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The CLP's Gerard Maley weighs in on the Litchfield Telstra phone tower discussion · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is the Deputy
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  Speaker 1: Opposition leader, Jared Maylee.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Jared, Good.
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  Speaker 3: Morning Katie, Good morning listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Jared.
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  Speaker 1: I know that that you have you have actually been
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  Speaker 1: in contact with Telstra as well, haven't you.
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  Speaker 3: That's great because this particular site's in my patch on
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  Speaker 3: the member of Nelson and how River Park, where this
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  Speaker 3: proposed tower is going to be is in my electorate.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got a real concern about this and keeping
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  Speaker 3: a close eye on it.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you reckon needs to happen here?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the residents of the area are quite concerned about
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  Speaker 1: this tower, and fair.
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  Speaker 3: Enough, oh fair enough, I agree. The tower is going
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  Speaker 3: to be located about a kay and a bit down
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  Speaker 3: Bronswick Avenue on the left. There's a big drain where
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  Speaker 3: Bilebon drains out and it's a bit of a conservation land.
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  Speaker 3: But I decided that these houses which have been established
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  Speaker 3: in our area for a long time. I wrote to
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  Speaker 3: Telstra in early February saying, look, can you look at
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  Speaker 3: a different location. There's one up on two twenty gun
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  Speaker 3: Point Row which is near Setella, which is another and
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  Speaker 3: I did a bit of a search on Google and
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  Speaker 3: it's about seven hundred and fifty seven hundred eighty meters
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  Speaker 3: as the crow flies from the location. And in that area,
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  Speaker 3: there's no houses around it. It's sitting there on top
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  Speaker 3: of a bit of a hill, and I can't see
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  Speaker 3: why that wouldn't be a better location.
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  Speaker 2: Does it come down.
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  Speaker 1: To, you know, what is council land or are we
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  Speaker 1: are these all council blocks?
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  Speaker 3: No? Well, the land on Hotela Road, on Gunpoint Road
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  Speaker 3: is owned by Empty Land Corps, which is really another
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  Speaker 3: Gunman organization. So my guess is is it just as
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  Speaker 3: Intel shuld have done with Vitual Council to organize and
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  Speaker 3: discuss a leaf for that particular block of land, because
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  Speaker 3: when we're not talking about a very big block of land,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the area they're using is probably twenty by
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  Speaker 3: twenty meters square, maybe a bit more, maybe fifty. It's
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  Speaker 3: not a big area, and it's just the least a
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  Speaker 3: big land And they put a tower up and forty
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  Speaker 3: odd meters in the air. And because ultimately people around
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  Speaker 3: Howard River Park and Gunpoint have got pour mobile offer.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, everyone has spoken to me says that they're
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  Speaker 3: happy for the service to be upgraded and so they
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  Speaker 3: shoot because they paid this so much money. Some that
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  Speaker 3: lives in the city or some other urban area in
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  Speaker 3: relation to their mobile service, but the service out there
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  Speaker 3: is particularly poor, so people certainly support the idea of
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  Speaker 3: upgrading the service. Just the tower seems to be in
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  Speaker 3: the wrong location.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I'm surprised by the number of messages I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: about this. I didn't realize how many people I know
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  Speaker 1: actually live in this area and they are saying that
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  Speaker 1: they're really quite concerned about it, like it's it's basically
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  Speaker 1: in the backyard, and they don't think it's the best location.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I agree, and I could understand if there were
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  Speaker 3: no other locations and they kills you have done the homework.
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  Speaker 3: But to me, and I'm not a radio technician expert,
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  Speaker 3: but seven hundred meters moving to a different spot where
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  Speaker 3: there's no houses around it. So if they do develop
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  Speaker 3: that land into the future, if you choose to buy there,
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  Speaker 3: and there's already how there, it's already there. It's not
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  Speaker 3: like they're doing now where people who are in the
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  Speaker 3: rural area for lifestyle and next minute there's a forty
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  Speaker 3: meter tower punk twenty meters from their backyard.
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  Speaker 2: I mean do you reckon.
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  Speaker 1: The Council's just kind of gone though, yeah you can
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  Speaker 1: do it here. It's our land, that's fine, and not
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  Speaker 1: thought about how the feedback would be from locals.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sure what process the council have done,
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  Speaker 3: but it's certainly their land, and I know that Tilt
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  Speaker 3: have gone to them and approach them about it. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what research or what public confrontation the
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  Speaker 3: council has done, but the Telster have put their little
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  Speaker 3: purple sign up, and I know that they dropped some
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  Speaker 3: paperwork around the houses around that area, and I know
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  Speaker 3: in my news which I delivered to everyone area, I
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  Speaker 3: put a little story in My Life on just before
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  Speaker 3: Christians about the three proposed out because this tow is
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  Speaker 3: only one of three that's going to go to the
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  Speaker 3: rural area. There's one, and how it's bringing there's one
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  Speaker 3: in Herbert as well, because Telsa's panned to increase mobile
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  Speaker 3: coverage right across the rural area. Yeah, it's one at.
