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Darwin’s Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis explains the Council’s plans for new bike and scooter lanes in the CBD · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me live in the studio right now is the
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  Speaker 1: Mayor of Darwin, Convat Scarlets.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to Yukon.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning kid, and we haven't seen each other for
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  Speaker 3: about two weeks. So we're traveling down to Camber chatting
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  Speaker 3: up to all the members of government opposition about things
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  Speaker 3: that affect our city.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there seems to be a lot affecting our city
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Corn.
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  Speaker 1: I do want to ask you just very quickly, and
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  Speaker 1: you may or may not want to comment, but the
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  Speaker 1: Northern Territory government. I mean, we're just talking to two
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  Speaker 1: political economists, Professor Rolf Garrettson about the situation with the
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  Speaker 1: police Commissioner. I mean, however, you look at it, this
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  Speaker 1: is MESSI.
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  Speaker 3: I'm only the mayor, so I can't comment on government policy. However,
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  Speaker 3: from our previous experience, I tend to agree with you
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  Speaker 3: it could be done better. Better it was not. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it's I think it's unfair to the commissioner. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's unfair to the public, and I think it's
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  Speaker 3: unfair the Chief Minister. And I say that one because
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  Speaker 3: certainly he's not only here decisions a collective decision, so
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  Speaker 3: somebody there could have the brain said look, if we're
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  Speaker 3: going to go out and say something, let's say something,
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  Speaker 3: not not say something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a rare that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say it's a really difficult situation.
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  Speaker 1: I know I won't draw you into it. As she said,
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  Speaker 1: you're the Mayor of Darwin. I'm no longer a member
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  Speaker 1: of government exactly Connor talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Member of Parliament. I'd like to say to pay tribute
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  Speaker 3: to a very good friend of ours, ex Mayor of Catherine,
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  Speaker 3: an ex member of Catherine Famila. Lovely lady, great great
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  Speaker 3: lady who had a great time in parliament and we
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  Speaker 3: had a great time when she was a the Catherine Mayor.
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  Speaker 3: I really mission. I had a very good time with her,
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of fun. We used to teach each
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  Speaker 3: other a lot. I used to about her hair. She
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  Speaker 3: was a headdresser and it was always and Coyford immaicably
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  Speaker 3: and I used to love tas in here.
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  Speaker 4: But we miss you.
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  Speaker 3: You were a great person and I know that many
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  Speaker 3: people in Catherine and your family will miss you greatly.
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  Speaker 4: Said than you.
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  Speaker 2: Will the true epitome.
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  Speaker 1: I think of a strong woman and somebody who stood
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  Speaker 1: up for her community.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it.
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  Speaker 1: Is a really good move that there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a state funeral for her.
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  Speaker 4: I I agree, And she did it in style.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, she absolutely did. And we used to have her
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  Speaker 1: on the show very regularly. We did the Week that
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  Speaker 1: was from Catherine from the Catherine Show, one week with
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  Speaker 1: her and Gary Higgins and Natasha Files and she loved Catherine.
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  Speaker 4: Go to the funeral because I want to pay a
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  Speaker 4: tribute to her for what she is done for her city.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, hang on a sect.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get to a couple of other things, because
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  Speaker 1: there has been some fairly serious news since you were
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  Speaker 1: last on the show, including the very tragic death of
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  Speaker 1: Declan Lavity at the Bottom Shop in the Northern Suburbs. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we know that since that tragedy, there has been a
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  Speaker 1: number of announcements that have been made by the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Territory government, including liquor license buybacks.
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  Speaker 2: For corner stores.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is something that you and I had spoken
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  Speaker 1: about before, something that you'd actually called to have happened
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  Speaker 1: just weeks ago, after some of the terrible issues that
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  Speaker 1: we're experiencing across to and with anti social behavior. Colm,
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  Speaker 1: what do you make of this liquor license by back?
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  Speaker 4: Better late than never. I think it's a good move.
