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Katie spoke with Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis about cyclone clean up around Darwin · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: It is fifteen minutes away from ten o'clock. A few
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  Speaker 1: of you messaging through this morning. That number if you
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  Speaker 1: do want to send us a message zero four, double
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  Speaker 1: nine seven double one three six zero. Now joining me
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  Speaker 1: in the studio is the Lord Mayor of Darwin convat Scarlets.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, con.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Kat and if you look out of the window,
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  Speaker 3: will may get some rain tonow Oh.
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  Speaker 2: We can only hope.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's hot, it's very hot and sometimes very humid.
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  Speaker 3: Extremely human, but once again.
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  Speaker 4: It's the build up. Guys, we're not that we've been
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  Speaker 4: here though how many years?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we've got to be tough about it. I
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  Speaker 1: know we can't be can't be silky about the build up.
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  Speaker 1: We live here in the territory. You've got to expect it.
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  Speaker 3: Conn.
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  Speaker 2: There's lots going on.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go firstly, though, I know that council
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  Speaker 1: has been doing that cyclone clean up and our breakfast
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  Speaker 1: team Andrew and Sarah had received a few questions from
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  Speaker 1: listeners about Clarence Street. I believe it is in Leanna
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  Speaker 1: where people have noted that there's a lot of bad rubbish.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how many times WISP about cyclone clean up? We
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  Speaker 3: spoke here, were put in the newspaper. We announced it.
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  Speaker 3: It was about two months ago. We started and we
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  Speaker 3: finished it. Now I don't know who somehow doesn't understand
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  Speaker 3: what we're doing and when we're doing it, and somebody
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  Speaker 3: seems to be dumping a lot of rubbish in the
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  Speaker 3: and the verbs of in front of a house in
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  Speaker 3: Clarence Street, as you said, and then others bring their
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  Speaker 3: own rubbish put them there right, so it comes and
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  Speaker 3: now is looking at it, and we find out why
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  Speaker 3: it's done and if there's a reason behind it, and
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  Speaker 3: if they're just doing it, because if you like it,
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  Speaker 3: we might find the people that dumb the rabbies. To
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  Speaker 3: put it bluntly, we've been doing that one for many
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  Speaker 3: many years. You know we're doing it because we're telling
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  Speaker 3: everybody we're doing it. Our people are there clean up
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  Speaker 3: the place and we do community service. Really, how difficulty
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  Speaker 3: is to take your own rubbish? Well, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: put them out in the right time. And second, if
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  Speaker 3: you missed somehow that one taking to the rubbish stick
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  Speaker 3: you've got you know you've got to pass, you can
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  Speaker 3: take them there for free.
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  Speaker 2: So corn not ruling out finding people who are leaving
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  Speaker 2: there on the phone.
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  Speaker 3: That's done intentionally. I think the council has no alternative
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  Speaker 3: but to actually find people. You can't just let it
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  Speaker 3: go like that.
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  Speaker 1: Have you had any other locations around down where it's
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  Speaker 1: been a similar situation. No.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the people actually, when they know we're doing
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  Speaker 3: the cycling clean up, they put all their ibish out
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  Speaker 3: and we pick them up, simple as that. I can't
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  Speaker 3: understand why somebody decided now he thinks, oh with the mouth,
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  Speaker 3: council will pick it up.
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  Speaker 4: Free service, not a free service.
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  Speaker 3: If you've dumb things with the verge and you don't
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  Speaker 3: do it in the right time, you might get a
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  Speaker 3: fine and.
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  Speaker 4: Pay for it.
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  Speaker 2: Corn have like, how much would that find costs?
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea. I don't know what the council
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  Speaker 4: will decide. We have first to investigate.
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  Speaker 3: There might be a rision behind it. If there's a reason,
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  Speaker 3: that's fine, let's talk to the people that are doing it.
