00:00Selena Yubo has spoke to herself today at a press conference as a born and bred Territorian
00:07who hails from part of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory's top end. Prior to politics,
00:13prior to entering politics, she was a school teacher in 2016. She successfully ran for
00:18the seat of Arnhem Land and then for the seat of Arnhem, apologies, and then went on to
00:23join the cabinet in 2018. She served in a number of different roles, including as Attorney
00:27General, as Health Minister in the last couple of years, and in a number of senior portfolios
00:33across the government. Now after Labor's landslide election wipeout ten days ago, Ms Yubo was
00:39considered one of the top two contenders for the leadership alongside Chansey Paik, and
00:44today it was announced by Territory Labor that she was successful in that. Of course,
00:48given the wipeout that her party has experienced, she has a long way to go to rebuild her party
00:53and get it back into a form where it can contest the next election.
00:57So it's a formidable path ahead. What will be her first task as leader?
01:01Well, today at a press conference she was saying that she really wanted Territory Labor
01:06to get back to listening to people. That challenge will be most crucial in urban parts of the
01:11Northern Territory. Territory Labor have five seats in this new parliament, are on track
01:15to have five seats, the counting is still underway, and that's, I guess, contrasted
01:20with 17 seats that the country Liberals have. They have an outright majority and will form
01:24the next government. So for Labor, there's a long way back. Ms Yubo saying that she wants
01:29to get back to listening to Territorians, particularly in those suburban parts of the
01:33Territory where Labor only have one seat. In Darwin, for instance, that's if Natasha
01:38Files holds on to her seat. This is how she was, I guess, when she was asked that question
01:43of how she wants to go about this rebuilding process, this was what she said today.
01:47It's absolutely going to be a difficult challenge. There's no understating that, but it's one
01:51that we're up for. We're going to work hard, particularly Bush members. We're used to rolling
01:55up our sleeves and getting in and doing the best that we can. That's not going to change
01:59now in this role. We're going to continue to do that as local members, but we're also
02:04going to do that at the higher level in the leadership role as the opposition.
02:10Now many of the federal members in the Northern Territory, or two of the federal members for
02:13Labor in the Northern Territory, Luke Gosling and Mariam Skrindja, will be looking closely
02:18at a review that Territory Labor and the federal ALP will be taking into this massive election
02:23loss that Labor copped two weeks ago in order to get some lessons away about what they need
02:28to do, because obviously a federal election is just around the corner. It has to be called
02:32before May next year. For those two sitting MPs, both of whom belong to Labor, they can't
02:38afford to lose their seats without throwing the Albanese government into a minority either.
02:42This result is having federal ramifications and they'll be paying very close attention to it.
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