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Speaker 2: Hundred thirteen minutes after eleven o'clock and well, you may

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Speaker 2: be aware that there has been some issues out in Palmerston,

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Speaker 2: as we've discussed and we did see on nine News

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Speaker 2: Darwin actually last night as well in Palmerston when it

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Speaker 2: comes to youth crime and some fairly ordinary situations. I think,

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Speaker 2: to put it lightly that business people are going through

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Speaker 2: out there in Palmerston. Now joining me on the line

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Speaker 2: to talk about the situation from Kazales. Matt Huer, who's

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Speaker 2: the general manager out at Kazales.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you, Matt.

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Speaker 1: Good morning Katie. How are you? Jane?

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Speaker 3: Not too bad now?

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Speaker 2: Matt, I understand that you guys have had a few

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Speaker 2: pretty bloody ordinary situations that you've gone through over the.

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Speaker 3: Last few weeks. Can you talk us through what's gone on?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the first occasion happened on Father's Day, so this

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Speaker 1: behave is really only sort of started in the last

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Speaker 1: three weeks. I guess that you can only really be

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Speaker 1: described you saw the vision on Channel nine last night,

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Speaker 1: the CCTV footage. It can only be really described as

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Speaker 1: these kids basically storming the venue. They're coming in in

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Speaker 1: groups of anywhere between three, six, seven eight people, and

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Speaker 1: they're just storming the place, running around, terrorizing the customers,

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Speaker 1: screaming at the top of their voices, and trying to

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Speaker 1: take charity money boxes off the bar that are chained

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Speaker 1: to the bar, obviously, and things like that. I'm just

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Speaker 1: really behaving poorly, Katie. The way to describe it, and

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Speaker 1: to be quite honest, last Friday, when the last occasion happened,

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Speaker 1: I mean, in the middle of the day on a Friday,

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Speaker 1: our restaurant was full and mainly you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of our clients tell us senior people and they definitely

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Speaker 1: don't need that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: It must be frightening for them.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think so, yeah. It's not something that's going

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Speaker 1: to make you make your lunch happy experience.

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Speaker 3: And it's frustrating for you. Guys. You're trying to run

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Speaker 3: your business.

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Speaker 2: You're doing a great job at running that business, and

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Speaker 2: then you know you've got these teenagers running through and

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Speaker 2: running a mark.

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Speaker 1: Well some of them are even teenagers, Katie. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: I think the youngest one. We actually bailed them up

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Speaker 1: and stopped three of them from exiting last Friday, and

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Speaker 1: I think the youngest one was only eleven years old,

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Speaker 1: So what on earth a kid that age is doing

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Speaker 1: on a Friday when they should be at schools beyond me, So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's crazy. And when we did bail them up, one

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Speaker 1: of them grabbed the glass and went to attack the

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Speaker 1: staff member with the glass. So fortunately we're able to

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Speaker 1: get that glass out of that child's hand before he

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Speaker 1: stuck it into the side of the staff member. But again,

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Speaker 1: it's poor behavior and it's quite disturbing to see it

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Speaker 1: going on a crazingly with kids this young.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable, Like, that's a horrifying situation to have unfolding

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the day on a Friday, when

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Speaker 2: you've got people there just trying to enjoy their lunch.

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Speaker 3: I know that you've had.

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Speaker 2: To take now different measures to you know, to try

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Speaker 2: and well to keep yourselves and to keep your patrons safe.

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly right. So generally we have security on

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Speaker 1: from six o'clock at night. Now we've basically changed it

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Speaker 1: so we've got security on from well during the day now,

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Speaker 1: so basically from when we open till women close. So

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Speaker 1: obviously that does come at a significant extra cost. But

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Speaker 1: this is what we've got to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Matt, it's pretty ordinary that you've got to

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Speaker 2: do that. I mean, honestly, to have kids storming your

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Speaker 2: restaurant and storming the storming the place Friday when they

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Speaker 2: should be at school is quite unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Of course it is. It's very ordinary.

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Speaker 2: You know. Well, I was thinking exactly the same, Matt,

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Speaker 2: and I was struggling to find my work. It's because

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Speaker 2: the words that I was looking for were probably a

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Speaker 2: bit more colorful, to be honest with you. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's also a real hindrance on a business. And I

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Speaker 2: know that for you guys, it is like you're a

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Speaker 2: not for profit community club, so there's no doubt that

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Speaker 2: this impacts the bottom line.

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Speaker 1: That's just taking money out of the I mean, we've

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Speaker 1: got twenty four different sporting clubs that we support around

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Speaker 1: the Darwin and Parmer scenario, so it's just taking money

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Speaker 1: out of their pockets basically. And you know, I should

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Speaker 1: also add that it wasn't It's not only us that

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Speaker 1: are getting affected in Parmestan. I'm not sure if you

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Speaker 1: saw the vision on Facebook over the weekend on the

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Speaker 1: various crime watch pages. But you know there's other shops

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Speaker 1: and cafes around the Palmerston area that are getting targeted

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Speaker 1: by these uths as well, So we're certainly not our

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Speaker 1: own Matt.

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Speaker 2: What is your message, you know, for the government. I

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Speaker 2: know that Parliament is sitting this week, and you know,

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Speaker 2: some people feel as though when we talk about this

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Speaker 2: stuff that it's like a political thing and that the

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Speaker 2: CLP is slinging.

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Speaker 3: At the ALP.

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Speaker 2: I feel as though, you know, we've got to forget

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Speaker 2: our political lines to some degree for a while here,

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Speaker 2: and they've got to work something out because right now

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Speaker 2: it's the community and business people like yourself who are

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Speaker 2: hurting listen.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, I try to stay out of the

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Speaker 1: political type of stuff, and I don't believe I'm really

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Speaker 1: qualified to make, you know, opinions or whatever in that space.

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Speaker 1: But my personal opinion is just lock them up, That's

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Speaker 1: what I've got to say.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and that's how people are feeling. You know,

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Speaker 2: people are incredibly frustrated, and you know, you want to

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Speaker 2: make sure that these kids aren't doing this kind of

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Speaker 2: stuff and aren't engaging in this kind of behavior.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, obviously, and I think I'm not on my

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Speaker 1: own here, but a lot of the feedback or so

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Speaker 1: is you know, where are their parents during all this?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I couldn't imagine as an eleven twelve year

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Speaker 1: like that. And the parents have got a lot to

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Speaker 1: answer for. But I think we've we've heard all that before, Katie.

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Speaker 3: Nothing, No, it's not.

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Speaker 2: And you know, this is where I suppose I'm feeling

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Speaker 2: a bit frustrated too, Matt. Is you know, you think

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure that people like yourself and

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Speaker 2: and you know, those businesses out in the community who

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Speaker 2: are being impacted, that your voices are heard and I

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Speaker 2: and you know, I hope that that somebody sits up

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Speaker 2: and listens and realizes that this is just not something

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Speaker 2: that we can continue to have happening around the place.

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Speaker 1: Well, I agree with you one hundred and scent.

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Speaker 2: Kat Yeah, Matt, thank you so much for having a

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Speaker 2: chat with us this morning. All the best and keep

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Speaker 2: in contact let us know how things are going.

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Speaker 1: Thanks. Thanks a lot, Katie. You have a great day,

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Speaker 1: you too.