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Speaker 1: on the line right now is Robin Lambley, the member

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Speaker 1: for Ara lun Good morning to you, Robin.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Robin.

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Speaker 2: I know that.

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Speaker 1: Last week was a pretty terrible week for Central Australia

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Speaker 1: with a couple of different incidents that had happened in

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Speaker 1: Alice Springs. You'd spoken to us on I think it

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Speaker 1: was around Tuesday or Wednesday, and you sounded like you're

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Speaker 1: at your wits end, Robin. How are things going? I

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Speaker 1: know you're back in Central Australia now after lockdown. How

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Speaker 1: are things going?

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Speaker 2: Well? There haven't been any more major incidences like we

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Speaker 2: had on Tuesday and Thursday. The town is relatively quiet,

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Speaker 2: but we really haven't heard from our leaders at all

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Speaker 2: since the incident in the Coles car park where a

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Speaker 2: man was seen deliberately smashing into car than causing a

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Speaker 2: lot of hysteria and grief for people going about their

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Speaker 2: business at around ten thirty am on Tuesday morning. The

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Speaker 2: silence has been deafening, Katie, and I just find it

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Speaker 2: unbelievable that no one from government has come to Alice

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Speaker 2: to us, giving us some leadership and direction. It really

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Speaker 2: is quite astounding.

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Speaker 1: Well, Robin, do you think I mean my understanding, I

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Speaker 1: think is that the Police Minister is actually going to

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Speaker 1: idea whether she's going to be meeting with concerned locals

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Speaker 1: or whether there's only going to be formal meetings.

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Speaker 2: Look, I am aware that the Police Commissioner and the

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Speaker 2: Minister for Police are coming to Alice Springs next week.

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Speaker 2: The only reason I know that is because I'm a

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Speaker 2: member of the Chamber of Commerce and I have been

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Speaker 2: for eleven years. And an email was sent out to

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Speaker 2: members of that membership organization saying that they were holding

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Speaker 2: the Commissioner on Tuesday, no time, no venue, just a

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Speaker 2: fairly open invitation to a limited number of people to attend. Look,

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Speaker 2: and that's great. I understand that the Chamber of Commerce

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Speaker 2: reached out to the Minister and the Commissioner asking for

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Speaker 2: that meeting, and that's a really good thing. But there

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Speaker 2: might be a thousand people in our springs that are

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Speaker 2: members of the Chamber of Commerce. For the other twenty

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Speaker 2: four thousand people. That means absolutely nothing. As an elected member.

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Speaker 2: If they're coming down, I would expect them to come

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Speaker 2: and see me. And I've actually sent off an email

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Speaker 2: you're coming to town, please I'm the elected representative of

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Speaker 2: the people of our Luis and that's around ten thousand people.

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Speaker 2: Come and talk to me about what you're doing to

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Speaker 2: help our town. And I know I've spoken to Josh

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Speaker 2: Bergo and the Member for Braitling. I spoke to the

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Speaker 2: the same view that we want to be a part

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Speaker 2: of the solution. We want to be communicated with, we

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Speaker 2: want to be respected and we want our constituents to

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Speaker 2: be respected. It's a small ask, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and I think it's pretty fair. I know

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Speaker 1: that you've met with Minister Kate Warden before when she's

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Speaker 2: It's been great. Yes, we sought me out. I haven't

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Speaker 2: see me. And I really really respect Kate Warden for that.

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Speaker 2: I respect the Minister for Central Australia. Although he's been

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Speaker 2: conspicuously silent too, but my business have actually had to

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Speaker 2: beg is confounding and really wrong. It's fundamentally wrong.

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Speaker 1: Well, and at the end of the day, I know

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Speaker 1: people of Alice Springs and for Central Australia. You really

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Speaker 1: want a situation where people, you know, don't feel unsafe

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Speaker 1: to go shopping at Cole's throughout the day, where they

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Speaker 1: like we're talking about some pretty dangerous stuff there is.

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Speaker 1: It's no criticism against the police, you know it is.

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Speaker 1: It's literally just a matter of, yeah, trying to make

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Speaker 2: So the police, it's business as usual that they're processing

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Speaker 2: these crimes. They're doing the right thing. But the extra

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Speaker 2: in the dark in so many ways down here now, Katie.

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Speaker 2: The fact that we don't have a local newspaper is

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Speaker 2: a major issue. I speak to oldies all the time,

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Speaker 2: in particular who don't get on the internet, who aren't

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Speaker 2: accessing your programs streaming it through the internet. They don't

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Speaker 2: know what's going on. And at a very basic level,

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Speaker 2: we all need to be communicated with and there are solutions,

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Speaker 2: there are things that could be tried that we do

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Speaker 2: have ideas. We are local people talking to us might

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Speaker 2: make their job a whole lot easier, but if you

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Speaker 2: much more harder than what it needs to be.

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Speaker 1: Well, Robin, please keep us up to date with how

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Speaker 1: you know whether the Minister does indeed meet with you

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Speaker 1: or not. Keep us up to date with what's going

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Speaker 1: on in Alice Springs. Like I always say, we want

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Speaker 1: know that this show is not just about Darwin, it's

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Speaker 1: not just about Greater Darwin and Catherine that it is

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Speaker 1: also about Alice Springs as well, because we are all

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Speaker 1: territorians and we want to make sure that the whole

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Speaker 1: of the Northern territories prospering Alice Springs.

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Speaker 2: People really appreciate that, Katie and more and more people

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Speaker 2: from down here are listening to you and realizing that

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Speaker 2: you are a really strong voice for all Territorian so

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Speaker 2: thank you for that. I really do appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: No worries it all. Robin, thank you so very much

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Speaker 1: for your time this morning. We will talk to you

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Speaker 1: again throughout the wake.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie,