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NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles says Lia Finocchiaro’s leadership is untenable after CLP President Lawson Broad decided to step down over the party’s stance on a Voice to Parliament · 360 with Katie Woolf

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Speaker 1: There is certainly a lot on the agenda today, so
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Speaker 1: let's get straight into it because joining me in the
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Speaker 1: studio is the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Natasha Files.
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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.
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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, Good morning listeners.
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Speaker 1: Now Chief Minister. Firstly, and some breaking news. We know
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Speaker 1: that the COLP President Lawson broad stepped down over the
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Speaker 1: CLP's resolution last month to oppose the Voice to Parliament.
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Speaker 1: What do you make of this news this morning?
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Speaker 3: O Leofanocchio's leadership is untenable. They refuse to speak to
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Speaker 3: the motion on the floor of Parliament.
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Speaker 2: Katie.
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Speaker 3: You don't not have a view when you're a leader,
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Speaker 3: and she did not speak herself, and so you know
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Speaker 3: there is serious issues within the COLP and she needs
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Speaker 3: to address them. So you reckon she's gone, Katie. You
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Speaker 3: can't sit on the fence on these issues. You need
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Speaker 3: to have an opinion and a view and you need
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Speaker 3: to show leadership and she failed to show leadership when
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Speaker 3: we had that motion on the floor of Territory Parliament.
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Speaker 3: And she's failed clearly. When you have this sort of
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Speaker 3: disarray within the CLP.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the situation around the territory is though that
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Speaker 1: there are still a lot of people who are unsure
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Speaker 1: exactly how they're going to vote, but they want some
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Speaker 1: further detail, don't you reckon that?
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Speaker 3: It's fair enough to get that first. But Katie, she
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Speaker 3: didn't oppose it, she didn't support it, she didn't even speak.
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Speaker 3: She passed that on to Josh Burgoyne as the whip.
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Speaker 3: So she's completely failed as a leader. Leadership can be
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Speaker 3: difficult some days, it's not always easy, and she's failed
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Speaker 3: in the space of leadership. Well, look, we are going
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Speaker 3: to talk some more about this and get some further
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Speaker 3: detail when we catch up with Matt Cunningham from Sky
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Speaker 3: News in a few minutes time.
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Speaker 1: He broke that story overnight. But the ara, if you're
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Speaker 1: a by election is set to take place on the weekend, have.
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Speaker 3: You been out to the electros So, Katie, I have
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Speaker 3: had the opportunity to get out and about, probably not
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Speaker 3: quite as much as I'd hoped. There's been obviously those
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Speaker 3: flooding events that we've been providing serious focus and support to.
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Speaker 3: But we've got a fantastic candidate, Manuel Brown, a Teawei
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Speaker 3: man that lives in Man and Greta, and he will
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Speaker 3: be an excellent, strong representative for that vast electric two
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Speaker 3: very different parts of the territory. But he's got the
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Speaker 3: skills to be that strong voice.
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Speaker 1: And you're feeling pretty confident that you're going to win.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Katie, we never take anything for granted. We represent
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Speaker 3: small electorates in the Northern Territory and so he's been
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Speaker 3: out there ensuring that the voters of our afua know
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Speaker 3: that strong voice that he'll be and what he stands for.
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Speaker 1: What have been some of the major issues that have
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Speaker 1: been raised so as concerns out there in our referra.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Katie, definitely roads, particularly on the Tiwei Islands, providing
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Speaker 3: accessibility for people to outstations and homelands, but also between
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Speaker 3: the communities. So housing has been another issue. And really
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Speaker 3: proud that the one thousand new house was delivered in
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Speaker 3: Man and Grida just last week. So certainly issues that
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Speaker 3: we're working on and he'll continue to listen to the
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Speaker 3: community and be that strong voice.
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Speaker 1: Now moving along because there is so much happening around
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Speaker 1: the place, and we understand that the Northern Territory Police
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Speaker 1: Association executive they've endorsed an EBA from the government in principle.
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Speaker 1: Now it's on the basis that an independent review into
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Speaker 1: police resourcing is conducted. Chief Minister, it seems as though
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Speaker 1: you're also a step closer with corrections as well. You
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Speaker 1: must be pleased to see that these negotiations are starting
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Speaker 1: to come to an end, Sotie.
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Speaker 3: We've been negotiating in good faith across a range of sectors.
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Speaker 3: We saw the teachers sign up just before Christmas to
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Speaker 3: the EBA and that's what these negotiations are. And we've
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Speaker 3: always been in good faith around what would make the
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Speaker 3: support to those workers, whether it's monetary or other resources.
