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Find out more about the Labor's candidate for Fannie Bay Brent Potter · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: And joining me in the studio right now is the
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  Speaker 1: Labor candidate for the Fanny Bay by election, Brent Potter.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Hi listeners, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Brent, I know there has been a lot of discussion,
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  Speaker 1: certainly on this show about both the ALP and the
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  Speaker 1: COLP pre selecting candidates for the seat of Fanny Bay
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  Speaker 1: who don't actually live in the electorate.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, obviously we spoke to the CLP candidate Ben Hosking.
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  Speaker 2: He reckons he grew up in the area and would
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  Speaker 2: move there if elected. Firstly, let's not beat around the bush.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you live.
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  Speaker 3: I've been completely honest. I live in Palmerston. I'll move
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  Speaker 3: win or lose, into the electric That's what I've been
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  Speaker 3: honest about from day dot and that's what I'll commit to.
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  Speaker 2: So whether you win or lose, you're prepared to move there.
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  Speaker 3: That's the comitment I've made. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, I guess the concern here is that with
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  Speaker 1: candidates not actually living in the electorate in the lead
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  Speaker 1: in to the by election, that you may not actually understand,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the concerns that Territorians have got or that
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  Speaker 1: the people of Fanny.
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  Speaker 2: Bay have got.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel as though you can troll relate to
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  Speaker 1: the worries that they've got when you don't live there.
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  Speaker 3: It's about connecting with people, so getting out knocking on doors,
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  Speaker 3: speaking to people and hearing them. At the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, it's how can I represent their voice. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think living in Palmerston right now precludes me over
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  Speaker 3: the next three weeks from being the best member for them,
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  Speaker 3: and then when we move I'll be a local. Most
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  Speaker 3: of these are territory issues. I'm a territorian, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't born here. I don't know what period of
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  Speaker 3: time you coun classify as a territorium, but I've been
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  Speaker 3: here since two thousand and nine. I reckon that's getting
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  Speaker 3: pretty close to that. But ultimately it's knocking doors and
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  Speaker 3: I'm speaking to people, hearing their issues and take those forward.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: It has also been widely reported that you are a
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  Speaker 1: staffer for the Files government.
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  Speaker 2: Are you still employed as a staffer now?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not employed as a staffer at the moment. I've
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  Speaker 3: taken leave to come and do this. I actually resigned
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  Speaker 3: to come and have a run put it all in,
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  Speaker 3: but being a staffer doesn't define I've done many other things.
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  Speaker 3: I served in the military for ten years and then
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  Speaker 3: as a reserve is for a bit more when to
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  Speaker 3: Afghanistan twenty twelve. I've worked in the private sector, doing
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  Speaker 3: a sales manager role or a business develp manager role
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  Speaker 3: for an international company. I've also run my own small
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  Speaker 3: management consultancy and then obviously gone into the public sector.
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  Speaker 3: What I do think it does, though, is allow me
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  Speaker 3: to bring a wide bunch of views and experience to
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  Speaker 3: being a local member and synchronize all of those to
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  Speaker 3: get the best outcome for.
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  Speaker 1: The electric So you don't feel as though you're a
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  Speaker 1: captain's pick or that it's nepotism.
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  Speaker 3: Being chosen captain's fixed sounds great, but that actually wasn't
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  Speaker 3: my rank in the army, so it sounds good, but
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  Speaker 3: it's not the case. I went through a process like
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  Speaker 3: anyone else did. It is obviously great to have the
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  Speaker 3: chief ministers backing, but also have Michael's and you know
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  Speaker 3: they reckon I'm the best person for the job, so
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  Speaker 3: really grateful for that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, crime and anti social behavior, it has been a
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  Speaker 1: concern which has been raised very widely in the electorate.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing that on the doors and when you
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  Speaker 1: go out and meet people at the moment?
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  Speaker 3: Yep, no, you know there is no holding. It is
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  Speaker 3: an issue on the doors. It's not the only issue.
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  Speaker 3: It should never happen to know, it should be a victim.
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  Speaker 3: But it takes long term change to address these issues.
