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Katie Woolf spoke with Sky News NT Bureau Chief Matt Cunningham · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Matt Cunningham, Sky News bureau chief for the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Matt. Get a wife mate, A
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  Speaker 1: couple of break well, a couple of stories you've broken yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that of the Senator Sam McMahon and the
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  Speaker 1: internal jostling within the COLP. The opposition leader Leo Finocchio
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  Speaker 1: denies that there is any internal fighting at the moment
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  Speaker 1: over that position.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, toeing the party line, no doubt. But I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you Katie that there is and we'll see that
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  Speaker 2: way out in the next couple of months. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's it's the Initie that's causing a bit of division
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  Speaker 2: between people within the party in Darwin and those down
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  Speaker 2: in Alice Springs as well. Now, according to my sources,
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  Speaker 2: at least two people plan to stand for that Senate
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  Speaker 2: position that Dam McMahon currently hold. They include Linda Fazildin
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  Speaker 2: up here in Darwen and the mayor of Olice Spring
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  Speaker 2: Day in Ryan. Now. I did contact Amian Ryan earlier
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  Speaker 2: in the week and he certainly wasn't ruling out until
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  Speaker 2: at that position. I've also spoken to people close to
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  Speaker 2: Mindo Pasanen. I haven't spoken to Linda herself, but there's
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  Speaker 2: certainly a lot of people who are supporting her up
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  Speaker 2: in Darwin. As I'm sure you would know, that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be an interesting, interesting battle to play out over
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  Speaker 2: the next couple of months. It's likely that that preselection
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  Speaker 2: will take place either in June or July. There has
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  Speaker 2: also been a few accusations of some dirty tricks within
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  Speaker 2: the party. People in Darwen were somewhat upset after a
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  Speaker 2: letter was sent informing branches that they may not be
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  Speaker 2: able to vote if they were not financial. Now. I
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  Speaker 2: spoke to the COORP president, Jamie de Brenni, and he
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  Speaker 2: basically scoffed at any suggestion that there were any sort
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  Speaker 2: of shenanigans going on. He said, he said it was
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  Speaker 2: hysteria that was based on hang on, I've got to
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  Speaker 2: think at a word somebody else starting with eight. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it was a good quote. He said it was a
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  Speaker 2: Darwin fantasy and he said it was all bullder. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: he was certainly ruling out that any sort of out
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  Speaker 2: play was going on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: As Sam mcmahad, she says that she's just concentrating on
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  Speaker 2: working hard for her constituents order to a few things
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  Speaker 2: that she says she's achieved, including securing those seasonal mango
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  Speaker 2: workers and of course lobbying the Cabinet not to appeal
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  Speaker 2: to the High Court that decision from the Federal Court
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  Speaker 2: to compensate live cattle exporters over the live cattle band
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  Speaker 2: back in twenty eleven. I think there's some interesting things
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  Speaker 2: going on within the field.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon it there is, and it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: very interesting to see how it all plays out. But Matt,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that you also have another exclusive story this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's dropped, Jet or if you
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  Speaker 1: can give us some detail.
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  Speaker 2: As we've been reporting on Sky News this morning, Wolfie,
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  Speaker 2: my sources are telling me that Marian Scrimshaw is the
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  Speaker 2: red hot favorite to win pre selection for Labor in
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  Speaker 2: the seat of Lingiari. Now, nominations have closed for that
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  Speaker 2: particular seat following the announcement that Warrence Noden will retire
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  Speaker 2: ahead of the next election. Now my understanding is that
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  Speaker 2: four people have nominated Marion Skrimer, Geenie govern Rowan Spoley
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  Speaker 2: who is the chief executive of the Aboriginal Carbon Foundation,
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  Speaker 2: and Mattie Bohnson, former anti government minister. But my sources
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  Speaker 2: are also saying that Marion Scrimshaw is the most likely
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  Speaker 2: to win that pre selection battle. They say that she
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  Speaker 2: has the support of Warrence Noden, which is important. She's
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  Speaker 2: obviously an Aboriginal woman, which is something that the Labor
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  Speaker 2: Party at a federal level that came to get more
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  Speaker 2: Aboriginal women into the Federal Parliament and she should have
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  Speaker 2: the numbers to secure that position. So we don't know
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  Speaker 2: yet when the vote will take place. I would expect
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  Speaker 2: that it's more than likely that Marion Scringer will be
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  Speaker 2: latest candidates in India.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, Matt Cunningham, It's like the
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  Speaker 1: preseason has started, hasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: I certainly has a big question though. What we don't
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  Speaker 2: know Wolfe is when the first when the ball will
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  Speaker 2: be about. Pott Morrison still tight lipt on when that
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  Speaker 2: election is going to be. You keep saying, well, maybe
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  Speaker 2: not this year, but everyone who seems to think they
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  Speaker 2: know what they're talking about things to think that it
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  Speaker 2: is going to happen this year sometime around maybe September October.
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  Speaker 2: But exposed we just have to wait and see.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we certainly will. It's going to be interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see how it all unfolds. Matt Cunningham from Sky News.
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  Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with your mate, hopefully see
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  Speaker 1: your Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you and.
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  Speaker 1: Well there you go. That's the latest. When it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the federal election, like Matt said, we still don't
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  Speaker 1: know exactly when it's going to happen, but obviously some
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  Speaker 1: of those those positions that people are keen to get
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  Speaker 1: into heating up, or the jostling to try and win
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  Speaker 1: those spots heating up, that's for sure.