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Speaker 3: And so we'll be continued to focused on supporting frontline
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Speaker 3: workers and all workers in the Northern Chartory public service.
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Speaker 1: Can we expect that that three percent is going to
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Speaker 1: be a standard increase that most public servants can expect.
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Speaker 3: So, Katie, it's a balance for us between our budget
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Speaker 3: and particularly around wages. It's a huge part of the
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Speaker 3: Northern Territory government budget. But giving those workers that work
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Speaker 3: really hard, that do a vital job across the territory
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Speaker 3: each day the pay rise they deserve, where is.
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Speaker 1: The money coming from, Because at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: I don't think that we've increased our own source revenue
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Speaker 1: at this point in time. So I just I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to wrap my head around where's the money coming from?
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Speaker 3: And so where in the budget process now, Katie. So
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Speaker 3: budget cabinet where we come together and we look at
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Speaker 3: the own source revenue, GST revenue, tied funding agreements, but
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Speaker 3: we also look at, you know, the costs of running
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Speaker 3: the territory, from hospitals to schools to building roads that
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Speaker 3: are so vital.
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Speaker 2: And so that's the process we're going through at the moment.
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Speaker 3: So more debt, So, Katie, we're really focused on structurally
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Speaker 3: rebalancing our budget so that we and as you said,
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Speaker 3: we're very focused on that own source revenue. We're not
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Speaker 3: quite there with those projects. We do see some owned
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Speaker 3: source revenue Katie, in the territory, and that's why when
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Speaker 3: people say that they want to see more resources into
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Speaker 3: health or education or more housing, that's why we have
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Speaker 3: to develop industry and have jobs not only to keep
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Speaker 3: people here but also to develop that own source revenue.
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Speaker 3: So are we expecting to see cuts, Katie, We're really
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Speaker 3: focused on not cutting. We certainly have within the public service,
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Speaker 3: people work incredibly hard and some people are on the
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Speaker 3: front line and you see the work they do. Other
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Speaker 3: people do vital work behind the scenes to ensure that
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Speaker 3: the territory runs. So it is a really tricky situation,
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Speaker 3: but we take it with you know, the greatest respect
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Speaker 3: and work hard through that.
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Speaker 1: Well, I guess I'm just trying to wrap my head
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Speaker 1: around where the money is coming from because obviously wages
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Speaker 1: are a huge expense to the Northern Territory government, there
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Speaker 1: is no doubt about that, and to the taxpayers. So
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Speaker 1: if we're not quite there yet when it comes to
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Speaker 1: our own source revenue and we're not cutting anything, obviously
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Speaker 1: we are going to be taking on more debt.
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Speaker 3: So Katie, we see we do have own source revenue
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Speaker 3: that comes in presently and we do see Commonwealth funding.
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Speaker 3: So what we're trying to do is balance and we
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Speaker 3: look at every single dollar that is spent in the
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Speaker 3: territory and is it growing jobs of the future and
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Speaker 3: that owned source revenue or is it delivering essential services.
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Speaker 3: So Cabinet is going through that process at the moment
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Speaker 3: with the budget.
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Speaker 1: Now, just with the firefighters, we're told that there are
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Speaker 1: a number of fireies who are doing their fitness tests
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Speaker 1: and getting ready to try for interstate services. From what
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Speaker 1: I can gather, the negotiations when it comes to the
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Speaker 1: firefighters have been quite hostile.
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Speaker 3: What is your take, So, Katie, we respect all of
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Speaker 3: these workers and the right that they have to negotiate
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Speaker 3: and to bargain. And that's where we're at in terms
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Speaker 3: of a number of EBAs. We're keen to see them
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Speaker 3: finalized because we can give people that pay rise, give
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Speaker 3: them that back pay.
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Speaker 2: Katie.
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Speaker 3: Some of these agreements are some months, if not years
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Speaker 3: past the original agreement expiring.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it does seem to have taken an awful long
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Speaker 1: time and there seems to be some pretty big sticking
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Speaker 1: point well one in fact, for the Northern Territory Police
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Speaker 1: Association from the documentation which I've seen, so they've agreed
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Speaker 1: in principle to the EBA by the look of things,
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Speaker 1: taking them into account that they've got to go out
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Speaker 1: to a full rank and file vote. But it is
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Speaker 1: on the basis that an independent review into police resourcing
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Speaker 1: is conducted. Now the information that I've seen, the Northern
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Speaker 1: Territory Police Association said that they understand this would not
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Speaker 1: occur prior to the general election of government in August
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Why would it not happen before the election.
