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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line.

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Speaker 2: Right now is the independent candidate Amelda Adamson Agar's good

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Speaker 2: morning to you, Amelda.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you very good?

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time this morning. Are

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Speaker 2: you ready to get started?

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Speaker 3: No, but let's do it anyway, Let's.

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Speaker 1: Go, Amelda.

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Speaker 2: Why did you put your hand round in the seat

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Speaker 2: of Lingiari.

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Speaker 3: I put my hand up to being the next representative

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Speaker 3: fillingary because I believe it. After three plus the phases

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Speaker 3: as real outcomes. We need to stop promising and start delivering.

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Speaker 3: We're all starving for that.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: What do you see as being the biggest issues in

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Speaker 2: the seat of Lingiari.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know it's a big seat. So just here

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Speaker 3: we go. Housing and homelands, management and maintenance of community

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Speaker 3: all towns to make local community sustainable. The addressing of

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Speaker 3: Catherine or Papunya the Endmoon or whatever. These are not

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Speaker 3: whose needs are being completely ignored and left unaddressed. Living

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Speaker 3: or more ago. Social crimes rarely have true criminal intent,

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Speaker 3: but nearly always relate back to underlying issues in language, literacy,

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Speaker 3: and culture. We must support the successful role out and

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Speaker 3: management needs to stop sentiment. Payments need to be raised

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Speaker 3: seventy five an hour for all of us. Isolated children

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, well we've got you've got about two minutes

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Speaker 2: thirty left. But still a few questions left, Amelda, Why

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Speaker 2: do you think that you and the party that you're well,

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Speaker 2: you're not.

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Speaker 1: Actually you're an independent.

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Speaker 2: So why do you think that you will be the

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Speaker 3: Well, I promise the people of the Electric speece independent

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Speaker 3: as our first independent was. His name was Vincent Lungiari,

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Speaker 3: and he walked away from the oppression of inaction, advocated patiently,

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Speaker 3: Being independent gives me the freedom to stay clear of

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Speaker 3: the big party promises. Your vote means delivery can happen. Furthermore,

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Speaker 3: I will not fly in or fly out, or drive

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Speaker 3: my swag, and I'll listen to every one of you

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Speaker 3: during my time in the house. It's time we all

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Speaker 3: made live the area matter and four hours in every

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Speaker 3: we've got to invest every hour on the ground properly.

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Speaker 1: Now, who are you going to be preferencing no one?

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Speaker 3: This election, more than ever before, belongs to every voter.

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Speaker 1: So do you have to put somebody in second?

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Speaker 3: Though? I've always used my pencil and I've made my

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Speaker 3: to vote card in my life. We're all big people, Katie,

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Speaker 3: and the way people vote will be the fastest I

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Speaker 2: Now, why should people vote for you? You've got a

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Speaker 3: Us, Well, there is nothing fancy about me. What you

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Speaker 3: see is what you get. I'm a deep thinker and

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Speaker 3: cannot afford the dental repair. I worry about my rent

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Speaker 3: the right outcome, not the fast outcome. That I'm married

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Speaker 3: thinks I'm slipping. I identify as more boy than girl,

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Speaker 3: always have, although God blessed me with a female birthday suit.

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Speaker 3: When you talk to me about the pain of discrimination

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Speaker 3: People are always trying to work out who I am

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Speaker 3: and what I am. I am Imelder always was and

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Speaker 3: always will be. Thank you for numbering my box and

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Speaker 3: starting your pencil for change, you mate Lingiari matter.

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Speaker 2: Well, Amelda, you've done it with two seconds to spare.

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Speaker 2: We really appreciate your time this morning. The independent candidate

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Speaker 2: for Lingiari, Amelda Adamson Agaz, thanks so.

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Speaker 1: Much for your time today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Katie, thank you.

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Speaker 2: And it is just ten minutes away from eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: We are going to be catching up, well, we're going

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Speaker 2: to be catching up with Damian Ryan next. Here's the

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Speaker 2: COLPS candidate for the seat of Lingiari and he's in

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Speaker 2: and he's in the studio actually, so we're going to

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Speaker 2: eight nine four one one four nine is the number.

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Speaker 2: But well, joining me in the studio is the colp's

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 4: Good morning Katie, and it's great to be in your studio.

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Speaker 4: I've never had the opportunity before.

