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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, joining me in the studio. He is the chief
Minister evil all a good morning to you in.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Morning, Katie, and yeah, absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
You've got two weeks of prepole, which is fantastic now
because you don't have to have an excuse. In the
old days you have to pretend you're going fishing or
on holidays and things. But everybody can prepole now.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
So yeah, well this is the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I think making it as easy and accessible as possible
for people to be able to vote is indeed so important.
How are you feeling though about some of the different
locations where people can vote?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Have we got enough?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I am concerned.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So in my electorate of Drysdale in Parmeson, I don't
actually have a polling booth on polling day, and you
know we've written to the Electoral commission about that. We've
spoken to Electoral Commissioner about that. So I would prefer
to see that every electorate had And you know, I'm
a bit of a traditionalist. A school where you can
go and vote. So there is a polling both at
(00:50):
Sacred Heart, but there isn't one at Gray or Driver
or Palmerston Senior College.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Which we've had always.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So it is a bit frustrating that there isn't one
in my elector pre polling. There's booths at Parmesan Shopping
Center and also Gateway Shopping Center. Again, I can understand
why they're doing that, because you know, people go shopping
and they can drop in. But I did quite like
it when it was in the old near the old
A and Zed Bank building, up at the CBD or
over on the other side of Gateway there, because then
(01:18):
people can just park, jump out and vote if that's
just what they want to do, rather than have to
walk into the shopping center try and find where it is.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
All of those sorts of Yeah, look, I agree.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I think we need to make sure that it's as
easily accessible for people as possible. And I've had a
couple of listeners get in contact with me saying, you know, Katie,
there doesn't seem to be as many locations in Palmerston
as what there has been previously. Is it something that
you've spoken to the electoral commissioner about.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I mean, I don't not me personally, but the Labor
Party through so I've made complaints to the Labor Party
about it, and they've complained about that. So definitely way
less polling booths on polling day, So the Parmesan Shopping
Center and Gatewell continue to be opened on polling day,
but there is a polling booth and I'll say there
old Roseberry Middle School because people get confused, but it's
(02:04):
a Palmeston College seven till nine campus and then the
Sacred Heart School and I think that's about it actually
on polling days. So yeah, I think we do need
to have at least one or two even in every
electorate because particularly for the elderly people or people who
have a disability or just don't have a car as well,
(02:26):
it is difficult.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah. Look, it's something we'll continue to talk about throughout
this morning. We are going to be speaking to the
Northern Territory Electoral Commissioner, so I will ask a few
questions about that now. Yesterday Well Labor and the COLP
launched their campaigns to the party. Faithful you'd launched jaws
out in Palmerston and really outlined what you plan to
do in the first one hundred days if re elected.
(02:49):
What are your key priorities going to be?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So, Katie, I think it's important.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I literally had I think about two hundred and fifty
days as Chief Minister, and I think I hope Territorians
will agree that I've got really stuck into it and
driven forward what time I want to see in the territory.
But our plan around one hundred days is of course
making sure that we roll out our election commitments. But
first and foremost it is around crime in the Northern
Territory and we all know that's the number one issue
(03:16):
for Territorians. So continuing to roll out that five hundred
and seventy million dollars to police, and it was good
to see there's another recruit squad, so recruits god one
five seven thirty four recruits that just were sworn in
on Thursday, I think it was last week. So we'll
continue to make sure that we roll out more police
than the territory. I heard you talking about the action
(03:39):
that's happening in Alice Springs and there's an extra fifty
two officers in our springs now, and that's what you
get when you have more officers you can do. You
can do that more proactive policing, which is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So a courately it doesn't seem to be stopping the crime,
you know, like even in Catherine you look at that
incident from over the course of the weekend, and I
don't disagree. I think we do need more police, there
is no doubt about that. But you know, we're not
really seeing much of a reduction many would argue in
the issues with crime.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
No, and I mean that, well, we understand and the
long term things that we've talked about, that investment in education,
the investment in housing, or the standalone Territory Homes Department,
they're all the things that I'll roll out, as I say,
in our first one hundred a day plan. The other
one is this morning, I'm going to be announcing after you,
after talking to you, I'm going to be announcing that
(04:26):
we're going to put an extra one point four million
dollars into private security in our shopping centers across the territory.
