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Katie Woolf spoke with Sky News Matt Cunningham on Treaty Commissioner Mick Dodson · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Katie Wolf and three point sixty online at Mix
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  Speaker 1: And it has been well about a week.
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  Speaker 2: Since news broke of the situation involving the Treaty Commissioner
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  Speaker 2: Mick Dodson. Now joining us on the line to tell
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  Speaker 2: us where things are at at this point in time.
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  Speaker 2: It is Matt Cunningham from Sky News. Good morning to you, Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Good a Katie.
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  Speaker 1: How are you not too bad?
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  Speaker 2: Matte?
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  Speaker 1: We know that well.
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  Speaker 2: The Treaty Commissioner Mick Dodson, as I understand it, he's
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  Speaker 2: yet to formally resign from his taxpayer funded job.
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  Speaker 1: Where are things at?
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  Speaker 3: Well? You also said that letter from the Chief Minister
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  Speaker 3: last Friday, and I'm gonna send that letter to Mick
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  Speaker 3: Dodson saying that he had what's his confidence of courses
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  Speaker 3: came after some of those allegations surface around some abusive
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  Speaker 3: language she used towards women. One incident in particular at
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  Speaker 3: a football match in the members bar at Marara in January,
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  Speaker 3: so I've gone to send that letter Nick Godson on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Now my understanding is that he has indicated to the
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  Speaker 3: government that he doesn't intend to resign, but as of
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  Speaker 3: close the business yesterday that resignation had not yet been tended.
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  Speaker 2: And Matt has there been any response from the government
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  Speaker 2: at this point in time, as you know, following on
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  Speaker 2: from the fact that well he hasn't actually resigned.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the cheap Minister was asked about it at a
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  Speaker 3: press conference in Alice Springs yesterday. Now he basically said
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  Speaker 3: that there was a process that was you know, that
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  Speaker 3: they were going through at the moment, and that he
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  Speaker 3: expected the matter to be resolved shortly. Of course, there
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  Speaker 3: is the option open to the government if the Treaty
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  Speaker 3: Commission doesn't design, to put a motion to the Parliament
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  Speaker 3: to have him removed, and Michael Danna didn't say yesterday
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  Speaker 3: that that was an option that they had. However, you
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  Speaker 3: can expect it would come to that. He expected it
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  Speaker 3: would be resolved sooner than an exiting of parliament. Certainly,
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  Speaker 3: my understanding is that the government certainly expects it to
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  Speaker 3: be resolved within a day or so, but at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 4: That when we tended that resignation and Matt, as we know,
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  Speaker 4: well Parliament isn't actually correct me if I'm wrong, But
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  Speaker 4: it's not due to sit again until sort of August
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  Speaker 4: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think next month to come until the next
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  Speaker 3: you know, used for whatever reason he chose not to resign,
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  Speaker 3: it could be at a lengthy period before you know,
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  Speaker 3: that motion could be put forward. Given his send that
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  Speaker 3: letter by the Chief Minister to remain in the position.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's another couple of months when he has
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  Speaker 3: lost a chief minister's confidence. I think people will be
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  Speaker 3: asking a lot of questions about why that was happening. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there is the ability, Katie, my understanding, looking at the Act,
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  Speaker 3: there is the ability for the administrator to spend him
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  Speaker 3: or stand him down to that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, just having some issues with your audio there, Matt, Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: what was the So there is the ability, according to
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  Speaker 2: the Act for the administrator to take action.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's the way in the Act that
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  Speaker 3: it sounds as though to the administrator's job, but in
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  Speaker 3: fact the administrator act on the advice of the government.
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  Speaker 3: But there would be the ability for him to be
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  Speaker 3: stood down by the administrator technically if she were to
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  Speaker 3: believe that he was mentally or physically incapable of performing
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  Speaker 3: a job. But I think we're a fair away from
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  Speaker 3: that sort of discussion. I mean at the moment we're
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  Speaker 3: just talking about whether he's going to resign or not.
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  Speaker 3: The government certainly expects that he'll do that, and that
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  Speaker 3: he's indicated that he will hasn't occurred at this stage.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Matt Cunningham from Sky News.
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  Speaker 2: It is certainly an interesting one and by the sounds
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  Speaker 2: of it, we'll probably know more within the next twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours.
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  Speaker 1: Or so, but time will tell.
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  Speaker 2: Always good to catch up with you, mate, We always
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  Speaker 2: appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: No worries, mate, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That is Matt Cunningham there from Sky News and well
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  Speaker 2: if you just came in on the end of that discussion. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: It is being reported that the Treaty Commissioner, Mick Dodson
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  Speaker 2: is yet to formally resign from his two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: ninety thousand dollars a year taxpayer funded job, despite losing
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister Michael Gunner's confidence of allegations that he verbally
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  Speaker 2: abused women. The NT News reporting that mister Gunner wrote
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  Speaker 2: to Professor Dodson on Friday to inform him that he
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  Speaker 2: had lost his confidence following a report the former Australian
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  Speaker 2: of the Year had called a woman well a very
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  Speaker 2: derogatory term and threatened to knock her lights out at
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  Speaker 2: a football match in Darwin in January. Another woman subsequently
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  Speaker 2: came forward to complain that she'd been verbally abused at
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  Speaker 2: an Alice Springs well the Alice Springs Casino in October
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. Now we know that mister Gunner did indeed
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  Speaker 2: then write a letter to Professor Dodson saying that he
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  Speaker 2: had lost well, he'd lost his confidence. So we will
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  Speaker 2: wait and see exactly what's going to go on there.
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  Speaker 2: But it does seem as though the position at this
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  Speaker 2: point in time, whether he's going to stand aside or
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  Speaker 2: whether he is going to stand aside while that investigation
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  Speaker 2: is finalized, remains to be seen. We'll wait and see
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully have a bit further detail over the next
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  Speaker 2: twenty four hours or so.