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- 0:00Speaker 1: It is Tuesday morning and it is time for the
- 0:02Speaker 1: big issues. Thanks to Klono Community Association and Aboriginal loaned
- 0:07Speaker 1: operated and community lead Organization from the Top End to
- 0:11Speaker 1: Tenant Creek and joining us seeing the studio this.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Morning, Dave tolda good to see you, mate, and we've.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Got Maddie Hepworth filling in for Damian Hale.
- 0:21Speaker 3: Is a big fella.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Maningrida.
- 0:29Speaker 1: He usually goes and says, get out of my mum
- 0:30Speaker 1: when he's visiting Maningreda.
- 0:32Speaker 2: She's out there. Always good fun, I'm sure for them
- 0:34Speaker 2: in Maningreda emulate inter.
- 0:50Speaker 4: Get a Katie. Great to be with you.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Right, A bit of a mixer.
- 0:58Speaker 3: You could go else I can't.
- 1:02Speaker 5: Key.
- 1:04Speaker 3: Yes, you've got to be careful to colislist to act
- 1:08Speaker 3: on me.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Well, let's get into it because there's been much on
- 1:16Speaker 1: the agenda and it's only Tuesday.
- 1:18Speaker 2: But I am going to just.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Play a bit of audio for you from yesterday and
- 1:23Speaker 1: it is the AFL and T chairman Sean Bowden. He
- 1:26Speaker 1: caught up with Matti Hepworth yesterday when I was off crook.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Take a listen to what he had to say in
- 1:31Speaker 1: relation to the potential development of a stadium for our CBD.
- 1:36Speaker 4: Designs for a three hundred million dollars sporting stadium in
- 1:39Speaker 4: the heart of the Darwin CBD have been revealed.
- 1:42Speaker 6: This is a facility first and foremost for all of
- 1:44Speaker 6: the Northern Territory and all sports. We obviously want to
- 1:47Speaker 6: use it for high level AFL games, and we think
- 1:50Speaker 6: that there's scope for more NRL games. You've got a
- 1:53Speaker 6: League soccer, then you've got the Asian Super League. With
- 1:55Speaker 6: a facility such as this, there'd be no reason you
- 1:57Speaker 6: wouldn't see some of those teams coming in.
- 1:59Speaker 3: We got union, you could build it up.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Well, I know that, Maddie.
- 2:04Speaker 1: You asked plenty of questions about this with Sean Bowden yesterday.
- 2:07Speaker 2: My biggest question is where are we getting the money?
- 2:10Speaker 4: Well, I said, they won't be going to the government
- 2:12Speaker 4: for it. He knows it would be the wrong time
- 2:13Speaker 4: to put a hand out and ask for any kind
- 2:15Speaker 4: of money. But he did flag potential Commonwealth investment as well.
- 2:19Speaker 4: He realizes that the Northern Territory government, I mean the
- 2:21Speaker 4: stadium's proposed three hundred million dollars, the government don't have
- 2:25Speaker 4: thirty dollars to spare at the moment, so he said,
- 2:28Speaker 4: private investment is where it's going to come from, but
- 2:30Speaker 4: they could certainly seek support from the Commonwealth government as well.
- 2:34Speaker 2: I'll let Dave talk before I Sensing a bit of
- 2:37Speaker 2: a pipe dreamer, I asked him, we've.
- 2:40Speaker 4: Seen these things before, Sewan and he goes, no, he goes,
- 2:43Speaker 4: I promise you. He goes, I want to make this happen.
- 2:45Speaker 4: And I said, well, you know, we see you know,
- 2:47Speaker 4: big projects like this flag three hundred million dollars and
- 2:50Speaker 4: there's all this fanfare about it, and that's the last
- 2:53Speaker 4: we hear about it. This is probably the second update
- 2:55Speaker 4: we've heard. We got the initial one.
- 2:56Speaker 1: In and look like you know, I'm always cautious to
- 3:00Speaker 1: just knock people down when they come through with ideas
- 3:02Speaker 1: because I know that it's really difficult to come through
- 3:04Speaker 1: with ideas and then continue on down the path to
- 3:07Speaker 1: actually try to make it come to fruition.