I know that works. I see that every day in
Palmerston in my shopping centers, where you have security officers
who are de escalating situations, they're moving people on and
so it is about that prevention and as you say,
(04:47):
and targeting people who are there and are there to
cause trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So is that one point for right across the Northern Territory.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, So we already put about five million in and
so about one point four it will be one point
four And I mean we've done that, We've looked at
exactly what we're we're spending money and what we're doing.
But it is around prevention. And some of it is
just people going in there that are going to the
going to get grog whatever else it is. And Parmesan
(05:15):
sometimes we have kids in shopping centers that are just
causing trouble there. So it is around the prevention work.
So deterrence I think is vitally important in those shopping areas.
The same in Alice Springs, the same in Parmers, and
the same in Darwen. And we saw convict Scarlas withdraw
that or the Duhann City Council withdraw that money around
private security in the CBD, So it is about having
(05:37):
greater presence around that. Of course we will continue to
invest in police. You have to have police, you have
to have those sworn police officers doing their jobs, but
you also need that layer down where you have where
you can have security guards having a visible presence and
being a deterrence.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Even the real issue you've got at the moment is
every time something gets announced by labor. Every time you
announced something, people are saying, why haven't you done this
for the last eight years.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Well, as I said, I've been Chief Minister for two
hundred and fifty days and so that is yeah, yeah,
but I've been Chief Minister for two hundred and fifty
days and that's what we've driven. And I mean we've
been able to put in place those three gas deals.
You know, we've done the work around the curfew, We've
invested in police, We've done the Waterfront hotel for example,
(06:26):
that's going ahead, so the student accommodation. So I think
that's what that's why I want to continue as Chief Minister.
I want to Every decision I've made, Katie, is in
the best interest of territories. It hasn't been based on ideology.
It is about improving and driving you know, driving down
crime in the territory, pushing the economy forward. It is
balancing that social and economic. But it is hard slogging work.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And I know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Before, I mean when you're on the cabinet before, because
you're like, you do not strike me as somebody who
sits back and lets others, you know, make decisions without
having your say.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So what was happening before.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So, with plenty to happen before, Katie.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Some of those decisions were they not listening to you
on the capitol.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
As I said, there was plenty happening before.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It's just that I've I think you find with me
somebody that's very determined and very driven. But I delivered
in my portfolios. We've seen the work that eleven billion
dollars that I've delivered in infrastructure. As Infrastructure Minister, I
was there in the environment portfolio. It doesn't get a
lot of recognition, but we did more work in that
environment area than probably any environment minister ever around greenhouse
(07:32):
gas emissions, climate change, all the work that we had
to do around the onshore oil and gas industry to
get that industry up from the moratorium to an industry
that's just about to get to FID. So I've always
worked hard, Katie for the territory, and I'll continue to
work hard. But the issue of crime is one that
has escalated probably in the last couple of years, and
(07:53):
as I said, it does need a firm hand on it.
It needs extra resources. We've done that work around police.
But I'll continue to drive as I said, and That's
why I've put in one hundred day planned, Katie, so
that I can tell Territorians on Monday after the election.
So it'll be the twenty sixth of August. I can
tell Territorians at eight am. I'll be if we're re elected,
(08:14):
I'll be back in my office at Parliament House, pushing
forward on the things that I've said I'll do for Territorians.
