 2: are a lot of old bitchmen footpaths.

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Speaker 4: Well, on the other side you've got the so you're

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Speaker 4: only doing it with if.

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Speaker 2: There's no If there's no footpath, we make sure that

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Speaker 2: we put a footpath concrete one or we will not

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Speaker 2: remove it onto the CoCr one place.

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Speaker 1: All right, conn, there's one here from Wiz. Wiz says,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Katie. Can you please ask the mere about

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Speaker 1: the trees along dick Wood Drive. When you come out

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Speaker 1: of the side streets, it's sometimes impossible to see the

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Speaker 1: oncoming traffic because of the overgrown trees.

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Speaker 2: See you, please let us know where they are. If

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Speaker 2: you know a snap, sand and salt, we would we

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Speaker 2: know that one. If there's a danger to traffic, please

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Speaker 2: let us know soon as possible. We'll get the team

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Speaker 2: out there to trim them. We've done it to other places.

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Speaker 2: I had complaints from other people and we go and

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Speaker 2: trimmed them off. You know, we have to maintain the

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Speaker 2: trees healthy. We cut them for two reasons, one the traffic,

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Speaker 2: the other the fire because there are fires on the

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Speaker 2: empty block and the affect our trees. Snap solve and

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Speaker 2: if you've got a photo as well, put them in

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Speaker 2: and would take care of that corn.

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Speaker 1: Very quickly before I let you go. School holidays they're

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Speaker 1: fast approaching. As the council got much planned.

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Speaker 3: Well, we have to wait and are you here. In

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Speaker 3: the next program, we will give you a.

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Speaker 2: Whole list of the of what look every every school holidays,

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Speaker 2: we do things our fan basses out there. The labraries

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Speaker 2: are open, but we've got a lot of programs and

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Speaker 2: thank you for that. I'll bring you a ho list

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Speaker 2: next week, next week and give it to you tube.

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Speaker 1: It can actually put it sounds like a plan. Convat Scarlets,

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Speaker 1: the Lord Mayor of Darwin, good to catch up with you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for every good morning and enjoy the beautiful dresses.

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Speaker 4: That's beautiful. Thanks con