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

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  Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local
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  Speaker 1: political landscape, Katie Wolf has it covered on three sixty.
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  Speaker 2: Every one is listening Mixed one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 1: Joining us in the studio right now is the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Mayor of Darwin convat Scarlas.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Kate. And on this particular issue,
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  Speaker 2: with a lockdown in Victoria and people coming here, I
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  Speaker 2: have to say, people stop complaining, get immunized. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you what happened last week. I was driving from
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  Speaker 2: Tenna Creek Tilie Springs and what asked for legant Local
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  Speaker 2: Gun Association, not the territory business. And I'm in Tenna
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  Speaker 2: Creek and the guys told me that in one particular community,
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  Speaker 2: in the clinic there's so many unused vaccines they will
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  Speaker 2: vaccinate anybody with in the community. He actually suggested I
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  Speaker 2: go there to get vaccinated. No, I'll do it in Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing is, don't risk it, just vaccinate and corn.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that I've been talking I mean with
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  Speaker 1: you and I have spoken about this before. I've also
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  Speaker 1: spoken to the Chief Minister about it. I just spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the opposition Lady lead and Okio about it. In
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  Speaker 1: Alice Springs and in regional parts of Australia. Some regional
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  Speaker 1: parts and remote parts of Australia, everybody over the age
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  Speaker 1: of sixteen is able to get vaccinated. Do we just
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  Speaker 1: need to bite the bullet here in Darwin and say,
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  Speaker 1: do you know what, Let's allow everybody over the age
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  Speaker 1: of sixteen to get the vaccine if they want to.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is true. We have to actually do it.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot risk it. The problem we've got the territory.
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  Speaker 2: If the virus escape and finance when the community, especially
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  Speaker 2: the digenous community, it will decimate them. The other problem
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  Speaker 2: I get and I get this feedback from mayors of
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  Speaker 2: Indigenous councils and remote councils unti vaxers funding where the
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  Speaker 2: communities they spread rumors, innuendo, aunt truths, lies and scare
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  Speaker 2: the people and people think, now it's a white man's disease.
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  Speaker 2: It will not get me. No, it will get everybody
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  Speaker 2: if that might be a black, white, yellow, pink with spoils, well.
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  Speaker 3: And defigate it.
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  Speaker 1: There are still some people who are hesitant of the
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  Speaker 1: vaccine and my advice to them is to go and
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  Speaker 1: speak to your medical professionals. Make sure you go and
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  Speaker 1: have a chat to GP somebody else if there's any
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  Speaker 1: concerns that you've got walk through with them, because they're
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  Speaker 1: able to explain to you why you should have it
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  Speaker 1: and what might be the best one for you. Con
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  Speaker 1: Let's move along because I know that well pretty much
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  Speaker 1: every year you got to do a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: curb side waste orders.
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  Speaker 3: We do, you've got the lightest stack.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we do, we do. We want to find out
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  Speaker 2: what people actually put in their beans and that or
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  Speaker 2: it will take place between Sunday the thirtieth of May
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  Speaker 2: we just passed and Saturday the fifth of June. That
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  Speaker 2: gave us a good idea what actually goes the rabbits steep.
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  Speaker 2: And now we've got the situation of the rabbit steep Violia.
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  Speaker 2: The company that runs it does a really good job there,
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  Speaker 2: resuting two hundred tons of metal every nearly every month.
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  Speaker 2: We've got now a factory that does compost by all
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  Speaker 2: the green waste and the food covering. The problem we've
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  Speaker 2: got is glass. You see, you've got the green glass,
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  Speaker 2: the one bottles that virtually useless, and you've got the
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  Speaker 2: white bottles. They beers. We can actually turn and take
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  Speaker 2: ten cents, so there is alternative there. Don't put your
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  Speaker 2: beer bottles in the yellow bean, take them and cast
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  Speaker 2: them in and get some more beer. But the green
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  Speaker 2: bottles and the brown bottles, the best thing for them
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  Speaker 2: is to crush them. The only problem we've got is
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  Speaker 2: the volume is not big. We don't have any private
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  Speaker 2: industry that's called a crashing machine here. I'd love to
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  Speaker 2: have one here because I can use it as a
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  Speaker 2: sand alternative, but until we've got something to happen here, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: they will go to the to the to the tip.
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  Speaker 2: It's a waste of resource. I know that one, and
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  Speaker 2: I call up on the travel industry. Can we do
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  Speaker 2: something about it. I mean, if you need to talk
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  Speaker 2: to us about location and everything, I'm happy to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you, but a waste of resource.
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  Speaker 3: So you're prepared to, you know, to try and work
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  Speaker 3: something out with the path.
