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Katie Woolf spoke with candidate for Litchfield Council Mayor Doug Barden · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Well, we are going to now head across and catch
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  Speaker 1: up with our next candidate. I believe we've got Doug
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  Speaker 1: Barden on the line. Good morning to you, Doug.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie and listening.
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  Speaker 1: Doug will give you five minutes, mate, because we accidentally
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell everybody that we've gone to to three, so
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  Speaker 1: let's go with five minutes. Are you ready to get started?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, when you're ready, All.
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  Speaker 1: Right, let's start with what job were you in before
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  Speaker 1: putting your hand up for this election.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a counselor for Southward since twenty fifteen and
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  Speaker 2: been developing my Very Springs property and some small investment
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  Speaker 2: properties around town. I was also the owner of the
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  Speaker 2: Lake Resort in Caravan Park, which also had a licensed
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  Speaker 2: restaurant over one hundred caravan sites, and we also had
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  Speaker 2: water speed jetsp new and paddleboat businesses on the same site.
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  Speaker 2: So I am aware of all responsibilities organization must contend with,
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  Speaker 2: such as liquor licenses, boarding house licenses, by regulations, payrolls, taxes,
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  Speaker 2: work health and safety, marine licenses, Department of Health laws.
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  Speaker 2: I was also the licensee of the restaurant for over
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  Speaker 2: ten years and how.
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  Speaker 1: Long have you lived out in the rural area.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a bond bred Darwin boy, and I have lived
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  Speaker 2: in the rural area for well. We've owned the property
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  Speaker 2: here since nineteen seventy and I've lived here since before
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven on and off, and then back at
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  Speaker 2: Penny Baby with my parents. We didn't have electricity in
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  Speaker 2: the rural area in nineteen eighty seven. And yep, ye, Now, why.
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  Speaker 1: Did you decide to put your hand up for the
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  Speaker 1: mayor's job.
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  Speaker 2: I believe I have achieved a lot for my area ready.
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  Speaker 2: These achievements is being able to get council to lease
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  Speaker 2: Mirror Square at Southport Township from the anti government and
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  Speaker 2: obtaining a small said meeting room there. I worked very
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  Speaker 2: hard to get Oxford Roges, Harves and William Road likes
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  Speaker 2: on Road, Skycreek Road Field as well as the Mango Roads.
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  Speaker 2: I am able to analyze council reports in order to
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  Speaker 2: make sure rate payers are getting value for money. Such
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  Speaker 2: examples would be the mobile Workforce said. One of the
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  Speaker 2: reports told us that the mobile Workforce said was going
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  Speaker 2: to cost in the vicinity of one point four million
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  Speaker 2: dollars when we've already been given a grant for two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five thousand dollars for two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty five thousand back in and I was able to
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  Speaker 2: analyze that report to get that costing down to four
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty thousand dollars. And on budges other things
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  Speaker 2: was the proposed business community at seven Patsalou Road, which
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  Speaker 2: was a bad deal. I was able to stop that
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  Speaker 2: deal from happening, preventing the rating system coming into Litchfield.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to stop that. I am able to
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  Speaker 2: work with the people in recreation reserves and am very
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  Speaker 2: happy to listen in order to find solutions within the municipalities.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you see as being the big issues
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  Speaker 1: in the Litchfield municipality?
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  Speaker 2: Rates increasing by ten percent next year, they're nine percent
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  Speaker 2: the year after and eight percent the year after. As
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  Speaker 2: for the adopted municipal plan is a very large issue
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  Speaker 2: in my eyes. Services such as roads based reserves, libraries
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  Speaker 2: are also very important. We need to find efficiencies within
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  Speaker 2: the administration to continue these services as had been done
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  Speaker 2: in previous councils. In the past, councils has worked very
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  Speaker 2: hard with the community volunteers committees in these recreation reserves
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  Speaker 2: which has saved councils tens or hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 2: dollars and the reserves have become a big affet to
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  Speaker 2: the council and the community. I'm a great believer in
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  Speaker 2: the statement that community effort is essential. Previous councils have
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  Speaker 2: been able to administer the budget and provide these services
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  Speaker 2: without the proposed massive rate rises and build infrastructure at
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  Speaker 2: the same time by working with the community and intend
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  Speaker 2: and I intend doing to say. Another major is the
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  Speaker 2: KWANDI is the sorry the proceed to one holds parmasan
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  Speaker 2: council land grads. I will work with the MTG to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that this Cowandi and Holts stays with this
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  Speaker 2: field and its developed sensibly in think with our values
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  Speaker 2: with the hospital and the jails. This NTD development will
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  Speaker 2: increase Thistfield Drake Rake pays baith and meaning council can
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  Speaker 2: give their resid and more services.
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  Speaker 1: Doug, You've only got about thirty seconds left, mate, Why
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  Speaker 1: should people vote for you?
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  Speaker 2: I believe I already have a proven record being I'm
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  Speaker 2: a Bronze and Bred territory, extensive business knowledge and experience,
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  Speaker 2: member of many committees, including Howard Springs quote Litchfield Livingston
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  Speaker 2: Recreation Reserve, Very Springs Recreation Life member of the Very
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  Speaker 2: Springs Volunteer Bush By every dade, remember the Palmerston reason
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  Speaker 2: Be Business Association, past member and president of the Old
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  Speaker 2: Howard Springs Golsh Club.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Doug, we have run out of time mate, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much for your time this morning. Doug Barton
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  Speaker 1: all the very best.
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  Speaker 2: Thank thank you Katie, and thank you for listeners listening
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  Speaker 2: to me and please give us a tick on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Doug. Thank you mate,