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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 1: every one is listening Mix one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what it is A busy morning in
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  Speaker 1: here today, and combat scarlas the Lord Mayor joins me
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  Speaker 1: right now. Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Colin, Good morning Katie. And it's a really really busy day.
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  Speaker 1: It is a busy day, and we had to just
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  Speaker 1: fit in the trade minister there, Dan Tee, and very
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  Speaker 1: quickly before having you in the studio. So Connor, I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you waiting sending us any more money. Well, he's
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  Speaker 1: obviously they've reached this free trade agreement.
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  Speaker 2: We get much of it. He can come to the
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  Speaker 2: radio every day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and hopefully it means so that we're able to
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  Speaker 1: get workers into some of those different jobs.
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  Speaker 3: I remember people with going to the newspaper says all
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  Speaker 3: this foreigners will take our jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what's happening now? Yeah, everybody's worth the foreigners. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: things come on.
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  Speaker 1: I know in some of these jobs we just can't
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  Speaker 1: fill at the moment. But hey, let's move along and
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  Speaker 1: talk about the garden's oval lights. Firstly, because I understand better. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the oval is going to be lit up with five
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  Speaker 1: hundred lucks strong lighting for three evenings a week from
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  Speaker 1: now and well from now on really, after the Darwin
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  Speaker 1: Council approved their ongoing news following a successful trial con
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  Speaker 1: I've got to say, I actually think that this is
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  Speaker 1: a really good idea. I was telling you off air
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  Speaker 1: that my kids play soccer at Bagget on a Friday
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  Speaker 1: night and those lights. If they weren't there, we'd all
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  Speaker 1: be there Sunday up until goodness knows what time, in
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  Speaker 1: the heat of the day. So it is a good
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  Speaker 1: thing I think for Junior's here.
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  Speaker 3: I was doing that one three o'clock in the afternoon
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  Speaker 3: on Thursdays and Fridays Saturdays with my kids and we're melting.
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  Speaker 3: This is a great idea using our park late at
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  Speaker 3: night when it's cool. And that was the idea with
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  Speaker 3: the garden ovls. And you remember the uproar the end
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  Speaker 3: of life as we know it, It will illuminate inside
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  Speaker 3: my bedroom. Well it didn't. This trial has been running
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  Speaker 3: since April.
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  Speaker 1: Since April, yees, so it's.
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  Speaker 2: April May June. Guess how many complaints were received.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be interested tonight.
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  Speaker 2: So no complaints, no complaints all.
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  Speaker 3: So obviously does not annoy anybody because the lights illuminate
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  Speaker 3: the sport oval and nothing else.
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  Speaker 1: So they're on.
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  Speaker 2: Between six and nine on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Anti crickets using it, kids are using it, people are
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  Speaker 3: using it, women, teams are using it.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's using it, and everybody is happy.
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  Speaker 1: And so they don't stay on after nine pm at night.
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  Speaker 3: Though actually, as a matter of fact, one of the
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  Speaker 3: of the games had to be rupted because there are
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  Speaker 3: another and the time they came in ten of nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so at the end of the day, I mean
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  Speaker 1: they literally they're only able to be used between those hours,
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  Speaker 1: and it is only certain days of the week.
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  Speaker 3: And it gives the opportunity to everybody to exercise, to
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  Speaker 3: go outside the television, the tablet and use the facilities we've.
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  Speaker 1: Got, and so con that the down Alderman, yourself and
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  Speaker 1: the Olderman were recommended to make that lighting arrangement permanent
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  Speaker 1: after there were no objections.
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  Speaker 3: When fit the trial finishes, because it runs until June.
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  Speaker 3: End of June, then will make a decision about it.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Conn. The other thing I was very keen to
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  Speaker 1: ask you about is whether a decision had been made
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  Speaker 1: as she is around the Alfresco dining phase. Of course
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  Speaker 1: you revealed on the show last Monday. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was that you were making moves to well halt the
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  Speaker 1: reintroduction of those Elfresco dining phase. Where is that ass
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  Speaker 1: And as I.
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  Speaker 3: Said to you before, that will actually happen when we
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  Speaker 3: adop the budget, which happening in the next meeting, which
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  Speaker 3: is the twenty ninth of June.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty ninth of June. So I still got a little while.
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  Speaker 1: Why now the Lamarue Barths. This is on my list
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  Speaker 1: what's going on at the Lamarux Barths at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it has generated a lot of interest in the
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  Speaker 3: state and luckily next week I'm flying to Camebra for
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  Speaker 3: Australia Local Government Association conference and on the way back
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  Speaker 3: I'll stop over in Sydney talking to investors. We approached
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  Speaker 3: them already and they.
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  Speaker 2: Saw a lot of indursts.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to actually go there and present the
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  Speaker 3: whole thing where it is what we've got in mind,
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  Speaker 3: a concept plan and invite them to invest. They got
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  Speaker 3: faith on us because same invested in the waterfront and
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  Speaker 3: we give an alternative people said, I mean it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be like the waterfront.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: This completely different because the waterfront is restricted by the
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  Speaker 3: old port. This one's going to be the whole breadth
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  Speaker 3: of the esplanant underneath, starting from the waterfront and finishing
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  Speaker 3: at the fish feeding ground. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a big suit of land overlooking the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: Different with the waterfront.
