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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