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Karama resident Kylie says she’s too scared to go to her local shops even in the day time due to crime and anti-social behaviour in the area · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: We have certainly had concerns raised with us about issues
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  Speaker 1: of crime and anti social behavior in Karama, and well,
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  Speaker 1: having lived in the area for just eighteen months. Local
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  Speaker 1: resident Kylie, who is in a wheelchair after a spinal injury.
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  Speaker 1: She's pretty worried about leaving her home to go to
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  Speaker 1: nearby shops and she joins me on the show right now,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Kylie.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Really good? Thank you so much for your time, Kylie.
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  Speaker 2: What's been what's them?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not currently in a wheelchair. I use that at times,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm on a four wheel walker.
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  Speaker 3: Good on you.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're a bloody legend and I know it
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  Speaker 1: would still be difficult though, and make it tough. I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming when you think about some of what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in Karama and when.
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  Speaker 3: You leave your house.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely it's a tough one because it's other local residents
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  Speaker 4: and myself, I live directly opposite the shops too scared
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  Speaker 4: to go over there even in daylight.
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  Speaker 1: Now, goodness, may can you tell me what has been
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  Speaker 1: happening out there?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So.
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  Speaker 4: In the last six months, there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 4: gang related stuff, mainly the Karama Boys, but fighting amongst
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  Speaker 4: each other. But a couple of weeks ago, the Jovie
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  Speaker 4: Boys came up and the Parmo Boys and there were
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  Speaker 4: one hundred kids in the car park just fighting. On
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  Speaker 4: my god, when was this about two weeks ago?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that must have been pretty frightening stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: And the complex I live in is directly opposite the
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  Speaker 4: shopping center and there's quite a lot of elderly here,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people in wheelchairs, a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: the same as me. I try and walk as much
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  Speaker 4: as I possibly can due to my spinal injury. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: I can, sometimes I can't. But yeah, it's quite frightening
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  Speaker 4: even just to walk into the shops when you get
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  Speaker 4: for money, you get for smokes to get you know,
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  Speaker 4: and then I walk back from the shop because I
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  Speaker 4: can only get a few bits and pieces at a
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  Speaker 4: time because I get no support from the government and
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  Speaker 4: I'm self funded. And yeah, it is quite frightening.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine how scary that would be some days. Kylie.
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  Speaker 1: If you you know you're you're doing amazingly the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you are on that walker, in my humble opinion,
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  Speaker 1: and that is a true feat in itself. But the
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  Speaker 1: fact that then you're trying to get in and out
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  Speaker 1: of the shops, carry your groceries, stay safe and not
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  Speaker 1: being you know, and trying to keep yourself in a
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  Speaker 1: situation where you've got your wits about you and are
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  Speaker 1: as agile as possible as you possibly can be.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's right. I look behind myself all the time,
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  Speaker 4: just to make sure I'm not being followed, because you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm I've been waiting to be rolled, to be honest,
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  Speaker 4: I've been waiting for someone just to come and that
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  Speaker 4: I hired as much as I can in my walking frame.
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  Speaker 4: But one of the things I wanted to talk to you,
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  Speaker 4: obviously about is there's a lot of theft yep, and
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  Speaker 4: the security can do nothing about it, absolutely nothing about it.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you mean people are people are going
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  Speaker 1: in stealing stuff from the bottle.
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  Speaker 4: Shop yep, yeah, the bottle shop or Woolworth, so just
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  Speaker 4: walk in. I was paying at the checkout a couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks ago, and you know, I said to the
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  Speaker 4: young fellow that was saving me, I said that lady
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  Speaker 4: just walked out with a chick, and he goes, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I can't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: We hear that so often, Kylie, Hey, like I hear
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  Speaker 1: that so often. And the explanation that's very often given
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  Speaker 1: to me as well is that the security say that
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  Speaker 1: they can't do anything because they're actually worried that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get hirsh or injured trying to stop themsolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: The other issue is, you know, around here a lot
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  Speaker 4: of cars get stolen, windows get smashed, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: graffiti on cars. My car's been broken into twice. My
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  Speaker 4: car doesn't actually start, and I don't have a current
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  Speaker 4: driver's license due to my medical condition. They won't let
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  Speaker 4: me drive at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: But I've still got the car.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, my neighbor informed me that my doors wrote
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  Speaker 4: down my car. How they got into it, I've got
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  Speaker 4: no idea, but they stole someone else's car from the complex,
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  Speaker 4: one of the really nice ones, and then smashed all
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  Speaker 4: these windows and graffiti bonnets and you know, and there's
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  Speaker 4: graffiti inside and the outside of the complex like pole
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  Speaker 4: suck zero eight one two, you know, Parma boys versus
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  Speaker 4: Crume boys.