- 3:09Speaker 3: I mean, if they could pay for Tia Stadium, you know,
- 3:13Speaker 3: if if the AFL is that cashed up, you know,
- 3:16Speaker 3: they've got three hundred million dollars to throw around, why
- 3:19Speaker 3: do they need to be in a subsidized AFL stadium?
- 3:21Speaker 2: You have to get they're obviously looking for investors, aren't
- 3:24Speaker 2: they They're not.
- 3:26Speaker 3: This is my point though, you know currently they can't
- 3:29Speaker 3: afford the stadium they're currently in. And a week or
- 3:33Speaker 3: so ago I went to the Eels game. I've been
- 3:35Speaker 3: to the Yels game out there now. Wouldn't miss them
- 3:37Speaker 3: with no, I wouldn't miss them. I love the yields.
- 3:40Speaker 3: But it's it's it really is disgusting, you know. It's
- 3:44Speaker 3: to sit there and watch a game a rugby league
- 3:46Speaker 3: on an Ossie rules oval is nuts. You're sitting outside
- 3:50Speaker 3: the boundary on the ISI rules field. It's another twenty
- 3:53Speaker 3: or thirty meters away to the to the sideline of
- 3:55Speaker 3: the rugby league and it's not a it's not a
- 3:59Speaker 3: venue at all that you would hold.
- 4:01Speaker 1: The way that I always think about it is you
- 4:05Speaker 1: can kind of go all up, well, they've got one
- 4:06Speaker 1: in Townsville. You know, they've got them in different locations
- 4:10Speaker 1: around Australia.
- 4:11Speaker 3: But the Cowboys don't play exactly, don't play on a
- 4:15Speaker 3: Nazi rules over.
- 4:16Speaker 2: We have an NR.
- 4:18Speaker 1: They also have an NRL team the same as in
- 4:21Speaker 1: even in other locations like Cans they've got the QRL,
- 4:26Speaker 1: so they've they've got then that tier that's underneath the NRL.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Like here in the territory, we don't currently have an
- 4:32Speaker 1: AFL team. We don't currently have you know, the tier
- 4:35Speaker 1: underneath either and we don't have and like we don't have.
- 4:39Speaker 2: It for the AFL or for the NRL. So I
- 4:41Speaker 2: just wonder.
- 4:43Speaker 3: In a in a subsidized stadium, wholly subsidized, you know,
- 4:47Speaker 3: and to sit there and think now that they can
- 4:49Speaker 3: raise another three hundred million dollars, you'd have to say,
- 4:53Speaker 3: were aware have they been in the last twenty years?
- 4:55Speaker 3: I guess they play their own way.
- 4:58Speaker 4: You know.
- 4:58Speaker 1: The other side of the argument and made you probably
- 5:00Speaker 1: spoke about this yesterday, is that it would draw people
- 5:03Speaker 1: into the city and it would make us a bit
- 5:05Speaker 1: of a you know, we're finding that we're a bit
- 5:07Speaker 1: of a sporting location right now, even for those training
- 5:10Speaker 1: for the Olympics, for other sports and things like that
- 5:13Speaker 1: in the territory.
- 5:14Speaker 2: I mean, do we capitalize now while the iron is hot? Personal?
- 5:17Speaker 3: Look, I think one of the greatest disgraces is that
- 5:19Speaker 3: the government walked away from Richeson Park the another time
- 5:26Speaker 3: of rugby league. Now we had a plan to spend
- 5:28Speaker 3: twenty five million dollars on that place a lot of money.
- 5:32Speaker 3: Government would have taken it over because rugby League couldn't
- 5:35Speaker 3: afford to maintain it. But the idea was that you
- 5:38Speaker 3: would have a stadium there that you could have all
- 5:42Speaker 3: of those big soccer, rugby union, rugby league games in
- 5:46Speaker 3: plenty of seeding capacity and all of that sort of stuff.
- 5:49Speaker 3: Knocked on the head moved out to Souse at Marara.
