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Chief Minister Natasha Fyles says the government is considering two locations in Alice Springs to provide safe accommodation for youth by the end of the year · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: The issues around crime have long been reported here on
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  Speaker 1: three point sixty. On Friday, though, we finally got a
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  Speaker 1: bit of insight into the stats from a year on
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  Speaker 1: year perspective, and the numbers aren't looking good. Now joining
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  Speaker 1: me in the studio is the Chief Minister, Natasha Files.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie, Good morning listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Chief Minister, the year on year stats are pretty
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  Speaker 1: shocking when it comes to the crime numbers. I've just
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  Speaker 1: obviously read those out throughout the opener. Are you as
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  Speaker 1: upset about this situation as the rest of us?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Katie.
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  Speaker 4: So these are as you've just outlined, these are the
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  Speaker 4: August statistics, and of course I'm disappointed in them, and
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  Speaker 4: that's why you've seen over the past few weeks we've
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  Speaker 4: really stepped up measures and hopefully we'll start to see
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  Speaker 4: an impact from those measures, and that they're varied and
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  Speaker 4: we need tailored measures right across the territory to focus
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  Speaker 4: on those statistics and the solutions we need.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the biggest concerns seem to be I mean, in
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  Speaker 1: some areas they've obviously gone down, like some of those
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  Speaker 1: different numbers across the board, But in some of those
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  Speaker 1: areas you know, commercial break ins in Darwin up seventy
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  Speaker 1: six point five seven percent. I mean that's just one number.
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  Speaker 1: Your commercial break ins in Catherine eighty two point four
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  Speaker 1: eight percent. It's becoming near impossible for people to be
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  Speaker 1: able to run a commercial business, Katie.
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  Speaker 4: So that's why you saw us recently announce that we
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  Speaker 4: want to do the Business Secure Blitz heading into Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: We've got small Business Champions. We know that business owners
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  Speaker 4: just want to get on with running their business.
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  Speaker 3: They're struggling to get workers.
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  Speaker 4: They don't need this on top of that, So get
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  Speaker 4: in contact with his small business Champions. We can help
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  Speaker 4: you do that security through environmental design. And that's also
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  Speaker 4: that tresplus legislation that we've discussed that we are changing now.
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  Speaker 1: I think you and I have had so many discussions
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  Speaker 1: about this, so my thoughts are pretty clear that we
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  Speaker 1: need to stop that behavior before we get to the
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  Speaker 1: point where somebody's actually being broken into.
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  Speaker 2: But can I ask, what are police telling.
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  Speaker 1: You that the factors are with this spike that we're
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  Speaker 1: seeing around Darwin and Allis.
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  Speaker 4: So we're certainly seeing a displacement of people and that
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  Speaker 4: is causing these issues. We've seen significant unrest out in
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  Speaker 4: what I Am. We've put an investment out there, and
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  Speaker 4: that's been multifaceted, working with the counsel out there, the
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  Speaker 4: ngngos and the traditional owners really providing those supports into
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  Speaker 4: that community. It's a big community and it's certainly had
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  Speaker 4: its challenges this year. So your listeners, Katie can be
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  Speaker 4: assured that this as Chief Ministry is my absolute priority,
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  Speaker 4: and it's not just one thing, and it's not just
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  Speaker 4: into the future. There's both immediate and long term measures
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  Speaker 4: in place.
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  Speaker 1: So with what Air at this point in time, because
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  Speaker 1: we get calls all the time about vehicles being stolen
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  Speaker 1: taken out to what AIR, is there work that's currently
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  Speaker 1: underway around this situation and how big an impact do
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  Speaker 1: you feel that it's having right now on the issues
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing with crime.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so we have seen that information from police around
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  Speaker 4: targeting of some of those older vehicles that don't have
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  Speaker 4: the security measures that we see in newer vehicles and
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  Speaker 4: really reminding people to put those ignition locks on and
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  Speaker 4: to make sure keys are stored a way where they
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  Speaker 4: can't easily be accessed. But this is a challenge for
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  Speaker 4: us and we're certainly putting significant resources to it.
