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Speaker 1: Yesterday we heard from Northern Territory Police. They were calling

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Speaker 1: for information after an aggravated robbery occurrerding Catherine on Tuesday

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Speaker 1: morning about two point thirty in the morning, police received

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Speaker 1: reports that two youths had allegedly entered a residence on

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Speaker 1: Lucy Street and stole a set of vehicle keys before

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Speaker 1: attempting to steal a vehicle parked in the driveway. Those

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Speaker 1: youths were confronted by a neighbor and allegedly assaulted her

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Speaker 1: before fleeing the scene on foot. Now joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line is Joe Hersey, the COLP member for Catherine.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Joe.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, and good morning listeners.

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Speaker 1: Joe, have you spoken to the victim about that incident

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Speaker 1: in particular?

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Speaker 3: I mean, it sounds terrible.

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Speaker 1: Then the neighbor's gone and tried to intervene and ended

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Speaker 1: up being assaulted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie, I haven't spoken to that particular victim, but

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Speaker 2: there are so many victims in Catherine at the moment.

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Speaker 2: It is just quite sickening and I am so cross

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Speaker 2: that we have just been hung out to dry here

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Speaker 2: with not enough police to get around and attend all

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Speaker 2: these break ins and assaults. It is people are just

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Speaker 2: at their wits end. They have had a gut full.

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Speaker 2: I've been outdoor knocking and I mean five people that

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Speaker 2: I've come across have not even bothered reporting. So that

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Speaker 2: is an issue in itself that people are so despondent

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Speaker 2: with what is actually going on that they are not

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Speaker 2: even reporting the crimes that are being committed.

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Speaker 1: So what kind of crimes have been committed against them

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Speaker 1: those five people that haven't even bothered reporting it to police.

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Speaker 2: House breakings, break into businesses last night, the am said

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Speaker 2: bank was broken into, the door pushed in. You know,

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Speaker 2: anglic Care was broken into twice last night, and I

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Speaker 2: think they have actually been broken into about three times,

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Speaker 2: four times in the last week or so, a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks. It's just it really is shocking. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, we're talking about businesses closing down and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: Carry At the beauty Bar closed down because she had

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Speaker 2: had numerous break ins over an eighteen month period, and

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Speaker 2: you know, business cannot sustain this kind of level of

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Speaker 2: angst mental health, and it really affected her physically and mentally.

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Speaker 2: You know, the business owner, you know, it takes time

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Speaker 2: in fixing up all these break ins Regent Court again,

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Speaker 2: they're closing down soon. They've had five break ins in

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Speaker 2: three weeks and they've spoken to those business owners. They're

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Speaker 2: just they are absolutely at their wits end.

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Speaker 3: Jo, Why do you think this is happening?

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Speaker 1: You touched on the fact that you said that there's

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Speaker 1: not enough police there. Do you feel as though those

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Speaker 1: resources have been diverted to other locations or what do

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Speaker 1: you think has happened?

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Speaker 2: Well, whether they've been diverted or not, the amount of

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Speaker 2: people leaving are not being replaced. And I know for

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Speaker 2: a long time the police have been asking for extra

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Speaker 2: support here in Catherine. We don't have any police on

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Speaker 2: bottle shops anymore. That's causing a real problem. And so

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Speaker 2: you know there's a lot of anti social behavior happening

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Speaker 2: out on the street.

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Speaker 3: It's not good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: From those breakings, From those breakings overnight, you said the

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Speaker 1: A and Z bank broken into as well as Angler Care.

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Speaker 1: Was there a lot of damage? What can you tell

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Speaker 1: us from those ones?

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Speaker 2: So Angler Care had two breakings last night and it's

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Speaker 2: five in two weeks that they've had. They've stolen car keys,

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Speaker 2: they've stolen you know, other bits and pieces that inside

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Speaker 2: A and Z bank last night. The door was just

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Speaker 2: pushed in. I'm not sure if they actually got in

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Speaker 2: or not. A government vehicle was stolen that was caught

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Speaker 2: by a police. But the amount of crime and anti

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Speaker 2: social behavior that is going on in Catherine at the moment,

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Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it. It's wow, like it's

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Speaker 2: the Three for All. When I left work very late

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Speaker 2: last night, there was a lot of youth on the

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Speaker 2: streets and I'm going to put it out there and

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Speaker 2: I know that you know people, it's something that people

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Speaker 2: like to talk about, but I'm not sure whether it

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Speaker 2: is a good thing or not. It does give police

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Speaker 2: a reprieve, but people are calling out on social media

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Speaker 2: for a curfew and even my husband who's born here,

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Speaker 2: said time for a curfew.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, Catherine.

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Speaker 1: So you do you think it's really reached that point

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Speaker 1: in Catherine at the moment, Joe, I'll go out on.

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Speaker 2: A limb and say, yes, I do, Katie, I do.

