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Member for Goyder Kezia Purick on school-based constables and infrastructure issues · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But Kesier Puick, the member for Goinger, joins me on
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  Speaker 1: the line right now, Good morning to you, Kezier.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie. I could do with ten million dollars
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  Speaker 2: in the rural area. I bet you could. Wells and
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure friends.
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  Speaker 1: Pass well, Kezier, I've actually you know, I just had
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  Speaker 1: Cam in Humpty doo message and he said, Hi, Katie,
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  Speaker 1: pap already had a preschool. The rural area is still
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  Speaker 1: waiting for a swimming pool. Maybe if if he said, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: if Kezier were to resign, we could have a by election,
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  Speaker 1: then Labor might give the rural area a tax million
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  Speaker 1: dollar pool.
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  Speaker 2: To use that expression, tell him he's dreaming well. Consistently
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  Speaker 2: over the years, both major parties have promised pools. Within
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  Speaker 2: the federal members promised pools. We've had I think the
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  Speaker 2: former member filing Garry warrens Nodan promised a pool, even
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  Speaker 2: as far back as the late John I kid promise
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  Speaker 2: the pool out here. I mean it just slipped into
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  Speaker 2: dream time, you know. So it doesn't really matter losing power.
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  Speaker 2: Swimming pools do tend to fall under the domain of
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  Speaker 2: local government, and the Literfield Council would be keen to
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  Speaker 2: put a pool in but the rate players have to
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  Speaker 2: understand that it has to be paid for and absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so it's I mean, maybe one day we
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  Speaker 2: will get a swimming pool. It might be a private
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  Speaker 2: investment or it might be government and local government, but
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  Speaker 2: we'll just have to wait and see. But there is
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  Speaker 2: no doubt there is a need for an aquatic center.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't just say a pool, an aquatic center. Whether
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  Speaker 2: it should be a twenty five meter or a full
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  Speaker 2: fifty meter, there's different agments for and against both of that.
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  Speaker 2: But there's you know, the schools, we've got about eight
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  Speaker 2: orercent primary schools and of course Tommen out here and
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  Speaker 2: the good the louver In College and everything. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a massive feeding that would utilize such a pool, not
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  Speaker 2: least people who need it for rehabilitation after accidents or all. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: it's just that we just seem to keep hitting a
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  Speaker 2: brick wall and a bit of stale mate between anti
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  Speaker 2: government supporting and you know, local government supporting and you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting to getting them to the table to talk seriously
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  Speaker 2: about whether we should develop an aquatic center out here.
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  Speaker 2: So canse here?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? Well, what was your reaction to
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  Speaker 1: this announcement that happened yesterday at a press conference. No
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  Speaker 1: press release went out about this ten million dollars for
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  Speaker 1: the preschool in right in the midst of this by election.
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  Speaker 1: What was your reaction to it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't It was just the here we go again.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I must think we've come down in the
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  Speaker 2: last our reign not to realize that. Of course it's
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  Speaker 2: port barreling. And then, as others have said, that's not illegal,
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  Speaker 2: but it clearly is. What it is is you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to buy voters votes, and you know that some of
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  Speaker 2: that money could have been put back into I don't
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  Speaker 2: know whether it's education or police, to put back school
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  Speaker 2: based constables in our schools because we are struggling. The
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  Speaker 2: schools out here are struggling to mimen college is struggling.
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  Speaker 2: We're not even sure we've got auxiliary at this point
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  Speaker 2: in time at amendment for whatever operational reason. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: for the government to come and offer ten million or
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  Speaker 2: say they're going to build a new preschool when they've
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  Speaker 2: already got one, what else are they going to promise
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  Speaker 2: to this electric I mean, this is only the first
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  Speaker 2: week of a campaign, Katie. I mean what else is
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  Speaker 2: what other money are they're going to mysteriously get out
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  Speaker 2: of some magical money buckets to try and buy votes?
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  Speaker 2: Because if this is, if this is a sign of
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  Speaker 2: what they're going to do and how they're going to
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  Speaker 2: do it, that means that to me, It tells me
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  Speaker 2: they're pretty desperate. They are worried, so they've got to
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  Speaker 2: splash money around to try and buy the vote of
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  Speaker 2: voters in that.
