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Speaker 1: Well, joining me on the line right now is the

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Speaker 1: incumbent member for Labor evil Or. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Morning Katie. Thank We love the Electoral Commission and their redistribution.

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Speaker 2: Oh that good little potted history.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes things interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's what Drysdale's facing now. So there's been

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Speaker 2: a redistribution and the suburb of Molden is no longer

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Speaker 2: in Drysdale and I've picked up Gum.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well look we've got seven minutes, so are you

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Speaker 1: ready to get started?

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Speaker 2: I am.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it all right, chief Minister evil Orla Why

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Speaker 1: did you decide to put your hand up to run

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Speaker 1: again in the seat of Drysdale.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's unfinished business basically from my point of view.

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Speaker 2: But I love Drysdale. It is such a diverse electorate,

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Speaker 2: so varied. You have the Parmesan CBD, but then you

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Speaker 2: also have suburbs with high levels of public housing and

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Speaker 2: now you've got Gune, a suburb that has mostly private housing.

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Speaker 2: But I've done a lot for Parmesan up that has

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Speaker 2: been my focus as a local member. We've built a

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Speaker 2: new police station and new fire station, two new schools,

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Speaker 2: the one at Zicoli, as well as Mother Teresa School.

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Speaker 2: But it hasn't just been the big things. I've been

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Speaker 2: able to put shade structures over every primary school for example,

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Speaker 2: in my electorate, we've done the upgrades at the Tennis

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Speaker 2: and Netbull Center. We've got all of those signs that say,

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Speaker 2: you know, slow down as you approach schools, but there's

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Speaker 2: more work to do. We're doing the roundabout at Emory Avenue,

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Speaker 2: We're double laning Roystonia. But you know, the greatest stuff

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Speaker 2: is the work that I've done in partnership with the

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Speaker 2: City of Palmerston and we're committed. We've made an election

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Speaker 2: commitment of ten million dollars to work again and continue

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Speaker 2: to work with the City of Parmesan and we haven't

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Speaker 2: seen a commitment by the CLP to do that. But

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Speaker 2: there is great things that have come through partnerships with councils.

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Speaker 1: Eva. I mean, you touched on this thene but what

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Speaker 1: do you see as being the biggest wins for the

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Speaker 1: electorate in your time as the local member.

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Speaker 2: So the biggest winds have been actually so not just

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Speaker 2: a physical infrastructure. Actually, I think the biggest wins has

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Speaker 2: been those the work that we've done with you young

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Speaker 2: people in Palmerston. So the issues and the issue we

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Speaker 2: know crime is an issue in across all of the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory. But the work that we've done, very focused

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Speaker 2: in Palmerston is the work around for example, the Palmeston

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Speaker 2: Regional Basketball Association having activities nearly every night of the

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Speaker 2: week up top there at the rec Center, the youth

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Speaker 2: festivals that we have, the Youth drop in Center in

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Speaker 2: Molden for example, the work that I've done around building

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Speaker 2: the Skills Center, which a lot of people don't actually

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Speaker 2: understand and know but provides training apprenticeships for young people.

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Speaker 2: It's on McCourt Road in Yarrawonga. There's a re engagement

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Speaker 2: center as well in your Yarrawonga for those kids in

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Speaker 2: secondary school that are disengaged from school, so the Klontaft

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Speaker 2: and Stars program that we've pushed down into the primary school.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of work besides the solid infrastructure

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Speaker 2: that you can see that I've delivered, it's the other

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Speaker 2: things that are actually driving that partnership, particularly with Counsel,

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Speaker 2: but then drive the improvements for young people in Parmesan

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Speaker 2: and the sponsorship I'm you know, Katie very sporty in

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Speaker 2: supporting a supportive of sports in Parmeston. So I sponsored

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Speaker 2: the Crocs, the Tennis, the Parmesan Magpies, the Sharks. I

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Speaker 2: will always support young people sporting opportunities. In our budget

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four we've put money in for a home

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Speaker 2: ground for Buffalo's at Woodrofoval So worked with NTFL to

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Speaker 2: get a second team to come out to Palmerston. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: the work that we've done and I've done, and I've

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Speaker 2: leading Parmesan and it's pretty much for most of this term,

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Speaker 2: I've been the one labor person in Parmeson. It's all

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Speaker 2: of the big stuff, but it is literally the people

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Speaker 2: that come through my door every day that have a

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Speaker 2: housing issue that needs to be sorted, you know, an

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Speaker 2: issue with a neighbor that we work really hard to address.

