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Katie Woolf spoke with Wicked Kneads Darren Clarke on A Current Affair segment on Crime in Alice Springs · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: The vision last night on a Current Affair, I think
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to say was pretty horrifying to see. However,
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  Speaker 1: it seems as though it's just another day in Alice.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, get another report, this time of two men
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  Speaker 1: being set upon by between ten to fifteen youths. Now
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  Speaker 1: joining us on the line is Darren, the owner of
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  Speaker 1: Wicked Needs and also the man who set up the
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  Speaker 1: page action for Alice. Good morning, Darren, Katie, how are
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  Speaker 1: you not too bad? Mate? You know, what were your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts watching a Current Affair last night? I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's your life at the moment, that's our life.
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  Speaker 2: That's a slippet of Alice Springs life. It was cut
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  Speaker 2: down a fair bit. There was a hell of a
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  Speaker 2: lot more that could have been shown. Of course, the
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  Speaker 2: go for a certain amount of time. Yeah, but that's
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  Speaker 2: what we're living in.
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  Speaker 1: Was it emotional for you guys actually seeing it all there? Really?
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  Speaker 1: You know, in a package like that for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the nation to.
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  Speaker 2: See, Okatie, I've got that many messages from last night
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  Speaker 2: and this morning, and then people got I ran in today.
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  Speaker 2: They sat there and they were crying. Local people were
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  Speaker 2: sitting there and they were crying because they've had enough.
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  Speaker 2: They know, they can't believe our town has got to
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  Speaker 2: this stage. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you know, mate, I watched it last night
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  Speaker 1: and I felt really sad for you guys because I
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  Speaker 1: thought to myself, I lived there, you know, eighteen years
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  Speaker 1: ago I met my husband in Alice Springs. It's a
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  Speaker 1: place that I hold very dear to my heart. And
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  Speaker 1: it was really sad to see it in that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very sad, and we've been talking about this
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  Speaker 2: for a long long time. It's sad, and we live
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  Speaker 2: in fear. You have the current Fair crew. They couldn't believe.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't believe it. They couldn't believe the age of
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  Speaker 2: the kids walking the street. They actually asked me, what
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  Speaker 2: are those little kids there? I said, don't want to
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  Speaker 2: create the crime and do the damage, you know, And
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  Speaker 2: I keep saying it. This government is letting these youth down.
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  Speaker 2: They're not safe, and in turn, the community is not safe.
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  Speaker 2: So you're letting you're letting everyone down, guys. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I said on your show the other week, tell Michael
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  Speaker 2: Gonna to come down and I'll take him around. Well
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  Speaker 2: he could have come, He could have come and saw
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  Speaker 2: all that and a hell of a lot more that's
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  Speaker 2: not shown until you're there. I haven't been in a
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  Speaker 2: CVD like walking around for a fair while because I
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  Speaker 2: don't feel safe. And I was there and I was
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  Speaker 2: just absolutely gobsmacked of what goes on. It's even worse
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  Speaker 2: than what I thought it was. It is unbelievable. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I say it again, buddy, come down and
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  Speaker 2: walk the street. Don't tell him when you're come a mate,
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  Speaker 2: come down, Darren.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that last night we've heard from the Alice
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  Speaker 1: Watch commander that last night there was another incident, this
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  Speaker 1: time two blokes. As I understand, it's set upon by
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  Speaker 1: up to fifteen youths.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, they sent me that message about eleven o'clock last
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  Speaker 2: want them guys. Yeah, Look, it just doesn't stop. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't stop. There was another couple of vehicles on the
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  Speaker 2: weekend that were burned out. You know, they're burning vehicles
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  Speaker 2: out in the CBD in Cole's car park. Like this
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  Speaker 2: has got to stop.
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable, you know, honestly, if like I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've been telling us about it for so long. We've
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  Speaker 1: been speaking to so many people in Alice Springs about
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  Speaker 1: the concerns that you guys have got. But the Chief
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  Speaker 1: Minister said yesterday on the show that they've got additional
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  Speaker 1: resources that are going to be sent to Alice Springs
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  Speaker 1: police resources here we go twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: Look I do.