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Speaker 3: So Katie, we've got a new electronic rostering system which
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Speaker 3: is a huge part of that review, so that will
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Speaker 3: show us exactly where people are and where people need
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Speaker 3: to be in terms of that workforce that should be
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Speaker 3: commenced by June this year should be commenced. So I
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Speaker 3: think that once you've got about six months worth of data,
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Speaker 3: potentially you can start to look at that and that
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Speaker 3: ties into that police resourcing piece. So at the moment
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Speaker 3: it would not be possible to have that concise overview
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Speaker 3: territory wide, So they're saying that potentially you might need
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Speaker 3: twelve months worth of data, but I think that that
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Speaker 3: work could start.
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Speaker 2: Once you have a reasonable chunk of data.
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Speaker 3: Territory wide, you can start to look at where your
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Speaker 3: police resources are and where they're needed and what we
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Speaker 3: can do to support our front.
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Speaker 1: So you reckon that you'd be able to do that
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Speaker 1: before the next general.
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Speaker 3: Election, Katie, I think it is really important to be
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Speaker 3: transparent to territorians and if we didn't have that date
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Speaker 3: of August twenty four is the election, you know. But
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Speaker 3: I think that once we've got some of the data
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Speaker 3: from the electronic rostering system, that will start to give
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Speaker 3: us a picture and that that work can take place.
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Speaker 1: Because I mean, last time you're on the show, you
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Speaker 1: told me that there were hundreds of officers who are
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Speaker 1: on sick lave. The Police Association survey then found that
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Speaker 1: officers feel that there's not enough of them to do
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Speaker 1: what's being asked. And then you've got the Northern Territory
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Speaker 1: Deputy Police Commission are telling the coronial which is currently underway,
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Speaker 1: that we're three hundred police officers short. So I guess,
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Speaker 1: you know, taking all of that into account, it's pretty
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Speaker 1: obvious to most Territorians that they feel as though there
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Speaker 1: does need to be a really serious look into police resourcing. Katie.
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Speaker 3: We've increased the police budget by over one hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty million dollars. There's been new infrastructure delivered in remote
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Speaker 3: communities and urban areas in terms of police stations. But
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Speaker 3: I think this highlights we've got police working incredibly hard
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Speaker 3: and we need to understand what allocation needs to be placed,
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Speaker 3: and that's why that electronic rostering is so important.
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Speaker 1: So why do you feel as though Territorians feel like
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Speaker 1: there are not enough police Katie?
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Speaker 2: It's a difficult question to answer.
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Speaker 3: In the sense that people police go in there when
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Speaker 3: the rest of us are running away from an incident.
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Speaker 3: We need to invest in services, We need to have
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Speaker 3: a safer community before we get to that point that
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Speaker 3: we need police. But police have an incredibly important job
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Speaker 3: to do, and so we need to understand the complexities
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Speaker 3: of their job and how we can drive change in
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Speaker 3: that space, but at the same time support them with
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Speaker 3: allocation of resources.
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Speaker 1: So let me make this really clear. So are we
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Speaker 1: going to be in a situation then where this review
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Speaker 1: is conducted or are we waiting until June this year
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Speaker 1: when the electronic rostering system is underway and reviewing that
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Speaker 1: for six months.
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Speaker 3: So Katie, we need the electronic rostering and we need
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Speaker 3: probably about six months worth of data around electronic rostering
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Speaker 3: to show us where the police are needed and what
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Speaker 3: potential gaps we have. And then that is how you
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Speaker 3: can review the police resources piece, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 1: So, and it will be a full independent review.
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Speaker 3: So Katie will work through with police around how we
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Speaker 3: can understand their rostering. But what I'm saying to you
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Speaker 3: is there's been an incredible investment into police numbers, into
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Speaker 3: police infrastructure, yet we keep getting that reoccurring question, and
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Speaker 3: not just from your listeners, but also from police themselves
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Speaker 3: that they feel unsupported in situations. You've literally got a
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Speaker 3: situation where the Deputy Police Commission told the Coronial that
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Speaker 3: there're three hundred police short.
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Speaker 1: Like to me, that's an astronomical number, Katie.
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Speaker 3: That number hasn't been presented to us as a government,
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Speaker 3: neither to myself as Chief Minister, or to the police Sager.
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Speaker 1: You must have heard him make those comments throughout the Coronial.
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Speaker 3: I've heard the commentary, but what I'm saying is I
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Speaker 3: haven't had the rationale behind those figures presented to me.
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Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is we've put in place an
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Speaker 3: incredible investment in both police numbers and infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: Let me just get to the bottom. So there is
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Speaker 1: going to be an independent review.
