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Katie Woolf spoke with Shadow Minister for Youth and Member for Braitling Joshua Burgoyne · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now let's head on down to Alice Springs.
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  Speaker 2: And yesterday we spoke about some terrible vision that had
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  Speaker 2: come out yet again out of Alice Springs. We shared
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  Speaker 2: that or I shared it yesterday and plenty of you
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  Speaker 2: jumped online and took a look at it. It showed
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  Speaker 2: a group of youths well, I don't think there's any
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  Speaker 2: other word for it than running a mark in the
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  Speaker 2: city in Alice. Now joining me on the line to
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  Speaker 2: talk more about this is the Member for Braitling, Joshua Burgoyne.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, Katie, and good morning to you listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Mate.
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  Speaker 2: So you are also the shadow Minister for Youth. Can
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  Speaker 2: you talk us through really what happened over the weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly, Katie. Obviously over the weekend we've seen a
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  Speaker 3: spike in crime, an increase in crime. But unfortunately, you know,
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  Speaker 3: these are all too common events that happened in our
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  Speaker 3: town and it really is just a continuation of what
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  Speaker 3: we've seen. Today marks one hundred days since you've going
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  Speaker 3: the government have been re elected, and obviously there were
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  Speaker 3: the four years before that, and in Alice Springs we
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  Speaker 3: continue to see serious and violent crime on our streets
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  Speaker 3: at night and it's simply not acceptable and we want
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  Speaker 3: to see a change and we're willing to work with
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  Speaker 3: the current government to make that happen. I do take
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  Speaker 3: note that there was the twenty four to seven new
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  Speaker 3: center which was opened, and we can't call it twenty
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  Speaker 3: four to seven yet because it's only open select days.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, Katie, it's really important just to say
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  Speaker 3: the government, now, why are we waiting until the seventeenth
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  Speaker 3: of December to make that twenty four to seven. Let's
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  Speaker 3: get the staff in there. Let's let's get this operation
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  Speaker 3: or twenty four to seven from this weekend, because unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: down here in our springs, we are paying the price
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  Speaker 3: for a lack of like a commitment and a lack
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  Speaker 3: of resources down here.
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  Speaker 2: Luke, sorry, not Joshua, josh so apologize ad Luke on
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  Speaker 2: before josh I know that yesterday you had seen that realistically,
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  Speaker 2: this is having a massive impact when you talk about tourism,
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  Speaker 2: when you talk about all sorts of things in Alice.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to read you out a message that
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  Speaker 2: we received just a couple of minutes ago, and it says, hi, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: as traveler's been in Darwin for three months and now
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  Speaker 2: moving on. We've spent lots of money here and enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: our stay. We're heading south, but we'll be bypassing Alice
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  Speaker 2: Springs just based on the crime and vandalism in that area. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: there's no point stopping somewhere in a town that you
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  Speaker 2: take the risk of vandalism to your property, or you
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  Speaker 2: take the risk of young of youth gangs, which is
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  Speaker 2: all over the newspaper and social media of late. Why
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  Speaker 2: would you put yourself in that risk? The local members right,
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  Speaker 2: there will be plenty of travelers. It won't be stopping,
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  Speaker 2: or it will be stopping. They will no longer stop
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  Speaker 2: there in Alice Springs, just based on that from.
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  Speaker 1: Who they've spoken to.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I guess that just gives you one person
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  Speaker 2: who said that they're going to be bypassing Alice Springs
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  Speaker 2: based on the issues there. Josh, you know, I guess
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  Speaker 2: this morning, even my producer and I would talk off air,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we sort of said to each other,
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  Speaker 2: is it worse than what it's been in years gone by?
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  Speaker 1: I know that in Alice I've.
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  Speaker 2: Had bad years before, but mate, from what you're telling me,
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  Speaker 2: it's the worst you've seen it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly, Katie, And I mean, I've grown up in
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  Speaker 3: this town. I was born here, and it pains me
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  Speaker 3: to say that these sorts of things are happening in
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  Speaker 3: our community. And unfortunately the message that you just read
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  Speaker 3: out are exactly what I'm hearing here. And I often
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  Speaker 3: get told to stop talking the town down. But what
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  Speaker 3: I am trying to implore people and tell people is
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  Speaker 3: that it's not about talking the town down. It's about
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  Speaker 3: acknowledging the problems that we have here and then trying
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  Speaker 3: to work together to fix them. And that's what's so important.
