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Speaker 1: Joining us live on the line is the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: Electoral Commissioner, Kirsten Kelly.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to your commissioner.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry to keep you waiting now, Commissioner.

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Speaker 1: The Nightcliff by election, Well, everybody is wondering and waiting

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Speaker 1: to see when it's going to be called.

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Speaker 2: What's the process from your perspective.

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Speaker 3: So the Anti Electoral Commission is waiting for the writ

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Speaker 3: to be issued. So the writ authorizes the Anti Electric

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Speaker 3: Commission to conduct the election in accordance with the Electoral

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Speaker 3: Act and the resignation of the sitting member is managed

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Speaker 3: in accordance with the Northern Territory Self Government Act. So

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Speaker 3: once the Administrator issues that writ, that will authorize the

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Speaker 3: Anti Electoral Commission to conduct that by election.

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Speaker 1: And Kirstin, is that usually something that happens fairly quickly.

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Speaker 3: It does happen quite quickly, and I was doing some

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Speaker 3: research last last night the Fanny for Bay by election.

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Speaker 3: Fanny Bay by election in twenty twenty two, there was

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Speaker 3: a day between the resignation and the issue of the writ.

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Speaker 3: So it can happen quite quickly, and it's important for

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Speaker 3: the NTI Electric Commission to be ready to deliver that

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Speaker 3: election when that writ is issued.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I guess you guys just snap into it.

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Speaker 1: Is there any sort of idea how you know what

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Speaker 1: date it might happen or how long these things usually

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Speaker 1: sort of you know how long usually we wait, I

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Speaker 1: suppose before working out the date.

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Speaker 3: So once the writ is issued, the election day occurs

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Speaker 3: twenty four days after that? Really? Sorry?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, sorry to mention that.

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Speaker 1: So twenty four days all right, So I guess it's

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Speaker 1: all going to be quite quick. What do you guys

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Speaker 1: need to do to make sure everything's organized and to

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Speaker 1: get things lined up?

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Speaker 2: You've only just come out of council elections and all.

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Speaker 3: The rest of it, so certainly busy time. And we

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Speaker 3: do appreciate having fixed date general elections in the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 3: which will allows us every four years to know exactly

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Speaker 3: when the writs issued. But it's important that we remain

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Speaker 3: ready to deliver elections when they do arrive. So a

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Speaker 3: lot of the work now is planning and logistics, So

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Speaker 3: getting ready to deliver communications plans, logistically, looking to find

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Speaker 3: venues for early voting and election day voting services, getting

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Speaker 3: ready to procure ballot papers and materials to deliver the

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Speaker 3: election and engaging our amazing casual workforce to support the election.

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Speaker 1: And generally, you know, then people need to obviously we

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Speaker 1: need people to put their hands up to run. What

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Speaker 1: kind of time will they have, I guess to determine

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Speaker 1: whether they want to put their name forward?

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Speaker 3: Yes, So when the writ is issued, that's the singles

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Speaker 3: the day for the nomination's opening, and so seven days

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Speaker 3: after that, at twelve noon, the nominations close. So it

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Speaker 3: is quite a short period of time for people. So

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Speaker 3: when the writs issued, nominations open, we certainly encourage people

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Speaker 3: who are interested in becoming a candidate to at that

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Speaker 3: time go to the website where we'll launch an event

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Speaker 3: page for the election and that will have resources to

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Speaker 3: support candidates understanding their rights and responsibilities.

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Speaker 1: Commissioner, how much does a buy election generally cost? Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Having a look at the twenty twenty two f Annybay

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Speaker 3: by election, and this is all public information available on

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Speaker 3: the ANTE Electrical Commission website, it's around one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty dollars excluding GST back in twenty twenty two, so

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Speaker 3: we're expecting that it'll be around if not more than that,

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Speaker 3: given the majority of our costs are employee related costs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, and I would imagine you've got to bring

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Speaker 1: in quite quite the casual workforce really to get all

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Speaker 1: of this underway.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so not as much as general election as you

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Speaker 3: can appreciate. But we've got just under six thousand enrolled

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Speaker 3: elections in Nightcliffe, so we want to make sure that

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Speaker 3: we've got voting services available to support them, and then

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Speaker 3: the count teams as well well.

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Electoral Commissioner Kirsten Kelly, I always appreciate your time,

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Speaker 1: probably talk to you again over the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: I reckon no trouble, Katie kid. I just please and

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Speaker 3: just encourage anyone living in the Nightcliff Division to check

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Speaker 3: their enrollment now so the closer roles happens the day

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Speaker 3: after the issue of the writ, but i'd certainly encourage

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Speaker 3: residents living in Nightcliff's if they're not sure if they're

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Speaker 3: correctly enrolled, please go to the Anti Electoral Commission website

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Speaker 3: the Australian Electoral Commission website to confirm you're correctly enrolled

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Speaker 3: because the day after the RITS issued that role will close.

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Speaker 3: It's really important that you're correctly enrolled, so do it quickly.

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Speaker 1: Make sure that you're jumping online and doing that asap.

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Speaker 3: Really appreciate that that would be great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good on your custon. Thanks so much for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you,