Latest / 360 with Katie Woolf / Darwin’s Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis supports proposed changes to Parap Markets but says funding will be a challenge

Transcript

Darwin’s Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis supports proposed changes to Parap Markets but says funding will be a challenge · 360 with Katie Woolf

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio is the Lord Mayor of
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Darwin convat Scarlets.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, called morning.
• 0:04
  Speaker 3: Kid, and I know what you're going to ask for.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Me, con do you want to do my job? I've
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: done it before, I know, a long time ago. Hey,
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: what did you think?
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: The Police Minister obviously confirming that she certainly made it
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: very clear to the police commissioner that she wants to
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: see more boots on the ground, more of that community
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: policing con It's something you've been talking about for a
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: while now.
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: Well not only that, but I'm very pleased that the
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: Minister came to this conclusion. It's when you meet with
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: seventeen council's presidents and mayors that tell you exactly the
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: same story. We need more police president with more police action.
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: And I think she heard the message very loud and clear,
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: and not to play politics here. When your primary vote
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: goes down in the by election, you realize that you're
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: probably in political trouble and you have to react. And
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: I give CREDITU Kate, thank you for doing that. You
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: need more police on the ground. We've got sixteen hundred
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: policemen and I always ask where are they? And I
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: understand that a people who actually spend a lot of
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: time with COVID nineteen and they have to take their live.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: But if I was, if I was the police commissioner,
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: I would say, right, you got two months to clean
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: up Darwin completely from the riff ruff and then you
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: can take as much leave as you like. They've done
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: that in Melbourne with the cleaning up the med center
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: of Melbourne, establishing the bars and coffee shops and the langways.
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: It can be done here. But again I'm really repleaced
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: to happen and I'm waiting to see the action. And
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: I have to say that the past few days, Kate,
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: I've seen police in segues and we need more police
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: on the ground, simple as that.
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: Well, and it does sound as though it is certainly
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: high on the agenda for the Police Minister based on
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: that conversation this morning. I mean they're going it's by
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: the sounds of it, there's a full review, a full
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: financial review, a full restructure is not off the table,
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: is what she'd said to us this morning. So look,
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting times, There's no doubt about it.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: On interesting times always for you guys.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: But the water is by election over the weekend. We
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: know you've got a new counselor coming in.
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: I've got a new council king for our long term
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: territorial and not king. For the past thirty years. She
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: worked as a real estate agent. She used to have
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: the lucky story Nightcliff. Then now she works for Kotta.
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: A new pair of eyes, new brains, new ideas. Welcome abroad, Kim.
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: The only thing to disappointment was a very low turnover.
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: Once again, we've seen forty eight point three percent voting,
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: less than fifty percent. The only problem is that all
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: the rest I didn't vote probably will be the largest
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: to complain about things not happening.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: Well, we always say no when when if you don't vote,
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: you're not allowed to come.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: Out wins And we see that one also in the
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: Funny Bay by election. I mean, guys, we live in
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: a democracy. If you want to have a good government,
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: go and vote. It only takes about an hour of
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: your life.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: You can do the shopping later.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: Now, con we also know that there's been some discussion
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: about the parat markets and whether there could be some
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: change to the parat markets in two more grain space.
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: What do you think I mean is this going to happen.
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: What's the council idea.
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: I've seen the plans. The only snag is twelve and
• 3:08
  Speaker 3: a half million dollars then it required to do it.
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: Do they need that from the government or the council.
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: Well, they need that from the government the council that
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: I put now the kat among the pigeon. How about
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: the perrupt people that they operate in the markets and
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: they make money to the markets. Come to the party
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: and say we will put a levy in every person
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: who has a permit there to collect some money so
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: we can contribute to the to the market restructure. That
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: will probably enticice the government and the councilor to say, well,
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: if you're going to do that one, we will come
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: to the party. Admittedly, as Nevil Pandaji said, can be
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: done all at once, it has to be staged. And
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: I'm all here to hear what happens. Michael goes to
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: the government and the nearly elected member. That's your constitut mate,
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: if you want to be elected, you better start talking
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: to the people in the fifth floor to cover up
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: some money, because let's call it political survival. I've been there.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, well we are going to catch up with Neville
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: as well a little bit later on the show this morning.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: So I really came to hear from.
• 4:02
  Speaker 3: Here and I say that to one publicly, I have
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: no problem to actually start going to close that lane
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: where you're talking about about closing the traffic through the market.
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: Just get together with all the shop owners, get me
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: a paper that says we want to do it, or
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: at least we can close it on the weekends rather
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: for the whole period. Help to start put more tables
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: and chairs and umbrellas. The bitchmin that there has no
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: cars now that increased the amenity of the market.
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk more about that with Neville corn. I've
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: had a message come through about the velodrome. How is
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: it progressing? This person says that there's some issues with
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: the resurfacing.
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: No, there's no a issue that's surfacing. The only issue
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: we had believed or not we could find enough adult
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: trees or mature trees to put. Now we have twenty
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: two trees. And in the next few days we're spraying
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: the grass on the velodrome because you know it's got angles,
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: so we have to spray. And development will be very
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: very soon. Given to the sports community to use it.
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: So no concerns is this person said, I believe that
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: there was something that I was struggling to find someone
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: with the skills and equipment to seal the road surface
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: at a state angle.
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: It's done.
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: It's just there. Okay.
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: Actually, as a matter of fact, the engineering studi of
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: the university used it as an exercise.
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: When's it become operational?
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: Well, when we put the grass on, the grass started
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: the sublage, then we become operational.
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: Match else on the agenda that we should know about
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: this morning.
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: You want trees, I can give you. If anybody wants
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: a tree. The next giveaway will be the seventh of
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: September Annula Park fifth we will give another one and
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: a half thousand trees. We give fourteen hundred trees. Last
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: time in the old Macmillan Park, two hundreds of people
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: turned up, got the trees, planned the yard. Every tree
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: you plan makes the place greener. Last year we gave
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: nine thousand trees. This year we give you ten thousand
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: trees and will continue planting out the trees as well.
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: And we re establishing the tree committee again. Have a
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: look what we did the past, how successful it was.
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: Can would do better. So we're going to have everything
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: in place. Other thing, if you got things lying in
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: your yard, might get it together, put it out in
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: the front of the house because on the fifth of
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: September and then on the twenty sixth would be coming
• 6:17
  Speaker 3: around to start picking them up. But please do not
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: put paint fuel and get exactly food items will not
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: take or green waste combat scarlets.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Lord Mayor of Dowin, always good to catch up. Thanks
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: so much for your time this morning.
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Kate