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  Speaker 1: But I was going to ask you, well you do.
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  Speaker 2: They're not even making up the numbers of the police
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  Speaker 2: that have left our springs, the police that are out
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  Speaker 2: on stress leaves here, they're not even touching the sides
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  Speaker 2: and it's all just spinmates, bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that was going to be my question. You know,
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  Speaker 1: does any of that discussion quell the concerns of the
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  Speaker 1: people living in Alice Springs When you hear the government
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  Speaker 1: talk about things like this ring Leader legislation, does it
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  Speaker 1: give you any hope or does it actually make you think,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, here we go, same thing again.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's just bullshit. No, I can tell you now.
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  Speaker 2: The community down here have just lost all faith. They've
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  Speaker 2: lost all faith. We're on our own, okay, Yeah, our
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  Speaker 2: town is small, it's not. It's not a huge town.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a hell of a lot of police here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, word gets around, there's not they're not they're
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  Speaker 2: not making up numbers. They're not increasing the numbers, they're
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  Speaker 2: not even making the numbers up. The people there. It's
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  Speaker 2: just all bullshit. It seriously is, and we're sick of it.
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  Speaker 2: I listened to I listened to you your whole thing
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  Speaker 2: is your whole interview with Michael Gunny yesterday and the
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  Speaker 2: worst thing he said yesterday was Shaane Powler was killed.
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  Speaker 2: Shane Paler lost his life as a victim of this
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  Speaker 2: unrelenting crime. He goes he was in the wrong place
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  Speaker 2: at the wrong time. What a disgusting, despicable comment for
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  Speaker 2: the leader of the Northern Territory by any human being
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  Speaker 2: to say that that guy looked was looking with a
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  Speaker 2: care for people. He was on his way home from work.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't in the wrong place at the wrong time,
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  Speaker 2: check minister. He was doing his job and he was
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  Speaker 2: going home to his mother and his family. Of this
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  Speaker 2: crime cost that guy his life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh mate, I you know, I really hope that
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  Speaker 1: the fact that this is on a national stage now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it makes the government sit up and listen.
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  Speaker 2: They have to.
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  Speaker 1: We spoke to the Minister for Health and Tourism, Natasha
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  Speaker 1: Files a few minutes ago. She hasn't watched a current
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  Speaker 1: affair yet.
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  Speaker 2: I've urged her she's seriously watching.
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  Speaker 1: I've urged her and the other ministers to sit down
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  Speaker 1: and watch it so that they can get a really
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  Speaker 1: clear view of what's going on. I also reckon they
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  Speaker 1: all need to come down and, like you said, not
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  Speaker 1: tell anybody that they're going to be there, but go
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  Speaker 1: for a walk around town and have a look for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Right. They won't walk around town the police. The police.
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  Speaker 2: There's a mobile unit in the mall. They've doubled the
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  Speaker 2: numbers there. They've got four members of a night and
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  Speaker 2: you know what, they've got four members of a night,
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  Speaker 2: so there's two at the van and two can walk around.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like to walk around, you know why, because
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  Speaker 2: the police say it's too dangerous. It's too dangerous. A
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  Speaker 2: police officer saying that.
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  Speaker 1: It's honestly, it's it's a very very sad state of affairs, Darren.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really sorry mate, I'm going to have to wrap
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  Speaker 1: it up because we've got to speak. We've we've got
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  Speaker 1: a serious incident that's happened here in Darwin as well,
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  Speaker 1: with a three year old being sexually assaulted. So we
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  Speaker 1: are going to be speaking about that as well.
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  Speaker 2: There's been one covered covered up down here as well.
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  Speaker 2: Gee wiz, it's going to come out in the media
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  Speaker 2: very shortly.
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  Speaker 1: Darren, thank you very much for your time today. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to you again very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks mate,