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Speaker 1: We have just been speaking to the Northern Territory Police

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Speaker 1: Association about a raft of different things. But we were

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Speaker 1: speaking about part of the Liquor review, the Liquor Act Review,

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Speaker 1: which shows that they're or there's a suggestion that potentially

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Speaker 1: that Act be amended to empower other appointed officials like

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Speaker 1: transit officers, public housing safety officers, park ranges and council

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Speaker 1: ranges to basically be able to search individuals and seize

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Speaker 1: any unopened container that's believed to contain liquor. Now, the

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Speaker 1: Lord Mayor of Dowen, Conbat Scarlets, joins me in the studio.

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Speaker 1: Good morning conn, Good morning Katie con What do you

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Speaker 1: make of this proposed suggestion.

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Speaker 2: I'd be very kind. I describe it the must rubbish

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Speaker 2: because I can use a heart of the work. Now,

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Speaker 2: I know the government's called the transit elficers. They've got

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Speaker 2: a housing officers that come under government control and they

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Speaker 2: have received some form of training for the government to

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Speaker 2: let's now say that park ranger. They are under goverment control.

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Speaker 2: They have to receive training, but council rangers to do it,

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Speaker 2: that's not their role. They haven't received the training. They

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Speaker 2: have to have a separate ABA and the union will

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Speaker 2: go feral. That's not the role of a council ranger.

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Speaker 2: Counsel ary role is to supervise a community, to check

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Speaker 2: the place if they are clean, and report back to

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Speaker 2: control animals two years to book you've used to overstay

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Speaker 2: your parking fe I don't have any person with police

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Speaker 2: abilities because that's clearly a situation where we can put

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Speaker 2: a ranger to be confronted by a drug individual and

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Speaker 2: from there to escalate. Who wrote this report? That person

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Speaker 2: had no bloody idea how different levels of government work.

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Speaker 2: Do you want some solutions before you write a report

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Speaker 2: that took four years. I'll tell you what make all

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Speaker 2: patures of the liquor store by card, not by cars,

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Speaker 2: So you'll stop these people turning up with five hundred

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Speaker 2: dollars buying ten botts of bandy and then go and

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Speaker 2: selling second supply for one hundred dollars. It's the get

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Speaker 2: everybody to present an idea that says where you live

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Speaker 2: and if you don't live in down where you can't

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Speaker 2: buy it. Limit a supply per day. If you buy

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Speaker 2: more without any reason, more than one or two bottles, Sorry,

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Speaker 2: that's done. Fix your BDR so it can tell you

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Speaker 2: who buys completely huge quantity of alcohol every week which

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Speaker 2: is happening, and then off sell to people who sit

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Speaker 2: here and then apply the same standards of alcohol that

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Speaker 2: applied to communities to people leave their communities and come

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Speaker 2: here to access harder alcohol. This is five menus. You

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Speaker 2: can do it immediately. One more thing, just we're here,

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Speaker 2: give you free advice because nothing the government, you know,

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Speaker 2: the police got unlimited sickly I understand that, but make

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Speaker 2: sure that every after six months everybody who's got a

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Speaker 2: limited sicklyve for a reason is examined by government doctor

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Speaker 2: to assess that person. If it's really seriously injured or traumatized,

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Speaker 2: then continue to live. But if they're not, make a choice.

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Speaker 1: You sound piecee off.

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Speaker 2: Well, so did the eighty five thousand people in Darwin.

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Speaker 2: I mean I saw the front president newspaper day. Come on,

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Speaker 2: where do we leave. Government's there for all people, not

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Speaker 2: only for a small part of people, especially not as

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Speaker 2: part of people that continues to offend.

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Speaker 1: So conn. During the COVID nineteen health Emergency, the Director

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Speaker 1: did introduce special requirements for the sale of takeaway alcohol,

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Speaker 1: including the requirement for a person to prove that they

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Speaker 1: have a legitimate residence to consume take governments ambition.

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Speaker 2: This worked really well. Why can't we bring it back?

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Speaker 1: So you would like to see that bought back? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know it's an ornada.

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Speaker 2: When it happened, I went to the liquors of the

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Speaker 2: Bible of Alcohol and the gun next to me to

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Speaker 2: run to biolcohol. The girl said to him, now you

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Speaker 2: bought your daily limit of your go.

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Speaker 1: I mean, would it mean, though conn this it has

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Speaker 1: an impact on tourism? Like, would it have an unintentional consequence?

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Speaker 2: What do you think people would think when they read

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Speaker 2: there were two rapes in broad daylight in Darwin in

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Speaker 2: cead of Darwin, and that happened a month ago? Come on?

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Speaker 2: What thing when people with little kids with ankle bracelets

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Speaker 2: go around stealing cars and break into houses to have

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Speaker 2: the police telling you, now, just so we heard that

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Speaker 2: they broke into their own compound in the community. Come on,

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Speaker 2: where do we live?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think we've all had an absolute gutful of it.

