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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now, we are going to continue our discussions with
some of the mayoral candidates for various locations around the
Northern territory. And up next, well Catherine, We're heading back
to Catherine and catching up with one of our candidates,
Wayne Connor. Good morning to your Wayne.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh hi Katie, how are you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Really good? Great to have you on the show. And Wayne,
Now we've got a number of questions and six minutes
to get through them. Are you ready, red red Rooster,
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Wayne? Why have you decided to put your hand up
to be the next mayor of Catherine.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, I was born and bred here and I've got
you know, my wife, and I've got four children and grandchildren.
Long term territorium. I suppose you know I'm related to
the Peckham family and we're a pretty big family right
across the territory. I have a really big vision for
Catherine as a mayor to concentrate on the community and
buy better local government services for our community. I might
(01:04):
have a really big interest in and heart and design
working for the people on roads, for rates, garbage collections, footpaths,
access community and culture in the arts. Because Catherine's got
a lot of really exciting things here, but it needs
a bit more in terms of infrastructure. It also needs
a lot of strong leadership, Like we don't have aspirational
(01:28):
views about strong leadership in this town. And I've been
back in only four years, living back on the country,
and I'm an indigenous fellow, but I've also got a
bit of Chinese blood and me and a bit of
white fillar in me. And i adore the territory's history
because my great grandfather was the phizzit that Henry Bendelia
Peckham in the book called weird than ever and ever.
(01:51):
So I've come back here to look about providing a
strong leadership, being an ex tradee and a school teacher
and a lawyer pactice law for a fair time. And
back in I got three sons that are lawyers now.
One of them just went through the Supreme Court the
other day and got his admission right, So we've got
to provide strong leadership to do that. Catherine needs a
(02:12):
bit of a vision and Captain's best outset are the
people of Cancering themselves. And I think Catherine's continue to
be a great place to live and work and raise
the family Catherine visited experience enhancements is sort of past there.
I'd like to work hard on several key initiatives, name
that enhancing the visit experience in Cathereron and you know,
(02:33):
working on generating the foundation of rates, generating revenue for
Cantontown Council as they do for the most local governments.
These are the key ess angels for counsels, you know,
to get their financial sustainability by generating necessary income and
that sort of helps the meet community needs while balancing
the social and economic impacts.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
In terms of your experience, I know you touched on
a little bit there, but in terms of your qualifications
of work experience, what you know, what do you think
you can bring to the table to make you best
placed for the position of mayor.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, I've actually had twenty seven is experience in federal
and state governments, and I worked as a political advisor,
you know, touched on working really hard with many great
politicians in this territory and I've learned a lot from them,
you know, and my experiences as a lawyer, I've actually
(03:32):
you know, understand policies a procedure because I went through
a and U and in an arts law degree and
majored in public policy and political science. And Council is
about public policy, I suppose, and it's all about local
government reforms and local government implementation of the strategic plans.
And Council has tolled a municipal plan which I've had
(03:52):
a look at the loss and profit statements. I've looked
at the strategic Plan and there's a lot of things
that unimproved capital that is on you know, people's vacant
blocks of land here, and there's differentials rates that are
fixed which have a minimum amount and each parcel of
vailable lands category according to the Northern Turkey Planning Scheme zone.
(04:14):
And Catherine just had the big flood zone change here
with a re zone a lot of areas because of
the flooding. So insurances are very serious thing down here
with buying houses and stuff like that. We're getting a
lot of people buying houses that are investors from down
south here. We got a lot of work to do
(04:35):
with reviewing rates. I'm aware that Council has said a
target to collect nine million, nine hundred and fifty seven
thousand in general rights. You know, they're trying to kick
the everage general right down for residential properties below four
point eight percent, and they're increasing by three point six percent,
which translates to a modest medium increase of sixty dollars cancel.
