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Speaker 1: Now joining me in the studio right now is the

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Speaker 1: Assistant Commissioner of the Northern Territory Police, Matt Holland B.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Matt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Good morning Katie, Good morning to your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, unfortunately we are starting the morning with the news

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Speaker 1: that a one hundred and one year old man has

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Speaker 1: allegedly been assaulted and robbed by a group of teenagers

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Speaker 1: in Darwin, CBD. It happened at nine point thirty last night.

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Speaker 1: He's in his mobility scooter.

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Speaker 2: For goodness sake, Yeah, Katie, look, three girls were arrested

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Speaker 2: for attacking this one hundred and one year old man.

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Speaker 2: Two of them held him in his mobility scooter while

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Speaker 2: the other one stole his money and keys, and being

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Speaker 2: a frail old man, he did suffer some injuries as

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Speaker 2: a result of the assault. And shout out to the

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Speaker 2: CCTV operators who picked up on it really really quickly

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Speaker 2: and we're able to track them and they're arrested really

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Speaker 2: really quickly. So Katie, you know, you've described it as

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Speaker 2: a dog act. It's been described as vile, disgusting, it's

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Speaker 2: all of those things. I don't know how people can

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Speaker 2: raise their kids to do this, So you know, I

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Speaker 2: know this guy, and he's a really good old guy

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Speaker 2: and right, and you know, our thoughts go out to him.

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Speaker 2: He's been taken to hospital. I'm not sure if he's

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Speaker 2: ambulance to hospital after this incident.

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Speaker 1: So you know him. My understanding is he's sort of

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Speaker 1: quite well known around town, is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he has brunch at a cafe near our headquarters

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Speaker 2: building and so we see him quite a lot. He

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Speaker 2: always always says hello, and he was always up for

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Speaker 2: a chat. And he's fairly sprightly for one hundred and

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Speaker 2: one year old, so hopefully this doesn't set him back

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Speaker 2: at all.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is a really sad part of it, right,

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Speaker 1: is when you're one hundred and one years old and

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Speaker 1: I don't know this gentlemen, and I don't know you

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Speaker 1: know what kind of what his health is like. But

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Speaker 1: when you're a one hundred and one years old, if

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Speaker 1: someone injures you and something like this happens to you,

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Speaker 1: it not only is the physical injury, but it's also

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Speaker 1: the mental impact of that and the feeling of not

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Speaker 1: being safe when you go out, and the feeling of

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Speaker 1: having to watch your back and worrying even when there's

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Speaker 1: a group of girls approaching you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, Katie, as you've rightly described it as a

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Speaker 2: dog act, I think the community will be very interested

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Speaker 2: in the outcome of this one, and I hope it

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Speaker 2: gets the media attention that it deserves.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be really interested to follow this through the

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Speaker 1: courts and find out what kind of punishment or what

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Speaker 1: kind of consequence there is when you know, when three

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Speaker 1: people conduct themselves in this way, Matt, do we have

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Speaker 1: any idea what charges they're facing at the moment or

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Speaker 1: they've not been charged yet.

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't think they've been charged yet, but those

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Speaker 2: three girls are certainly in custody. They are fifteen and

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Speaker 2: fourteen years of age. And as I say, you know,

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Speaker 2: what's what were they thinking? I'm not sure, but.

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Speaker 1: I really don't know. I you know, I have a

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Speaker 1: daughter who's fourteen years old, and I think to myself,

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Speaker 1: I would hope that when she sees an elderly person

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Speaker 1: that's one hundred and one in a mobility scooter, that

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Speaker 1: her reaction would be to open the door for him

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Speaker 1: or to help him, not the very opposite.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And look, you know, we mostly a caring community

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Speaker 2: and you know, for one hundred and one year old,

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Speaker 2: you go out of your way to help them, and

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Speaker 2: that's not what happened on this occasion.

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Speaker 1: No, well, look, I'm going to be keeping a very

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Speaker 1: close eye on this and finding out exactly what they're

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Speaker 1: charged with. Do we have any idea if any of

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Speaker 1: them are on bail or anything like that at this point.

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't have that detail, and yeah, it's probably

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Speaker 2: not appropriate to say at the stage.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, We'll keep a close eye on things and very

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Speaker 1: keen to see how that all rolls out through the

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Speaker 1: so much for the Northern Territory Police to deal with

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Speaker 1: over recent days. Travis Wis had described it earlier in

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Speaker 1: the week at a press conference as unprecedented levels of

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Speaker 1: violence that were experienced over the weekend. Assistant Commissioner, There's

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Speaker 1: been so much happened, hasn't the Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, Katie, you know, I'll give you some examples in

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Speaker 2: Alice Springs Police. On Monday, police arrested a thirty two

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Speaker 2: year old in relation to stabbing by her stabbing her partner. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: a male was arrested for a stabbing. Then on Sunday

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Speaker 2: male in relation to domestic violence where it's stabbed the partner.

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Speaker 2: Alice Springs, again, a pedestrian was hit by a car

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Speaker 2: driven by a partner. Beswick, a twenty nine year old

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Speaker 2: female was assaulted multiple times with weapons, stab wounds to

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Speaker 2: of what sort of weekend we had. And yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: like it's as mister Wurst said, it's a bit of

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Speaker 2: a wake up call to our broader community that we

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Speaker 2: you know, this is not on and it needs to stop.

