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

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  Speaker 1: Running a little bit late.
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  Speaker 2: I do apologize to the Lord Mayor Convat Scarlets who
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  Speaker 2: joins me in the studio right now.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Court, good morning. I'm glad you just don't
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  Speaker 3: round the buses.
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  Speaker 4: It would be always late. And it's only ten days
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  Speaker 4: to Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: I know, ten days to Christmas. It's very exciting.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently Territorians have gone absolutely nuts for the my
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  Speaker 2: Darwin vouchers.
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  Speaker 1: One point two million dollars spent in.
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  Speaker 4: Less than five days.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I know.
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  Speaker 3: And I was planning to go on Monday and do
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  Speaker 3: some Christmas shopping and unfortunately, by two thirty eight pm
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday, all two.
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  Speaker 4: Hundred thousand dollars had gone. Yeah, goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: Well I was thinking the same coin.
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  Speaker 2: I thought to myself when I got off here today,
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  Speaker 2: I might go and buy a couple of things for Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll just have to do that without getting the vouchers.
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  Speaker 3: I know. And it was really good because that means
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  Speaker 3: one point two million dollars went to the coffers of
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  Speaker 3: the local businesses throughout the DA municipality. Because that did
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  Speaker 3: not apply only in the CBD, it applied everywhere. All
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  Speaker 3: the small businesses locally owned business in Darwin the benefit
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  Speaker 3: from that. But at the same time, the clients that
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  Speaker 3: once went to go shopping, they over spending was about
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  Speaker 3: eighty dollars. That means that at least they had twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 4: But that's from the my down.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the end though, is it. Conn There is
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  Speaker 2: also going to be vouchers in January.
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  Speaker 3: This is came because a lot of business told us
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  Speaker 3: that actually it's a very low season after people spend
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  Speaker 3: money for Christmas. So we actually putting two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars on the twentieth of January once again to help Territorians,
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  Speaker 3: to help people, local people and of course local businesses.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I actually think it's a really good initiative
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  Speaker 2: by the Body Council. So let's hope that that keeps
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  Speaker 2: out wonderful down businesses flourishing before Christmas and also after Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: It must be good because I haven't heard any businessman
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  Speaker 3: or business woman telling me it was a bad idea.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody says it was a.
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  Speaker 3: Good idea and help them a lot in the first round.
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  Speaker 3: But also now because it says look, everybody walks in
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  Speaker 3: and spends money, it's great for the local economy.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Connor, do you want to ask you I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about some of the initiatives that are happening around the city.
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  Speaker 2: We know that the scooters have been a real hit.
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  Speaker 2: The NT News is reporting today that there's been some
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  Speaker 2: horrific injuries sustained by people writing those e scooters, but
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  Speaker 2: they're not being accurately recorded because Neuron and the City
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  Speaker 2: of Darwin are relying on victims reporting these incidents. Royal
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  Speaker 2: Dahen Hospital and Palmestan Regional Hospital also don't record data
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  Speaker 2: on those e scooter injuries. Despite the growing number of
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  Speaker 2: incidents throughout the trial and several in recent weeks. Is
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  Speaker 2: what's being reported? I mean, it does seem as though
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  Speaker 2: there's been some fairly bad incidents, but of note, from
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  Speaker 2: some of the ones that I'm seeing, they do appear
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  Speaker 2: as though they're happening sort of in the very late
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  Speaker 2: hours of the night, the very early hours of the morning,
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  Speaker 2: which makes me question if alcohol is involved.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not surprised, because being drunk in the public rights
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  Speaker 3: and offense, so you have to be real, really stupid.
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  Speaker 3: The politicis are really drunk. Rode my squatters on the
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  Speaker 3: curb and I smashed my face. But again I said
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  Speaker 3: to you before, we can legislate against anything against stupidity. Now,
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  Speaker 3: it's not the council or neuro's fault if you run
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  Speaker 3: the bloody scooter on a curb. Hello, you can't go
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  Speaker 3: with a small wheel over a big square, so you're
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  Speaker 3: going to smash your face.
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  Speaker 1: So do you reckon? People just need to be a
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  Speaker 1: bit smarter about this.
