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Katie Woolf spoke with Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Mix one O four point nine dot com for all
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  Speaker 2: Joining us on the line right now is the Lord
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  Speaker 2: Mayor of Darwin convat scarlesk.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning to ukon.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning Katie now com.
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  Speaker 2: We've been talking a lot this morning about swell tourism
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  Speaker 2: and how busy it was over the weekend and does
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  Speaker 2: I understand that the Council is looking at different ways
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  Speaker 2: to promote Darwin as a tourist destination, not only in
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  Speaker 2: an effort to try to I guess draw tourism here
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  Speaker 2: to Darwin, but also to try and get some of
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  Speaker 2: those appropriate industries and commercial opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: What are you looking at.
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  Speaker 4: Doing Well, we've been doing that one for a number
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  Speaker 4: of months now, About two years ago we went to
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  Speaker 4: traveling shows with the government. We've been talking to people
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  Speaker 4: in the state. We promote our Darwin wherever we can,
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  Speaker 4: and we're trying to work together with the industry, the
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  Speaker 4: hospitality industry al Fresco were promoting people ideas, have ideas
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  Speaker 4: with the people how can actually activate Darwin and how
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  Speaker 4: this one can attract tourists at the moment. If you
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  Speaker 4: notice the temperatures down south, it's freezing cold. The other thing,
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  Speaker 4: of course, is people can't go anywhere. They can't go
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  Speaker 4: to Bali or to Singapore. They travel in Australia. What
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  Speaker 4: a great opportunity for us to go down south, all
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  Speaker 4: through the media, the social media, to promote our city
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  Speaker 4: as the place to be. And I tell you it
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  Speaker 4: has worked because there are a lot of tourists in town.
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  Speaker 4: You can't get a caravan, pack space, you can't get
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  Speaker 4: a hotel. The other day I was stopped in the
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  Speaker 4: street by a group of Greeks from Melbourne and they
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  Speaker 4: asked me if I in no way if they can
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  Speaker 4: get a car because they couldn't get a car. So
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  Speaker 4: things are working. But we should be complacent because we
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  Speaker 4: never know. In the middle of next year the borders
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  Speaker 4: will open and people can travel again. But if people
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  Speaker 4: realize that down can offer a lot more than just
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  Speaker 4: a stopover, then they can actually come here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, And I guess you know that is the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: If we are anticipating that the international travel might not returnable,
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  Speaker 2: it's looking as though it might' return until the middle
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  Speaker 2: of next year.
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  Speaker 3: It is having an impact.
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  Speaker 2: But we've got to make sure that we're doing all
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  Speaker 2: we can to try to entice people to Darwin Con.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what specifically is the council trying to do
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  Speaker 2: at this point in time or what measures have you
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  Speaker 2: guys put in place in an effort to try and
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 4: So okay, So our city we have done a lot
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  Speaker 4: of work in the social media by promoting our city,
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  Speaker 4: putting beautiful landscapes, photographs. And the other thing we do
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  Speaker 4: is when we see somebody tourists actually using our city photographs,
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  Speaker 4: we talk to them to actually we can use it
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  Speaker 4: in ours in our social media. Social media has been
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  Speaker 4: a very powerful weapon and we know how to use it.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what, it is not restricted by borders.
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  Speaker 4: I can put something in Facebook here in Dowwi and
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  Speaker 4: can be seen as far away internationally but also the
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  Speaker 4: most important in Melbourne and Sydney and Brisbane. And the
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  Speaker 4: other thing we find out is we have to be adaptable.
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  Speaker 4: Now we know very well people don't want to go
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  Speaker 4: to Western Australia because they're afraid that they might close
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  Speaker 4: their borders. Is a case of COVID appears somewhere Western
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  Speaker 4: Australia so they tend to come here. Make things easier
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  Speaker 4: for them to come here, providing the opportunity to come here,
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  Speaker 4: show casing that what we've got to offer. It's a
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  Speaker 4: very very powerful weapon for us. But tracturist there in Daway.
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  Speaker 2: Now, con we've got a message from a listener and
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  Speaker 2: it says it's about CC straight in the city. It
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  Speaker 2: says CC straight in the city at Smith Straight ends
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  Speaker 2: at the Smith Straight end. Sorry, so CC straight in
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  Speaker 2: the city at Smith Straight end. It says that it's
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  Speaker 2: one way straight Kevin A straight doesn't have a sign.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on as that listener.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we wanted to protect the old three that's a
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  Speaker 4: cisy street, so we're putting a footpath around it now
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  Speaker 4: that restricts the street. The street is designed many many
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  Speaker 4: years ago, does comply with the two way street with
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  Speaker 4: today's standard. So we're going to be one way out
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  Speaker 4: to Smith Street.
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  Speaker 3: So it's going to turn into a way straight.
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  Speaker 4: No no, no, it would be two ways up to
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  Speaker 4: the tree and then only an exits mid street. Probably
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  Speaker 4: it currently works undertaken to do the football, and when
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  Speaker 4: this football is completed, there will be appropriate sign. It's
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  Speaker 4: indicating two ways one way right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Conor, I understand that tonight is bad Nights.
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  Speaker 2: What's that all about?
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  Speaker 4: Do you like bats? Not really likes because they used
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  Speaker 4: to make a mess of my car. But if you
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  Speaker 4: really like bats, if you want to go buddy about.
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  Speaker 4: But the only thing to go is go to it
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  Speaker 4: Poin Reserve and you can see the bads in full action.
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  Speaker 4: They're protective species. They're unique in that when people come
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  Speaker 4: here and they actually think they are dogs or cats
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  Speaker 4: flying when they splain because they've never seen anything like
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  Speaker 4: that in the Southern States. But we really really like
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  Speaker 4: to our bats, and what we're going to do it
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  Speaker 4: local butt enthusiasts and Alice Cotton will kick off the
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  Speaker 4: nights with live music. Then they talk about local bats
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  Speaker 4: from experts who know everything, budgs and researchers, and it's
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  Speaker 4: a very they opportunity to get close and persional with
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  Speaker 4: some of our beautiful flying foxes as we call them all,
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  Speaker 4: but as the experts tad to call.
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  Speaker 2: Them, well, combat scarlets. Lord Mayor of Darwin, good to
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  Speaker 2: speak with you this morning. We'll catch up with you
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  Speaker 2: again next week.
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  Speaker 4: I think you catch with me earlier because tonight we're
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  Speaker 4: going to discuss our budget, and we're going to talk
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  Speaker 4: of that budget, and we're going to make a huge
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  Speaker 4: of announcements tomorrow about our huge capital work programs, about
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  Speaker 4: our rates and what more we're going to do to
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  Speaker 4: make down a place to leave cold.
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  Speaker 2: And let's lock it in for tomorrow then May so
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  Speaker 2: we'll catch up with you tomorrow morning to find out
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  Speaker 2: what I gets past in the budget tonight. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for the heads out.
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  Speaker 4: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Good on you, con Thank you