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Shadow Minnister for Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics Gerard Maley is critical of the money the NT Government has put into upgrading roads to support the stalled Sea Dragon project · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Oh, you may have heard us speaking with Robin Lamley,
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  Speaker 1: the independent member for Aarah Luhn a bit before ten
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  Speaker 1: o'clock and discussing this money that has been spent on roads.
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  Speaker 1: So fifty six million dollars invested to upgrading three roads
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  Speaker 1: to support project Sea Dragon. This Seafarm's projects Sea Dragon,
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  Speaker 1: the world's largest prawn farm.
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  Speaker 2: Now it isn't viable in its.
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  Speaker 1: Current form is what is what the company has said
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  Speaker 1: and recommended against proceeding at this point in time. Now
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  Speaker 1: joining me on the line is the is the Deputy
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  Speaker 1: Opposition leader, Jared Maylee.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Jared.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie, Good morning listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Jared. What are your thoughts are these roads in your electorate?
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  Speaker 3: Gunpoint Road is my electric Katie, and I'm very concerned
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  Speaker 3: about it because they've spent a lot a lot of
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  Speaker 3: money on that road and it's going to keep going.
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  Speaker 3: Because the opening up of Gunpoint now it's caused some
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  Speaker 3: ongoing concerns out there is there's lots of people going
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  Speaker 3: out there, there's lots of rubbish, there's lots of antisocial behavior.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not just the money spent on that road,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be the ongoing problems caused out in
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  Speaker 3: Gunpoint because that road before you had to have like
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  Speaker 3: a good fall will drive and they were shut before
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  Speaker 3: or five months of the year. Now you can get
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  Speaker 3: the Gunpoint in the Corolla.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and you and I have actually spoken about this before.
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  Speaker 1: You've jogged my memory because there has been situations where
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  Speaker 1: there's been terrible rubbish and stuff left out there isn't there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's right, and and that's because it's us so
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  Speaker 4: much now. And like I said, basically, anyone who wants
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  Speaker 4: to go to Gunpoint any time the year can go there,
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  Speaker 4: where before is reserved keen fisho's who wanted to take
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  Speaker 4: the risk and go out there.
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  Speaker 3: Now anyone can go. So there's going to be ongoing
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  Speaker 3: money spent because of the government spending the money on
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  Speaker 3: this prawn farm out there, and we all know that's
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  Speaker 3: what that road was built for, for the hatchery going
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  Speaker 3: out there. It's just really concerned me that there's fifty
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  Speaker 3: six million dollars worth of taxpayers money spent where it
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  Speaker 3: could have gone anywhere else, to the health system or
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  Speaker 3: the education system. And the next thing, Katie, what's next?
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  Speaker 3: What other projects if they spend money on which is
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  Speaker 3: going to fall over. I don't even have to mention
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  Speaker 3: the grand down this one that was twelve million dollars,
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  Speaker 3: the ten million dollars for the water bottle company that
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  Speaker 3: they didn't even have water.
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  Speaker 4: I think, well, is this government.
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  Speaker 3: Really doing their judilions on these things? I don't think, Well,
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  Speaker 3: you'd have to.
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  Speaker 2: Question, you know, whether they are or not.
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  Speaker 1: Because the reality of this here is that you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have anticipated that that kind of money was actually going
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  Speaker 1: to be invested until a final investment decision was made
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  Speaker 1: by the company. And correct me if I'm wrong, Jered,
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  Speaker 1: but my understanding is that that final investment decision wasn't
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  Speaker 1: made and now we're obviously in the situation where we
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  Speaker 1: are where they have said that it can't go ahead
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  Speaker 1: in its current form.
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  Speaker 3: Well, exactly so, Olderman Lee.
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  Speaker 4: The government has speed.
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  Speaker 3: Remember this is not their money. This is your money
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  Speaker 3: and my money in moms and Dad's money on a
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  Speaker 3: project that's now going nowhere, and you know, just ride
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  Speaker 3: out and can't know who's going to use that. And
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  Speaker 3: I know that the Deputy chiff Minister come out that
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  Speaker 3: I open up up our opportunity, Well name what, show
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  Speaker 3: me one you get a good point talking about a
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  Speaker 3: very remote part of the northern territory and to their
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  Speaker 3: thing is going to open up.