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  Speaker 4: I think they hit to be not drunk.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going to do ride a scooter, ride a
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  Speaker 3: scooter like a normal person in the right time, in
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  Speaker 3: the right place. And of course it's not rely scooters.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, who is responsible if you're drunk you around
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  Speaker 3: your own bike on the curb and you smash your
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  Speaker 3: face or your own little scooter because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: private scooters out there. So my advice to people is
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  Speaker 3: us the scooter as directed as it is fit for purpose,
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  Speaker 3: and if you had a few drinks, do not ride
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  Speaker 3: a scooter.
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  Speaker 4: Otherwise you're going to have a new nose.
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  Speaker 2: So corn, it's not the council's fault here. It is
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  Speaker 2: personal responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: Is it the council's fault? When somebody drives his car
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  Speaker 3: in the back of another car? Is it the council's
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  Speaker 3: fault when you ride your bike, your own bike, and
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  Speaker 3: you go to any colomspround smash yourself in an electricity
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  Speaker 3: pole because you had to much a drink. Not it
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  Speaker 3: is your persional responsibility. It's about time people start accepting
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  Speaker 3: their personal responsibility. Is nobody's fault.
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  Speaker 4: If you did something stupid, is your own fault, fair
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  Speaker 4: and square.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, con how are those bikes going? I know that
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  Speaker 2: they've just been rolled out. How they going?
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  Speaker 3: They seem to be doing all right. And not only that,
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  Speaker 3: but see people seem to use it to like it.
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  Speaker 3: And also I've seen them lined up one next to
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  Speaker 3: another orderly not to block anybody's access to foot paths.
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  Speaker 4: And look, a bike is a bike.
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  Speaker 3: People actually have more respect for the bikes with the
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  Speaker 3: scood had been seemed like a toy sometimes and people
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  Speaker 3: running here up and there, neverywhere, mainly young people. But
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  Speaker 3: the bikes are seemed to be used by every person.
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  Speaker 3: And let's see how it's going. It might become a
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  Speaker 3: trend and the scooters disappear, and people use the biers
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  Speaker 3: more than the.
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  Speaker 2: Scooters, and they must run out or like you must
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  Speaker 2: not be able to use some just past that fly
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  Speaker 2: over in Lard Miller, because I always see them lined
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  Speaker 2: up there geolocked.
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  Speaker 3: I believe so that Neurine obviously doing a test. Now
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  Speaker 3: it has to run and see how far they can go.
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  Speaker 3: But I can't see the reason why they can't go
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  Speaker 3: Let's say to Nightcliff or to middle Bitch. So as
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  Speaker 3: time goes by and the company finds out who uses
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  Speaker 3: how they use it, where they go, things may change.
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  Speaker 1: Now Con, have we got you back next week or
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  Speaker 1: your life?
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you no, live for con. CON's going
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  Speaker 4: to be here all this period.
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  Speaker 3: The reason is not because I didn't want to go away.
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  Speaker 3: My concern was coming back. Yes, and if there suddenly
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  Speaker 3: there's a hotspot, I don't to finish two weeks in impacts.
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  Speaker 4: I rather spend time here. The other thing is.
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  Speaker 1: Not Anci finished it though apparently.
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  Speaker 4: Well it's his choice.
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  Speaker 3: My choice to stay here and celebrate with my family
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  Speaker 3: and fellow Darwinians. That seems to be staying back. The
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  Speaker 3: other thing that I actually looking at the weather patterns
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  Speaker 3: at the moment. I'm just getting a bit edgy that
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  Speaker 3: monsoon is coming. And when the monsoon arrives, usually a
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  Speaker 3: cycling follows up very quickly, or rather be here if
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  Speaker 3: something like that happens, but somewhere else trying to come back.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what, Guys, I'm here. You're going
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  Speaker 3: to see me having a coffeet them all even during
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  Speaker 3: the break between Christmas and New Year, and join me.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have a Christmas altogether and enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Con, we'll see you back in the studio next
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday morning then.
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  Speaker 4: And the Tuesday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Good on yet, well I'll be on leave then so
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  Speaker 1: you won't see me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh tippic.
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  Speaker 1: Where you're going nowhere? Just here in Darwin, but just
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  Speaker 1: serving a break.
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  Speaker 4: Let's have a cough together.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds good. Thanks, Con, always appreciate your time.