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  Speaker 2: All that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: The shopkeepers I'm concerned about because it is a great complex.
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  Speaker 4: It's got everything I need in it. The headdress of
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  Speaker 4: the pharmacy or where everything I need. But the shopkeepers
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  Speaker 4: are losing money because people don't want to go there,
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  Speaker 4: and you.
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  Speaker 1: Feel for them because you think to yourself, you know,
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  Speaker 1: these are great people running local businesses. All they want
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  Speaker 1: is to be able to run their businesses safely. As
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  Speaker 1: you've touched on, you know, it's you live in a
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  Speaker 1: complex where you've got people. Some of the people that
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  Speaker 1: are there are seniors. It sounds like everything's so accessible
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  Speaker 1: for you guys to be.
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  Speaker 3: Able to get into the shops.
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  Speaker 1: Really, but then when you're dealing with this kind of
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  Speaker 1: garbage and you know, absolutely despicable behavior, you think, how
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  Speaker 1: can you live your life?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've been in very close contact with brian O Gallagher.
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  Speaker 4: He is our local counselor. He has been trying to
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  Speaker 4: get police more police presence here last year or late
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  Speaker 4: last year and early this year. He got over twelve
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  Speaker 4: hundred signatures to get to the police presence even just
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  Speaker 4: a caravan for a couple of months.
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  Speaker 2: To deter this behavior.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, because they put CCTV in.
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  Speaker 2: They don't care.
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  Speaker 4: They honestly do not care. They would just fight on
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  Speaker 4: and bash on and whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But you know they did have a caravan, you know, one.
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  Speaker 4: Of those caravans that have the big signs of it.
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  Speaker 4: They did have that here for a couple of weeks, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: late last year. That deterred them for a little bit yep.
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  Speaker 4: And then they moved that on to Palmerstan and it
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  Speaker 4: just started up again.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it sounds like it's it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: it's really rough going for you guys. Can you tell
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  Speaker 1: me how, you know, how are some of those more
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  Speaker 1: senior people in the complex feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Not good? Not good.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lady that lives upstairs with me. She's also
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  Speaker 4: on a walking frame. I hadn't seen her for a
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  Speaker 4: couple of months, and I thought, oh my god, maybe
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  Speaker 4: she's passed away, because most mornings I meet her down
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  Speaker 4: in the car park yep, not by choice, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: by accident. And she's on a frame as well. And
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  Speaker 4: we walked across the road going to will Work to
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  Speaker 4: do our shopping, and she actually ended up in hospital
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  Speaker 4: because she broke a hip. And when I saw her
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  Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago, we walked across together and
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  Speaker 4: she said, I don't want to come here anymore, but
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  Speaker 4: I have to live here, and I said, well, so
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  Speaker 4: do I. That is you know where I am right now.
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  Speaker 4: It's not my choice, but this is what's happened. And look,
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  Speaker 4: don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 2: The units that themselves are beautiful, They are really lovely.
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  Speaker 4: The Body corporate does the best it can. However, the
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  Speaker 4: gates like you need to use like a clique to
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  Speaker 4: get in the gate and swipe to get into the lift,
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  Speaker 4: they break them so they get full access and they
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  Speaker 4: run around the path up and you know, steel cars
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  Speaker 4: and before.
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  Speaker 2: It's also the petrol station across the road.
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  Speaker 4: A lady last week was filling up a car when
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  Speaker 4: into pay came out to drive out. A group of
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  Speaker 4: youths in father tried to stop her, so she stopped
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  Speaker 4: and then locked the car and they tried to get
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  Speaker 4: in car, so they smashed the side a side mirror.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a bloody nightmare.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to cost a lot of money even with insurance.
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  Speaker 1: You know, yeah, Colie, this is its Honestly, you shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have to live like this.
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  Speaker 3: We live in bloody Darwin, for God's.
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  Speaker 2: Sake, you know, the greatest place on there.
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  Speaker 1: Same here, And that is what is upsetting everybody so
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  Speaker 1: much right now is that we all live here because
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  Speaker 1: we want to live here.
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  Speaker 3: We aren't here because we're forced to live here.
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  Speaker 1: We love this place, we want to see succeed in
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  Speaker 1: the way that we know it should be, and there
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  Speaker 1: needs to be some serious work so that people like
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  Speaker 1: you can feel safe in your own home.
