Because it literally dates back a few years, doesn't it, that funding, that $3 million, or at least a couple of years?

I'm not sure the exact date the funding came through, Katie, but then you've got to go through, obviously, the processes of getting people to do the work and then sort of channeling it into the timetables for work to be done.

But we had nearly 80% of the respondents for all the surveys we did who actually supported the upgrades and wanted the Smith Street fixed up so that people can walk through there.

The trees and the greening.

If you look at Kavanagh Street, for instance, Kavanagh Street, people love it now because the trees are growing.

It's shady.

You can park your car in the shade.

What does the City of Darwin require from that development for it to proceed?

What are they saying to you?

Well, they're saying that they're unsure.

It's the uncertainty.

And when you're talking about people that are very vulnerable, there's 580,000 veterans in Australia.

And with their families, there's 1.1 million people directly connected to the ADF.

This is a small group.

but it's no less significant because they're the most vulnerable veterans who have already given their service to this country.

I mean, like... what like what's the biggest concern here is it more that you feel um you know veterans like veterans are like they're doing the right thing i would imagine and and any funding that they're actually you know able to access they're using it uh in appropriate ways but sometimes you might have service providers that aren't necessarily doing uh you know what is intended

Now, can you explain why this decision was made?

So, Katie, there's a lot of information that was brought before Council and collectively the Council made a decision to postpone it until May next year.

Now, we've had a lot of cleanup as a result of Cyclone Fina.

There's a lot of stuff cleaned up as a result of what happened in Cyclone Fina.

But also, we've got the cleanups that's finished as such.

But the restoration work is ongoing now.

The other thing that came to us and to me especially was that people want to see some of the items that have been put out reused and recycled so reviver for instance they take mattresses and they clean them and they resell them to people who are perhaps less fortunate than some of us so recycling furniture recycling mattresses and stuff however if it's put out in the wet season yeah it's all lost or it goes into a truck and it's destroyed so we encourage people to perhaps take those things down to the tip yeah and give them to a reviver so they can be reused and get a second life

well look to be honest with you i wonder whether there's other efficiencies that can be found within council whether it's more a situation of rather than cutting back people's services and what they you know what council delivers are there different efficiencies that could be found within the council and i know that a lot of people might be scratching their heads going Our services are being cut back, but council's building a brand spanking new building.

Is that something that you support?

Absolutely, Katie.

When you look at these days, it's user pays.

So if you want to go and let fireworks off all over the place and you don't want to clean your own mess up, the people who aren't doing that sort of thing and are being responsible, I don't necessarily want them to pay for the cleanup of other people who've left their rubbish around.

So if there's a licensing fee applied by the Northern Territory Government, we could then go to the government and say, look, it's $80,000 that the ratepayers have had to cough up.

And when you look at the tourism aspect of this, I talk to people all over the place of Australia, and they move here for July.

They come up maybe for the race meetings and also the fireworks.

How's that feedback been going so far?

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To you, John, what realistically would look like progress moving forward?

Are there particular areas that people can let off crackers or areas where they're not allowed to?

Well, basically, we ask people to find somewhere where there's no dead grass.

That's the first thing.

Because we don't want fires around the place.

And it is about letting them off responsibly.

I've enjoyed Territory Day for many, many years, and I think my kids have.

And we've all enjoyed it, but we must do it responsibly and safely.

What is this and what's the purpose?