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Darwin’s Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis says Member for Fannie Bay Brent Potter has launched a petition seeking to halt the Council’s plans for an RV park at Bundilla Beach · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Lord Mayor Convat Scalas, who joins me in the studio
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  Speaker 1: get icon, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: I can understand why you're running late. There were some
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  Speaker 2: burning issues at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: There certainly are. People are really pretty concerned about these
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  Speaker 1: school counselors. So we will talk more about that throughout
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  Speaker 1: the morning. But Corn first off, we know that there
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  Speaker 1: has been a thirty percent hike in commercial waste face
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  Speaker 1: and concerns have been raised by the Palmerston Council. It
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  Speaker 1: means at the City of Palmerston residents, all their residents
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  Speaker 1: are going to be slugged more on waste collection one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars A torn talk us through why
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  Speaker 1: this decision was made.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the rubbi step we've run at the moment, it's
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  Speaker 2: actually used by three councils Litsfield, Palmerston and Darwin. Unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: the expenses are not shared by the three councils. They
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  Speaker 2: only said by council City of Darwin. In the past
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  Speaker 2: few years we have to spend a lot of money
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  Speaker 2: to bring the rubbistep up to standards and to comply
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  Speaker 2: the requests by EPA, and I think it's unfair that
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  Speaker 2: they eat down rate pairs pay the bills and the
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  Speaker 2: others that not pay their fairs here, so increase, and
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  Speaker 2: that was a reasonable increase for other councils to pay
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  Speaker 2: per ton. It's not very expensive. It might sounds thirty percent,
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  Speaker 2: but if you put the real terms, it's not very expensive.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, what we ask in asking separate
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  Speaker 2: your rabbish, don't mix green waste with commercial with the
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  Speaker 2: domestic waste, because then makes very complicated. We can't really
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  Speaker 2: charge you separately, so we charge your bulk.
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  Speaker 1: So there been a bit more like kind of advanced
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  Speaker 1: notification that it was going to go up in that
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  Speaker 1: sense for them, so that they could maybe have made
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  Speaker 1: some changes to accommodize.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my understanding is that the City of Parments is
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  Speaker 2: already charging more than what they pay their rate payers.
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  Speaker 2: And my understanding is they've got a rubbish reserve already
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  Speaker 2: in place with quite a few million dollars in it.
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  Speaker 3: So obviously we didn't charge a lot if they can
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  Speaker 3: make a reserve.
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  Speaker 2: But again, when EPA turns up to our door steps,
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  Speaker 2: they don't give us previous notification.
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  Speaker 3: They turn up and says you have to fix that.
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  Speaker 2: You have to fix that because this Rubbi is step
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  Speaker 2: operating for the past thirty forty years and we actually
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  Speaker 2: pay up paid now the problems of the past. So
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  Speaker 2: you have to also to remember that our proposals going
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  Speaker 2: out for three weeks for public comments. City of Parmastore
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  Speaker 2: already written to us about it, expressive concern and certain
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  Speaker 2: we'll respond to their consents.
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  Speaker 1: In writing, Corn, are you starting a rubbish war with
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  Speaker 1: the Palmerston Council here?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm just asking to pay the first year. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that the people in Waguri or Wulagi or
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  Speaker 2: Tiwi would be very pleased to subsidize Palmerston.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's move along. I'm keen to see if there's
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  Speaker 1: any updates on the r V park Bandilla Beach that
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  Speaker 1: you and I had spoken about a little while ago.
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  Speaker 3: Where's it all, ash, Look?
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  Speaker 2: It closed on Friday and I just could make clear
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  Speaker 2: because there's a lot of misinformation about the Bandilla. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, Bandila dow Will had the master plan in place.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted to a master plan and we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: put a dog park. The government kept to the party
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  Speaker 2: and it says, look, how about we give you some
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  Speaker 2: money to actually beautify the place. Which that's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: Now this money there are in the budget for next year,
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  Speaker 2: we received any money from the government yet, because you
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  Speaker 2: don't receive money from the next year's budget and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: well receive three three and a half million dollars. Because
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  Speaker 2: of that proposal by the government, we put the dog
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  Speaker 2: pack on hold, so much point of putting a pack
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  Speaker 2: there if we have digged out later. We also decided
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  Speaker 2: that if we're going to actually get rid of get
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  Speaker 2: rid of the reef ruff in Bandilla, we activated the
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  Speaker 2: best way to activate, do a trial. Bring some harvest
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  Speaker 2: ten or fifteen harvest there temporarily to park because there
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  Speaker 2: are facilities and the moment the people lights traffic, it's
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  Speaker 2: in the area. The people that cause the problems now
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  Speaker 2: currently they will move away, they go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: We put that to the public. We expect their response.
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  Speaker 2: I know the local member has encouraged the public of
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  Speaker 2: his electorate to oppose it.
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  Speaker 3: That's his pos Yes, well, that's something you have to
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  Speaker 3: ask bread, not me.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying that he's actively gone out and done as.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and I believe now that people follow his advice
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  Speaker 2: and opposing You know, he's done that I saw the
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  Speaker 2: Listleship put in it in the leaflets. Yes, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's surprising because we're trying to do something to work
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  Speaker 2: together with the government to get rid of the ref
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  Speaker 2: ruff and that's a good proposal. It's not creating new
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  Speaker 2: caravan park. It's just bringing ten or fifteen Harvis on
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  Speaker 2: a trial base to see how it operates. And at
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  Speaker 2: the same time you have a beneficiary.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see if we can get brands on the
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  Speaker 1: show and find out a bit more so a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a while we sit.
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  Speaker 2: So we went to see the results the outcome. When
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  Speaker 2: we get the outcome, I will set and let you know.
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  Speaker 1: Corn moving along. Just finally, I know you've got an
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  Speaker 1: event coming up that you are keen to tell us about.
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  Speaker 2: What is us A big event that's actually the down
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  Speaker 2: in the National Drug Boat Festival to three.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a big event. We've caught significant.
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  Speaker 2: Number of people from Southeast Asia's coming to participate. We've
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  Speaker 2: got pit from them, passa pit from Kupang, Prick from Delhi,
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  Speaker 2: people from Quanzo, sen Jen and Shintau. It's not only
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  Speaker 2: to be a competition, but the dragon Boat, which a
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  Speaker 2: big thing for Asian countries, but also is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a trade show afterwards, many many local businesses and
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  Speaker 2: overseas business participating. We want to use our position with
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  Speaker 2: a friendly and sister cities in Asia to promote Darwin
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  Speaker 2: as a place to do business or to come and
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  Speaker 2: do business here. The feed staff I got from the
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  Speaker 2: visit we did in then Passa. A lot of business
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  Speaker 2: have benefited by other hiring stuff for their businesses or
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  Speaker 2: for the agricultural sector.
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  Speaker 3: So it looks that it works and we want to continue.
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  Speaker 1: Well con no doubt. We'll talk more about that closer
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  Speaker 1: to the dice. Thank you as always for your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you