- 5:53Speaker 3: They don't even have a long term lease there. I
- 5:56Speaker 3: think the lease is for twenty five years or something
- 5:58Speaker 3: like that off Souse and now they're allowing this fellow
- 6:03Speaker 3: to run around and bang on about three hundred million
- 6:05Speaker 3: dollar stadiums in the CBD.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Well just you know, like I say, I would never
- 6:11Speaker 1: knock anybody who's got good ideas and who comes forward
- 6:14Speaker 1: with different ideas, because I think it's easy for us
- 6:16Speaker 1: all to sort of say, oh no, it's not for this,
- 6:18Speaker 1: that or the other reason. But you know, there are
- 6:20Speaker 1: points that you've made their day, which you know, particularly
- 6:24Speaker 1: with Richardson Park, that I know a lot of those
- 6:26Speaker 1: in the rugby league sector would agree with. You know
- 6:30Speaker 1: that we've let that prime location go.
- 6:33Speaker 3: But everything we hear about these days is you know,
- 6:37Speaker 3: there's no real economic value in any of these things. Said,
- 6:40Speaker 3: I noticed today in the inteen years, we've got Barb
- 6:45Speaker 3: Melandear McCarthy banging on about how there's going to be
- 6:48Speaker 3: no cotton industry in the Northern Territory. Now, that's obviously
- 6:53Speaker 3: an industry that makes money, but we can't have one
- 6:55Speaker 3: in the Northern Territory. Same as we can't have a
- 6:57Speaker 3: dam in the Northern Territory. Same as they tried to
- 6:59Speaker 3: put the bosh on gas in the Northern Territory. Anything
- 7:02Speaker 3: that's seen as an industry and an opportunity is ignored.
- 7:07Speaker 3: And yet.
- 7:11Speaker 2: Well right now day, well, I don't.
- 7:14Speaker 3: Know where you're going to see the big licks of
- 7:16Speaker 3: money coming in, Like I say, they're in a subsidized
- 7:19Speaker 3: place already. And then you have to you know. But
- 7:23Speaker 3: like I said, then you see the university spending four
- 7:26Speaker 3: hundred and fifty million dollars on a campus for international
- 7:28Speaker 3: students in the city.
- 7:33Speaker 1: From Ken vows and he said, I always go to
- 7:35Speaker 1: what are the recurrent costs for a stadium? We always
- 7:38Speaker 1: talk about the cost of building, et cetera, but never
- 7:40Speaker 1: about what the funding for you know, the tens of
- 7:42Speaker 1: millions it's going to run cost to run every year,
- 7:45Speaker 1: which is another good point.
- 7:46Speaker 3: Practically nice sport in the territor that pays for itself.
- 7:50Speaker 3: You know, the netball, that wonderful big stadium that they
- 7:53Speaker 3: have and you've got to love it. It looks great
- 7:55Speaker 3: and it's a whole lot better for the girls to
- 7:57Speaker 3: be playing inside and outside. I can't afford the air
- 8:00Speaker 3: and they can't afford the air conditioning bill times of basketball.
- 8:03Speaker 2: What do you do? Do you just go no sport
- 8:05Speaker 2: for anyone. It's still expensing sport any.
- 8:09Speaker 3: I mean you grew up playing Did you grow up
- 8:11Speaker 3: in an air conditioning stadium?
- 8:13Speaker 2: Depends?
- 8:14Speaker 1: I grew up in Mount Isa Dave so there.
- 8:18Speaker 3: So I grew up in country Queensland. But we all
- 8:21Speaker 3: played sport, didn't we?
- 8:22Speaker 2: Absolutely?
- 8:23Speaker 3: You know, And you played it on bitchamin courts outdoors,
- 8:28Speaker 3: if you played netball, if you played rugby league, you
- 8:31Speaker 3: on a gravel, very little grass.
- 8:39Speaker 5: Hello Katie Wolf and three point sixty online at Mixed
- 8:42Speaker 5: one O four nine dot com.
- 8:43Speaker 4: You.