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  Speaker 1: US well, and I'm certainly hearing as well from lots
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  Speaker 1: of different people that they do want their coverage to
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  Speaker 1: be better. So I think that you know, fundamentally, obviously
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  Speaker 1: people are very happy for there to be better coverage
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  Speaker 1: and happy for Telstra to do the work, but they
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  Speaker 1: are obviously quite cocerned about having what they feel would
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  Speaker 1: be a massive tower in their backyard or right there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in their backyards.
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  Speaker 3: And I've asked Telfree in my correspondent to them saying,
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  Speaker 3: if they do get approval from the development Consentitory, to
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  Speaker 3: be a good corporate citizen and look at moving the
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  Speaker 3: tower to a location where the public art right next
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  Speaker 3: door to it, and if you do choose to buy
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  Speaker 3: around that tower into the future. We're talking at the
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  Speaker 3: moment now it's the old pine forest. It could be
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  Speaker 3: twenty years before it gets developed. But by that stage
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  Speaker 3: the tower will be there, and people choose to move
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  Speaker 3: t extra tower, it's their choice. But right now, the
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  Speaker 3: people at Howder River Park, especially around the area where
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  Speaker 3: the proposed tower is, have got no choice there. They've
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  Speaker 3: had this block that many have had it for many,
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  Speaker 3: many years, and now they're going to plunk a tower
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  Speaker 3: right in right in the middle of urban area or
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  Speaker 3: the rural area you call it out here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Dereb, we are going to have to get ready
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  Speaker 2: to wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I do want to ask you about though
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  Speaker 1: I know that we spoke about this this morning during
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  Speaker 1: the week, that was the fact that it has been
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  Speaker 1: confirmed that the IKAK is looking into this situation at
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  Speaker 1: TiO State. You have issued a pressure release towards yesterday
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  Speaker 1: afternoon saying that you believe the Minister for Infrastructure, Planning
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  Speaker 1: and Logistics must immediately stand down while that IKAK investigation
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  Speaker 1: continues of the non compliance at TiO Stadium. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you think she needs to stand down?
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  Speaker 3: Well, this inquire needs to look at the whole picture
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  Speaker 3: of what this whole circumstances around it. And I remember
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  Speaker 3: back in August twenty twenty that the government put out
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  Speaker 3: a pressingly saying the look at the certification of that
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  Speaker 3: building back then, and that's what a year and a
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  Speaker 3: half ago. And their answer to the problem is just
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  Speaker 3: to make a declaration to make it exempt from a
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  Speaker 3: certificate occupancy. The average private person out there who builds
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  Speaker 3: a house or builds another structure don't have the opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to be able to just exempt that from the laws
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  Speaker 3: that the government put in place. So efectively, the government
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  Speaker 3: can't even comply with their own laws. And even is
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  Speaker 3: the boss, she's the leader and you look at Gladdy
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  Speaker 3: in New South Wales. As soon as there's an IK investigation,
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  Speaker 3: she resigned. Another example is that Rio Tinto when the
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  Speaker 3: those minds, these cases blown up by those minds, those directors,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't push the debtonation button for they've all resigned
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  Speaker 3: as well. So this is a clear lack of leadership Bayeva,
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  Speaker 3: and she needs to take the sword.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the difference is right now, so many of
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  Speaker 1: us are kind of wondering exactly what she's being investigated for.
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  Speaker 2: There's that lack of understanding right now.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is a classic example of no leadership and
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  Speaker 3: no government come in say we're going to be open
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  Speaker 3: and transparent. Well, here's an opportunity for last year and
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  Speaker 3: a half to be open and transparent and give the
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  Speaker 3: public the information because that venue gets used by thousands
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  Speaker 3: and thousands of people on the weekends for sporting things.
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  Speaker 3: Is it safe? What's the problem? Why has it taken
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  Speaker 3: over a year and a half to fix and their
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  Speaker 3: fixes just to issue a decoration. Why don't fix the problem?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Jared Maylee, we better leave it there. We are
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  Speaker 1: fast running out of time. We appreciate your time this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, thank you, Katie, thank you too.