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Speaker 1: We have got so many messages coming through on the

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Speaker 1: text line. I am going to get to those very shortly.

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Speaker 1: But joining me live in the studio right now is

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Speaker 1: the Lord Mayor of.

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Speaker 2: Darwin convat Scarlets.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Conn, Good morning Kat, And I'm not surprised

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Speaker 3: you got so many messages. The situation was said Venice

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Speaker 3: and steer Park has been going on for god since

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Speaker 3: I was working for the health Department. I'm talking about

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Speaker 3: nineteen ninety five. A lot of people complaining about it

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Speaker 3: because unfortunately Vinnie started to do the right thing. The

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Speaker 3: problem is they attract the wrong people. Not all of them,

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Speaker 3: I have to say, some of them are really genuine homeless.

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Speaker 3: Some of the others are homeless by choice because they

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Speaker 3: decide to come here and they run out of money

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Speaker 3: for verious viasons which we know very well where the

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Speaker 3: money go, and they turn up in the morning and

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Speaker 3: at night for food and look. I praise venues that

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Speaker 3: do a good job, probably they do it in the

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Speaker 3: wrong place. And I say that if you're going to

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Speaker 3: help the homeless people and the people that need you

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Speaker 3: can't have a facility about fifty minutes from a liquor store.

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Speaker 1: Well, and so they're looking to move from Stuart Hard

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Speaker 1: to Coconut Growth. The people of Coconut Grove are pretty

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Speaker 3: They don't they do it that one because they own

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Speaker 3: the property. The problem I've got is when a few

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Speaker 3: months ago I suggested that Gualadela Niki created such a

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Speaker 3: place where they can look after their own people. The

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Speaker 3: argument from the government side was, oh, we can't do that.

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Speaker 3: One's close to a liquor store. Willis Well, where vin

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Speaker 3: is proposed to go is working distance from Vini. So

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Speaker 3: I prays for what they're doing. But I urged them

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Speaker 3: to console with the community and find out is this

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Speaker 3: the right place. I know they want to go somewhere

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Speaker 3: in Karama, and the local Councilsiviclinaga King and then local

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Speaker 3: member objected to it, and I agree with them.

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Speaker 1: Look, the thing is they have to That's the thing

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Speaker 1: like people actually don't want those services in their backyard

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Speaker 1: because whether people want to sort of whether you know,

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Speaker 1: whether people want to acknowledge it or not, there does

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Speaker 1: come with it an element of anti social behavior. Right.

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Speaker 3: My suggestion always been find a place where you can

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Speaker 3: settled in a Health Department, Danila, Dilba not to be

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Speaker 3: a comprehension place where people can be fed, but they

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Speaker 3: be looked after. Wait, there's some places actually can do

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Speaker 3: it far away from the from the city, because you

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Speaker 3: want to take these people away from temptation, like areas

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Speaker 3: they can have a public unswer to bring them in

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Speaker 3: and take them out. You know, these people are very

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Speaker 3: very good find out they have the way to move around.

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Speaker 3: But again, you don't want to make enemies. You want

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Speaker 3: actually take people with you. The moment you actually serve

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Speaker 1: Well, that's exactly right, and it look it does seem

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Speaker 1: like that is what is happening now. So veneas have saent.

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Speaker 1: It's a really extensive statement. I'll read the rest of

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Speaker 1: that out throughout the morning. But at this point in time,

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Speaker 3: If somebody wants to put something like that next to

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Speaker 3: got this problem in some areas. I used to leave

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I've already got messages saying no, do not,

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Speaker 3: Look the rural area. Of course, again it depends where

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Speaker 1: Con I want to ask you about these cruise ships.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well and look we you know yesterday I actually

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Speaker 2: It feeling slightly dry? Safely, I say, there was a

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Speaker 3: I was in Camber for a started Local Gun Association

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Speaker 1: Now, con tell me where are things that with like Alexandra,

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Speaker 3: This unfortunately bacteria is still high up. We're testing every

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Speaker 1: Can't tell me clean up Australia, die, we know that

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Speaker 2: How'd it go? Or is every day? Clean up?

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Speaker 3: Down?

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, clean clean up Australia is

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Speaker 3: From not throwing things on the on the street when

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Speaker 3: Our crew helps out, Our crew helps and takes things

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Speaker 3: again I said you before clean Up Australia Day is

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Speaker 2: It has been an incredibly busy week.

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Speaker 1: We are just getting some further detail from the Northern

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Speaker 2: You know, we had a situation.

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Speaker 1: I spoke about it about myself being confronted by a

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Speaker 1: I'm apparently amongst a long long list of people that

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Speaker 3: I will just tell you what Marian Scrimjaw. You know,

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Speaker 3: Marian very well labor politician, remember for what it Springs

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Speaker 2: No, I ran it on the show, so definitely the.

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Speaker 3: but these little kids, they're not little angels. There's something

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Speaker 3: they've got immunity. Well, we live in a society. There's

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Speaker 3: Don't tell me that a ten year old kid does

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Speaker 1: CROs Do we need to go back to re riising

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Speaker 3: I think we should. And the other thing I believe

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Speaker 3: Dawn Dale is a place where people learn to become criminals,

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Speaker 3: Let's get them somewhere in a place where they get told.

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Speaker 3: that they actually got to be a little bit tough

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Speaker 3: to toughen them up and teach them that crime doesn't pay,

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Speaker 2: Table have had an absolute of God.

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Speaker 3: I've been a plebel politica for a long time. You

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Speaker 3: know that very well. Everybody knows very well. But I'm

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Speaker 3: they have no idea about what's happening here. This kid's

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Speaker 3: Families don't care, or we take them home to a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this is the thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Connor it's a pretty big call for you

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Speaker 1: to say that, Yeah, they should actually reraise the age

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Speaker 1: of criminal responsibility.

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Speaker 2: But you know a lot of people are I'm.

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Speaker 3: Saying, put them in a place where they can be saved,

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Speaker 3: they can be fed, they can be housed, they have clothing,

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Speaker 3: and eight o'clock, eight third in the morning they go

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Speaker 3: eight third in the morning they go to a workshop

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Speaker 3: where they learn to do things. Okay, instead of actually

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Speaker 3: learning how to break into houses, learn how to fix cars,

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Speaker 1: Corn I always appreciate your time. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us in the studio this morning.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to be popular with some people, but

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Speaker 3: unfortunately I think we've gone too far trying to be

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Speaker 3: kind to people that are not little angels. As Maryon said, well,

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Speaker 3: that's right.

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Speaker 2: Contact Scolus. Thank you so much, Teton.

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