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Meet your Lingiari candidates for the federal election - Independent Imelda Adamson Agars and the CLP's Damian Ryan · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line.
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  Speaker 2: Right now is the independent candidate Amelda Adamson Agar's good
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  Speaker 2: morning to you, Amelda.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: How are you very good?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time this morning. Are
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  Speaker 2: you ready to get started?
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  Speaker 3: No, but let's do it anyway, Let's.
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  Speaker 1: Go, Amelda.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you put your hand round in the seat
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  Speaker 2: of Lingiari.
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  Speaker 3: I put my hand up to being the next representative
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  Speaker 3: fillingary because I believe it. After three plus the phases
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  Speaker 3: of waiting for affirmative action, big party promises, the people
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  Speaker 3: living near the seracy, the fruit of those promises delivered
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  Speaker 3: as real outcomes. We need to stop promising and start delivering.
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  Speaker 3: We're all starving for that.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: What do you see as being the biggest issues in
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  Speaker 2: the seat of Lingiari.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know it's a big seat. So just here
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  Speaker 3: we go. Housing and homelands, management and maintenance of community
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  Speaker 3: and town camp infrastruction, affordable housing and enough housing across
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  Speaker 3: all towns to make local community sustainable. The addressing of
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  Speaker 3: anti social behavior and the hatred that our young people
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  Speaker 3: have for us in the community, whether it's Alice Springs,
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  Speaker 3: Catherine or Papunya the Endmoon or whatever. These are not
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  Speaker 3: issues of color specifically, but the actions of young people
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  Speaker 3: whose needs are being completely ignored and left unaddressed. Living
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  Speaker 3: in peace, aging in place, and feeling safe and assured
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  Speaker 3: at home and or out and about needing is not
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  Speaker 3: as competent and assured as it was just a decade
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  Speaker 3: or more ago. Social crimes rarely have true criminal intent,
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  Speaker 3: but nearly always relate back to underlying issues in language, literacy,
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  Speaker 3: and culture. We must support the successful role out and
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  Speaker 3: programmed delivery of bipartisan Aboriginal Justice Agreement signed off late
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  Speaker 3: last year. Given a decent chance so, I believe it
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  Speaker 3: will deliver real action and resolve Weaponizing welfare through income
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  Speaker 3: management needs to stop sentiment. Payments need to be raised
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  Speaker 3: to at least twenty percent above the poverty line. The
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  Speaker 3: minimum wage rate needs to rise at least seven dollars
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  Speaker 3: seventy five an hour for all of us. Isolated children
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  Speaker 3: need increased supports in place, especially to enable families to
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  Speaker 3: employ teachers in remote schools. Agle culture and horticulture businesses
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  Speaker 3: need better access to temporary workforce through the introduction of
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  Speaker 3: an agg visa. I could go on forever, but I
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  Speaker 3: think I must be running out of time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, well we've got you've got about two minutes
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  Speaker 2: thirty left. But still a few questions left, Amelda, Why
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  Speaker 2: do you think that you and the party that you're well,
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  Speaker 2: you're not.
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  Speaker 1: Actually you're an independent.
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  Speaker 2: So why do you think that you will be the
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  Speaker 2: best place to deal with these issues?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I promise the people of the Electric speece independent
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  Speaker 3: as our first independent was. His name was Vincent Lungiari,
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  Speaker 3: and he walked away from the oppression of inaction, advocated patiently,
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  Speaker 3: and agitated forcefully until if he saw and received real action.
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  Speaker 3: Being independent gives me the freedom to stay clear of
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  Speaker 3: the party room. Your vote will employ me to deliver
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  Speaker 3: the big party promises. Your vote means delivery can happen. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 3: I will not fly in or fly out, or drive
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  Speaker 3: and drive out of your community in a day. I
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  Speaker 3: will sit down, i will shut up or roll out
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  Speaker 3: my swag, and I'll listen to every one of you
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  Speaker 3: during my time in the house. It's time we all
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  Speaker 3: made live the area matter and four hours in every
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  Speaker 3: day and whether I rush in or stop and stay awhile,
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  Speaker 3: we've got to invest every hour on the ground properly.
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  Speaker 1: Now, who are you going to be preferencing no one?
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  Speaker 3: This election, more than ever before, belongs to every voter.
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  Speaker 1: So do you have to put somebody in second?
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  Speaker 3: Though? I've always used my pencil and I've made my
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  Speaker 3: decision before I've gone in. I've never used a how
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  Speaker 3: to vote card in my life. We're all big people, Katie,
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  Speaker 3: and the way people vote will be the fastest I
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  Speaker 3: think of this election.
