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Speaker 1: Now we know that a lot of people have really

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Speaker 1: been questioning what the go is really with the Nightcliffe

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Speaker 1: Police Station and if it's going to sort of operate

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Speaker 1: to its full potential. Now joining us live on the

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Speaker 1: line from Sky News, it is Matt Cunningham. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Matt at Matt, are you loitering around outside the Nightcliffe

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Speaker 1: Police Station today?

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Speaker 2: I am making a nuisance of myself.

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Speaker 1: Did they let you inside?

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Speaker 2: They're going to? I want to promise, haven't happened yet?

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Speaker 1: Not? Yes? All right, well what have they promised that

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Speaker 1: you're going to be allowed to go in and have

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Speaker 1: a look?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, which will be the years since it's opened

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Speaker 2: quote unquote, but we we haven't been in there, so

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Speaker 2: we will get an opportunity today for a tour. Now,

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Speaker 2: this comes Katie. Of course, there's been quite a few

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Speaker 2: incidents in this area here in the last few days.

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Speaker 2: There was a shooting at Lichfield Court on Monday night,

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Speaker 2: which is you know, maybe one hundred meters up the road.

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Speaker 2: On the same night, there was in the public housing,

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Speaker 2: the new Public Housing Venture housing block that's literally across

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Speaker 2: the road from the police station. You know, all the

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Speaker 2: cars in the car park underneath had their windscreen smashed.

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Speaker 1: Yelp.

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Speaker 2: Then there was a fifteen year old girl who was

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Speaker 2: allegedly stabbed here on Tuesday night in the street that's

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Speaker 2: right next to the police station. So all of this

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Speaker 2: has happened within literally, you know, a stone's throw of

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Speaker 2: that new twelve million dollar police station that's only opened

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Speaker 2: during business hours. So I asked the Chief Minister yesterday

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Speaker 2: about this situe and when or if the police station

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Speaker 2: would be open twenty four to seven, as was promised

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Speaker 2: by the previous government, and there was some really interesting comments.

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Speaker 2: Leah described the Nightcliff Police Station as the biggest joke

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Speaker 2: going around. She said it was a glorified office building,

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Speaker 2: and she said that residents shouldn't get their hopes up

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Speaker 2: of it opening anytime soon, because she said it's completely

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Speaker 2: unfit for purpose. And then I subsequently asked her whether, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, we've got all these issues with prisoners and

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Speaker 2: you overflowing corrections facilities, whether it could be repurposed and

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Speaker 2: the cells could be used for housing prisoners, And it

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Speaker 2: was that point that she revealed, which was news to me,

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Speaker 2: that there are no cells inside the Nightcliff Police Station.

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Speaker 2: There's no watchhouse in there. There's no cells, so she

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Speaker 2: is saying it is literally a glorified office building. There

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Speaker 2: is like a central area that has a heap of

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Speaker 2: desks around it, and there's a lunch room and there's

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Speaker 2: a front counter and that's pretty much it.

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Speaker 1: So it's I mean, it's a it seems like they've

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Speaker 1: built they've built this police station and really not you know,

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Speaker 1: when it was built, really not actually considered the fact

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Speaker 1: that they need to also staff at and have it operational,

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Speaker 1: or maybe that was never the intention.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's all show and no go

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Speaker 2: okatie it. I mean, you have the pub with no beer.

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Speaker 2: We got the police station with no cops and no cells. Like,

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Speaker 2: what is the actual point of it? Well, and I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't even go a step further and say it's actually

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Speaker 2: you know, counterproductive and almost at the point where it

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Speaker 2: creates more issues than it solves, because people go to

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Speaker 2: the police station, you know, looking for help from police,

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Speaker 2: and it's not open, you know, and the only person

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Speaker 2: there is an auxiliary at the front desk, and they

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Speaker 2: can't help you either. I mean when I was here,

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Speaker 2: I came down here on Tuesday morning because it was

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Speaker 2: raining and I was doing some live process about the shooting,

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Speaker 2: you know, and there was all sorts of trouble going

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Speaker 2: on here, you know, there were drunks everywhere, they were aggressive.

