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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining me on the line is the Lord Mayor of
Darwin convat Scarlets.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning Conn, Good morning Dabie Con.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I don't know if you just heard them, but it
has apparently been, you know, been approved that Saint Vincent
de Paul are going to be moving from their Stuart
Park location to Coconut Grove only for a two year
period by the sounds of it, from what Brent Potter
had said, what do you make of that move?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, I can tell you that the people in Australian
Street were absolutely celebrating. I don't know about the people
in Concorant Grove and I have to tell you where
it's moving now. I used to live there when I
came to Darwin Firm. Now there was never any problem before,
but I don't know what's going to happen now.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I think Saint vinis you have to manage it very
very carefully. They have to talk to the local residents.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
They have to make sure that the visitors behave themselves
because if they don't behave themselves then.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They have nobody else to blame but themselves.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Corn. You know, it's it's a really tough one right
because we all understand that these services need to be
in place and that they do a really good job,
but having them in sort of built up residential areas
doesn't seem like the right moves.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, I know, it's very difficult. We have this problem
before with group housing. Every time we're propose to put
the group housing somewhere and nobody wanted. But at the
same time, the people that they had a child or
a person with disability that the wanted to put in
a group housing, we're all for it. There are the
divisions we've got in the community. Unfortunately we have to
have these divisions.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We live in an urban environment. We need the services.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
If they have to go somewhere. What's important is the
operator of the service have to be very careful how
he delivers the service in a way that does not
disturb the enables con just.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Moving along, We know that the government is looking at
moving to help dry communities develop alcohol management plans, with
the Alcohol Minister suggesting that social clubs in communities could
be the answer in a bid to stop people from
heading into.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Urban areas to access gron Do you think that.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's going to help reduce some of the anti social
behavior that we've seen around Darwin.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Itself.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's not going to work a puperc clear because they
are not all people live in the communites to come
here for alcohol.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
They come for other reasons and they get stuck here.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
What will help, Yes, allow communities to have alcohol, but
at the same time put the tough restrictions here for
people come from somewhere else trying to.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Access heavy alcohol.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So they can have a significant quantity of heavy alcohol.
Curb secondary supply, use the BDR effectively, use only one
purchase a day and one way to do it, as
it suggested to me. But people work in the liquid
industry use only electronic transactions when you buy alcohol, so
you avoid the people that come with cash and they
(02:42):
buy quantities of alcohol, then they sell it for enormous
amount of money, like one hundred or two hundred dollars
a bottle of Bundy. It has to be a combination
of actions in order to care alcohol and sometimes which
not listen to the express of down South, which actually
find solutions to our own problems here. And a lot
of people say that an expert of so and so,
(03:03):
a university professor, so he lives in Sydney and Melbourne.
He does not live here. He does not know what
we have to put every day and at the same
time might look good in theory, but go and talk
to the communities, the impact of alcoholism in the communities
into domestic violence and everything else.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
All the rules and otherise you report your old to
get your pH.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
D con moving along.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I've actually got a few listener questions and well, last
week we spoke to a perap resident who lives next
to the Family Learning Center who raised some safety concerns
about fencing around the facility.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
This is what he had to say, take a listen.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
In stake straight. We back on to the Family Learning Center,
so they here there. And for the last four years
we've been trying to get council, because of the council
run facility, to come to the party and pay their
part in replacing the fence to the complex. The senses
in that much disrepair that I'm really worried that the
kids can crawl under the fence now and they could
(04:02):
drown in one of our bars in our yard. Our
body corporate collected funds from all of us to pay
for outside of the tense, and the council will not
And the phone calls or emails from our body coll
to get this done.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Coin, what is going on here?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Are you aware of this issue and why is it
apparently taking so long for the council.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
To act on this.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm not aware of this one. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You're a listener who brought to my attention. I'll make
sure that this is actually what personally outcome. I have
a look at personal inspection myself. Hey, look at the
conditional defense, and then I'll discuss the issue with irresponsible
people in council to see how we can undress. The
issue is not about the fence. It's about the safety
of the children. And that's quite right there. Listener said,
one kid that crawls, other thing that runs of the road,
(04:45):
and something tragic can happen.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Thank you very much for bringing to my attention. I
will follow it up well.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Coin, We'll make sure if you need any further details
let us know. We'll make sure that we pass all
of that on and we'll chase it up again and
find out what the action is next week.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
A couple of other ones coming to thanks though. One
here that says the Northern Territory set to manage the
city's three community pools, including Casuarina when it opens mid
twenty twenty four. Will it continue to offer load the
swim programs and host national and inte competitions.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Of course it will. That's where building the community pools.