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  Speaker 2: Now, why should people vote for you? You've got a
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  Speaker 2: bit over a minute to tell.
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  Speaker 3: Us, Well, there is nothing fancy about me. What you
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  Speaker 3: see is what you get. I'm a deep thinker and
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  Speaker 3: I plan my response carefully. The most things, situations like
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  Speaker 3: radio interviews on the fly, really intimidate me. But I'll
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  Speaker 3: have a go. I have the broken smile because I
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  Speaker 3: cannot afford the dental repair. I worry about my rent
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  Speaker 3: granting paid every week. I understand some of the challenges
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  Speaker 3: of disability because I am disabled, and every day I
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  Speaker 3: need to think ahead of my next marriage to remain
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  Speaker 3: safe and able, and I listen. I am steady and
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  Speaker 3: steadfast in every undertaking. I have the patience to pursue
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  Speaker 3: the right outcome, not the fast outcome. That I'm married
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  Speaker 3: to a great woman who holds me accountable when she
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  Speaker 3: thinks I'm slipping. I identify as more boy than girl,
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  Speaker 3: always have, although God blessed me with a female birthday suit.
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  Speaker 3: When you talk to me about the pain of discrimination
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  Speaker 3: and the burden that another person's perception of you have
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  Speaker 3: on you, I hear you. I walk in those shoes too.
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  Speaker 3: People are always trying to work out who I am
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  Speaker 3: and what I am. I am Imelder always was and
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  Speaker 3: always will be. Thank you for numbering my box and
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  Speaker 3: starting your pencil for change, you mate Lingiari matter.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Amelda, you've done it with two seconds to spare.
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  Speaker 2: We really appreciate your time this morning. The independent candidate
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  Speaker 2: for Lingiari, Amelda Adamson Agaz, thanks so.
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  Speaker 1: Much for your time today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Katie, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And it is just ten minutes away from eleven o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to be catching up, well, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be catching up with Damian Ryan next. Here's the
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  Speaker 2: COLPS candidate for the seat of Lingiari and he's in
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  Speaker 2: and he's in the studio actually, so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be heading across to him in just a second. If
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  Speaker 2: you've got something on your mind, this morning though, that
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  Speaker 2: you would like to have a chat to us about
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  Speaker 2: eight nine four one one four nine is the number.
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  Speaker 2: You can also send us a message if you'd like
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  Speaker 2: to zero four double nine seven double one three six
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  Speaker 2: zero and no doubt there's going to be plenty of
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  Speaker 2: you in contact with us today to have a chat.
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  Speaker 2: But well, joining me in the studio is the colp's
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  Speaker 2: candidate for Lingiari, Damian Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning Katie, and it's great to be in your studio.
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  Speaker 4: I've never had the opportunity before.
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  Speaker 1: I did think that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we've ever met in person before,
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  Speaker 2: so I appreciate you coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Damien. Are you ready for these questions?
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  Speaker 5: I'm ready for your grilling.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you got five minutes, let's get started.
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  Speaker 2: Damien Ryan, why did you put your hand up to
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  Speaker 2: run in the seat of Lingiari?
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  Speaker 4: Katie, Alice Springs Lingiari, The whole lot seems to have
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  Speaker 4: been deserted over many years.
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  Speaker 5: Not much has happened.
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  Speaker 4: It hasn't been a contested seat for a long time,
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  Speaker 4: and for that reason and misses out on a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things. Having grown up in Alice Springs, run small
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  Speaker 4: business been involved in local government, been involved in rather
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  Speaker 4: large community events. I just thought that after finishing as
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  Speaker 4: the mayor in August last year, I would put my
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  Speaker 4: hand up for pre selection and the country Little Party
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  Speaker 4: shose me.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what do you see as being the biggest issues
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  Speaker 2: in the seat of Lniari?
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  Speaker 1: Right now?
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  Speaker 4: As I wander around Lingiari, and I've done a lot
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  Speaker 4: of travel since the first of September last year, crime
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  Speaker 4: is the one that's really hurting people. Look, territory labor
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  Speaker 4: have left us in a terrible state. I understand crime
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  Speaker 4: belongs to territory labor. It's their role to do it,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's in Alice Springs, per Pona, out at Port Keats,
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  Speaker 4: there are so many places Tenant Creek. It's very sad
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  Speaker 4: that this has been just left to the point we
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  Speaker 4: are at. We've been forgotten below the Behmer line. The
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  Speaker 4: other big important thing is about our economy recovering.