(05:00):
It's basically got a lot of things here to do,
but they need to generate that money because they've got
nine and a half thousand people living. There is only
three two hundred rate payers and getting around the electric
of the speaking to people, you know, the councils actually
needs to be reviewing their system because there's people that
have got properties like three and four houses on their
(05:20):
twenty acre blocks and they've been charged, you know, two
thousand dollars per building, and I think that's a whole
way robbery, you know, because it's twenty acres. Yeah, you
might have three or four buildings. But they need to
generate that income so they can keep up things like
the zim and drive pathways. You know, they want to
put a pathway right around the zim and drives of
(05:41):
the Layla Wame.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
We've only got about fifty seconds left. I want to
ask you what are your top commitments to voters.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
My top commitments to get a big rivers into government
collaboration set up with all the key stakeholders like the
Land Council, various levels of government to come down and
to a common ground and talk about the community needs.
I see collaboration will assist the regions to address challenges
and strengthen connections between people and our resources that are available.
(06:10):
I achieve sports and civic centers and things like that,
and growth and sustainabability and better infrastructure, arts and culture.
And one of my major goals that's elected as MEAN
is to reduce our footprints optimized councils, products, services and operation,
to increase efficiencies and reduce our emissions. I've also looked
at some of the other areas there where we've got
(06:32):
a lot of years. In Catherine, we don't have any
placeful youth to sort of hang out in twenty four hours.
We don't have overnight stay for homeless people. And Catherine
needs to have some sort of commendation for when people
visit English, they've got body buses coming in and out.
So we need to basically say, you know, these are
the things that need to be put on the table,
(06:53):
but also we'll work it within the local government laws
over the legislation and the regulatione.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
We're unfortunately of time and I've got to be nice
and fair and give everybody the same amount of time,
just really quickly. Are you a member of a political
party or have you ever been?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I have been. I've been members of both political parties.
I've seen the inner circles of both of them, and
I don't like them. I've never been back since seventeen.
Ideas with any political party, well, Waite, I can encourage
people to really think about what they do if they
join these parties.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Wayne, great to speak with you this morning, mate, Thank
you so very much for being part of our meet
the candidates for them. Thanks mane much.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Katie really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No worries at all. Thank you
Right now, we are going to continue our discussions with
some of the mayoral candidates for various locations around the
Northern territory. And up next, well Catherine, We're heading back
to Catherine and catching up with one of our candidates,
Wayne Connor. Good morning to your Wayne.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh hi Katie, how are you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Really good? Great to have you on the show. And Wayne,
Now we've got a number of questions and six minutes
to get through them. Are you ready, red red Rooster,
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Wayne? Why have you decided to put your hand up
to be the next mayor of Catherine.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, I was born and bred here and I've got
you know, my wife, and I've got four children and grandchildren.
Long term territorium. I suppose you know I'm related to
the Peckham family and we're a pretty big family right
across the territory. I have a really big vision for
Catherine as a mayor to concentrate on the community and
buy better local government services for our community. I might
(01:04):
have a really big interest in and heart and design
working for the people on roads, for rates, garbage collections, footpaths,
access community and culture in the arts. Because Catherine's got
a lot of really exciting things here, but it needs
a bit more in terms of infrastructure. It also needs
a lot of strong leadership, Like we don't have aspirational
(01:28):
views about strong leadership in this town. And I've been
back in only four years, living back on the country,
and I'm an indigenous fellow, but I've also got a
bit of Chinese blood and me and a bit of
white fillar in me. And i adore the territory's history
because my great grandfather was the phizzit that Henry Bendelia
Peckham in the book called weird than ever and ever.
(01:51):
So I've come back here to look about providing a
strong leadership, being an ex tradee and a school teacher
and a lawyer pactice law for a fair time. And
back in I got three sons that are lawyers now.
One of them just went through the Supreme Court the
other day and got his admission right, So we've got
to provide strong leadership to do that. Catherine needs a
(02:12):
bit of a vision and Captain's best outset are the
people of Cancering themselves. And I think Catherine's continue to
be a great place to live and work and raise
the family Catherine visited experience enhancements is sort of past there.
