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Find out more about the Green's candidate for Fannie Bay Jonathan Parry · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: And I'm very pleased to say that.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me in the studio right now is the Greens
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  Speaker 2: candidate for the Fanny Bay by election, Jonathan Parry.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having me, yere.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have you in this studio. We really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your time.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Jonathan, the big issue, well, the big thing that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people have been talking about in this
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  Speaker 2: by election is the fact that some of the candidates
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  Speaker 2: do not live in the electorate. Firstly, do you live
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  Speaker 2: in the electorate.
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  Speaker 3: I've got an answer for you, Katy, and it is yes,
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  Speaker 3: I do live in the electorate. I think I'm the
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  Speaker 3: only candidate who lives in the electorate.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? So did you grow up in the
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  Speaker 1: electorate or what's your background?
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  Speaker 3: So my background, I'm a legal aid lawyer. I've worked
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  Speaker 3: in the justice sector for nearly a decade now, but
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  Speaker 3: born in Brizzy and moved up here from Melbourne, but
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  Speaker 3: ben in perap the entire time I've been up here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So a true blue member of the electorate of
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  Speaker 2: Fanny Blake.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I look, I own there, I bought an
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  Speaker 3: apartment there. I'm invested in the community, and I want
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  Speaker 3: to do right by my home now, because you know
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  Speaker 3: when you meet people on the street and they go,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, I moved up to Darwin for two weeks
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  Speaker 3: and never left. I am the textbook. I'm the poster
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  Speaker 3: child for that. It didn't take me long to get here,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, I'm not leaving.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's good. It is always good to hear. I
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  Speaker 2: love it when I hear stories like that. Now do
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  Speaker 2: you think that living in the electric gives you a
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  Speaker 2: needge over the other candidates?
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  Speaker 3: I think it does, if only to say that I
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  Speaker 3: don't have to promise that I'm going to move to
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  Speaker 3: the electorate if I win, because I'm already there. And
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  Speaker 3: the other thing is that you look, I'm in touch
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  Speaker 3: with my community. I'm in touch with colleagues and friends
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  Speaker 3: that live there. And really, for me, it's like it's personal.
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  Speaker 3: Of course it is. It's my home and I want
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  Speaker 3: to do right by my home.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see is the major issues in the.
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  Speaker 3: Electrocy Look, I've been talking to shopkeepers, to retirees and
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  Speaker 3: to young families and three main things come out. For me,
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  Speaker 3: it's justice issues and it's not about being tough on crime.
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  Speaker 3: Because being tough on crime is dumb on crime. I
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  Speaker 3: want to be smart on crime and invest in actual
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  Speaker 3: solutions for issues in the community. That's especially true for shopkeepers.
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  Speaker 3: I know young families are concerned about the future for
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  Speaker 3: their children. They're concerned about the future of the territory
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  Speaker 3: and the environment that we all love here, and so
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  Speaker 3: that's why I'm campaigning on climate. And the last thing
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  Speaker 3: is accountability. Lots of people I've been talking to have
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  Speaker 3: been saying that their phone calls to the previous representative's
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  Speaker 3: office have gone unanswered, and I just don't think that's representation.
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  Speaker 3: So the third thing is accountability, and it's taking the
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  Speaker 3: major parties to task and being an actual voice for
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  Speaker 3: the electorate.
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  Speaker 2: I guess some people out there listening will think it
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  Speaker 2: can be quite difficult to do that. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're not part of one of the major parties, i e.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Labor Party or the Coop. What would
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  Speaker 2: you say to that, Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I disagree. Actually, Look, I'm of the community and i'd
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  Speaker 3: be there as an advocate. As I said, I've been
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  Speaker 3: a lawyer for a long time now, and I know
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  Speaker 3: how the system works. I've worked in the justice sector,
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  Speaker 3: and I know what real justice looks like for communities,
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  Speaker 3: so I'd be an advocate. I do right by them,
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  Speaker 3: and I do right for them.
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  Speaker 2: Now, why do you feel as though your best placed
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  Speaker 2: with the issues that you spoke about before? Why do
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  Speaker 2: you reckon you'd be the best person to try and
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  Speaker 2: fix them. To put it very bluntly, I.