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  Speaker 3: But if there's no reason, we apply the finance prescribing
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  Speaker 3: the legislation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're waiting here now, Corn, do you have any
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  Speaker 1: idea at this stage sort of how many tons of
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  Speaker 1: rubbish or anything were collected in that cycle?
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  Speaker 2: And clean up or is that still I.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't still too early. We will get a thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think in the end of the month or beginning
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  Speaker 3: of next month we get a final because some of
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  Speaker 3: it cost the rabbit stip, some of it cost to
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  Speaker 3: the HPA tipsop others recycle, so we'll find out what's happening.
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  Speaker 3: One thing I can tell you though, is from the
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  Speaker 3: first information I got is last year we recovered from
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  Speaker 3: the tip two thousand tons of metal scrap metal which
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  Speaker 3: actually find its way to Asian markets because it's recycle
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  Speaker 3: and it's redonne again other corbodies or some structure still
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  Speaker 3: or something else that probably we use in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right now, con I know that there's quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit happening at the moment from council's perspective, And something
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  Speaker 1: that you're about to get underway is a survey with
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  Speaker 1: the with itinerance is that a council work is going
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  Speaker 1: to be going out and talking to people who are
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  Speaker 1: on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: And why you're.
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  Speaker 3: Doing that one because we've got the outreach program and
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  Speaker 3: we've got two people that actually they're out there very
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  Speaker 3: early in the morning. I think they're starting about five
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  Speaker 3: thirty in the morning talking to homeless people in the packs.
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  Speaker 3: But lately we noticed a big significant increase of Indigenous people.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where they're coming here. There might be
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  Speaker 3: some reason. We also to notice a significant number of
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  Speaker 3: tinerants and please make the difference. Itinerance doesn't meet disinance people.
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  Speaker 3: I have seen itinerance coming down from south because down
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  Speaker 3: is a nice place to be and it's not as
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  Speaker 3: cold as Melbourne or Sydney. So we want to find
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  Speaker 3: out who are these people, why are they're coming here?
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  Speaker 3: Can we refer them to appropriate services? Can we actually
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  Speaker 3: send them back where they came from if they need assistance.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be working very closely with the Altaian nation. We're
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  Speaker 3: working very closely with the police to find out what
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  Speaker 3: can we do about it. We also had yesterday attend
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  Speaker 3: a meeting with the Sailing club and the.
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  Speaker 4: Trailer boat Climb Club.
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  Speaker 3: They both raise some issues with the Bandilla Beach area.
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  Speaker 3: They had a significant increase of itinerance and some of
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  Speaker 3: them they're quite aggressive. So we will talk to the
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  Speaker 3: police about it. So what we can do there the
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  Speaker 3: possibility of a patrol together with Lakian nations to actually
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  Speaker 3: start pushing people out.
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  Speaker 2: It's not dangerous a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: But again when people start fighting among themselves and the
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  Speaker 3: express they express concern about secondary supply of alcohol, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the police can address and I will
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  Speaker 3: be talking to the commander to find out ways to
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  Speaker 3: actually provide them information because our rangers are out there
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  Speaker 3: all the time and they know a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: what's happening.
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  Speaker 4: So having communication channels open with.
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  Speaker 3: Police and the Lakia nation. We're trying to do our best.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the role of the government to do the
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  Speaker 3: police job. The police does their job. We do our job,
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  Speaker 3: but if we work together, we have better results.
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  Speaker 2: And con so obviously the survey is underwise.
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  Speaker 1: Essentially, the outreach, your outreach members are out there sort
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  Speaker 1: of talking to different people, trying to ascertain why they're
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  Speaker 1: in Darwin, why they're staying in some of those areas,
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  Speaker 1: and if they are getting their hands on alcohol, how
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  Speaker 1: they're getting it and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: They talk to us and that's a good thing because
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  Speaker 3: they know our people, so they talk to us more
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  Speaker 3: than they talk to police. I suppurse when the uniform
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  Speaker 3: appears in front of you, you get very reluctant to talk.
