Cr David Mallard talks to the Central Western Daily before the council meeting.
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00:00 Well, I'm here for the council meeting. I'm one of the 12 Orange City Councillors
00:04 and I'm here to show my support for the festival, speak in support of it and hope that we get past this and get to
00:11 the next few weeks of building up for a really big event.
00:13 And how do you feel about this being brought to Council today?
00:18 Look, it's really disappointing and frankly a bit shameful that a city like Orange even has to have this debate.
00:24 It's unfortunate that we're going to have to do that and I know it has caused distress and harm in the last week
00:32 but it's magnificent to see the support that's come out since this has been out in the public knowledge
00:37 and I'm hoping we can defeat the motion, go ahead with the festival and build towards a massive event
00:43 over the weekend in a couple of weeks' time.
00:46 Awesome!
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