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  Speaker 3: We discussed that before and I know some people say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you're killing the little shop and to support the big outlets,
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  Speaker 3: where the reality is the little shop unfortunately that were
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  Speaker 3: lying heavily on alcohol to survive. I think it's only
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  Speaker 3: fair for the government to buy the lasses back for
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  Speaker 3: many reasons. One is reduce the availability of alcohol. Second,
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  Speaker 3: get these people who actually bought the little shops in
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  Speaker 3: better times out of there now reward and for the
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  Speaker 3: lastest give them a riguable amount of money. And at
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  Speaker 3: the same time you is the problems we've got in
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  Speaker 3: the areas where these shops exist. If you've got some
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  Speaker 3: of our suburbs now, the small suburbs where the small
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  Speaker 3: shop exists, you won't find the restaurants, the cafe and
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  Speaker 3: everything else. You find another places you'll find some rundown
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  Speaker 3: shopping centers or others they're not, and you find shops
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  Speaker 3: that they're struggling to make admits they're not the big shops,
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  Speaker 3: like in a new suburbs where there's no big shopping centers.
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  Speaker 3: When you try to compete with Casurina and Gateway, you've
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  Speaker 3: got buckleets of surviving.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Good move for many reasons. I congratulate the Chief Minister
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 4: Go heavy and go more. I met with the Chief
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  Speaker 4: Minister and the same day I met.
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  Speaker 3: With the hospitality industry.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a common ground with both.
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  Speaker 3: With the hospital industry, it was very surprised that they
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  Speaker 3: agreed with many of the things I said, apart from
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  Speaker 3: one that don't want to pay for the pilots.
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  Speaker 4: I can understand that.
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  Speaker 2: So you want them to pay for palis.
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  Speaker 4: I want to.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, the floor price is a
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  Speaker 3: ferfeet remove it, give them something and ask something from them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing, Connor.
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  Speaker 1: Even with the buyback of those corner store licenses, you
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  Speaker 1: know some sort of questioning. If things like the BDR
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  Speaker 1: and the floor price are working, why do you need
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  Speaker 1: to buy back those corner store licenses.
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  Speaker 3: Well, because the problem we've got is a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these big shops now they're very tough, and you've seen
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  Speaker 3: after the tragic death of the young men, one of
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  Speaker 3: the big chains have reduced the hours of sale. They're
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  Speaker 3: closed down the outlets. If they can afford to do that, well,
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  Speaker 3: that means they make money.
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  Speaker 1: We spoke to like we did speak to Shelley Lay
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  Speaker 1: from out it as a CALLI IGII, I heard it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the differences, there's a big difference there. The world
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  Speaker 3: of supermarket is a world supermarket. The liquor store is
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  Speaker 3: a totally different premises next to it, different division of
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  Speaker 3: the company. Miss Lay's got a supermarket with a license
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  Speaker 3: in the supermarket, So it's a different situation altogether.
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  Speaker 1: But do you think that it's fair for a business
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  Speaker 1: like this that is operated on this model. You know
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty five percent and have been able to
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  Speaker 1: for quite some time that now the goalposts are changing
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  Speaker 1: for that business.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's face it, the original idea was the supermarkets.
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  Speaker 3: There's a supermarket for people to go and buy the
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  Speaker 3: groceries and alcohol at the same time. Unfortunately, now we
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  Speaker 3: have finished now that everybody goes alcohol only nothing else.
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  Speaker 3: Could be another change, like you can only buy alcohol
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  Speaker 3: if you spend a certain amount on groceries, but I
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  Speaker 3: think that would be a bit comperso.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the biggest thing that people are going to
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  Speaker 1: be wondering is is this realistically going to make much
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  Speaker 1: of a difference when it comes to the extreme levels
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  Speaker 1: of alcohol fuel, violence and anti social behavior that.
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  Speaker 3: We're not ate, and I'm glad you brought that up
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  Speaker 3: because my discussion with the hospitality district we both agreed
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  Speaker 3: in two things. You have an identification card that stage
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  Speaker 3: your address. Second thing we said, limit how much alcoholm
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  Speaker 3: purchase per day like in other places, and that one
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  Speaker 3: actually very controversial.
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  Speaker 4: Probably they wouldn't like it. Is if you come from.
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  Speaker 3: A place where the limitations are the kind of alcohol
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  Speaker 3: and the amount of art we can.
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  Speaker 4: Buy, the same with a should apply here.