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  Speaker 5: It's about jobs.
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  Speaker 4: I very proudly sit here and support what the Coalition
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  Speaker 4: are doing in road construction, opening up our resources, rail construction, housing.
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  Speaker 4: All of those things will create jobs and they are
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  Speaker 4: probably the most important. But we do have to have liverability.
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  Speaker 4: As an ex federal candidate for Lingiari. If chosen, I'll
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  Speaker 4: be working very hard with the Prime Minister and the
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  Speaker 4: Deputy Prime Minister to ensure that the Territory, Government, Territory
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  Speaker 4: Labor do something about crime.
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  Speaker 2: Now, taking those issues into account, why do you feel
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  Speaker 2: you're the best place to deal with them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been in public life for quite some years.
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  Speaker 4: I've represented as the mayor of Alice Springs for a
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  Speaker 4: long period of time, since two thousand and eight. I
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  Speaker 4: chaired the Local Government Association of the Northern Territory for
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  Speaker 4: a dozen years. I've sat on the Northern Territory Grants
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  Speaker 4: Commission for a number of years. I've sat on the
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  Speaker 4: Heritage Council. I've done a lot of work across the
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  Speaker 4: whole area of Lingiari. My family have connections right across.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, my father was in the trucking industry, my
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  Speaker 4: uncle just a matter of interest at ran Elsey Station.
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  Speaker 4: There is a lot of connective with my family and
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  Speaker 4: the seed of Lingiari.
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  Speaker 1: Now, who are you going to be preferencing?
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  Speaker 4: Well, the thing I can assure you is that the
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  Speaker 4: Greens and Labor will fill the last two numbers on
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  Speaker 4: my ballot sheet. Why, Because a vote for the Greens
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  Speaker 4: is a vote for labor. It will really hold us
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  Speaker 4: back if we go back a little while. We look
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  Speaker 4: at the banning of the live catile export that will
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  Speaker 4: cripple our industry. The Greens have already said they're going
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  Speaker 4: to go after the live sheep, so we cannot afford this.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's been discussions from the Greens about our defense.
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  Speaker 4: If people sitting in the territory or anywhere in the
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  Speaker 4: territory day and don't think defense is a massive, massive
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  Speaker 4: issue going forward, they're dreaming. So I'm sorry they will
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  Speaker 4: be bottom and labor be second bottom.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've still got about a minute forty left. Why
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  Speaker 2: should people vote for you.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I'm somebody who gets involved in the community. I'm
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  Speaker 5: known for that.
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  Speaker 4: In my time in local government, I appreciated every sort
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  Speaker 4: of event the community had. But it wasn't just as
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  Speaker 4: the mayor of Alice Springs. It's also working with some
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  Speaker 4: of the smaller councils. I have a lot of relationships
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  Speaker 4: with different mayors, principal members, mayors and presidents across the
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  Speaker 4: area of Lingiari, understanding their seven A councils in the
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  Speaker 4: northern territory. Fifteen and a half of them are in Lingiari,
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  Speaker 4: so to fight for them is just a natural progression
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  Speaker 4: for me for the work that I have been doing
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  Speaker 4: over a long period of time.
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  Speaker 5: Tourism is in my blood as well.
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  Speaker 4: Tourism has to be encouraged and has to get that
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  Speaker 4: support to go forward. Tourism in Central Australia. Alice Springs
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  Speaker 4: runs on events, Tenor Creek needs events, Borrow Lula needs events.
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  Speaker 4: All of those areas. That's the sort of work that
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  Speaker 4: I can bring to it. I have a very good
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  Speaker 4: connection with the government, the Coalition government, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: with their support we can see some great things happening
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  Speaker 4: in Lingiari. I say to people, give it some thought.
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  Speaker 4: This week there's prepole going on in the bush. I've
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  Speaker 4: been out in the bush this week.
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  Speaker 5: The facts are I can.
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  Speaker 4: Represent everyone in the tertary, not any one singular group.
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  Speaker 5: I'll represent everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Damian Ryan, you've got about twenty seconds left up
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  Speaker 2: your slave, is there anything else you want to very
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  Speaker 2: quickly say?
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  Speaker 4: Look, I would just say that to the people of Lingiari.
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  Speaker 4: Please keep me in mind, put me as number one
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  Speaker 4: on your card, or give me a two. If you
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  Speaker 4: have a connection to somebody else, I will fight for you.
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  Speaker 4: I will be your representative. Hold me your voice in camera.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Damian Ryan, one second left. Thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I appreciate it.