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Find out more about the CLP's candidate for Fannie Bay Ben Hosking · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Pleased to say that Ben Hosking, the COLP candidate for
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  Speaker 1: Fanny Bay, joins me in the studio this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Ben, Good morning Katie. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: having me really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your time. Now, Ben, let's not beat
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  Speaker 1: around the bush. What suburb do you live in?
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  Speaker 2: I live in Driver, Katie.
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  Speaker 3: But I think one of these things that keeps coming
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  Speaker 3: up about this is obviously where are we from?
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  Speaker 2: And both from Parmesan. But look, I was born in Darwin.
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  Speaker 3: The first house I ever went back to was in
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  Speaker 3: lud Miller in Well Street, which is where I grew up.
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  Speaker 3: I went to school in perap and I can specifically
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  Speaker 3: remember riding my BMX with my folks up to the
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  Speaker 3: Parrat Pool and getting squashed in that red water slide
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  Speaker 3: a number of times by bigger kids as I was
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  Speaker 3: growing up in that area. So sure, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of us move around as we grow up
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  Speaker 3: and we go to different places.
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  Speaker 2: I was lucky enough to join the police, the NT Police.
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  Speaker 3: I volunteered and went to Tenant Creek straight away. And
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  Speaker 3: with that as a career, you're obviously moved around with
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  Speaker 3: where you're getting stationed and I ended up coming back
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  Speaker 3: to Darwin in two thousand and nine and were stationed
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  Speaker 3: in Palmston, so that's where I ended up living.
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  Speaker 1: So now, do you have a business in the electorate,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday we're getting messages from different listeners, some saying
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  Speaker 1: that you did, some saying that you didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I can see what that'd be confusing. I've
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  Speaker 3: actually got two businesses that are quite mobile. I do
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  Speaker 3: contract property maintenance and then my wife and I own
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  Speaker 3: a mobile event business as well. So yeah, we do
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  Speaker 3: do work in the electorate. That's absolutely a big part
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  Speaker 3: of what we're doing. I was actually at Hudson Fish
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  Speaker 3: this morning with a job, so yeah, we do obviously,
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  Speaker 3: but we also move around with wherever the events and
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  Speaker 3: the work is.
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  Speaker 1: For me, now, why have you decided to put your
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  Speaker 1: hand up for an electorate which you don't live in.
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  Speaker 3: I think goes back to where I'm from. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I've got deep connections to that electorate, to that area.
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  Speaker 3: I grew up in that part of Darwen my entire life.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't until I joined the police that I actually left.
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  Speaker 3: And for me, you know, obviously I'm passionate about politics.
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  Speaker 3: I've been involved with the CLP since twenty fifteen. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I've lived here since I was born in nine and
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  Speaker 3: eighty six. You know, like I care deeply about Darwin,
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  Speaker 3: I care deeply about trying to solve the problems that
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  Speaker 3: we're facing now.
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  Speaker 1: Look, obviously, the concern here is going to be that
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  Speaker 1: neither you or Labour's candidate live in the electorate. As
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  Speaker 1: I've pointed out, and I said it during the Daily
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  Speaker 1: by election, how can you sort of run or how
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  Speaker 1: can people run in that electorate. I know that you've
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  Speaker 1: said that you've grown up there, but if you don't
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  Speaker 1: live there and you don't actually understand some of those
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  Speaker 1: issues that are happening on the ground each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: Great question.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that the easiest way to understand that
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  Speaker 3: if you don't live there is the door knock. So
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  Speaker 3: before we even had our own candidates and answer for
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  Speaker 3: the CLP, i'd already drawknocked large portions of lud Miller
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  Speaker 3: and Fanny Bay.
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  Speaker 2: What it is is about understanding what people need to say,
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  Speaker 2: need to get off their chest.
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  Speaker 3: It's daw knocking is not about getting around telling everyone
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  Speaker 3: what you're going to do to fix it. Dorn knocking
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  Speaker 3: is getting around speaking to people and finding out what
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  Speaker 3: the problems are.
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  Speaker 2: It's listening, dawn knocking is listening.
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  Speaker 1: So to those out there listening who do live in
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  Speaker 1: the electorate, who were thinking, well, all right, we've got
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  Speaker 1: this blowke, he seems pretty nice, you know from the
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  Speaker 1: Labor Party seems pretty nice as well, but neither of
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  Speaker 1: them live in the electorate. Are you prepared to move there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, like I said, as where I grew up,
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to be there. I ended up in Parmeston
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  Speaker 3: because that's where the police put me, that was police housing.