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Speaker 1: Well, the level of violence as well, like the number

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Speaker 1: of times that we are reporting that somebody has been stabbed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's atrocious, absolutely atrocious, and you know, we

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Speaker 2: as a community need to fight back and say this

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Speaker 1: Well, and unfortunately, you know, this all culminated as well,

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Speaker 1: all over the course of the weekend on Sunday. Well,

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, we know a thirty one year old female

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Speaker 1: was charged generlation to a domestic violence death that had

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Speaker 1: actually occurred on Friday evening in Alawa, and in this instance,

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Speaker 1: male partner and another female at the address. Again, horrific, horrendous.

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Speaker 1: The level of domestic violence related deaths we are seeing

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Speaker 1: rates a mention in other states.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean, there has been three domestic violence

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Speaker 2: related deaths this year, but that doesn't count the you know,

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Speaker 2: the other stabbings and the other you know, serious injuries

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Speaker 2: that have been caused along the way, and you know,

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Speaker 2: these people some won't recover from their injuries fully. And again,

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Speaker 2: it's just the scourge of domestic violence on the Northern

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Speaker 2: just I mean, arresting people is not the is not

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Speaker 2: the answer. It's preventing it from happening in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what else, I mean, what else can we be doing?

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Speaker 1: Like obviously there's there is always discussion and there's always

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Speaker 1: talk about funding, but you know, to me, it also

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Speaker 1: needs to be a discussion about why is this level

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Katie, And prevention starts at birth.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I can say from my experience that the domestic violence

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Speaker 2: and you know, they go on to become perpetrators. So

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Speaker 2: it starts very very early on in terms of prevention.

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Speaker 2: And I think some of the investment will go towards

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Speaker 2: rehabilitative type programs for offenders, but I think the really,

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Speaker 2: really important thing is to prevent children from being exposed

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Speaker 1: Assistant Commissioner, I do want to ask you as well

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Speaker 1: about another incident in Alia. There was a call for

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Speaker 1: information following a sexual assault. This one had occurred on

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Speaker 1: Saturday night at about nine point thirty. It's alleged to

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Speaker 1: female was sexually assaulted by an unknown man in Bushland

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Speaker 1: along Lakeside Drive. That victim was physically assaulted before the

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Speaker 1: offenders sexually assaulted her and fled the scene. Do you

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Speaker 1: know if that person is still at large?

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't have those details, Katie, but I believe

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Speaker 2: that the person may be it's still at large. So again,

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Speaker 2: This happened at nine point thirty pm in Alowa on

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Speaker 2: Saturday night. So if anyone has an information that may

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Speaker 1: I mean it's a worry, it's a real worry in fact,

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Speaker 1: to think that an unalleged sexual assault perpetrator is still

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Katie. And you know it's the type of

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Speaker 2: going and going until we will find the perpetrator.

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Speaker 1: Now we are going to have to get ready to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie. Last night at Worry My Anger, a fifty

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Speaker 2: nine year old man went missing. He was out with

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Speaker 2: a group of people from an arts collecting wood for

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Speaker 2: we have concerns because he didn't have any water and

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Speaker 2: he also has type two diabetes. So we've deployed a

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Speaker 2: fairly large contingent of police over there today with a

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Speaker 2: it was one of those where everyone pitched in you know,

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Speaker 2: we'll find this man of life. And it's an all

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Speaker 1: Yes, right, So went missing yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday afternoon in whar I'm a younger. And how many

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Police have you got out there now searching?

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Speaker 2: Well, there's obviously the TB Islands Police from Wormy Anger

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Speaker 2: and Pearl and Gimpy and probably Miller Carpety as well,

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Speaker 2: as well as spotders that have we've charted a helicopter

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Speaker 1: So yeah, right, But by the sounds of it, he

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Speaker 2: Concerns yeap, So I mean, you know, he is a

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Speaker 2: traditional man from that area, so he will have a

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Speaker 2: level of a resilience. But we want to find him soon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Well, we will keep in contact with the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Police about that and hopefully a positive outcome.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you're able to locate him throughout the afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, thanks, Katie, and we go really hard on

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Speaker 2: these things. You know. You can imagine if one of

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Hopefully he's found sooner rather than later, I

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, Matt, just a quick one that came through.

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Speaker 1: Somebody has just been in contact with us and said

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Speaker 1: that Fresh Point Cafe was targeted. As I understand it,

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Speaker 1: I think it was last night, the one out in Ballamack.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you've got any detail about that.

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Speaker 1: It looked I've seen some vision and it looks like

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Speaker 1: it's kids just or young people, you know, just trying

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Speaker 1: to bash their way into the building overnight. Poor old

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Speaker 1: Fresh Point. I think I don't think it's the first

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I'm not sure, Katie, I'm not sure, but

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Speaker 2: you know, if it has been reported to police, will

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Speaker 2: pull out all stops and do our artist to find out.

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Speaker 1: Who it was, all right, we will. We will keep

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Speaker 1: in contact with you guys to find out what the

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Speaker 1: goal is. Matt Hollandby, Assistant Commissioner of the Northern Territory Police.

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Speaker 1: Good to speak with you this morning. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Always a pleasure, Katie, thank you