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Northern Territory MP Gerry Wood explains the boundary changes that will impact the Darwin and Palmerston areas · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: It is thirteen minutes away from eleven o'clock. And well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to head across right now and catch up
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  Speaker 1: with our old mate, Jerry Wood. Good morning to you, Jerry, Good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Katy. Not too much stress on the old bit
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  Speaker 2: very much.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've been our friends for a long time. You've
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  Speaker 1: been our friend for a long time, Jerry. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I made.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, Jerry.
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  Speaker 1: Or before I ask you about these boundary changes, mate,
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  Speaker 1: how the petrol price is looking out in the rural area.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, terrible, but I don't think we knew anything
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  Speaker 2: about it. The world has gone a bit crazy, and
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  Speaker 2: that craziness is affecting the world supplier fuel. And of
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  Speaker 2: course it's a market, and that market reacts to what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: And we're at the bottom end of the chain, and
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  Speaker 2: we paid more because that's the way it is. I
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  Speaker 2: don't like it, but I'll use my I've got a tricycle.
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  Speaker 2: I use that a fair bit of gay shopping and
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't cost any fuel. Yeah, that's better for me. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it might make more people use public transport. I know
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  Speaker 2: we have two express buses going from the rural area
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  Speaker 2: every morning, and I'd love to see more people park
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  Speaker 2: their cars in the parking area is set aside and
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  Speaker 2: homp to Do and cool Inger and I think that's
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  Speaker 2: that's one way to save some money and avoid the
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  Speaker 2: extra prices of the increasing prices.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is something that we can all look at.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've got a regular jobing down, then you
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  Speaker 2: need to just go there and back every day. You
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  Speaker 2: will catch us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, Jerry, I am just looking out in the
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  Speaker 1: Litchfield area today with the with the hang on. Let
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  Speaker 1: me double check. I think I'm on the diesel prices
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  Speaker 1: here and the Sampalms roadhouse a dollar eighty eight. What
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  Speaker 1: a pack of legends they are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it cost me that much to get out there.
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  Speaker 2: And still if you've got someone coming back in and
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  Speaker 2: tell them to throw a few Jerry Cans on the back,
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  Speaker 2: it might make a few dollars on the side.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good time, good plan. Now, Jerry, we've got you
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  Speaker 1: on the show this morning because there's been a bit
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  Speaker 1: of talk about these boundary changes and what they're going
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  Speaker 1: to mean. I know that Palmerston, it's meant that they're
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  Speaker 1: sort of picking up some of the industrial area. But
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  Speaker 1: you want to have a chat to me as well
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  Speaker 1: about what it potentially means for the rural area and
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the government has said and the Chief Minister has
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  Speaker 2: come out and said, well, we're going to put five
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  Speaker 2: thousand blocks of land out past the hospital into what
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  Speaker 2: they call always a fancy named greater Holds, well just
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  Speaker 2: gought Holts, no greater than any other part of Holes.
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  Speaker 2: But the area there is rural. We've asked for years
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  Speaker 2: for that to be developed as a rural subdivision. There
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  Speaker 2: is a moratorium on boards at the moment, but we
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  Speaker 2: know that there's been quite a few rural subdivisions developed
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  Speaker 2: over the years in the rural area using town water.
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  Speaker 2: And there's no reason why the government couldn't continue with
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  Speaker 2: what was planned for that area. That it would be rural,
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  Speaker 2: and we do understand that there would be need to
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  Speaker 2: be some sort of suburban development around the hospital. But
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  Speaker 2: you know what I see is a government that is
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  Speaker 2: hats lacking in vision, unlacking in you might say, an
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  Speaker 2: effort to build a new city of Wdell, because what
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  Speaker 2: you're doing is starting to look for a spot, well,
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  Speaker 2: we can put some houses there. There's another vacant plan somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: I will put some houses there. That's sort of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not real planning. It's sort of convenient sort of planning
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  Speaker 2: to avoid the long term vision that we should have
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  Speaker 2: for a new city. And what I'm hoping is that
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  Speaker 2: my two local members, Jerrem Mailey who's took over from
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  Speaker 2: me and from who also lives in the whole area,
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  Speaker 2: maybe able to convince the CLP that here's an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to do something a little different, because I've got a
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  Speaker 2: feeling THELP is supporting the government on this issue, whereas
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  Speaker 2: I think they should be I think putting their best
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  Speaker 2: foot forward and saying hang on, we'll put a proposal
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  Speaker 2: forward that we'll get some federal government funny money under
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  Speaker 2: the one of these cities campaigns that you can get
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  Speaker 2: some money under and start to work on previous work
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  Speaker 2: that was done about ten years ago on developing Wordell.