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  Speaker 2: How do you reckon it's gotten to this point.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Katie, it's very allowed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very complex and it's not something that you
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  Speaker 4: can answer in a simple radio grab. These are complex
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  Speaker 4: issues with generational trauma, you know other factors that are
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  Speaker 4: driving it. But we certainly have to not just say
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  Speaker 4: it's all too hard. We need to do that work
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  Speaker 4: and it will take months and years to see those results.
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  Speaker 1: So do you have any idea how many people we've
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  Speaker 1: got in and around Darwin at the moment who are
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  Speaker 1: displaced as a result of what's going on in what.
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  Speaker 4: Eck Katie, I'll have to get you a figure off
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  Speaker 4: air and happy to provide that through and next time
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  Speaker 4: we chat. We certainly have seen over recent months a
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  Speaker 4: decrease in the number of people, but we still have
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  Speaker 4: more people in Darwin and we've put in place transitional
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  Speaker 4: accommodation to support them, making sure that there is access
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  Speaker 4: to that accommodation through the bus. So certainly trying to
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  Speaker 4: put in place as many measures as we can at
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  Speaker 4: this point.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel as though those measures are working? Based
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  Speaker 1: on what you've seen in terms of vehicles being stolen,
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  Speaker 1: what happened out at Berry Springs.
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  Speaker 4: We can never stop in this space and we need
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  Speaker 4: to continue to make it a focus and that's what
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  Speaker 4: we're doing now.
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  Speaker 1: Last week we did focus a lot actually on Ola Springs.
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  Speaker 1: The mayor is calling for accommodation to be set up
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  Speaker 1: to get kids off the street and into a safe place.
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  Speaker 2: Is the government taking this seriously?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. The Minister for Territory Families and the Minister for Police,
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  Speaker 4: Kate Warden, has been looking at this and we've had
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  Speaker 4: really positive discussions with the leadership in Ala Springs. It
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  Speaker 4: is Katie around making sure that we have a safe
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  Speaker 4: place that the teams that we have, We've got ngngos
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  Speaker 4: in this space that are trying to prevent and I
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  Speaker 4: often talk about the risky behavior that then becomes criminal behavior.
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  Speaker 4: So assisting those young people and other people, it's not
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  Speaker 4: always young people and taking them to a safe place
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  Speaker 4: at night so that our frontline services just can get
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  Speaker 4: on with the job and then the next day working
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  Speaker 4: through what's gone wrong and what's the longer term need there.
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  Speaker 1: So the mayor had been calling for Yurrara College. I
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  Speaker 1: think it is to be you last. My understanding is
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  Speaker 1: that the principle of that school hadn't approved that, So
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  Speaker 1: what locations is the government actually looking at.
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  Speaker 4: So we're working through a couple of options, Katie, and
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  Speaker 4: we don't want something that needs to be built, we
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  Speaker 4: want a short term so the minister is looking at
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  Speaker 4: that very intensively at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: But you can confirm that there are a couple of
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  Speaker 1: options that are being looked at right now when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to accommodation for kids to get off the streets
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  Speaker 1: and go there if they need a safe place, correct, Katie,
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at both the infrastructure and the legislation and
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  Speaker 1: it comes into that cur and Protection Act around children.
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  Speaker 1: If a child is out ten o'clock at night, to me,
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  Speaker 1: that is not safe and that is bordering on child neglect.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's not always straightforward Katie around that, but we
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  Speaker 1: need to have, as I said before, a safe place
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  Speaker 1: to take that young person whilst the authorities can work
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  Speaker 1: out what's happened, what the situation is, and it could
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  Speaker 1: be that they can be safely returned to family and
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  Speaker 1: someone caring for them, or it may need a further intervention.
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  Speaker 1: So how soon do you anticipate that you'll have a
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  Speaker 1: better idea as to whether either of these locations are
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  Speaker 1: going to be suitable, and in terms of looking at
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  Speaker 1: that legislation.