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  Speaker 3: No one wants to hear of people avoiding our beautiful
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  Speaker 3: town because of the crime that happening. No one wants
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  Speaker 3: to hear that happening. So I'm trying to work with
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  Speaker 3: the government. We believe from our perspective down here, it's
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  Speaker 3: very clear what's happened with the bail laws with labor
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  Speaker 3: rolling then, you know, effectively so that youth who constantly reoffend,
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  Speaker 3: we need to bring back breach of bail as an offense.
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  Speaker 3: And I even read in the Anti Independent the other
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  Speaker 3: week that the Police Commissioner, Paul mcewe was calling for
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  Speaker 3: a review into that. Well, the President yep, that we
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  Speaker 3: do review those things. Yeah, yeah, it's just what's currently
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  Speaker 3: the policy structures that are in place at the moment
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  Speaker 3: aren't working and we need to be willing to change
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  Speaker 3: that so that we can see some positive outcomes through.
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  Speaker 2: I can so realistically, Josh, if you were to make
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  Speaker 2: a couple of changes right now, they are the things
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  Speaker 2: that you reckon.
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  Speaker 1: The government needs to change.
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  Speaker 2: They need they need to review those bail laws, those
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  Speaker 2: youth bail laws, and they also need to straight away
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  Speaker 2: change that Youth drop in Center to twenty four to
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  Speaker 2: seven immediately.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, Katie. And it's two things that I believe can
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  Speaker 3: be done. Legislative changes and obviously with the twenty four
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  Speaker 3: seven Youth Center, you know a little bit more funding
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  Speaker 3: to provide that at slightly early date than what they planned.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not going to fix all the issues. No
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  Speaker 3: one's saying that it will fix all the issues overnight.
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  Speaker 3: But we unfortunately constantly seeing an escalation in crime down here,
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  Speaker 3: and it was terrible. You know, when we're literally seeing
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  Speaker 3: people fighting on the street whilst kids are driving a
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  Speaker 3: stolen vehicle in the background and doing you know, burnouts
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  Speaker 3: and handbrake he's in the middle of our town. And
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  Speaker 3: then again over the weekend, out the front of our
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  Speaker 3: council chambers in the middle of our town, there's a
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  Speaker 3: brawl that breaks out, and it was terrible to see
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  Speaker 3: that when a man was down, he was kicked in
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  Speaker 3: the head or you know a lot of these people
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  Speaker 3: were you and then someone went up and gave him
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  Speaker 3: a high five. I mean that really upset me, like
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  Speaker 3: it was disgusting. It was disgusting to see, you know,
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  Speaker 3: people encouraging one another to take part in these violent
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  Speaker 3: acts right in the middle of our town. And the
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  Speaker 3: police are doing the absolute best they can. I constantly
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  Speaker 3: from my office see the police going around and I
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  Speaker 3: can tell when they're strikeforce viper because they're actually in
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  Speaker 3: playing clothes. Now, I do believe that they are working
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  Speaker 3: exceptionally hard, but we need to back them up with
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  Speaker 3: the lords with these dail laws so the youth that
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  Speaker 3: they are arresting are not just constantly going around and
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  Speaker 3: around what we call here, you know, in this revolving door.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I really appreciate your time this morning, Josh. I
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  Speaker 2: know it's a tough situation in Alice Springs at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Please keep in contact with us you know, let us
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on. I just think it's so incredibly
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  Speaker 2: important that we as territorians, you know, don't forget about
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  Speaker 2: places like Alice Springs just because we don't live there.
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  Speaker 2: This is a whole of the Northern Territory issue.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Katie, and I appreciate your highlighting the issues
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  Speaker 3: that we face down here. Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks mate, we'll talk to you again soon.
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  Speaker 2: That is, of course, the Shadow Minister for Youth as
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  Speaker 2: well as Member for Braitling, Joshua Burgoyne,