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  Speaker 3: But there are some short termages we need to put
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  Speaker 3: in place right now.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you think needs to be done.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've gone around if announced very clearly their Vessy's
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  Speaker 3: Beach or Bundella Beach activation. We know that when you
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  Speaker 3: activate an area that moves on the any social behavior,
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  Speaker 3: it reclaims the site so people can go and use it.
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  Speaker 3: Where we differ is we don't see the big stick
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  Speaker 3: being the solution. So we've put a wrap around services.
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  Speaker 3: That's where I've put a buff will put a bus
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  Speaker 3: service on for the next twelve months to help those
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  Speaker 3: displaced homeless. You know, most disadvantage people getting the service
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  Speaker 3: they need. As an example, going out to Baton Rode
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  Speaker 3: or we f four hundred and fifty beds for hardline people.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that those things are going to have
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  Speaker 1: a serious impact.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you can't stop working. You know, we've got to
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  Speaker 3: try something different. We've got to activate those areas. We've
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  Speaker 3: seen that in other parts of the territory, they've activated
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  Speaker 3: it for events that the any social behavior has moved on.
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  Speaker 3: So it's worth taking solutions that have worked elsewhere and
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  Speaker 3: bringing them forward into this Electric.
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  Speaker 2: Now, in your previous role, were you an advisor to
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  Speaker 2: the police minister?
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  Speaker 3: I was for a year or just shry a year yep, yep, And.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess for some people they might be thinking, well,
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  Speaker 1: if you're working as an advisor under the former police
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  Speaker 1: Minister Nicole Madison, when a lot of people felt like
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't enough change when it came to crime, then
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  Speaker 1: are you the right person to you know, to be
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  Speaker 1: trying to combat this in the electroc.
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  Speaker 3: I think I am. I mean ultimately it means I
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  Speaker 3: know the position of government, I understand the position of the department.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen everything, and I think it allows me as
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  Speaker 3: a local member to pull those leavers. People that know
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  Speaker 3: me know I'm extremely driven. I don't take the status
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  Speaker 3: quo or this is how it's always done, and I
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  Speaker 3: think that's the best outcome the Electric can get.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what do you think are the biggest issues in the.
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  Speaker 3: Electric Ultimately, it's the classic case of cost of living.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a staple. I get that as a
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  Speaker 3: father for as we were saying before, offline, when fuel
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  Speaker 3: prices go up or when food goes up, I feel it.
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  Speaker 3: But we're best placed at a territory labor government with
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  Speaker 3: a territory comalth government to address those. That's what labor
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  Speaker 3: focus is on. Underground power lining has been one that's
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  Speaker 3: been raised. We put sixty million dollars that over the
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  Speaker 3: next three years. What we'll see is some of the
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  Speaker 3: high voltage, then low voltage and then to house that'll
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  Speaker 3: give eighty percent continuity for the constituents in the area.
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  Speaker 3: And it is an issue for them, and you know
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  Speaker 3: we want to see continuity service. ASP has been raised.
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  Speaker 3: I've told you how we're going to or how I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to address that locally. And then there's been some
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  Speaker 3: minor issue minus individual pieces here and there, but they
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  Speaker 3: are the three that are popped up.
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  Speaker 1: Look, some people are questioning whether there's been some pork
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  Speaker 1: barreling with the announcement of ten million dollars for the preschool,
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  Speaker 1: like you've touched on before, that Bundilla Beach announcement and
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  Speaker 1: also the announcement around anti social behavior, is it?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the PRAP preschool has been in the end
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  Speaker 3: to infrastructure plan for the zero to five years, it'll
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  Speaker 3: be in next year's budget. It's been there for fifty years.
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  Speaker 3: Probably not fit for purpose. A lot of constituents' kids
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  Speaker 3: have gone through. Now adults working in the territory, they
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  Speaker 3: deserve a fit for purpose preschool. I mean it was
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  Speaker 3: always there in the strategy. People just need to go
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  Speaker 3: and have a look at it.
