Latest / 360 with Katie Woolf / Katie Woolf spoke with Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis

Transcript

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

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf on Mixed one oh four
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main Darwin joining us live
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: in the studio right now is the Lord Mayor of
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Darwin convat Scarlets.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Good morning Corn, Good morning Katie. And it's a beautiful
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: day day and it looks like it's going to rain, which
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: makes it han.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: I felt like, yeah, exactly, I love the word weather.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Corn Council is meeting tonight. What's on the agenda.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: It's the very excited one because there's nothing controversial, and
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: the one that actually will generate some debate is all
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: the mahas let's proposal to move the taxi rank outside
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: We'll go somewhere else. So Garis gould ask for a
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: report and I would like to see that one if
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: it can happen. And I don't know why we've got
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: the taxi rank where it is at the moment. Could
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: be somewhere it's more appropriate. Let's find out about it.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: The other exciting thing is, you know, we had a
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: debate about eighteen runs and drunken people the other day,
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: so first time the segways running through them all and
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: through the city, which is absolutely great news. I also
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: heard that tomorrow the police will start an operation to
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: clean the city. Our rangers will help them. Council continues
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: to participate with the Sibiti Patrol, which is great news.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: But certainly we need more force, more police and may
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: the force be with them because we need them. Well.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: We did catch up with the Down acting Down commander
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: yesterday Tony dou Trump, and he said that they are
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: going to be embarking on a three day campaign or
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: a three diy oh. I can't think of what the
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: word is to basically look at that public drunkenness and
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: some of the issues that we've got con house. Is
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: the council going to be sort of assisting the police
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: with that in any why we.
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Have given them all the information we've got because we've
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: got a lot of information from what we see every day.
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: Some of our rangers will be helping them where it
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: is necessary if the police ask for the help. But Tony,
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: this is music to my ears. I've been asking for
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: that for a long long time. And if you open
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: the Down police station would be even better.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: So you'll came for that Down police station or as
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: in the watchhouse to reopen as well.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: Aren't e kon how many times. We've been talking about it,
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: Katie in the past few months. I know they COVID nineteen.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: He put a lot of stress to the police, but
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: things have gone quite now with COVID nineteen. Borders are
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: not closed. Let's focus on what really matters on the
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: lives of territorials. Evening is Darwin and this is unfortunately
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: it tinerance and especially drunken itinerant.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: So when you say that it's causing an issue, I
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: mean in what why for the counsel at the moment
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: with that public drunkenness.
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, we have to clean up all
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: the mess they left behind. Second, we get complained by
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: people that they people fighting. Our rangers are going out
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: a morning an afternoon, try to talk to people out
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: of drunk, but we can't reason with somebody who's actually
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: completely out because they've been drinking since ten o'clock in
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: the morning. Of course, I've been asking more research where
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: they get the alcohol. The second supply, we've got a
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: floor price supposed to make things expensive for them, but
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: it looks like it's not working. So we have to
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: have a serious look what we've got in place. Is
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: it working? Is it not? And if it doesn't. Why
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: it doesn't Is it better? We've got the vida. I
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: suggested that actually we control the dr and see who
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: buys massive amount of alcohol because these are the people.
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: They have to do something with it. You can't drink
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: ten bottles of Bundy in a day or other are
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: privacy issues. This is we're talking about crime now. It
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: looks like we're protecting the offender more than the innocent victims,
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: which actually the whole population of the territory.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: Con We've been speaking quite a bit about this very
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: topic over the last few days. We had Larakie National,
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: we have Mission Australia on. We spoke to obviously the
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: commander about it yesterday and look, you know, like you've
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: pointed out, and like everybody's pointed out, we've definitely got
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: some issues. We need to start thinking about this a
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: bit differently. I think to what we currently are. Is
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: it time for us to have some sort of wet
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: camp or some location where people can actually go and
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: stay and have a couple of drinks.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's start again. We've got a problem with it.
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: Grants that they want to spend their money in alcohol.
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: This is what they're living for now. They will not
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: go to Marra to the celter there to sleep because
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: they have to pay five dollars an hour. You will
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: see them every morning outside of Australia Street or outside
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: the Aglican chairs because they get free food. They do
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: everything possible to maintain as much as possible of their
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: welfare money to drink them. And I'm not referring only
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: to people from community I'm talking about I've seen people
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: from down South, people that I've never seen here before,
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: living rough and wasting their life with alcohol. Yes, we
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: have to think about it a wet camp. It's a
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: great idea, but not a place where just here during
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: as much as you like. It has to be supervised.
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: It has to have service to support these people, get
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: some of them outside this cycle of drunkeness. Provide some support,
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: get them out, treat them if they've got health problems.
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: Provide some food there. Because we provide food and some