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Speaker 2: There were two women who appeared to have been the

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Speaker 2: victims of domestic violence. They're out the front of a

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Speaker 2: police station. They want help, and there's no one there

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Speaker 2: at a police station, you know. And it still says

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Speaker 2: Nightcliff Police Station on the front of the buildings, to

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Speaker 2: serve and propect in massive big letters on the side

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Speaker 2: of the building. But if it is, as the Chief

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Speaker 2: Minister says, a glorified office building, then they need to

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Speaker 2: take those words down, I would presume, because because people

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Speaker 2: are actually expecting that they can get help there and they.

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Speaker 1: Can't, and they can't, you know.

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Speaker 2: And I was talking to Kathie, the hairdresser at Alley Cat,

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Speaker 2: and she was saying, there's been occasions where she's gone there.

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Speaker 2: Look like there's literally one occasion where she went in

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Speaker 2: there and there was someone who was misbehaving literally across

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Speaker 2: the road right and she's in there saying hey, hey, hey.

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Speaker 2: Well they're in there saying hey hey, and the auxiliary

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Speaker 2: in there saying sorry, I can't help you. We'll have

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Speaker 2: to call triple O.

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Speaker 1: Which is unbelievable. I mean, well, it's an article situation,

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Speaker 1: that's right, It's and totally against what people would expect.

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Speaker 2: That's right, and the Chief Minister is right when she

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Speaker 2: said it's the biggest joke going around. But unfortunately it's

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Speaker 2: not funny for the people who live in the area

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Speaker 2: of for the business owners who operate out of those

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Speaker 2: shops across the road, who were promised a police station

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Speaker 2: that would reduce crime and anti social behavior. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the whole reason these flats, these public housing venture housing

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Speaker 2: flats were built around this area was that there was

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Speaker 2: going to be a twenty four to seven police station

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Speaker 2: right next door to keep on top of the issues

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Speaker 2: of crime and antisocial behavior. But it's not. It's only

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Speaker 2: open between eight and four Monday to Friday. Well between

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Speaker 2: eight and four Monday to Friday is not when any

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Speaker 2: of the problems happen.

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Speaker 1: Matt. Has there been much discussion over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of days as well as to whether because we have

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Speaker 1: had a few text messages come through about this about

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Speaker 1: the facts that Saint Vinnie's has obviously moved into coconut growth.

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Speaker 1: Has that seen any kind of increase in the level

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Speaker 1: of antisocial behavior and crime in the area.

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Speaker 2: I think yes, particularly at the Woolworth Complex. I think

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Speaker 2: you know, certainly I've seen and I've had other people

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Speaker 2: say to me that there have been there's been an

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Speaker 2: increase in issues there. They've got one of those police

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Speaker 2: cameras set up in the car park there at a

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Speaker 2: Woolly's building now. But you know, the Chief Minister said

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Speaker 2: yesterday that residents shouldn't get their hopes up about the

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Speaker 2: police station opening twenty four to seven. I think she

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Speaker 2: was basically saying that's never going to happen. Well, I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what else it's going to happen. Is that

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Speaker 2: Saint Vinnie's. I don't think it's going to be moving

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Speaker 2: from where it is anytime soon. I know there's supposed

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Speaker 2: to be a two year timeframe, but I mean, can

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Speaker 2: you ie you look at where that is at the moment,

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Speaker 2: and it's sitting on the border of the seats of

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Speaker 2: Stanning Bay and Nightcliff. But do you reckon this government

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Speaker 2: is going to pick that up and move that from

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Speaker 2: a seat that is a contest between Labor and Greens

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Speaker 2: and put it in a seat that it holds.

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Speaker 1: No, probably not. Probably not the smartest move politically, Matt.

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Speaker 1: We are going to have to wrap up, but I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you what time are you expecting to

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Speaker 1: go on a tour through the Nightcliff Police Station.

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Speaker 2: To be confirmed, Katie, to be confirmed. I just got

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Speaker 2: a message from the police MEETI you're a second ago,

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Speaker 2: so soon. I hope, all right, it happens before twelve o'clock.

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Speaker 1: I'll let me know. We hope you don't get stood up.

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Speaker 1: We might talk to you, sir. Thanks Matt, good on you.

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Speaker 1: That is thank you.