What happens, there won't be a lag which you will
get under a Sealpa government.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
What happens though, if Labor gets re elected but you don't,
well who steps in as the chief minister?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I mean, I know that these are some of the
variables talking and.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I mean I can't I'm not going to waste my
time even thinking about the hypotheticals. I wouldn't sleep at night,
and I like sleeping. I can tell you. So there
are so many slices and dices of it. But I mean,
there are great people that are standing as candidates. We've
got amazing candidates as well, so our next layer coming through,
We've got fantastic people.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But I'm not going to go into us. No, we'll
look Altur would not sleep. A couple of other things
I do want to ask you about this morning. Adam Bruttin,
as we know, plead guilty to more than sixty charges
of best reality, animal cruelty and possession of child abuse
material last year and returned to the Supreme Court of
the Northern Territory last week for his sentencing. Now, since sentencing,
(09:12):
there has been calls for the animal welfare legislation to
be strengthened.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Do you think that this needs to be looked at?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, and it is.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So that's one of the bits of work that we've
got underway already. So Mark Monaghan, I think made that
announcement probably about two months ago that the Animal Welfare
Act was being reviewed. I mean just absolutely apparrent. In
my sixty odd years of living in the Territory, I've
never heard of anything so disgusting. I really struggled to
(09:40):
even read the article. The only reason I read it
was because I thought I needed to and in my
position otherwise, I can tell you I would not have
even read it, and I wouldn't want my family members and.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
My children to read it. Was just a purrent.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
So that our animal welfare legislation is being reviewed now
and it's across the board. People will have an opportunity
to do that. But I think any normal reasonable territory
and just absolutely stunned and shocked, and some who knew
him as well, So it's not like it was a Yeah,
he was a well known territory and so just beyond.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
A couple of quick ones.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, last week we also learned charges had been laid
against you in your school principal.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Gavin Morris. What was your reaction to that?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, total shock and surprise about that. I obviously as
Education Minister had met with Gavin and no Gavin as well.
Rina is a non government school and there is a process.
There is a Non Government Schools Minister or Advisory Council,
so there is a council that advises the minister around
non government schools. There is also a Register of non
government schools and that register would have registrar would have
(10:47):
got the initial reports. It would have then been referred
to or was referred to police. It'll be referred to
the Teacher Registration Board. There is a process now that's underway.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Is there still.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Support being provided to school or will there be some support?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, so Northern Territory Government Department of Education would be
providing support to the school. But there's also the Independent
Schools Association, so Ryl Salters, the president, oh sorry, the
CEO of the non government schools, they would be providing support.
I would presume, like most schools in my experience in schools,
the assistant principal, who would know the school very well,
(11:24):
would be acting as principal. I would say, I haven't
asked that question, but I do understand that Gavin has
been stood down while this investigation and while the charges
are are on foot.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Look a listener question somebody asking did Chancey Peig attend
the Aboriginal Art Fair last week? Did he pay for
it himself? Given wearing caretaker period.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
So Chancey is the Minister for Arts and he's the
Minister for Indigenous Affairs, so he is able to travel
when it's related to his portfolio. So he is allowed
to travel when it's is something that is work related.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
So he travel to Darwin.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
He attended the the opening of the Darwin Festival, the
Abiginal Art Fair. I saw him there on Saturday morning.
He had the Nemurs so the National Indigenous Music Awards,
and he had also the Telstra Aboriginal Art Awards, so
he had a lot of work to do in his portfolio,
so which portfolio was at So he's also he's a
(12:21):
Minister for the Arts, but he's also Minister for Indigenous Affairs,
so both of those areas obviously are very relevant.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Is that though, just that sort of open up a
bit of a can of worms in the sense that
you know, you or any minister could probably find a
reason to travel anywhere just about under that reasoning.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So yes, you can travel, you have to can even
your I.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Mean this is through our caretaker.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
The caretaker one, I must say, has been sort of
a bit overcooked at the moment.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So I'm feeling like.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
We really after what Michael Waller does.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well that was a specific example and as we know
the results of that inquiry. But yes you can as
a minister, you can in your portfolios, continue what you do,
continue to do the work in your portfolios. So Chancey
was able to come up here with his portfolio hat on,
and I think the people in those who are in
those area, in the arts area, Indigenous affairs would expect
(13:11):
to have a minister at these events.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Are there any other ministerial trips planned over the next
two weeks for you or anyone else.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Not for me.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
No, I've been very clear around that that I'm you know,
unless there was something that I really you know, an
emergency of some sort, some tragedy or something like that,
that I wouldn't travel.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But do you things? So do you would you have done?
What the what the Attorney General's done?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So here came as the Minister for Indigenous Affairs and
the Minister for Arts in the Northern Territory and so
yes he can travel to Darwin for that.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well, Chief Minister, we better leave it there. We've got
a very busy morning ahead. I know you do as well.
