Greens and first NT teal candidate fight to shake up major party vote in Solomon and Lingiari

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The Greens and One Nation have launched their electoral pitched to Northern Territory voters, centring on crime and cost of living. Despite their ideological divide they are hoping, policies to increase taxation of gas exports and on prevention rather than punishment on crime, will attract voters disillusioned with the major parties.

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00:00The local pub, the cafe and the shopping centre. Election battlegrounds for two minor parties

00:09hoisting their colours in the hope of snatching the lower house seat of Link Yari. Both candidates

00:15agree votes will be won and lost on two key issues.

00:19One is common to all of Australia and that's the cost of living and it's particularly felt

00:27in the Northern Territory because so much of the population in the Northern Territory

00:31live below the poverty line.

00:33Cost of living is absolutely destroying families. We are living on the poverty line in Australia,

00:39not just in the Northern Territory, in Australia.

00:41Both candidates have worked with young people caught up in the justice system and they're

00:45backing country Liberal Party policies to address high crime rates. The Greens supporting

00:50an audit of community services in Central Australia.

00:54Very few programs, either NT funded or federally funded, are properly evaluated for the effect

01:00that they're actually having.

01:02And One Nation calling for a return of remote boot camps.

01:05We need to get these kids busy working, doing stuff that they enjoy doing and putting them,

01:11making them feel like they matter.

01:13Despite finding some common ground on local issues, they're still separated by an ideological

01:18gulf in their core policies around immigration and the environment. And then there's people

01:24power.

01:27The Greens campaigns in Alice Springs and Darwin, backed by a small army of volunteers.

01:33We've been door knocking for the last, you know, since the last election and what we're

01:37hearing from people is that they are ready for a change.

01:40While One Nation's candidates doing it all on their own.

01:44At this point I don't have any donations. My Facebook page is being created and my shirts

01:50and everything, all the artwork's being done. But yes, it is all self-funded. It's coming

01:53out of my pocket.

01:54The cost of campaigning in a cost of living election.

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