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Darwin's Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis says all NT Mayors are set to meet with the Chief Minister about crime today · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line right now is the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Mayor of Darwin, Convat Scholars. Good morning to Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie, and I have to tell you that
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  Speaker 2: this afternoon twelve thirty Legain, the Local Government Association of
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  Speaker 2: the Northern Territory and its members from Darwin, Alice Springs,
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  Speaker 2: Ten Creek, the Remote Communities meeting with the Chief Minister
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  Speaker 2: to discuss exactly the same issue of antisocial behavior, not
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  Speaker 2: only in Darwen but also in the communities. This is
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  Speaker 2: the first meeting we've managed to score with the Chief Minister.
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  Speaker 2: We've been asking for one for the past two years
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  Speaker 2: who had no response, but NATODA files came to the
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  Speaker 2: party and today we're meeting with here to discuss these issues.
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  Speaker 2: What is interesting that the remote community is they have
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  Speaker 2: a whole list of problems, but also they have a
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  Speaker 2: whole list of solutions that propose with regards to os
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  Speaker 2: social behavior. It's going to be a very interesting meeting
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  Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: So CONN twelve thirty today, all of them may is
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  Speaker 1: from around the Northern Territory going to me meeting with
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  Speaker 1: the Chief Minister on this very issue. Are you going
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  Speaker 1: to be saying as the Lord Mayor of dowaiy you,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're fed up. I know you're fed up
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  Speaker 1: with the issues of crime and anti social behavior.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I had a meeting myself as a lot of
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  Speaker 2: marrier of Darwin, the Chief Minister. I made it very
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  Speaker 2: clear the situation is unacceptable. We've got significant numbers of
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  Speaker 2: people from outside Darwin. They camp everywhere, the rabbits everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I have exhausted my resources to clean up the place
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  Speaker 2: and ask for here help are the money and we
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  Speaker 2: have now agreed that the group from the prisoners that
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  Speaker 2: would be helping out to clean our city. But the
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  Speaker 2: situation does not stop there. I asked for more police
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  Speaker 2: on the ground and I'm very pleased to say that
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  Speaker 2: the last few weeks I started seeing people, police men
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  Speaker 2: and police women on the streets. Now patrolic Dowwin. This
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  Speaker 2: is how we're going to resolve the issue. I mean
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  Speaker 2: to listen, nine eleven year old kids assaulting people in Casarina, Well, hello,
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  Speaker 2: where are the coppers? I mean, if they were around,
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  Speaker 2: it would happen. And we know very well because I've
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  Speaker 2: seen it before. We all seen it before. Something is
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  Speaker 2: not working well. It has to be reviewed and he
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  Speaker 2: has to be addressed quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really does. And you know, like right now,
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  Speaker 1: So we've got this Karama community group. They had a
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  Speaker 1: public meeting. One hundred people turned up. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: want to see the two kilometer rule when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to drinking reinstated. So it is, you know, so obviously
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  Speaker 1: it is the criminalization of that to be reintroduced. They understand,
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  Speaker 1: you know that there are limited spaces in rehab and
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing, but they're really concerned about that.
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  Speaker 1: They're really concerned about the level of glass that is
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  Speaker 1: all around the place, in playgrounds in various areas. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that your staff con probably spend an enormous amount
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  Speaker 1: of time cleaning up that rubbish.
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  Speaker 2: Not only the cleaning up the RUBBI is a collector
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  Speaker 2: rubbish they get adding. Now. I asked the staff whatever
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  Speaker 2: they seem bedding to get it and dispose it, but
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  Speaker 2: properly if it's in a public place, because the parts
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  Speaker 2: are not for people to sleep there. The parts are
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  Speaker 2: for people to use, and I have no problem with
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  Speaker 2: people using it, but you can't just make a mess.
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  Speaker 2: The other day, I was driving down in my middle
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  Speaker 2: on the road, so in the airport Land a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of rubbish opposite the vision, a lot of rubbish.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody seems to collect them, nobody cares about it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, you have to do it. We have to
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  Speaker 2: do it. We'll do it. But the government has come,
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  Speaker 2: he has to come to the party. I know they'll
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  Speaker 2: announced three million dollars for the activation of Bandilla Bitch
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  Speaker 2: because yeah, significant problems there and certainly are We're part
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  Speaker 2: of it, and I will be talking to the government
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  Speaker 2: what council can do. But at the same time, I have
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  Speaker 2: to put in stop the dog park in Bandila because
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  Speaker 2: the government's putting so much money. Let's see how we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do, how we're going to activate it. Can
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  Speaker 2: we put some sports ground? Can we put some lights
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  Speaker 2: and power to attract some vents for food? Vants to
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  Speaker 2: be there after hours because if there are people in
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  Speaker 2: public places, we don't have itinerance or people coming there.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask? I know that you said right at
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  Speaker 1: the start of these some of the community, so some
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  Speaker 1: of those different shire councils obviously have some other ideas
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the way in which we deal
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  Speaker 1: with crime and anti social behavior. What have some of
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  Speaker 1: those ideas been that you've heard.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I heard one of the major's remote community says,
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  Speaker 2: create an area in our communities, send the use of
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  Speaker 2: leaders here. We'll take under the local government authority and
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  Speaker 2: we will actually make them clean the place. Not air
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  Speaker 2: conditioned comfort in down Dale. Let's put them out in
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  Speaker 2: real life, in a real remote territory, do some really
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  Speaker 2: hard work and see if they want to go back again.