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  Speaker 1: If we're able to do it, I think it would
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  Speaker 1: be phenomenal to say.
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  Speaker 2: Katie, we have to do it.
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  Speaker 3: If we don't develop, Dowin Down will become a sleepy
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  Speaker 3: little town and nursing home.
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  Speaker 1: We have minds on somebody putting in some cash here,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, at the end of the day, the
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  Speaker 1: council can't afford to do it alone.
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  Speaker 2: Of course not.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a pipp like between council, government
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  Speaker 3: and private development.
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  Speaker 2: The waterfront is a very good example. Look at the
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  Speaker 2: convention center.
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  Speaker 3: It was built, it was given some about to operate
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  Speaker 3: for twenty five years, and that person has to return
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  Speaker 3: it back to government. There are ways to do it,
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  Speaker 3: and there are ways without being a lot of money
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  Speaker 3: from the public purse, but using the private sector to invest.
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  Speaker 3: Private sector told us they're willing to invest money. There
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  Speaker 3: are money around very low indous rates. They want to invest.
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  Speaker 2: They want to make profits for themselves and their stairholders.
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  Speaker 1: So con flying away next week to discuss this further.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how far off do you think we are
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  Speaker 1: from actually seeing some work at underway? There are we
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  Speaker 1: still quite a wiy Yes we are.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to happen tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: But if you don't do the preliminary work now and
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  Speaker 3: do it properly, and it's not gond finish. So we
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  Speaker 3: hear a lot about the surfing park and everything else,
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  Speaker 3: nothing eventuated.
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  Speaker 2: It takes time.
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  Speaker 3: The water front took at least a year and a
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  Speaker 3: half before we start talking about it. The time we
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  Speaker 3: start working on it, I expect the same thing here,
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  Speaker 3: but we have to start somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Corn. A couple of listener questions. I've got one here.
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  Speaker 1: It says, good morning, Corn, could you could we please
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  Speaker 1: could we possibly have that car body removed from the
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  Speaker 1: bush area of dick Or Drive opposite the community facility.
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  Speaker 1: It's been there for over a year now, being burnt
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  Speaker 1: out twice and makes down and look terrily to Psycho.
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  Speaker 2: Graz with you. I asked about it.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately on private land, so I can't go in and
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  Speaker 3: get it. The private owner has to actually move and
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  Speaker 3: remove it. Will approach the owner to see what can
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  Speaker 3: he do about it, and if we can help, we will.
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  Speaker 1: Help another one. Now I don't know if this is
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  Speaker 1: actually something that the council can help with it, says
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  Speaker 1: Hi Katie. Can you please ask corn while there are
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  Speaker 1: still easieries at the wharf that are cash only, no
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  Speaker 1: card facility for payment, it's embarrassing the tourists. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: embarrassing when the tourists experience this.
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  Speaker 3: It's a choice that theatas make themselves, and the wharf
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  Speaker 3: is under the water from corporation, not the council. But
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  Speaker 3: nobody's got a control over it. It's a choice of
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  Speaker 3: the individual. But again as you can complain about it
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  Speaker 3: or do not patronize. If they don't take credit cards
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  Speaker 3: or anything else, go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: Vote with your feet.
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  Speaker 1: Well, contact scarlus you are struggling with your voice this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to the Glendee, I spent the weekend with sixty
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  Speaker 3: other Tarwinians in the Glendia and to some of the
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  Speaker 3: people that were there, especially the people that were there
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  Speaker 3: talking everything else, lots of them.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a very very interesting voice at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great night. It was a fantastic night.
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  Speaker 3: The food was good, that the timing was awesome, and
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  Speaker 3: everybody had a great time.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Corn if there's one thing I know about
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  Speaker 1: you very similarly to me, you love a chat.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely about chat. I'll tell you something else very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Ninety five new trees in legs I drive planted yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Katie, what are you doing next next Saturday morning?
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember, but I'm going to ask you if.
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  Speaker 3: You've got some free time, I'm going to plant three
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  Speaker 3: thousand trees in East Point. If you want to plant
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  Speaker 3: a tree or two or here with that, please come
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  Speaker 3: along eight o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: We're starting my kids. Come along.
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  Speaker 1: Are you seriously looking for volunteers to help?
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  Speaker 3: Solutly it's going to be a community planning day. If
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  Speaker 3: we'd have nothing better to do on Saturday morning, you
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  Speaker 3: can get a coffee up from the van in East
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  Speaker 3: Point and then come along. If we get about one
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  Speaker 3: hundred people and every plants ten trees, we're already done,
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  Speaker 3: nearly done.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want to see a green city because
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing it. Come along. The holes probably will be
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  Speaker 2: already planned, dug by our people. The only thing you
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  Speaker 2: do get a three planet in cover it and water.
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  Speaker 3: It good straight quickly, and three thousand Nu trees in Darwin.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Convat scarlis Lord Mayor of Darwin. It is
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  Speaker 1: always good to catch up with you. Thank you very
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  Speaker 1: good morning you too,