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  Speaker 1: Electric Kezia, let's talk about two mean men, because I
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  Speaker 1: know that that yesterday we'd actually learned a parent had
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  Speaker 1: been in contact with a still let us know that
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  Speaker 1: doubt it's Sanderson at the school out there, that there'd
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  Speaker 1: been a situation where where there was allegedly youths who
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  Speaker 1: did not go to the school had arrived and the
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  Speaker 1: school had to had to go into a lockdown, which
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  Speaker 1: I think you know from all accounts, the school and
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  Speaker 1: indeed the police responded really quickly and exactly as you
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  Speaker 1: want them to. But it did really raise that question again,
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  Speaker 1: all that discussion again about school constables and Beverly, who
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  Speaker 1: is the chair obviously of to memin college out there
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  Speaker 1: a message through and said that you had been asking
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  Speaker 1: further questions about the school based constables. Where are you
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  Speaker 1: ash with that?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I was confident during the estimates when the Police
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  Speaker 2: Minister Kate Warden was there with the Police Commissioner and
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  Speaker 2: this matter of school based constables and the supposed three
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  Speaker 2: million that they're saving, whether it be police you know,
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  Speaker 2: where has that money gone? But while I was comfortent,
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  Speaker 2: is the Minister indicated that she too has concerned as
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  Speaker 2: and has a great interest. I interpret it of having
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  Speaker 2: the school based constables returned to schools. Now what happens
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  Speaker 2: and it's happened at Samerson because I know the chairman
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  Speaker 2: of that college as well as Beverly. To me men
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  Speaker 2: is there is an incident at the school and rather
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  Speaker 2: than have that incident diffused by the authority of a
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  Speaker 2: police officer, the exhiliits just have to stand by and
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  Speaker 2: call the empty police to come into the school. We
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  Speaker 2: have had incidence as Gredily at it to Midmn where
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  Speaker 2: they've had to call the police. But sometimes the police
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  Speaker 2: can't attend. They physically can't attend. But because the pumpt
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  Speaker 2: you do police station has a big area of responsibility,
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  Speaker 2: I think they have to go out to Billeu and
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  Speaker 2: they go out to Maracai, et cetera. So if the
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  Speaker 2: wagons are out doing something else, then they can't attend
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  Speaker 2: something to Meme or any other school for that matter.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm not even sure if we have our absoultly
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  Speaker 2: apt to mean right now, the school based constables are
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  Speaker 2: a known contributor to positive outcomes. It's just a fact,
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  Speaker 2: whether it be here in the territory, interstate or overseas
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  Speaker 2: where they have similar programs.
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  Speaker 1: And so keasier is it now?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Are we now in a situation where it's like a
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  Speaker 1: wait and see what gets decided.
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  Speaker 2: It's a situation of me going back to the minister,
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  Speaker 2: which I've started to prepare the letter with a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of data. See, I've got data from parents from
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  Speaker 2: the school boards that shows that police have been called
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  Speaker 2: to mem In for a drive by because what's happened, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: I can't speak for other areas. Is let's say children
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  Speaker 2: with not good intentions are coming from Palmerston to to
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  Speaker 2: movement to cause trouble. Call them gangs, call them what
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  Speaker 2: you like. Now, the school suspects something's happened, so they
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  Speaker 2: call the police because they can't use the police auxiliary.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the police are just not able to attend. They
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  Speaker 2: can't attend with a drive by. Now, I've got stuff
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  Speaker 2: from all through Marth and March and April where the
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  Speaker 2: school contacted police to get them to do a drive
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  Speaker 2: by and to assist and they are unable to attend. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if there was a school based constable based at that
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  Speaker 2: school like there was Yel, the situations could be in diffused.
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  Speaker 2: They also they also helped with role modeling of students.
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  Speaker 2: They identify students at risk, They work with the school,
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  Speaker 2: They work with other services like families whichever, to try
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  Speaker 2: and get a better outcome for the students. Now, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I'm going to be taking to the Minister Kate
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  Speaker 2: Orden to say, look, enough's enough. You know you're quite
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  Speaker 2: comfortable splashing money around electric which you are desperate to
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  Speaker 2: hang on to. Still you know, give us our three
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  Speaker 2: or four million back and put school based compliment and
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  Speaker 2: direct the police executives. This is what the government wants,
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  Speaker 2: because this is what's good for our students and our schools.
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  Speaker 2: Get the police, the police. There's lots of police officers
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  Speaker 2: out there. I know them who want to work in
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  Speaker 2: the schools and want to work with young people. So
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  Speaker 2: it's no case of saying, oh, you know you're in
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  Speaker 2: probation for some reason, you've got to go to a school.
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  Speaker 2: There's officers who are willingly and want to go and
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  Speaker 2: work with young people. And that's what we've got to
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  Speaker 2: try and get out, well, not only this school, but
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  Speaker 2: Sanderson because and all the high schools for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: not not just you know, to me across the territory.
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  Speaker 1: So Kesier. We'll definitely keep us up to date with
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  Speaker 1: how things progress there now there, I know there's been
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  Speaker 1: plenty of other things happening out in the rural area.
