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Katie Woolf spoke with candidate for Litchfield Council Mayor Andrew MacKay · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Well, we are now going to be heading across.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that we have got Let me just make
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  Speaker 2: sure I've got everything lined up. I've got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure I've got my stop watch working, got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure we got the buzzer ready. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: I've now got Andrew McKay on the line. Andrew, good
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  Speaker 2: morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning to you too, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: Mate.
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  Speaker 1: Did I pronounce your surname correctly.
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  Speaker 3: Then mckaye's more preferred pronouncing Kayle.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you, Andrew, Thank you so much for your
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  Speaker 2: time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to get started? Happy to let's do it? Mate?
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  Speaker 1: Why did you decide?
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually, what job were you in before putting your
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  Speaker 2: hand up for the election? So?
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  Speaker 3: I currently work as a hands on data analyst for
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  Speaker 3: a large primer producer in the lift shield area. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm out in middle point and more or less on
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  Speaker 3: the numbers guy for the farm. So all right, reports
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  Speaker 3: I generated, puts, analyzed reports, get all the numbers together
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  Speaker 3: and work out how many fisher's got and involved in
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  Speaker 3: the long term planning, the production, forecasting, all that long
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  Speaker 3: term stuff. So I'm no stranger to sitting down and
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  Speaker 3: having to play with the Previously to that, I used
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  Speaker 3: to work as a FI FI Lab tech at the
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  Speaker 3: forestry plantation on Maavele Island for a while and I
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  Speaker 3: do have a degree in mathematics.
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  Speaker 2: Now, how long have you lived out in the in
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  Speaker 2: the rural area or in the Litchfield municipality.
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  Speaker 3: So moved out here when I was seven or eight
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  Speaker 3: years old and then went on to Girueen Primary School
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  Speaker 3: and then did my full schooling at to midmen and
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  Speaker 3: I'm still in Girleen.
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  Speaker 2: And why did you decide to put your hand up
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  Speaker 2: for the mayor's job?
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  Speaker 3: Simply put, I think Litchfield deserves better than what they've
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  Speaker 3: got at the moment. So I love the rural area
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  Speaker 3: growing up here, cod bike riding, that motorbike riding and fishing,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just it needs to stay rule. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a post at every development, but I'd love to see
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  Speaker 3: it it continued to be a great place to grow up.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason I put my hand up really was
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  Speaker 3: I thought how the current council was running. Started attending
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  Speaker 3: counter meetings about two years ago. It was just appalled.
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  Speaker 3: Constant bickering, constant disregard to the community, constant disregard to
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  Speaker 3: the community groups, especially the Humpy Blue Bowls Club. They
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  Speaker 3: got really turfed in the last year and I was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you say something going wrong, you can
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  Speaker 3: you can have a go or you can sit on
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  Speaker 3: the sidelines and just you know, so so rocks, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: And what.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see as being the big issues in the
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  Speaker 2: Lichfield municipality.
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  Speaker 3: So I say the biggest issue is being affordability and
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  Speaker 3: living within our means. Now, Litchfield isn't going to be
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  Speaker 3: a city of Melbourn. It's not going to be a
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  Speaker 3: city of down in the City of Brisbane. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we have very limited rate income. I think it should
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  Speaker 3: stay that way, so we have to spend for our ability.
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  Speaker 3: You know, at the moment every year they go all right,
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  Speaker 3: expenses have gone up by seven percent, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: raise rates by five percent. And they never stopped to consolidate.
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  Speaker 3: They've got this current plan rate hikes for the next
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  Speaker 3: five years. They hid that away on the last line
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  Speaker 3: of the budget. Love that ten percent next year. So
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  Speaker 3: I were saying not in the following they raised rates
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  Speaker 3: five percent this year, seven percent last year, and they're
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  Speaker 3: just trying to nickel and go on residents Now, if
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  Speaker 3: you've got to have a budget, you know, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to spend within your means. You know, you can't just
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  Speaker 3: keep accruing dead and chewing through your savings. Then it
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  Speaker 3: just doesn't work long term.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what taking those issues into account, how do you
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  Speaker 2: sort of see yourself as the best place to work
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  Speaker 2: with the community in an effort to try and fix them.
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  Speaker 3: So I got to think of myself as quite approachable.
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  Speaker 3: During this campaign. I've answered every phone call that's come
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  Speaker 3: my way, every email, and I think being able to
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  Speaker 3: work with the community groups will be essential to make
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  Speaker 3: sure we get the best service for our reserves. And
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, I'm just willing to
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  Speaker 3: have a go. You know, if you say someone struggling
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  Speaker 3: to reverse a trailer down the boat ramp, you know
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  Speaker 3: you give them a hand, and if they keep messing
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  Speaker 3: it up and they jacking off the trailer, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you're going to get the driver's teat to have a go.
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  Speaker 3: I may not be the most experience standard. I think
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  Speaker 3: I'm by far the youngest, but you know, if you
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  Speaker 3: don't have a go, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: And why should people vote for you?
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm willing to have a go, and I'm willing
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  Speaker 3: to listen. I'm okay with being wrong, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: if I get in occasionally I'll make a decision. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, i'd appreciate people call me out when I
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  Speaker 3: do do something wrong as leny of candidate, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: willing to learn from my mistakes and try to get
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  Speaker 3: on the job, do it the best best possible job
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  Speaker 3: I can do.
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  Speaker 2: And Andrew, just finally, you know you've got a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of time left.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything that you'd like to say.
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  Speaker 3: I just love to shout out Patrick care if he's listening.
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  Speaker 3: He's a Matthew fan of yours.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, good on youre Patrick.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening, mate, Thank you so much. Andrew McKay.
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  Speaker 2: Mackay sorry it was was nice. Sorry mate, not make
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  Speaker 2: sure I get that pronunciation right. Thanks for your time
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  Speaker 2: and all the best.
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  Speaker 3: You have a lovely day.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,