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Speaker 1: The governmental disappointment of the week for me was the

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Speaker 1: announcement of a panel that will look into retail crime.

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Speaker 1: It will take two years. It is not necessary to

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Speaker 1: gather people to take two years to come up with

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Speaker 1: ideas on what to do with retail crime. Retail crime

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Speaker 1: isn't cancer. While it is a form of societal cancer,

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Speaker 1: of course, but it's not a complex issue, the answer

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Speaker 1: to which only is to be found in a lab

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Speaker 1: requiring deep and detailed investigation. What this announcement is, dare

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Speaker 1: I say it is the Labor government reheated. When you

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Speaker 1: have a problem and you're not confident in being able

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Speaker 1: to fix it, you create a group to look into it.

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Speaker 1: You give them a generous timeframe, and you had it

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Speaker 1: as they have with one of your biggest critics in

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Speaker 1: this case, Sonny Causial. By doing this, you take the

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Speaker 1: heat out of the pressure you're currently under. All questions

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Speaker 1: going forward about retail crime can be answered by saying, oh, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: we share your concern as do the panel we've just

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Speaker 1: set up to look into it, the results of which

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Speaker 1: cannot be far away. Crime is about consequences. This government

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Speaker 1: has made that very clear. It's about police presence and

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Speaker 1: charges and courts and sentences. Sunny Caucial has been vocal,

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Speaker 1: very vocal over his ideas which involve their owners being

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Speaker 1: able to make arrests and security guards having more power. We,

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Speaker 1: in other words, already had the answers and in some

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Speaker 1: aspects announcements have already been made in terms of sentencing

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Speaker 1: and police on the beat, making it worse. When the

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Speaker 1: panel come up with ideas they already have and have

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Speaker 1: expressed it will require law change. Ah law change the

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Speaker 1: government will then announce takes time and in that is

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Speaker 1: the problem for governments. This one doesn't have time. They

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Speaker 1: inherited a societal mess and time is of the essence.

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Speaker 1: Some of it can't be fixed quickly, but decisions can

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Speaker 1: be made and actions can be taken. And setting up

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Speaker 1: a Labour style committee to do the bleeding obvious, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: And if this is the approach to one of our

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Speaker 1: most urgent issues, they will pay the price electorally when

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Speaker 1: results don't come in and patience runs out. For more

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