1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: The government's bringing in a new ministerial advisory group just 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: on another subject altogether, to bring down retail crime. Now, 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: retail crime, as we know, has got quite out of hand, right. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: It's increased eighty six percent in just the last five years. 5 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: There's been a seventy two percent rise of sexual assault 6 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: cases at retail locations. This is according to the Justice Minister, 7 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: and the government says the new advisory group will help 8 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: to bring down victims of violent crime by twenty thousand 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: in the next five years. Sunny Koschel is the chair 10 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: of the new Ministerial Advisory Group for Victims of Retail 11 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: Crime and joins me. Now, hey, Sonny good Arsenal head Sonny, 12 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 1: what is your job here? What are you supposed to do? 13 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: Oh? Well, the first of all is to do set 14 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 2: up this advisory group and then we need to work 15 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: on the actionable policies. You know, no one deserve to 16 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: go to work and end up in hospital or much worse. 17 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: So we believe that this is something that can be 18 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 2: solved and we're grateful that the government is taking it seriously. 19 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, so you supposed to set this group up and 20 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: then actually talk to the retailers and the victims of 21 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: retail crime and so on, and try to pull a 22 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: bunch of ideas together for how to fix it. 23 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. See, you see the dairies or service stations or 24 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 2: supermarkets and growthing stores of farmers and jewelers and tradees. 25 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: You know, they will be given a chance to shape 26 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: policy that affects us all equally and us all daily. 27 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: And we would be reaching out to those bigous stakeholders. 28 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 2: I mean it could be you know, any trades or 29 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 2: a tail end Z or MTA and farmers to see 30 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 2: what they want and to package that up in a 31 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 2: way that ships policy or development of pulcies and so. 32 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: I see, you guys have been put together for two years. 33 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: But tell me, I mean, you're not going to collect 34 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: ideas for two years and then pitch them at the government. 35 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: Surely you're going to pitch them at the government as 36 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: you come across really great ideas. 37 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you will see that we would set 38 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 2: the board rolling from next week and within a few 39 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: weeks we would start presenting the action of our policies 40 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 2: and you will be the first to hear a head 41 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: on that one. 42 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: Sonny am I going to hear before the minister? 43 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 2: Well you know what we're going to propose, because those 44 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 2: are the things that actually the common sense things, those 45 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 2: things should have been done a long time back. And 46 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 2: because it's all about consequences, it's all about stopping crime. 47 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: At the end of the day, crime is crying. You know, 48 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 2: we need to stop it. Yeah. 49 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: Absolutely, Listen, you're not a man short of ideas. You've 50 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: been around retail for a very very long time. If 51 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: I can ask you for your single biggest idea right 52 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: now for how you fix things, what would it be. 53 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,119 Speaker 2: Well, the first of all, we need to look at 54 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 2: making or supporting our police force. You know, they need 55 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 2: a proper backup. And also the consequences, the message of 56 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: consequences need to go out right now. The offenders they 57 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: know there are no consequences, and that's how they are 58 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 2: so fearless and and they have no fear of police, 59 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 2: no fear of law, no fear of being caught or 60 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 2: or any accountability. That's what is missing. 61 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: Okay, So tougher sentences, that's. 62 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 2: One of them. But it just going to be, you know, 63 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,399 Speaker 2: a good case that we're going to put together so 64 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 2: that anybody, any offender who's going to offend, must know 65 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 2: that you know he or she would be held accountabilit. 66 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: Yeah good stuff, Sonny, looking forward to seeing what you 67 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: come up with that. Sunny Koschal, the chair of the 68 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: Ministerial Advisory Group. For more from Hither Duplessye Alan Drive, 69 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: Listen live to news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, 70 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.