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  Speaker 4: But they talk freely to our people. They know them.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, both members of the digit of the Outer are
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  Speaker 3: Indigenous people.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very very good. I've seen them very.
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  Speaker 3: Early in the morning when I go out for a
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  Speaker 3: walk or driver to work, and I'm so pleased about
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  Speaker 3: it because they've got a very good report with a
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  Speaker 3: lot of homeless people in town.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's see what comes out of that. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: very interested to hear the results of.
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  Speaker 3: That, Katie, because if we're going to resolve the problem,
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  Speaker 3: let's find the cause of the problem.
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  Speaker 4: How can reverse it?
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  Speaker 1: Corn Another thing that is happening at the moment, and
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  Speaker 1: it's something that we sort of hear about quite often,
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  Speaker 1: but it is the fact that therese cars speeding around
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  Speaker 1: in school zones.
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  Speaker 2: What's the guy?
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  Speaker 1: Are you guys noticing with your different signage and that
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  Speaker 1: you've got up that there is more people speeding around
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  Speaker 1: the place.
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  Speaker 3: We find out if you put a sign, people tend
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  Speaker 3: to slow down because the sign flashes.
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  Speaker 4: The other day, I drove past.
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  Speaker 3: Trips from high school and immediately when I turned the corner,
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  Speaker 3: the sign was there telling me I was doing thirty
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  Speaker 3: nine kilumbs per hour or forty cilomes per hour. Another
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  Speaker 3: cars in front of me is start flashing, you go
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  Speaker 3: to fast immediately they slowed down. I mean it's better
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  Speaker 3: to prevent that actually try to do something afterwards. And
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  Speaker 3: we are going out to put quite a number of
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  Speaker 3: these kind of signs around the schools just to remind
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  Speaker 3: people that this is a school zone.
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  Speaker 4: There are kids.
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  Speaker 3: Slow down and if by accident you're doing one er
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  Speaker 3: twokil over the limit still is very good to go
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  Speaker 3: forty kilometers forer hour. It's easier to stop and easier
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  Speaker 3: to avoid a difficult situation.
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  Speaker 1: Connor, I've got a listener question here, Katie. Can you
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  Speaker 1: please ask the Lord Mayor if Allower Dog Park's going
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  Speaker 1: to get any seats and some cover.
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  Speaker 3: They've got seats already, but we planted a lot of trees.
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  Speaker 3: It's a matter of time now to grow. And if
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  Speaker 3: you notice this is Darwin with one wet trees tend
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  Speaker 3: to double inside that we've seen in Covenor Street, so
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  Speaker 3: it's a matter of time before because it got some shade.
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  Speaker 3: We prefer to have natural seed. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: a tropical situation. I don't want to put.
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  Speaker 4: Plastic and everything else.
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  Speaker 3: Plus, if there's a cyclone, most of the if it's
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  Speaker 3: artificial cover will disappear.
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  Speaker 4: Trees can survive cycling.
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  Speaker 3: Trees can do very well and just get a bit
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  Speaker 3: of water and it will be amass how quickly they
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  Speaker 3: grow and corn.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's plenty of other things happening around the place,
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  Speaker 1: but I understand that you speaking of trees.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be another plant give away.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is. We had such a success with the
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  Speaker 4: previous one.
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  Speaker 3: It was so successful we run out of trees, believe
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  Speaker 3: it or not, so we had to cancel the Tiwy
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  Speaker 3: take a giveaway. Yeah, because they were not enough trees.
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  Speaker 3: We have to wait now to find trees. Actually, at
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  Speaker 3: least they've grown a certain height before we give them out.