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  Speaker 3: We ended up starting a few businesses out there, which
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  Speaker 3: got me originally got me into politics because of what
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  Speaker 3: I was seeing happen.
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  Speaker 2: That is absolutely on the cards. My wife's already looking
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  Speaker 2: at where that might be.
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  Speaker 3: I am not the Minister for War and Finance in
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  Speaker 3: our household, so I wouldn't dare to tell her where
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  Speaker 3: she would like to live. I would just say if
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  Speaker 3: we could live in this region, this haud be the
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  Speaker 3: space that I'd like to go.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, it's going to be interesting. It's certainly
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  Speaker 1: going to be an interesting race. I think this by
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  Speaker 1: election for Fanny Bay. What do you see as being
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  Speaker 1: the biggest concerns in the electorate.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you it's straight away. One of the
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  Speaker 3: biggest ones that's come up has been the solar rebate.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That cut to the solar rebate to homeowners has hurt
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  Speaker 3: people's back pockets. This is a by election about the
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  Speaker 3: cost of living. We've seen skyrocketing fuel prices. I mean
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  Speaker 3: just a fuel of your car up is now double
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  Speaker 3: the price at war only a few months ago, and
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  Speaker 3: there's been nothing done about it. It's crickets out there
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  Speaker 3: and that's terrifying. As a person that runs to two
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  Speaker 3: small businesses, the cost of fuel really affects us because
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  Speaker 3: both of those businesses and mobile and I'm sure everyone
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  Speaker 3: that drives to and from work, or takes their kids
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  Speaker 3: to sport in the afternoon, or has got some sort
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  Speaker 3: of social activity out at Morara that they've got to
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  Speaker 3: get to is feeling that hit in the back pocket.
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  Speaker 3: So getting around speaking to people, they want their rebate
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  Speaker 3: back on their soul that they installed. You know, it
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  Speaker 3: was the government of the day. Now that's taken that
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  Speaker 3: away from them, taking it down to the less than
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  Speaker 3: half of what.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be.
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  Speaker 1: But the CLP is not going to reverse that, are they.
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  Speaker 3: Now we've come out and said that the rebate will
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  Speaker 3: be reinstated, as well as looking at doubling that grant
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  Speaker 3: for the soul of battery, so taking it from six
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  Speaker 3: to twelve thousand dollars. That's a huge incentive to take
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  Speaker 3: the demand off the grid.
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  Speaker 2: Now, one of the.
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  Speaker 1: Other issues that is obviously a big concern for people
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  Speaker 1: that are in the electorate. I think it's a big
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  Speaker 1: concern for everybody around the territory at the moment is
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  Speaker 1: crime and anti social behavior. Now, I understand you were
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  Speaker 1: at the former Chief Minister, Michael Gunner's officer or outside
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  Speaker 1: there yesterday filming something.
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  Speaker 2: What was that all about? Yeah, look, that was really sad.
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  Speaker 3: I also, as a business owner, have experienced exactly what
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  Speaker 3: Michael Gunner has experienced with people breaking in and smashing
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  Speaker 3: up your business, and not just once, but a number
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  Speaker 3: of times. And what I was trying to highlight there
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  Speaker 3: is that it's just absolutely tragic that people in the
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  Speaker 3: Northern Territory aren't safe and what happened to mister Gunner's
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  Speaker 3: office yesterday is a crime. It's an absolute crime, and
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  Speaker 3: it's whether it's done by a fixated person or a
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  Speaker 3: person affected by a substance.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: Any offender from my policing background is motivated by an
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  Speaker 3: issue of some type to carry.
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  Speaker 2: Out a crime.
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  Speaker 3: And what I was trying to highlight there is it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter who you are, you should feel safe, you
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  Speaker 3: should be protected. And it's tragic. This is the guy
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  Speaker 3: that was the most respected politician in Northern Territory as
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  Speaker 3: the Chief minute stuff and he's no longer and this
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  Speaker 3: is how he's being treated in his own community by
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  Speaker 3: his own electorate.