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Speaker 2: Because we don't have enough police to tend to all

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Speaker 2: of their breakings and things that are going on. You know,

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Speaker 2: five of our police got sent to the fast track

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Speaker 2: course that they've just had. I've heard we've got sixteen

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Speaker 2: coming back. Yep, but that's only five of those ones

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Speaker 2: coming back. In that time five have left, so you know,

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Speaker 2: really we're only talking about an extra five or six

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Speaker 2: police when in actual fact, I know when I've spoken

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Speaker 2: to them, you need they said we need twenty five

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Speaker 2: extra police to actually be able to do their job. Katie.

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Speaker 2: This is twenty five to just do their job, to

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Speaker 2: do the policing that is asked of them on a

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Speaker 2: day to day basis. Jo.

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Speaker 1: I mean some people listening, some listening this morning, might

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Speaker 1: be thinking to themselves. Look in Alice Springs. You know,

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Speaker 1: it had reached the point where there was literally people

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Speaker 1: writing in the street before the Northern Territory government decided

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Speaker 1: to implement a curfew. Do you think do you think

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Speaker 1: it's bad enough to be doing that?

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Speaker 2: I do think, I mean, I do think it's bad enough.

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Speaker 2: But the thing is, why do we have to wait

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Speaker 2: till everyone gets to tipping point? The jet that left

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Speaker 2: Regent Court the other night had a rock thrown in

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Speaker 2: his car. He stopped and confronted the person. Now everyone

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Speaker 2: will be saying, well, he should have kept on going,

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Speaker 2: But that's how angry people are, Katie. They are pissed off. Ye, silly,

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Speaker 2: but nothing is happening, and then he goes to confront

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Speaker 2: the guy and the guy has a knife.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my goodness.

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Speaker 2: It is just this. There is more and more incidents

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Speaker 2: of knife people having found knives are found on their person.

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Speaker 2: Just one of those incidents last night at Anglicare. One

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Speaker 2: of my staff actually lived next door. One of those

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Speaker 2: people had a knife.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow.

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Speaker 2: Fortunately her husband didn't do anything because it just.

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Speaker 1: Well, you don't know what the consequence is going to be.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Well, Joe, look, we we.

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Speaker 2: Have to wait till everyone is at the end of

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Speaker 2: their teather and going to take things into their own

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Speaker 2: hands before this inept incompetence law LA government gives us

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Speaker 2: some more bloody police here.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a fair point to make. And look,

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Speaker 1: we are just about to catch with the police minister.

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Speaker 1: So I will put that to him, Joe before I

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Speaker 1: let you go this morning.

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Speaker 2: Just on that we're talking to him, ask him if

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Speaker 2: he's going to respond to the seven emails that he

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Speaker 2: still hasn't responded to me from the second of January. Like,

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Speaker 2: Brent Potter, get on and respond to your emails. It

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Speaker 2: is absolutely ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Joe, before I let you go this morning, lots of

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Speaker 1: promises being made by everybody, the COLP, the ALP, and

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Speaker 1: the lead into the Northern Territory election that's.

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Speaker 3: Just fifty eight days away.

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Speaker 1: Well, the CLP announcing that you can save an average

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Speaker 1: of around one hundred dollars on two cars and two

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Speaker 1: licenses with the announcement they've made this morning about that

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Speaker 1: freeze with well, you guys have made this morning on

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Speaker 1: the freeze of car registrations. Why do you reckon this

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Speaker 1: is the way to go?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's a great way to go, Katie,

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Speaker 2: because the cost are living. We know that that is

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Speaker 2: one of the things that is affecting people across the territory.

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Speaker 2: And by putting our freeze on car registration the twelve

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Speaker 2: months and driver's licenses free for a year, we'll give families,

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Speaker 2: you know, some cost of living relief. And I know

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Speaker 2: that also we have the you know, cost of living

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Speaker 2: relief with introducing the new three year registration options for

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Speaker 2: trailers as well under seven hundred and fifty kilos, so

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Speaker 2: that you know, these are all things that families use

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Speaker 2: whether they're going to the dump, driving to work. You

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Speaker 2: know getting in their car every single day. There needs

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Speaker 2: to be more cost of living relief coming out and

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Speaker 2: we will in the coming weeks. We will have more

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Speaker 2: cost of living relief for families across the territory leading

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Speaker 2: into the election. As you said, fifty seven days.

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Speaker 3: Away, Joe, we better leave it there.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate your time this morning, and yeah, it sounds

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Speaker 1: terrible some of what's going on there in Catherine. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you having a chat with me about it this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie. Thank you listeners, and make sure you ask

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Speaker 2: Brent Potter, the policemeners and some hard questions on lens.

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Speaker 1: Stick to my job, you stick to yours, but yes,

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Speaker 1: definitely I will ask him.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Thanks Joe,