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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining me on the line right now is the COLP
candidate for fong Limb, Tanseil Rahman.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning to your tansel.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good morning Katie. How are you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Really good? Lovely to have you on the show. Now,
you've got seven minutes and a series of questions.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Are you ready to get started?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Let's do it? Katie?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Terns, why did you decide to put your hand up
to run for the seat of pong Limb.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
So, Katie, I think the territory needs problems solvers in parliament,
people with professional skills and real world experience to help
get the territory back on track socially and economically. I
think we all know and feel, both of us that
have lived here for a long time, but the territory
is not great social and economic shape, and frankly speaking,
(00:45):
without some fundamental change of direction, things are only going
to get it a lot worse. We all know our
economy is undeniably the worst performing in the country and
that's just not going to change until we can restore
confidence to investors and businesses and people in the territory
that the empty kind is going to be better managed.
So look in a Nutshelle, I decided it was time
to try and help and basically put up or shut
(01:07):
up in Tansil.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Why do you think that you're the best person for
the role based on you know, maybe previous jobs that
you've had or experience throughout the community and through the
work that you've done.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah. Sure. Look, I was lucky enough to be raised
here on a really strong and stable and sensible Selk
government which gave me a fantastic public education, you know,
a lovely housing commission home to grow up in, excellent
healthcare and infrastructure that actually got built. And that all
gave me the chance to succeed in life. And as
(01:39):
a function of that, I did well in school and
I went to University of Sydney, which is where I
did my economics degree and my law degree and my
music degree, and then luckily got an opportunity on a
scholarship to also go and do a PhD at the
University of Oxford. And when I was at Oxford, I
researched competitiveness in the global market for skilled migrants. My
area of professional expertise is advising governments, private act the
(02:02):
institutions multinationals about how to grow populations and grow a
skilled workforce. And so I decided to come back to
the territory to try and help with that problem. And
so I initially came back here to work with the government,
and then after a while I realized that frankly speaking,
I needed a strong advantage to be able to help
problems solve from and so as a result, put my
(02:23):
hand up to be pre selected by CLP.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Tansil.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Someone's been in contact with us and said, you know, like,
how can people sort of trust you're running for the CLP.
They believe that you had put your hand up to
run for Labor as well.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, that's not.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Entirely true, Katie, but you can't correct all falsehoods. It
is true that I joined the Labor Party last year
for two months from November until January this year, and
I did so because I wanted to work with the
government of the day to see if I could help
problems solve. But what I discovered very quickly was that
Territory Labor sadly doesn't have much interest in new people
or new ideas or facing problems in the territory anymore.
(03:01):
And so, you know, it just became a point of exercise.
I resigned and I reached out to the COLP and
I asked them, look, i'd like to involved, is this
going to be a problem, And to their credit, they
were welcoming with me.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now, what do you see as being the biggest issues
in the electorate of form LAMB.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Look, the issues are the saying across the territory in
the sense that we all are hearing about crime and
the cost of living because there's such acute problems now,
but more generally across Steeled Path than Arrow's, Walnut Bay View,
Barrama Northcrest, you get a consistent message about the absence
of opportunity here. People just don't have the preconditions to
(03:39):
succeed anymore in the territory and that's why so many
of them report oneting to leave. We know that's the case.
I mean, the territory I grew up in, Katie was
a place where you wanted to be able to afford
a luster, pay your rental, your mortgage, and not get stabbed.
And frankly, we had a laid back, pretty good lifestyle
and those fundamentals are just not getting addressed at the moment.
So you know, we can restore some confidence to our parliament,
(04:02):
to our economy the territory is going to be in
bad shape.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well based on those issues, why do you think that
your best place to work on them or to get
stuck into them and fix them.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Look, I can honestly say I'm offering more economic muscle
than you know a lot of people have been able
to offer in Parliament for a long time. And I
can steer us, in partnership with my cop colleagues towards
responsible fiscal management. I mean, because you just can't have
a two hundred and fifty thousand person declining population and
twelve billion dollars of debt and so a little to
show for it. So you know, we will work towards
(04:34):
creating a sustainable economic growth model where we save money,
make money and stop wasting money, not just think about
how to spend it the whole time.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Now, in terms of some of the local issues, do
you support Saint Vinnie's moving out of the electorate.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Absolutely, But I supported moving permanently and durably somewhere and
not temporarily being relocated prior to an election, which is
exactly what's happening right now. The fact is, until we
find a perm a sensible place for those services to
be offered. Sture Park can't be redeveloped or improved, So yes,
I hope we'll find a permanent place to put it.