We are going to be catching up with you and
indeed are the SEALP candidate for Drives later in the
week as well. Thank you very much for your time,
much appreciated.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Thank you
Oh, joining me in the studio. He is the chief
Minister evil all a good morning to you in.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Morning, Katie, and yeah, absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
You've got two weeks of prepole, which is fantastic now
because you don't have to have an excuse. In the
old days you have to pretend you're going fishing or
on holidays and things. But everybody can prepole now.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
So yeah, well this is the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I think making it as easy and accessible as possible
for people to be able to vote is indeed so important.
How are you feeling though about some of the different
locations where people can vote?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Have we got enough?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I am concerned.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So in my electorate of Drysdale in Parmeson, I don't
actually have a polling booth on polling day, and you
know we've written to the Electoral commission about that. We've
spoken to Electoral Commissioner about that. So I would prefer
to see that every electorate had And you know, I'm
a bit of a traditionalist. A school where you can
go and vote. So there is a polling both at
(00:50):
Sacred Heart, but there isn't one at Gray or Driver
or Palmerston Senior College.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Which we've had always.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So it is a bit frustrating that there isn't one
in my elector pre polling. There's booths at Parmesan Shopping
Center and also Gateway Shopping Center. Again, I can understand
why they're doing that, because you know, people go shopping
and they can drop in. But I did quite like
it when it was in the old near the old
A and Zed Bank building, up at the CBD or
over on the other side of Gateway there, because then
(01:18):
people can just park, jump out and vote if that's
just what they want to do, rather than have to
walk into the shopping center try and find where it is.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
All of those sorts of Yeah, look, I agree.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I think we need to make sure that it's as
easily accessible for people as possible. And I've had a
couple of listeners get in contact with me saying, you know, Katie,
there doesn't seem to be as many locations in Palmerston
as what there has been previously. Is it something that
you've spoken to the electoral commissioner about.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I mean, I don't not me personally, but the Labor
Party through so I've made complaints to the Labor Party
about it, and they've complained about that. So definitely way
less polling booths on polling day, So the Parmesan Shopping
Center and Gatewell continue to be opened on polling day,
but there is a polling booth and I'll say there
old Roseberry Middle School because people get confused, but it's
(02:04):
a Palmeston College seven till nine campus and then the
Sacred Heart School and I think that's about it actually
on polling days. So yeah, I think we do need
to have at least one or two even in every
electorate because particularly for the elderly people or people who
have a disability or just don't have a car as well,
(02:26):
it is difficult.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah. Look, it's something we'll continue to talk about throughout
this morning. We are going to be speaking to the
Northern Territory Electoral Commissioner, so I will ask a few
questions about that now. Yesterday Well Labor and the COLP
launched their campaigns to the party. Faithful you'd launched jaws
out in Palmerston and really outlined what you plan to
do in the first one hundred days if re elected.
(02:49):
What are your key priorities going to be?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So, Katie, I think it's important.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I literally had I think about two hundred and fifty
days as Chief Minister, and I think I hope Territorians
will agree that I've got really stuck into it and
driven forward what time I want to see in the territory.
But our plan around one hundred days is of course
making sure that we roll out our election commitments. But
first and foremost it is around crime in the Northern
Territory and we all know that's the number one issue
(03:16):
for Territorians. So continuing to roll out that five hundred
and seventy million dollars to police, and it was good
to see there's another recruit squad, so recruits god one
five seven thirty four recruits that just were sworn in
on Thursday, I think it was last week. So we'll
continue to make sure that we roll out more police
than the territory. I heard you talking about the action
(03:39):
that's happening in Alice Springs and there's an extra fifty
two officers in our springs now, and that's what you
get when you have more officers you can do. You
can do that more proactive policing, which is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So a courately it doesn't seem to be stopping the crime,
you know, like even in Catherine you look at that
incident from over the course of the weekend, and I
don't disagree. I think we do need more police, there
is no doubt about that. But you know, we're not
really seeing much of a reduction many would argue in
the issues with crime.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
No, and I mean that, well, we understand and the
long term things that we've talked about, that investment in education,
the investment in housing, or the standalone Territory Homes Department,
they're all the things that I'll roll out, as I say,
in our first one hundred a day plan. The other
one is this morning, I'm going to be announcing after you,
after talking to you, I'm going to be announcing that
(04:26):
we're going to put an extra one point four million
dollars into private security in our shopping centers across the territory.
