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Katie Woolf spoke with Member for Braitling Joshua Burgoyne on Alice Springs · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: You want to know what's happening on the political landscape.
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  Speaker 2: Katie Wolf Hasard covered on three point sixty Everyone is
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  Speaker 2: listening Mix one O four point nine.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me live on the line is the member for
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  Speaker 1: Bright Lane, Josh Bergline. Good morning to you, Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie, Good morning your listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Josh. How are things going in Alice Springs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, Katie, it's sort of a daily occurrence. I
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  Speaker 2: guess I get into the office, so I have a
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  Speaker 2: look at the messages that have been sent in, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: check what's happening around town, and then generally head down
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  Speaker 2: or business has been broken into. Recently, I've been down
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  Speaker 2: to see the gentleman Thrifty here in town. It has
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  Speaker 2: broken into fourteen windows smashed since Christmas, he was telling me,
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  Speaker 2: So that's very disappointing. And also went into the Base
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  Speaker 2: Cafe the other day for their first day since they
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  Speaker 2: were broken into. That was on Channel nine news the
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  Speaker 2: other night, and they still had half their restaurant closed
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  Speaker 2: because it was still being repainted. So, yeah, the effects
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  Speaker 2: of crime unfortunately being felt down here in our spring. Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Is the police minister meeting with you or other community
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  Speaker 1: members as far as you know today while she's in Alice.
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  Speaker 2: Look, we certainly haven't heard anything in regards to the
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  Speaker 2: Police Minister. It's glad to see our continued pressure in
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  Speaker 2: relation to crime has obviously brought the Police Minister down here.
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  Speaker 2: But realistically Madison's coming down to do the job the
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister should have done two weeks ago, you know,
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  Speaker 2: come down speak with victims of crime. Hopefully that's what
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  Speaker 2: Minister Madison will be doing. And yeah, it's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a bit frustrating, but this is what we're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with at the momently. Government that just seems to be
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  Speaker 2: bearing the heads in the sand and not dealing with
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  Speaker 2: the real issues.
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  Speaker 1: Overnight, the Chief Minister, Michael gunner or late yesterday put
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  Speaker 1: a post up on social media about, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: accident that it occurred on a poster between luxA and
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  Speaker 1: Tom Yum. Somebody accidentally putting Tom Yum on a poster
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  Speaker 1: rather than luxA. He's being slammed on his social media page.
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  Speaker 1: Is tone deaf, you know, to you what does that demonstrate?
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  Speaker 2: I think you've hit the nail on the head there, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: It's just toned with everything that's happening around the Northern
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  Speaker 2: Territory at the moment, people are genuinely feeling like they're
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  Speaker 2: not being listened to, and then to sort of put
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  Speaker 2: something out that you I don't know what he was
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  Speaker 2: trying to achieve by the post, I guess try to
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  Speaker 2: be funny, but yeah, unfortunately at the moment, people are
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  Speaker 2: just feeling, you know, like they're being completely ignored and
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  Speaker 2: a post like that just really then does go to
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  Speaker 2: show that he's not addressing the real issues that we're
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  Speaker 2: facing all across the territory.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got members up in Palmerstan. I've noticed there
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  Speaker 2: have been businesses there that have been getting broken into,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so this is being felt right across the
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  Speaker 2: territory and obviously we're pushing very hard for those youth
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  Speaker 2: fail laws to be changed. Obviously in Queensland we've seen
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  Speaker 2: after some terrible incidents that have occurred over there, that
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  Speaker 2: things are now starting to change. I think it's so important, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: that we remember that last year we lost a person
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  Speaker 2: here at Alice Springs and whether that was given the
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  Speaker 2: attention it deserved or not is up. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're hurting down here as well, and we just want
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  Speaker 2: our government here in the Northern territory to take it
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  Speaker 2: as seriously as what Queensland now seemed to be.
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  Speaker 1: Josh, is that something that was discussed in the meeting
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  Speaker 1: that you had with Chancey Paik, a labor minister earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the week or late last week.
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  Speaker 2: Look, there are a lot of things discussed. I think
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  Speaker 2: the main thing again that we've sort of spoken about
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  Speaker 2: is we really want to get a meeting with the
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister. I can reveal that the three members down
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  Speaker 2: here we've sent another letter of the Chief Minister saying that, look,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be up for seedings over the next
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  Speaker 2: two weeks up in Darwin. Are you willing to meet
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  Speaker 2: with us. We're just we're really just trying. We're reaching
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  Speaker 2: out because we want to get across what we're hearing
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  Speaker 2: every day here in our springs, from victims of crime,
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  Speaker 2: from people in the community that we are hurting and
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  Speaker 2: things really need to change.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Josh Burgoyne, the Member for Braitling, I really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks mate. That's Josh Burgoyne, who is obviously the local
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  Speaker 1: member there in Alice Springs,