- 8:44Speaker 1: I am very cognizant that we don't have Damian Hale
- 8:47Speaker 1: this morning to talk about this next topic, but I
- 8:49Speaker 1: think it's important for us to bring it up and
- 8:51Speaker 1: that is the fact that's Anthony Albanezi has been warned
- 8:55Speaker 1: by the head of the New South Wales c of
- 8:57Speaker 1: m e U Mining and Energy Vision to stop developing
- 9:01Speaker 1: labor policies in inner city coffee shops or risk losing
- 9:06Speaker 1: three federal seats in the Hunter Valley at the next election,
- 9:09Speaker 1: an outcome almost certain to relegate it to three more
- 9:13Speaker 1: years of opposition. That is what's been reported in The
- 9:15Speaker 1: Australian this morning. And we know that former Labor Front
- 9:19Speaker 1: bencher Joel Fitzgibbon has also threatened to quit Parliament if
- 9:22Speaker 1: mister Albanezi's agenda did not go further in backing blue
- 9:26Speaker 1: collar workers, opening up a split within the opposition ranks
- 9:30Speaker 1: following Labour's defeat at the weekend by election in the
- 9:34Speaker 1: seat of the Upper Hunter. Now I can almost guess
- 9:39Speaker 1: your response, Dave Maddie head.
- 9:41Speaker 3: Where's Where's Maddie?
- 9:45Speaker 4: I can feel the excitement losing off, Dave. I just
- 9:52Speaker 4: want to know what the poor I love a laty.
- 9:54Speaker 5: What did the unions?
- 9:55Speaker 4: What did do to the unions? Anytime they get their
- 9:57Speaker 4: back up about Labor not supporting them anymore? It's always
- 10:01Speaker 4: the latine drinkers in Capital City. Our union office here
- 10:05Speaker 4: is based in the heart of Darwin, CBD. I live
- 10:07Speaker 4: just around the corner and I see them drinking. They're
- 10:10Speaker 4: lattes in our little inner city offices.
- 10:13Speaker 3: They probably care about as much for workers as they do.
- 10:19Speaker 3: I mean, that's a reality. If you're not in the
- 10:20Speaker 3: public service, I don't care, but I mean.
- 10:24Speaker 2: To me, I do want to say that.
- 10:26Speaker 1: I actually think Joel Fitzgibbon makes some fairly good points here,
- 10:29Speaker 1: and you cannot forget about the working class at the moment.
- 10:34Speaker 3: I forget that.
- 10:35Speaker 2: I feel so that is that is.
- 10:38Speaker 1: An area at the moment where federally labor does seem
- 10:42Speaker 1: to have lost its way a little bit. And I
- 10:43Speaker 1: don't know, you know, locally it could be the same too.
- 10:45Speaker 1: You can't forget about I'm being diplomatic because I know
- 10:53Speaker 1: you're but you've got to remember the workers, you know,
- 10:57Speaker 1: you do need to remember your working class Australians.
- 11:02Speaker 2: And I think that, if you like, was formed on.
- 11:05Speaker 3: The back of the workers exact from the trade union
- 11:07Speaker 3: movement back in the days when they had demarkation disputes
- 11:10Speaker 3: and you know, there was national wage cases and all
- 11:14Speaker 3: of that sort of caper and and that's when labor
- 11:18Speaker 3: you know, it became the political arm of the union movement,
- 11:23Speaker 3: and you know, legitimately, I think workers feel that they
- 11:27Speaker 3: should have a stake in the Labor Party, certainly those
- 11:30Speaker 3: who are members of unions. And when you see the
- 11:33Speaker 3: Labor Party going off on this sort of woke frenzy
- 11:38Speaker 3: that they're doing, you really got to wonder. You know
- 11:41Speaker 3: that they sacrifice jobs everywhere like that, you know, the
- 11:44Speaker 3: green New future that they you know, they've they've buddied
- 11:48Speaker 3: up with their pals in the Greens. They don't really
- 11:51Speaker 3: care too much about.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Workers in the industry transitioning. I think you can't just
- 11:57Speaker 1: be going, all right, we're going to shut down every
- 11:59Speaker 1: coal mine.
- 11:59Speaker 2: You've want to actually transition.
