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Sentinel Property Group's Greg Campbell says $10k is being spent to clean up the carpark at Casuarina Square a month · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now, as you've heard, over the last couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: there have been quite a few issues bubbling along around
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  Speaker 1: the Casarina area, and on the weekend we learned about
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  Speaker 1: youths allegedly assaulting other youths and running a mark really
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  Speaker 1: in that Casarina area. Now it is a concern that
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  Speaker 1: the new owners of Casarina Square are spending a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time and a lot of money trying to combat.
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  Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line right now is Sentinel
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  Speaker 1: Property Groups Development Director Greg Campbell.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Greg. Morning Katie, how are you
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  Speaker 2: really well?
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your time this morning, Greg. There has been
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  Speaker 1: a lot happening at Casarina Square lately when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to some of those issues with crime.
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  Speaker 2: What's been Sentinel's response to all of this, Well.
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  Speaker 3: The two fronts, really, Katie. Is one is on the
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  Speaker 3: security side. We've leafed up with security with more security
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  Speaker 3: personnel and the introduction of the dog patrol. And then
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  Speaker 3: the other avenue is working with the local community and
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  Speaker 3: the police and other statutory authorities at a social level.
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  Speaker 1: And so just talk us through when it comes to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to beefing up security and also those dog patrols.
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  Speaker 1: What measures have been implemented or what have you had
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  Speaker 1: to do?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the dog patrols have been a huge success. All
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  Speaker 3: all they really do is just walk around and at
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  Speaker 3: the sight of the side of the dogs, anybody that's
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  Speaker 3: causing trouble just tends to walk away, whereas previously they
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  Speaker 3: might confront a security guarden that could lead to violence.
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  Speaker 3: We've had examples of that, and then the security guards
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  Speaker 3: has gone back and another guards walk around with the
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  Speaker 3: dogs and the trouble makers have just cleared off without
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  Speaker 3: any further incident. So yeah, it's working a treat. Ninety
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  Speaker 3: nine percent of the people love it, and I guess
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  Speaker 3: if you're the one percent that's causing the problem, then
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  Speaker 3: you don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: No, well, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: And Greg, you know, it sounds like it's been a
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  Speaker 1: good thing to implement at the center.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a costly measure.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure, it's all increase in security. Is
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  Speaker 3: it additional cost which we have to bear and the
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  Speaker 3: tenants there have to bear. Cleaning the car park underneath
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  Speaker 3: costs ten thousand dollars a month, just all the experiments
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  Speaker 3: and rubbish and everything like that from people camping down
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  Speaker 3: there and whatnot. So, yeah, it is a costly exercise.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, ten thousand dollars a month just on cleaning in
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  Speaker 1: those car parks. Yes, Greg, that must be I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's a huge impult on any business.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, That's why we've got to deal with the problem.
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  Speaker 3: As I say, it's on two fronts. One is through
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  Speaker 3: security and the other one is working with statutory authorities
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  Speaker 3: and social groups to try and deal with it at
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  Speaker 3: the other end as well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it must be a concern to you guys
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  Speaker 1: as well. When you hear reports like we've spoken about
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  Speaker 1: over the course of the weekend where you've allegedly got
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  Speaker 1: kids as young as ten and eleven years old assaulting
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  Speaker 1: other young people that are you know, that are around
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  Speaker 1: the center, it must be a concern for you.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, there's well violence of any levels of concern.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that they're doing it to each other is
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  Speaker 3: a problem. Perhaps they'll grow up with that attitude, but
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  Speaker 3: they're also doing it to other customers, you know, elderly
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  Speaker 3: elderly customers and things like that. So you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just something we won't tolerate. The safety of families, it
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  Speaker 3: is just paramount for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Greg, when you talk about, you know, the work
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  Speaker 1: that he's been conducted with other community groups and other
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  Speaker 1: organizations and also the Northern Territory Police.
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  Speaker 2: How are things tracking along in that space?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, very good. The reception we've had up here in
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  Speaker 3: Darlan has just been outstanding compared to other states and territories.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's wanting to work with us. We're very proactive company.
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  Speaker 3: So we're up here every three weeks. And when I
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  Speaker 3: say we, I mean the CEO myself, all the top
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  Speaker 3: execs are up here every three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And the response has been very, very good.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when it comes to those discussions then that you
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  Speaker 1: would be having with the tenants and you know, with
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  Speaker 1: the business operators inside the center, you know, what are
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  Speaker 1: they saying to you about the issues, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: the crime that is being experienced around the place.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what they say to us is that it's intolerable
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  Speaker 3: when it's affecting their business. Trouble out the front of
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  Speaker 3: the shop fronts, it's you know, you can imagine it's
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  Speaker 3: just a huge impediment to the customers wanting to go
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  Speaker 3: in there. So that's you know, that's why we're dealing
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  Speaker 3: with with the dipple and the Council and moving the
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  Speaker 3: bus interchange so we can better manage those sort of
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  Speaker 3: issues and we get them away from from the actual
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  Speaker 3: shopping experience.