There will be training pools and competition pools.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
But the one actually the real competition pool is the
parat pool that's built to the FINES standards and.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It will remain the competition pool.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
The other pools will remain for training and other.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Purposes we want to do.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Look, not all the pools have to be up to
the Australian Swimming Federation standards. We've got one, it works
really well, it's used very well, utilized very well. So
the others can be left for the community.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I mean, what happens so for those like a the
other clubs able to continue to sort of use them
and to the point of the loan to swim programs,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yes, of course we have discussions with the community when
we actually start developing, because or in Apool we actually
so the feedback, We receive the feedback and we said
made sure that they all community, all daring clubs would
be able to use our smit.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Corn Another question this time from Steve O.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Katie, please ask the lord more about the main street
lights in between Nyland the Street and Armadale Street in
Stuart Park where new grass was laid middle of the highway.
Street lights haven't worked for months and months. I've reported
it three times now and nothing's happened. Reckon, Steve O Steve.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You have to report to DIPPLE because that our section
is actually Northern Territory Government section. It's not the council section.
The council section starts after the Daily Bridge towards the
city from the Daily Bridge towards case Arena is a
Northern Territory Government well.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Conn.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We never like it when that's the case because you
always try to get things done for us.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I know, and we are going to talk to DIVIL
about it and advised and that is happening.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
We work very close with deeply.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Would find a problem, we advise them, nights up to
them will react. I'd love to have the whole roads
under my jurisdiction because you can have one standards for
all of them, one entity looks after them.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's a response for it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
But unfortunately we've got Entergy and Damo City Council. We're
going to talk to Theatory government and raise that tissue
with them.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, well, Colin, we always appreciate your time and
we thank you for doing that. We'll catch up with
you again next Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
No words, I'll be there.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Thank Jerry, thanks so much,
Joining me on the line is the Lord Mayor of
Darwin convat Scarlets.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning Conn, Good morning Dabie Con.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I don't know if you just heard them, but it
has apparently been, you know, been approved that Saint Vincent
de Paul are going to be moving from their Stuart
Park location to Coconut Grove only for a two year
period by the sounds of it, from what Brent Potter
had said, what do you make of that move?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, I can tell you that the people in Australian
Street were absolutely celebrating. I don't know about the people
in Concorant Grove and I have to tell you where
it's moving now. I used to live there when I
came to Darwin Firm. Now there was never any problem before,
but I don't know what's going to happen now.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I think Saint vinis you have to manage it very
very carefully. They have to talk to the local residents.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
They have to make sure that the visitors behave themselves
because if they don't behave themselves then.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They have nobody else to blame but themselves.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Corn. You know, it's it's a really tough one right
because we all understand that these services need to be
in place and that they do a really good job,
but having them in sort of built up residential areas
doesn't seem like the right moves.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, I know, it's very difficult. We have this problem
before with group housing. Every time we're propose to put
the group housing somewhere and nobody wanted. But at the
same time, the people that they had a child or
a person with disability that the wanted to put in
a group housing, we're all for it. There are the
divisions we've got in the community. Unfortunately we have to
have these divisions.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We live in an urban environment. We need the services.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
If they have to go somewhere. What's important is the
operator of the service have to be very careful how
he delivers the service in a way that does not
disturb the enables con just.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Moving along, We know that the government is looking at
moving to help dry communities develop alcohol management plans, with
the Alcohol Minister suggesting that social clubs in communities could
be the answer in a bid to stop people from
heading into.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Urban areas to access gron Do you think that.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's going to help reduce some of the anti social
behavior that we've seen around Darwin.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Itself.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's not going to work a puperc clear because they
are not all people live in the communites to come
here for alcohol.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
They come for other reasons and they get stuck here.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
What will help, Yes, allow communities to have alcohol, but
at the same time put the tough restrictions here for
people come from somewhere else trying to.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Access heavy alcohol.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So they can have a significant quantity of heavy alcohol.