- 12:01Speaker 3: Well, I could actually use your brains and sort of
- 12:03Speaker 3: start to say, how can we do our bit to
- 12:07Speaker 3: alleviate climate change and at the same time keep the
- 12:10Speaker 3: economy strong and keep people in jobs, because ultimately, the
- 12:14Speaker 3: biggest threat to the environment is poverty. The biggest the
- 12:18Speaker 3: biggest environmental damage in the world comes where there's poverty,
- 12:22Speaker 3: and the moral people that you can take out of poverty,
- 12:26Speaker 3: the better off we are.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Can I just spin this discussion slightly though, and ask you, Dave,
- 12:32Speaker 1: does Joel fitzgibbny the need to put up or shut up?
- 12:35Speaker 2: At this point?
- 12:36Speaker 3: I think Joel fitzgibbn is really quite a brave person,
- 12:41Speaker 3: you know, not whether you call it brave or not,
- 12:44Speaker 3: but he's basically billing the cat, saying, listen, this is
- 12:47Speaker 3: this is what the Labor Party is supposed to steed
- 12:50Speaker 3: for your turning your backs on us. We're getting wiped
- 12:52Speaker 3: out at elections because of this mad green policy and
- 12:57Speaker 3: it's time to buck up and change and a bit
- 13:00Speaker 3: of respect to people who work in these industries. And
- 13:04Speaker 3: you know the fact his labor got no respect for
- 13:06Speaker 3: people who work in those industries.
- 13:07Speaker 2: I don't care for them all. You're a bit of
- 13:09Speaker 2: a latte sipping city, what do you think about it all?
- 13:13Speaker 2: He's got that younger generation, younger than me.
- 13:20Speaker 4: To kind of go on the more conservative side of
- 13:24Speaker 4: the Labor Party. Mark Lathams the other one that comes
- 13:26Speaker 4: to mind as well. I mean he was.
- 13:28Speaker 1: There's plenty you know, yeah, Martin Ferguson older Mark Latham
- 13:33Speaker 1: is going to be.
- 13:35Speaker 3: Also they say they've gone. I mean the fact was
- 13:38Speaker 3: Latham was very much in support of the world.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Sorry, but when he when he was running against John
- 13:44Speaker 1: Howard and shook his hand just the way, I.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Was sorry, you've lost me.
- 13:49Speaker 3: But he was not. He was not a good fit
- 13:52Speaker 3: for the Labor Party. And you know the thing is,
- 13:56Speaker 3: you've got Martin Ferguson, former Resources Minister, the like pretty
- 14:00Speaker 3: well shun by most labor politicians these days.
- 14:05Speaker 1: You think though, you are a younger bloke and you
- 14:07Speaker 1: are obviously like I said, you know, some might say
- 14:09Speaker 1: you're latte sipping in the.
- 14:11Speaker 3: City, yeah, sort of sor him as a late he's
- 14:15Speaker 3: a news here and it's rather beat.
- 14:19Speaker 5: That's all right.
- 14:20Speaker 1: Let talk.
- 14:21Speaker 4: Don't really have an opinion either way. And the given
- 14:25Speaker 4: will say though, is the Liberal Party though, and David
- 14:27Speaker 4: know this, you've been part of the sea. Is the
- 14:30Speaker 4: Prime Minister Scott Morrison or Malcolm Turbull described the Liberal
- 14:34Speaker 4: Party as a broad church within the party, even though
- 14:37Speaker 4: they are a conservative party by nature. You've got people
- 14:40Speaker 4: on the left factions and the right factions. And I
- 14:43Speaker 4: think what's because it's probably become more evident in the
- 14:45Speaker 4: Labor Party Federal Labor over the last five years as
- 14:47Speaker 4: their factions and they're open about the factions. I know
- 14:51Speaker 4: the Liberal Party don't like to say they've got left
- 14:53Speaker 4: and right sides within the party, but.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Wet and dry the left and right, well they got
- 15:01Speaker 3: wets and drives and that look. The thing is the
- 15:03Speaker 3: Liberals have have been tearing themselves to bits over this.
- 15:07Speaker 4: Malcolms examples.