I know that works. I see that every day in
Palmerston in my shopping centers, where you have security officers
who are de escalating situations, they're moving people on and
so it is about that prevention and as you say,
(04:47):
and targeting people who are there and are there to
cause trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So is that one point for right across the Northern Territory.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, So we already put about five million in and
so about one point four it will be one point
four And I mean we've done that, We've looked at
exactly what we're we're spending money and what we're doing.
But it is around prevention. And some of it is
just people going in there that are going to the
going to get grog whatever else it is. And Parmesan
(05:15):
sometimes we have kids in shopping centers that are just
causing trouble there. So it is around the prevention work.
So deterrence I think is vitally important in those shopping areas.
The same in Alice Springs, the same in Parmers, and
the same in Darwen. And we saw convict Scarlas withdraw
that or the Duhann City Council withdraw that money around
private security in the CBD, So it is about having
(05:37):
greater presence around that. Of course we will continue to
invest in police. You have to have police, you have
to have those sworn police officers doing their jobs, but
you also need that layer down where you have where
you can have security guards having a visible presence and
being a deterrence.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Even the real issue you've got at the moment is
every time something gets announced by labor. Every time you
announced something, people are saying, why haven't you done this
for the last eight years.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Well, as I said, I've been Chief Minister for two
hundred and fifty days and so that is yeah, yeah,
but I've been Chief Minister for two hundred and fifty
days and that's what we've driven. And I mean we've
been able to put in place those three gas deals.
You know, we've done the work around the curfew, We've
invested in police, We've done the Waterfront hotel for example,
(06:26):
that's going ahead, so the student accommodation. So I think
that's what that's why I want to continue as Chief Minister.
I want to Every decision I've made, Katie, is in
the best interest of territories. It hasn't been based on ideology.
It is about improving and driving you know, driving down
crime in the territory, pushing the economy forward. It is
balancing that social and economic. But it is hard slogging work.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And I know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Before, I mean when you're on the cabinet before, because
you're like, you do not strike me as somebody who
sits back and lets others, you know, make decisions without
having your say.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So what was happening before.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So, with plenty to happen before, Katie.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Some of those decisions were they not listening to you
on the capitol.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
As I said, there was plenty happening before.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It's just that I've I think you find with me
somebody that's very determined and very driven. But I delivered
in my portfolios. We've seen the work that eleven billion
dollars that I've delivered in infrastructure. As Infrastructure Minister, I
was there in the environment portfolio. It doesn't get a
lot of recognition, but we did more work in that
environment area than probably any environment minister ever around greenhouse
(07:32):
gas emissions, climate change, all the work that we had
to do around the onshore oil and gas industry to
get that industry up from the moratorium to an industry
that's just about to get to FID. So I've always
worked hard, Katie for the territory, and I'll continue to
work hard. But the issue of crime is one that
has escalated probably in the last couple of years, and
(07:53):
as I said, it does need a firm hand on it.
It needs extra resources. We've done that work around police.
But I'll continue to drive as I said, and That's
why I've put in one hundred day planned, Katie, so
that I can tell Territorians on Monday after the election.
So it'll be the twenty sixth of August. I can
tell Territorians at eight am. I'll be if we're re elected,
(08:14):
I'll be back in my office at Parliament House, pushing
forward on the things that I've said I'll do for Territorians.
