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Katie Woolf spoke with Member for Araluen Robyn Lambley · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: And head on down to Central Australia because joining us
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  Speaker 1: on the line right now is Robin Lambley, the member
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  Speaker 1: for Ara lun Good morning to you, Robin.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Robin.
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  Speaker 2: I know that.
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  Speaker 1: Last week was a pretty terrible week for Central Australia
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  Speaker 1: with a couple of different incidents that had happened in
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  Speaker 1: Alice Springs. You'd spoken to us on I think it
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  Speaker 1: was around Tuesday or Wednesday, and you sounded like you're
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  Speaker 1: at your wits end, Robin. How are things going? I
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  Speaker 1: know you're back in Central Australia now after lockdown. How
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  Speaker 1: are things going?
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  Speaker 2: Well? There haven't been any more major incidences like we
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  Speaker 2: had on Tuesday and Thursday. The town is relatively quiet,
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  Speaker 2: but we really haven't heard from our leaders at all
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  Speaker 2: since the incident in the Coles car park where a
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  Speaker 2: man was seen deliberately smashing into car than causing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of hysteria and grief for people going about their
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  Speaker 2: business at around ten thirty am on Tuesday morning. The
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  Speaker 2: silence has been deafening, Katie, and I just find it
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable that no one from government has come to Alice
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  Speaker 2: Springs or even broadcast a message from the top end
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  Speaker 2: to us, giving us some leadership and direction. It really
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  Speaker 2: is quite astounding.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Robin, do you think I mean my understanding, I
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  Speaker 1: think is that the Police Minister is actually going to
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  Speaker 1: be heading down there this week. Do you have any
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  Speaker 1: idea whether she's going to be meeting with concerned locals
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  Speaker 1: or whether there's only going to be formal meetings.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I am aware that the Police Commissioner and the
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  Speaker 2: Minister for Police are coming to Alice Springs next week.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason I know that is because I'm a
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  Speaker 2: member of the Chamber of Commerce and I have been
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  Speaker 2: for eleven years. And an email was sent out to
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  Speaker 2: members of that membership organization saying that they were holding
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  Speaker 2: organizing a meeting with limited numbers with the Minister and
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  Speaker 2: the Commissioner on Tuesday, no time, no venue, just a
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  Speaker 2: fairly open invitation to a limited number of people to attend. Look,
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  Speaker 2: and that's great. I understand that the Chamber of Commerce
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  Speaker 2: reached out to the Minister and the Commissioner asking for
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  Speaker 2: that meeting, and that's a really good thing. But there
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  Speaker 2: might be a thousand people in our springs that are
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  Speaker 2: members of the Chamber of Commerce. For the other twenty
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  Speaker 2: four thousand people. That means absolutely nothing. As an elected member.
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  Speaker 2: If they're coming down, I would expect them to come
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  Speaker 2: and see me. And I've actually sent off an email
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  Speaker 2: to the Minister and the Commissioner this morning saying if
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  Speaker 2: you're coming to town, please I'm the elected representative of
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  Speaker 2: the people of our Luis and that's around ten thousand people.
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  Speaker 2: Come and talk to me about what you're doing to
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  Speaker 2: help our town. And I know I've spoken to Josh
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  Speaker 2: Bergo and the Member for Braitling. I spoke to the
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  Speaker 2: Member for Amagira, Bill Yan yesterday. We all are of
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  Speaker 2: the same view that we want to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of the solution. We want to be communicated with, we
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  Speaker 2: want to be respected and we want our constituents to
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  Speaker 2: be respected. It's a small ask, Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and I think it's pretty fair. I know
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  Speaker 1: that you've met with Minister Kate Warden before when she's
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  Speaker 1: been in Alice Springs and.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great. Yes, we sought me out. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: had to go begging for Kate Warden to come and
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  Speaker 2: see me. And I really really respect Kate Warden for that.
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  Speaker 2: I respect the Minister for Central Australia. Although he's been
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  Speaker 2: conspicuously silent too, but my business have actually had to
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  Speaker 2: beg is confounding and really wrong. It's fundamentally wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and at the end of the day, I know
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  Speaker 1: that all you want, Robin, is the best for the
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  Speaker 1: people of Alice Springs and for Central Australia. You really
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  Speaker 1: want a situation where people, you know, don't feel unsafe
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  Speaker 1: to go shopping at Cole's throughout the day, where they
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  Speaker 1: feel quite safe walking down the street, I'm assuming, and
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  Speaker 1: where you don't have a situation like we saw last
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  Speaker 1: week as well, where a man allegedly you know, drove
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  Speaker 1: his car into a licensed venue. They're pretty inn yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like we're talking about some pretty dangerous stuff there is.
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  Speaker 1: It's no criticism against the police, you know it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's literally just a matter of, yeah, trying to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that the right thing's happening for people in Central Australia.
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  Speaker 2: So the police, it's business as usual that they're processing
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  Speaker 2: these crimes. They're doing the right thing. But the extra
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  Speaker 2: layer on top of leadership and communication, I mean, we're
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  Speaker 2: in the dark in so many ways down here now, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that we don't have a local newspaper is
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  Speaker 2: a major issue. I speak to oldies all the time,
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  Speaker 2: in particular who don't get on the internet, who aren't
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  Speaker 2: accessing your programs streaming it through the internet. They don't
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on. And at a very basic level,
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  Speaker 2: we all need to be communicated with and there are solutions,
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  Speaker 2: there are things that could be tried that we do
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  Speaker 2: have ideas. We are local people talking to us might
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  Speaker 2: make their job a whole lot easier, but if you
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  Speaker 2: hide away and avoid ignore, then it's making everything so
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  Speaker 2: much more harder than what it needs to be.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Robin, please keep us up to date with how
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  Speaker 1: you know whether the Minister does indeed meet with you
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  Speaker 1: or not. Keep us up to date with what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in Alice Springs. Like I always say, we want
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  Speaker 1: to try and do our best that we're obviously you
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  Speaker 1: know that this show is not just about Darwin, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just about Greater Darwin and Catherine that it is
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  Speaker 1: also about Alice Springs as well, because we are all
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  Speaker 1: territorians and we want to make sure that the whole
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  Speaker 1: of the Northern territories prospering Alice Springs.
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  Speaker 2: People really appreciate that, Katie and more and more people
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  Speaker 2: from down here are listening to you and realizing that
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  Speaker 2: you are a really strong voice for all Territorian so
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  Speaker 2: thank you for that. I really do appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: No worries it all. Robin, thank you so very much
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  Speaker 1: for your time this morning. We will talk to you
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  Speaker 1: again throughout the wake.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Katie,