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  Speaker 2: We have an example because the Lake Side drive actually took.
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  Speaker 2: It happened because we recycled concrete, We recycled the old
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  Speaker 2: asphalt that was on the ground, and there was some
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  Speaker 2: other relative. So it can be done. But we need
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  Speaker 2: somebody to do it because the volume is not like
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  Speaker 2: Melbourne and we can't explore them down south because of
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  Speaker 2: the distance. Fact, nobody's going to buy down south is
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  Speaker 2: transport alone. It's to expand. Where the beer bottles. My
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  Speaker 2: advice is keep them in a safe place. Once a month,
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  Speaker 2: take them and take sen sens per bottle.
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  Speaker 3: So, Corn, is the has the audit started yet or is.
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  Speaker 1: It currently underwatch started on Sunday, it started, It's currently underway.
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  Speaker 2: We'll finish this Saturday. So we are not spying what
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  Speaker 2: you eating and what you're actually buying. We actually want
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  Speaker 2: to know what's going into your bins so we can
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  Speaker 2: adjust our series A convicting right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what it's all about, making sure that the services,
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  Speaker 1: then that the council delivers, you know, suit what the community.
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  Speaker 2: Needs and believed or not previous experience if so on.
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  Speaker 2: As there are fifty six categories of waste that people
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  Speaker 2: in Darwin bins, from glass to plastic, organics, FURST and
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  Speaker 2: non first metals and so on and so on.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, Corn, a few things I want to ask
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  Speaker 3: you about.
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  Speaker 1: I have got some questions from listeners as well, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll firstly go to these scooters being expanded. Are they
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  Speaker 1: going to go into Funny Bay and East point in
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  Speaker 1: the like now.
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  Speaker 2: They expanding now. To make it clear from the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: the squadasive a licensed to operate the territory by a
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  Speaker 2: larcens give by the Northern Ritory Government, not the Council.
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  Speaker 2: The council allows them to use footpaths because they're not
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  Speaker 2: allowed to be on the road for some for Traffic
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  Speaker 2: Act reasons. But they're allowed to be on the footpaths.
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  Speaker 2: But the company now not only expanding the area where
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  Speaker 2: they can go, but they actually acquired the twenty million
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  Speaker 2: dollars that but insurance, so if some scooter hits your car,
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  Speaker 2: then the company will pay the insurance or somebody. And
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  Speaker 2: this is very very important because you can't have people
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  Speaker 2: not covered by insurance having an accident hitting somebody because
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  Speaker 2: they work their house so it's not difficult. The area
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  Speaker 2: where they're expanding now is the Darwin's Ski Club, the
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  Speaker 2: Sailing Club, the Trailer boat Club, the Madyllon Bitch and
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  Speaker 2: the funny based shops together with the museum and art galleries.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great idea.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: I've noticed a lot of not young people, tourists, crean
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  Speaker 2: nomads using the scooters because if you've got a big
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  Speaker 2: van parked in the caravan park you want to move around,
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  Speaker 2: scootter gives you a really good opportunity for a very
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  Speaker 2: little to go some where. Are we sure you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to catch.
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  Speaker 3: A dacsi now? Con we have received an email from Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: It's regarding parking at the Greek Orthodox Church. Now, there's
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  Speaker 1: apparently a park that's located at the corner of Wood
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  Speaker 1: Street and Daily Street in the city's She has called
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  Speaker 1: also to complain to council and they are going to
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  Speaker 1: send a ranger out by the sounds of things to
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  Speaker 1: have a look at it. But essentially she's asking, you
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  Speaker 1: know why people are apparently they've removed some of the
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  Speaker 1: something's been removed from there. I think it's the rocks.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get through the email because it's
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  Speaker 1: quite extensive. But she's wondering, you know why they can't
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  Speaker 1: park in the vacant block diagonally across the street and
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  Speaker 1: and you know what exactly is going to be done
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  Speaker 1: about it so that they're not parking on that parkland.
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  Speaker 2: Well, people can't park in other people's block of land
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  Speaker 2: and without permission from the owner parking on a.
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  Speaker 3: Part it is a parkland is it council land.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go to that one. If you park on
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  Speaker 2: a verch, or you park on a car park, you
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  Speaker 2: bridge the legislation. If we see you will book you.
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  Speaker 2: One other thing we've got is in some big events
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  Speaker 2: there's not enough parking around there. And the other thing
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  Speaker 2: is some people don't want to walk twenty meters away
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  Speaker 2: from their destination. But what we're going to do is
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  Speaker 2: we do in other parks. We're going to be ballards
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  Speaker 2: around the park so people cannot have access to the
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  Speaker 2: park to pack there. But again I said to you
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  Speaker 2: before you park on a verge, you bridge the legislation,
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  Speaker 2: you get booked. We've done it before, we had complaints
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  Speaker 2: and argument is, well, you bridge the parking legislation.
