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Speaker 1: Now I believe joining me on the line right now

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Speaker 1: is Robbie. Robbie. How do I pronounce your surname? Freel

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Speaker 1: Freel Robbie Freil. Are you ready to get started?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good to go.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Robbie. What job were you

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Speaker 1: in before putting your hand up for the election.

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Speaker 2: I'm presently working at the Mount Todd go of mine,

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Speaker 2: just that sixty k's north of Catherine and I've been

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Speaker 2: there for nearly twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: And how long so you live? So you're obviously out

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Speaker 1: there at Mount Todd. How long have you lived in

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Speaker 1: the Catherine region.

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Speaker 2: I moved in only over twelve years now, But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm outside of Cashon, but I lived in.

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Speaker 2: I had to move into Cashon because because I look

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Speaker 2: after a young young boy now he's a man, he

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Speaker 2: had to go to school. So I had to do

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Speaker 2: the right thing and get this young man off the school.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough. And why did you decide to put

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Speaker 1: your hand up for the mayor's role.

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Speaker 2: I had a good think about it. I initially was

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Speaker 2: just going to run as a counselor so and a

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Speaker 2: few weeks after I had a bit more of a

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Speaker 2: think about it. I went over to a few of

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Speaker 2: the council meetings and I sort of changed my mind

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Speaker 2: because I thought, well, you know, there's there's no Indigenous

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Speaker 2: people on council and I don't think there's ever been

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Speaker 2: an indigenous mayor. I'm not sure about that.

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Speaker 1: And Robbie, what do you see as being the big

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Speaker 1: issues for Catherine.

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Speaker 2: I think there's Catherine. There's a lot of issues in Catherine.

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Speaker 2: I think the town, the livability of Catherine like it's

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Speaker 2: it's it's growing as a town. So I've seen the

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Speaker 2: town when it was really on its knees when the

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Speaker 2: cash and flood hit and then a lot of people

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Speaker 2: left and now people are coming back, so it's growing.

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Speaker 2: And I think, yeah, we need to talk to the

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Speaker 2: anti government to see we can get some more land

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Speaker 2: available to expand more because I know if the Mentord

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Speaker 2: Goal mine opens up, there's going to be a lot

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Speaker 2: of people moving into Cashron as well to service the

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Speaker 2: mine and everything else. Yeah, and also within Cashrine, we've

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Speaker 2: only got one big supermarket and everybody it's really really

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Speaker 2: tight when you go in there to do any shopping,

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Speaker 2: and especially during the tourist season, you probably would know yourself.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, and it's really hard, and I reckon that

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Speaker 2: we need a second supermarket to help people in Cashrin

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Speaker 2: a bit of competition, bring the prices down a bit hopefully,

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Speaker 2: you know, because they're struggling families in Cashron and a

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Speaker 2: lot of my people are struggling. So yeah, and they're

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Speaker 2: also to green Catherin up, you know, to make it

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Speaker 2: a nice welcoming place. Yeah. I see all those things

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Speaker 2: that are important. And people talk to me about anti

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Speaker 2: social violence is happening, and I'm concerned about that. And

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Speaker 2: i know it's not really Cathern Town Council problem, but

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Speaker 2: as a stakeholder, I'd like to be involved in trying

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Speaker 2: to find a solution. Yeah, and in that regard so

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Speaker 2: to try and put a stop to it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Robbie, you've only got about forty seconds left. But

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Speaker 1: I want to ask, you, know, taking those issues into account,

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Speaker 1: why do you feel you the best place to work

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Speaker 1: with the community to fix them and also why should

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Speaker 1: people vote for you.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I'm a leader in Cashron already. I'm

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Speaker 2: the deputy chair of the Jarant Association and I'm had

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Speaker 2: good governance issues. I'm on the network Parks board. I'm

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Speaker 2: on the God on Mine board, the Cultural Center in Cashrine,

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Speaker 2: also on the Nimble of Tours board. So I've been

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of things in that regard in

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Speaker 2: good governance, and I feel that I'm in a good

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Speaker 2: position to be the best person to take that role.

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Speaker 2: And I do a lot of welcome the country in

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Speaker 2: Cashron actually because I'm a joant man and also I've

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Speaker 2: worked family at a Douguman as well, so I can

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Speaker 2: cover a lot of areas and people know me, so

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Speaker 2: I think you get to get a lot of people

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Speaker 2: behind me. I think I can do well for them.

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Speaker 1: Oh we've just run out of time, Robbie. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you having a chat with me this morning. Mate.

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Speaker 1: All the very best, Thanks Katie, Thank you Robbie Freil

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Speaker 1: there one of the people who've put their hand up

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Speaker 1: for the role of mayor in Catherine