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Sky News Journalist Matt Cunningham shares the story of a man who held a bottle shop worker in his final moments after a stabbing attack · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line right now is Sky
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  Speaker 1: News bureau chief for the Northern Territory, Matt Cunningham.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to your match.
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  Speaker 3: Good Katie, how are you not.
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  Speaker 2: Too bad match?
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a it's an incredibly sad situation this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's safe to say that.
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  Speaker 1: People are utterly devastated by this news that a nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old has lost their life overnight while working at
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  Speaker 1: a bottle shop.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think there's a lot of people who are devastated, Katie.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there's a lot of people who are
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  Speaker 3: angry this morning as well. I've been out at the
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  Speaker 3: airport tavern Sint about six point thirty this morning and
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  Speaker 3: it's just absolutely devastating what's happened to this nineteen year
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  Speaker 3: old man. I was actually speaking to a guy out
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  Speaker 3: there and who was actually there last night holding him
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  Speaker 3: as he as he took his blass breath, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: he was obviously very shaken up by the whole situation.
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  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of people this morning when
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  Speaker 3: dark and looked back in violence against the kersain who
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  Speaker 3: and I was just doing a job, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: We are just having a little bit of trouble hearing
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  Speaker 1: you there, but that is that is incredible to hear.
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  Speaker 1: So you've actually been out there speaking to the person
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  Speaker 1: who was holding that young fellow in their arms when
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  Speaker 1: they passed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. I did speak to a guy. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't want to want to speak on Cameron, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: he was there at the scene this morning, and he
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  Speaker 3: was there last night as well, and he was obviously
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  Speaker 3: pretty shaken up by what he witnessed last night, you know, Katie.
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  Speaker 3: And he said that he was a regular customer at
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  Speaker 3: the story. He said that this young fellow who who
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  Speaker 3: has been killed was just a beautiful boy, he described
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  Speaker 3: him as. And I just said, it was absolutely devastating
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  Speaker 3: to be there holding him as he basically died in
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  Speaker 3: his arms last night.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly, some of the messages that we are this morning,
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  Speaker 1: people are truly devastated by what has gone on, and
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  Speaker 1: that we know that major Crime are now investigating this
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  Speaker 1: tragedy from overnight. We did speak just a short time
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  Speaker 1: ago with the Acting Assistant Commissioner Danny Bacon.
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  Speaker 2: Now there was quite a bit that he couldn't say.
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  Speaker 1: He said now that major Crime have taken carriage, but
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  Speaker 1: we are being told that there was also another incident
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  Speaker 1: at the Beachfront Hotel. Now, he did confirm that that
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  Speaker 1: police are investigating that. I'm not sure whether you have
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  Speaker 1: any detail on that at this point.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you I've just arrived at the
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  Speaker 3: Beachfront now, Katie, just to have a look and see
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  Speaker 3: what I can find out here. And I can tell
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  Speaker 3: you that there is some temporary fencing that's been erected
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  Speaker 3: at the entrance to the drive through bottle shop here
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  Speaker 3: at the Beachfront, and I'm just walking over to it now.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like there's some yallow tape that's been put
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  Speaker 3: up also across that temporary fencing that's there at the
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  Speaker 3: front of the beach of the Beachfront Hotel where the
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  Speaker 3: and I can just see at the moment, So there's
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  Speaker 3: there's I'm just walking over now. There's some temporary fencing
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  Speaker 3: that's been set up. There's some black and yellow tape
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  Speaker 3: across that temporary fencing that says that says caution. Most
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  Speaker 3: of the roller shovers are down. The main one there
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  Speaker 3: is open for those people who know the Beachfront Hotel.
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  Speaker 3: There's more yellow tape up inside basically across the poles
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  Speaker 3: that hold up the side of the Beachfront bottle Shop,
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  Speaker 3: that the roof over the beachfronts bottle shop. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure what time the Beachfront normally opens on a Monday,
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  Speaker 3: whether it normally opens, but it's certainly not open at
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  Speaker 3: the moment. It doesn't look like it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: open anytime soon. I think I think it's changing hands
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  Speaker 3: today too, the establishment. I was talking to guy who
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  Speaker 3: ns the beach Front of at least he did until
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  Speaker 3: today on Friday night at the basketball So yeah, as
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  Speaker 3: you say, you were speaking to Danny Bacon before, and
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  Speaker 3: there's been an incident here last night as well, So
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  Speaker 3: I's pretty devastating for everyone, It.
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  Speaker 2: Truly is, Matt. From this point, is there much more
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  Speaker 2: that you know?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we've just had the acting Assistant commissioner on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Is there much more that you were being told at
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  Speaker 1: this point from the police. We're expecting Major Crime to
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  Speaker 1: be out a little later to provide some kind of update.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been told Michael Watite's going to do a
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  Speaker 3: news conference at some point, so I'm not sure when
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  Speaker 3: that's happening, but yeah, we will, we will hear from him.
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  Speaker 3: Later today. Other than that, I haven't heard much from
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  Speaker 3: the police, but I have been seeking the few people
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  Speaker 3: in the hospitality industry this morning, and I'm sure you
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  Speaker 3: have too, Adian who are pretty angry about about what's happened,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, they're talking about an escalation in violence
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  Speaker 3: that they're employees have been doing this for quite a
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  Speaker 3: while now, and I'm sure we'll do more about that
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  Speaker 3: over this week. Yeah, absolutely, I'm sure you're talking to
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  Speaker 3: those people as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And I agree with you. I think that
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  Speaker 1: we are going to hear more about this over the
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  Speaker 1: week or over the next few days, because we have
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  Speaker 1: seen an escalation in some of the incidents that we
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  Speaker 1: that have been experienced at those bottle shops. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've been sent vision. I know that you've been sent
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  Speaker 1: vision as well over recent weeks. People rocking up to
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  Speaker 1: bottle shops with weapons, threatening staff with weapons. People also
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  Speaker 1: rocking up to bottle shops and really taking what they please.
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  Speaker 2: And now we've wound up in.
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  Speaker 1: The situation that we are in this morning, where we're
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  Speaker 1: reporting what is an absolute tragedy.
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  Speaker 2: Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Have you spoken to the Northern Territory government yet this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I was that a press conference with Nicole Manners
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  Speaker 3: in about an hour ago, and she it was a
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  Speaker 3: press conference unrelated to this issue, but she did start
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  Speaker 3: off by speaking about this issue and offering her condolences
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  Speaker 3: to the family and talking about this being a tragic incident.
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  Speaker 3: She was asked several questions by me and other reporters
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  Speaker 3: there about what the government plans to do, about whether
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  Speaker 3: there will be any change in policy as a consequence
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  Speaker 3: of this is, about whether the government is doing enough
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  Speaker 3: to keep people safe. She didn't directly answer any of
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  Speaker 3: those questions. She said she couldn't. She said there was
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  Speaker 3: a police investigation under way that needed to run its
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  Speaker 3: course before she would comment any further on that. So
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  Speaker 3: that's where the government's position sits at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Came well, Matt Cunningham, No doubt there is going to
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  Speaker 1: be further information that flows through today. We always appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your time. Thanks very much for having a chat with
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  Speaker 1: us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you.