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Katie Woolf spoke with Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now in the studio with me this morning is the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Mayor of Darwin convat Scarlets. Good morning to you, Conn.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Now Corn, what do you reckon about this proposal? Before
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  Speaker 1: we get into the council issues. Do you think that
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  Speaker 1: three hundred dollars really to try and entice people to
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  Speaker 1: get the vaccine is needed?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry Anthony, but it's rubbish.
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  Speaker 3: I think the important things to protect yourself and others,
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  Speaker 3: And I recall very well the only incentive my mother
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  Speaker 3: had when she took me to do the polio, the
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  Speaker 3: small pox, the missles, the mumps vaccine. It was my health,
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  Speaker 3: my health of your children and the health of the others.
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  Speaker 3: And I lived with people who had polio as a
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  Speaker 3: fellow student.
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  Speaker 2: We went to high school together. He had polio.
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  Speaker 3: He couldn't participate to any of the things we did
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  Speaker 3: because he couldn't use his legs. So the incentive for
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  Speaker 3: you should be vaccinate, otherwise you're going to be in
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  Speaker 3: one of the numbers like we've seen today again in
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  Speaker 3: New South Wales and now expanding in Queensland. The other
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  Speaker 3: thing is if you think you're going to go anywhere
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  Speaker 3: with a vaccine, again, no country in Europe will allow
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  Speaker 3: you to arrive if you are not vaccinated. You don't
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  Speaker 3: have a CERTivity you're vaccinated. And of course now things
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  Speaker 3: that get very tough because people they ask their employees
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  Speaker 3: and their employers to protect them. So you can actually
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  Speaker 3: your employer can ask you to vaccinate.
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  Speaker 2: Like it or not.
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  Speaker 3: But the ultimate thing is if you're vaccinated. As today
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  Speaker 3: are read in the newspaper, less than one percent of
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  Speaker 3: vaccinated people has suffered COVID nineteen infection or hospitalization. So
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  Speaker 3: think about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's certainly a good thing to do. I think if
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  Speaker 1: you're able to go and get vaccinated, I understand that
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  Speaker 1: there is still that hesitancy and that's a difference between
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  Speaker 1: anti Vaccess'll but go and talk to you JP.
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  Speaker 2: In the UK.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody done Astrosenica there and look what they've done. They
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  Speaker 3: actually curb the COVID nineteen and they open their community.
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  Speaker 3: Here we're still waiting for Farsa. You might wait for Farsa,
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  Speaker 3: COVID nineteen will not wait.
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  Speaker 1: It will get you, all right, corn, I do want
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  Speaker 1: to go on to some other issues or some other
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  Speaker 1: things happening around the place, and we've just heard this
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  Speaker 1: morning that there's going to be or there's about one
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  Speaker 1: hundred athletes, a few more athletes and staff that have
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  Speaker 1: arrived on a Quantas charter flight here in the territory
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  Speaker 1: this morning. They're out of Howard Springs. Now. I asked
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  Speaker 1: the Health Minister, are we going to see a parade?
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  Speaker 1: She said that yes, we are going to but those
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  Speaker 1: details are still very much being worked through. The council said,
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  Speaker 1: or you said last week the Council is supportive of this.
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  Speaker 3: If that s the case, absolutely, I'm supportive of that one.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, I've got fourteen days
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  Speaker 3: to make a decision, let's face it. But certainly I
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  Speaker 3: will support the government and I would like to see it.
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  Speaker 3: To get a parade coming down Naki Street and like
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  Speaker 3: we do with the armsack down everything else. I think
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  Speaker 3: that would be a great idea. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: publicity money cannot buy. Think about it. In the dry season,
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  Speaker 3: beautiful sunny Darwin, everything is open and we've got the
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  Speaker 3: only big parade thing about people being locked five times
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  Speaker 3: in Victoria. People just came out of lockdown in Adelaide.
