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Member for Goyder Kezia Purick discusses the antics inside NT Parliament · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: And joining me on the line right now is the
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  Speaker 1: independent member for going a Kezia Puric.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Cazier, Hey, good morning, Katie. Good morning to
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  Speaker 2: push people listening to your show.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of people that listen out there in the
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  Speaker 1: rural area. You know that you always get plenty of
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  Speaker 1: love when you're on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Easier I do to show.
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  Speaker 1: I know that, Oh, Casier, we've just finished well the
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  Speaker 1: acting Police commissioners first sit down interview there following on
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  Speaker 1: you know, from the fact that he'd been announced acting
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  Speaker 1: in that role. I've got to say, it sounds as
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  Speaker 1: though he's got a tremendous amount of work underway and
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  Speaker 1: he's really hit the ground running.
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  Speaker 2: I think so. Yes, I did listen to some of it,
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  Speaker 2: not all of it, but and I do know Michael
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  Speaker 2: Lerson not well but a moment. I've always found him
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  Speaker 2: to be a very approachable person, given his high level
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  Speaker 2: within the police force, and happy to talk about anything,
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  Speaker 2: happy to assist, you know, even this little issues that
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  Speaker 2: I might have in my elected or out and the
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  Speaker 2: rule are so and things seem to be happening and
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  Speaker 2: it seems to be positive, you know, like not making
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  Speaker 2: it mandatory that, you know, goppers have to spend twos
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  Speaker 2: that are posting the bush type of thing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Like there's lots of people actually want to go and
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  Speaker 2: live in remote communities for whatever reason, you know, apart
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  Speaker 2: from doing their job. You know, they just love the
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  Speaker 2: love the environment, love the outdoors, love working with the
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  Speaker 2: people in those communities. Plus approaching people who perhaps recently
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  Speaker 2: left the police force. I think that's a great idea
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  Speaker 2: because you know, you know, and I know, when you
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  Speaker 2: lose people who've been in the force for fifteen twenty
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  Speaker 2: years or so, you lose a huge amount of corporate
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  Speaker 2: memory and corporate intelligence. So if he can if he
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  Speaker 2: can put a big lasso around that and bring it
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  Speaker 2: back into the police force, I mean, that's just going
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  Speaker 2: to be a huge bonus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really will.
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  Speaker 2: You might also you know, well it will bring all
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  Speaker 2: that back. Plus it'll just you know, bring some old
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  Speaker 2: old blokes, old women back into the fold who just
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  Speaker 2: left because they're unhappy for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say older, I would say experienced.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's it, experience of mature experience. But I will
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  Speaker 2: be writing to him, and I will write to the
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  Speaker 2: ministry well in regards to the school based constables, because I, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure he would be responsive to that, because,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, we've talked about it in the past, prevention, prevention.
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  Speaker 2: These young people in schools, you know, who are a
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  Speaker 2: little bit confused, a little bit not sure which way
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  Speaker 2: to go, perhaps a little bit vunable to some peer
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  Speaker 2: group pressure. You've got those school based constable figures there.
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  Speaker 2: They can sound things often, they can assist them, they
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  Speaker 2: can talk to them about drugs. You know, we know
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  Speaker 2: it works. It definitely works. So if he's going to
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  Speaker 2: attract more people back into the force, then I think
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  Speaker 2: there's another way that we can also help with some
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  Speaker 2: of our current society problems is to get these constables
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  Speaker 2: back in the schools because the auxiliaries, it's nice as
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  Speaker 2: people as they are, they're probably good at what they doing.
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  Speaker 2: They're not the same as a constable an officer.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I want to ask you, Kysia. We know that
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  Speaker 1: I've got a couple of messages here. There's one here
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  Speaker 1: from the Room for all People, and it says, Katie,
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  Speaker 1: can you please ask easier about the Water Act from
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  Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon and explain it and will it mean putting
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  Speaker 1: meters on bores.
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  Speaker 2: Hell no, I said that upfront in my speech. So
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  Speaker 2: the Rule people listening over my dead body, and Jared
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  Speaker 2: Mayley said over his dead body too. The meters on
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  Speaker 2: boars domestic balls is not in this. It will never
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  Speaker 2: be in this, and we will never accept it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is a problematic issue. The government has given up
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  Speaker 2: on it three times to my knowledge, whether it's it's
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  Speaker 2: usually not driven by the Ministry. It's usually driven by
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  Speaker 2: someone within Water Resources. They come up with a bright idea,
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  Speaker 2: we must find out how the Rule people and what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing with their water rubbish. So this has got
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with that. The Minister of the Water
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  Speaker 2: Act I supported what it basically means. I've got ten acres.
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  Speaker 2: I can cut it into two five laker locks tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: because that's the zoning rules. I've got one boll And
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  Speaker 2: what happened is I put my application into the DCA.