But Labor has squandered the opportunity to fix that problem
(05:10):
over the last four years, despite promising to do so
at the last election.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now in terms of people are sleeping near and drinking
near the fire station up the top of the hill
there towards well towards sort of will know, I'm assuming
you know where I mean on the Stewart like towards
the Stuart Highway. What would you do to stop that
issue that a lot of people have been in contact
with us about, Katie.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The issues socioeconomic dysfunction wise are commonplace across the territory,
not just in Warmer. They're in Woodruff for cars on fire.
It doesn't matter which issue we're talking about. Things are
crumbling here because of the absence of leadership and clarity.
And you know, there has to be more for everyone here,
more in public health, housing, education and infrastructure to be
able to provide for people. And that's what we're failing
(05:58):
to do here, which is why you've got rough sleepers
and people suffering.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Now do you live in the Electric.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh yeah, I live in Stuart Park and I think
it's extremely important for local members to live in the
areas they seek to represent, to be properly connected to
their local communities.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Now we've got just over a minute to go.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Why should people vote for you?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Look, people should vote for me because I'm interested in
problem solving for the benefit of an NT and because
I'm a kid from Karama who grew up here and
went to school here and understands the place. And you know,
I want to ensure you and your family have access
to the same opportunities to succeed that I received here
in the past. And those things are only going to
be able to be provided if we can rebuild the
economy under the CLP government.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
About thirty seconds to go to Hansel. Anything else you'd.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Like to add o, Katie, I can't miss my chance.
It's still on festival time, So if anyone needs a
break from politics and would rather hear me singing or
play some saxophones, I'm going to make my own modest
contribution to entertainment this week by doing some large jazz
gigs in the Finland Electric. So if anyone's free popping
out of finding email on Friday or the One Mile
Brewery on Saturday. We'll gone to beat your club on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, Tanzil, good to speak with you this morning.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Dansel Rahman, the c LP candidate, thanks very much for
having a chat with us as part of our Meet
the Candidate series.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No thank you.
Joining me on the line right now is the COLP
candidate for fong Limb, Tanseil Rahman.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning to your tansel.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good morning Katie. How are you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Really good? Lovely to have you on the show. Now,
you've got seven minutes and a series of questions.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Are you ready to get started?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Let's do it? Katie?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Terns, why did you decide to put your hand up
to run for the seat of pong Limb.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
So, Katie, I think the territory needs problems solvers in parliament,
people with professional skills and real world experience to help
get the territory back on track socially and economically. I
think we all know and feel, both of us that
have lived here for a long time, but the territory
is not great social and economic shape, and frankly speaking,
(00:45):
without some fundamental change of direction, things are only going
to get it a lot worse. We all know our
economy is undeniably the worst performing in the country and
that's just not going to change until we can restore
confidence to investors and businesses and people in the territory
that the empty kind is going to be better managed.
So look in a Nutshelle, I decided it was time
to try and help and basically put up or shut
(01:07):
up in Tansil.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Why do you think that you're the best person for
the role based on you know, maybe previous jobs that
you've had or experience throughout the community and through the
work that you've done.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah. Sure. Look, I was lucky enough to be raised
here on a really strong and stable and sensible Selk
government which gave me a fantastic public education, you know,
a lovely housing commission home to grow up in, excellent
healthcare and infrastructure that actually got built. And that all
gave me the chance to succeed in life. And as
(01:39):
a function of that, I did well in school and
I went to University of Sydney, which is where I
did my economics degree and my law degree and my
music degree, and then luckily got an opportunity on a
scholarship to also go and do a PhD at the
University of Oxford. And when I was at Oxford, I
researched competitiveness in the global market for skilled migrants. My
area of professional expertise is advising governments, private act the
(02:02):
institutions multinationals about how to grow populations and grow a
skilled workforce. And so I decided to come back to
the territory to try and help with that problem. And
so I initially came back here to work with the government,
and then after a while I realized that frankly speaking,
I needed a strong advantage to be able to help
problems solve from and so as a result, put my
(02:23):
hand up to be pre selected by CLP.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Tansil.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Someone's been in contact with us and said, you know, like,
how can people sort of trust you're running for the CLP.