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  Speaker 3: So if you come from the Tiery Islands, let's say,
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  Speaker 3: to visit Darwin, you can't buy the Bundy because in
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  Speaker 3: Tear you're allowed only mid strength beer. That's the only
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  Speaker 3: thing you're allowed to do it, or drinking in a
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  Speaker 3: bar or a last premises that's controversial. But the reality
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  Speaker 3: if you go out there today, you'll find our people
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  Speaker 3: they're homeless, not because they've got mental problems or breakdown
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  Speaker 3: of families or other things. You find people they're homeless
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  Speaker 3: because they choose to, because they've got houses and communities
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  Speaker 3: and out stations. They come here somehow for any reasons.
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  Speaker 3: For example, a lot of the flood people that went back,
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  Speaker 3: some of them didn't stayed back because it's part of
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  Speaker 3: the time. So this is the problem we've got. It's
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  Speaker 3: access to alcohol and easy access to alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: So Corn you are obviously working with hospitality by the
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  Speaker 1: sounds of things, and with the Northern Territory government to
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  Speaker 1: try to come up with some different ideas or to
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  Speaker 1: try to think outside the box with the issues that
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  Speaker 1: we're saying.
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  Speaker 4: We have to work together.
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  Speaker 3: This is what we have to A problem is not
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  Speaker 3: Natasa's problem, it's not Alex Bruce's problem. It's community problem.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm part of the community. Unless we work together,
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  Speaker 3: it's give and take.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just beyond the joke. Now some of what
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  Speaker 1: we are saying around the Northern Territory is just beyond
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  Speaker 1: the joke. You know. We're talking to Tourism Central Australia
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  Speaker 1: a little bit earlier this morning about the issues that
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  Speaker 1: they're having in Central Australia around try to get tourists
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  Speaker 1: to travel there, but then the issues that they are
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  Speaker 1: still experiencing with crime and unfortunately it's not that different
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  Speaker 1: in the top end.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I'm violently fighting down South people and you've
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  Speaker 3: got proms in Darwin until I'm start mentioning to them
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  Speaker 3: they've got promis to their own capital cities with home invasions.
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  Speaker 3: They've got problems in their cities.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've even reached the point though now in
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  Speaker 1: the Northern Territory where people are actually over that analogy
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  Speaker 1: because they think to themselves, well, you know, I did
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  Speaker 1: have my car carjacked on the weekend, or I did
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  Speaker 1: have a situation where astronomy.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I'm actually yelling from the rooftops. Something has
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  Speaker 3: to be done. We've been saying that one how long, Katie,
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know, we have you and I've spoken about this so
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  Speaker 1: many times, the death of a.
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  Speaker 3: Young man to finally something to that's what I feel.
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  Speaker 3: Sad and sorry for the young men and his family
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  Speaker 3: and our community.
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  Speaker 4: What we have to do.
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  Speaker 2: We're all over it. We are all absolutely over it.
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  Speaker 1: Con Let's move along, though, because last week we spoke
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  Speaker 1: to one of the council stuff about the plans that
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  Speaker 1: are currently underwile some of the work that's happening behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes about lowering the speed limits in the CBD
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  Speaker 1: and potentially introducing some bike paths. Straight away, everybody was like,
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  Speaker 1: hang on a second. We had that on the Esplanade
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  Speaker 1: a while back, and nobody liked it.
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  Speaker 2: Colin, what are we looking at doing here?
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  Speaker 4: I was the first one.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't like the idea of the bike path in
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  Speaker 3: Esplanade because it was a dumb idea of stupid idea,
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  Speaker 3: and the way it was designed it was recipt for disaster.
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  Speaker 3: As I said then and I said again, put the
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  Speaker 3: bike path on the left hand of a car.
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  Speaker 4: The driver always checked the mirror when he gets out.
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  Speaker 3: The passes that never checked the mirror because they assume
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  Speaker 3: they opened a footbath. So a poor bike rider come
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  Speaker 3: in door open in front of him. He finishing royal
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  Speaker 3: down hostel. It's going to be done different. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to be in such a way that you could protect
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  Speaker 3: both the cars and the bike riders. And yes, we
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  Speaker 3: want to roll the split limits for many reasons. One
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  Speaker 3: is safety, as I heard before somebody was telling on
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  Speaker 3: the radio and another program, if you hit by a
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  Speaker 3: car on fifty kilometers per hour, you've got about thirty
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  Speaker 3: percent chance of survival. If you hit by forty percent,
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  Speaker 3: that increases to ninety percent of survival.