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  Speaker 2: They had to go to Water Resources and say can
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  Speaker 2: subdivisions support another bore? Invariably water Resources would come back
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  Speaker 2: because there's pressure on our acohoers and say no, the
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  Speaker 2: subdivision can't support an additional bore. So the subdivision gets
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  Speaker 2: knocked back. So I can't cut my block in get right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What this has done is they will no longer have
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  Speaker 2: to consult with water resources. I can put my application
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  Speaker 2: into subdivide my ten acres into two five. I will
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  Speaker 2: then have to nominate which property will have a bore,
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  Speaker 2: and if it's the existing one, that's what I've got.
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  Speaker 2: The new block won't have a ball. They will have
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  Speaker 2: to have rain water tanks or water comes from my
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  Speaker 2: block or whatever. It's actually quite a good move for
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  Speaker 2: people who have been wanting to subdivide their land according
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  Speaker 2: to the zoning without having to get knocked back all
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  Speaker 2: the time because they have to put down a bore.
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  Speaker 2: That does that make sense to people listening.
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  Speaker 1: I think, So to give them a call, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: they'll message. If it doesn't easier, they'll definitely get in
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  Speaker 1: contact with us and let us know. Hey, while I've
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  Speaker 1: got you, and you know that I'm always watching question
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  Speaker 1: Time and I'm always trying to keep an eye on
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in Parliament. But I've got to tell her,
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to Question Time yesterday and I felt
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  Speaker 1: a bit confused. It was a very bizarre situation where
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  Speaker 1: you saw the government sort of choosing to focus on
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  Speaker 1: the COLP. I mean focusing on the former CLP government
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  Speaker 1: shortfallings and goodness knows there was a lot of them,
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  Speaker 1: but actually sort of asking themselves questions about the former
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  Speaker 1: CLP government. I've never really seen it before.
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  Speaker 2: Kesier, No, it was a bit bizarre. I have to say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where I can observe a lot, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and have done over the years, and I feel that
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  Speaker 2: the government's a little bit on the run. You know.
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  Speaker 2: They shouldn't be asking questions of the CLP, of the
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  Speaker 2: former COLP government. They should be sproken their own work
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  Speaker 2: and their own performance, not questioning what's gone before. On
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  Speaker 2: the opposition benures, you know, and a few of them
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  Speaker 2: use this tactic of oh, you know the acting opposition leader,
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  Speaker 2: you've been appointed, you know, blah blah blah. Yeah said
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  Speaker 2: it before. People are tired of that willinginess, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like you can be clever, and you can be smart,
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  Speaker 2: and you can be a bit funny, but at a
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  Speaker 2: certain time in regard to a certain subject. Question time
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  Speaker 2: is where the opposition and US as independent are trying
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  Speaker 2: to get an answer from the government in regards to
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  Speaker 2: a particular issue or a particular problem. Or they're responding
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  Speaker 2: in regards to their constituencies people generally, and they're wanting
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  Speaker 2: to hold government to account and get quests, get answers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but the government seems to you know, the just views
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  Speaker 2: that expression goes dick around trying to be smart asses.
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  Speaker 2: And I tell you, o, Katie, it's worn really really
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  Speaker 2: thin with people out there in the community.
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  Speaker 1: It truly is, especially when you hear them continuously using
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  Speaker 1: that line talking the territory down. I don't think they
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  Speaker 1: realize how much it grates on people.
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  Speaker 2: It's really just a nonsense statement, you know, and as
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  Speaker 2: sooner they stop using it, the better. It's the same
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  Speaker 2: as they use the expression, you know, one trick pony,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like it's just it's a nonsense. Okay. I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you an example of what people out there, the
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  Speaker 2: sentiments out there. I went to the Big Mile the
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  Speaker 2: other day to buy a little groovy gadget chainsaw best
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  Speaker 2: thing ever, best toy anyway, that aside. When I was
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  Speaker 2: talking to the fellows there where you go in and
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  Speaker 2: get your oils and get things fixed and everything, they
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  Speaker 2: were saying, the most topic at that counter is not
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  Speaker 2: your chainsaw bars, not the oils not Europeirs. Crime. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's what people are coming in to talk to about
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  Speaker 2: in there, and there's usually about three or four fellows
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  Speaker 2: on the counter. They've been there for ever and that's
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  Speaker 2: what they're talking about. And it was quite shocked, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because I expected in some places where you know, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: more retail because they seem to be more of a
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  Speaker 2: target and that's broken windows, et cetera. But this is
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  Speaker 2: a I don't know what you call it, a semi
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  Speaker 2: industrial kind of business, and it is a very busy business,
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  Speaker 2: so a lot of traffic coming to and from that business.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they're talking about. It's a clime and how
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  Speaker 2: it's impacting on people.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right, and it's something that impacts absolutely everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And that is why, you know, we really need to
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  Speaker 1: get a hold of it and the government needs to
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  Speaker 1: take it as seriously as territorians are taking it. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, that sort of laughing it off in question
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  Speaker 1: time or you know, saying that people are talking the
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  Speaker 1: territory down. It just doesn't. It just stinks, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't. It doesn't sound good at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's not showing leadership, it's not nothing is resonating with
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  Speaker 2: the community at this point of time. They're looking for
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  Speaker 2: some direction, they're desperate for some direction, and I think
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  Speaker 2: the new acting Police Commissioner is giving that kind of
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  Speaker 2: direction and leadership at least his employment situation, like to
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  Speaker 2: the troops, whether it be police, fire, emergency services. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what people want. They you know, there's a time
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  Speaker 2: for laughing and mucking around, and it's not now, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not in this chamber like it's you know, you
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  Speaker 2: can have your light moments, but that's not the kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing. So yes, you know, we're getting business done here,
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  Speaker 2: and legislation is passing like the one I think you
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  Speaker 2: might have spoken about us hands and officers using mace
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  Speaker 2: and things of that nature. That's pretty important stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because we're trying to give the tools to the people
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  Speaker 2: to maintain law and order on our public transport. Given
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  Speaker 2: that so many people depend upon public buses, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to make them safe for lots of oldies
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  Speaker 2: and lots of young es as well. Plus plus I
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  Speaker 2: should ad Katie and the what do you call it?
