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Speaker 1: There is lots happening around the place.

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Speaker 2: And joining me in the studio this morning is Matt

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Speaker 2: Holland be, the Assistant Commissioner of Darwin and Roade Policing.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to.

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Speaker 3: You, Yeah, good morning, Katie, and good morning to your listeners.

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Speaker 2: Now, first off, I understand that a taxi was stolen

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Speaker 2: by three youths in Casuarina in the early hours of

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Speaker 2: this morning. What exactly happened, yeah, Katie, Look, just after

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Speaker 2: two am police received a report that.

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Speaker 4: A taxi some passengers had stolen a taxi. Police track

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Speaker 4: the stolen car through Nightcliff and engaged in the pursuit,

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Speaker 4: but it was terminated shortly after due to the manner

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Speaker 4: of driving loaded. We located the taxi a short time later,

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Speaker 4: and since that time we've arrested a thirteen year old female,

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Speaker 4: a thirteen year old male, and another fourteen year old female.

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Speaker 3: They are currently in custody. They haven't been charged.

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Speaker 4: Yet, but they're in custody, so we expect that they'll

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Speaker 4: be charged later today.

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Speaker 1: So three youths, So I mean that.

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Speaker 2: Look, it just seems as though we've got you with

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Speaker 2: no respect for anybody at this point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, Katie, that's right.

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Speaker 4: I mean I can tell you that Strikeforce tried and

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Speaker 4: alone locked up twelve youth on Monday, and you know,

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Speaker 4: we're investigating really really hard, and we're doing the right

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Speaker 4: thing by the community in terms of taking people off

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Speaker 4: the streets, and you know, it's a point now where

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Speaker 4: the families need to step up and help us as well.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you've got kids that's as young as

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Speaker 2: well in this instance, thirteen, did you say thirteen and fourteen?

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Speaker 1: I mean that is still that.

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Speaker 2: Is still very young to be out stealing a car

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Speaker 2: for goodness sake, like stealing a taxi, getting behind the

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Speaker 2: wheel of a vehicle, and then the police trying to

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Speaker 2: pursue calling it off then, but it's like it's a

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Speaker 2: dangerous situation for everybody involved, including those kids.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Katie. I mean it was a school night.

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Speaker 4: I'm imagining those children wouldn't have been going to school

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Speaker 4: today anyway.

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Speaker 3: But hats off to Trident.

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Speaker 4: They go above and beyond to keep territory and safe

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Speaker 4: the residents of Darwin with the exceptional work they do

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Speaker 4: on a daily.

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Speaker 2: Basis, and in terms of having to in that pursuit

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Speaker 2: for safety reasons, was the vehicle trying to run the

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Speaker 2: police or what was going on.

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Speaker 4: Look, I don't think it was ramming the police, but

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Speaker 4: it was a case of the driving was so dangerous that,

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Speaker 4: you know, we don't want these children to die in

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Speaker 4: a car crash either, So we had other methods of

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Speaker 4: tracking these kids, which is demonstrated by the fact that

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Speaker 4: we arrested up shortly thereafter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, Matt, I do want to ask you about

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Speaker 2: yesterday it was being reported that there had been an.

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Speaker 1: Assault at a school. Now, I know that.

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Speaker 2: There is still sort of a lot of detail that's

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Speaker 2: not kind of confirmed, But what can you tell us

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Speaker 2: from the police perspective.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I.

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Speaker 4: Can say that we're investigating. We received a report that

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Speaker 4: a teacher allegedly struck a child at school. A fifty

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Speaker 4: three year old male has since been arrested and he's

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Speaker 4: been charged with unlawfully course serious harm and aggravated assault.

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Speaker 4: The matter is before the court, so I can't really

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Speaker 4: go under the circumstances. But yeah, well, you know, it

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Speaker 4: obviously has significant ramifications for the child, and you know

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Speaker 4: that you can imagine that it will have significant ramifications

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Speaker 4: for the teacher's employment as well.

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Speaker 1: Do we have any idea how old that child was.

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Speaker 4: It's Darin Middle School, so you know, middle school age child.

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Speaker 4: I don't have an age in front of me. But again,

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Speaker 4: you know, a tragic incident for everyone involved.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not sure whether you're able to say, but

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Speaker 2: my understanding is that it was a female student.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it was a female student.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well so at this point in time

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Speaker 2: that teacher has has actually been charged.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's correct, and you know the matter is before

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Speaker 4: the court now, so we won't sort of delve into

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's move along and talk about I

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Speaker 2: do want to ask you it had obviously the Police

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Speaker 2: Association had joined us on the show yesterday and had

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Speaker 2: said that there's going to be twenty police basically going

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Speaker 2: with some of the issues that they're experiencing. Right now, now,

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Speaker 2: I know that you're obviously, you know, you are in

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Speaker 2: charge of Darwin and road policing, so you're not going

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Speaker 2: But just on those offices that are being surged to

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Speaker 2: Alice Springs, what area are they coming from?

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Speaker 4: Look, Katie They're coming from a variety of different sections

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Speaker 4: in Darwin. Some of them are my people from general duties.

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Speaker 4: There are a significant contingent from the Territory Safety Division,

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Speaker 4: one or two from the Road Safety Division, and a

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Speaker 4: couple of others from other areas in the police force.

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Speaker 4: But the important thing is, you know, if any community

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Speaker 4: across the Northern Territory is facing those sorts of issues,

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Speaker 4: we will surge in and help both the community and

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Speaker 4: our fellow police officers who are working really hard in

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Speaker 2: Does it make it difficult for you though, then juggling

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Speaker 2: the issues that we're experiencing up here, when you know,

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Speaker 2: when you've got to surge those officers to Alice.

