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Katie Woolf spoke with Deputy Opposition Leader Gerard Maley · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But over the course of the weekend, I received a
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  Speaker 1: number of photos of rubbish being dumped and also burnt
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend out at Gunpoint. Now, this is something
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  Speaker 1: that has been raised with me in the past. We've
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  Speaker 1: spoken about it on air, and there's real concerns out
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  Speaker 1: there that people just head out there, they leave their
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  Speaker 1: rubbish around the place, and then we know that yeah,
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend they'd lost everything. Apparently there was a
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  Speaker 1: person out there who'd lost everything on Sunday after his
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  Speaker 1: caravan was burnt to a crisp sorry on Friday. Now,
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  Speaker 1: apparently there was back burning happening in the area and
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  Speaker 1: it must have gotten away and they'd obviously been a
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  Speaker 1: situation where where the van then caught a light. So
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  Speaker 1: that was part of the issue that we've been told
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  Speaker 1: about over the weekend. But then we'd also received a
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  Speaker 1: number of messages over recent weeks about the volume of
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  Speaker 1: rubbish and the different things happening out there. Now joining
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  Speaker 1: us on the line is Jared Mayley, who is the
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  Speaker 1: colp's member for Nelson, which does encompass Gunpoint. Good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you, Jared.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie, Good morning listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Jared. Have you been have you had it raised with
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  Speaker 1: you that there is an issue out there at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: firstly when it comes to the dumping of different rubbish
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  Speaker 1: and people just not treating the place in the way
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  Speaker 1: that they should be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, people have raised that with me. Gunpoint is a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful location and it's close to the city, and I
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  Speaker 2: think what the problem is is the new Gunpoint Road
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  Speaker 2: makes it so you can drive basically any Corolla out
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  Speaker 2: there to Gunpoint, where previously it was full drive only
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  Speaker 2: and in the middle of the wet season the road
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  Speaker 2: was shut because it was just too boggy and damage.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just skinning you so much now because it
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  Speaker 2: is a beautiful location, unfortunately people are going out there
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  Speaker 2: doing the wrong thing, leaving their rubbish everywhere, which makes
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  Speaker 2: it an impact on the environment and just the whole
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  Speaker 2: natural beauty off the location.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, this is the thing, like, who's responsibility is
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  Speaker 1: it out that way? You know, to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: the area does stay clean and make sure that this
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  Speaker 1: isn't happening.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my understanding is owned by Landcorp. And it comes
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  Speaker 2: within the literal chaire, So I'm assuming the responsibility is
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  Speaker 2: between those two people in relasion two. Keeping the area clean,
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  Speaker 2: But this just shows a bit of black of foresight.
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  Speaker 2: The government put the road out there, I think for
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  Speaker 2: the prawn farm, the pat treat that's going to go
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  Speaker 2: out there, and then there's done nothing else with it.
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  Speaker 2: So unfortunately the extra people out there have causing the
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  Speaker 2: problem because it is a beautiful location.
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  Speaker 1: Lock Do you go out there very often? Jared? And
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  Speaker 1: is it like, is it pretty bad? Because that's the
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's certainly the rhetoric that we're hearing from
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  Speaker 1: a lot of listeners that it's really, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty bad situation. In some cases, it's quite disgraceful
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  Speaker 1: some of the mess that people are leaving out there.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a young family and I take my children
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  Speaker 2: because I live in how It Springs and it's really
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  Speaker 2: only a thirty minute drive out there, and I also
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  Speaker 2: go fishing out near on Leader's Creek and Salt Water on,
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  Speaker 2: so I do go out there, and I do notice
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  Speaker 2: that the rubbish is getting worse and worse, and it
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  Speaker 2: is about time that something gets done. And in relation
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  Speaker 2: to trying to fix the problem, because there's erosion, there's
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  Speaker 2: people driving up and down the beach on registered vehicles,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that there's big signs up when you
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  Speaker 2: go down on access to the beach saying no unregistered vehicles.
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  Speaker 2: But the problem is, I think the enforcement offer out
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  Speaker 2: there because it is a fair way out and people
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  Speaker 2: traditionally go out there and drive up and down the beach.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, look, i'd received photos over the weekend of
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  Speaker 1: you know, like some of the rubbish and that, and
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  Speaker 1: we've received photos over recent weeks about it as well.
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  Speaker 1: But then on over the weekend and also this morning,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a message as well about a bloke out
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  Speaker 1: at gunpoint. He'd lost everything after his caravan was apparently
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  Speaker 1: burnt to a crisp on Friday. Apparently there was back
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  Speaker 1: burning happening in the air and it must have gotten
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  Speaker 1: away and must have obviously taken where he was camped,
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm being to He went into town for
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  Speaker 1: supplies and when he got back everything was gone. He
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  Speaker 1: was lucky that to pass it by had apparently saved
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  Speaker 1: his dogs that were tied up with the van. But
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  Speaker 1: after seeing what had happened, these guys went back to
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  Speaker 1: town and got him a heap of supplies. But it
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  Speaker 1: literally sounds like he'd lost everything. We'll try and get
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  Speaker 1: a bit more detail about the situation for him. But
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  Speaker 1: it sort of sounds like there's stuff happening out there,
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  Speaker 1: you know that I suppose people have got no idea.
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  Speaker 2: About Yeah, well exactly. It is a beautiful location and
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  Speaker 2: it is quite uninhabited. It's not many people live out
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  Speaker 2: there that I don't think there's any unreal urban houses.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's people who live at the Leader's Creek
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  Speaker 2: boat ram, which is on the other side of the peninsula.
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  Speaker 2: But the actual Gunpoint Beach where people go and visit
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  Speaker 2: and do the day is the tracks go down on
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  Speaker 2: the beach, and there would be at least seven or
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  Speaker 2: eight different spots you can drive down onto the beach,
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  Speaker 2: and there is a lot of natural bush there, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not sure the circumsansers surrounding this if
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  Speaker 2: it was a bushfire or a backburn or whatever it
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  Speaker 2: might be as certainly unfortunately, imagine going going away and
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  Speaker 2: coming back and find everything your own burnt to the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Feel absolutely, Jared, I'm really sorry, mate. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to have to leave it there because we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to head across to this press conference, which is
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  Speaker 1: expected to start in just a couple of minutes to
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  Speaker 1: see whether whether indeed we are going into lockdown here
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  Speaker 1: in the territory or what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I just hope that whatever the advice or the health
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  Speaker 2: advice is, that Territorians follow that advice because that's what
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  Speaker 2: it's going to keep territorians safe.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Jared Mayleie good to catch up with you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the Deputy Opposition later, but also the Member Foran Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you bye.