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: safe celt and some safe toilets, a lot of people
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: will go there rather than actually try to hide in
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: East Point at Casorina cost A Reserve, control it, how
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: it's done, return back to country. And the other thing
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: is I would like to like het people to have
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: a more assertive role telling people this is my country,
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: you don't behave go back and ban them from coming back.
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: They do it in communities who should be doing the
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: same thing here nothing and people come from Victoria to
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: have the free and hip lifestyle in Darwin and make
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: a mess here. Go back, mate, We don't want you here.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: If you can't behave, don't come here.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: Con can we just obviously we're talking about alcohol there.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: But I want to go back to this topic that's
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: on the council's agenda for tonight, and that is moving
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: that taxi rank, or potentially moving that taxi rank from
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: outside will Worths. Where would it be moved to?
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing we want to find out, because
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: wherever you move it, you have to have somewhere that's
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: accessible to people. Could be Smith Street, could be Mitchell Street,
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: to be somewhere more suitable rather than stuck bound in
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: the middle of the city in front of it. And
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: we had a lot of complaints from the shops there.
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: I know a couple of the shops now they have
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: redesigned their entrance because a few months ago there were
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: sleeping thems. People were sleeping at do there people trying
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: to go to the job in the morning and we
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: have to walk over bodies. It is a situation with
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: USh all the time. And look, the mall is really good.
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: I was the other day early in the morning on Sunday.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: There were quite a few people. There are quite a
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: few people from outside Darwin at all. People behaving themselves,
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: I have no problem at all. It's when you start
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: getting punch ups, and especially when they're actually beating up
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: their women or beating up children, then I've got a
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: serious problem.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I think everybody's got a serious problem when that
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: kind of thing is happening and it is totally unacceptable.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: Corn Gee, there's quite a bit happening council wise. I
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: know that you guys have got a couple of different
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: events happening, but there's also you're looking at doing a
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: few different things to try to improve the cycle network.
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: What's going on there, Well, you can write a Bible,
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: a basycle from Darwin anywhere you're lucking down extenship from
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: my Miami night. That's regulous but extensive cycling network. What
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: we're doing now, we're installing some indicators where you can
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: go where you drive to sort the direction and distances
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: from different places. The good thing about it it's unique.
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: Larakia artist Joe Raymond has done a lot of digitalus
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: design and the polls that will alternate with this design
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: and all the way to Macmillan Road, so you will
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: be going down smin Street Avenue, cour Sport, Tick Word
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: Drive all the way with Macmillan Road in Nightcliffe and
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: also in the bridge in Rapid Creek and that will
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: indicate where to go because a lot of tourists do
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: not know about Darwin, so at least we can tell
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: them this is the way to go there, this is
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: the way to go there. Now we've got, of course
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: the ear bikes, the is qudas extended range all the
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: way to Darwin to Nightclive and too Casarina a unique
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: way to explore, especially the drive season Doarwin. My information
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: is everybody expect a bubber tourist season. I believe the
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: airport believes are going to have one hundred and forty
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: percent increase on the flights season. Because we're still locked
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: in Australia. You can't go anywhere. So when things get
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: really really cold in Melbourne and seating another late, people
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: would like to go somewhere warmep from here down is
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: the place to be between April and September October. It's
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: not cold, it's weather is beautiful and there has so
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: many things to see.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: Con just very quickly, I Walk and Wag event for
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: dogs and donors to keep fit wins.
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: That on well, thanks to Heart Foundation organizing this event
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: because you can walk your dog at the same time exercise.
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: The first one is tonight at clip Point Bitch at
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: five fifteen. That will start five point thirty and it's
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: found forty five minutes. It covers about to the three kilometers.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: Keep you and your pet healthy from there on, just
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: keeping a look in our website and we will have
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: all the information for you and a Heart Foundation too.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: I think it's a really good idea if you got
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: a pet, to take them out and walk with them.
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: Talking about pets, don't forget the dog park consultation. I
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: read in the newspaper that everybody likes very is a
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: great place. I think so too. Versus is very good place.
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: The other parks tend to be a bit small and
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: they will I know it will create problems.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: So when are you going to make a decision on
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: that one?
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: Well, we're waiting for the consultation to finish, and when
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: the consultation finish, which is actually the second of March,
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: then it will come to country will make a decision.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: But it's looking like this, and I can understand.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: That one because it's by the bitch an extensive area.
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: The Green Army cleaned the park and everything looks fantastic,
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: Scott Grush, why not.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Con just very quickly watch it by in your observations
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: of the current political situation. I mean, it's been an
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: interesting I'm very.
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: Very pleased I'm not in Parliament anymore.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, combat scarlets, we better leave it there. Always good
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: to catch up with you, mate, Thanks so much for
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: your time today.