1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Waning me live in the studio right now is the 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,119 Speaker 1: Lord Mayor of Darwin conbat scarlets, Good morning. 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 2: Corn, good morning. I think is going to rain, which. 4 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: High light time. So con plenty happening around the place. 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: But certainly the city of Darwin has been getting all 6 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: organized for cyclone season and we. 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:18,159 Speaker 2: Did really well, kate it. 8 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 3: We actually collected one two hundred and thirty eight truck 9 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 3: loads of wastew I was in your backyards, in our 10 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 3: backyards couldn't have flown around in a cyclone. 11 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 2: That is a lot a lot wait, one hundred. 12 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 3: And forty three tons of scrub metal, eighty four tons 13 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 3: of white goods and ten tons of electronic waste for 14 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 3: else yeap. That means that we had all these things 15 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 3: in our backyards waiting to fly away. But thank God 16 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:49,919 Speaker 3: for it, we actually picked it up. Thank you very 17 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,319 Speaker 3: much for people doing that one participating. But also we 18 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 3: have to say that we did not pick up six 19 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 3: hundred and twenty seven hazards items They were not selected 20 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 3: like paint, solvents, petrol, tires, chemicals or things that were 21 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 3: actually more than two cubic meters. 22 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: And so then a most have people sort of left 23 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: though where I've had to take them and up. 24 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 3: We didn't pick it up, so it's their responsibility to 25 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 3: take them to the tip and disport them off. 26 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: Responsibility fair enough, corn, How does all that wise compared 27 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: to previous years? Is it around the sime as what 28 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: you usually pick up? 29 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 3: Usually every year we get more because new people coming in. 30 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 3: New people actually have stuff when they move in more 31 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 3: or less the same. However, last year we had a 32 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 3: twenty percent increase on the volume we picked up. So 33 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 3: we'll do the calculation at the end to find out 34 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 3: where it is, and I will let. 35 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,199 Speaker 1: You know much good stuff they can then be solved 36 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 1: in the tapecure of. 37 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 2: Them actually going to HPA. 38 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: A lot of it it's actually just junk lying around, 39 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 3: but when we see something really good, it goes straight 40 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:52,279 Speaker 3: to HPA. 41 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff. Oh well, hopefully and hopefully able to 42 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: raise a bit of money for them if there's some 43 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: good stuff there. 44 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 3: But the good thing is they are not going to 45 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 3: fly around. If we're going to hear a cyclone because 46 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 3: the bomb we want to change its name now, but 47 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 3: I will still call it bomb. Tell us it's going 48 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 3: to be they're going to be more cyclic. 49 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: What do you think about them wanting to change their 50 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: name and trying to sort of do that right in 51 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: the middle of a flood disaster. 52 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 3: I think the person who gaming with the ideas to 53 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 3: start writing your CV, he probably will be looking for 54 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 3: a new job because everybody knows us Bomb. Why you 55 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 3: want to change the name when there's no wrong? Yeah, 56 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 3: there's what's coming and said we're going to change our 57 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 3: name from quantus something else. Why everybody knows your quantas 58 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 3: or Toyota or me's so busy. 59 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 2: That's right, Bomb. Everybody knows it's BOMB. 60 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 3: When I look at my phone, the bloody applications doesn't 61 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 3: say bureau. 62 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: That's right. Con Let me stay on council issues and 63 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,399 Speaker 1: Rapid Creek. I know that the Rapid Creek bridge there 64 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: has that work now actually gotten under. 65 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 3: Why Monday started under seventeenth. First of all, he has 66 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 3: to remove some of the old damaged structural members and 67 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 3: then we replay replace them with temporary ones so the 68 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 3: bridge can open. And please do not get upset and angry, 69 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 3: and do not attack your elected members because the reason 70 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 3: the bridge is closed it's for your personal protection and safety, 71 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 3: because if you cross that bridge the way it was 72 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 3: and something happened to you. I'm pretty sure you'll be 73 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 3: suing the council for damages because the council dim closed 74 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 3: the bridge, and so. 75 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: Is there another way that you can get it? Look, 76 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: what's the situation now? Is it going to be something temporary? 