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Speaker 1: Well, convat Scarlets got everyone's blood pressure going a little

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Speaker 1: bit yesterday when he said that he didn't think that

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Speaker 1: security should be continuing on in our CBD. If you

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Speaker 1: miss that interview with the Lord Mayor of Darwin after

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Speaker 1: we've been asked questions by a city retailer as to

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Speaker 1: whether the security was going to be extended.

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Speaker 2: This is what he had to say.

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Speaker 3: If you think that the patrol will help you, good

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Speaker 3: luck to you, because I've seen people doing stupid things

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Speaker 3: in them all. Well, the patrol is there. Because the

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Speaker 3: patrol can't do anything. What I'll be asking if it

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Speaker 3: was ed retailer, I'll be asking the government where is

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Speaker 3: the police?

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Speaker 1: So they were the comments of the Lord Mayor yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now, it's the general

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Speaker 1: manager of the Darwin City Retailers Association, Molly up Still

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Speaker 1: good morning.

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Speaker 2: Molly, Hey Katie, how are I really good now?

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Speaker 1: Yesterday obviously the Lord Mayor made these comments about security

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Speaker 1: not being extended or not being effective. What did you

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Speaker 1: make of the comments from the mayor?

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Speaker 2: Well, Katie, to be honest with you, I've heard these

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Speaker 2: whispers for quite a few weeks now, and I'm actually

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Speaker 2: a bit embarrassed to say that. I sort of shut

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Speaker 2: down the rumors because for me it was hard to

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Speaker 2: imagine a government or a counsel that wouldn't support security

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Speaker 2: and the amazing job that the security do in the

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Speaker 2: mall with the current climate that the mall and the

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Speaker 2: CBD with anti social behavior is experiencing. So to hear

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Speaker 2: that yesterday and to actually hear that the Lord Man

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Speaker 2: said that security was ineffective blew my mind and I

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Speaker 2: found an apology to all my members who I said

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Speaker 2: to them, no, surely not, this isn't going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Well, and look, I will say that we've just spoken

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Speaker 1: to the Chief Minister, Evil Aula. She has confirmed that

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Speaker 1: that security needs to continue in the CBD absolutely.

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Speaker 2: So it's so good to hear some common sense from

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Speaker 2: the Chief Minister, like she knows. And she even said herself,

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Speaker 2: there's a spiking crime. You know, our retailer is dealing

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Speaker 2: with some horrible things. Only John John's last week put

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Speaker 2: up an Instagram story of someone in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the day breaking a window trader bar feces on their

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Speaker 2: front seats, and then the same man washing his bottom

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Speaker 2: half on the council sprinklers across the road. You know,

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Speaker 2: this is the sort of stuff that our retailers are

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Speaker 2: dealing with. And to hear the Lord mayor say that

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Speaker 2: security is ineffective is absolutely untrue. They are there within

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Speaker 2: a matter of minutes and the one three one number

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Speaker 2: that does go through to police. And this is no

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Speaker 2: criticism to police. They do the mess they can under

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Speaker 2: the circumstances they're in. Of course, everyone would like to

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Speaker 2: see more police on the beat, but until that's the case,

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Speaker 2: security in the mall are so effective and I've seen

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Speaker 2: them work so hand in hand with council rangers. They're

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Speaker 2: incredibly effective. They bring a lot of peace of mind

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Speaker 2: to retailers who are doing it really tough at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Look, I agree with you, I know myself when you know.

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Speaker 1: I was in the city earlier this week with my

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Speaker 1: young fellow taking him to get a haircut. It was

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Speaker 1: early in the afternoon, there was a bit of antisocial

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Speaker 1: having a chat. It actually just gives you that peace

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Speaker 1: of mind as well that if required, there is somebody

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Speaker 1: that you're actually able to call on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and I know even I've called on them before,

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Speaker 2: and I've spoken to them a number of times, and

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Speaker 2: I know most of our retails and most of our

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Speaker 2: members of the DCRA have called them them at some point.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're hugely effective. And I just was actually

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Speaker 2: lost the words and the press that my phone blew

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Speaker 2: up on the same in the same breath yesterday just

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Speaker 2: goes to show how I guess out to touch the

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Speaker 2: mayory is with the CBD and how important until government

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Speaker 2: I think even with even if police were able to

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Speaker 2: so important, especially as we come into the dry season.

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Speaker 2: Katie's Yes, when our CBD is the front, the first

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Speaker 2: in curacy, it's the first thing they say, Wow, your

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Speaker 2: CBD is so beautiful. There's so many specialty shops, there's

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Speaker 2: so many beautiful retailers selling stuff that you know, you

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Speaker 2: our CBD is so important not just to the local

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Speaker 2: economy but to tourists and it's really important that we

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Speaker 2: all work together and at the moment, security play a

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Speaker 2: huge role in that and they cannot be understated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I agree, are you be? And I think

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Speaker 1: it'd be hard pressed to find any retailer or anybody

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Speaker 1: that operates in the city that doesn't feel as though

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Speaker 1: they've had a positive impact.

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Speaker 2: Molly.

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Speaker 1: From your perspective, how have things been going for our

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Speaker 1: city retailers in recent weeks? I saw the vision as

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Speaker 1: well that was floating around of some of the horrible,

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Speaker 1: you know, situations that some of our wonderful city retailers

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean, anty social behavior is one thing,

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Speaker 2: but it is a tough economy at the moment. You know,

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Speaker 2: we're all getting smashed by our mortgages and the increased

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Speaker 2: trust is living. You can't even walk in the woolies

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Speaker 2: without spending one hundred dollars on for items of groceries,

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Speaker 2: and so of course retailers are generally the first to

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Speaker 2: many people working together. You know, we've got activate dar

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Speaker 2: got some awesome coffee in Darlin. You know, again our

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Speaker 2: retailers in the CBD, you don't need to buy online.

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Speaker 2: You can come into the city, you can grab something

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Speaker 2: good to eat. We've got awesome food, pub beverages. You know,

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Speaker 2: there's lots of people investing a lot of money into

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Speaker 2: a bumper tourism need. So, you know, I'm looking forward

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Speaker 2: to working with our retailers on lots of different little

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Speaker 2: also conscious that some retailers are making sales of only

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Speaker 2: ten dollars a day. So when you think of how

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Speaker 2: that adds up over time for things like rant and

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Speaker 2: insurance and for some of them wages, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: a tough you'll to swallow at the moment. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: they're tough and they you know, some of them have

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Speaker 2: business people and good people who loved Iwen, so I

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, Molly, lovely to speak to you this morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you know, within that twenty four hour

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Speaker 1: period it's a bit more good news after speaking to

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Speaker 1: the Chief Minister because I'm telling you what I think

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Speaker 1: everybody was getting pretty well. Their blood pressures were rising

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Speaker 1: yesterday upon hearing you, yeah, that it may not continue

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Speaker 1: that security. So it does seem common sense is going

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Speaker 1: to prevail.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm glad to hear it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good on you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning, Molly.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thank you