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Katie Woolf spoke with Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: And combats is the Lord Mayor of do when it's
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  Speaker 1: here with me.
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  Speaker 2: We're having an animated chat as usual. The ads were
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  Speaker 2: applying there. Good morning to your car.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katy.
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  Speaker 1: Now mate, firstly, I do want to ask you about
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  Speaker 1: this situation where apparently businesses have been caught off guard
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  Speaker 1: by what's been reported as a three hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: percent price hike by the Darwin City Council on discarding
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  Speaker 1: rubbish at the city's waste management facility corn What is
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  Speaker 1: the go How much of the fees gone up here?
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  Speaker 4: Look, they haven't gone up simply the people of the
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  Speaker 4: tip of the mission deeperthy and the fission charges and
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  Speaker 4: the overcharge a person who came up with a car.
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  Speaker 3: We have approached the person.
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  Speaker 4: And we will discuss with him and if he's overcharged,
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  Speaker 4: we will reinvest the money. To make it clear though,
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  Speaker 4: we went back again and make it quite clear and
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  Speaker 4: plainly clear in the fishing charges. Now what do you
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  Speaker 4: charge if you turn up with a car with a
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  Speaker 4: two cubic meters had been a three minute had been?
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  Speaker 3: So people are not overcharged.
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  Speaker 4: It was it's unfortunately we're apologized forout stubid situation. It happened,
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  Speaker 4: but the person certainly will be reimbursed and will be
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  Speaker 4: discussion with him why it happened.
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  Speaker 3: It has been made very clear now what people are
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  Speaker 3: paying when they ten.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about commercial vehicles, commercial operator, not every day operators.
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  Speaker 4: The other thing I tell you is that actually down
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  Speaker 4: City Council tip is the only tip that exists north
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  Speaker 4: of Catherine. There's no other tip. Palmers does not have
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  Speaker 4: its own tip, litz Field does not have.
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  Speaker 3: Its all tip. Everybody uses that the downs the council tip.
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  Speaker 4: So that means that people from down operators, from down
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  Speaker 4: commercial operators come to our tip.
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  Speaker 3: So it's Palmerson, so it's Let's Field.
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  Speaker 1: So at this point in time, because we know it's
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  Speaker 1: Northern Skippings, I've told the interw Is that well, they
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  Speaker 1: basically their FAE for commercial vehicles went from twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: dollars to one hundred and three. But you're saying, now
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  Speaker 1: that's a mistake, that is not the.
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  Speaker 4: Well, one hundred and three actually should be read like
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  Speaker 4: if you turn up with a vehicle, you charge one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and three and you can actually dump it for
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  Speaker 4: the same price a ton, which is actually what the
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  Speaker 4: price of a ton to dispose it. If it's more,
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  Speaker 4: you pay more. It's unfortunately happened. It's a pity he
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  Speaker 4: didn't pick up the phone or he didn't he didn't
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  Speaker 4: talk to me. Of course I would become aware and
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  Speaker 4: short straight away.
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  Speaker 2: But so has it gone up? It's gone up from
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight dollars to one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Was the old system. The last year we charge. If
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  Speaker 3: you get a carrying, you get charged.
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  Speaker 4: To the eight dollars, doesn't matter what happens. But these days,
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  Speaker 4: if you get a car in and you've got rubbish
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  Speaker 4: on it, you charge on the rabbis, not on the car.
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  Speaker 2: So one hundred and three.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's actually the fee of the of the
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  Speaker 3: of a ton of rubbish to dumb.
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  Speaker 2: But hang on, So that does sound like it's gone up.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's going Last year was ninety eight dollars a ton,
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  Speaker 3: these years one hundred and yes.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so there certainly sounds like there's some confusion.
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  Speaker 1: But you're going to be getting in contact with you.
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  Speaker 3: I apologize if we have the council, I apologize. It
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  Speaker 3: was something shouldn't have happened. It happened, but I said
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  Speaker 3: the year before.
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  Speaker 4: The man is the person is not going to be disadvantaged,
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  Speaker 4: going to be reimbursed any extra money he paid.
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  Speaker 3: And now it's very clear what people charged when.
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  Speaker 1: They got to now Corn another thing that's got our
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  Speaker 1: attention over nice and it has been shared on social media.
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  Speaker 1: We're hoping to be able to catch up with the
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  Speaker 1: cafe operators, hopefully after ten o'clock this morning. Vision outside
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  Speaker 1: silver tore Is in the city where there is a
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  Speaker 1: really large group of what looked like very young people
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  Speaker 1: or you know, young teenagers, throwing things and just running
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  Speaker 1: a mark around the CB day.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been aluded to this?