77 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,639 Speaker 3: Open the bridge temporary and this construction of the new 78 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 3: one will start to relocate somewhere else. But it's not 79 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 3: only councils that have a say on that one. There's 80 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 3: a very censive sensitive ecological area. We have to work 81 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 3: with EPA, we have to work with the water resources 82 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 3: with common authority. So it's not just councel slapping a 83 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: new bridge there and anything goes. 84 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, So quite a bit of work to 85 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: get onto. Why how long do you reckon it's going 86 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: to take, Well, this one's not going to. 87 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 2: Take long to open it temporarily. 88 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 3: The other one will take some time because we have 89 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 3: to design it, we have to construct it, and we 90 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 3: have to get all the permissions in place to locate 91 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 3: it in the Europe. 92 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: And then it's the difficulty is then with the water 93 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: levels and things like that. 94 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 3: Changing Blood Bridge goes always underwater if we've got a 95 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 3: big wet and that's what we've got. The problem we've got, 96 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 3: it's a salty environment. Things are eaten by salt. If 97 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 3: you have a house near the beach, you know very well. 98 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 3: Only have you have to have a look at your 99 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 3: fence outside. Fancy how quickly they rushed even the ones 100 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 3: that's supposed to be stanless. 101 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,679 Speaker 2: Still Yeah, because you've got a salty environment. It's really 102 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 2: really bad. 103 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, right Corn. Now with the Casuarina Pool, that's obviously 104 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: another big development that's about to get under Why has 105 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: that work started yet? Well, where is it at right now? 106 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 3: Design is underwhere it has been underway for a while. 107 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 3: We know what we're going to do with the fifty 108 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 3: and twenty five meters it's already designed and already been 109 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 3: told why it's going to be constructed. Now they finalized 110 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 3: the design of the resort style pool. We actually finalize 111 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 3: the design of the covers because we find out that having. 112 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 2: Said cloth, it does work very well. 113 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 3: As a cyclone has to be removed, has to be reinstated, 114 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 3: and sometimes we get set them storms and they can 115 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 3: be ripped apart. So the DCA application went in demolition 116 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 3: he has already started, so it's work in. 117 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: Progression and So what's the shade structure going to be. 118 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: Is it not going to be shad going. 119 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 2: To be shaved, but it's going to be permanent shade 120 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 2: structure made of. 121 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: Metal over the whole pool or just half some of it. 122 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 3: Because if we do over the whole pool, the pool 123 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 3: gets too cold and people complain. So we actually said 124 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 3: in part of the pool, so the sun will hit 125 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 3: the water part of it and the temples will be 126 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 3: maintained at. 127 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: A reserable People really complain about that. 128 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 3: Oh yes, that wild people do not like water. That's 129 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 3: actually be low twenty three twenty. 130 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: Four becaus I suppose then I guess from another perspective 131 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: on there for like kids some in carnivals where you know, 132 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: for half the day obviously there's shade, but then for 133 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: the other half it's not shady at all. So it's 134 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:54,359 Speaker 1: hard to please everybody but you. 135 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 3: But I said you, we try our best. Now I 136 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 3: have to say I've been down for nearly thirty years. 137 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 3: When I get to the pool in the dry fee 138 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 3: a bit cold. Well, if I was down south, I 139 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 3: got to the pool during their winter where they said temporary, 140 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 3: Oh my god, thank god, it's holt. 141 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it is definitely very different. And I guess 142 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: it all comes down to the funding as well, because. 143 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 3: You know the funding is are a twenty five million dollars. 144 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 3: We all look at the money, we said, this is 145 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 3: our budget, this is what we're going to spend, and 146 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 3: twenty five million dollars would deliver us. 147 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 2: A really good project. 