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Speaker 1: There's no other way to put it. And we're all

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Speaker 1: sort of sick of what's going on. We're sick and

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Speaker 1: tired of what's going on. But then I, you know,

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Speaker 1: to suggest that council officers be able to tip out alcohol.

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Speaker 2: I think that's met Salnce. Now the police just mentioned

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Speaker 2: to you they've got police people start standing in front

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Speaker 2: of liqual licenses. Why why we haven't get a special

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Speaker 2: group of people controlled by the larger, larger commission and

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Speaker 2: part of it paid by the licenses, who make a

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Speaker 2: killing with the floor price instead of policemen. The police

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Speaker 2: role is to police to serve and protect. They say, well,

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Speaker 2: not set of alcohol. They serve the public and protect

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Speaker 2: the public.

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Speaker 1: Con I do want to move along because just over

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Speaker 1: a week ago, well well sorry, it's just over a

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Speaker 1: week to go. I believe until the CBD speed limit

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Speaker 1: going to be lowered to forty k is an hour,

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Speaker 1: have those signs and things started going up.

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Speaker 2: They will be going up when we started. But as

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Speaker 2: I said to you before many times, take a drive

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Speaker 2: around the CBD and tell me where can go more

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Speaker 2: than forty five or fifty kilometers if you can. We're

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Speaker 2: considering all the schools and Mitchester being forty and the

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Speaker 2: traffic with god, the reality is forty kilongs per hour.

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Speaker 2: It's saved for our kids, is safe for pedestrian, is

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Speaker 2: safe for cyclists, is safe for everyone, and it's only

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Speaker 2: what five square kilometers? How much time it will cut

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Speaker 2: from your travel if you use a spin limit for

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Speaker 2: fift to forty a minute.

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Speaker 1: Look, it's not gonna enormously impact me. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I drive pretty slightly around the CBD anyway. But I

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Speaker 1: guess there might be some people who are a bit

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Speaker 1: concerned about it, but I do Again, I want to

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Speaker 1: move along because there's quite a bit to cover. A

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Speaker 1: council's forging ahead with the parklet program. Has there been

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Speaker 1: much interest from businesses?

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Speaker 2: Well, until now it didn't because it was fifty eight

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Speaker 2: hours per hour. The parklets had to be gene to

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Speaker 2: such a degree that made them prohibit prohibitively expensive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right, If we bring down to forty clans for hours,

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Speaker 2: it's less than half the prize that was before. We're

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Speaker 2: seeing one in Matuor Street where forty kiloms for an hour.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure when the price of parklets come down

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Speaker 2: significantly in the area will consider it. And the other

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Speaker 2: thing is I'll be really concerned sitting in a parklet

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Speaker 2: when people rooming next to me fifty kilongs per hour

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Speaker 2: now that is not the only city that actually brings

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Speaker 2: down the limit to forty coloms for a hour. I

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Speaker 2: believe Central Sydney is proposing to do the same, Other

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Speaker 2: big sits in Australia doing the same, and other smaller

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Speaker 2: regional cities doing the same because people say, we want

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Speaker 2: to be able to feel safe walking on the streets

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Speaker 2: or riding a bicycle in the streets.

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Speaker 1: Now, look again, I think it's probably a good thing

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Speaker 1: to see those parklets I do say to be fairly popular.

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Speaker 1: Have businesses have they been? More businesses come forward sort

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Speaker 1: of wanting to be involved.

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Speaker 2: I've been to Perth, I've been to Sydney, I've been

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Speaker 2: to Melbourne and it's amazing how many people sit in

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Speaker 2: those parklets here. Yes we're hot, but again, if they

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Speaker 2: say properly and if they've got plans and features, they

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Speaker 2: look and feel coolor so people can sit there.

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Speaker 1: Hei con just a very quick one. The deadline's been

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Speaker 1: extended extended for proposals on the new Casualina Pool. Why

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Speaker 1: did the council have to do that? Was there not

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Speaker 1: enough people coming forwards?

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Speaker 2: Now we want more people to have the information of

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Speaker 2: the possibility. We had already somebody who wanted to hire

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Speaker 2: the whole lot, and certainly would consider every proposal, but

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Speaker 2: I would like to have a mix before we go there.

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Speaker 2: I want to tell you that last week or two

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Speaker 2: weeks ago, we got two international awards. One was a

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Speaker 2: National Award for the virtual trade we did among our

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Speaker 2: sister cities that happened during COVID. It was recognized one

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Speaker 2: of the most innovative projects in Australia. And we got

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Speaker 2: the Chief Minister in the National Tourism Award for our

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Speaker 2: dragon Boat Festival we held last year here in Darwin.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations to all our people who work really well and

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Speaker 2: that shows you that the little city of Darwin can

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Speaker 2: actually compete with national and international competitors and get our

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Speaker 2: words for what we do, and we do really well.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff combat scarlets. The Lord Mayor of Darwin always

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Speaker 1: good to catch up with you.

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Speaker 2: And don't worry, I'm not pissed off. I'm just angry

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Speaker 2: you corn. Thank you,