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  Speaker 2: But did they not deserve that? You know, when the
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister was still well, the former Chief Minister was
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  Speaker 2: still in there as a local member.
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  Speaker 3: The Chief Minister did a lot of great things when
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  Speaker 3: he was in I mean, you know, as a local
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  Speaker 3: member and a chief he has to split his time
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  Speaker 3: equally across the whole of the territory. You need delivered the
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  Speaker 3: Darwin Middle School STEM program. We've got lights at the
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  Speaker 3: gardens and then you know we've done a lot of
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  Speaker 3: traffic manager around our schools. He did, Michael's a great
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  Speaker 3: amount for the local constituency.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what about these petrol prices.
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  Speaker 1: It's something that we've been talking about really heavily this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I know that the opposition is calling for there to
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  Speaker 1: be an inquiry into the petrol prices. Jim Chalmers, the
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  Speaker 1: federal Treasurer, is calling for these petrol prices to.
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  Speaker 2: Well come down right around Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Gosling had messaged a bit earlier this morning and
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  Speaker 1: said that, yeah, you know, we need to get serious
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  Speaker 1: about bringing these prices down in the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 2: What's your take.
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  Speaker 3: I think we've got the A triple C and we've
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  Speaker 3: got a bunch a and t do a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: work around petrol is I think it's more complicated than
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  Speaker 3: just disclosing the profit margins for a company, and I,
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  Speaker 3: as I said before, it's a cost of living across
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  Speaker 3: the board. Now, Labor's well aware of that, both at
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  Speaker 3: the territory level and the federal level and will work
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  Speaker 3: hard on it. What we don't want to do is
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  Speaker 3: set precedents for one industry and not for another. I
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  Speaker 3: think that ultimately we need to take a bigger approach
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  Speaker 3: to this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've certainly done it though in the past,
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  Speaker 1: and we do it with you know, we do it
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  Speaker 1: into like around the state. When it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: likes of our power prices, so why not with our
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  Speaker 1: petrol prices.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that ultimately at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: you've got the A triple C and the likes of
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  Speaker 3: those that will monitor this stuff and put recommendations on
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  Speaker 3: the table. And same with banks passing on interests. When
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  Speaker 3: they pass the interesrate rise on to homeowners, should be
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  Speaker 3: passing on that interest rate rise to the deposit owners
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  Speaker 3: as well that are saving. And I mean it's across
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  Speaker 3: the board. It needs to be addressed holistically between the
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  Speaker 3: state and the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: Now a listener question that did come through, and I
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  Speaker 1: certainly asked the Greens candidate as well, do you support
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  Speaker 1: the cutting of six million dollars from the Turf Club?
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  Speaker 1: We know that there was obviously the rejigging of the
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  Speaker 1: funding that the thoroughbred racing receives.
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  Speaker 3: Do you supporters, I support anything we put fund into
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  Speaker 3: our remote, remote race courses that we can get tourism
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  Speaker 3: out to those. I mean, I was down at the
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  Speaker 3: Turf Club the other day with the wife and got
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  Speaker 3: a fun I think it's a fantastic venue for the
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  Speaker 3: local constituents, everyone and the clubs and the like everyone
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  Speaker 3: that came out from the races went down to all
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  Speaker 3: the foreshore, even the local IgA and the likes said
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  Speaker 3: that to closed early because that mean people coming through.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, it's a fantastic facility, brings tourism and
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  Speaker 3: that's before my time and I'll definitely be using as
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  Speaker 3: a local member.
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  Speaker 2: Brent.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to have to wrap up but very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Why should people vote for you.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen both the private and public sector. I'm a
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  Speaker 3: very driven individual. I've seen what a good local member
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  Speaker 3: can do. I've got a young family and i want
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  Speaker 3: them to grow up in that electorate. And what I
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  Speaker 3: put to people is give me two years to deliver
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  Speaker 3: on the commitments I've made to them and measure me
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  Speaker 3: against those well.
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  Speaker 1: Brent Potter, the ALP, the Labor candidate for the seat
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  Speaker 1: of Fanny Bay, thanks so much for your time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,