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Speaker 2: But there are more issues. One of the ones that

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Speaker 2: I'm fighting for is to get rid of the liquor

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Speaker 2: license at Gray Shops. And that's been a hard fight

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Speaker 2: because the owner of the shops won't is at this

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Speaker 2: stage it's playing hardball, but I do want to get

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Speaker 2: a lot, but I will continue to work hard to

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Speaker 2: deliver that ten million dollars in partnership with Parmeston continue

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Speaker 2: to work around the issues of housing as well. That's

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Speaker 2: some of the biggest issues I face. That standalone Territory

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Speaker 2: Homes Department will make a big difference to be able

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Speaker 2: to drive some of the things that I want to

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Speaker 2: see improved around housing. And as I said, the issue

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Speaker 2: around alcohol is a big one in some of our

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Speaker 1: We've got about three minutes to go. What do you

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Speaker 1: say is the biggest issue in the seat?

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Speaker 2: So I mean crime, of course is a big issue

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Speaker 2: in Parmeerston. But I think we've worked in partnership really

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Speaker 2: well with counsel and continue to really try to drive

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Speaker 2: down crime in Parmesan. But the issue of crime, and

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Speaker 2: that's why again the five hundred and seventy million doll

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Speaker 2: that I've invested since I've been Chief Minister in police,

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Speaker 2: the curfew legislation. The other really good one is the

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Speaker 2: residential youth Justice facility. So we've been able to establish

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Speaker 2: three out of the four residential youth justice facilities since

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Speaker 2: I've been Chief Minister. We've gone from that concept, which

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Speaker 2: you know and CLP talk about boot camps, but we've

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Speaker 2: been able to go from the concept to delivery. One

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Speaker 2: in Alis one Intendant Creek and the one that's between

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Speaker 2: Darwin and Palmerston where we have young people that can

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Speaker 2: be sentenced there. It stops that revolving door of kids

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Speaker 2: being on bail and breaching bail. They get a full

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Speaker 2: education facilities there, so education training there, but they get

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Speaker 2: their life schools as well, you know, getting up, making

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Speaker 2: a bed, having it, making a breakfast, making dinner. So

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Speaker 2: those residential youth justice facilities are ones that will address

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Speaker 2: those issues around young people. Our commitment also to domestic

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Speaker 2: violence at full one hundred and eighty million, we've already

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Speaker 2: funded fifty of that. So it's a hard flog and

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Speaker 2: I'm up to the up for the hard work.

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Speaker 1: Always about a minute thirty to go quick one and

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Speaker 1: I know it probably falls out of the electric to

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Speaker 1: some degree now. But the issues on Emery Avenue that

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Speaker 1: we saw last week the week before, what more could

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Speaker 1: you be doing to stop that kind of thing?

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Speaker 2: So that's they standalone Territory Homes Department, So continuing to

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Speaker 2: work with Territory Housing to make sure that when visitors

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Speaker 2: are at coming into town and these in this case,

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Speaker 2: it's visitors making sure that our fizos and people have

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Speaker 2: the power to be able to move those people on

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Speaker 2: and because the poor residents who have the lease need

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Speaker 2: to be able to feel safe. There one Katie before

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Speaker 2: I finished, that I would like to know is around

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Speaker 2: voluntary sister dying. That's one that's one I'm very passionate about,

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Speaker 2: and I hope you ask the COLP candidates across Palmestan

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Speaker 2: what they're doing around voluntary sister dying. There's a large

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Speaker 2: number of older people in Palmeston, particularly in my electorate,

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Speaker 2: and that's when I often get asked on the doors,

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Speaker 2: what's what's your position?

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Speaker 1: Around thirty seconds to go Eva, why should people vote

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Speaker 1: for you?

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Speaker 2: You get an experienced leader, you get someone that's passionate

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Speaker 2: about Parmesan, somebody that has worked very very hard for Parmeson,

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Speaker 2: that's delivered for Parmeson, but will continue to do the work.

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Speaker 2: We've already got our one hundred day plan in place,

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Speaker 2: but will continue to work, whether that's with individuals, with schools,

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Speaker 2: with the broader community to make Parmeson the best place

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Speaker 2: in the territory that live, the place where we all

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Speaker 2: love to live.

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Speaker 1: Well Chief, and a state. You've come in just in time.

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Speaker 1: It is currently on seven minutes. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for taking part in our meet the candidates for the

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Speaker 1: seat of Drysdale.

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Speaker 2: Thanks you very much, Katie, thank you