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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf. Join the conversation with Katie Wolf.

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Speaker 1: You are our eyes and ears in the Territory Mixed

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Speaker 2: Well, I tell you what, it's a busy morning in

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Speaker 2: here this morning. And joining us in the studio right

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Speaker 2: now from AAANT the CEO, Anthony Hill, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you in the studio. Now we've also

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Speaker 2: got from the Northern Territory Police. Well, firstly we've got

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Speaker 2: Scott Aikens, sergeant with the Territory Police, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Let me just check that I've got your microphone on there, okay.

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Speaker 2: And then we have also got Chris the Good Northern

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Speaker 2: Territory Traffic Police sergeant. Good morning, Katy.

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Speaker 1: How are you going?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. Now I've got all of you in

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Speaker 2: here this morning because we are talking road safety, and

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Speaker 2: we very often talk road safety in this studio, but

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Speaker 2: particularly for young drivers and some of the concerns that

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Speaker 2: we're dealing with when it comes to our young people.

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Speaker 2: Now I understand that there is going to be an

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Speaker 2: initiative really kick off to try to educate our young

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Speaker 1: Isn't there, absolutely, Catie. So we have a major event

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Speaker 1: coming up in May on the eleventh of May called

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Speaker 1: Street Smart High. It's a road safety education event that

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Speaker 1: aims to reduce the road toll through developing positive road

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Speaker 1: safety knowledge, skills, attitude amongst the next generation of drivers

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Speaker 1: and riders. So this event will there's three probably key

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Speaker 1: areas that we're going to be addressing risk, resilience and

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Speaker 1: also road safety education in this one day event. So

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Speaker 1: the target audience for this event is year ten to

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Speaker 1: twelve students and we've had just an unbelievable response from

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Speaker 1: the schools on this, so we've got twelve hundred and

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Speaker 1: Center on May the eleventh. As I said, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: really good response and I think it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a successful program that is run into state in other

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Speaker 1: and are bringing it to Darwin One.

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Speaker 2: Has it ever happened in the territory before.

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Speaker 1: No, it hasn't. No first time, first time and you know,

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Speaker 1: we are very very grateful for the Northern Territory government

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Speaker 1: this program. That's the Motor Accidents Compensation Commission to be

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Speaker 1: able to bring this to the market. So it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to be very impactful, and it'll be

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Speaker 1: I think a really good step in part of the

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Speaker 1: what are the risks? And they're going to see some

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Speaker 1: amazing things on the day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I just think it's so incredibly important. Now,

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Speaker 2: obviously Scott and Chris, you guys are out on the road,

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Speaker 2: You're dealing with a lot of things when it comes

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Speaker 2: to you know, to traffic and people breaking the rules

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Speaker 2: is that we educate young people and try to get

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Speaker 2: you know, get that message across when they're pretty you know,

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Speaker 2: those senior high school students, but they are still pretty young.

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Speaker 2: How important is it to get that message through to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's critically important. You know, Unfortunately we

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Speaker 3: see too many of our young territorians involved in a

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Speaker 3: I think they're going to get a lot out of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I always go back to my own

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Speaker 2: high school days and look, that's quite a while away,

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Speaker 3: It is especially tragic. You know, a young person, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's just a tragedy for everyone involved. It has to

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Speaker 2: I mean, do you reckon that that is? I guess

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Speaker 3: I definitely think it is an education thing.

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Speaker 1: It's a complex issue. It really is a complex issue.

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Speaker 1: I think there is there's a number of things that

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Speaker 1: but you know it really it's everyone's responsibility. I think

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Speaker 2: On I mean, Scott, obviously you're out on the road

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Speaker 2: quite often as well. Mate, How like, how prevalent do

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Speaker 2: important is it that our young people really know about

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Speaker 4: I think greatly as well. You know, young kids come

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of factors there are. And look,

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Speaker 2: But then you know, even even seeing some of those

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Speaker 2: you know, pointing out things that you've just spoken about.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think that's some of the key messages Katie

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Speaker 1: They're going to witness also on the day a simulated

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Speaker 2: I just think it's so incredibly important to do. And look,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Will be really key to catch up with you guys

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you all so much for joining us in

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Speaker 2: the eleventh of May. NT Traffic Police Sergeant Chris Thurgood,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time. Scott Aiken, sergeant

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Speaker 2: with NT Traffic Police as well, thank you for your time.

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Speaker 2: And a a n T CEO Anthony Hill, thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for joining us very much. Thank you and

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