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Katie Woolf spoke with Fannie Bay Supermarket IGA owner Manuel Kotis · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie wolf On Mixed one oh four
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  Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: Now I reckon. Like so many of you who listened
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  Speaker 2: to the show, I felt incredibly concerned and pretty upset.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to say yesterday when I saw the vision
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  Speaker 2: on social media of the Funny Bay Supermarket being broken into.
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  Speaker 2: Now joining me on the line is Manuel Cotis, the
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  Speaker 2: Funny Bay Supermarket, the IgA owner. Good morning to you, Manuel,
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  Speaker 2: Mine Katie mat how are you going following on from
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  Speaker 2: that terrible breaking over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very tired, you know. I've got a phone call
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  Speaker 1: at four point thirty in the morning. Well, the police
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  Speaker 1: that my shop was broken into, came to the shop
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  Speaker 1: and expected the worst. It is about four hours to
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  Speaker 1: clean up a mess, terrible mess, you know. The It's frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: It's I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed because at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, I can't see no light at
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  Speaker 1: end of the tunnel. I can't see what hope Darwin's
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  Speaker 1: god of surviving with this crime. I believe, honestly believe
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  Speaker 1: it's time that serious metal has been taken up and
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  Speaker 1: the young youths, they've got to be controlled. We can't
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  Speaker 1: let a bunch of years control in the town. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's not safe, it's dangerous. You know, we all got families,
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  Speaker 1: We've got bran kids and and will fear. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the fear that you know in my next is my
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  Speaker 1: family's safe. You know. Look, I've got at work, my staff,
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  Speaker 1: I've got ladies have been working there for about ten
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  Speaker 1: years to come to work, to make an honest living,
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  Speaker 1: to put free on the table. They get you know,
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  Speaker 1: they get bashed, They've been sped at, and you know
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  Speaker 1: how long can this go on for? And you know
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  Speaker 1: where does he stop?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? And you know, Manuel, you and I have spoken
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  Speaker 2: about this on a number of occasions. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: come into your shop regularly. You and I chat fairly often.
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  Speaker 2: You were telling me not so long ago when I
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  Speaker 2: came in that that one of your staff there had
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  Speaker 2: been assaulted recently as well.
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  Speaker 1: That's o Katie Young Scott, you know this. This person
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  Speaker 1: came into the store and Scotty approached him because he
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  Speaker 1: was trying to steal. And next thing we knew, that
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  Speaker 1: guy grabbed a bottle of past the saws in Sebastian
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  Speaker 1: on Scott his head. Scotty ended up in hospital for
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  Speaker 1: three days.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, what do we do, Manuel, I
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: We can't keep we can't keep run of the police.
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  Speaker 1: On the police, I'll exhausted that they're coming here. They
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  Speaker 1: sound nice to me, they help ul But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, we all need some
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  Speaker 1: professional guidance. I won't call it guidance because you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to guide this young kids do a better
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  Speaker 1: life than what they've got now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you spot on, there's no doubt about that. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to guide these young kids to a better life
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  Speaker 2: than what they've got now. But you know, if you've
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  Speaker 2: got a situation where where somebody is offending time and
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  Speaker 2: time again, we also need to nip it in the
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  Speaker 2: bud at the pointy end. You know, there has to
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  Speaker 2: be consequences for people when they are doing the wrong thing,
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  Speaker 2: because if they're not, if there's not consequences, they're never
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  Speaker 2: going to stop.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's precisely right, you know, it's time. It's time
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  Speaker 1: that we've set enough is enough. None were talking. We've
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  Speaker 1: done enough talking. We've been talking to you. You know, I've
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  Speaker 1: been in the shop now thirty five years, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and all we's doing is talking. It's time that they've
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  Speaker 1: taken action. We've got to take some serious action. We've
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  Speaker 1: got to say it's not a better any based silver market.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I'm putting better on behalf all the people.
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  Speaker 1: You know. We're the families, you know, and we all
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  Speaker 1: care about a family. We don't see a basket work,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And then it's time that whether it's the
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  Speaker 1: government or the community is people aren't. You know. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a politician to give you a name to solve
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  Speaker 1: the problem. But all I know is something's going to
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  Speaker 1: be done now, not tomorrow. It's going to be done now.
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  Speaker 2: Manuel has the Chief Minister, who's also your local member,
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  Speaker 2: reached out to.
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  Speaker 1: You, well, not not yet. One of his officers came
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  Speaker 1: in this morning because because I've got no roller door
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  Speaker 1: down in front of my shop. My front door has
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  Speaker 1: been especially about four times now and I'm not allowed
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  Speaker 1: to put the front a roller door on my shop
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  Speaker 1: because of the safety requirement by the propagade or something.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have to roller doors. I appreciate that, but
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, there's ways around it.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's time. It's time. Where we were
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  Speaker 1: to start working together.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, oh, spot on.
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  Speaker 1: This is a political issue. It's not a racial issue.
