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Speaker 1: all the latest news and information. Now three sixty with

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Speaker 1: Katie Wolf. Everyone is listening Mix one O four point

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Speaker 2: It's fifteen minutes away from ten o'clock and it is

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Speaker 2: Tuesday morning. Time for you to catch up with the

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Speaker 2: Lord Mayor of Darwin convat Scarlets.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, corn, Is it Tuesday already? It's Tuesday already?

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Speaker 4: And live when you have fun?

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Speaker 3: Oh sure does.

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Speaker 2: And I tell you what's going to be a big

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Speaker 2: day today for all of our parliamentarians. Lots of stuff

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Speaker 2: floating around also here and I read.

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Speaker 4: It the newspaper, Kate.

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Speaker 5: And one thing I have to say about that is

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Speaker 5: be a parliamentarian is a very important position. Now you

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Speaker 5: have parliament, you got privilege and yes, anything you like

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Speaker 5: in parliament nobody can do anything about it. But at

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Speaker 5: the same time is a great responsibility. If you say

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Speaker 5: something that may destroy somebody's reputation on family, you have

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Speaker 5: to remember that one. But again, as a parliamentarian, you

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Speaker 5: say is something wrong, you have to bring it up

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Speaker 5: to the attention of the government. But this is something illegal,

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Speaker 5: you have to bring to the attention of the police.

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Speaker 5: So they're not even bad's there. But what I hear

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Speaker 5: and what I read, not only now, but previous governments.

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Speaker 5: I remember with Cop Kate, Claire Henderson, the Martin Headstone

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Speaker 5: governments were really boring. Nothing like that happened. Nothing it

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Speaker 5: came out. Mind you, both Claire and Paul will eviscerate

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Speaker 5: you if something like that came out.

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Speaker 4: But I was very pleased we were boring.

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Speaker 3: Well, I agree.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a good thing for our politicians to

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Speaker 2: be quite boring, if I'm honest.

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Speaker 3: Con let's talk.

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Speaker 2: Firstly, I want to ask you about that Nightcliffe Mahogany tree.

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Speaker 3: How did it go? That removal over the end of

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Speaker 3: last week.

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Speaker 4: I was there Friday morning.

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Speaker 5: When the people turn up to the movie, it was

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Speaker 5: very professional, I would say, surgical operation.

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Speaker 4: The people knew what we were doing. What really worried?

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Speaker 5: Mean when some people came to us and said, guys,

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Speaker 5: we hear some cracky noise from the trees, which is

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Speaker 5: not a very good sign because it was a really

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Speaker 5: big tree and the branches were huge. If they fell off,

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Speaker 5: they would destroy property. But most importantly, you've got the

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Speaker 5: Nightcliff markets there. The last thing you need is one

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Speaker 5: of the branches coming down in the middle of the markets,

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Speaker 5: because it will not be one or two people killed,

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Speaker 5: would be many. And we had already a child that

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Speaker 5: in athics and marriage school, and we had one in

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Speaker 5: the council's golf course and we learn a lesson. So

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Speaker 5: we got our local arborist, our own arborists. We examined it,

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Speaker 5: said it's extremely high risk. And then to get a

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Speaker 5: second opinion and got somebody from down south and some equipment,

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Speaker 5: and the advice was the same. So we decided to

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Speaker 5: remove it. We removed these huge branches. Some of them

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Speaker 5: actually are so good. We're going to mill them and

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Speaker 5: store them now in the depot, and eventually we will

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Speaker 5: make furnitures that we will put in the Nightcliff.

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Speaker 4: Area in that area.

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Speaker 5: And now we're looking for a good sculptule with a

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Speaker 5: good chainsaw to actually sculpt something on the trunk. Rather

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Speaker 5: than waste it, let's do something there and we have

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Speaker 5: something as a memorial to the three, because I remember

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Speaker 5: the three being so big when I first came to

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Speaker 5: downy years ago. And of course the other thing is

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Speaker 5: now we have to plan some more, say the trees,

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Speaker 4: Cover the area because it's quite often. No, I no,

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Speaker 4: trees are very important. I just finished planning eleven thousand trees.

