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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But joining me live in the studio as he does
each week about this time. It is the Lord Mayor
of Darwin, Peter Styles. Goodboarding to your Styles. E morning, Katie,
good to have you in the studio. Now the cyclone cleanup, well,
the City of Darwin's twenty twenty five pre cyclone cleanup,
I should say it's now complete. Eight hundred and eighteen
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tons of waste. What kind of weird and wonderful things
did the council collect this year?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, how about turn and fourteen tons of scrap metal
just lying around the place. That was a good one.
Seventy four tons of white goods, so fidges, but we
can't take fidges with third in them.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That's that's a no name gross as well writing food.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And just e waste you know, like TVs and things
like that that are broken. Yep, another couple of tons
of that. But more importantly we diverted thirty six percent
of that away from landfill and recycle it and reuse it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So what's the go in terms of like some of
those white goods and you know, TVs and stuff, do
you guys, does the council sort of go through or
do you take it out to the dump and they
check whether any of it's in working order that can
be like resold or is it just a matter of
it bang, you know rubbish.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
No, they will go through and because obviously what goods there,
they're going that pile and scrap metal going that pile,
so they make different piles of stuff and then if
it can be reused or recycled, then that goes across
to the recycling shop and repurposed.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Now I know that some like most locations are now
well by the look of it, every location is actually
done when it comes to the precyclone clean up. We
did get an email from one of our listeners, Helen though,
saying that they're building in the city they actually they
haven't had their cyclone collection done. Like I can let
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you know the details off air if you like, but yeah,
she's just sort of wondering whether there is going to
be some kind of way that they might be able
to still have the council come and collect whatever rubbish
the people in that building have got.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So probably not, Katie. What happens is there a contractors
Floyd to go around and collect all this stuff. Once
that contract's finished, then you know, we don't sort of
have the same facilities that we did win the cyclone
cleanups up, So if you I mean, we can look
at that whether or not they were contacted. But my
understanding was that the communication went out to the public
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as to when they're going to do the actual cleanup.
There were signage at the streets saying we're doing this street,
and then there were signage saying we finished the street,
we moved to the next street. So it was fairly
well out there, but some people may have missed it. Unfortunate.
But if that was the case, then they'll have to
take it to the dumpers.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, well no, because she's contacted the counselor as well
said that on the website it had given the dates
the residents. Though you know, they obviously adhered to those dates.
They now being advised that it's illegal dumping and that
they're going to have to organize that collection themselves, but
they reckon that they did go by the dates that
were on the website. It was on Knuckie Street, So
I might give you that detail after we look at
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that and follow it up. I know there's a few
bits and pieces going on around the place. Certainly something
a bit more positive is the Ride to Work Day?
When is that happening? I had the day here somewhere
and I'll be able to find it. Well, it's happening,
I think a little later this month. I'm just trying
to find it as well. It is Smith Street the fifteenth,
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so it's actually tomorrow. There you go, tomorrow happening. It
is to celebrate or it is a ride through Brecky
is happening at Raintree Park. That's happening on the fifteenth
of October seven am until nine am. So the first
fifty commuters to arrive by active transport can get a
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free coffee. So you've got to get there fast. If
you're slow, you're not going to get a free coffee.
By the look of it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think the operative where there's active transport.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Because it's actually today, I think the right's the National
Ride to Work Day today. So I'm a bit slow there, Starzy,
But tomorrow is when the event's happening, So come.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
In and get a coffee. If you're one of the
first fifty, I'd love to have a chat with you
and perhaps if you're a bit late, will to get there.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, that's exactly right, hey, Starzy. One of the other
things that was raised with us in the leading to
the council election, and I don't know whether this is
something that's been put on your agenda, but we've definitely
had people contact us about this over the last week
or so. Is the parking at some of the soccer facilities,
the junior soccer facilities. I don't know if that was
raised with you throughout the election campaign, but certainly the
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former mayor and I had had some fairly robust discussions
about the parking there and people getting fined in some
of those locations. I think the broader issue though for
a lot was it there actually isn't enough space to
be able to park in some of those community soccer ovals.
Is that something that's been raised with you?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It has been, Kadian. I've asked the CEO the council
to actually put that on the agenda, to do some
sort of review on parking in general right across the board,
because it's an issue that a lot of people are
concerned about and I think we should have a bit
of review as to what we can do to resolve
some of those issues.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Now, tell me, in terms of you mentioned last week,
there's going to be some town hall meetings. We don't
have any date yet for those though.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Do we No, not yet. I'm trying to work out
one for mid November yep. And just to clarify town
hall meetings, these are not formal meetings. These are informal
meetings where you can come down and talk to your counselors,
talk to the Lord mayor raise issues and concerns. I'm
going to try and get a sausages going at these
events so that we can also have a bit of
a camaraderie with people out there and get to have
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a social chat as well.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Now, just another question coming through. So if you haven't,
if you've still got your cyclone waste out on the verge,
it's now your responsibility asking That's what that person's asking you.
So basically that's all the cyclone cleanup on the Council's
part is done now, correct, So you are I have
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to if you've left your waist out on the verge,
you've got to get rid of USh.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, some people have put inappropriate waste out there. There's
been a spest's put out there and as I said,
with fridges with food in them, these are things that
the Council will not take. So if people have put
those sort of things out, it's now their responsibility to
get them to the tip.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Hey, just on the soccer ovals. We're talking there about
the parking, but I understand that they're also football in Tea.
In conjunction of course with the council, have opened as
well a new change room at bag at Oval they have.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I went out there for the opening of it. It's
a great facility. There's four different chaine rooms that caters
for men and women and boys and girls, referees. They've
got the medical facilities out there, so it's a really
good initiative. It's funded by the territory government and the
federal government and it's just a terrific facility that young
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people can use out there and encourage more people to
get into sport.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh, it gets so busy at soccer. I don't know
if you've been there on a Sunday morning, but it
gets so busy that are for Darwin's playing.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I reckon well, it's great to see people out on sport.
One of the things that Counselor has tried to do
in conjunction with the Territory governent the federal government is
to get more lighting out there so people can play
sport into the evening when it's cooler, and get kids
out there when they don't want to be out in
the sun all day, they can go and play in
the evening.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And so is that something that you're going to be
looking at at some of those different sporting ovals to
try and to try and sort of get something like
that moving.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Absolutely, Katie. I'm very happy to go and knock on
a few doors the territory government the federal government to
get lighting for our facilities out there, and if they're
not responsible, we're going to kick some doors in as well,
and just loudly. And so this is what we need
for our young people because it does get hot up
here and you don't want kids run around getting heat
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stroke and things like that. If we can help it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, and if we can sort of like if we
can make those ovals a bit more accessible, and if
there's potential then for them to be able to play
for some age groups in the evenings or to train
in the evenings, it then helps to solve some of
those parking issues as well. If you can change the
draw ever so slightly to fit some more games in exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And that's where you know a lot of these facilities
want to be. They don't want to use them into
the evening for training purposes. Sometimes you know you can't
have matches at night because if the lights aren't there.
But certainly training into the evening is something that we're
looking at.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, Peter Styles, the Lord Mayor of Darwin, good to
speak with you this morning. Thank you so much for
your time.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's always a pleasure coming here. It's a highlight of
my week.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Can you must be of a boring week? You're going
to have to get something more exciting to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Stylesy will talk about parking, we'll talk about buses doing
the loop around the city, and oh.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
There's no doubt going to be plenty to discussing.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
On the agenda and good I'd be happy to chat
with you about all those things. Well we've got more time.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Good stuff. Good on you, Peter Styles, thanks so much
for your time this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Thanks, thank you,