- 15:09Speaker 3: Malcolm's a classic example. You know both Malcolm and Scamo
- 15:13Speaker 3: I think go where the wind blows. They don't have
- 15:16Speaker 3: a particularly strong view. Well Malcolm does have a strong view.
- 15:20Speaker 3: Scotty will go like I say, where the wind blowe.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Hey, I just want to read a message that I
- 15:25Speaker 1: got here from Kenny Vowles, and he said, Joel is
- 15:27Speaker 1: on the money Cadie. He had a twenty two percent
- 15:29Speaker 1: swing against him last election and just saw Labour loos
- 15:33Speaker 1: nine percent swing against labor and local state by election.
- 15:36Speaker 1: He made his move last year by resigning from shadow
- 15:39Speaker 1: cabinet on this and he said Dave would have been
- 15:42Speaker 1: the best here for MMA you representative ever.
- 15:48Speaker 3: This morning I got donations through the CFMU income.
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- 16:05Speaker 1: Dave Toler and Mattie Hepworth in the studio with us
- 16:07Speaker 1: this morning for the big issues and oh it's just texting.
- 16:11Speaker 3: I love it now.
- 16:13Speaker 2: There has been quite.
- 16:14Speaker 1: A bit of discussion nationally over the last few days
- 16:17Speaker 1: about looking at doing things a bit more innovatively to
- 16:20Speaker 1: try to get people to actually go for their COVID vaccines.
- 16:24Speaker 1: I know that in other countries they're doing different bits
- 16:27Speaker 1: and pieces to try to get people to go and
- 16:29Speaker 1: get vaccinated. In Israel, for example, well they're trying to
- 16:33Speaker 1: reach younger people giving them free drinks apparently.
- 16:35Speaker 2: I don't know if they're alcoholic beverages. I don't think so.
- 16:39Speaker 2: But they're doing a few different things.
- 16:40Speaker 1: Apparently in China they're doing a few different things like
- 16:43Speaker 1: rice and something else to try to get people to go.
- 16:46Speaker 2: And get vaccinated. What reckon we need to do in
- 16:49Speaker 2: the territory?
- 16:49Speaker 4: Do it for a six pack of normal?
- 16:51Speaker 3: Oh it would too Ignrman, you.
- 17:01Speaker 2: You to go and get your vaccine with Tomie and.
- 17:03Speaker 3: Hale that you get a vaccine.
- 17:07Speaker 2: He said, he's taking you and you do a live cross.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Come on, we decided this.
- 17:12Speaker 3: It's not against getting a vaccine. I just don't can't
- 17:15Speaker 3: see the urgency. Can't see the point. I don't for
- 17:18Speaker 3: the visor one tea. We'll wait and see what happens.
- 17:23Speaker 3: I think. I think if you wanted to do an
- 17:25Speaker 3: in sandy, for most people, you just say you can't
- 17:27Speaker 3: get on a plane.
- 17:29Speaker 4: That's what it's heading.
- 17:31Speaker 3: If you sit there and you get you know, you
- 17:34Speaker 3: shot in order to get on a plane, I think
- 17:37Speaker 3: lining up to do it. I reckon, I can't see
- 17:39Speaker 3: the imperative at the moment. Everybody's sitting there thinking, well,
- 17:41Speaker 3: it's all a bit of ho hum.
- 17:43Speaker 1: But like you said, if all of a sudden you
- 17:44Speaker 1: couldn't get on a plane somewhere, you certainly would.
- 17:47Speaker 4: Go and get add flags.
- 17:48Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, for those international flights, I think. But anyway,
- 17:51Speaker 1: while those international boys, so, I think.
- 17:54Speaker 3: Alan doing his little bit of virtue signaling, just to
- 17:57Speaker 3: show that he was really paranoid about the virus.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Alright, we better, we won't let Dame go. He's you know,
- 18:06Speaker 2: Jos going, this is going, don't don't have Maddie. Hepworth
- 18:10Speaker 2: lovely to have you both in the studio.
- 18:13Speaker 3: To be with Maddie. He's so vocal.
- 18:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I'm.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Oh, well try all right, that is it for the
- 18:20Speaker 1: big issues. This morning, you are listening to Mix one
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