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  Speaker 1: And where is where are things that when it comes to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to the moving of the bus exchange from
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  Speaker 1: Centinel's perspectives.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've got just two weeks ago, got approval and
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  Speaker 3: principle of a plan to relocate the bus center change
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  Speaker 3: away from where it is now. The problem where it
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  Speaker 3: is now is that any trouble from me the change
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  Speaker 3: just bills directly into the center before we can do
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  Speaker 3: anything about it, and so it's affecting customers and staff.
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  Speaker 3: By moving it out to the front, we put some
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  Speaker 3: distance between any that may occur from the from the interchange,
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  Speaker 3: for some distance between the interchange and the center, so
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  Speaker 3: it gives us time to intercept that and deal with
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  Speaker 3: it before it gets into the center.
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  Speaker 2: And Greg, you said, where we're at now?
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  Speaker 3: Where at that we've got that approval of principle and
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  Speaker 3: then that goes through. It's still going to go through
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  Speaker 3: the development application procedure and public exhibition and the normal
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  Speaker 3: statutory process you go through.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so still quite an arduous process by the sounds
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  Speaker 1: of things to go through. But that approval in principle
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  Speaker 1: is that something that comes from the government or where
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  Speaker 1: do you get that approval in principle from.
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  Speaker 3: It's from the Department of Infrastructure and Planning. So it's
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  Speaker 3: been worked out with them, the bus companies so that
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're not lodging an application trying to guess
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  Speaker 3: what's going to work and what people want. We've spent
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  Speaker 3: five months meeting with the various agencies and council as well,
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  Speaker 3: just talking through it and trying to come up with
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  Speaker 3: a plan so that it works for everybody. Yes, Willworths
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  Speaker 3: as well. It affects them because they're down that end.
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  Speaker 3: They're about to on the basis of this, they're going
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  Speaker 3: to fully redevelop the supermarket in there so bring it
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  Speaker 3: up to the latest national standard of fit out. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: a lot hangs on relocating the interchange.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So if that, if that interchange does relocate, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see a full redevelopment of Woolworth Supermarket by
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  Speaker 1: the sounds of things, and quite a bit sort of
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  Speaker 1: happening within the center. That is positive, you know for
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  Speaker 1: everybody that goes there. Greg, Can you just talk us
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  Speaker 1: through where exactly it will be relocated to, because I
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  Speaker 1: know for plenty of people listening they might not know exactly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, exactly what the movement would mean or where
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  Speaker 1: it would go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to go out onto trail road of
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  Speaker 3: the car park, so it'll run parallel to the main
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  Speaker 3: entry point to the shopping center, run parallel along trail
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  Speaker 3: road there in the car park down to the cash cut.
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  Speaker 1: And how long do you anticipate that it's going to
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  Speaker 1: take to get to the point where it will actually
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  Speaker 1: be able to be moved.
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  Speaker 3: The development application process is expected to take about six
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  Speaker 3: months by the time we're just about to start the
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  Speaker 3: traffic impact assessments, so that'll take quite a few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: And then we launched the full application and then it
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  Speaker 3: goes through the statutory process, it gets lodged, the Development
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  Speaker 3: Consent Authority, goes on public exhibition. I'm presuming they'll be
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  Speaker 3: hearings and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And from your perspective, how big a difference do
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  Speaker 1: you think that this is going to make to some
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  Speaker 1: of those issues of crime and anti social behavior that
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  Speaker 1: the center is experiencing.
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  Speaker 3: It'll make a big difference. It takes any trouble away
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  Speaker 3: from the immediate center. So any trouble that might be
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  Speaker 3: arising out of the bus interchange, if it's going to
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  Speaker 3: start out on trail road and if it's going to
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  Speaker 3: drift towards the center, well we've got seventy five meters
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  Speaker 3: or so to intercept it and with the police or
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  Speaker 3: whoever else calm it down and deal with it before
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  Speaker 3: it actually gets into the center and the text customers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you reckon that there'll be much of an
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  Speaker 1: impact on you know, on any of the other sort
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  Speaker 1: of businesses or anything else that's nearby.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. Dipple and counsel everybody, the police,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's very conscious of what the problem is. And when
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  Speaker 3: we do relocate it, we'll be building it in a
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  Speaker 3: fashion that hopefully works for everybody, including the trouble makers.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they'll be fences up and things like that
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  Speaker 3: so that they can't spill out onto the road, you
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  Speaker 3: know out there.
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  Speaker 2: Greg, we really appreciate your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to be catching up with the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Mayor of Darwin convat Scalas a little bit later this morning,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll ask him as well about that that that
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  Speaker 1: move to the Casuarina bus exchange. I really appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: having a chat with us today. Thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: for your time.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome, Katie, thank you you too.