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  Speaker 2: So there was a company that came up from both
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  Speaker 2: Brisbane and Melbourne and did major workshops about ten years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And also Tropo Architecture might know they did substantial work
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  Speaker 2: on designing subdivisions for the Wodell area. Now that's all
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  Speaker 2: sitting in a shelf at the moment, and that could
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  Speaker 2: be used as the basis of moving this development on,
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  Speaker 2: because I just think that the government doesn't really know
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  Speaker 2: what it's doing. If you put five thousand blocks where
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  Speaker 2: they are saying they will be all starting blocks, because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that area has some environmental restrictions. It's
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  Speaker 2: part of the King River catchment and there's a large catchment,
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  Speaker 2: a large paper ark wetlands in that and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where they've taken that into account. They've also built
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  Speaker 2: the new don Dale Youth Center up near the new prison,
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  Speaker 2: and in their plans they show that it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be suburban. Well, the reason the government gave in to
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  Speaker 2: the developers about moving the existing Dondale Center or not
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  Speaker 2: redeveloping it because those developers that are we won't be
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  Speaker 2: able to sell land if you leave that don Dale
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  Speaker 2: Center there, which I think is a load of rubbish
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  Speaker 2: to you on us. You just put a little buffer
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  Speaker 2: around it and it's secure. So they've built one out
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  Speaker 2: in the rural area and if you look at the maps,
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  Speaker 2: they show suburban development right up against the fence. So
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  Speaker 2: I just think they would be far better off to
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  Speaker 2: develop that land in one or two hect their blocks
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  Speaker 2: give people the option of having instead of buying in
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  Speaker 2: a suburban development, of having an option of bringing and
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  Speaker 2: raising a family. As I always say, with a few
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  Speaker 2: chocks and the horse, a bit of bush and give
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  Speaker 2: a bit of space to people. And I still think
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  Speaker 2: the healthiest place to bring up kids is where they
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  Speaker 2: can do things for themselves, not always relying on sitting down,
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  Speaker 2: playing on the on the computer or on the phone,
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  Speaker 2: but have a bit of space where they can get
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  Speaker 2: out and do practical things.
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  Speaker 1: Get out and about well.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that that's one of the advantages living
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  Speaker 2: in the rural area, which I honestly feel at times
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  Speaker 2: the government doesn't recognize. And I just think that this
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  Speaker 2: time that the government won't do it. Then I think
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  Speaker 2: Jared and Keysier that convinced the leadership, look, let's come
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  Speaker 2: out and put plans forward for developing a good sustainable
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  Speaker 2: tropical city, well designed, and that would be without one
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  Speaker 2: other thing you could prossibly do with a new city.
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  Speaker 2: I've mentioned that some years ago. Is you know that
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  Speaker 2: there's m K two the light aircraft airstrip, Yeah, yep, fairly,
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  Speaker 2: which is fairly limited in it. It's possible expansion because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the land around it is very wet.
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  Speaker 2: But I've always thought that building a new town or
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  Speaker 2: city of Widell, you could look at building something like
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  Speaker 2: you have it Moraman, maybe not as busy, but a
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  Speaker 2: light aircraft area where people could have hangars there. There
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  Speaker 2: could be workshops there, and we could have an airstrip
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  Speaker 2: there which was not associated with the raft base, one
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  Speaker 2: that could be privately run for those people using light aircraft,
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  Speaker 2: and perhaps they could reduce the cost of people using
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  Speaker 2: the raft base, but also still be fairly close to
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  Speaker 2: the town.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Jerry, I think there's certainly a lot lot there
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  Speaker 1: for people to take in and a bit further discussion about.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll make sure that we do talk more about it. Mate,
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  Speaker 1: we've missed you on the radio. It's good to have
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  Speaker 1: you back on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I haven't lived anywhere. I've got any work
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  Speaker 2: to do on the weekend. Yeah no, no, no shortage
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  Speaker 2: your work.
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  Speaker 1: Well, don't worry. We'll start talking to you a bit
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  Speaker 1: more and uh and chat to you a bit more
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  Speaker 1: on here I reckon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all on you Jerry.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely to talk to you this morning. Thanks for your time.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you.