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Katie Woolf spoke with candidate for Darwin Lord Mayor Robin Lawrence · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But I have got our final candidates on the line
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  Speaker 1: for this morning and it is Robin Lawrence. Good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you, Robin.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, and how we're going there?
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  Speaker 1: Very well? Mate. Now you've got five minutes to answer
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  Speaker 1: the questions which have been provided to you.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready? I don't argue it again, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: What job were you in before before putting your hand
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  Speaker 1: up for the election? Robin?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm presley. I'm working with the empty government in
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  Speaker 2: the mental style sections that didn't work in the mall there.
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  Speaker 2: But I have worked within the government as a public
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  Speaker 2: bus driver, security officer with MGM Casino Trade a system
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  Speaker 2: of welding pump test with board drilling and it was
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  Speaker 2: offsite and regulatory office WA Resources and Death. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have a bit of work through the whole area this.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a bit of background behind me. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so multi skills supposed.
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  Speaker 1: Now, how long have you lived in Darwin?
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  Speaker 2: I was born here. I'm one of the probably few
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  Speaker 2: remaining people. I probably a lot of was around nowadays
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  Speaker 2: the kids are born here. So yeah, about fifty five years.
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  Speaker 1: And why did you decide to put your hand up
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  Speaker 1: for the mayor's job?
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  Speaker 2: Well? As I said mention before the other work I've done.
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  Speaker 2: I've got twenty five years experience working within different areas
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  Speaker 2: of the government, so I haven't understanding how government works.
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  Speaker 2: I've also been on councils and committees around the place
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  Speaker 2: as either school councils or I was vice president of
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  Speaker 2: cogso so again having understanding how our councilors and committees works.
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  Speaker 2: And I have qualifications. I suppose it's helped me back
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  Speaker 2: then in investigations and workd health and safety as well
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  Speaker 2: as project management. I've been called in to assist in
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  Speaker 2: emergencies and by security issues like cyclone, Sustans Tanker, and
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  Speaker 2: COVID where I spent verse five months of the year
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  Speaker 2: at the Emergency Operations Center. I've assistant and volunteer at
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  Speaker 2: major events like air, a few of games, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Monroe One. And I think I felt actually, with
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  Speaker 2: my background experience and natural resources and industry along with
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  Speaker 2: my life experiences, I know, oh yeah, I can undertake
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  Speaker 2: the responsibility position of Lord Mayor. And so I thought
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  Speaker 2: I was putting of the application and were nomination form
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, oh, give musk of the gags. I've
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  Speaker 2: got all of this background, knowledge and experience, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: part of the territory. Yeah, Now, what.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see as being the biggest issues in Darwin
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  Speaker 1: at the moment?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the issues that which is issues we still have,
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  Speaker 2: which is we still have itinerants around the place. We
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  Speaker 2: still have places being treated as open your anoles and
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  Speaker 2: toilets around there. It's good down it's about a paint
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  Speaker 2: up with and been tarted with trees there, there's but
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  Speaker 2: there's still the underlying issue that needs to be addressed.
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  Speaker 2: It hasn't been addressed. You've got to take you look
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  Speaker 2: out why people are doing what they are. You can't
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  Speaker 2: attract people into a town and tourists more than once
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  Speaker 2: if you can't help people want to come to the town.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so that's probably the main issues I see
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  Speaker 2: in town now at the moment, is that that underlying
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  Speaker 2: one is the big one. We want to get people
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  Speaker 2: in the town, you want tourists to come back again,
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  Speaker 2: is you have to sort that.
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  Speaker 1: Out and death now in terms of with those with
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  Speaker 1: those issues and obviously you know the various concerns. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you feel as though you're the best place to
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  Speaker 1: work with the community to fix them, Well.
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  Speaker 2: We're not knowing only I being on counsels and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if this has been done or a bit
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  Speaker 2: can't of beund to take it, but I'd find out
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  Speaker 2: what who is sleeping rough and why you can if
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  Speaker 2: there's any ways you can fix that up for either
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  Speaker 2: by having temporary shelters in there or safe place where
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  Speaker 2: they can sleep, or a safe place they can leave
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  Speaker 2: their stuff, or and work with the MGAs like clarity
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  Speaker 2: a nation and so forth, to work with any culture issues.
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  Speaker 2: That is what to help them out to get back
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  Speaker 2: on their feet so they aren't, to give them a
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  Speaker 2: bit more sense of their purpose in their life, you
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  Speaker 2: know from just hanging around town, and yeah, just to
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  Speaker 2: help them out.
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  Speaker 1: And Robin, why should people vote for you?
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  Speaker 2: I know I can do the job skills to a
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  Speaker 2: vesta and understand what is required to ensure the decisions
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  Speaker 2: are made fairly and with a commending mind. My family
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  Speaker 2: is a community connection with Darwin, going back to the
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  Speaker 2: bombing from my grandmother petitioned the queen for public housing.
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  Speaker 2: My father ran the emergency kitchens after Tracy and I
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  Speaker 2: promote darl on every chance I get this. There's a
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  Speaker 2: tourist woman through town. They obviously looked lost. I'll ask
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  Speaker 2: them where they're going or what they need a hand
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  Speaker 2: or anything. Bruce Monroe was a great example of that.
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  Speaker 2: I've promoted down the whole way through that Darwin is
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  Speaker 2: my home and I'll always look after my home. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why people should vote for me. I feel that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Robert, we've just about run out of out of time.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else you'd like to add very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always running for Ornerman in the water board,
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  Speaker 2: So any board people out there listening and you can
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  Speaker 2: go for me twice number one at top of the
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  Speaker 2: list and on the list.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Good on you, Robin, thanks so much for
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  Speaker 1: your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: All the best ways, Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's Robin Lawrence there, who is one of the candidates
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  Speaker 1: who put their hand up for me.