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Katie Woolf spoke with Incoming NLC Deputy CEO Joe Martin-Jard · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf thanks to Joyce Main Darwin
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  Speaker 1: home Z owned Stuart Highway Beerrimer.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to Mix one oh four point nine
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  Speaker 2: three sixty and we are coming to you live this
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  Speaker 2: morning from the Darwin Waterfront for one of the very
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  Speaker 2: popular driver signing sessions. Plenty of people starting to roll
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  Speaker 2: in now and there's lots happening down here today. From
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  Speaker 2: twelve fifty five there is going to be the Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to Country for the drivers and the riders and then
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be followed on by the signing session
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  Speaker 2: between one and two o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: So make sure you get down here early, avoid the.
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  Speaker 2: Lines or get to the front of the line when
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  Speaker 2: that all starts to happen. But earlier in the week
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  Speaker 2: we know the federal government they have announced that they've
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  Speaker 2: co designed with the Northern Territory Land Councils a package
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  Speaker 2: of reforms to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. It is
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  Speaker 2: all in an effort to activate the potential of Indigenous
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  Speaker 2: land in the Northern Territory now. The centerpiece of the
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  Speaker 2: reforms is a new Aboriginal Control Corporate Commonwealth entity. It's
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  Speaker 2: funded from the Aboriginal's benefit to count well to decide
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  Speaker 2: on and administer grants and investments in the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 2: And joining me here at the waterfront to talk about
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  Speaker 2: this and what it's going to mean for the NT
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  Speaker 2: is the incoming Deputy CEO of the Northern Land Council,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Martin Jard.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Joe.
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  Speaker 3: It's good morning and thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great to have you on the show and welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously first time with us this morning. We'll get you
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  Speaker 2: back on no doubt. Look really good to be here now,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Fursley. The federal government obviously an outsease reforms with
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  Speaker 2: the land councils in an effort really to activate the
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  Speaker 2: potential of indigenous land.
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  Speaker 1: What are these changes going to mean for the territory.
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  Speaker 4: What it'll mean is Aboriginal people will be back in
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  Speaker 4: control of the resources coming from their land. Sammy Bush,
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  Speaker 4: BLNAZI chairman said it well on the weekend. He said,
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  Speaker 4: this is about the future of children and grandchildren and
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  Speaker 4: supporting jobs and cultural maintenance on country and yeah, we're
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  Speaker 4: really excited by this.
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  Speaker 2: We talk a lot in the territory about the opportunities
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  Speaker 2: and the different opportunities that we'd like to see for
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  Speaker 2: Indigenous people in community. I mean, is this going to
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  Speaker 2: help do you reckon to make that happen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, it'll speed things up too.
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  Speaker 4: We're hearing of delays of two years to get anything
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  Speaker 4: happening through the ABA at the moment, and the.
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  Speaker 3: Acts really old.
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  Speaker 4: It was past when Malcolm Fraser was the Prime Minister,
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  Speaker 4: believe it or not. Yeah, it hasn't really changed that
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  Speaker 4: much since. So we've been working with the federal government
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  Speaker 4: over the last three years and both agreed to these
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  Speaker 4: reforms that we've asked for, and so we think that
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  Speaker 4: things will speed up and we can get more happening
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  Speaker 4: out in the remote areas where it's really needed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Three years, Jee, it's a long time coming by the
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  Speaker 1: sounds of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, you know what it's like working with bureaucrats
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  Speaker 4: in Canberra. You know, things don't happen overnight, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it is all about really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in community and on Aboriginal land, providing opportunity for Aboriginal people.
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  Speaker 1: You know, our young kids coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Through through their education and through those formative years and
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  Speaker 2: then up to the teenage years, having the opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: employment and for jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I've just come up from Alice SPRINGSOS, a CEO
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  Speaker 4: of the Central Land Council down there for a couple
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  Speaker 4: of years and marrying Scrimdaw, the CEO. She's had me
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  Speaker 4: out and about out places like Tennant Creek and count
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  Speaker 4: Are and everywhere else, and everywhere I go, traditional owners
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  Speaker 4: are talking about the future for their kids and wanting
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  Speaker 4: to do more on country. When Blake said, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we won our fight for land rights and now what
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  Speaker 4: are we going to do about it?
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  Speaker 3: So I was quite excited by that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you reckon?
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you know in some of our communities, and
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  Speaker 2: I know it probably is the place, or is the
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  Speaker 2: case in some to some degree, but you know, places
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  Speaker 2: like mad and Greta that are big communities, could there
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  Speaker 2: be more opportunity for more happening in terms of business.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. If you go to man and Greeted, there's a
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  Speaker 4: couple of thousand people live there. It's a big town
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  Speaker 4: and like the fishing opportunities are just phenomenal. There's already
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  Speaker 4: a fishing business there now they've got coastal licenses. So
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  Speaker 4: we're hoping to invest more into that space and get
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  Speaker 4: it more commercialized, more jobs, more income for the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 4: And we think this tide will lift all boats. Actually
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  Speaker 4: it's not just about Aboriginal people, It'll be about the
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  Speaker 4: whole of the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and working, I guess together collaboratively to try and
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  Speaker 2: create more opportunity for everyone.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we want co investment coming from in the private sector.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking to the Seafeed Council for instance. They're really positive.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, we'll all be partnering up over the.
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  Speaker 3: Years to come.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Joe, how do the changes sort of differ
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  Speaker 2: from the old system?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you reckon? It's you know, why do you
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  Speaker 1: reckon it will make such a difference.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be just less bureaucratic.
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  Speaker 4: We as I said, the system was designed you hear
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  Speaker 4: those smell petrol. Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, look, it was
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  Speaker 4: designed for another era and now it's being modernized and
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  Speaker 4: we're really yeah, we're.
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  Speaker 3: Just excited to be a part of the future.
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  Speaker 2: No, I reckon, it sounds like it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a really good thing, and I hope it is, particularly
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  Speaker 2: for us here in the territory, you know, for the
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  Speaker 2: whole Northern Territory. And for the opportunities for Indigenous people
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  Speaker 2: living on land.
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  Speaker 1: Just quickly, Joe obviously, just into the role. Mate. How's
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  Speaker 1: it all going. You've been in there for a few weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Well, look it feels like my feet haven't touched
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  Speaker 4: the ground. But Jesus, good to be home. I was
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  Speaker 4: born just down at the end of Mitchell Street at
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  Speaker 4: the old Darwin Hospital, so it's just great to come
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  Speaker 4: back to a dry season. See the supercars here this morning. Fantastic, Cody,
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  Speaker 4: it is.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly is well.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Martin Jard the incoming Deputy CEO of the Northern
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  Speaker 2: Lane Council.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely to speak to you this morning. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for your time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, And you are.
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  Speaker 2: Listening to Mix one OW four point nine oz three
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  Speaker 2: point sixty. It is all go down here. Those cars
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  Speaker 2: are starting to rev up and it's all happening. If
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  Speaker 2: you're keen to come down, we're gonna be here until
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  Speaker 2: midday for the whole show. But then that driver signing
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  Speaker 2: kicking off at one o'clock or MIX one OW four
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  Speaker 2: point nine