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Speaker 1: I did think that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if we've ever met in person before,

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Speaker 1: Damien. Are you ready for these questions?

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Speaker 5: I'm ready for your grilling.

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Speaker 1: All right, you got five minutes, let's get started.

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Speaker 2: Damien Ryan, why did you put your hand up to

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Speaker 2: run in the seat of Lingiari?

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Speaker 4: Katie, Alice Springs Lingiari, The whole lot seems to have

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Speaker 5: Not much has happened.

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Speaker 4: It hasn't been a contested seat for a long time,

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Speaker 4: and for that reason and misses out on a lot

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Speaker 4: of things. Having grown up in Alice Springs, run small

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Speaker 4: business been involved in local government, been involved in rather

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Speaker 4: large community events. I just thought that after finishing as

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Speaker 2: Now, what do you see as being the biggest issues

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Speaker 2: in the seat of Lniari?

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Speaker 1: Right now?

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Speaker 4: As I wander around Lingiari, and I've done a lot

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Speaker 4: is the one that's really hurting people. Look, territory labor

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Speaker 4: have left us in a terrible state. I understand crime

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Speaker 4: belongs to territory labor. It's their role to do it,

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Speaker 4: whether it's in Alice Springs, per Pona, out at Port Keats,

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Speaker 4: there are so many places Tenant Creek. It's very sad

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Speaker 5: It's about jobs.

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Speaker 4: I very proudly sit here and support what the Coalition

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Speaker 4: All of those things will create jobs and they are

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Speaker 4: probably the most important. But we do have to have liverability.

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Speaker 4: As an ex federal candidate for Lingiari. If chosen, I'll

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Speaker 4: be working very hard with the Prime Minister and the

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Speaker 4: Labor do something about crime.

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Speaker 2: Now, taking those issues into account, why do you feel

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Speaker 2: you're the best place to deal with them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been in public life for quite some years.

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Speaker 4: I've represented as the mayor of Alice Springs for a

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Speaker 4: I mean, my father was in the trucking industry, my

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Speaker 1: Now, who are you going to be preferencing?

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Speaker 4: Well, the thing I can assure you is that the

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Speaker 4: my ballot sheet. Why, Because a vote for the Greens

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Speaker 4: to go after the live sheep, so we cannot afford this.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's been discussions from the Greens about our defense.

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Speaker 4: If people sitting in the territory or anywhere in the

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Speaker 4: issue going forward, they're dreaming. So I'm sorry they will

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Speaker 4: be bottom and labor be second bottom.

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Speaker 2: Now you've still got about a minute forty left. Why

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Speaker 5: Look, I'm somebody who gets involved in the community. I'm

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Speaker 4: In my time in local government, I appreciated every sort

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Speaker 4: the mayor of Alice Springs. It's also working with some

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Speaker 4: of the smaller councils. I have a lot of relationships

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Speaker 4: so to fight for them is just a natural progression

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Speaker 4: for me for the work that I have been doing

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Speaker 4: over a long period of time.

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Speaker 5: Tourism is in my blood as well.

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Speaker 4: Tourism has to be encouraged and has to get that

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Speaker 4: support to go forward. Tourism in Central Australia. Alice Springs

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Speaker 4: runs on events, Tenor Creek needs events, Borrow Lula needs events.

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Speaker 4: All of those areas. That's the sort of work that

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Speaker 4: I can bring to it. I have a very good

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Speaker 4: with their support we can see some great things happening

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Speaker 4: in Lingiari. I say to people, give it some thought.

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Speaker 4: This week there's prepole going on in the bush. I've

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Speaker 5: The facts are I can.

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Speaker 4: Represent everyone in the tertary, not any one singular group.

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Speaker 5: I'll represent everybody.

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Speaker 2: Well, Damian Ryan, you've got about twenty seconds left up

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Speaker 2: your slave, is there anything else you want to very

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Speaker 2: quickly say?

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Speaker 4: Look, I would just say that to the people of Lingiari.

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Speaker 4: Please keep me in mind, put me as number one

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Speaker 4: on your card, or give me a two. If you

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Speaker 4: have a connection to somebody else, I will fight for you.

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Speaker 4: I will be your representative. Hold me your voice in camera.

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Speaker 1: Well, Damian Ryan, one second left. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: this morning. I appreciate it.