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  Speaker 3: No, I haven't been alerted to that one.
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  Speaker 4: But I have to tell you kid, yesterday I went
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  Speaker 4: for a walk in the mall and I found out
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  Speaker 4: the number of my palm trees had their wives cut
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  Speaker 4: so they didn't have lights. So obviously something is happening
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  Speaker 4: in town. I'm going to bring them back to the
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  Speaker 4: council so they can be fixed. Now, this is about
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  Speaker 4: five hundred meters from no even five two hundred meters
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  Speaker 4: from the police station that's actually Mitster Center. I wonder
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  Speaker 4: why these people can run a mark and the police
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  Speaker 4: can do anything about it, or is not aware of it.
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  Speaker 2: So what happened? What did jays happened to you?
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  Speaker 3: The wires on the fairy lights.
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  Speaker 4: You know how our palm trees are wrapped in fairy lights,
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  Speaker 4: the cutter wires.
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  Speaker 3: I went there and I look why they're not.
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  Speaker 4: Illuminated physically outside passpali and outside the rabbit hole and
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  Speaker 4: in the bottom of the reintree.
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  Speaker 2: Paths, so all those very light. Wise.
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  Speaker 4: We had a case before that a little kid, young
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  Speaker 4: kid cut the wise, but the parents came and saw us,
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  Speaker 4: and they, you know, they pay for damage. But I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this is it. Actually I've noticed the last few days
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  Speaker 4: a couple of a small group of kids which usually
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  Speaker 4: don't belong in now Win. They're just too new, marking around,
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  Speaker 4: running around. They don't know anything illegal, they're just congregated.
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  Speaker 4: But to get together and start throwing things around, I
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  Speaker 4: think that's a police matter, and the police has to
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  Speaker 4: actually nip it on the butt before it became a
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  Speaker 4: bigger issue.
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  Speaker 1: So with these, with the fairy lights, I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: much do you anticipate that's going to cost?
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  Speaker 2: Get fixed a few of.
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  Speaker 4: Them very easy, they just reconnect the wise. But the
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  Speaker 4: thing is, come on, guys, we want the beautiful city.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't want the beautiful city, you want to
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  Speaker 4: live in a put it bluntly, a shithole. Go and
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  Speaker 4: live in a shithole. We want a good city, We
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  Speaker 4: want the beautiful city. The lots are there to make
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  Speaker 4: a place more attractive. If you don't live to an
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  Speaker 4: attractive place, just go somewhere, leave the town and go
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  Speaker 4: somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Con I do want to ask you about the decision
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  Speaker 1: by the government on Friday to hold Territory Day celebrations
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  Speaker 1: on the twenty ninth of August. We caught up with
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  Speaker 1: the researcher yesterday who is very concerned about about the
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  Speaker 1: potential of fires. We'd caught up with bushfires inta last
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  Speaker 1: Monday when we thought that firecrack and night was you know,
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  Speaker 1: I still sort of We knew it had been delayed
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  Speaker 1: obviously from Territory Day from the first of July, but
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  Speaker 1: he was still concerned about dry season weather and the
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  Speaker 1: impact that it was going to have. What are you
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  Speaker 1: thinking when it comes to August twenty nine now being
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  Speaker 1: the date when people can let off fireworks.
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  Speaker 4: I've been listening to debate too now between me and you,
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  Speaker 4: council is not affected by the fires. It's only the
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  Speaker 4: rubbish amount of ruds we have to pick up next day.
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  Speaker 4: But as a territory I don't want to sit territory
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  Speaker 4: day to be eliminated, not firewalks. By the same time,
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  Speaker 4: listening to the extra I think, well, probably the twenty
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  Speaker 4: ninth of August this year is not the right time
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  Speaker 4: to actually have everybody throwing firewalks, so they're way out
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  Speaker 4: for the government. These other have some areas well defined areas.
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  Speaker 4: People can go there and let their fireworks so they're prepared.
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  Speaker 4: They can have let's say, firefighting equipment and everything else
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  Speaker 4: ready just in case.
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  Speaker 3: But to let people large.
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  Speaker 4: Fireworks here and Darwin Palmerston in Humpty do in house
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  Speaker 4: springs in the bush, whether it's bone dry it is
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  Speaker 4: bone dry, I think it will be asking for trouble.