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  Speaker 2: That's really sad.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I guess a lot of people again listening this morning,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be thinking to themselves, well, he's had
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  Speaker 1: to deal with something that we've been dealing with on
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  Speaker 1: a daily basis. You know, a lot of Territorians grappling
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  Speaker 1: with break ins, grappling with anti social behavior, grappling with
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  Speaker 1: public drunkenness. And what's happened there at the former Chief
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  Speaker 1: Minister's office obviously unacceptable, but so is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the crime that's going on in the community. What will you,
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  Speaker 1: if elected, do differently to other parties or to what's
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  Speaker 1: happening now? What would you like to see done differently
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  Speaker 1: to try and deal with that issue.
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  Speaker 3: Look to seal p, I've got a fairly strong platform
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  Speaker 3: in relation to dealing with any social behavior, looking at
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  Speaker 3: bringing back in the two kilometer lock a licensing legislation.
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  Speaker 2: To stop any social behavior.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be advocating for and trying to re empower the
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  Speaker 3: police to be able to do their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Getting do you feel as though they can at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: The police, they're always able to do their jobs.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I want to take my hat off to
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  Speaker 3: the police in being able to respond to and deal
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  Speaker 3: with that crime as they as they did so successfully,
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  Speaker 3: especially with the resources that they're trying to deal with
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  Speaker 3: in cope with and sadly the morale like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: was a police officer. I was a well regarded police officer.
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  Speaker 3: I did some pretty good work in different sections. And
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  Speaker 3: I still have a lot of mates that are cops
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  Speaker 3: and they're not happy. They're not happy with the way
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  Speaker 3: they've been treated. And I mean, look at all you
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  Speaker 3: have to do is look at what's happening this morning
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  Speaker 3: with the Labor Party trying to vilify me for standing
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  Speaker 3: at the front of Michael Gunner's office. It's not about
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  Speaker 3: me trying to point score there. It's legitimately identifying that
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  Speaker 3: we're just not safe in the territory because of what's
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  Speaker 3: been happening.
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  Speaker 2: As a society.
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  Speaker 3: There's a societal problem that has taken place, and it's
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  Speaker 3: taken time for that to happen, and it's under the
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  Speaker 3: watch of the government that we've got right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, were you trying to gain some political mileage
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  Speaker 1: though standing outside Michael Gunner's office, you know, after it's
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  Speaker 1: been smashed up.
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  Speaker 3: I know, JP and I we took two photos and
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  Speaker 3: it was literally just me gesturing to how sad the
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  Speaker 3: damage was.
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  Speaker 1: All right? Then, just to finish off this morning, if elected,
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  Speaker 1: what are your priorities going to be for the Electric?
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  Speaker 2: Look, A big part of it is re engaging with
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  Speaker 2: the Electric.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've been out there speaking to people and
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  Speaker 3: what they want is a local member that is there
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  Speaker 3: and a part of it, they want someone that's getting
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  Speaker 3: around speaking to them and actually taking the time to
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  Speaker 3: listen to what their concerns are. You know, whether that's
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  Speaker 3: any social behavior through lud Miller because people are dealing
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  Speaker 3: with being assaulted in the parks as they're riding home,
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  Speaker 3: or whether or not it's people that aren't feeling the
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  Speaker 3: love from the government because they've actually gone out and
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  Speaker 3: invested their own money in trying to keep the climate clean.
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  Speaker 3: It's getting out there and listening to what they want
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  Speaker 3: to say. Or even how about the Lea Point situation,
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  Speaker 3: You've got an entice way that the community or a
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  Speaker 3: section of the community that are furious that there's been
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  Speaker 3: a lack of community consultation and involvement and listening to
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  Speaker 3: what their problems are. And I mean, it was really
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  Speaker 3: interesting to hear you say that there's Greens of announced
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  Speaker 3: to candidate. I want to know what are the Greens
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  Speaker 3: going to do in regards to their alliance with Labor
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  Speaker 3: over Lee Point?
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  Speaker 2: Are they going to back Labor in on that?
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  Speaker 3: Because there's a lot of people in this electric that
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  Speaker 3: have raised it with me already and there's been no
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  Speaker 3: community consultation from the people that I'm speaking to. They
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  Speaker 3: feel like the government's just walked all over them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Ben Hosking, we are going to have to leave
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  Speaker 1: it there. As I said, we are certainly going to
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  Speaker 1: be catching up with all of the candidates that are
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  Speaker 1: putting their hands up for the seat of Fanny Bay.
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  Speaker 1: But we appreciate you being the first one on tab
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  Speaker 1: A Chat with us and appreciate your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, and thanks very much for listening.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you