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  Speaker 3: Guess to put it very bluntly because I know the issues.
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  Speaker 3: I know that the strategies that have been put in place,
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  Speaker 3: the previous quote unquote solutions being tough on crime just
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  Speaker 3: don't work. Locking up kids doesn't work. We know that
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  Speaker 3: we've seen that for you know, tough on crime has
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  Speaker 3: been the rhetoric for two hundred years, and I think
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  Speaker 3: we should be smart on crime. Thing about the client,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm here for the Greens. You can tell
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  Speaker 3: that I'm concerned about the future for the climate. But
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  Speaker 3: I don't come from an environmental background, which is why
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  Speaker 3: I've been listening to people. I've been listening to experts
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  Speaker 3: about what's actually important and what needs to be done
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  Speaker 3: to ensure a future for our families and accountability. I
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  Speaker 3: work in governance, I work in justice. You know I
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  Speaker 3: read you know I'm looking at what the things are saying,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm looking at what the issues are and I'm
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  Speaker 3: taking notice and I'm asking questions and if i don't
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  Speaker 3: know something, I'll ask.
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  Speaker 2: Now. When it comes to crime and anti social behavior,
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  Speaker 2: it's been a massive issue for some of the for
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  Speaker 2: some of the business owners and some people that are
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  Speaker 2: in the electorate. You've said that, you know, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to be smarter when it comes to when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to crime and locking kids up doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: What do you reckon needs to be happening.
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  Speaker 3: Early intervention, alternative means of keeping these kids off the street.
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  Speaker 3: It's not lock them up and throw away the key.
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  Speaker 3: It's given something to do. You know, these are not
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  Speaker 3: bad kids on the street, and territorians aren't. You know,
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  Speaker 3: these territory kids are not bad kids. They just need
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  Speaker 3: something to do, and they need some support and they
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  Speaker 3: need some guidance, which is why we should be investing
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  Speaker 3: in mentorship that works, teaching these kids to love their
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  Speaker 3: community and to love the territory.
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  Speaker 2: Now, a question that's come through from one of our
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  Speaker 2: listeners and it is around the turf club funding and
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  Speaker 2: wondering do you support the turf club funding being cut?
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  Speaker 3: What I find interesting about that is the lack of
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  Speaker 3: transparency and the lack of you know, understanding about why
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  Speaker 3: these decisions have been made. There's been question marks over
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  Speaker 3: the Tough Club for a number of years now, and
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  Speaker 3: I'd be really keen to answer that into the future
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  Speaker 3: because it seems like they're evading and they're dodging, and
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  Speaker 3: as a I can tell you, as an advocate, as
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  Speaker 3: a lawyer, I'd be asking those tough questions to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that people get the answers they deserve.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Jonathan, one of the things that we've been speaking
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  Speaker 2: about really heavily this morning is cost of living, specifically
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  Speaker 2: petrol prices and the fact that these petrol prices are
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  Speaker 2: just not coming down in the Northern territory. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've spoken to Eden Bell from the AAANT just a
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  Speaker 2: short time ago. What do you think needs to be
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  Speaker 2: happening to try and ease this cost of living which
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  Speaker 2: is having such a huge impact around petrol prices.
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  Speaker 3: Look, that's a really great question and it's exactly what
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  Speaker 3: the Greens have been saying for years. We saw at
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  Speaker 3: the last election, the climate election, about big companies and
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  Speaker 3: big corporations, oil and gas companies taking responsibility and paying
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  Speaker 3: their fair share for Australians and for Territorians, the subsidy
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  Speaker 3: has been given out by government to these big companies.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not flowing through and I don't think that's fair
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  Speaker 3: and I don't think that's right, and I think the
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  Speaker 3: people Fanny Fanny Bay deserve better.
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  Speaker 1: Just very quickly, before I let you go, why should
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  Speaker 1: people vote for you?
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  Speaker 3: Because I provide a real alternative and if nothing else,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to terrify the other parties to sit up,
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  Speaker 3: take action and listen.
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  Speaker 2: Well Green's candidate for Fanny Bay, Jonathan Perry, I really
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  Speaker 2: appreciate your time this coming.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks