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Katie Woolf spoke with Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Katie Wolf and three point sixty online at Mix
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  Speaker 1: one O four nine dot com. It's just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of minutes or five minutes away from ten o'clock. We're
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  Speaker 1: running a little late. Following on from that impromptu interview
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  Speaker 1: with the Commander Martin Dole there. We are very appreciative
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  Speaker 1: though that he came into the studio and spoke to
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  Speaker 1: us about that very serious situation that unfolded in Karama
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  Speaker 1: at the end of last week. But joining us in
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  Speaker 1: the studio now on the phone, I should say a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a change of pace. The Lord Mayor convat Scarlets,
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  Speaker 1: good morning to you, Con.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Firstly, can I just ask you Con. I know that
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  Speaker 1: you penned an opinion piece for the Northern Territory News
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, The Sunday Territory in there was much, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sort of taken from that opinion piece. One of those
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  Speaker 1: one of those points was the call for police to
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  Speaker 1: be under council authority. What did you mean by that? Con?
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  Speaker 2: A great way to throw attention and to throw a reaction.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want the police. The police can stay with
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  Speaker 2: nothern Territory government. My point was to highlight that the
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  Speaker 2: community out there is calling for better policing and more policing.
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  Speaker 2: For community policing. There is a problem without dissocial behavior,
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  Speaker 2: there is a problem with law and order. We have
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  Speaker 2: to address it now. Country is doing its bit, we're
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  Speaker 2: working together with the police. But it's not only the
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  Speaker 2: police or the council issue. Everybody has to be involved.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the reason why I want to call a
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  Speaker 2: round table to engage the industry, to engage the police,
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  Speaker 2: to find solutions to this undisocial behavior and of course
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  Speaker 2: law and order. And I mean there's nothing better than
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  Speaker 2: actually throw red scarring and everybody jumps up and down.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want the police. I don't want troubles and
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  Speaker 2: you can keep the police. What I want I want
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  Speaker 2: a better reaction, a better policing, a community policing. As
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  Speaker 2: many in the police force is spoken to me privately,
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  Speaker 2: they would like to see more police on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: I know the police is stress the limit. I acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: that one, but at the same time must be a
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  Speaker 2: way to contrast the problems with faces today nasty.
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  Speaker 1: You would like to see around table with counsel with police,
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  Speaker 1: with industry leaders. You want everybody to sit down and
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  Speaker 1: talk about this. I mean, is that just going to
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  Speaker 1: slow things down. We know what the issue is here,
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  Speaker 1: we need to get it sorted.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. Everything happened can happen at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the police can put their fit on the
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  Speaker 2: ground and already seen the same ways out in the mall.
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  Speaker 2: But we need more than that. Our rangers are out there.
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  Speaker 2: Council supports the government with the patrols in the CPD.
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  Speaker 2: We have put one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: new systykevis that they have to be monitored. It can
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  Speaker 2: be monitored. We improve the lights in our streets. We
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  Speaker 2: already done things and we will continue to do things.
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  Speaker 2: But let's get together. Because everybody's throwing ideas out in
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  Speaker 2: the newspapers everywhere else. We'll get together and make these
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  Speaker 2: ideas a reality. Let's see tell the police what we
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  Speaker 2: really need and let the police tell us what they
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  Speaker 2: can do.
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  Speaker 1: Con You did also right though, that you've got concerns
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  Speaker 1: about the Police Commissioner obviously also overseeing the Howard Springs
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  Speaker 1: quarantine facility and still trying to deal with the issue
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  Speaker 1: of crime. What did you worry that in that respect.
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  Speaker 1: Are you are you concerned that you know, he's sort
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  Speaker 1: of got too many eggs in one basket.
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  Speaker 2: I'm worried that we're actually asking police to do more
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  Speaker 2: than they can, or they're putting more pressure on the police.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do everything. I mean, we had a very
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  Speaker 2: successful arrangement there. Why we want to change it was
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  Speaker 2: much did a great job and we continue to a
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  Speaker 2: great job and all from experience. To put now the
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  Speaker 2: police there and to try to find four hundred new professionals,
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  Speaker 2: it's a very very difficult task, and certainly why do
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  Speaker 2: we want to spread the policy even more? There were
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  Speaker 2: very stressual with coming up orders. They're st already because
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  Speaker 2: the demand for law and order wishes in down and
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  Speaker 2: other cities like other springs as we saw yesterday. Now
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  Speaker 2: we want to put them now in impact. We asked
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  Speaker 2: him too much to be done. Have they got the
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  Speaker 2: resources because the capacity? Are they're trained to do it?
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  Speaker 2: Are they going there to be blamed if something go wrong?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it is the right idea. Was Mad
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  Speaker 2: did a really good job there. Let them continue their
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  Speaker 2: jobs and let it pull us to the jobs that
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  Speaker 2: they're no better to do. Policing our suburbs cities.
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  Speaker 1: Con can I just ask you very quickly because we're
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  Speaker 1: running out of time, and I apologized we were running
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  Speaker 1: late for you this morning. But on those pool fees,
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  Speaker 1: just on a separate note, I understand that you're re
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  Speaker 1: looking at those pool fees and there is potential that
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  Speaker 1: the price to get in the pool could go up
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  Speaker 1: in order to try and keep those those fees a
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  Speaker 1: little bit fairer for the various clubs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we asked the clubs and actually they came in
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  Speaker 2: with this idea that a small increase would be better
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  Speaker 2: for them rather than a big decrease increased in the fees.
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  Speaker 2: So we did not increase the fist just because we
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  Speaker 2: felt like it, But we consulted the local community and
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  Speaker 2: swimming clubs and tribal clubs who have provided submission to
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  Speaker 2: council proposing what they believe to be as a standable
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  Speaker 2: model for increasing the pool. So we go from four
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  Speaker 2: dollars to five dollars for adults and from two to
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  Speaker 2: two dollars dollars fifty as president. And that was not
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  Speaker 2: what Cash besided in isolation. This is what the clubs
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  Speaker 2: believe that we're a better a model of increase rather
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  Speaker 2: than something else.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't have an issue with it. I'd be
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  Speaker 1: quite happy to pay five bucks to get into the
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  Speaker 1: pool to swim my twenty laps, and especially if it
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  Speaker 1: means that then for all of those clubs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's more affordable for our kids to be able to
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  Speaker 1: stay active and stay part of those swimming clubs and
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  Speaker 1: triathlon club no matter what sport you're playing.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we want. We want to continue to
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  Speaker 2: have our young people's trend. We want people to have
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  Speaker 2: access in a very very reasonable price to our swimming pools.
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  Speaker 2: We don't try to make money out of it. We
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  Speaker 2: heavily subsidize every streamer goo goes to our simming pool,
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  Speaker 2: but hey, we live in Darwin. One place to avoid
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  Speaker 2: the hit is a swimming pool. Keep using them.
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  Speaker 1: Contact Scarlet's always good to catch up. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you again very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Have a good morning, Keith, you too,