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  Speaker 2: If they're offense to clean another community five hundred kilomebres
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  Speaker 2: out of Darwin, I think it's a bloody good solution.
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  Speaker 1: Con Can you ask some of those mes, because we're
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  Speaker 1: hearing on the phone lines here in Darwen at the
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  Speaker 1: moment that there are a lot of cars being stolen
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  Speaker 1: around Darwen and Palmerston and surrounds, and they're being driven
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  Speaker 1: out to various communities, and then that people are not
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  Speaker 1: able to get them back into Darwin, or that it's
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  Speaker 1: certainly a very difficult scenario. So I be interested to
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  Speaker 1: hear from any of those means, you know, whether they're
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  Speaker 1: in a situation where they've got cars out there that
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  Speaker 1: have come in from different locations around.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you an update in our next meeting. Because
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  Speaker 2: the situation that you see here you see it everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I asked the Chief Minister was to actually
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  Speaker 2: cancel the legislation that actually allows offenders or people on
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  Speaker 2: bail to offend an offender and offender again with no reprecations.
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  Speaker 2: If you bridge bail, you shall go to PRISM. Simple
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  Speaker 2: as that. Okay, not the first time you can make
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  Speaker 2: a mistake, but the second time you've got to prism,
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  Speaker 2: not pushing, putting around, not wrapping the knuckles, and off
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  Speaker 2: your goes again. Because if you look in Facebook, many
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  Speaker 2: people put their sensitive is footage their kids with their
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  Speaker 2: ankle bracelets that they're committing crimes. These kids, obviously they're
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  Speaker 2: on bail, the committment a crime. Why they're still out.
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  Speaker 1: Corn I want to ask as well. Obviously the casual
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  Speaker 1: Ina bus exchange. Now we spoke to Centtional Property Group
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  Speaker 1: about this a little bit earlier this morning. I reckon
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  Speaker 1: that they've got in principal approval for that exchange to
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  Speaker 1: be moved, but it does need to go through the development, consent,
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  Speaker 1: to authority and all of the process to get to
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  Speaker 1: the point where it is somewhere else where it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: in that other location. Is this something that the council supports.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we do support to move the bus e change,
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  Speaker 2: but the reality is, do we really need a buses
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  Speaker 2: change in cas Areina or why the buses can just
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  Speaker 2: drive through Casarina, drop people pick up the bus pick
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  Speaker 2: up people go somewhere else. By relocating the bus exchange
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  Speaker 2: just on the other side where the proposed to next
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  Speaker 2: to the Casina club, our reckon is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a recipe for disaster. Wait until somebody crossing the road
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  Speaker 2: get hit by a bus or by a car and
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  Speaker 2: get killed, and we again blaming each other.
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  Speaker 1: But would we've really been in a situation. We're in
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  Speaker 1: a major capital city. We don't have a bus stopping
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  Speaker 1: at the shopping center. Doesn't it still need to stop
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  Speaker 1: at the shopping center? Or do you reckon?
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  Speaker 2: No, well it should stop at the shopping center, but
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  Speaker 2: just a bus or not a bus exchange. Bus exchange
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  Speaker 2: could be somewhere else more appropriately, most importantly, far away
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  Speaker 2: from a leak it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, corn, just very quickly, because we've run
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  Speaker 1: out of time. The waters By election. It's it's when
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  Speaker 1: is it? Is it this weekend or the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: After this weekend? Twenty seven of August this Saturday. Please vote.
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  Speaker 2: You're electing a person who is going to actually represent
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  Speaker 2: you in council and it will be your voice in counsel.
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  Speaker 2: There are three candids at the moment, Kim Parah, Robbi
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  Speaker 2: Lawrence and Gary Haslp. Whatever you do, vote, don't just
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  Speaker 2: go fishing and then don't complain that this does not
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  Speaker 2: happen your area. If you don't bother to vote, don't
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  Speaker 2: bother to complain. Go and vote and then you've got
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  Speaker 2: somebody to chew the area. Actually bring your concerns to the council.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well. Convat Scarlus, the Lord Mayor of Darwa. We
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  Speaker 1: will catch up with you again next week. Be really
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  Speaker 1: keen to hear how this meeting with the Chief Minister
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  Speaker 1: goes today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes you will.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, con appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank Eddie.