Curb secondary supply, use the BDR effectively, use only one
purchase a day and one way to do it, as
it suggested to me. But people work in the liquid
industry use only electronic transactions when you buy alcohol, so
you avoid the people that come with cash and they
(02:42):
buy quantities of alcohol, then they sell it for enormous
amount of money, like one hundred or two hundred dollars
a bottle of Bundy. It has to be a combination
of actions in order to care alcohol and sometimes which
not listen to the express of down South, which actually
find solutions to our own problems here. And a lot
of people say that an expert of so and so,
(03:03):
a university professor, so he lives in Sydney and Melbourne.
He does not live here. He does not know what
we have to put every day and at the same
time might look good in theory, but go and talk
to the communities, the impact of alcoholism in the communities
into domestic violence and everything else.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
All the rules and otherise you report your old to
get your pH.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
D con moving along.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I've actually got a few listener questions and well, last
week we spoke to a perap resident who lives next
to the Family Learning Center who raised some safety concerns
about fencing around the facility.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
This is what he had to say, take a listen.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
In stake straight. We back on to the Family Learning Center,
so they here there. And for the last four years
we've been trying to get council, because of the council
run facility, to come to the party and pay their
part in replacing the fence to the complex. The senses
in that much disrepair that I'm really worried that the
kids can crawl under the fence now and they could
(04:02):
drown in one of our bars in our yard. Our
body corporate collected funds from all of us to pay
for outside of the tense, and the council will not
And the phone calls or emails from our body coll
to get this done.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Coin, what is going on here?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Are you aware of this issue and why is it
apparently taking so long for the council.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
To act on this.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm not aware of this one. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You're a listener who brought to my attention. I'll make
sure that this is actually what personally outcome. I have
a look at personal inspection myself. Hey, look at the
conditional defense, and then I'll discuss the issue with irresponsible
people in council to see how we can undress. The
issue is not about the fence. It's about the safety
of the children. And that's quite right there. Listener said,
one kid that crawls, other thing that runs of the road,
(04:45):
and something tragic can happen.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Thank you very much for bringing to my attention. I
will follow it up well.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Coin, We'll make sure if you need any further details
let us know. We'll make sure that we pass all
of that on and we'll chase it up again and
find out what the action is next week.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
A couple of other ones coming to thanks though. One
here that says the Northern Territory set to manage the
city's three community pools, including Casuarina when it opens mid
twenty twenty four. Will it continue to offer load the
swim programs and host national and inte competitions.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Of course it will. That's where building the community pools.
There will be training pools and competition pools.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
But the one actually the real competition pool is the
parat pool that's built to the FINES standards and.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It will remain the competition pool.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
The other pools will remain for training and other.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Purposes we want to do.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Look, not all the pools have to be up to
the Australian Swimming Federation standards. We've got one, it works
really well, it's used very well, utilized very well. So
the others can be left for the community.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I mean, what happens so for those like a the
other clubs able to continue to sort of use them
and to the point of the loan to swim programs,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yes, of course we have discussions with the community when
we actually start developing, because or in Apool we actually
so the feedback, We receive the feedback and we said
made sure that they all community, all daring clubs would
be able to use our smit.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Corn Another question this time from Steve O.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Katie, please ask the lord more about the main street
lights in between Nyland the Street and Armadale Street in
Stuart Park where new grass was laid middle of the highway.
Street lights haven't worked for months and months. I've reported
it three times now and nothing's happened. Reckon, Steve O Steve.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You have to report to DIPPLE because that our section
is actually Northern Territory Government section. It's not the council section.
The council section starts after the Daily Bridge towards the
city from the Daily Bridge towards case Arena is a
Northern Territory Government well.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Conn.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We never like it when that's the case because you
always try to get things done for us.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I know, and we are going to talk to DIVIL
about it and advised and that is happening.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
We work very close with deeply.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Would find a problem, we advise them, nights up to
them will react. I'd love to have the whole roads
under my jurisdiction because you can have one standards for
all of them, one entity looks after them.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's a response for it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
But unfortunately we've got Entergy and Damo City Council. We're
going to talk to Theatory government and raise that tissue
with them.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
All right, well, Colin, we always appreciate your time and
we thank you for doing that. We'll catch up with
you again next Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
No words, I'll be there.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Thank Jerry, thanks so much,
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