1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,280 Speaker 1: Joining us live on the line right now is the 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: colp's candidate Clinton. How good morning to you, Clinton, Good. 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: Morning, Katie, and good morning to everyone in driver grayd Gun. 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Now we've got seven minutes. Are you ready to get started? 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 2: I'm ready, Katie? All right? 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: Now, why did you decide to put your hand up 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: to run? 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: Yeah? It was actually there was an event that really 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: triggered my decision, and that was an event that happened 10 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: last year at the Palmston Markets. I was up there 11 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 2: with my wife and two young daughters who were just 12 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 2: four and two at the time, and a large youth 13 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 2: gang fight broke out at the market and unfortunately my 14 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 2: family were caught in the crossfire of that, and my 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: wife had to hide under a table with a vendor 16 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 2: with our baby, and I just curled up around the 17 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: four year old. And following the event, there were no arrests, 18 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 2: there were no charges, and I could even see the 19 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 2: frustration with police when I spoke to them afterwards, and 20 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,199 Speaker 2: they just said, really like, there's nothing that can be done. 21 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 2: And I guess, as a father, you know, the father, 22 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: that was a really confronting thing to happen. And that night, 23 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 2: like I hardly slept, and yeah, I kind of knew 24 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 2: I kind of had a moral obligation. After that point, 25 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 2: I knew I saw the problem, and I knew we'd 26 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 2: had a near miss as a family. And I think 27 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 2: at some point I was going to open the newspaper, 28 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 2: be it in two weeks or two years, and unfortunately 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 2: it was going to be another family who didn't get 30 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: a near miss, And so that's why I decided to 31 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 2: do it. 32 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: Now, tell me, I guess a little bit about your 33 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: work experience, work that you've done within the community, and 34 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: you know, based on that experience, why you think you're 35 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: the best person for the role. 36 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. So, like my first career was as a residential 37 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 2: youth worker and I worked with just extreme, so boys 38 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 2: that were classified as extreme on their behaviors, and that 39 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 2: was yeah, basically that was a residential youth facility and 40 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: so we lived and worked together, and so I, you know, 41 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 2: I have a lot of experience dealing with troubled youth, 42 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: and so it's always kind of been a passionate mine. 43 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 2: And I see the way that we're going at the moment, 44 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 2: I think not only is it worse for the community, 45 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 2: I do think we're failing another generation of young people 46 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 2: and so I'd really like to bring that experience into Parliament. Also, 47 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 2: so following my youth working career, I was an army 48 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 2: officer and you know, we had a saying in the 49 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: army it's like, you know, be good at the basics, 50 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 2: and I see that as a really important thing. I 51 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 2: feel anti government just needs to get back to doing 52 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 2: the basics and I think we're strayed from that and 53 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 2: we're all feeling the kind of effects I've tried to make. 54 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 2: And currently Katie, I works in the construction industry at 55 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: placed by army career, and I've tried to meet my 56 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 2: campaign really about you know, I've tried to show people 57 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 2: what they will get from me. So instead of talking 58 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 2: about things I'm going to do, I think it's really 59 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 2: important that a local member actually speaks to people themselves 60 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 2: on the ground. And that's why, you know, this week 61 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: I should hit six thousand doors that I've not, and 62 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 2: so I've tried to really meet as many people as 63 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 2: I can, hear their views, and then I've got the 64 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: confidence to walk into Parliament and vote in according accordance 65 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 2: with what the people want. 66 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: So based on that door knocking, that you've done. What 67 00:03:53,400 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: do you see is the biggest issues in the electrode. 68 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 2: Like by far Katie at his crime, I've got now 69 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 2: six notebooks on in my office with everyone's responses, and 70 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 2: crime is just the first thing off everyone's tongue, and 71 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 2: nothing else kind of matters. When you're not feeling safe. 72 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: It's like a real hierarchy of needs. And so you know, 73 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 2: we've got to do the basics of government. We've got 74 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 2: to make we've got to make a safe place for 75 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 2: people to actually live in, and then we can get 76 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 2: people working, the economy growing, and then this is how 77 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 2: we can then invest in a good health system, a 78 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 2: good education system and get those kind of outcomes. So 79 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 2: we've just got to get back to the basics of 80 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 2: doing what government should do after crime, and in crime, 81 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 2: I include the anti social behavior. Domestic violence is terrible 82 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 2: in my electorate and antisocial behavior. And so following that though, housing, 83 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 2: housing is a big issue, both for tenants of housing 84 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 2: and neighbors as well with the antisocial behavior and the 85 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 2: cost of living it's getting. You know, it's hard out here, 86 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 2: Alis and I and my wife like we feel it immensely. 87 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 2: And I know when I go door to door. Everyone 88 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 2: else is feeling it. I know. 89 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just Clinton, based on I mean, based on 90 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: those issues that are being raised with you, why do 91 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 1: you think you're the best person to get stuck into them. 92 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: So I think what I offer is, you know, I 93 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 2: will these matters. I'm personally invested in them. Crime. You know, 94 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 2: we have felt the effects and so I'm not someone 95 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 2: who I'm not someone who will beat around the bush 96 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 2: on this matter. You know, I know the community wants it, 97 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 2: and I think the Parliament needs to start respecting what 98 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 2: the people want. And so to me, this is the 99 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 2: real you know, there's really no higher duty than what 100 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 2: I'm putting my hand up for. And in that parliament 101 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 2: we have to we have to act the way the 102 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 2: community expect us to. And I think that's why we're 103 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 2: seeing this. We're seeing so many issues and so much 104 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 2: discontent out here because elected members haven't been doing that 105 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: in government. And so I will. I will be true 106 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 2: to what the people have told me on the doors, 107 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 2: and I'll have the courage to follow that through. 108 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: Clinton. Finally, you've got about forty seconds to go. Why 109 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: should people vote for you? 110 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 2: As I said, I think, you know I've tried to 111 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 2: show that I'm a man who will act. I've done 112 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 2: it with the door knocking you know already. You know 113 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 2: we've raised money for veterans around ANSAC Day and brought 114 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 2: awareness to those issues which are important to me. But 115 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 2: I've tried to show that I'll be a man of action, 116 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 2: and what you see is what you'll get. I asked 117 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 2: every territory, not just people in Drysdale, but every territorian 118 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 2: to really put the territory first in this election, and 119 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 2: across every objective measure, we are going backwards, and so 120 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 2: this isn't about red versus Okah, or blue or yellow. 121 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 2: It is about what is the best choice for the 122 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 2: territory and that is why I'll ask them to vote 123 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 2: for me. 124 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: Well, Clinton, how that is your time? Thanks so much 125 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: for having a chat to us this morning. 126 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 2: Mate, No, thanks, Katie, it's change. I'm a big listener. 127 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 2: I've listened to you for years at work, so it's 128 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 2: funny to be on it and so good on you. 129 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: We appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so much for 130 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: having a chat with me today. 131 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 2: Thank you. Thanks Katie.