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  Speaker 4: Katie, I can hear the calls from the community via
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  Speaker 4: the mayor around the urgency to this, so we're working
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  Speaker 4: through it as quickly as we possibly can. It does
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  Speaker 4: take time, though, by the end of the year, Katie,
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  Speaker 4: I would like to either understand why we can't do
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  Speaker 4: it or that we can and have those measures in place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I reckon that the big worry then from
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  Speaker 1: the people of Alice Springs is going to be what's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen over that Christmas period if we don't
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  Speaker 1: have a situation where these kids have got somewhere to go, correct, Katie,
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  Speaker 1: And that's my focus to all right, So it sounds
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  Speaker 1: as though you are pretty committed to the community here
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  Speaker 1: that you want to try and do this by the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year. So, Katie, since I've become the
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  Speaker 1: Chief Minister, you've seen measure after measure rolled out, things
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  Speaker 1: such as the Sunset School being given funding so that
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  Speaker 1: we can have young people. They've tripled their enrollment and
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  Speaker 1: that's a community led school. So that's listening to the
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  Speaker 1: local leadership on the ground, and other measures that we
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  Speaker 1: will continue to roll out. We won't simply say it's
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  Speaker 1: not our idea or it's too hard. I'm open for anything,
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  Speaker 1: all right. You've told me that you're open for anything,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that you'd said that last week as well.
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  Speaker 1: But Tourism Central Australia and others are calling on the
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  Speaker 1: Northern Territory government to have security dogs in Alice Springs
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  Speaker 1: or to have security that potentially has those cane on
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  Speaker 1: like we see in Karama and Malak. Why has that
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  Speaker 1: been ruled out? So, Katie, We've seen different responses across
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  Speaker 1: the territory. I understand that the police dogs are being
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  Speaker 1: utilized or intend to be utilized in Alice Springs. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't ruled out another measure and I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: working with I would suggest the Alice Springstown Council around.
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  Speaker 3: That, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So you've not actually ruled it out, no, Katie, all right,
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  Speaker 1: because we were in a situation even last night where
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  Speaker 1: there was well, essentially the Northern Territory Police are calling
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  Speaker 1: for witnesses in relation to an aggravated robbery that occurred
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  Speaker 1: in Alice Springs, Sorry on Saturday, so shortly after one
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, four adults were walking along Todd Street
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  Speaker 1: and they are approached by a group of youths is
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  Speaker 1: what the Northern Territory Police say. The groups allegedly assaulted them,
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  Speaker 1: while one offender threatened the victim with an edged weapon
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  Speaker 1: and demanded his personal belongings. Now, look, we know that
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  Speaker 1: the police can't be everywhere all the time, We know
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  Speaker 1: that security can't be everywhere all the time. But the
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  Speaker 1: community of Alice Springs is screaming out for help right now.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why, Katie, with coordinated our services, You've seen
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  Speaker 4: a deep dive into that. So making sure that every
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  Speaker 4: government and non government service that is there is coordinated
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  Speaker 4: in that approach, that we're working with the town council,
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  Speaker 4: that we're putting in place the measures to stop that
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  Speaker 4: unacceptable behavior before it happens.
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  Speaker 3: And as I said, will continue to work in this space.
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  Speaker 1: But you could literally have security on the ground like tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we in a situation where the northern suburbs
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  Speaker 1: like Caurama and Malac, which are obviously labor held seats,
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  Speaker 1: have that security operating, but somewhere like Alice doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: So Katie, there is private security on the ground in
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  Speaker 4: Alice Springs and they were the first location in the
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  Speaker 4: territory to gain that private security. So this is about
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  Speaker 4: supporting police to do their job and it's about protecting
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  Speaker 4: the community.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's move along. There's a lot to cover
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  Speaker 2: off this morning.
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  Speaker 1: And the Darwin Festival, well, last week Fossil Fuel Free
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  Speaker 1: Arts NT called for the board to have a shakeup
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  Speaker 1: and had demanded that the festival cease working with any
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  Speaker 1: organization involved with fossil fuel. Now Santos has withdrawn their sponsorship.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that the festival should be directed or
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  Speaker 1: dictated to by Fossil Fuel Free Arts?
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  Speaker 4: Int Katie, We all believe in climate change and we
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  Speaker 4: are putting in place measures to decarbonize our energy sources,
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  Speaker 4: but we cannot simply do that overnight. And as a government,
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  Speaker 4: we've done more work than any other government in the
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  Speaker 4: space of environment and transitional fuels to renewable And I
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  Speaker 4: thought the comments that went further and named a couple
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  Speaker 4: of those members of the board who put in a
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  Speaker 4: lot and one of them who is a proud Aboriginal
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  Speaker 4: woman whose family has got a long history of Indigenous
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  Speaker 4: leadership and rights for Indigenous territories. I found that disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, not only disappointing, I reckon it's pretty disgusting, like
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't actually be able to name name board members
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  Speaker 1: call for their resignation and then be dictating to the
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  Speaker 1: Darwin Festival Board and the Darwin Festival who they should
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  Speaker 1: be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Have as sponsors, Like do you think that that's appropriate?