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  Speaker 4: I would just like, as Bruno Galladus has said, just
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  Speaker 4: more police presence and even you know Lariche Nation, you
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  Speaker 4: never see them out here, You never see them, yeah
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  Speaker 4: once in a blue moon that they have amped.
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  Speaker 2: Up the private security with dogs.
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  Speaker 4: I have been escorted across the road with the private
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  Speaker 4: security with dogs when the fights have been happening out
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  Speaker 4: the front. I've been locked into Woolworth and had to
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  Speaker 4: sit down on my Willie Walker. So they've locked everybody
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  Speaker 4: in while they deal with what's going on outside.
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  Speaker 2: Yeap, and yeah, that's basically what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kylie, I'm going to try and get Brian on
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  Speaker 1: the show as well throughout this week. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: something that we've spoken about before, and he'd come on
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  Speaker 1: the show a while ago when he first well he
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  Speaker 1: got those twelve hundred signatures. But it sounds to me
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  Speaker 1: like it's something that we need to focus on again.
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  Speaker 1: So I really appreciate you getting in contact with me
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  Speaker 1: and making me aware of it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh look, I just need to get it out there,
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  Speaker 4: you know. I'd also like to say one of my
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  Speaker 4: best mates that leaves two streets around the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful, beautiful home.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, he has electronic gates on his house and here
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  Speaker 4: drove in his driveway a couple of weeks ago and
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  Speaker 4: got followed in his two young kids in the backseat
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  Speaker 4: of his car. So he locked the car in his
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  Speaker 4: own driveway and then they started smashing his car.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and did it to one of his neighbors as well.
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  Speaker 2: And these are kids with ankle bracelets on.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the thing is, Kylie, we don't even
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  Speaker 1: hear about stuff like this so often because it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: no longer considered something that's you know, that's unusual. It's
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  Speaker 1: something that we're hearing and seeing happen more often, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just not good enough. We you know, we cannot
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  Speaker 1: continue to live like this.
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  Speaker 2: No, we can't.
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  Speaker 4: And he didn' choose to live in Korama. This is
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  Speaker 4: not my chosen area to live in, but my circumstances
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  Speaker 4: are that's where I need to live where I am
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  Speaker 4: right now, yep, you know, but it is a nice place.
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  Speaker 4: I've got a family friend that's lived here for forty
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  Speaker 4: years down on Kln Mostripe where I live, and she
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  Speaker 4: actually wants to move after forty years and she's seventy
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  Speaker 4: five years old, and it's like that's the family home.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's not acceptable.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I've got friends that live there too, Kylie,
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  Speaker 1: and I just think it's no one should have to
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  Speaker 1: live like that, and you should not have to move
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  Speaker 1: houses or move states like we're seeing some people do
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  Speaker 1: because of the garbage that's going on.
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  Speaker 4: It makes me really really sad that people are leaving
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  Speaker 4: on Math and going back down south because that's the
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  Speaker 4: last place I want to go, because i never want
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  Speaker 4: to be cold again. Because I'm originally from Adelaide. When
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  Speaker 4: I grew up in Darwen, then went back to Adelaide's
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  Speaker 4: thirty five years and now being back in Darwen to seven,
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  Speaker 4: I have no intention of leaving Darwin. And this is
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  Speaker 4: why I'm speaking out though, is because it's the crime
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  Speaker 4: and the antisocial behavior that it's not just Karama.
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  Speaker 2: It's everywhere, you know.
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  Speaker 4: But where my focus on at the moment is it's
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  Speaker 4: where I live and my safety, my neighbor's safety, and
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's yeah, you deserve to feel I.
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  Speaker 2: Do need to say this.
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  Speaker 4: The Antique government are doing absolutely nothing about crime. They
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  Speaker 4: say they are and they're not. And I'm really really disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: You're not the only one, Kylie, that is for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate you speaking to me this morning. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for getting in contact, and yeah, please keep
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  Speaker 1: in contact. Let us know how things are going. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna try and get Brian on the show this week.
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  Speaker 2: I got to be fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure when he's got time he will join you
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  Speaker 4: because I'm telling you right now he's doing the best
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  Speaker 4: for the community and the greatest bloke I've bet you know, good, Honie.
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  Speaker 1: No, I appreciate you having a chat with us, Kylie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to run off because we've got
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  Speaker 1: to get to the national news. Thanks so much for
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  Speaker 1: your time today. Look to yourself, you too. Thank you