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Speaker 3: So Katie, what I have said is the electronic monster
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Speaker 3: rostering piece needs to come into play, and then when
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Speaker 3: we have a basis of data, we will start to
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Speaker 3: review those police resources.
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Speaker 1: So you're not committing to an independent review, Katie.
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Speaker 3: Happy to work with the Police Minister and the Police
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Speaker 3: Association around what that shape of that review is. But
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Speaker 3: we've absolutely said that we will review those police resources
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Speaker 3: because we'll have important information that will help us drive change.
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Speaker 3: So there is going to be a review. I'm just
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Speaker 3: trying to make it really clear.
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Speaker 1: So there's going to be a review but it's not
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Speaker 1: going to happen until the electronic monitoring or the electronic
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Speaker 1: rostering system is in place for about six months to
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Speaker 1: check that data, to go through that data, and then
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Speaker 1: you'll be able to review things so that we're looking
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Speaker 1: at I guess early next year.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Katie, I think that timeframe is reasonable. We were
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Speaker 3: told that it would be more ideal to have more data,
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Speaker 3: so perhaps twelve months. But I'm conscious that people want
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Speaker 3: to have a sense of this understanding leading into the election,
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Speaker 3: and that's why I've said I think that once you've
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Speaker 3: got the rostering system in place and you've got a
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Speaker 3: basis of data, which I think you can get from
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Speaker 3: six months, you can start to look at.
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Speaker 1: This and so that review will be independent.
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Speaker 3: So Katie, that's a question that I'll take on notice
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Speaker 3: and work with the Police Association and the Police Minister.
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Speaker 3: I think you need to have a level of understanding
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Speaker 3: of police complexities, but I do see it before you.
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Speaker 1: Know, we've had run the last reviews. We're dating back
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Speaker 1: like two thy and eleven. It's a long time between reviews,
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Speaker 1: isn't it, Katie.
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Speaker 3: I think it needs to be independent enough that people
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Speaker 3: feel comfortable speaking. But I think at the same time
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Speaker 3: you need to have that knowledge and under standing of
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Speaker 3: the police so that it can provide a real change
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Speaker 3: or input if that's what's needed.
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Speaker 1: And so it's not a situation here where the government's
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Speaker 1: holding off because you're worried that it's going to impact
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Speaker 1: you politically, No, Katie, and I think you can see
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Speaker 1: from the comments I've made around the time frame that
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Speaker 1: probably more ideally twelve months worth of electronic rostering would
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Speaker 1: be better. But I'm conscious that we do have that
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Speaker 1: election in August and I don't want that perception, which
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Speaker 1: is why that I've spoken with the Police Minister and
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Speaker 1: we feel that off six months of data, we can
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Speaker 1: start to look into this will whether it's an independent
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Speaker 1: review or exactly how it works. Are the results going
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Speaker 1: to be made public?
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Speaker 3: I think that that would be important, Katie, so that
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Speaker 3: we can not only have our police force having confidence
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Speaker 3: in this, but the general community. Because we have incredibly
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Speaker 3: hard working police that do a great job each and
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Speaker 3: every day, and they need to know that the government
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Speaker 3: is supporting them.
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Speaker 2: And I can point to.
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Speaker 3: Figures that we've provided of additional resources, but I think
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Speaker 3: that there's complexities there that need to be understood by
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Speaker 3: Do you.
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Speaker 1: Think it's not being managed? Probably? What do you think's
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Speaker 1: going on?
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Speaker 3: Think this electronic rostering is really important, Katie, so we
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Speaker 3: can understand where our police are needed, perhaps where we
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Speaker 3: can better allocate them to better serve the community's interests.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's move along. Over the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: we've seen some shocking footage of bottle shops being ambushed.
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Speaker 1: Did you see that vision that came out from Palmerston
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Speaker 1: last week, Katie.
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Speaker 3: I have seen some vision and it's of course extremely concerning,
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Speaker 3: and I've been working with licensing around the responsibilities that
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Speaker 3: licensees have to make sure that they keep products safe.
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Speaker 3: But it is incredibly difficult when you have people, you know,
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Speaker 3: just outright feeving to get a hold of alcohol, because.
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Speaker 1: Even if you keep the products safe, I mean, it
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Speaker 1: looks like it's a situation where you know, people are
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Speaker 1: just breaking glass, they're doing what they want to do
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Speaker 1: to get their hands on alcohol.
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Speaker 3: And Greg is such a tricky policy space, Katie, and
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Speaker 3: we've done an enormous amount in that licensing space to
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Speaker 3: stop alcohol from getting to those that cause harm. If
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Speaker 3: people commit an offense, they will be charged, they will
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Speaker 3: be caught by police. So it's a difficult policy area,
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Speaker 3: but we will continue to put in place measures and
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Speaker 3: be agile to the community's needs.
