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Katie Woolf spoke with Darren Clark from Wicked Kneads · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Darren from Wicked Needs in Alice. Good morning to you, Darren.
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  Speaker 2: Good Katie. How are you not bad?
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  Speaker 1: Mate?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: For those who don't know, you also run the Action
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  Speaker 1: for Alice page on social media. Mate, how are things
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  Speaker 1: going from your perspective in Alice Springs right now?
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  Speaker 2: It's no good, Codie, It's no good. I haven't got
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  Speaker 2: much better. Last week in was just chaos, absolute chaos,
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  Speaker 2: and we highlighted that. I woke up Sunday morning and
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  Speaker 2: went whack into the messages and it was unbelievable. I
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  Speaker 2: just I just sat there, just can't be serious. And
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  Speaker 2: that's when I that's when I and then started posting
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  Speaker 2: about Patma. Okay, how can you actually have this kind
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  Speaker 2: of crime going on? People being randomly bashed outside the
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  Speaker 2: hotel as they walk around the street, a girl being
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  Speaker 2: something in the side of a face, so car's being
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  Speaker 2: jumped on. So you're going to have those kind of things,
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to have a major tourist event in
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  Speaker 2: the CBD. And I called Natasha Files out on it
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  Speaker 2: and that's back down. They've moved it. Instead of instead
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  Speaker 2: of going at the problem, this is what they do.
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  Speaker 2: This is what they do. I will just move that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we'll just move that. So everyone that's now a free
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  Speaker 2: events for the public. They were so now they're gone.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right. So what else is next? What's next?
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  Speaker 1: Now? So Darren talk us through on the weekend. You
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  Speaker 1: said that there was there was somebody who was randomly
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  Speaker 1: badhed somebody else sumped in the head. From what I'm hearing,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like things are getting better. It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like the worst just about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just comes in waves. And the one thing, Cody,
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  Speaker 2: I've really really noticed, and I've studied this now over
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  Speaker 2: twelve months. Yeah, you get a full moon cycle and
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  Speaker 2: that's when we start to really get it really bad.
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  Speaker 2: Full moon is nuts. I can nearly bet my bottom
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  Speaker 2: dollar you have a full moon and whack here you go.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know the police minister's there today. I believe
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  Speaker 1: is she going to be meeting with members of the
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  Speaker 1: public as far as you know.
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  Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't know.
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  Speaker 3: I would know they're all around down here, that there's
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  Speaker 3: a heap of there's a heap of hierarchy, spleece down here.
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  Speaker 3: I briefly saw the commissioner last night. I look, no
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  Speaker 3: one's got any answers yeah, and then you've got them
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  Speaker 3: the member for Braakling, who's just set them on before me.
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  Speaker 2: I listened to that.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty four weeks, twenty four weeks since the election. So
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  Speaker 2: the MLA in our Springs actually had a meeting with
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  Speaker 2: a government minister here in town about crime. So don't
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  Speaker 2: bloody will say you're having a go and you're hurting
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  Speaker 2: Josh and boy, because you're not. The people down here
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  Speaker 2: are hurting and you don't give too hoop half the time. Mate,
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  Speaker 2: you're away, you're away at Christmas having a holiday. While
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  Speaker 2: we're here, our businesses are getting broken into, homes are
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  Speaker 2: getting broken into it and then you come back all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden you jump on it. You didn't say
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  Speaker 2: nothing for a week. Yeah I've been visiting businesses. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you've only been doing that for two weeks. Mate. It's
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  Speaker 2: not good enough. It's not good enough for anyone. So
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  Speaker 2: it sounds n position whether you're the government. Yeah, better
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  Speaker 2: and Darren the bullshit. We're fed up being told bullshit
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  Speaker 2: and it's time. It's time everyone. You're getting paid guy,
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  Speaker 2: you're getting paid by the public. Pull your heads in
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  Speaker 2: and look after it. Because you don't. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be like this place is simmering down here, Cuddy. Oh mate,
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  Speaker 2: interviews with.
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  Speaker 1: You now, Yes, righteous, I was just thinking. I was
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  Speaker 1: about to say that you and I have been talking
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  Speaker 1: for some time about this, and you know, I've got
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  Speaker 1: to be honest, Darren. This is the most upset I've
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  Speaker 1: ever heard you sound.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, Look, look, they're not going to fix this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's cut to the chase. Let's cut to the chase.