What happens, there won't be a lag which you will
get under a Sealpa government.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
What happens though, if Labor gets re elected but you don't,
well who steps in as the chief minister?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I mean, I know that these are some of the
variables talking and.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I mean I can't I'm not going to waste my
time even thinking about the hypotheticals. I wouldn't sleep at night,
and I like sleeping. I can tell you. So there
are so many slices and dices of it. But I mean,
there are great people that are standing as candidates. We've
got amazing candidates as well, so our next layer coming through,
We've got fantastic people.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But I'm not going to go into us. No, we'll
look Altur would not sleep. A couple of other things
I do want to ask you about this morning. Adam Bruttin,
as we know, plead guilty to more than sixty charges
of best reality, animal cruelty and possession of child abuse
material last year and returned to the Supreme Court of
the Northern Territory last week for his sentencing. Now, since sentencing,
(09:12):
there has been calls for the animal welfare legislation to
be strengthened.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Do you think that this needs to be looked at?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, and it is.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So that's one of the bits of work that we've
got underway already. So Mark Monaghan, I think made that
announcement probably about two months ago that the Animal Welfare
Act was being reviewed. I mean just absolutely apparrent. In
my sixty odd years of living in the Territory, I've
never heard of anything so disgusting. I really struggled to
(09:40):
even read the article. The only reason I read it
was because I thought I needed to and in my
position otherwise, I can tell you I would not have
even read it, and I wouldn't want my family members and.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
My children to read it. Was just a purrent.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
So that our animal welfare legislation is being reviewed now
and it's across the board. People will have an opportunity
to do that. But I think any normal reasonable territory
and just absolutely stunned and shocked, and some who knew
him as well, So it's not like it was a Yeah,
he was a well known territory and so just beyond.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
A couple of quick ones.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, last week we also learned charges had been laid
against you in your school principal.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Gavin Morris. What was your reaction to that?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, total shock and surprise about that. I obviously as
Education Minister had met with Gavin and no Gavin as well.
Rina is a non government school and there is a process.
There is a Non Government Schools Minister or Advisory Council,
so there is a council that advises the minister around
non government schools. There is also a Register of non
government schools and that register would have registrar would have
(10:47):
got the initial reports. It would have then been referred
to or was referred to police. It'll be referred to
the Teacher Registration Board. There is a process now that's underway.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Is there still.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Support being provided to school or will there be some support?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, so Northern Territory Government Department of Education would be
providing support to the school. But there's also the Independent
Schools Association, so Ryl Salters, the president, oh sorry, the
CEO of the non government schools, they would be providing support.
I would presume, like most schools in my experience in schools,
the assistant principal, who would know the school very well,
(11:24):
would be acting as principal. I would say, I haven't
asked that question, but I do understand that Gavin has
been stood down while this investigation and while the charges
are are on foot.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Look a listener question somebody asking did Chancey Peig attend
the Aboriginal Art Fair last week? Did he pay for
it himself? Given wearing caretaker period.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
So Chancey is the Minister for Arts and he's the
Minister for Indigenous Affairs, so he is able to travel
when it's related to his portfolio. So he is allowed
to travel when it's is something that is work related.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
So he travel to Darwin.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
He attended the the opening of the Darwin Festival, the
Abiginal Art Fair. I saw him there on Saturday morning.
He had the Nemurs so the National Indigenous Music Awards,
and he had also the Telstra Aboriginal Art Awards, so
he had a lot of work to do in his portfolio,
so which portfolio was at So he's also he's a
(12:21):
Minister for the Arts, but he's also Minister for Indigenous Affairs,
so both of those areas obviously are very relevant.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Is that though, just that sort of open up a
bit of a can of worms in the sense that
you know, you or any minister could probably find a
reason to travel anywhere just about under that reasoning.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So yes, you can travel, you have to can even
your I.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Mean this is through our caretaker.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
The caretaker one, I must say, has been sort of
a bit overcooked at the moment.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So I'm feeling like.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
We really after what Michael Waller does.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well that was a specific example and as we know
the results of that inquiry. But yes you can as
a minister, you can in your portfolios, continue what you do,
continue to do the work in your portfolios. So Chancey
was able to come up here with his portfolio hat on,
and I think the people in those who are in
those area, in the arts area, Indigenous affairs would expect
(13:11):
to have a minister at these events.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Are there any other ministerial trips planned over the next
two weeks for you or anyone else.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Not for me.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
No, I've been very clear around that that I'm you know,
unless there was something that I really you know, an
emergency of some sort, some tragedy or something like that,
that I wouldn't travel.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But do you things? So do you would you have done?
What the what the Attorney General's done?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So here came as the Minister for Indigenous Affairs and
the Minister for Arts in the Northern Territory and so
yes he can travel to Darwin for that.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well, Chief Minister, we better leave it there. We've got
a very busy morning ahead. I know you do as well.
We are going to be catching up with you and
indeed are the SEALP candidate for Drives later in the
week as well. Thank you very much for your time,
much appreciated.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Thank you
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