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  Speaker 1: And if people are parked there as the council range
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  Speaker 1: is going to go and if we.
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  Speaker 2: Find them parked there, they will get a notice in
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  Speaker 2: their windscreen to say you here's a fine, thank you
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  Speaker 2: very much. But again, as before, it's preventing this happening.
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  Speaker 2: And by best way to do it is like other places,
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  Speaker 2: we put ballards around that park.
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  Speaker 3: And is that what you're going to do here?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's our park. It's for everybody to be enjoyed.
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  Speaker 2: And if people with big forward drives drive on the park,
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  Speaker 2: they will ruin it.
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  Speaker 3: So there's going to be billards. Put I want to.
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  Speaker 2: Put all arts in the park to prevent these cap
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  Speaker 2: thing's happening.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and at that park's.
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  Speaker 2: Would stretch and cop and daily street corn.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, we will wait to hear exactly when
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  Speaker 1: that's happening. I do want to ask as well that
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  Speaker 1: work at Ease Point. I know that you listened to
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  Speaker 1: a suggestion that had been made by a couple of
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  Speaker 1: our listeners, and it'd obviously been made something suggestion that
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  Speaker 1: had been made by other people as well, to counsel
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  Speaker 1: about a crossing just outside the kids car park there
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  Speaker 1: at East Point.
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  Speaker 3: That work.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the crossing's done, the zebra crossing is there, and
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  Speaker 1: I can see that you're also upgrading the footpath.
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  Speaker 2: Fuckie. When you say something, or any of your listen
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  Speaker 2: says something, I'll drive around to have a look myself.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I drove around, had to look at it, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was dangerous for Kitsen families and we decided
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  Speaker 2: to do a total upgrade. The other day there was
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  Speaker 2: a little newspaper about Smith Street that was the grass
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  Speaker 2: was yellow. I traveled there, I had to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: I checked it out. It was a fault and irrigation
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  Speaker 2: system that was fixed. Now Smith Street is getting green.
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  Speaker 2: People complain to me about the rocks and Browshaw Terrace
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  Speaker 2: and cas Arena. Well, let me tell you this currently
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  Speaker 2: undergoing and upgrade and it's going to all the rocks
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  Speaker 2: removed and be landscaped properly like a garden. I had
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  Speaker 2: to complain about Goida road that looks terrible. We negotiate
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  Speaker 2: with the territory govern because part of it belongs to Ntgar,
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  Speaker 2: belongs to us. Now it's going to be upgraded to
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  Speaker 2: bi landscaped to do properly. We've done a lot of
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  Speaker 2: work landscape in our city, Kate. We put more than
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  Speaker 2: fifteen thousand trees down, and if you look around town
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  Speaker 2: and the parks, we've done a tremendous job with them flowers, color,
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  Speaker 2: greenary and will continue to do more. In this budget.
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  Speaker 2: I've got three million dollars for trees. That translates roughly
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  Speaker 2: to about one thirteen thousand trees. So we are going
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  Speaker 2: to put more trees down because the best way to cool.
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  Speaker 2: The city is not structures over the streets are trees,
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  Speaker 2: so g.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's great to have trees everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So con just to answer that question, the fencing and
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  Speaker 1: that that's up at that little at the walk white
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  Speaker 1: there with the zebra crossings going the east point, is
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  Speaker 1: that going to be coming down?
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  Speaker 3: Sir?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, when the work is finished and we take delivery
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  Speaker 2: of it, the whole thing will come down. And people
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  Speaker 2: already using it, because I use myself to walk around here,
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  Speaker 2: look at it. It looks great, it looks it gives
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  Speaker 2: really easy access to the playground. You park in one side,
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  Speaker 2: you walk in the other, and it's safe.
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  Speaker 1: Well makes people slow down as well, and those and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes kids just run onto that area. They do not
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  Speaker 1: think as sensibly as what we do as adults. So
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  Speaker 1: we've got to be really careful.
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  Speaker 2: If you drive in this point there is a limit
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  Speaker 2: in the speed. Follow the limits simple as that. There
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  Speaker 2: are no excuse. There are people crossing the road, they
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  Speaker 2: are kiss crossing the road. The last thing you need
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  Speaker 2: is to hit a kid. I don't want to see
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  Speaker 2: that happening because if you do it, that means you've
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  Speaker 2: done something wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Combat scarlets we are going to have to leave it there.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord Mayor of Darwin, thanks for your time.
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  Speaker 2: Have a good morning kid.
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  Speaker 3: You two