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  Speaker 4: So it might be an op opportunity for the gun
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  Speaker 4: to say, all right, we define these areas. You can
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  Speaker 4: come there and you can let your fireworks because you
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  Speaker 4: already bought the fireworks and will be prepared something goes wrong.
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  Speaker 4: But to let everybody go wild, go out bulls and
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  Speaker 4: start fight lightin fireworks can be a big, big problem
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  Speaker 4: for us. Considering how dry it will be out there.
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  Speaker 4: And we've had a great wet so there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of huel. If you actually drive down to your highway
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  Speaker 4: you can see a lot of hue.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's got a lot of people concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Actually corn match else happening around the place that we
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  Speaker 1: should be aware of.
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  Speaker 3: Well tonight, we've got a very big counsel because you
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  Speaker 3: had a lockdown.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we're going to make a decision about the
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  Speaker 4: beautiful Public card to be put in the Bisitanial Park.
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  Speaker 4: There are two items that are absolutely magic. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to do an energy a parapple to find out how
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  Speaker 4: much energy it uses.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and the search street we protect a tree.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to do some work on there because workers
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  Speaker 4: wants to extend their car park and so make easure
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  Speaker 4: for people to get in and out. And we're going
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  Speaker 4: to have a look at some parklets. You know how
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  Speaker 4: people are allowed to use parklets. We want to actually
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  Speaker 4: make it that standardize them rather have ad hoc containers.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen in some places I've got containers. The pain
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  Speaker 4: is reaped. I don't want to see something like that.
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  Speaker 4: I want to see something more elegant. And of course
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  Speaker 4: one of the things I want to tell territories is
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  Speaker 4: if you know anybody who's done something good for the community,
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  Speaker 4: please nominate a person for the Decision of Years award.
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  Speaker 4: If you part of an organization does something fantastic the community,
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  Speaker 4: nominate an organization for the Organization of the Year award
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  Speaker 4: is the awards we do every year, nominating and recognizing
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  Speaker 4: people they've done something for their fellow human being, for
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  Speaker 4: their own family, for another group.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a really great idea to recognize great editory.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to nominate somebody fantastic last year, but he
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  Speaker 1: actually lives in Palmerston. Now, you've got to live in Dowwin,
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  Speaker 1: don't you to be eligible?
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  Speaker 2: Is that I know.
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  Speaker 1: But the events that he organizes are in daw and
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  Speaker 1: so but you've got to live in dowa.
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  Speaker 4: It's a city of Darwall, So we expect you to
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  Speaker 4: live in down And I mean, Palmerston can do the
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  Speaker 4: same thing if you want, I will.
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  Speaker 3: And certainly, one.
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  Speaker 4: Thing I want to tell you now is really really new.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody else knows. You're the first one to know. We're
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  Speaker 4: working very very closely with the people that actually came
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  Speaker 4: out of the Defense, the veterans to put a program
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  Speaker 4: together the soldier own people, the veterans people. They came
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  Speaker 4: out of the forces and they want a job. They
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  Speaker 4: will be considered as a priority for the council to
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  Speaker 4: overcome some of the problems that may have. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they've come out from difficult situations, they fought for a
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  Speaker 4: long time in battlefields and they need to go back
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  Speaker 4: into real life. So we've got a program for Indigenous
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  Speaker 4: people that actually they can actually consider for council jobs.
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  Speaker 3: And now we will do one for the soldier.
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  Speaker 2: On what prompted you to decide to do this.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, we're a defense city.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a lot of people here. They served here,
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  Speaker 4: they want to stay in tow and they come back
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  Speaker 4: from battlefields and they look for jobs. They've got skills,
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  Speaker 4: they've got good leadership skills, they've got other skills. We
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  Speaker 4: can use them also give them an opportunity to go
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  Speaker 4: back into real civilian life. And the next thing I
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  Speaker 4: want in my mind is I would like to actually
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  Speaker 4: see how can we engage young people. How can we
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  Speaker 4: let's create like the Green Army, a youth army and
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  Speaker 4: get people that they made a mistake in their lives.
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  Speaker 3: They probably get a small sentence and.
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  Speaker 4: Get engaged and give them a way out of crime
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  Speaker 4: if we can say so so, Ti some some skills
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  Speaker 4: and get them in a team of adults that can
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  Speaker 4: be as mentors and see how quickly they can change
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  Speaker 4: their minds.
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  Speaker 1: Well convat scholars, Lord Mayor of Darwin, always good to
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  Speaker 1: catch up.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time, my pleasure. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you