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  Speaker 4: We give us a couple of example.
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  Speaker 3: My bid is that though I know example that's just
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  Speaker 3: hot air. I mean, because they know that they've spent
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  Speaker 3: fifty six million dollars of tax players money unwisely and
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  Speaker 3: in a competent manner that was a private company, directors
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  Speaker 3: would beginning the sack.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they could be going to jail.
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  Speaker 3: All sorts of things are happening, and our government is
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  Speaker 3: sit back and wash their hands from.
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  Speaker 4: It and go, well, sorry about that. We'll fix the
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  Speaker 4: next time.
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  Speaker 3: But un personally we've got a track record of not
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  Speaker 3: fixing it next time. Back to the water bottle, the
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  Speaker 3: grand stand this, I just say, what is next?
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  Speaker 4: What project? Now? Is there a pet project for the.
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  Speaker 3: Gunner government is going to go and they spend all
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  Speaker 3: the money, all taxpayers money, remember.
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  Speaker 4: And doesn't go ahead? What's next?
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  Speaker 1: And I think at the end of the day, everybody
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  Speaker 1: would have been you know, like most people are supportive
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  Speaker 1: of major business going ahead and major industry moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Like I do want to put that out there that
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  Speaker 1: you know that if this had that final investment decision made,
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  Speaker 1: and we do want to see jobs for territorians. We
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  Speaker 1: do want to see a different companies, you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: off the ground and being supported. But we need to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that if there is supporting infrastructure, that that
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  Speaker 1: infrastructure realistically, whether it's roads or whatever it is, that
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  Speaker 1: that investment isn't made until we know for certain that
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  Speaker 1: it is going to mean jobs for territorians and benefit
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  Speaker 1: to the territory.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, all this money's been spent, it could have
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  Speaker 3: been spent in our health system. We know our health
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  Speaker 3: systems in crisis. We've had like five code yellows in
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  Speaker 3: the last year. Fifty six million dollars would have gone
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  Speaker 3: a long way to helping us get our health system,
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  Speaker 3: not just in Darlin, but out in the Kapa and
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  Speaker 3: a TANet Creek. I know you remembers for Barty always talked
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  Speaker 3: about them shutting down various health clinics. There's a fifty
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  Speaker 3: six million dollars at the government. It's spent on a
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  Speaker 3: project that they didn't even.
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  Speaker 2: Do their research.
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  Speaker 3: Opposite, where's the due diligence in relation to spending that
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  Speaker 3: money on a project? And it just begs to meet
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  Speaker 3: after the question what is next. And you know there's
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  Speaker 3: ten or twelve projects on the major projects atus.
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  Speaker 2: What is next?
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  Speaker 3: What are they going to spend our money and wasted?
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  Speaker 2: Jared?
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  Speaker 1: Before I let you go, this morning, big news that
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  Speaker 1: the Glenty is not going ahead. They are going to
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  Speaker 1: have a mortified event, a smaller, modified one day event
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  Speaker 1: that isn't the Glente on the well, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the twelfth of July and Rapid Creek.
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  Speaker 2: What was your reaction when you heard that it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: going to be happening. Oh, I'm very sad.
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  Speaker 3: I went to the Glenty last time, in fact that
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  Speaker 3: you feel peaking went and helped do some preparation for
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  Speaker 3: food and I've never been involved in that before, and
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  Speaker 3: because I live out here, and but I went.
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  Speaker 4: And helped roll a little rolled up and everyone's.
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  Speaker 3: Having a fun time. Everyone's laughing and being jolly. And
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  Speaker 3: now unfortunately it's going to be the under one day event.
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  Speaker 3: And I understand it's not through the vaccines or whatever
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  Speaker 3: it was in just through supply. But it's just an
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  Speaker 3: unfortunate because it's just a great event on the Espnat.
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  Speaker 3: Lots of people go, We get to experience the Greek
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  Speaker 3: culture and the food and the dancing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a lot of Territorians are this morning,
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  Speaker 1: Jared Maylee, good to catch up with you, mate.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, seeing tomorrow.