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  Speaker 3: The next one though, it will be the Dinner Bitch
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  Speaker 3: Oval and the car park there on Saturday, the sixth
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  Speaker 3: of Revave from eight am to twelve pm. Be early
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  Speaker 3: to get your trees. But the one that cancel the
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  Speaker 3: tie we are TiO wei Wan. I'm trying to bring
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  Speaker 3: it to the end of the program so people that
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  Speaker 3: missed out in Tiwey will be able to get some trees.
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  Speaker 1: How come the councils decided to do these plant giveaways
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  Speaker 1: and is it costing much money.
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  Speaker 4: It will cost more if actually we plant ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: But if we give the trees out, not only we
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  Speaker 3: get the trees on the ground, but also people tend
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  Speaker 3: to care for them, plant them in the verges, plant
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  Speaker 3: them in the garden, and we create that urban force
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  Speaker 3: we want. Doesn't really matter who plant the trees, as
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  Speaker 3: long as we get trees on the ground. And these
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  Speaker 3: are four thousand trees. That's four thousand trees, a significant
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  Speaker 3: number of trees that would appear in Dowill. It's so
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  Speaker 3: popular that I had peop from one guy, one guide
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  Speaker 3: across the harbor and literally coming and Palmerston asking for trees.
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  Speaker 3: And they were very disappointed when I asked them to
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  Speaker 3: sew their idea.
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  Speaker 4: And because they have to prove they live.
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  Speaker 1: In Dowich, you see, I'm known for them to actually
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  Speaker 1: sort of plant them on the virgin places like that
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  Speaker 1: rather than just sort of in their backyard.
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  Speaker 3: Or it doesn't matter the many way they like, as
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  Speaker 3: long as they plant, because you have to remember, if
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  Speaker 3: you plant trees, it creates a cool effect that calls
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  Speaker 3: the place down.
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  Speaker 4: We love trees in the in the verges.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen vergis that I look absolutely fantastic, and I've
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  Speaker 3: seen vergis that look like the Sahara Desert. But were
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  Speaker 3: trying to encourage people to look after your your environment,
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  Speaker 3: look after your house. Plant the trees down, plant them
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  Speaker 3: in such a way that create an effect.
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  Speaker 4: To cool your house. If your house is cooler, you
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  Speaker 4: don't use as much as a condition.
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  Speaker 3: So it's got a positive effect on consumption of energy, generism,
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  Speaker 3: electricity and greenhouse emission.
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  Speaker 2: Con anything else we should be aware of very quickly
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  Speaker 2: before I.
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  Speaker 4: Let it go, before we go. This is the council.
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  Speaker 3: He has acted on the issue of Clarence Street in
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  Speaker 3: all right, and I just got a notice from my council.
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  Speaker 3: It is now a compliance mother. It's the responsibility of
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  Speaker 3: people who done their arms to remove them. If they don't,
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  Speaker 3: we will remove them and charge them.
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  Speaker 1: Right So, as we were speaking then about that issue,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you've just had that update.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely so they need to make sure good.
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  Speaker 4: People of the council they keep it always.
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  Speaker 1: Very very quick and so essentially if that rubbish she
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  Speaker 1: is not removed by the people that have dumped it there,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to invoice. Well, convat Scarlets. We appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 2: This morning. Thanks so much for joining.
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  Speaker 4: Us every good morning.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think it's a Red Pairs responsibility to
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  Speaker 3: pay for somebody else's rubbish.
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  Speaker 1: Well and also, like you pointed out, there was obviously
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  Speaker 1: ample amount of time to get that rubbish onto the
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  Speaker 1: verge for the council to collect it.
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  Speaker 4: If we didn't do it, I'll say, yeah, fair enough.
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  Speaker 4: But we did it.
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  Speaker 3: We've been telling people for two months now and we
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  Speaker 3: went out and picked up a lot of Rabbish guys.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, let's again well contact scarlis Lord Mayor of Darwin.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your time. We'll chat to you again
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  Speaker 1: next week. You're listening.
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  Speaker 2: Tipics one O four point nine three sixteen