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Speaker 1: Now we have heard that unfortunately, there's been some incidents

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Speaker 1: occurring in Catherine in the last twenty four hours. Now

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Speaker 1: joining me on the line is Joe Hersey. She is

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Speaker 1: the member for Catherine, the COLP member for Catherine. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, Joe.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, and good morning.

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Speaker 1: Listen now, Joe, as I understand it, there was actually

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Speaker 1: a young child who was at home and had somebody

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Speaker 1: break in. Tell me what's gone on here?

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Speaker 2: So, Katie, yesterday I was contacted by a member of

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Speaker 2: the community and yeah, as you say, her eleven year

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Speaker 2: old son was at home. Someone has been in the

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Speaker 2: yard and has broken into the house with a knife

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Speaker 2: and threatened that child. And you know, she sent me

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Speaker 2: audio of it. He's just saying, take whatever you like,

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Speaker 2: no one's here, just take whatever you like and go.

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Speaker 2: It just sounds quite frightening. I can't even imagine, you know,

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Speaker 2: that poor child, let alone the mother that had to

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Speaker 2: deal with all this. Now this is after I think

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Speaker 2: it was two or three weeks ago we had that

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Speaker 2: space where people were broken into in Sam's Wood Hibiscus

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Speaker 2: to Julia and someone was threatened with a machete. Then well,

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Speaker 2: this was this woman's husband. So it's just quite extraordinary

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Speaker 2: that it is the same house that has been targeted.

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Speaker 2: I do know that a youth in the area, one

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Speaker 2: of the youth that I've been in contact with before,

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Speaker 2: leaves not very far away from this lady. She she

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Speaker 2: knows him, you know. But what these youths from in

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Speaker 2: that three weeks ago the attack, So there was four

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Speaker 2: of them, three of them one was under the age.

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Speaker 2: Three of them actually went on to Darwin, one was sentenced,

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Speaker 2: and two were on bail. What is extraordinary from that, Katie,

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Speaker 2: is that one of those that was on bail is

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Speaker 2: one of the is the youth that held up her

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Speaker 2: son yesterday. He has eighty three offensives against him. So

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that doesn't pass the standard in the community.

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Speaker 2: Where eighty three offenses against a person and they are

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Speaker 2: out on bail. What is going on with the system?

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Speaker 1: Well, Joe, yeah, I mean, look, I haven't seen the information.

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Speaker 1: I don't have it in front of me, but hearing

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Speaker 1: that sounds like it is absolutely not in line with

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Speaker 1: the community's expectations. It's horrible stuff. Can I ask, is

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Speaker 1: that young person is the eleven year old?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: The victim?

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Speaker 2: Well, the mum has said he does have a few issues,

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Speaker 2: this young boy. The mum has said, yes, he is okay,

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Speaker 2: he's gone to school today. But you know, she said,

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Speaker 2: what do we do? You know, the police do what

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Speaker 2: they can in their powers, and yet this youth is

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Speaker 2: obviously allowed to just set out on bail.

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Speaker 1: And well, look, I want to we do just need

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Speaker 1: to be yeah, and we do just need to make

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Speaker 1: sure we're really careful because I don't want to be

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Speaker 1: in a situation That's exactly right. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: be in a situation within then you know, the alleged

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Speaker 1: defender is able to get away with anything because we

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Speaker 1: do anything to jeopardize that situation in any way, shape

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Speaker 1: or form. So I just want to make sure we're

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Speaker 1: careful there because I want to make you know, we

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Speaker 1: don't want to be in a situation where anybody's able

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Speaker 1: to get out of trouble. Joe, tell me, how have

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Speaker 1: things been going in Catherine over the last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: This incident's horrendous. How have things been going.

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Speaker 2: So a science on this incident, Haiti, In the last

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Speaker 2: five days, the tennis been broken into three times, and

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Speaker 2: you know this is a this is a great little

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Speaker 2: community group of people. They are all volunteers, and you know,

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Speaker 2: they have had a terrible times as a council building,

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Speaker 2: and so you know, then council has to you know,

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Speaker 2: go in and fix the building up. Let alone the

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Speaker 2: tennis community members going in and cleaning up. You know,

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Speaker 2: apparently from the photos that I saw, it was pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: The cricket club had some damage done there and I

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Speaker 2: think there's a there's a weather or a there's a

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Speaker 2: pollution station I think on the cricket oval that was

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Speaker 2: damaged within the last couple of weeks. So the sporting

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Speaker 2: facility has been broken into again, and that's a that's

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Speaker 2: an amazing new building that we have hard for, you know,

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Speaker 2: Rugby athletics, all of the facilities of all the sporting

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Speaker 2: groups sorry use it in that area, and it is,

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Speaker 2: you know, seems to be continually targeted. Council are doing

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Speaker 2: their best. They leave the lights on at nighttime on

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Speaker 2: the oval then to helpfully keep people away. That it

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Speaker 2: isn't absolutely unacceptable that you know, this crime and anti

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Speaker 2: social behavior just keeps on going on.

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Speaker 1: It is, and Joe, you know, I'd sort of thought

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Speaker 1: that maybe things had quietened down a little bit. So

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Speaker 1: I know that you'd had a horrendous time a few

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, but then that's terrible. So the tennis club

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Speaker 1: broken into five times?

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Speaker 2: Did you say three? Three times in the last five days?

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Speaker 1: Oh goodness? May I mean it's like, it's hard enough

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Speaker 1: to try and run a club without having to deal

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Speaker 1: with that kind of thing. It's you know, it's run

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Speaker 1: by volunteers. You've got people in there that are giving

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Speaker 1: up their time for the betterment of the whole community

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Speaker 1: and for the whole community. Then for the tennis club

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Speaker 1: and the cricket club to be broken into it's just

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Speaker 1: really ordinary behavior.

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Speaker 2: It's very disappointing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So I am going to have to leave

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Speaker 1: it there. Hey before I let you go, though, just

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Speaker 1: very quickly. Well, this is a much different topic, but

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Speaker 1: we're talking about eggs, and Crystal was saying that she's

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Speaker 1: wondering whether there's a bit of a shortage of eggs.

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Speaker 2: How's it going, Catherine, Well, that's funny you say that

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Speaker 2: Katie I could not get eggs before the show, and

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Speaker 2: the colp put on a stool at the show, and

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Speaker 2: we're always very busy with egg and bacon sandwiches. I

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Speaker 2: could not get one egg to bless myself with in Catherine,

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Speaker 2: nor could the butcher. So I got onto a guy

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Speaker 2: Melton in Darwin and got cartons of eggs down and

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Speaker 2: then asked Jason at the butchers did he want some

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Speaker 2: as well? So he got some and we got them

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Speaker 2: down from Darwin. What's going on with the eggs? I

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Speaker 2: wonder if it is actually, you know, because of the

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Speaker 2: cage situation, whether that's having an impact. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see what we can find out. Joe Hersey,

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Speaker 1: CLP member for Catherine. Always good to speak with you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thank you