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  Speaker 2: The bus exchanges? Like I've had a parent come to
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  Speaker 2: me about the Palmerston bus exchange and she's just horrified
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  Speaker 2: and has started a petition at the people that hang
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  Speaker 2: out there for the out o'clock buses to take kids
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  Speaker 2: to school. They're drunk, they're defecating, there's rubbish everywhere, they're
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  Speaker 2: sleeping there, and that's the main interchange. And what do
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  Speaker 2: you call them the security people for the bus exchange.
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  Speaker 2: They're not doing anything. They're just standing by because they
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  Speaker 2: probably don't want to get involved because they've probably been
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  Speaker 2: lashed at. So this is what people are hurting about.
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  Speaker 2: They're hurting impacting on their family. Absolutely, this mom will
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  Speaker 2: not leave her children there. They're about ten and twelve
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  Speaker 2: a people their bbouts and she will stay with them
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  Speaker 2: till they hop onto that bus. And other mums and
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  Speaker 2: dads are doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Too, Oh one hundred percent, Kezia, I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: get ready to go because we're about to catch up
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  Speaker 1: with the Northern Territory Police Association. But I'm very keen
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  Speaker 1: just to hear from you quickly. I'm not sure whether
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  Speaker 1: you've heard. Over the last couple of days, we've had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of discussion about changes to school counselors within
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  Speaker 1: those schools, and a lot of students also school counsels,
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  Speaker 1: and indeed teaching staff really very concerned about these changes
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to school counselors and what seems as
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  Speaker 1: though a real lack of school counselors. What do you
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  Speaker 1: make of it all?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what this Department Education is doing, but
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  Speaker 2: they've sort of held full of load of bullshit, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I say. They call it carpetland where they live
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  Speaker 2: in the big city, you know, in the big building
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  Speaker 2: in the big city. I have struggled on behalf of
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  Speaker 2: my constituency to get the two counselors into tomm in College.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I don't even have the one there. I listened
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  Speaker 2: to the education person on your radio yesterday or the
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  Speaker 2: other radio station, and she wouldn't answer your question, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it was all this fluffy Oh, we've got these units,
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  Speaker 2: and we've got this, and we're doing that, we're doing this.
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  Speaker 2: Just answered the question have you got I've got twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven councilors and we're recruiting for another five. I was
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  Speaker 2: told they were recruiting for the Second Amendment Council nearly
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  Speaker 2: twelve months ago. Wow. So I don't know who came
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  Speaker 2: up with this bright idea to put them all back
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  Speaker 2: into corporate office and then to share them out. It
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  Speaker 2: won't work nice And as taking the school based constables
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  Speaker 2: out won't work hasn't worked. I put a question on
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  Speaker 2: a question through to the Minister's office. How many incidents
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  Speaker 2: have happened at our high schools since you took out
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  Speaker 2: the school based constables because auxiliaries can't respond, they have
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  Speaker 2: to go and get the police in. You know what,
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  Speaker 2: the minister right back to me. Ask the questions during
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  Speaker 2: estimate time, that's your time to ask the questions, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought that is.
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  Speaker 1: Just lazy, it's not fair, you know. Like the thing is,
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  Speaker 1: there's actually people in your electorate that want to know
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  Speaker 1: the answers to those questions as well, and that is
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  Speaker 1: where I always think it's a bit disrespectful and disingenuous.
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  Speaker 1: Then when you get responses like that, Kisie, I'm really sorry.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to wrap it up, but we will
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  Speaker 1: talk to you again very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, Thank you,