I'd like to work hard on several key initiatives, name
that enhancing the visit experience in Cathereron and you know,
(02:33):
working on generating the foundation of rates, generating revenue for
Cantontown Council as they do for the most local governments.
These are the key ess angels for counsels, you know,
to get their financial sustainability by generating necessary income and
that sort of helps the meet community needs while balancing
the social and economic impacts.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
In terms of your experience, I know you touched on
a little bit there, but in terms of your qualifications
of work experience, what you know, what do you think
you can bring to the table to make you best
placed for the position of mayor.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, I've actually had twenty seven is experience in federal
and state governments, and I worked as a political advisor,
you know, touched on working really hard with many great
politicians in this territory and I've learned a lot from them,
you know, and my experiences as a lawyer, I've actually
(03:32):
you know, understand policies a procedure because I went through
a and U and in an arts law degree and
majored in public policy and political science. And Council is
about public policy, I suppose, and it's all about local
government reforms and local government implementation of the strategic plans.
And Council has tolled a municipal plan which I've had
(03:52):
a look at the loss and profit statements. I've looked
at the strategic Plan and there's a lot of things
that unimproved capital that is on you know, people's vacant
blocks of land here, and there's differentials rates that are
fixed which have a minimum amount and each parcel of
vailable lands category according to the Northern Turkey Planning Scheme zone.
(04:14):
And Catherine just had the big flood zone change here
with a re zone a lot of areas because of
the flooding. So insurances are very serious thing down here
with buying houses and stuff like that. We're getting a
lot of people buying houses that are investors from down
south here. We got a lot of work to do
(04:35):
with reviewing rates. I'm aware that Council has said a
target to collect nine million, nine hundred and fifty seven
thousand in general rights. You know, they're trying to kick
the everage general right down for residential properties below four
point eight percent, and they're increasing by three point six percent,
which translates to a modest medium increase of sixty dollars cancel.
(05:00):
It's basically got a lot of things here to do,
but they need to generate that money because they've got
nine and a half thousand people living. There is only
three two hundred rate payers and getting around the electric
of the speaking to people, you know, the councils actually
needs to be reviewing their system because there's people that
have got properties like three and four houses on their
(05:20):
twenty acre blocks and they've been charged, you know, two
thousand dollars per building, and I think that's a whole
way robbery, you know, because it's twenty acres. Yeah, you
might have three or four buildings. But they need to
generate that income so they can keep up things like
the zim and drive pathways. You know, they want to
put a pathway right around the zim and drives of
(05:41):
the Layla Wame.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
We've only got about fifty seconds left. I want to
ask you what are your top commitments to voters.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
My top commitments to get a big rivers into government
collaboration set up with all the key stakeholders like the
Land Council, various levels of government to come down and
to a common ground and talk about the community needs.
I see collaboration will assist the regions to address challenges
and strengthen connections between people and our resources that are available.
(06:10):
I achieve sports and civic centers and things like that,
and growth and sustainabability and better infrastructure, arts and culture.
And one of my major goals that's elected as MEAN
is to reduce our footprints optimized councils, products, services and operation,
to increase efficiencies and reduce our emissions. I've also looked
at some of the other areas there where we've got
(06:32):
a lot of years. In Catherine, we don't have any
placeful youth to sort of hang out in twenty four hours.
We don't have overnight stay for homeless people. And Catherine
needs to have some sort of commendation for when people
visit English, they've got body buses coming in and out.
So we need to basically say, you know, these are
the things that need to be put on the table,
(06:53):
but also we'll work it within the local government laws
over the legislation and the regulatione.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
We're unfortunately of time and I've got to be nice
and fair and give everybody the same amount of time,
just really quickly. Are you a member of a political
party or have you ever been?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I have been. I've been members of both political parties.
I've seen the inner circles of both of them, and
I don't like them. I've never been back since seventeen.
Ideas with any political party, well, Waite, I can encourage
people to really think about what they do if they
join these parties.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Wayne, great to speak with you this morning, mate, Thank
you so very much for being part of our meet
the candidates for them. Thanks mane much.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Katie really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
No worries at all. Thank you
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