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Northern Territorians tell ABC's 'Your Say' about the issues on their mind this election
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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5/2/2025
Throughout the election campaign we've been hearing from thousands of Australians via the ABC's 'Your Say' project about what's most important to you as you head to the polls.
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Covering an area six times the size of Victoria, the Northern Territory's two federal divisions
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are roughly split between the city and everywhere else.
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Solomon covers most of Darwin and Palmerston, just 1% of the territory's landmass.
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Some voters there are questioning their vote as they prepare to head to the ballot box,
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while Luke Gosling is hoping to extend Labor's hold on Solomon into a fourth term.
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His main rival is former police officer Lisa Bayliss of the Country Liberal Party.
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The CLP rose to power in the Northern Territory last year in a landslide, on the back of a
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campaign on crime and community safety.
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It left Labor without a single seat in Darwin, and it's a wave of support the Coalition is
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hoping to ride into tomorrow.
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We're saying to the community here in Palmerston that we want to help you have a safer community.
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There are seven candidates on the ballot, including Jonathan Parry from the Greens, and Climate
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200-backed Independent Phil Scott.
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Many voters say they're still making up their minds.
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I want to know who's going to look at alternative ways to address youth crime other than locking
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kids up.
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I'm really not sure.
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I'm so on the fence.
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Yeah, it's like the election of unremarkableness.
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The Division of Lingyari covers everywhere in the Northern Territory outside Darwin, including
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Alice Springs, Catherine and all of its remote Aboriginal communities.
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Sometimes forgotten, the electorate also includes the Cocos Keeling Islands and Christmas Island.
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Voting for around 1,000 voters in those territories closed on Saturday.
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But closer to home, is crime still top of mind for voters in Lingyari?
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Not so much the crime, but our border protection more so than the crime rate.
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We've got to look after it.
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We've got to look after our borders.
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I'd like to see them get tougher on crime.
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I'd like to see them introduce a lot of programs that help the troubled people, not just punish
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them.
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Others in Alice Springs this week remain undecided.
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Have you made your mind up on who you'll vote for?
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I'm still inclined on Labor, but they haven't delivered much.
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More than 40% of the Northern Territory's 150,000 registered voters have already cast their
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ballots.
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To find out more, head to abc.net.au slash Australia Votes and click Your Say.
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