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  Speaker 2: They've left it. They've all left it too long. The
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  Speaker 2: Department of Education doesn't talk to territory families. Territory families
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  Speaker 2: don't feed information to the police. How are you going
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  Speaker 2: to fix it? Half of these kids getting around school,
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  Speaker 2: around the streets. They're saying, oh, they should be in
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  Speaker 2: People are saying they should be in school. I can't
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  Speaker 2: be half of my dard is rolled in a school. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I've got a message. I had messages the other night.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry to cut you off. I have messaged the other
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  Speaker 2: Knight from a young fellow. Right, he's on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: So we had a nice little, of course, a conversation.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to communicate with this young fellow. And
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  Speaker 2: he's part of the Crypts gang. So we've got this
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  Speaker 2: little gang gang mentality thing down here. We've got the
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  Speaker 2: crypts in the blood So after which gang is from,
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  Speaker 2: He's from the crypt. So I said, well, what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing out on the streets? Mate? There goes Mate.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't want you to hurt us. I said, no,
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  Speaker 2: one's going. We want we actually want you to be safe. Mate.
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  Speaker 2: We want you off the streets. We want you to
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  Speaker 2: be done to school and get an education. Mate. We're
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  Speaker 2: as worried about you as what we're worried about a
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  Speaker 2: windscreen or a shop. Now. We had a really good conversation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and then in the end of it, I said, mate,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to stay safe, buddy, Yeah, and keep your
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  Speaker 2: brother safe. And you don't what he said to me,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do that. I said, what are you
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  Speaker 2: going to do? He said, I'm taking all my home
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  Speaker 2: in We're going home. So why are territory families and
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  Speaker 2: all these youth services that are driving around in these
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  Speaker 2: vans every bloody night? Why are they getting out and
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  Speaker 2: having these conversations. I go down on the streets Katie
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  Speaker 2: during the night. I'm passionate about this bloody town and
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  Speaker 2: I'm passionate about this issue. Yeah, I've watched the services.
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  Speaker 2: They drive past the kids. They don't even get out
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  Speaker 2: of the bloody mean So look, I actually think Michael
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  Speaker 2: Gunner get sped all the information they get, the wolve
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  Speaker 2: pulled over his eyes. He comes down ere, the streets
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  Speaker 2: have been queen and they feed him bullshit. How about Michael,
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  Speaker 2: you come down here, mate, you've been in my house,
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  Speaker 2: Come and lock on my door at about ten o'clock
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  Speaker 2: at night and we'll drive around for six hours unadult
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  Speaker 2: or rated drive.
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  Speaker 1: So Darren, you be luckily.
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  Speaker 2: Let's stop Bloody's sneering over this bullshit because we've got
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  Speaker 2: these kids on the streets that need to be kept safe. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to lose one or two or three generations
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  Speaker 2: of kids. Here come one, Bloody start doing something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and mate, So despite all of it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: despite what you've gone through, and despite what's happening in
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  Speaker 1: the town, and you know the anger that you felt
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple of years towards the government and
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  Speaker 1: no doubt towards the opposition as well, you be prepared
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  Speaker 1: to have a drive around with the Chief Minister and
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  Speaker 1: really let him see exactly what you see. When you're
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 2: Every day of the week. He comes sat down with
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  Speaker 2: me two weeks before the election, me and my partner
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  Speaker 2: sat down with us for about half an hour in
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  Speaker 2: our home, which I appreciate it. I thought that's good,
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  Speaker 2: he assured me. After the election the boot cancill kick in,
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  Speaker 2: there will be consequences of this. Will do this, will
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  Speaker 2: change this public service, will be accountable for their actions.
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  Speaker 2: They we'll have to do their job. Well, buddy, they're
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  Speaker 2: not and you're not making them accountable. And someone's pulling
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  Speaker 2: the wool over your eyes. Michael ye Adam's making look
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  Speaker 2: making you look really bad, buddy. So how about you
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  Speaker 2: come down here, hang out with some real locaels, no bullshit,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll drive you around and we'll show you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Darren, Mate, I'm gonna have to leave it there. I
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate your call this morning. Thank you for actually
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  Speaker 1: letting people know here in the top end exactly how
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  Speaker 1: you guys are feeling at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Nor Cotie, thank you for time anytime.
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  Speaker 1: We're always happy to talk to you, and we will
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  Speaker 1: talk to you again very soon. We are hoping to
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  Speaker 1: come to Alice Springs at some point very soon and
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  Speaker 1: if we do. You're the top of our list to
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  Speaker 1: call good on you. Thank you Darren there from Wicked Needs.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what, that's pretty bloody heartbreaking stuff to hear.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they sound like they're at their wits end.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. And you know, I think,
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  Speaker 1: as you've just heard there from Darren, he said it best.
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  Speaker 1: We need to. Everybody's just got to put their political
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  Speaker 1: views to the side for a second and realize that
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  Speaker 1: in Alice Springs right now, they are screaming out for help.
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  Speaker 1: They're screaming out for things to change, and you need
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  Speaker 1: to listen