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

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  Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio for the first time this year,
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  Speaker 1: Lord May Combat Scarlas.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, and what a pleasure to be
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  Speaker 2: interviewed by Katie Wham. Congratulations, well deserved.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, corn, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Can you please get some new trousers now you can
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  Speaker 2: afford it.
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  Speaker 3: I've got breaks on the stage.
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  Speaker 2: In the middle to do the in the in the
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  Speaker 2: nees or it's fashion.
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  Speaker 3: It's fashion.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask you is there a council meeting tonight
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  Speaker 1: or when next week?
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  Speaker 2: The first meeting is next week. We're going to have
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  Speaker 2: the blessing of the Lions as usual from Chua because
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  Speaker 2: Chinese New Year is coming and with such a big
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  Speaker 2: part of our city, the Chinese community, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a great idea to have the Lion's blessing the chamber again.
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  Speaker 2: And don't forget this Saturday Chu was caught the Chinese
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  Speaker 2: New Year banquet. And if you want to go, you
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  Speaker 2: can do it in the Netball Stadium in Marara. Doubt
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  Speaker 2: very much. You fund tickets, but try. It might be
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  Speaker 2: better than the bloody tourist vouchers that I tried yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: And tutes later. Well that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: They were gone within three and three minutes and forty
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  Speaker 1: four seconds.
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  Speaker 2: You know this never happened with my Darwin VARs.
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  Speaker 3: Can I say, what's the difference? Why do you think
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  Speaker 3: they might do and why did they go differently? What's
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  Speaker 3: the could you know? Could there be some changes to
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  Speaker 3: organized differently?
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  Speaker 2: You register yourself and we send them to your phone,
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  Speaker 2: so everybody gets a guernsey, not their quick fingers waiting
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  Speaker 2: there eight o'clock to do it. So it's more equal.
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  Speaker 2: Even if it distributed, it costs much much less than
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  Speaker 2: this tour in vices to administer it. But I have
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  Speaker 2: to say for every dollar we put in, we generated
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  Speaker 2: seven dollars turn out then turnover. Now we put the
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  Speaker 2: six hundred thousand dollars. The government saw how good it was,
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  Speaker 2: put another four hundred thousand dollars. They decided to spread
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  Speaker 2: out to the territory. We gave it for free to
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  Speaker 2: all the other councils. Some of them used them, some
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  Speaker 2: of them didn't. But here in Darwin we put a
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  Speaker 2: million dollars together and we generated about seven million dollars business.
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  Speaker 3: So they all now the mind iwin vouchers.
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  Speaker 2: At this stage, yes, but look, Katie, I mean We're
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  Speaker 2: watching very careful what's happening around us. We've got a template,
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  Speaker 2: we can switch it on any time. We didn't expect
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  Speaker 2: to have problems in Western Australia and look what happened
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  Speaker 2: now people can't fly back, or if you're there, you're stuck.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know what's happening. And all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: cases pop up in New South Wales. It's you don't
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  Speaker 2: know where to go. You can fly one day to
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  Speaker 2: let's say Adelaide, and we went to days. They tell
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  Speaker 2: you hello impacts, you know, and people are really scared
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  Speaker 2: traveling now. But I predict territory being a very very
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  Speaker 2: safe place. We didn't have a case until now. Our
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  Speaker 2: drive is going to be very popular. From the calls
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  Speaker 2: I get from friends and relative from down South asking
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  Speaker 2: about prices and places, and now I think we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a really really good dry keeping my fingers
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  Speaker 2: crossed nothing will go wrong. But from what I hear,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be one of the first to get
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  Speaker 2: the vaccine, so I thing would be all right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully, con I do want to ask I know
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  Speaker 1: that that obviously school went back yesterday and council's actually
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  Speaker 1: doing their bit as well to keep our kids are safe.
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  Speaker 3: On the roads.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got some speed signs which have been installed
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  Speaker 1: on council roads for the.