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  Speaker 4: So, Santos, it is a major employer. It's been a
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  Speaker 4: major supporter of community events over a long time. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that when you look at these big corporations, Katie,
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  Speaker 4: they are decarbonizing, they acknowledge climate change as an issue,
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  Speaker 4: and market forces are driving that. And so I think
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  Speaker 4: that it's important that we don't just be superficial and
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  Speaker 4: look at it a name, that we actually understand that
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  Speaker 4: work and you need to be at the table to
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  Speaker 4: drive that change.
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  Speaker 1: So do you think that the board of the daw
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  Speaker 1: And Festival needs to change?
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  Speaker 4: I do not have a problem with the Board of
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  Speaker 4: the dow And Festival. In fact, as when I was
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  Speaker 4: Minister for Major Events and it's continued as Chief Minister,
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  Speaker 4: I've watched them reinvent that festival to become a major
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  Speaker 4: attraction that I think adds hugely to the lifestyle for
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  Speaker 4: territories but also drives tourism.
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  Speaker 1: So should the festival cancel sponsorships with the likes of
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  Speaker 1: Impects and any other organization that these activists deem unacceptable.
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  Speaker 4: I think that people calling for that need to look
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  Speaker 4: deeper and understand that globally we're seeing big corporations acknowledge
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  Speaker 4: climate change, acknowledge the need to transition to renewable energies,
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  Speaker 4: and that is being driven.
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  Speaker 2: Will the government step in here?
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  Speaker 4: So we've been strong supporters of the festival, We've stepped
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  Speaker 4: in previously, but I do see it as important that
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  Speaker 4: they do gain sponsorship, you know, from that broader community.
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  Speaker 4: And we are seeing significant economic development in the territory
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  Speaker 4: and it would be good to see that supporting a
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  Speaker 4: community event.
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  Speaker 2: So if they end up.
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  Speaker 1: In a situation where they have to basically, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where they have to get rid of any sponsor that
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  Speaker 1: has fossil fuels, is the government then going to be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to bail out the festival if they can't get
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  Speaker 1: sponsors to basically fill that gap.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to, Katie, you know, preempt that question
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  Speaker 4: and say that we would or wouldn't. But what I
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  Speaker 4: think the community needs is to understand that there is
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  Speaker 4: major shifts and changes happening, and that things are not
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  Speaker 4: as simplistic as a name or a title, and they
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  Speaker 4: need to look deeper into that.
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  Speaker 1: So do you support the Dawin Festival in terms of
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  Speaker 1: continuing to have sponsors that may be linked to fossil fuel?
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  Speaker 4: So, Katie, I think that it's understanding that those companies
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  Speaker 4: have got the same shared goal around tackling climate change,
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  Speaker 4: around decarbon and particularly with our energy supply, and looking
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  Speaker 4: intensely at the work that they are doing. We simply
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  Speaker 4: cannot change overnight. We have a transition plan. We have
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  Speaker 4: that as a government, and so do many of these corporations.
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  Speaker 1: So it sounds as though you support the festival having
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  Speaker 1: the likes of impects.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say, as a sponsor, Katie, I think that we
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  Speaker 4: can't just be simplistic about this. We need to balance
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  Speaker 4: things up and take that deeper look into companies and
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  Speaker 4: what they're doing to drive change.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's move along.
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  Speaker 1: Each quarter comm set attempts to find out how the
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  Speaker 1: nation's states are performing now in its thirteenth year. The
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  Speaker 1: report also includes a section comparing annual growth rates for
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  Speaker 1: the key indicators across the states and territories as well
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  Speaker 1: as Australia as a whole, enabling those comparisons. In terms
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  Speaker 1: of economic momentum, Tasmania leads from Queensland in the latest
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  Speaker 1: COMSEC report. The ACT and WA follow closely behind. There's
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  Speaker 1: not much to separate these economies. Then there's a gap
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  Speaker 1: to South Australia and Victoria a modest then to New
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  Speaker 1: South Wales in seventh position, and the Northern Territory is
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  Speaker 1: in eighth or last overall in saying that we have
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  Speaker 1: had some growth by the look of it in economic
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  Speaker 1: activity as well as construction work. We have slipped through
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  Speaker 1: the equipment though or slip back though on equipment investment
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  Speaker 1: and population growth, Chief Minister, what do you make of
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  Speaker 1: the latest com SEC report?
