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Incoming Member for Fannie Bay Brent Potter says his top priorities are addressing anti-social behaviour and activating green spaces · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now, it was a very interesting by election over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the weekend. If you live in Fanny Bay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there was plenty of you out in about
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  Speaker 1: Probably not as many voters as we would have liked
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  Speaker 1: to have seen out and about to vote, but certainly
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  Speaker 1: an interesting outcome. Now, on first preferences, the colp's country
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  Speaker 1: or the country Liberal Party has been Hosking was ahead
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  Speaker 1: with forty two percent of the primary vote.
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  Speaker 2: Labour's tally was thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Three percent on first preferences, with nineteen percent going to
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  Speaker 1: the Greens. But as we know obviously when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the two party preferred vote, well, mister Potter held
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  Speaker 1: fifty two percent of the two party preferred vote when
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  Speaker 1: Labour declared victory. So it was certainly a very interesting race,
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  Speaker 1: I think, is the way that I would describe it.
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  Speaker 1: And there is a swing against the Labor Party, there's
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  Speaker 1: been a bit of a swing towards the Greens and
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a swing towards the CLP. But joining
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  Speaker 1: me in the studio right now is Brent Potter from
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  Speaker 1: the Labor Party.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Brent.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, Katie morning listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Now, were you surprised by the results on the weekends.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're a surprised in any outcome. At the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, you work three weeks to get
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  Speaker 3: to election day and hear the outcome. Obviously, low voter turnout,
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  Speaker 3: that was a bit of a surprise. But I'm really
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  Speaker 3: really happy and eternally grateful for the constituents for the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to serve them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: Really disappointing, I Reckon to see that low voter turnout.
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  Speaker 2: What do you attribute that to?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they have just gone through a federal election recently.
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  Speaker 3: There's some council by elections coming up as well, I think,
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  Speaker 3: But ultimately by elections are difficult. People come out to
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  Speaker 3: vote when they're unhappy, you know, we've seen that before.
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  Speaker 3: That could indicate that people were fairly comfortable. Also, you
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  Speaker 3: had the Sunday market, so Saturday markets and the sports
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  Speaker 3: in the morning. People may just got busy as well.
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  Speaker 1: Do you, Reckon, I've had anything to do with the
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  Speaker 1: fact that neither you or been live.
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  Speaker 2: In the electorate.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have thought so. I think at the end
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  Speaker 3: of some people may have voted that way. But I
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  Speaker 3: think people will measure you on what you can do
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  Speaker 3: for the elector and the best candidate regardless of where
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  Speaker 3: they geographically live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you didn't win on primary votes and the swing
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  Speaker 1: towards the COLP it is a large one.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think.
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  Speaker 1: I think that the you know that that vote sees
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  Speaker 1: to the Labor Party and the government.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, Well more people voted against the Conservative Party
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  Speaker 3: than they actually voted for the SP voting for the
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  Speaker 3: Green Labour. So that's that's first and foremost. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we have a two party preferred system. That's the system
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  Speaker 3: that we have. You know, he did win the primary
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  Speaker 3: vote and some in the boots, but when you look
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  Speaker 3: at Catherine, you look at you look at Brennan, for
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  Speaker 3: Mary Clair, Booth b and jo Hersey, they won on
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  Speaker 3: the two party preferred preference system. So I think to
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  Speaker 3: say that the primaries, that's irrelevant. You went on two
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  Speaker 3: party preferred, that's all we got to and that was
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  Speaker 3: the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look it does so.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean when you look at the numbers from
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, obviously in those primary votes you've got oney
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  Speaker 1: eighty nine votes. The COLP got the thirteen hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety four With those primary numbers. When you compare that
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  Speaker 1: to the last general election for the seat of Fanny Bay,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Gunner did get two than ninety five Tracy Hayes
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and ten. So, however you look at it,
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  Speaker 1: I mean comparatively to the COLP, it's a big change.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we need to get more people out to vote,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So what I've got to do over the
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  Speaker 3: next two years is get out in front of people,
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  Speaker 3: deliver on the coopment so I've promised them, and get
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  Speaker 3: them out to vote for us. I mean, I'll prove
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  Speaker 3: to them in the next two years and the best
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  Speaker 3: candidate going forward plus of twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: So do you think that there's any message from the
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  Speaker 1: electorates that is one for labor to sort of sit
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  Speaker 1: up and listen to when it comes to crime or
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  Speaker 1: anti social behavior.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, listen, I agree completely any social behavior we need
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  Speaker 3: to address in the short term people. But what I
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  Speaker 3: do know is people don't want to forll go the
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  Speaker 3: long term change because they don't want to keep going
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  Speaker 3: through these cycles. So they want to see the continued
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  Speaker 3: efforts for the long term generational change we've been focused
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  Speaker 3: on as a labor government. But you are right, there
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  Speaker 3: are some short term stuff we need to do right now.