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  Speaker 1: It's an issue. We've got a bunch of young kids
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  Speaker 1: running around running this town, and we are accepting that
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  Speaker 1: it's time with that. Enough. We're not going to let
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of kids run this town.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and this is the thing Manuel, And as
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  Speaker 2: I say, you and I have spoken about this on
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  Speaker 2: various occasions, you know, everybody like we've been talking about
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  Speaker 2: it for so long. I feel like some days it's
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  Speaker 2: the only thing I talk about. Do you. The government
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  Speaker 2: has obviously made this announcement about these legislative changes that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to make so that if somebody is a
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  Speaker 2: repeat offender, if a youth is a repeat offender, then
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to be able to get bail. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: does that go like, does that sort of go far
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  Speaker 2: enough in your opinion? Or do you think that it's
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  Speaker 2: time for the government to sort of really sit down
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  Speaker 2: and listen to people like you and say, all right,
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  Speaker 2: enough is enough, We've got to make some serious change.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Katie, I agree with one hundred percent. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: told the governments will sit down and say another a
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  Speaker 1: sudden let's look at it. Look the whole picture. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's do something that's going to be very constructive. And
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  Speaker 1: it's that good. Same fails and all this and next.
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  Speaker 1: But the main thing is, you know, why are the
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  Speaker 1: kids doing for If they're doing it, let's get them.
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  Speaker 1: Let's stop them from doing it. You know, let's put
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  Speaker 1: them into a program education. Any way you're going to
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  Speaker 1: pick this problem. We'll getting Darwin is by education? Yeah. Educated?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to say you simply can't go around
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  Speaker 1: passion people? And you know, like it locked the lady
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  Speaker 1: down the front door. She's been back in the face.
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  Speaker 1: That poor lady. She's hills the nightmare. Yeah, people come
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  Speaker 1: in the shop and starts screaming and she starts trying
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  Speaker 1: from there. Yeah, you know she's been branded for life.
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  Speaker 1: Why no, Now that's a fair got a waste of free?
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  Speaker 1: Why did you get a waste free? Why?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's right. And then she's living with the
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  Speaker 2: impacts of it, you know, for a long time to come.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't fair.
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  Speaker 1: Manuel.
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  Speaker 2: Before I let you go, mate, I just want to
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  Speaker 2: say that. You know, as I mentioned, I come into
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  Speaker 2: the to your store very regularly. The last time I
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  Speaker 2: came in was with my daughter. You greeted us with
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  Speaker 2: some beautiful Greek biscuits, you gave us lollies to take home.
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  Speaker 2: You snuck my daughter a Fredo frog.
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  Speaker 1: Mate. What I love.
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  Speaker 2: About you and your wife and the beautiful people that
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  Speaker 2: work at the Funny Bay Supermarket is that you guys
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  Speaker 2: don't just love your business. You love your customers and
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  Speaker 2: you treat everybody with love and care and respect. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, what you do is wonderful, and the community
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  Speaker 2: appreciates you and appreciates you, know the way that you
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  Speaker 2: treat us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for the crime. Words is there and nice.
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  Speaker 1: But deep down I love kids my weakness. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: just you know, I'll find kids the most intended thinks
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Don't make more sense than anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: When I talk to you, all I can say, we're
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  Speaker 1: lucky to have you in the radio. You are our boys,
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  Speaker 1: because if you weren't there, I wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 1: express my feelings my anger to the community. But we
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  Speaker 1: are lucky that you're there and I can express everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Get everything off my chest and you can pass it
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  Speaker 1: on to the other people.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mate, I try my best, Yeah, I try my best,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, some days. It's hard, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: you know, look, I really hope that that we're able
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  Speaker 2: to see some change in this space. I do hope
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  Speaker 2: that the Chief Minister gives you a call and sits
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  Speaker 2: down and really, here's what you've got to say. Because
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  Speaker 2: you've been running that business for is it thirty five years?
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  Speaker 1: Thirty five years, Katie, you know, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think that it would be wonderful if he could have
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  Speaker 2: a coffee with you, hear what you've got to say,
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  Speaker 2: and hear about the impact that this kind of thing
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  Speaker 2: is having on everyday Territorians when you're just trying to
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  Speaker 2: run your business.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, Katie, the police that came at
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  Speaker 1: fourteen in the morning, they were so sound nice, so sympathetic,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, yeah, just legends. Yeah, they really are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that make you feel so important. They heard prize. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they's a quite with the people in going. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a shame that they haven't got the payout to do more.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Manuel, I really applive it is mate. I really
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  Speaker 2: appreciate your time this morning. I know that you are
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  Speaker 2: incredibly busy and and it's you know, I'm really sorry
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  Speaker 2: for what happened to you on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, o Kadian. I have to see in the
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  Speaker 1: shop one day. I'll have another biscuit again.
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  Speaker 2: Very soon, very soon. Good on your man you I've
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  Speaker 2: talked to you soon.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You too. Manuel cotis there and he's a lovely man.
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  Speaker 2: His wife is a beautiful woman. They do such a
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  Speaker 2: good job running that supermarket, and as I said, they
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  Speaker 2: treat everybody so wonderfully in there. It doesn't matter whether
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  Speaker 2: you're going to buy, you know, something small, whether you
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  Speaker 2: go in there to buy all your supplies for the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: They are incredibly respectful of everybody and soul are all
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  Speaker 2: of their staff. And you know, I know that the
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister is a busy man, but I actually reckon
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  Speaker 2: if he went and sat down with Manuel and heard
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  Speaker 2: exactly how difficult it is for some of our wonderful
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  Speaker 2: business owners who are just trying to run their businesses
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  Speaker 2: and they are subjected to this kind of thing, it'd
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  Speaker 2: go a really long way.