Member for Sanderson Jinson Charls calls on Council to do verge pickup after TC Fina

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But we are going to head across right now and
catch up with Minister Jinsen Charles. Now he'd actually taken
to Facebook yesterday and sent a letter, as I understand it,
to the City of Darwin to ask about that clean
up post cyclone and to see whether there may be
able to be verge collection of green waste. Now, Jensen Charles,

(00:21):
the minister joins me on the line. Good morning to you, Jensen.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good morning Katy, and good morning to our listeners.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Now, Minister, as I understand it, you've written, I think
to the City of Darwin about the verge collection for
green waste. Why did you decide.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
To do that? I need to admit clear so I
haven't done that as a minister. I have done us
a member for Sanderson on behalf of the residents of Wargaman, Vulagi,
Anula and Marra. The reason being when I was out
on a boat on Sunday and been working with the
community to us as with the cleaner. That's something that

(00:57):
people ask me because there was a similar kind of
service provided to people after cyclone markers. So they asked
whether I could race with the City of Darwin to
have like a similar sort of service because that was
expectations from the people.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
And so what kind of situations are you seeing in
your electorate at the moment, Jins and now are there?
Have you got quite a few seniors that maybe struggling
a little?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, I do have seniors. I do have like individual
like single mothers who are struggling. And this morning I
had visited one person leaving by herself and got like
two trees leaning over to her house. So I was
able to provide the number she conducted with in t

(01:46):
years and organ booked a time with them. So hopefully
that will get done in the next few days because
it's and I think they're asso saying the risk as well,
like how risk it is, and they're doing their trias
process and making that have and when it comes to
specifically the green Bay, so on Sunday morning, people start
to come out to the streets and then helping each other,

(02:08):
and they were making sure they're getting their neighbors were okay,
and they were providing that extra hand and by lunchtime
they were like piles of green waste everywhere, and at
that point there were no facility opened, so they had
no choice other than leave it on the words at
that point in time because the shoal Bay was closed

(02:29):
and the government made the decision on Monday to open
the Hidden Whiley because the Shoalbey was closed and it
was only available for the commercial operators.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, I know it's been a difficult one. It does
seem as though people are sort of starting to, you know,
to understand now that they're able to head out there
to Hidden Valley. We'd spoken to the operator a little
bit earlier this morning. I guess, you know, for some people,
it maybe that they've got an enormous amount of green
waste that they're trying to get out there, or you know,
like we've spoken about those sceneors, just trying to get
it out so able to be coordinated a little bit

(03:02):
more easily. Jensen as a local member, I know we'd
spoken earlier this morning as well to a wonderful local
business who's got the big skip pins. Accidentally called them
tippins earlier, but the skippins out in some of the
different suburbs following on from cyclo markers, they had well,
another business I'm assuming had those big skip bins out

(03:25):
in different suburbs. Do you reckon that would be something
that would be helpful as well.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I would say, like everything additional thing would be helpful
because when it comes to seniors and then people who
struggled with their daily leaving, so we can't expect them
to taking the greenways to the tip because some older
people that I'm trying to assist in my community are
the people who are struggling to even to manage their

(03:51):
loan at differnt of the words. So if there is
an expectation those people are going to take these things
to the tip like a thing that's impossible. So what
I would like to see as a local member that
there is a solution for this, and I think how
we can work together with the council and the governments
to come and then help these people who need set support.

(04:14):
And I need to like, I need to add that
that I spoke to the mayor this morning and I'm
waiting for a formal response because there are trees that
was like the count was on the council land that
was kind of like fallen across to the property that
people actually chopped into pieces and kept it on the verge.
So it's not just like people are concerned about like

(04:35):
the green base from their property because they stepped up
and then make sure that they're supporting the community. They're
helping others to get out of their driveway. So there
are there was like a goods, like a people work
together to make sure like to support each other. Now
it's support a board like I think the council and
the government to looking about like I think how we

(04:56):
can put one step forward and then support that because
at the end of the we want all back to
business as usual, and we are seeing that we are
in that direction, but we don't want to have this
people concerned about this too much.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, Jins and Charles, I think it's a really fair
point to make, and one that obviously you are making
as the local member. I really appreciate your time this morning.
I know you've had to step out of Parliament, so
I'll let you go.