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  Speaker 3: And as I said going through the campaign, I had
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  Speaker 3: a solution for addressing those in the Electric around the
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  Speaker 3: activation of green spaces, the bus services, security controls and CCTV.
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  Speaker 3: So I can deliver on those and I think that'll
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  Speaker 3: relieve the pressure that people see in the Electric.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what are your main priorities?
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  Speaker 1: Do you sort of start working today or how does
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  Speaker 1: it work?
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  Speaker 3: I do start working today. As I found out, I
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  Speaker 3: actually cannot occupy the office, and the actual micro's office,
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  Speaker 3: the community space may be a bit different. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to plunk a table out there after lunch so people
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  Speaker 3: can come and see me. We'll go out in the Electric,
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  Speaker 3: we'll walk the streets again, talk to people. But today
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  Speaker 3: is day one up until twenty twenty four to the
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  Speaker 3: next general election.
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  Speaker 2: Are you pretty excited to sort of hit the ground running?
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  Speaker 3: Stoked? Absolutely stoked. Had a bit of the morning wake up.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you have your coffee with the kids, and like,
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  Speaker 3: that's the first coffee I've had in about three weeks
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  Speaker 3: at home, and oh well, we're starting a new job today,
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  Speaker 3: so let's get onto it and let's get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Now. The big question, I think from a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people in the electorate is when are you going to
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  Speaker 1: move into the electroc As.
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  Speaker 3: I said, we're going to move as soon as we can.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to find a place either rent or buy.
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  Speaker 3: Property price or properties availability is very small there. But
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  Speaker 3: where if anyone is selling or renting, give us a yell.
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  Speaker 3: If you're a realist that agent you've got something, give
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  Speaker 3: us a yell. We are one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: Committed now, Brent, I know this.
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  Speaker 1: In the last week of the campaign there was some
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  Speaker 1: mud slinging about your previous work experience. What would you
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  Speaker 1: say to anyone who was concerned about the issue that
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  Speaker 1: was raised last week around conflicts of interest?
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  Speaker 3: It's nothing more than mud slinging. It was completely declared
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  Speaker 3: perceived conflict of interest. It's a great project for the territory.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to create hundreds of jobs. They've already sold
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  Speaker 3: a plane. I mean, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: there is a product that someone wants to buy. It's
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  Speaker 3: gone through independent assessment from the depart one of the
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  Speaker 3: big four consultancies. Great project, completely declared nothing more than
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  Speaker 3: mudslinging right before the election.
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  Speaker 1: So, Brent, when do you get to move into the
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  Speaker 1: actual office you said, you're putting a table out there today.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's the Tuesday, so officially get sworn in
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  Speaker 3: Parliament next Tuesday, so you actually can'tot occupy, I believe,
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  Speaker 3: and the Electric they're going to confirm it. But the
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  Speaker 3: office is owned by the Ledges until such a time.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that the electoral commissions still got to
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  Speaker 1: finalize everything as well this week, don't they. So be
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  Speaker 1: an interesting week for you, I'm sure finding your feet
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  Speaker 1: and working it all out. We really appreciate your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning. All the best and congratulations
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Katie, Thanks, thank you,