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Independent Member for Goyda Kezia Purick is fed up with the NT Government not encompassing the rural area in its projects, after calling a new fire station in Howard Springs the Palmerston Fire Station · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But look, joining me on the line right now.
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  Speaker 2: I always like heading out to the rural area and
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  Speaker 2: joining me on the line right now. Is the independent
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  Speaker 2: member for goid A Kezier Puric. Good morning to you, Kezier.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good morning Katie. Wanting to listeners.
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  Speaker 1: You're sounding a bit sick today, easier bit crook.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a cold. I went to that dreadful
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  Speaker 3: Sydney place and did all my precautionary things and more
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  Speaker 3: masks and clean tables. And I'm back one day and
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  Speaker 3: I've got a cold and I tested myself. It's not
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  Speaker 3: the rona. No good to hear a couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, Well, we're hoping we'd have you on the
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  Speaker 2: week that was tomorrow, but we'll have to wait and
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  Speaker 2: see how you're going.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want you to go. Yeah, see how you go now, Kesier.
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  Speaker 2: The new fire station is obviously it's complete, as I
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  Speaker 2: understand it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's finished now, isn't that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I believe so. I believe so that I'm doing a
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  Speaker 3: soft opening and checking all the all the equipment to
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  Speaker 3: make sure it's all working well for you know, coming
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  Speaker 3: into the dry season in particular.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and it's out there at at Howard's. But
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  Speaker 2: it's called is it called the Parmesan fire station?
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  Speaker 3: It is called just called boring Parmesan fire station, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm getting a bit fed up with this government
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  Speaker 3: trying to encroach into the rule area and leave things
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  Speaker 3: they're called Parmesan, Like we've got the Pariston Hospital, although
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  Speaker 3: they sometimes do refer to it as the Parmeston and regional.
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  Speaker 3: So why isn't this fire station called the Parmeston a
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  Speaker 3: rural fire station when it's within the Lichfield Council boundaries.
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  Speaker 3: And not only that, Katie, we've got the Rural Volunteer
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  Speaker 3: fire Brigades Howard Springs, something to do called Ingia Virginia
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  Speaker 3: that service for the service the greater rural area and
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  Speaker 3: lots of people involved out they'll have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: engagement and a relationship with this fire station. And they're
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  Speaker 3: rural people. They're rural volunteer brigades. And I think the
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  Speaker 3: government should be looking at, you know, encompassing the rural
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  Speaker 3: air because that's where this fire station is going to
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  Speaker 3: be servicing predominantly, as well as obviously Parmeston and elsewhere.
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  Speaker 3: So it should be I mean, I personally think it
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  Speaker 3: should be the Lichfield fire station, but of course we're
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  Speaker 3: not going to get the government to choose that because
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to think that Parmerson's everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and Gizie, this is the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you know, I was having a little giggle
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  Speaker 2: going good on the rural area, you know, being being
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  Speaker 2: staunch and wanting it to be the rural fire station.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact of the matter is that it is
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  Speaker 2: actually out there in Howard Springs and so a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are questioning why it's not included in the name.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and like you said, and I'll be running to
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  Speaker 3: the Minister for Police Nicole Madison, say come on enough enough.
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  Speaker 3: You know you put the hospital in Lichfield Council and
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  Speaker 3: now you've put the fire station. You still want to
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  Speaker 3: call them just parmersaves Armson's got its own fire station,
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  Speaker 3: you know, down Emory Avenue or wherever it is somewhere
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  Speaker 3: down there. And this is a large fire stations are
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  Speaker 3: any modern fire station which we don't need given we've
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  Speaker 3: had a very good wet season, so we're going to
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of fuel load and no doubt we'll
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  Speaker 3: have lots of fires as we always do. So let
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  Speaker 3: the rural people have some ownership of its infrastructure. Don't
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  Speaker 3: just sort of, you know, ignore the twenty five twenty
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  Speaker 3: eight thousand people who will be responding and needing and
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  Speaker 3: working with this fire station and the offices. So I'll
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  Speaker 3: be writing to the ministers hopefully we'll get a bit
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  Speaker 3: of common sense out of this.
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  Speaker 2: For one, Well and Keizer, it's not the only issue
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  Speaker 2: out there in the rural area at the moment. I
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  Speaker 2: know that you had said to me that the government
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  Speaker 2: is wanting to make Marachai and Dundee and Douglas Day
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  Speaker 2: into councils.
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  Speaker 1: What does this all mean.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, this has been over ten years in the coming.
