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Katherine Mayor Lis Clark says new alcohol restrictions in Alice need to be rolled out Territory-wide or it’s just pushing the problem elsewhere · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: We know that there has been a lot of discussion
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  Speaker 1: you've just heard it about those alcohol restrictions in Alice
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  Speaker 1: Springs and questions about whether it's just going to push
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  Speaker 1: the problems elsewhere. On Friday, we spoke to Joe Hersey,
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  Speaker 1: the member for Catherine, who told us that she understands
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  Speaker 1: there has been people already arrive in Alice from Alice Springs.
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  Speaker 1: I should say to Catherine. Now joining us on the
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  Speaker 1: line to speak more about the situation is the mayor
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  Speaker 1: of Catherine, Liz Clark. Good morning to you, Liz.
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  Speaker 2: I have good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning. Liz. Are
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  Speaker 1: there concerns the alcohol restrictions in Catherine are going to
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  Speaker 1: push people to places, sorry, the alcohol restrictions in Alice Springs,
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  Speaker 1: that they are going to push people to places like
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  Speaker 1: Catherine to access alcohol?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think when something is when something like that
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  Speaker 2: is done in one town, it should be across the board,
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  Speaker 2: not just in Alice Springs, because that's exactly what does happen.
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  Speaker 1: So you reckon that we actually need these restrictions right
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  Speaker 1: across the Northern Territory, like Mondays and Tuesdays Alcohol takeaway
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  Speaker 1: three days.
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  Speaker 2: Well, whatever the consensus is here. If you cannot just
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  Speaker 2: do it in one town, it only causes crime displacement
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  Speaker 2: and it moves the problem to other areas to seed addictions.
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  Speaker 2: So it needs to be And I've heard on the
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  Speaker 2: news and the Kimberley was suffering as well, So it's
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  Speaker 2: across the north that we're all seemed to be having
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  Speaker 2: a similar issue.
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  Speaker 1: Liz, how are things going in Catherine at the moment?
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  Speaker 1: I know that we had Joe Hersey on the show
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  Speaker 1: on Friday and she had said that her understanding is
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  Speaker 1: that there had already been some people arriving from Alice Springs.
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  Speaker 2: What's your take, Well, we certainly haven't slided up on
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  Speaker 2: the crime rate. The crime is still very similar to
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  Speaker 2: Alice Springs. The people of Catherine have reached their tolerance
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  Speaker 2: point and remedies do definitely need to be applied territory
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  Speaker 2: wide because how and it needs we need to find
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  Speaker 2: the root cause. Why is this happening suddenly now and
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  Speaker 2: increasing across the territory, Liz.
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  Speaker 1: When you talk about those alcohol restrictions, if they were
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  Speaker 1: indeed pushed to know further around the territory, right around
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  Speaker 1: the northern territory, what difference. Do you think it would
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  Speaker 1: make or how do you reckon it would help.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe it will help. I think that it's
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  Speaker 2: just a band aid solution to a bigger problem. We
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  Speaker 2: need to find the root cause of why it's happening.
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  Speaker 2: You know, why do we have young people out in
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  Speaker 2: the streets now? Why suddenly do we have this crime
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  Speaker 2: that we that's successive? It It just doesn't seem to end.
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  Speaker 2: It just is constant, and it's right throughout the territory,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's I think we need to look
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  Speaker 2: at the root causes, not just closing a few bottle shops,
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  Speaker 2: because we also have you know, there's also drugs in
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  Speaker 2: that out in the street. But we need to look
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  Speaker 2: at the root causes, not just closing the bottlows and
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  Speaker 2: thinking that's going to help.
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  Speaker 1: That's been the interesting thing, hasn't it, Liz. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously Alice Springs is in dire need of additional support,
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  Speaker 1: but the fact is that we've got issues right around
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  Speaker 1: the Northern territory. And I did note even at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of last week when the crime stats had come out,
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  Speaker 1: that it did show that they'd been quite the increase
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  Speaker 1: in Catherine too.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, we need to we need to address the key
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  Speaker 2: issues of addiction to alcohol, youth crime, and domestic violence.
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  Speaker 2: It's not it's no longer acceptable just to close a
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  Speaker 2: couple of bottle shops and thinks that that's going to
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  Speaker 2: fix the problem. It is. It is a major problem
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  Speaker 2: throughout the territory. We need to look at the root
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  Speaker 2: causes of this problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Liz, as that focus you know, continues on Olice
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  Speaker 1: Springs though, and as they have you know, these restrictions
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  Speaker 1: in place and potentially have a ballad about whether they
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  Speaker 1: continue restrictions, et cetera, et cetera. What do you think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the ramifications could potentially be for other parts
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  Speaker 1: of the Northern Territory, particularly for Catherine if those if
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  Speaker 1: those restrictions do remain in place in Alice.
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  Speaker 2: I think what will happen is there'll be a shift
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  Speaker 2: and again it'll cause a crime displacement, So people will
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  Speaker 2: move further to will move to either both Catherine and
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  Speaker 2: to Darwin, and they will also move across the Kunnanara.
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  Speaker 2: So anywhere that doesn't have these restrictions will certainly see
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  Speaker 2: an increase in people coming to those towns.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Liz, I think that you know that the concerns
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  Speaker 1: you raise the ones that many of us are worried
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  Speaker 1: about at this point in time. I really appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: having a chat with us this morning. The Mayor of Catherine,
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  Speaker 1: Liz Clark, thanks so much for your.
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  Speaker 2: Time and thank you. Thank you very much, Katie, thank
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  Speaker 2: you