NT election campaigns begin, crime and cost-of-living key issues for voters
Just over three weeks from polling day, the campaign for the Northern Territory election has officially begun. The contest was triggered after Chief Minister Eva Lawler visited the Administrator this morning officially dissolving the 14th parliament. Both leaders have begun campaigning in a key battleground -- the satellite city of Palmerston.
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00:00A daylight arrest in Palmerston today, the culmination of weeks of incidents in the neighbourhood
00:07of this frustrated resident.
00:09Violence all night, there's been parties, there's been stolen cars come and go.
00:15Police calling for information about a vehicle fire in Woodruff last night, involving up
00:20to 20 people a block away from Alan's home.
00:24The long time Labor voter saying he's afraid to leave his home and is now open to voting
00:30for the opposition.
00:31I've been up here 25 years and I've never ever seen Darwin like this ever.
00:37The unrest an unfortunate start for Labor's election campaign as the government enters
00:42caretaker mode, both the Chief Minister and opposition leader campaigning in Palmerston
00:48saying they have the solutions to the territories law and order issues.
00:52We've put the additional money into police, we've put additional money into education,
00:57we're restructuring the housing, we're doing the work around preschool as well.
01:01The CLP will continue to fight for what Territorians are talking to us about and that's about safer
01:07streets, better powers for our police, an economy that's growing so that we can have
01:11jobs and opportunities for our kids and a lifestyle where we're free.
01:16With crime and the cost of living shaping up to be key election issues, it's no surprise
01:20that both party leaders decided to spend their first day of campaigning here in Palmerston.
01:25There are four seats on offer here which could prove vital to forming government on August
01:3024.
01:32One seat is held by Labor leader Eva Lawler, two by the CLP and one by former Labor MLA
01:37turned independent Mark Turner.
01:39Do you think you're going to win Blaine at this election?
01:42It's going to be a really tough ask Tom.
01:45For the incumbent underdog not optimistic, he can cling on, but voters in his seat, hoping
01:51whoever wins, can turn things around.
01:54Whichever party it is, and the police minister and whatever, to just come front up and have
01:58a go out here, like it's tough.
02:04Don't feel safe in my own home.