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Speaker 1: Pleased to say that Ben Hosking, the COLP candidate for

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Speaker 1: Fanny Bay, joins me in the studio this morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Ben, Good morning Katie. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: having me really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time. Now, Ben, let's not beat

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Speaker 1: around the bush. What suburb do you live in?

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Speaker 2: I live in Driver, Katie.

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Speaker 3: But I think one of these things that keeps coming

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Speaker 3: up about this is obviously where are we from?

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Speaker 2: And both from Parmesan. But look, I was born in Darwin.

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Speaker 3: The first house I ever went back to was in

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Speaker 3: lud Miller in Well Street, which is where I grew up.

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Speaker 3: I went to school in perap and I can specifically

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Speaker 3: remember riding my BMX with my folks up to the

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Speaker 3: a number of times by bigger kids as I was

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Speaker 3: growing up in that area. So sure, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of us move around as we grow up

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Speaker 3: and we go to different places.

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Speaker 2: I was lucky enough to join the police, the NT Police.

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Speaker 3: I volunteered and went to Tenant Creek straight away. And

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Speaker 3: with that as a career, you're obviously moved around with

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Speaker 3: where you're getting stationed and I ended up coming back

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Speaker 3: to Darwin in two thousand and nine and were stationed

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Speaker 3: in Palmston, so that's where I ended up living.

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Speaker 1: So now, do you have a business in the electorate,

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Speaker 1: because yesterday we're getting messages from different listeners, some saying

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Speaker 1: that you did, some saying that you didn't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I can see what that'd be confusing. I've

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Speaker 3: actually got two businesses that are quite mobile. I do

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Speaker 3: a mobile event business as well. So yeah, we do

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Speaker 3: do work in the electorate. That's absolutely a big part

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Speaker 3: of what we're doing. I was actually at Hudson Fish

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Speaker 3: this morning with a job, so yeah, we do obviously,

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Speaker 3: but we also move around with wherever the events and

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Speaker 3: the work is.

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Speaker 1: For me, now, why have you decided to put your

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Speaker 1: hand up for an electorate which you don't live in.

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Speaker 3: I think goes back to where I'm from. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I've got deep connections to that electorate, to that area.

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Speaker 3: I grew up in that part of Darwen my entire life.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't until I joined the police that I actually left.

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Speaker 3: And for me, you know, obviously I'm passionate about politics.

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Speaker 3: I've been involved with the CLP since twenty fifteen. You know,

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Speaker 3: I've lived here since I was born in nine and

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Speaker 3: eighty six. You know, like I care deeply about Darwin,

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Speaker 3: I care deeply about trying to solve the problems that

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Speaker 3: we're facing now.

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Speaker 1: Look, obviously, the concern here is going to be that

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Speaker 1: neither you or Labour's candidate live in the electorate. As

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Speaker 1: I've pointed out, and I said it during the Daily

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Speaker 1: by election, how can you sort of run or how

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Speaker 1: can people run in that electorate. I know that you've

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Speaker 1: said that you've grown up there, but if you don't

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Speaker 1: live there and you don't actually understand some of those

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Speaker 1: issues that are happening on the ground each and every day.

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Speaker 2: Great question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that the easiest way to understand that

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Speaker 3: if you don't live there is the door knock. So

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Speaker 3: before we even had our own candidates and answer for

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Speaker 3: the CLP, i'd already drawknocked large portions of lud Miller

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Speaker 2: What it is is about understanding what people need to say,

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Speaker 3: It's daw knocking is not about getting around telling everyone

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Speaker 3: what you're going to do to fix it. Dorn knocking

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Speaker 3: the problems are.

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Speaker 2: It's listening, dawn knocking is listening.