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  Speaker 4: So it's pedestint safety and bike safety.
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  Speaker 3: Second, I want to put parklets in the city like
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  Speaker 3: everywhere else. If I put parklets to withstand the collision
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  Speaker 3: of fifty kilometers, we'd engineer it. Every parking will cost
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  Speaker 3: me more than seventy thousand dollars. If it the lower
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  Speaker 3: the speed limit, the engineer will go down and the
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  Speaker 3: parklingt will cost much much less, plus will be safer
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  Speaker 3: to the patrons who sit outside. The other thing, of course,
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  Speaker 3: is you've got already streets in the city that they
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  Speaker 3: are forty kilometers per hour and we never had a
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  Speaker 3: problem mitches streets a typical example.
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  Speaker 2: Does the driving sold forty k there's no problem.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that's that obviously people will be a bit
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  Speaker 1: concerned about is if the if the roads aren't wide
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  Speaker 1: enough to have those bike lines. But the other thing
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  Speaker 1: with those parklets, what's it kind of mean in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the parking. Is it going to be a reduced
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  Speaker 1: number of parks and they're the council parks.
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  Speaker 3: Currently we've got only seventy percent capacity full in our
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  Speaker 3: car parks, so there's.
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  Speaker 2: Plenty of seeing the city.
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  Speaker 3: Well no, no, it's because everybody parking on the roads.
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  Speaker 3: The thing is it's easier get convenient. We have lowered
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  Speaker 3: now the charges for parking on the West Lane and
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  Speaker 3: the dragonfly car packs much less than what you pay per.
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  Speaker 1: Want everyone car parks live, the special districts available for pedestrians.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's complaining about the scooters, the electric scooters. Well, the
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  Speaker 3: government's going to change the rules. They're going to put
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  Speaker 3: on the road. I don't want to see in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of the road. I want to see somewhere safe.
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  Speaker 2: So those scooters will be on the roads.
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  Speaker 3: That's what actually government's looking for. Actually move them from
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  Speaker 3: the footpaths to the roads.
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  Speaker 2: That happens in other states.
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  Speaker 3: If it's in design special design areas designate areas, there
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  Speaker 3: will be no problem because they'll be separate from the
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  Speaker 3: from the cars.
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  Speaker 1: Corn I reckon that people could start to fire up
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  Speaker 1: about this this morning and have a huge issue with it.
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  Speaker 1: I actually think the scooters are really great.
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  Speaker 4: The moment these people are fire up because they're on
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  Speaker 4: the foot.
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  Speaker 1: Path, well that's exactly right. But then once they're on
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  Speaker 1: the road, it is they're going to get dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: It cares to be in a designated area, not dreaming
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  Speaker 3: in and out of traffic, so and they have to
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  Speaker 3: stick by this designator.
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  Speaker 1: We already see some people zooming in and out of
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  Speaker 1: traffic and that fires a lot of people.
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  Speaker 4: Interested, I guess stupidity.
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  Speaker 1: But what about though, with those scooters then if you
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  Speaker 1: are riding on the road, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to need to on the road?
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  Speaker 4: It's illegal.
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  Speaker 1: But if it is a situation where you are riding
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  Speaker 1: on the road, are the rules going to have to
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  Speaker 1: change to some degree in terms of you know.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the bicycle being intoxicated.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's like a bicycle. If you're riding something on
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  Speaker 3: a public road, the traffic Traffic Act applies. So if
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  Speaker 3: you're actually out of your brain because you had too
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  Speaker 3: much drink riding and bicycles and the police stop.
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  Speaker 4: You, they've got every right to breath.
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  Speaker 3: They've done that before to people with the wheelchairs that
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  Speaker 3: they're crossing the road intoxicated and there were stopped.
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  Speaker 4: They were fine.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness mate.
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  Speaker 3: Here in Darwin years ago, I remember the guy was
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  Speaker 3: complaining because he had a bit too much a drink
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  Speaker 3: and he had a female passenger riding in the back.