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Speaker 4: But they're living things.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're born, grow, die, and I don't wonder when

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Speaker 5: they die to take somebody else with them. So important

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Speaker 5: thing was the safety of the public. I can plant

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Speaker 5: other trees that can grow very quickly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, and I do think that you've got

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Speaker 3: There is no doubt about that. I do want to

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Speaker 2: Yesterday on the show, we were joined by Larakia Nation,

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Speaker 2: and we spoke about some of the issues that we've

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Speaker 2: little bit more of that public intoxication in the city.

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Speaker 3: Is this something that's an issue for counsel at the moment.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 5: People come from the communities, first of all, because they

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Speaker 5: are lauded with money, with this money given to them

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Speaker 5: by the welfare and the federal government because of COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 5: There's no way to spend the communities because there's no entertainment,

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Speaker 4: So they come here a lot with money and they

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Speaker 5: Now my worry is we've got all these measures in place,

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Speaker 5: b ther you know the floor price, and these people

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Speaker 5: still get alcohol.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 5: I was talking to one of my fellow mayors in Mataranka,

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Speaker 5: Judy McFarland said to me, when COVID came, the liquor

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Speaker 5: commissioner made the decision, if you don't live in the area,

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Speaker 5: you can't take get takeaway. And from one hundred and

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Speaker 5: one incidents last the month before, only all of them

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Speaker 5: alcohol related. The incident that the clinic attended the month

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Speaker 5: after was only three and none of them alcohol attended.

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Speaker 5: So alcohol is the big problem, not only Dowin but

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Speaker 5: other places. That's an idea that the gument should consider.

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Speaker 5: If not from Darwin, you can't get takeaway. You can

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Speaker 5: go to the restaurant, you got the pub and drink,

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Speaker 5: but you can't take takeaway.

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Speaker 4: I reckon this one might reduce the number of people

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Speaker 4: in toxic people they come here.

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Speaker 5: You don't see them in the mall because our patrols

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Speaker 5: and our out its program works really well. But they're

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Speaker 5: hiding in Casuin, across a Reserve and East Point.

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Speaker 3: Con Is it something I mean? Is it?

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Speaker 2: Is it something that takes up council resources in terms

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Speaker 2: of you know, we do see a lot of bottles

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Speaker 2: and things like that obviously around the place and it

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Speaker 2: has an impact. Do we Is it something that that

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Speaker 2: council spends quite a substantial amount of money on.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, kid, We've got the outreach program people the two

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Speaker 5: of our rages.

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Speaker 4: They're Indigenous.

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Speaker 5: They go out six o'clock in the morning and they

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Speaker 5: and they advise them instead of the doctor. Then we

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Speaker 5: pay for the patrol, the city patrol, quite a significant

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Speaker 5: we've got the people that go to clean areas where

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Speaker 4: Underneath, so we reckon.

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Speaker 5: We spend about three to four million dollars a year

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Speaker 5: just for the tinerance with significant amount of money, and

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Speaker 5: my beef is a year.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely where's the police.

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Speaker 2: So that's clean up, security, patrols, outreached people, everything else.

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Speaker 4: But the issue is that it can be done is

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Speaker 4: what was done before.

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Speaker 5: We found out from experience that foot patrols by the

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Speaker 5: police in the hot spots if reduces immediately the problem.

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Speaker 5: But unfortunately we haven't seen it. I mean the police

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Speaker 5: station here and now and stay closed. We have to

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Speaker 5: go to Palmerston. I mean people calling for it, but

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Speaker 5: obviously somebody's not listening.

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Speaker 3: Is that something that you want reopened?

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Speaker 5: Mate, I've been asking for that one for a long time,

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Speaker 5: US be asking for foot patrols in the city. I

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Speaker 5: can't see why it's so difficult when previous commissioners did it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if the police got problem.