They believe that you had put your hand up to
run for Labor as well.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, that's not.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Entirely true, Katie, but you can't correct all falsehoods. It
is true that I joined the Labor Party last year
for two months from November until January this year, and
I did so because I wanted to work with the
government of the day to see if I could help
problems solve. But what I discovered very quickly was that
Territory Labor sadly doesn't have much interest in new people
or new ideas or facing problems in the territory anymore.
(03:01):
And so, you know, it just became a point of exercise.
I resigned and I reached out to the COLP and
I asked them, look, i'd like to involved, is this
going to be a problem, And to their credit, they
were welcoming with me.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now, what do you see as being the biggest issues
in the electorate of form LAMB.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Look, the issues are the saying across the territory in
the sense that we all are hearing about crime and
the cost of living because there's such acute problems now,
but more generally across Steeled Path than Arrow's, Walnut Bay View,
Barrama Northcrest, you get a consistent message about the absence
of opportunity here. People just don't have the preconditions to
(03:39):
succeed anymore in the territory and that's why so many
of them report oneting to leave. We know that's the case.
I mean, the territory I grew up in, Katie was
a place where you wanted to be able to afford
a luster, pay your rental, your mortgage, and not get stabbed.
And frankly, we had a laid back, pretty good lifestyle
and those fundamentals are just not getting addressed at the moment.
So you know, we can restore some confidence to our parliament,
(04:02):
to our economy the territory is going to be in
bad shape.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Well based on those issues, why do you think that
your best place to work on them or to get
stuck into them and fix them.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Look, I can honestly say I'm offering more economic muscle
than you know a lot of people have been able
to offer in Parliament for a long time. And I
can steer us, in partnership with my cop colleagues towards
responsible fiscal management. I mean, because you just can't have
a two hundred and fifty thousand person declining population and
twelve billion dollars of debt and so a little to
show for it. So you know, we will work towards
(04:34):
creating a sustainable economic growth model where we save money,
make money and stop wasting money, not just think about
how to spend it the whole time.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Now, in terms of some of the local issues, do
you support Saint Vinnie's moving out of the electorate.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Absolutely, But I supported moving permanently and durably somewhere and
not temporarily being relocated prior to an election, which is
exactly what's happening right now. The fact is, until we
find a perm a sensible place for those services to
be offered. Sture Park can't be redeveloped or improved, So yes,
I hope we'll find a permanent place to put it.
But Labor has squandered the opportunity to fix that problem
(05:10):
over the last four years, despite promising to do so
at the last election.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now in terms of people are sleeping near and drinking
near the fire station up the top of the hill
there towards well towards sort of will know, I'm assuming
you know where I mean on the Stewart like towards
the Stuart Highway. What would you do to stop that
issue that a lot of people have been in contact
with us about, Katie.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
The issues socioeconomic dysfunction wise are commonplace across the territory,
not just in Warmer. They're in Woodruff for cars on fire.
It doesn't matter which issue we're talking about. Things are
crumbling here because of the absence of leadership and clarity.
And you know, there has to be more for everyone here,
more in public health, housing, education and infrastructure to be
able to provide for people. And that's what we're failing
(05:58):
to do here, which is why you've got rough sleepers
and people suffering.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Now do you live in the Electric.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh yeah, I live in Stuart Park and I think
it's extremely important for local members to live in the
areas they seek to represent, to be properly connected to
their local communities.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Now we've got just over a minute to go.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Why should people vote for you?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Look, people should vote for me because I'm interested in
problem solving for the benefit of an NT and because
I'm a kid from Karama who grew up here and
went to school here and understands the place. And you know,
I want to ensure you and your family have access
to the same opportunities to succeed that I received here
in the past. And those things are only going to
be able to be provided if we can rebuild the
economy under the CLP government.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
About thirty seconds to go to Hansel. Anything else you'd.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Like to add o, Katie, I can't miss my chance.
It's still on festival time, So if anyone needs a
break from politics and would rather hear me singing or
play some saxophones, I'm going to make my own modest
contribution to entertainment this week by doing some large jazz
gigs in the Finland Electric. So if anyone's free popping
out of finding email on Friday or the One Mile
Brewery on Saturday. We'll gone to beat your club on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, Tanzil, good to speak with you this morning.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Dansel Rahman, the c LP candidate, thanks very much for
having a chat with us as part of our Meet
the Candidate series.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
No thank you.
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