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  Speaker 3: Return to school.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Look, every time we've worked with the olidatory government, things
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  Speaker 2: going really well.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And we decided the government wants to put some money
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  Speaker 2: to put the lights, we can put them on our roads.
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  Speaker 2: We work together and find the right place to put
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  Speaker 2: them and we put them in eleven schools first, but
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be expanded to all the schools around Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a great idea. As you drive sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you might can be somewhere else you're on sixty and
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  Speaker 2: immediately when you see it flashing and show you that
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  Speaker 2: you're speedish, just go down. It's our kids, after all, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, our kids, our nephews, our issues, our grandchildren.
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  Speaker 2: Be careful, drive careful forty kilmes in the schools. Just
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  Speaker 2: remember that one and if you don't, we're with the
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  Speaker 2: LIGs to remember you. And if you don't, the police
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  Speaker 2: will give you.
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  Speaker 1: A foll They sure will. Hey, how's the beautification around
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  Speaker 1: the place going. I know that there has been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of beautiful plants planted.
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  Speaker 3: There's been trees planted? How's it going? What number? You
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  Speaker 3: are proud?
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  Speaker 2: And you know the other day I was trying to
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  Speaker 2: administrate and she told me she was so proud to
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  Speaker 2: drive down Daily Street now because it looks so beautiful
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  Speaker 2: and she tells people to drive that way now of town. Well, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: last count it's eleven and a half thousand trees and
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  Speaker 2: seventy thousand bushes and flowers. This year we're going to
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  Speaker 2: put another four thousand trees and more many thousand bushes.
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  Speaker 2: My dream is actually to a few more avenues to
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  Speaker 2: become like Daily Street, and they are going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the reason where I'm going to stand again
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  Speaker 2: as a major. And this one you hear first, because
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  Speaker 2: I want to finish what I started and there are
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  Speaker 2: quite a few more things to be done. When is
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  Speaker 2: the council election on August and of August and looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to it. It's a great idea people can have
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  Speaker 2: their say. But that's a year before I promised I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to make down a green place with color, and
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  Speaker 2: I've done down a green place with color.
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  Speaker 3: So you heard it here first.
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  Speaker 1: You are going to be running for the may's job
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  Speaker 1: again in August cost.
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  Speaker 2: I will I want to see the Caserina Aquatic Center
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  Speaker 2: done properly. I want to see the Civic Center being
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  Speaker 2: completely redone. And because we'll be part of the Stage square,
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  Speaker 2: I want to see some new car parking facilities put
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  Speaker 2: in place. And most importantly, I want to see many
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  Speaker 2: more roads being landscaped with trees and bushes, not gravel.
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  Speaker 2: I'm second chart of that gravel. And you know how
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  Speaker 2: good things are. You know the tree in this runabout
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  Speaker 2: in Smith Street and Daly Street that was dying, that
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  Speaker 2: was done. We removed three tons of rock, we put
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  Speaker 2: new nutrients, new soil. We're just the pH and now
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  Speaker 2: we actually went I had a look again. The trees
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  Speaker 2: roots are growing again, and get hold of it and
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  Speaker 2: just have a look at today. I've got a photograph
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  Speaker 2: before and after and the tree looks absolutely beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: You'll have to send those photos too so we can
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  Speaker 3: have a closer look.
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  Speaker 2: Have a look at my Facebook in my Mayor's very
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  Speaker 2: book and you can.
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  Speaker 3: See that just very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Maddy Hepworth, our news director, put together Corn's grit as
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  Speaker 1: Hits at the end of last year. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: best comments you've made throughout the last year. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to send it to you. It was a crack up.
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  Speaker 2: Please do that one. And I don't mince my words.
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  Speaker 2: I call a spetter bloody shable because sometimes people are
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  Speaker 2: sick and to have the political correctness and me too,
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  Speaker 2: and if things are stuffed just say so oh great.
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  Speaker 3: I agree. Combat Scarle is good to talk to you
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  Speaker 3: this morning. Thanks, Thank you very much, Thank you,