148 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: Now, con one of the other things that is obviously 149 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: happening at the moment is the nominations for the Lord 150 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: Baryl Awards have now opened, haven't they. 151 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 3: Yes, Please if you know any individual or a disability 152 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 3: who has made an outstanding contribution to our community, please 153 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 3: just get a form nominate them. These people have to 154 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 3: be recognized because it's not only their own disability, but 155 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 3: despite their disability, they do things for other people. And 156 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 3: we had some really signing examples in the past that 157 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 3: people were disabled were looking after other disabled people or 158 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 3: even members of their families. That can be a really 159 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 3: hard job to be a disabled person. You can imagine 160 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 3: how hard they we have to look after another but 161 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 3: they do it because they want to do it, because 162 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 3: they've got a big heart. And let recognize that big heart. 163 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 3: Nominate them and let's put them up there as a 164 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 3: sunning examples for others. 165 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: Con where can people get a bit more information about that? 166 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 3: If they are website you can find out if you 167 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 3: look at the Facebook, I presume everybody's good Facebook. If 168 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 3: you see the Lord Mayor's Award, just click in informations 169 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 3: there it will bring you to the right place to 170 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 3: actually download the nomination form and the selection criteria. 171 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 2: Well. 172 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: Conbat Scarless, the Lord Mayor of Down and it's always 173 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: good to catch up with you. Thank you very much. 174 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 2: Take true pleased to be here and talk to you 175 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 2: and to people. 176 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 3: And the other thing I would tell you, which I'm 177 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 3: very proud of, is the where the first council in 178 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 3: Australia now to be able to destroy p fuss in 179 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 3: our Rubbisti and with the propriety intellectual property developed by 180 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 3: US and water Carbon Limited with a company from Queensland 181 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 3: which using natural resources destroy p fass and also to 182 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 3: destroy our lich. That's the black water that comes out 183 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 3: of the tip because of the decomposition of the rabbish. 184 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: And so where is that that facility is now. 185 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 2: Outside the Rabbish tip. 186 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 3: We actually received that black water, we put it through 187 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 3: our system and on the the hand we get clean 188 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 3: water we used to water the grass we put on 189 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 3: top of the cup of the completed cells so there's 190 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 3: no any problem, no erosion and hold the range again. 191 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: So con could something like that be utilized in other 192 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: parts of Australia where obviously the. 193 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 3: Electro property and we're looking forward to other councils coming 194 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 3: to us. The company that developed that project now they're 195 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 3: preparing one that goes in a container so it can 196 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 3: be transported anywhere to small areas to process the liquid 197 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 3: waste and. 198 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 1: Be Fast and so that is operational at the tip. 199 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 2: Sp it operates and treat our wiste and that waste. 200 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 3: Now they don't find a way into the underground water 201 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 3: table because our tip, unfortunately, it's in an area where 202 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 3: it's time and we've got a lot of water movement 203 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 3: above ground. 204 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: And belowg so we have a lot of payfasts that 205 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: needs to be traded out there. 206 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 3: Oh yes, because first of all, a lot of soil 207 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 3: was done there that came from the different basis around 208 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 3: the territory, which at the time we did know about 209 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 3: be Fast. 210 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 2: Now we know, we check for it, we find out. 211 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 3: The good thing is if we had to destroy be Fast, 212 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 3: the normal way we had to find way to send 213 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 3: thousands of litters of contaminated water down south. Now we 214 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 3: only have to send a few barrels of contaminate water 215 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 3: because concentrate, and then we take it to a larcense 216 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 3: facility that destroyed by incineration. 217 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: And so what prompted you know what prompted the council 218 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: we come up with this idea and to make this change. 219 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 3: Well, we couldn't continue do things the way we're doing it. 220 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 3: First of all, we have an obligation to protect the environment. 221 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 3: Second is weally I spent so much money to transport 222 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 3: thousands leaders of contaminated liquid down south. 223 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 2: I invested the money in this process. 224 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 3: This process it paid dividends and now I own something 225 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 3: with a company that benefits the community. The environment, benefits 226 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 3: are community by reducing costs. And also we can make 227 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 3: money if other councilors are renders to utilize well. 228 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: Convat Scarlets, the Lord Mayor of Darwin, good to speak 229 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: with you this morning. Thanks for your. 230 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 2: Time, have a great time and have a great week. 231 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: Thank you.