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Speaker 1: So to those out there listening who do live in

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Speaker 1: Labor Party seems pretty nice as well, but neither of

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Speaker 1: them live in the electorate. Are you prepared to move there?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, like I said, as where I grew up,

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Speaker 3: I'd love to be there. I ended up in Parmeston

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Speaker 3: We ended up starting a few businesses out there, which

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Speaker 2: That is absolutely on the cards. My wife's already looking

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Speaker 3: I am not the Minister for War and Finance in

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Speaker 1: All right, well, it's going to be interesting. It's certainly

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Speaker 1: going to be an interesting race. I think this by

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Speaker 1: election for Fanny Bay. What do you see as being

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Speaker 3: I can tell you it's straight away. One of the

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Speaker 3: biggest ones that's come up has been the solar rebate.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: That cut to the solar rebate to homeowners has hurt

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Speaker 3: cost of living. We've seen skyrocketing fuel prices. I mean

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Speaker 3: just a fuel of your car up is now double

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Speaker 3: So getting around speaking to people, they want their rebate

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Speaker 3: back on their soul that they installed. You know, it

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Speaker 3: was the government of the day. Now that's taken that

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Speaker 3: half of what.

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Speaker 2: It used to be.

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Speaker 1: But the CLP is not going to reverse that, are they.

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Speaker 3: Now we've come out and said that the rebate will

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Speaker 3: be reinstated, as well as looking at doubling that grant

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Speaker 3: to twelve thousand dollars. That's a huge incentive to take

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Speaker 2: Now, one of the.

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Speaker 1: Other issues that is obviously a big concern for people

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Speaker 1: that are in the electorate. I think it's a big

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Speaker 1: crime and anti social behavior. Now, I understand you were

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Speaker 2: What was that all about? Yeah, look, that was really sad.

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Speaker 3: I also, as a business owner, have experienced exactly what

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Speaker 3: it's whether it's done by a fixated person or a

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: Any offender from my policing background is motivated by an

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Speaker 2: Out a crime.

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Speaker 3: And what I was trying to highlight there is it

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter who you are, you should feel safe, you

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Speaker 3: the Chief minute stuff and he's no longer and this

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Speaker 2: That's really sad.

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Speaker 1: I guess a lot of people again listening this morning,

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Speaker 3: Look to seal p, I've got a fairly strong platform

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Speaker 3: in relation to dealing with any social behavior, looking at

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Speaker 3: bringing back in the two kilometer lock a licensing legislation.

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Speaker 2: To stop any social behavior.

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Speaker 3: It'd be advocating for and trying to re empower the

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Speaker 1: Getting do you feel as though they can at the moment.

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Speaker 2: The police, they're always able to do their jobs.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I want to take my hat off to

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Speaker 3: at the front of Michael Gunner's office. It's not about

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Speaker 2: As a society.

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Speaker 3: There's a societal problem that has taken place, and it's

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Speaker 1: I mean, were you trying to gain some political mileage

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Speaker 1: though standing outside Michael Gunner's office, you know, after it's

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Speaker 3: I know, JP and I we took two photos and

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Speaker 3: it was literally just me gesturing to how sad the

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Speaker 1: All right? Then, just to finish off this morning, if elected,

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Speaker 2: Look, A big part of it is re engaging with

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've been out there speaking to people and

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Speaker 3: what they want is a local member that is there

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Speaker 3: and a part of it, they want someone that's getting

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Speaker 3: listen to what their concerns are. You know, whether that's

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Speaker 3: any social behavior through lud Miller because people are dealing

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Speaker 3: or whether or not it's people that aren't feeling the

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Speaker 3: invested their own money in trying to keep the climate clean.

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Speaker 3: It's getting out there and listening to what they want

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Speaker 3: to say. Or even how about the Lea Point situation,

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Speaker 3: You've got an entice way that the community or a

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Speaker 3: interesting to hear you say that there's Greens of announced

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Speaker 2: Are they going to back Labor in on that?

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Speaker 3: Because there's a lot of people in this electric that

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Speaker 3: have raised it with me already and there's been no

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Speaker 3: community consultation from the people that I'm speaking to. They

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Speaker 1: Well, Ben Hosking, we are going to have to leave

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Speaker 1: it there. As I said, we are certainly going to

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Speaker 1: be catching up with all of the candidates that are

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Speaker 1: putting their hands up for the seat of Fanny Bay.

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Speaker 1: But we appreciate you being the first one on tab

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Speaker 1: A Chat with us and appreciate your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, and thanks very much for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you