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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, you've got a situation where we know
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Speaker 1: that there was allegedly a group stole a car from Manula,
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Speaker 1: a home there before ramming the back gates and smashing
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Speaker 1: the back door early Saturday morning of the Beachfront Hotel
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Speaker 1: in your electorate. They allegedly stole five thousand dollars worth
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Speaker 1: of grog and cause twenty five thousand dollars worth of damage.
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Speaker 2: Katie.
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Speaker 3: I won't come in on that matter because it's presently
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Speaker 3: before the police. But stepping away from that specific we
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Speaker 3: have provided business Secure grants to help people secure their
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Speaker 3: premises to stop.
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Speaker 2: This type of behavior.
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Speaker 3: So it's incredibly concerning, but as I said, we'll continue
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Speaker 3: to work with licensing, business secure and police in this space.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I do want to ask you the Queensland Government's
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Speaker 1: cracking down on vaping by announcing a parliamentary inquiry into
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Speaker 1: the dangers of the issue, the State Premier, Anastasia Palichet said,
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Speaker 1: and inquiries needed as vaping is a stepping stone to smoking.
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Speaker 1: She pointed to a study done by the Australian National
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Speaker 1: University that found people are three times more likely to
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Speaker 1: take up smoking if they've tried vaping. Now, I'm not
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Speaker 1: really sure if it is a stepping stone to smoking,
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Speaker 1: but my concern is that we've got a lot of
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Speaker 1: young people who are vaping here in the Northern Territory.
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Speaker 1: Would the Northern Territory government look at conducting a similar inquiry, Katie.
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Speaker 3: I might take that question on notice and I absolutely
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Speaker 3: will come back to you and your listeners. Vaping is
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Speaker 3: not safe. We don't know what is in these products.
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Speaker 3: Chemicals has been suggested, but also the nicotine vaping products
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Speaker 3: are also not a safe al turn it to smoking,
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Speaker 3: So I think that needs to be really clear for
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Speaker 3: your listeners. It's something that we spoke about at the
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Speaker 3: Health Minister's meeting just a couple of weeks ago, and
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Speaker 3: all states and territories are committed to working with the
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Speaker 3: Commonwealth around this issue because there's a number of factors
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Speaker 3: that drive it, but I am very concerned about particularly
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Speaker 3: the young people that seem to think this is cool,
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Speaker 3: particularly the marketing that is to these young people. You know,
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Speaker 3: cotton candy flavored that's not aimed at me or you,
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Speaker 3: that's aimed at our kids, and sadly not just teenagers,
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Speaker 3: but younger than teenagers.
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Speaker 1: You worried the kids are vaping in Northern Territory schools
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Speaker 1: right now? Yes, and so what can be done to
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Speaker 1: stop that from happening?
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Speaker 3: So, Katie, we certainly it's illegal to vaping is treated
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Speaker 3: the same as a tobacco like product. So it's illegal
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Speaker 3: to vape in a setting where it would be illegal
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Speaker 3: to smoke. So your listeners can understand that. So there
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Speaker 3: is things that can be done. If you're at the
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Speaker 3: footy and you see someone vaping, that is just no
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Speaker 3: smoking place. They shouldn't be vaping there. But I also
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Speaker 3: think that we need to educate not just our children
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Speaker 3: and parents, but the broader community that it is not
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Speaker 3: a safe al turn it to smoking.
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Speaker 1: Now, I have got a message that had come through
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Speaker 1: saying it sounds as though it's going to be an
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Speaker 1: internal review from what the Chief Minister is saying around
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Speaker 1: police numbers. Is that the case.
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Speaker 3: I've said that just in responding to what I said
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Speaker 3: before that we do need to review this and understand
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Speaker 3: structurally what's going on. We need people to have confidence
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Speaker 3: in that, so I'll work through that with the Police Minister.
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Speaker 1: Yes or no? Though, is there going to be an
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Speaker 1: independent review into police resourcing?
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Speaker 3: I've just answered the question the same as I did
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Speaker 3: a few minutes ago. I'll work through with the Police
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Speaker 3: Minister specifically to those points that people need to have
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Speaker 3: confidence in it, but we also need it to have
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Speaker 3: that understanding of police.
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Speaker 1: So no real yes or no as to whether it's
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Speaker 1: definitely going to be in your nomal fee. Alright, please
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Speaker 1: Chief Minister, we are going to have to leave it there.
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Speaker 1: As always appreciate your time.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Kank.
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Speaker 1: You