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  Speaker 1: We got a couple of minutes left. What else should
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  Speaker 1: we know about that's going on beyond the bear of
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  Speaker 1: the line.
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  Speaker 2: Out your way, Katie, it's Choker's our best. The caravan
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  Speaker 2: parks as full as cana sardines. Look look at a
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  Speaker 2: linger unjust here and Neely and it's Choker. I know.
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  Speaker 2: The Nunama, the Virginia one has new owners, the same
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  Speaker 2: people who are owned the new they're full. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I can see in the shopping centers there they're they're busy.
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  Speaker 2: You can pick the gray nome heads a mile off
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  Speaker 2: by the white Legs so and they're traveling, and they're
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  Speaker 2: traveling and they're spending money. People always say our gray
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  Speaker 2: names don't spend much money goes, you know, they're tight asses, rubbish.
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  Speaker 2: They spend like there's no tomorrow sometimes and they're happy
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  Speaker 2: to contribute to their content. They love visiting our tourist attractions.
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  Speaker 2: So some of the businesses are doing very well. There's
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  Speaker 2: a nice air of confidence. There's a couple of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure issues that we've still got out here, like the
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  Speaker 2: government's put out plans for widening the Arnham Highway, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because obviously that's a very busy highway. The other thing
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  Speaker 2: that's coming up is I do know that there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be some increased training out at Mount Bundy. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's in September and the the Army will be
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  Speaker 2: sort of moving up with about two thousand troops out
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  Speaker 2: that way and a lot of vehicles on the road
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  Speaker 2: only for a short period of time, and they're having
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  Speaker 2: public sessions that the bark Cut and elsewhere. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting some more information for people just so people are
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  Speaker 2: aware of the volume of traffic on the Arnhem Highway.
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  Speaker 2: So that's coming up because we know dry seasons when
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  Speaker 2: all these military exercises happened. So I think that we
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  Speaker 2: all know that's good for business, which, interestingly, in the
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister's last speech in Pilot on the economy, she
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  Speaker 2: referenced lots of things to do with the private sector,
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  Speaker 2: but made absolutely no reference to defense and defense spending
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  Speaker 2: and future spending planned for the Northern Territory. And okay,
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  Speaker 2: some of the major contractors might be national firms, but
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  Speaker 2: they then subtract subcontract to local firms. That's where we've
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  Speaker 2: gained the benefits. And I guess the other one cage
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  Speaker 2: well before it goes There was an industrial land release
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  Speaker 2: down at Spensley Road near the Rubbih Dump areas down
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  Speaker 2: there industrial area. It still hasn't been opened or it
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  Speaker 2: still hasn't had any purchases, and I just don't know
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  Speaker 2: what the issue is is. It was an arrangement with
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  Speaker 2: the government and it was developed with fewage and water,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not moving. So I'm looking to I know
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  Speaker 2: the Minister has written to private people and the Council's
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  Speaker 2: also involved in trying to promote this area. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure the size of the blox, but let's say it
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  Speaker 2: about an acre two acres each prime industrial land. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's a cost that's prohibit I don't know, but that's
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  Speaker 2: something you else. I want to sort of try and
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  Speaker 2: chase up to see if we can't get some businesses
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  Speaker 2: to relocate there for whatever reason. I've got industrial base
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  Speaker 2: out here.
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  Speaker 1: I've got about thirty seconds left, but I do just
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  Speaker 1: want to ask you. Darby from the Doo has said
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  Speaker 1: to min men's still a classroom down because of a
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  Speaker 1: fire at the start of the year. Possibly not enough
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  Speaker 1: funding to get it done. And I guess everyone's having
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a laugh at the moment too. Keys
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  Speaker 1: here saying maybe we need a by election in order
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  Speaker 1: to get things done in their electorate.
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  Speaker 2: Tell them, tell them they're drink Derby. They have relocated
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  Speaker 2: two demoundibles that were doing middle school. They've relocated them
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  Speaker 2: to min Men for classrooms. The damage of that fire
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  Speaker 2: was worse than they thought. It wrecked the whole ceiling
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  Speaker 2: and inside. But it's nearer completion. I think it's about
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  Speaker 2: ninety eighty five percent complete those classes. The temporary classrooms
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  Speaker 2: are in situ and when the old block it's reopened.
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  Speaker 2: Those demandals relocated to Humpty Do Primar School that's where
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  Speaker 2: they were meant to be in the first place. It's happening.
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  Speaker 2: It just when you go through the government bureaucracy and
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  Speaker 2: tendering process, it takes a well.
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  Speaker 1: Gz epirically good on you. It's always great to head
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  Speaker 1: beyond the bear of aligne with you. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: For the week, it was, oh yeah, you will do.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. See