Latest / 360 with Katie Woolf / NT Senator Jacinta Price says absolute mayhem is occurring in Central Australia after a naked person jumped on a taxi

Transcript

NT Senator Jacinta Price says absolute mayhem is occurring in Central Australia after a naked person jumped on a taxi · 360 with Katie Woolf

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Let's get into it though, because joining me on the
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: line right now is just Enter Price. She is the
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: senator for the COLP. Good morning to you.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: Just inter Good morning, Katie.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: We're on our high horse about plenty of different things
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: around around the place this morning. But I tell you
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: what that vision that you've shared on your social media
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: and the message that you've got for the Prime Minister
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: around crime in Alice Springs, it's something that we all
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: need to hear. What's going on in central Australia right now.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: It just seems like absolute mayhem. And I don't know
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: if there's a correlation between the fact that alcohol is
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: just so readily available. I mean, for the first time
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: in a long time, I saw a group of group
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: of original mob walking past my house with the curtain
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: of VB and you know that used to be a
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: regular site before the restrictions came in, but now it's
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: sort of like open slaver and it's really distressing to
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: see that in the middle of the day we have
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: a situal where there's you know, a violent naked individual
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: jumping on top of a taxi and stomping in something
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: in the window. I mean, if that sort of thing
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: occurred in one of the capital cities, it would be
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: all over front pages. They'd be outrage. You know, they'd
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: be looking into who this individual was, what their background is,
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: why they've done this, you know, talking to people who
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: were witnesses. I mean, you know, kids walk out streets
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the day, and it is unsafe
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: even in the middle of the day when you've got
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: these sorts of things going on, and there just seems
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: to be no one. I don't believe that the police
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: media unit are actually telling us everything that's going on,
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: because I think there's a lot of issues that are
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: going under the radar that we don't know about because
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: we're hearing them, but we're hearing them from action from
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: Alice before the actual police media puts it out there.
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: So we don't know the full extent of exactly what's
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: going on, and we should know the full extent. And
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: it just feels like our police is so under resource
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: that they can't deal with the situation.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Just Cinter. I know you've spoken there about you know,
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: about this person who is jumping on the taxi. I'd
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: also seen some vision I believe that it was You've
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: had shared it over the course of the weekend of
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: a brawl inside one of the shopping centers in Alice
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: Springs that looked like teenage girls. Was that right?
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's right. And that's not an isolated scene.
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: You can go shopping on any given day and there'll
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: be brawls or there's you know, kids running a mark
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: and trying to smash things and that sort of thing,
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: and it's just consistent, it's ongoing. They're seemed like there's
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: no sort of no sort of reprieve from it, and
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: you know, locals are just absolutely done with it. They're
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: done with it, and it's really sad that we're seeing
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: longtime locals packing up and leaving because I just feel
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: like that's the only option that they're left with.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Now. You are calling on the Prime Minister Anthony Albinezi
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: to come to Alice Springs. You've even said, you know,
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: maybe do it without the fanfare, just turn up and
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: see for yourself what it's like exactly.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, if he can put the effort
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: into attending to you know, places like Ukraine, you know,
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: to see what's going on the ground in terms of
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: the war that they're confronted with. While we're dealing with
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: day to day. It feels like a war zone in
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: some of our in our springs and some of our
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: remote communities. And yet there's no attention in his own backyard.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: There's no way of going, well, how can we as
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: the federal government look at how we can support better
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: support people in these circumstances in his own country? And yeah,
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: and I would ask that it'd be done that absolutely
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: without the media, without the fanfare. You know, this is
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: one thing that as much as people like to bash
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: Tony Abbott on, he regularly when he was Prime Minister
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: made trips to remote communities to understand what was going
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: on on the ground without the media and without the
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: fan fare, simply because he wanted to have a better
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: understanding of how he could support those communities. Well, that's
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: what Albo needs to do. He needs to step up.
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, they're banging on about this idea
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: of voice and constitutional recognition that is doing nothing for
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: the circumstances that we're confronted with. Write this minute now.
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: Just sint to look. There's going to be people listening
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: this morning thinking well, the territory government provides the funding
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: and provides the legislation. When it comes to the issues
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: that we've got with crime, What will a visit from
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: Anthony Albanezi actually do. Why do you think it's so important?
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's important because I'm sure he wouldn't
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: allow it to happen. If it was directly out the
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: front of his home, he'd be outraged and he'd want
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: something to be done about it. But because it's so
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: far out of sight, out of mind, it just feels
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: like there's a little action. And because now this idea
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: of an intervention has got such sigma around it, Well,
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: now we're reversing what the intervention was intended for, which
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: is which was to ease alcohol, to try and make
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: things a little bit safer for people and communities and children.
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: And if we're not getting the support we need from
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: this territory government, then who else are we supposed to
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: go to? The schedule is the next step? I mean,
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: I'm getting phone calls now from distressed form of foster
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: carers who have got phone calls from the mothers who
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: are saying our kids have been taken back off me
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: again because I've been locked up? Can you have the kids?
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: And Territory Families has removed, removed those kids some time
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: ago and tried to put them back, reintroduce them to
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: their family, and now the kids are less in limbos.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: And this is again the alcohol is flowing. So what
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: are the parents interested in. They're interested in alcohol, not
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: the well being of their own children, who are now
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: back in a system, but not with the foster parents
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: that were providing in the care and the supports they needed.
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: So these kids are being retraumatized and they're going to
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: be They're going to be the next bunch of kids
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: on the street.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: It's like, honestly, it sounds like it is a mess
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: in Alice Springs at the mind. You know, I love
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: Alice Springs. I lived there when I was younger. I
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: think it's a fantastic place. But it sounds at the
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: moment like the community is just on their knees, really
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: calling for help. However they can get it.
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: Absolutely on their knees. And you know what, we don't
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: need this. We don't need a bureaucracy shoved in our
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: constitution to tell you what's going on right in our
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: communities right this minute. This government each you know, our representatives,
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: you know, and I'm part of that. But everyone needs
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: to be needs to be saying and doing something about it.
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: It's like there's not enough outrage. It requires national outrage
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: for anything to any change to happen, and we're not
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: getting that because where the territory, we're out of sight,
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: we're out of mind, we're a final frontier. It's like
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: whatever goes and now we've got alcohol ruining our communities
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: and our people all over again.
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: Well, just enterprise. The Senator for the Northern Territory, the
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: COLP Senator for the Northern Territory. I appreciate your time
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: this morning. Can you let us know whether you hear
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: from Anthony Albanezi?
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: Oh sure, will I'll let you know.
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: Good on you. Thanks so much for your time this morning.