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Speaker 1: The Berkley Regional Council are encouraging local tourism businesses to

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Speaker 1: register interest in adopting a peacock. You heard right, adopting

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Speaker 1: a peacock. It's through a new relocation project. It's understood

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Speaker 1: the Council's gone down this path due to an explosion

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Speaker 1: in numbers of the birds. Now joining me on the

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Speaker 1: line to tell us a little bit more is well

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey McLaughlin, who is indeed the Barkley Regional He's from

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Speaker 1: the Berkley Regional Council.

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Speaker 2: The mayor. Good morning to you, Jeff, good morning. How

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Speaker 2: are you not bad mate? What's the go with adopting

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Speaker 2: a peacock?

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Speaker 3: Well, so it's come from our local authority in Elliott,

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Speaker 3: the community. Yeah, they've been a bit worried that a

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Speaker 3: few extra peacocks around, you know, so they get a

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Speaker 3: bit territorial and all of that. So we've already got

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Speaker 3: a couple of cattle stations from around that have already

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Speaker 3: getting into a bit of peacocks. And then we've got

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Speaker 3: two Central Australias come on board. Yeah, and some tourism

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Speaker 3: operators if they would like to get a peacock.

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Speaker 1: This is so good mate, I've heard of adopting dogs, cats,

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Speaker 1: even a budgee, but I've never thought of adopting a peacock.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, we're innovative here in the Bark. You

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Speaker 3: are great ideas, and I mean it could have been

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Speaker 3: there may have been three different options here and the

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Speaker 3: community didn't want to see the eight hour resolution at

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Speaker 3: forty degrees in.

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Speaker 4: An oven, you know, yes, And we don't want to

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Speaker 4: cull them because we we love our animals even though

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Speaker 4: they're introduced. But what's better than seeing a good old

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Speaker 4: peacock when you drive into a roadhouse with its sets

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Speaker 4: all flown out?

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Speaker 3: You know, they're beautiful, watching the spare a rugby team

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Speaker 3: out the front of hilea in or something.

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Speaker 1: You know, mate, tell me what kind of population numbers

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Speaker 1: are we talking about here with the peacocks.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, there's about two hundred and eighty people in Elliott,

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Speaker 3: so there's a latest guests. So don't trust me. I'm

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Speaker 3: a politician on this one. There's about one peacock per

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Speaker 3: person in at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so how will this work?

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Speaker 1: How's it going to work with businesses adopting them?

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Speaker 3: Well, at the moment, we're just trying to move them

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Speaker 3: locally at the moment to Newcastle Waters with our own

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Speaker 3: animal management team. But I must admit, since our story

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Speaker 3: went out, there are a few little setbacks because there

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Speaker 3: are certain things you've got to do with animals that

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Speaker 3: have done right. So we're just in the middle of

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Speaker 3: doing that properly, and we've had TCA so we've got

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Speaker 3: Battery Hill Mining Center has already looked asked for a

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Speaker 3: couple of peacocks. I was going to drop them off

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Speaker 3: at a few people I don't like how but.

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Speaker 2: I can't do that.

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Speaker 3: The Guard Guard peacock as well, because I've actually done

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Speaker 3: a lot of research on this peacocks, the Great Guard

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Speaker 3: animals as well.

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Speaker 1: Right well, Jeff Cassie, who works in sales here, she

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Speaker 1: wants one.

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Speaker 2: How can we arrange this to happen?

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Speaker 3: Ring up the Barkley Regional Council on eight nine six

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Speaker 3: two and our office ladies will be like, what the

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Speaker 3: hell are you talking about? But no, I think they're

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Speaker 3: all over it now. But we're just trying to move

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Speaker 3: the peacocks closer to their location at the moment, and

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Speaker 3: then when if we need more, we'll let everyone know.

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Speaker 3: We're sort of trying. I did ask con and I

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Speaker 3: did ask Cathena got enough bird. They've got enough birds

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Speaker 3: and problems of their own, you know.

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Speaker 1: And we got the dirty bin birds. We got those

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Speaker 1: ibises that we're contending with. Yeah, the binge chicken.

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Speaker 2: I'd rather peacock.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've got beIN chickens. And I'm a a canoeist,

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Speaker 3: so you know, I'm the resident of the Tenant Creek

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Speaker 3: Canoe Club, the like member of the TANet Creek com Club,

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Speaker 3: champion of the Tenant Creek Canoe Club, and the only

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Speaker 3: member of the Tenet Creeks in their club. There's Roger

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Speaker 3: and Raylean out there that they're both peacocks there already.

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Speaker 3: And I've got john O and Tomo, which are two

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Speaker 3: bit chickens that live out at the band.

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Speaker 5: A bethered friends round, and it's good to keep them

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Speaker 5: all happy, you knows. As the Great Big Bird once said,

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Speaker 5: I can't remember what he's.

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Speaker 3: Been a long time since.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, well, I reckon. This is such a novel idea.

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Speaker 1: So if people are keen to adopt a peacock, they've

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Speaker 1: just got to get in contact really with the Barkley

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Speaker 1: Regional Council YEP.

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Speaker 3: And We're just these things do take a little time

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Speaker 3: with a removed the peacocks in a proper way and

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Speaker 3: put them in the special peacock removal device yep, and

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Speaker 3: then yeah, So it should be all underway in the

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Speaker 3: next few weeks. There'll be plenty of beautiful feathers across

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Speaker 3: the Barkley and possibly outside of the Barkley.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jeffrey McLaughlin, the Barkley Regional Council mayor. Mate, it's

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Speaker 1: always good to catch up with you. I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: having a chat.

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Speaker 2: With us, and I'll be really interested to.

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Speaker 1: See how many of these peacocks end up getting adopted.

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Speaker 3: No, thanks, Katie, and thanks for being the one radio

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Speaker 3: journal person in the Northern Territory with more personality than

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Speaker 3: the rest of them.

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Speaker 2: I try, mate, I try.

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Speaker 3: Some of those other channels have been getting a bit

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Speaker 3: dry lately, and it's good to have a good news

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Speaker 3: story about saving the peacocks.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you've got to have a laugh, don't you, Jeff

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Speaker 1: You know, like you there's.

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Speaker 2: So much seriousness all the time, but.

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Speaker 1: I reckon this is a good idea, and in all seriousness,

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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you do wind up in a situation

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Speaker 1: where different animals are having to be if there is

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Speaker 1: you know, if.

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Speaker 2: There's a huge issue with them.

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Speaker 1: So if there is a nice way that peacocks can

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Speaker 1: be adopted around the territory, I reckon it's a nice

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Speaker 1: thing to do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's beautiful. I think it's really good because, as

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Speaker 3: I said before, we don't want to go down the

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Speaker 3: eight hour at one hundred and forty degrees in another.

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Speaker 2: We definitely don't.

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Speaker 4: We don't do.

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Speaker 3: Some research and apparently they do taste all right after

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Speaker 3: a while, but that's not what we're there for. All

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Speaker 3: animals deserve a good go.

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Speaker 5: And even if they looked.

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Speaker 3: Almost as good as me, that's all right, you know.

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Speaker 1: So it's always good to catch up with you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for your time, and no doubt we'll talk again soon.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks mate, sounds good.