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  Speaker 4: So, Katie, this is something I say every time the
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  Speaker 4: report comes out. It doesn't compare the economies of Australia
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  Speaker 4: as it is now. It's a ten year average and
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  Speaker 4: it compares the Northern Territory. And when we had that
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  Speaker 4: Impact construction project, it was one of the biggest largest
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  Speaker 4: infrastructure projects in the world.
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  Speaker 3: But this report highlights what we've been.
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  Speaker 4: Saying that the Northern Territory economy is strong we're at
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  Speaker 4: a ten year high with the number of apprentices and traineeships,
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  Speaker 4: We've got significant projects both private and defense in the territory,
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  Speaker 4: and our economic future is bright.
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  Speaker 1: So are you going to be starting to look at
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  Speaker 1: this report any more seriously than the previous Chief Minister
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  Speaker 1: Michael Gunner? Did? I know that you've just pointed out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the flaws in it or what you see
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  Speaker 1: as being flaws, But is it something that you're actually
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  Speaker 1: going to take a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit more seriously?
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  Speaker 4: So, Katie, I think that you know, when it compares
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  Speaker 4: that tenure average to the IMPEX project, it's skewed, and
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  Speaker 4: so we would need to look sort of year on
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  Speaker 4: year or take that huge project as I've just explained
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  Speaker 4: out of it, so that we can have you know,
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  Speaker 4: a bit more of a realistic understanding what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: Do you reckon?
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  Speaker 1: We can sort of continue to have IMPEX, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a reason for these for the concept report not
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  Speaker 1: demonstrating what you know, what you might like.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think in the next couple of years, Katie,
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  Speaker 4: it'll tail off, because it'll be about ten years from
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  Speaker 4: that post IMPEX construction phase. But I think just for
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  Speaker 4: your listeners, it is important to have economic data from
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  Speaker 4: a range of sources. But that is why we sort
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  Speaker 4: of say that this report is flawed because it's an
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  Speaker 4: unnatural high that we're on.
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  Speaker 1: Chief Minister, just one last topic that I am keen
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  Speaker 1: to find out about this morning. You are out making
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  Speaker 1: an announcement about one of the first projects under the
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  Speaker 1: Northern Territory Government's Flexible Workforce Solutions Fund.
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  Speaker 2: It's been awarded.
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  Speaker 1: So CRES, in partnership with the age care sector, is
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  Speaker 1: going to look to attract and retain more than eighty
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  Speaker 1: five workers in the fifty plus in the fifty five
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  Speaker 1: plus age bracket to support jobs in age care and services.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly is this going to mean for the territory.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a really important fund.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: This is to grow the jobs that we know we
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: need and this one is particularly important targeting those workers
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: age fifty five plus and we really need to get
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: them into that age care and associated services.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: It is also a growing need.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: So this is where we're using NTG to drive that
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: and to deliver those jobs, to have people here in
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: the territory and employment, but also attract new people.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: So it's about actually getting those that are a little
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: bit more seen, you're a little bit more experience, let's say,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: into the workforce.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: So is that what it's all about this particular project
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: that's been allocated and you know the age demographic fifty
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: five plus, you know, really have a lot to offer,
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: but I know it's something that they do find a
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: challenge you in the workforce, re entering the workforce.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: So I think this is a really exciting announcement this morning.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Sometimes what gets raised with us is that you have
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: got people that are really experienced at a fifty five plus,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: but sometimes employers aren't actually prepared to take them on.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: So Katie, this is an example of identifying a need
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: for workforce and targeting.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: That group who we believe have a lot of skills
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: to offer.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: But this is just one of the applications that we
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: have received and we look forward through our workforce boost package,
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: our investment of twelve point eight million dollars driving more
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: jobs in the territory.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Well, Chief Ministon attached to files. We better leave it there.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time this morning.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Take care