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  Speaker 3: What they will think. And yesterday I was working down
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  Speaker 3: the streets with my wife in the afternoon. In front
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  Speaker 3: of us was a group of people actually talking about themselves.
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  Speaker 3: How great down one is, the weather's beautiful, party time
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  Speaker 3: enjoying themselves outside, no restriction.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we want to see.
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  Speaker 1: So if you could have your wife, if it was
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  Speaker 1: up to council, where exactly would they go? Where would
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  Speaker 1: this parade happen?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they we'll start up in in the astronaut come
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  Speaker 3: down Macki Street and I'll take them all the way
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  Speaker 3: to the council building. We have a reception, simple as that.
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  Speaker 3: The same can happen with the government. Look as I'm
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  Speaker 3: pretty sure the government will come up with the idea,
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  Speaker 3: but they've got fourteen days to come up with it.
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  Speaker 1: They will, yeah, and I hope that they do come
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  Speaker 1: up with it, so that it is within fourteen days.
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  Speaker 1: Because we've got Ariana Tipmas. We've also got Emma McKeon
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  Speaker 1: in there at the moment, were like the golden Girls
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  Speaker 1: of the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry for she trained at the pool.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we can quite climb her.
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  Speaker 2: We will not, but look, she made a really really
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  Speaker 2: good choice.
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  Speaker 1: She did. Hey, just very quickly. We are running out
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  Speaker 1: of time, but I do want to ask us Seniors Month.
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  Speaker 1: It is Seniors Month at the moment kicks off today
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  Speaker 1: he did.
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  Speaker 3: And then my fellow, the old woman, poor Arnold, our
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  Speaker 3: deputy mayor, is there to open it. Because I'm with
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  Speaker 3: you here, not only your senior, but I have to
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  Speaker 3: come here for the news.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great idea.
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  Speaker 3: It's about getting seniors out and about being social and
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  Speaker 3: promoting active agent.
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  Speaker 1: So where can people get some more info about all
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  Speaker 1: the different events that are on if they are.
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  Speaker 2: Kin to go along, Well, I'll tell you what we can. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: you can go to our website and look at it.
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  Speaker 3: And if you think seniors do not know how to
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  Speaker 3: use iPads, well we run a series of courses in
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  Speaker 3: our libraries to teach seniors how to use iPads and
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  Speaker 3: do all the things that the young people can do.
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  Speaker 3: And some of them they are very tech savvy.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. They leave me for dead. They
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  Speaker 2: are very very good. And especially the other thing was
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  Speaker 2: COVID nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: They had to actually develop these skills because the only
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  Speaker 3: way you can talk to family in the stent of
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  Speaker 3: a siege is by video, as my old mother does
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  Speaker 3: nearly every day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so true, and it does make it more difficult,
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  Speaker 1: but that technology is certainly helpful for people to stay
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  Speaker 1: in contact combat scarlars. We are going to have to
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  Speaker 1: lay that there. We'll talk to you again very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you before you go gingerly. What the part.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be closed from third of August and
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  Speaker 3: we open November twenty twenty one major upgrade one point
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  Speaker 3: one million dollars and it will have the most inclusive
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  Speaker 3: playground in down Win because kids with disabilities will be
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  Speaker 3: able to use it.
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  Speaker 1: So con is it just the playground that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be closed for that period of time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the playground and we actually getting sixty thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Oh sorry, National Disability Insurance A she provides one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and thirty thousand dollars. And also we're working with Variety
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  Speaker 3: Australia which providing money too to self beautiful playground for
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  Speaker 3: kids I can't access the normal playgrounds because their wheelchairs,
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  Speaker 3: they've got disabilities. Thank you very much for what will
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  Speaker 3: help us out. One point one million dollars up great
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  Speaker 3: for a playground. It's a serious money, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is quite a bit of money.
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  Speaker 2: Conn.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: to you again next
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  Speaker 3: Week, I have a good morning you too,