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Speaker 4: Look, Katie, it's you know, it's it's prioritizing. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I can't tell you we've got more police officers at

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Speaker 4: Boro Lulla at the moment as well due to the flooding.

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Speaker 3: So you know, we we're here to help.

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Speaker 4: And we're here to keep people safe and we're here

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Speaker 4: to support our community but also support our brothers and

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Speaker 4: sisters in the police force across the Northern Territory. So

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Speaker 4: it's not you know, whilst it might seem an impost.

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Speaker 2: We want to help and you're able to do so

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Speaker 2: without it sort of jeopardizing us up here in Darwin.

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Speaker 4: I look at we have a small impact, but it

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Speaker 4: won't be significant to the people of dam.

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Speaker 1: Now let's talk about Boro Lula. Earlier in the week.

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Speaker 2: We know that that they were in a situation where

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Speaker 2: a cyclone it obviously had had you know, sort of

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Speaker 2: come across and you know, they didn't I guess get

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Speaker 2: the full brunt of it, but it was still not

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Speaker 2: great for them in boro Lula. Talk us through the

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Speaker 2: response then that has had to happen in boro Lula.

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Speaker 4: The cyclone didn't directly hit borrow Lulla, the fringes of

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Speaker 4: it did. They experienced some pretty wild weather. They had

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Speaker 4: a lot of rain, there's some trees down, but they

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Speaker 4: don't know major structural damage. The concern right now is

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Speaker 4: the rising MacArthur River, which we expect it will probably

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Speaker 4: reach fifteen point three meters this evening, which it takes

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Speaker 4: it into a major flood level.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Right, So again it's.

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Speaker 4: About supporting the supporting the people of boro Lulla within

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Speaker 4: their community to make sure that they're safe and they're okay,

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Speaker 4: and you know, loss of life is our major concern,

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Speaker 4: so we want to keep people safe and supported through

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Speaker 2: And so in terms of what to expect over the

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Speaker 2: coming days with that flooding, are we anticipating that people

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Speaker 1: Is anybody being a.

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Speaker 4: Vac waited out look, Katie, Probably not that nobody will

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Speaker 4: be evacuated. There is high ground in borol Lulla which

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Speaker 4: is won't get affected by the floods. It will be

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Speaker 4: a fairly short window of a twenty four to thirty

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Speaker 4: we expect that it'll recede fairly rapidly as well.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and so you said earlier that you've got some

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Speaker 2: additional police there in boril Lulla.

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Speaker 1: Have we got many extra police there at this point?

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Speaker 4: There's a rapid Impact Assessment team which consists of police

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Speaker 4: and fire officers. There's also a support element to the

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Speaker 4: current members at boro Lula, bearing in mind they've been

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Speaker 4: working near twenty four hours a day for three or

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Speaker 4: four days, and you know, we obviously have concern for

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Speaker 2: Up, and Matt, what about food and that kind of

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Speaker 2: thing for some of these communities that are going to

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Speaker 2: be cut off. Are the police sort of working with

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Speaker 2: those different communities. I know we've spoken to King as

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Speaker 2: well a little earlier in the week. Is there going

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Speaker 2: to be kind of different work or different stuff that

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Speaker 2: the police have.

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Speaker 1: To do to make sure that everybody's got food.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, we usually start that work about September October of

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Speaker 4: each year, where you know, our critical goods people reach

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Speaker 4: for three months.

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Speaker 3: Worth of food.

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Speaker 4: We're aware that borol law is pretty good for the

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Speaker 4: next two or three weeks.

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Speaker 3: You know, they may not get.

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Speaker 4: Blueberries for a little while, but they they there will

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Speaker 4: certainly be food there and nobody will starve. And you know,

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Speaker 4: we have the contingency of flying in more food if

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Speaker 4: we have to. But you know, this, this event and

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Speaker 4: the other one a month or so ago, have just

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Speaker 4: demonstrated the resilience of most of our communities where they

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Speaker 4: are prepared and they're very resilient, and we just you know,

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Speaker 4: we thank them and we'd like to build on that

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Speaker 2: Now, Assistant Commissioner, We've just got a message in and

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Speaker 2: you may not know anything about it because you're obviously

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Speaker 2: in the studio right now, but somebody's just messaged to say,

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Speaker 2: outside the wool Words bus stop in the CBD, there's

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Speaker 2: apparently all unmarked police cars there, lights flashing, people being arrested.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any idea what's gone on there?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Sorry, I can't help you with that.

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Speaker 1: I will find out after, Yeah, we will.

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Speaker 2: We will certainly be in contact with the police media

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Speaker 2: team and see what we can find out.

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Speaker 1: Well, Assistant commission.

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Speaker 4: Can I just say that the weather system is moving

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Speaker 4: rapidly west in a westerly direction. It's about near Renna

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Speaker 4: Springs at the moment, so we can expect some localized

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Speaker 4: flooding across the Northern territory. The really important part for

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Speaker 4: us is if you're traveling up and down the Stewart Highway,

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Speaker 4: please reconsider your plans. If there's water on the road,

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Speaker 4: just leave it alone. This water may that the rain

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Speaker 4: may actually get down to Alice Springs as well. So

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Speaker 4: this week, if you're considering driving the length of the highway,

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Speaker 4: you might just want to think again and wait, wait

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Speaker 4: until it's safe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fair call Matt Be the Assistant Commissioner. We really

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Speaker 2: appreciate your time of Darwin and road policing. Thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for joining us in the studio.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Codie, always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,