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

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  Speaker 1: But I tell you what one person who looked as
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  Speaker 1: though and certainly looks as though they've romped it in
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  Speaker 1: is conbat Scarlets. Good morning to you, Corn.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie Corn.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what pretty convincing win. By the look
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  Speaker 1: of things for.
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  Speaker 2: You, it looks like it, doesn't it two thousand votes
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  Speaker 2: difference between the first and second candidate. It is a
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  Speaker 2: convincing win. And also it's a mandate. But people really
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  Speaker 2: like what I did in the past four years and
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  Speaker 2: they're looking forward for me to do what I promised
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  Speaker 2: to do in the next four years.
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  Speaker 1: Con what is first on your agenda now? Like? Are
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  Speaker 1: you back to work today or how does it all go?
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  Speaker 2: Of course I'm back to work. I was here in
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  Speaker 2: my office. I pulled out my program for the next
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  Speaker 2: four years, got a highlighter and highlight the things I
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  Speaker 2: want to be done very very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And what about do you? I mean, I'm assuming that
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  Speaker 1: you know there's quite a bit happening today from the
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  Speaker 1: council's perspective in terms of the cleanup from the fireworks
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  Speaker 1: and that kind of thing as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well. It is because every year we've got the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: But what I have to saying I'm very pleased about it.
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  Speaker 2: More and more people now pick their rabbits, take than
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  Speaker 2: with them or put them in the appropriate areas and
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  Speaker 2: makes things much much easier for us to pick up rabbish.
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  Speaker 2: It's territory day. We celebrated in style. We put the
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  Speaker 2: fireworks out, and I'll tell you what, some people spend
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money because some of the fireworks they
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  Speaker 2: are commercial quality, not the old little bangers we used
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  Speaker 2: it to have twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Conn, do you know if there was many fires sort
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  Speaker 1: of in the Darwin municipality.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I haven't got any information about our area because
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  Speaker 2: most of our areas it's densely populated. Plus people are
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  Speaker 2: quite clever not to let the fires or the fireworks
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  Speaker 2: in our parks. I know there are some fires, especially
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  Speaker 2: outside Darwin, but here, apart from very few grass fires,
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  Speaker 2: some very few spots within have a major incident.
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  Speaker 1: So Conn, from your perspective, I mean moving away from
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  Speaker 1: the crackers for a moment, and from your perspective upon
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  Speaker 1: now we're looking as though you are well and truly
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  Speaker 1: said to be re elected as the mayor. What's going
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  Speaker 1: to be first on your agenda? You know what do
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  Speaker 1: you really want to get stuck into well.
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  Speaker 2: First thing the agenda was keep planting trees and my
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  Speaker 2: plan for these years eight thousand trees. But other things
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  Speaker 2: we want to do is start planning about more avenues
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  Speaker 2: and like daily Street they are quired. If you gravel
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  Speaker 2: pits around the area, then needs to be upgraded. And
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  Speaker 2: of course another thing is to reactivate the Lania depot.
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  Speaker 2: You know all the Ania depot that council used to
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  Speaker 2: have in the northern suburbs. I want to bring it
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  Speaker 2: back online so we can have people there to respond
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  Speaker 2: quickly and efficiently if there is any emerging problem anywhere
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  Speaker 2: in Dowin. These are the first three things that can
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  Speaker 2: be done very very quickly. But the other things like
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  Speaker 2: the El Fresco fees to be removed that will happen
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  Speaker 2: next in a few meetings in council and also the
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  Speaker 2: thirty minutes free parking in the city. Some of these
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  Speaker 2: things I'm waiting for the new council to be elected
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  Speaker 2: because everything will go to preference. You've seen the results.
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  Speaker 2: And after this happened and we have the get to
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  Speaker 2: know each other as new councilors and Lord of Maya,
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  Speaker 2: we start talking about these issues and.
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  Speaker 1: Con when do you think we'll know who exactly has
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  Speaker 1: been elected as the Alderman. It's looking as though there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be some new faces on the Council.
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  Speaker 2: My estimate is there will be five new faces and
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  Speaker 2: the results have to be known by the sixteenth of September.
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  Speaker 2: So the sixteenth of September, the end of the elections
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  Speaker 2: will be taking place formally and the Commissioner will announce
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  Speaker 2: who the winners are.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of them in there obviously that looked like
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  Speaker 1: they could potentially have political alliances. Is that ever an
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  Speaker 1: issue do you think when you talk about the makeup
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  Speaker 1: of the council? I know that you are a former
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  Speaker 1: labor minister.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people make an issue about poly
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  Speaker 2: but every person's got his political ideas. Let's not forget.
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  Speaker 2: In the last council. Yes, I was an ex label minister,
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  Speaker 2: Mick Palmer was an EXCLT minister. Gary Haskett was a
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  Speaker 2: member of the CLP and stood for elections. People who
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  Speaker 2: got their political views, but one thing we made sure
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  Speaker 2: all of us we then brought politics into the decision
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  Speaker 2: of the council. We kept a non aligned line all decisions.
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  Speaker 2: We made to the benefit of the community, not to
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  Speaker 2: the benefit of one or another party, and the same
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  Speaker 2: thing will continue in the future.
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  Speaker 1: So conn howson will counsel seats like once all the
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  Speaker 1: older men are indeed elected, and once you work out
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  Speaker 1: the makeup, when do you first seat?
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  Speaker 2: The official swearing in will happen on the twentieth of September,
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  Speaker 2: and then on the next week there will be an
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  Speaker 2: official council meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff well Convat scholars, good to catch up with you.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be able to resume our usual Tuesday catch ups
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  Speaker 1: again from next week.
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  Speaker 2: Hi there next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry. Sounds good. Thanks, con congratulations, thank you. That
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  Speaker 1: is combat scholars there who is well the mayor for
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  Speaker 1: another four years.