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  Speaker 4: Of his wheelchair across the road. The police do hum
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  Speaker 4: and booked you.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, this is the territory.
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  Speaker 2: It is a territory, Will Corn.
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  Speaker 1: I've no doubt that a lot of people are going
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  Speaker 1: to be asking questions about that, wanting to know more
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  Speaker 1: about that. What else is on the agenda for counsel
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  Speaker 1: at the moment that I should know about.
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  Speaker 3: Two thousand threes are going to be given away in
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  Speaker 3: a Nola green belt on the fifteenth of April. That's
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: the second time this year the goid wrote is heavily
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  Speaker 3: dug out and under construction, and you're going to see
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  Speaker 3: another repeat of the daily street. And the other good
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  Speaker 3: news I say is that very soon we start working
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  Speaker 3: on Kavanaugh Street from Naki Street to the University and.
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  Speaker 4: I'm working doing what beautifying it doing? Like the rest
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  Speaker 4: of cost Arena.
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  Speaker 2: Are you gonna be able to get that vine cross across?
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  Speaker 4: That's not my cavernet problem. That's if a lot of
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  Speaker 4: this problem. And we're talking about m teams.
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  Speaker 2: They might need to help.
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  Speaker 4: Get some grips that bring the great vines around.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm doing I'm trying to do the mcminstreet where
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  Speaker 3: the car parkies, and also Bradshaw Terraces in Casarina.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a I actually really like saying everywhere beautified.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when you drive along here now at a
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  Speaker 1: tailie straight, it looks beautiful comparatively to what look at.
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  Speaker 3: Terrace past the having joined there going towards the busing exchange.
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  Speaker 3: Goida Road is going to be like that, leading all
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  Speaker 3: the way from Steer Highway to the High School. Mcminstry
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  Speaker 3: will look great when we finished with it, and certainly
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  Speaker 3: Cavanagh from the plan i've seen, you're going to see
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  Speaker 3: big trees in the middle, rain trees covering the road.
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  Speaker 3: So this is some of the few good things we're
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  Speaker 3: doing at the moment and more to come.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of listener questions.
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  Speaker 1: One here morning, Katie, can you please ask the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Mayor about Lamaroux Beach development?
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to go ahead? That's from Andrew and.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for asking me that, because there's one I chewed
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  Speaker 3: the year of the Minister when I was down there
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  Speaker 3: in Canberra. She's coming up here down in April and
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: I promise to take her out and so here what
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about. She was very enthusiastic because I mentioned
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: it's not going to be taxpayers money, it's going to
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: be some money of ours, some money of the government
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: and some money from the public sector.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: Was a very interesting corn.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I've got a question here. It says Hi Katie regarding
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: speed limit. You last week mentioned you bring up the
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: crossing behind Casuarina Square where chemists warehouses that need serious
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: attention as.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: A main thoroughfare. That one there from Chris, I don't
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: know if you know which you know.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: There's already one. You used to go from the old
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: banks the cas Arena.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: But people keep speeding through there.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Now we're not going to have to do something about it.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: I to put some cameras and burier cameras to saw
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: people with the flash in cameras.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Also to tell you, I found out.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: The other day that during the break is the break,
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: the pedestrial crossing ats.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: And marriage will be installed.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: At the school.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, yep.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: And also we're looking at some other improvements in the
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: school areas by putting flashing lights and making pelican crossings
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: and everything.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, so that is good news.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: That's a lot of work.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: And I managed to squeez quite a bit of money
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: in this next year's budget.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: For more trees in that excellent and so conn just
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: on that Casuarina Square around the back there will council
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: have a look at that.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Say we're amazing, my engineers. We have a little bit,
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: see what we can do to slow people down.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: A lot of time, people just they're frustrated because they
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: continue flows of people all the time, and they just said, well,
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it's a crossing. It's people crossing, slow down,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: down for two minutes, big.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Deal with their kids getting across the road to the
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: library and that.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Kind of responsibility from all of us.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, convat scarlets, the Lord Mayor of Darwin. Always
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: good to catch up with you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Happiest towards you guys. This is an ex sister because
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: we'll got toasters in a row. The Greek is there's
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: not this week, next week, so enjoy both.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Excellent, Good on your corn. Thank you,