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Speaker 2: Chalk must have a big juggle on his hands at

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Speaker 4: Don't know even at all.

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Speaker 5: He has to be to deal with the COVID nineteen

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Speaker 5: and that takes a lot of resources. But at the

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Speaker 5: same time, I understand police need more people. Of course,

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Speaker 5: please listen that you hear. To listen to the chief

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Speaker 5: minus say they're going to get three more groups of

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Speaker 4: It's music to my ears.

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Speaker 5: But what I need I don't need people in the offices,

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Speaker 5: and need people on the streets and every territory.

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Speaker 4: And if you ask them, they say, where's the police?

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Speaker 3: Con Can I ask?

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Speaker 2: I let's move along slightly because I do want to

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Speaker 2: talk to you about the bombing of Darwen event that's

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Speaker 2: being held on Friday. I know that it is such

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Speaker 3: What's happening on.

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Speaker 5: Friday, celebrating, commemorating, remembering seventy nine years from the day

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Speaker 5: that the war came to Australia. I came from another country,

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Speaker 5: didn't know anything about it, and it's justifiable. We're not

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Speaker 5: taught in history of Darwins too far away from from

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Speaker 4: But you've got Australians.

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Speaker 5: They have no idea about the bomy of Darwin, simply

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Speaker 5: because it was not taught in the history. It was

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Speaker 5: it has to be taught in history. It has to

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Speaker 5: become a natural day of commemoration rather than just in Darwin.

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Speaker 5: This is something that affected Australia. It changed the view

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Speaker 5: We're not an island that nobody can invade. Actually an

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Speaker 5: So Darwin is the front line of defense for Australia.

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Speaker 4: We're happy to Darwin. He has to be remembered and lessons.

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Speaker 5: Learned from what we did to write that time and

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Speaker 5: make sure we don't make the same mistake.

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Speaker 3: Corn there's a message here.

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Speaker 2: There's one that's just come through and it says, I'm

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Speaker 2: cruising Mindle Beach and down high down to the Silent Club.

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Speaker 2: Plenty of empty wine casks littered around the place. I

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Speaker 2: know that this is something that we hear quite regularly.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and this is something that comes from cleans all

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Speaker 5: That's where the money go because I have to deploy

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Speaker 5: people to clean up the mess that other people live.

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Speaker 5: What really really angers me is people from other places

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Speaker 5: come here, don't respect the place where they are. This

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Speaker 5: is like a Kia country. This is not your country.

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Speaker 5: What do you leave the rabbits behind? But at the

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Speaker 5: same time, these people are beyond shaving. The only thing

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Speaker 5: that cares about the daily fixure of alcohol. And what

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Speaker 5: argues me too is the people that prove the one

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Speaker 4: I think the police.

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Speaker 5: Would throw the book at them, and I think we

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Speaker 5: should get some really tough measures.

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Speaker 2: Makes me really cross is that people are then obviously

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Speaker 2: you know, on selling this alcohol to people who are

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Speaker 2: already in a very vulnerable situation, which I just think

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Speaker 2: is terrible. Kate.

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Speaker 5: I know sometimes people are confused, they actually say, what

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Speaker 5: the count is not doing that one because simply we

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Speaker 5: can't do it when other police. We can't pour alcohol out,

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Speaker 5: we can't arrest people, we can't imprison people. But we

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Speaker 5: are patrolling out there. I've seen my seven o'clock in

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Speaker 5: the morning. I've been out and I see out its programmed.

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Speaker 5: People are out there talking to itinerance direct them to services.

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Speaker 4: But this is only a little bit we can do.

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Speaker 5: If we are going to stop the problem, we have

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Speaker 5: to actually get a heavy hand approach to both suppliers

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Speaker 5: and drinkers.

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Speaker 2: Contact scarlets. We are going to have to leave it.

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Speaker 2: They're always good to speak with you. Thanks so much

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Speaker 2: for coming in this morning.

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Speaker 4: It is my pleasure.

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Speaker 3: O kay, thank you