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  Speaker 3: Those who have been around long enough, we'll remember ten
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  Speaker 3: years ago when the big Shires were made and Paul
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  Speaker 3: Henderson was the Chief Minister and he just wanted to
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  Speaker 3: push Marrachi, Corrobery, Dundee and a few others all into Lichfield.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't ask Litchfield and then just blanket and call it
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  Speaker 3: top end Shire. That was a long time ago. Huge resistance.
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  Speaker 3: Jerry Woold remember for Nelson at the time, he coordinated
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  Speaker 3: massive rallies around Parliament House in cars. We had huge pushback.
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  Speaker 3: Then the government said, okay, we'll forget it, We'll leave it.
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  Speaker 3: So surrounding Lichfield is the whole swag of unincorporated areas
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  Speaker 3: which Marrakai is won in my electorate, Dundee's and others
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  Speaker 3: Douglas Daily for example. Now, discussion paper just came out
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  Speaker 3: of the blue as to how these areas should become incorporated,
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  Speaker 3: whether with themselves or with Litchfield. When I spoke to
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  Speaker 3: the mayor on Anzac Day, they hadn't had any formal
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  Speaker 3: discussions with Litchfield. And the question is, we've got a
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  Speaker 3: public meeting coming up at Maracai, not this weekend next
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  Speaker 3: and I've done these had a public meeting. All the
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  Speaker 3: people I've spoken to do not want to be incorporated.
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  Speaker 3: They see no advantage, no benefits, and that all the
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  Speaker 3: government's doing is they usually do have your say, but
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  Speaker 3: they structure the questions such that you can only ask
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  Speaker 3: the yes or no. So we're going to get a
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  Speaker 3: pretty pretty strong message at public meeting on a Sunday
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  Speaker 3: week as to where is this come from? What where
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  Speaker 3: does it come from? Why? Now is there some kind
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  Speaker 3: of package they're going to offer the residents of these areas, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, something to do with roads. They don't want
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  Speaker 3: a library, They're not going to get a swimming pool.
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  Speaker 3: This is what they mentioned in the discussion paper. I
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  Speaker 3: mean the discussion paper is like five pages long. And also,
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  Speaker 3: how are they going to get a rate base? A
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  Speaker 3: rate basis? There's not a lot of dwellings out there
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  Speaker 3: or properties. There are cattle stations, there's few partial properties,
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  Speaker 3: and there's few mineral leases. So whether the government's got
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  Speaker 3: something in mind that they're going to somehow, you know,
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  Speaker 3: smack them with a big, big rate, rate high or
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  Speaker 3: rate full stop, I don't know. So so easy for
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  Speaker 3: the government, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: So does it mean that the likes of Marrachai, Dundee
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  Speaker 2: Douglas Day that they will all then fall under the
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  Speaker 2: Litchfield Council.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know. I know Kamali is in the mix.
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  Speaker 3: There somewhere is a councul it's own right. If you
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  Speaker 3: look at the discussion paper, they've got Marachai and a
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  Speaker 3: Douglas Day all colored in one color. It leads you
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  Speaker 3: to assume that's what they've got in mind. Do they have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in mind that Dundee and Kamali should come together?
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  Speaker 3: The other thing too, Katie Is. Both Dundee and Marrachai
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  Speaker 3: have their own very successful Progress Association. They provide a
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  Speaker 3: structure to the community to provide service to the community.
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  Speaker 3: They look after children, you know, Christmas time, Easter time,
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  Speaker 3: and also those progresses siations have stepped up when they aren't.
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  Speaker 3: Stuart Adam Hawey got cut in floods a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago. It was a Progress Association that helped organize
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  Speaker 3: the schooling on the Tavern brands for the students who
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  Speaker 3: were stuck on that side of the flood. You know.
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  Speaker 3: So they're already operating. Well, they're in the corporate Association.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they pretty much run their own sort of
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  Speaker 3: informal library with books that are shared. You know. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, the government says saying, oh we want in
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  Speaker 3: a corporate ship. Why what advantage isn't going to and
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  Speaker 3: what's in it for the government. That's the other thing
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  Speaker 3: to care for the government.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to catch up with the Lichfield bear
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  Speaker 2: in a couple of minutes as well, and we'll hear
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  Speaker 2: what he's got to say.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, well, keys here, it sounds like the talks
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  Speaker 1: are happy out there at your place that your home
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  Speaker 1: Brook yeah one.
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  Speaker 3: He's very happy.
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  Speaker 1: He is, by the sounds of it, very happy. Kesy Empiric.
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  Speaker 1: We better leave it there. Hopefully you're on the mend,
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  Speaker 1: but no no pressure for tomorrow. We'll talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Thank you,