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Speaker 1: Now we know that there's been certainly some real issues

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Speaker 1: youth crime and Action for Alicis is a page which

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Speaker 1: had started on social media sometime back and they get

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Speaker 1: a lot of interaction on there obviously share quite a

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Speaker 1: bit of information about different things that are happening around

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Speaker 1: the place. But we saw a post on Facebook that

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Speaker 1: was shared on that Action for Alice page. It was

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Speaker 1: written by Michael Little, an Indigenous man from Alice Springs

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Speaker 1: who gave us an insight into what the kids on

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Speaker 1: the streets in Alice Springs are thinking. And Michael joins

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Speaker 1: me on the line right now. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Michael, Yeah, good morning. How are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Good mate, Thanks so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what that post that you shared on

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Speaker 1: the Action for Alice page, it's had a lot of

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Speaker 1: traction for those out there who maybe haven't read it. Michael,

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Speaker 1: what did you say in that post and what we

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Speaker 1: are hoping that people took from it?

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Speaker 2: Well, because I haven't got the post in front of me,

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Speaker 2: and the up being a lot of comments about it,

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Speaker 2: and you know, majority of them have been sort of positive.

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Speaker 2: Comments in the way that we that we need Aboriginal

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Speaker 2: conversations around this sort of area. And I think that

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Speaker 2: the light had to come on because the field that

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Speaker 2: I work in, I work with Aboriginal men and aging

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Speaker 2: kids in the juvenile system, in the in the correction center,

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Speaker 2: in the rehabilitation centers, but we also go remote and

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Speaker 2: deliver workshops. And what we're finding and being more revealed

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Speaker 2: to us is the losing our identity, and that losing

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Speaker 2: of identity is becoming because of the migration to the

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Speaker 2: bright lights and the fun they having alcohol, the fun

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Speaker 2: having marijuana, and the lack of leadership coming from a

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Speaker 2: father to pass down to his young son to keep

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Speaker 2: keep him away from that, so to tell him who

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Speaker 2: he is and what his purposes in life, tell us

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Speaker 2: around about the the the cracks of it all.

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Speaker 1: Michael. It's it's a very good point. And you know

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Speaker 1: the fact that we all sort of you know, we

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Speaker 1: all need our parents to help us really find our

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Speaker 1: way in life. It's you know, it makes so much

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Speaker 1: sense to me, Michael, how tough have things been in Alice.

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Speaker 2: I do think that we need our parents, but but

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Speaker 2: what we need is someone around to guide you. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: someone else, someone around your father and the young people

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Speaker 2: they have parents, but they haven't got parents. And by

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Speaker 2: saying that, I mean they've been raised in an environment

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Speaker 2: where more or less the mother and father gone off

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Speaker 2: and the grandmother and grandfather, And now they get lives

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Speaker 2: to their own more or less and they're on every

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Speaker 2: board in the community. They've they and they functioned around

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Speaker 2: the running of the community is very demanding, the clinic,

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Speaker 2: store and the school. And more than likely they've got

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Speaker 2: some chronic illness. So the attention and they want to

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Speaker 2: keep this young person time isn't there. So then kids

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Speaker 2: are running off elsewhere to find activity. And they're not

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Speaker 2: running off to find activity in school. They're finding activity

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Speaker 2: in making inconvenient society where they where it requires rules

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Speaker 2: to govern the town and they don't understand those rules.

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Speaker 1: Michael, what do you reckon we can do to try

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Speaker 1: and fix this problem, because I know in Alice Springs

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Speaker 1: it is having a massive impact, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Look to say it's having a massive impact. You hit

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Speaker 2: it right on the You're right on the money, because

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Speaker 2: you go anywhere you talk to anyone, everyone is impacted

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Speaker 2: by this situation. It's like a plague sweeping across the

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Speaker 2: Alice Springs community and people are dumbling, why are they

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Speaker 2: doing this thing? Who's in control? Well, the government can

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Speaker 2: only be in control for so far. They're only control

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Speaker 2: that they can manage it be in financial assistance. And

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Speaker 2: when you look at the amount of politicians that the

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Speaker 2: central region has, but we've really got none but one

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Speaker 2: is a chance to take the rest of them lost

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Speaker 2: their seats and people are set up with the Northern

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Speaker 2: Territory Labor Government and they voted that.

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Speaker 1: Well that's the thing, you know, And I guess at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, like you said, the government

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Speaker 1: can throw money at it, but we do need to

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Speaker 1: try and work as a community, I guess, you know,

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Speaker 1: to fix it.

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Speaker 2: In saying that, I mean the anti government was pretty

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Speaker 2: much elected by all the northern parts of the territory.

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Speaker 2: So what the government don't really focus on is a well,

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Speaker 2: Ella Springs has got a problem, but we're too busy

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Speaker 2: investing from down to Catsline. And it's very sad that

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Speaker 2: the government thinks like that. I think we've got a

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Speaker 2: good minister Warden. Yep, he's very passionate about things. But

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Speaker 2: that's a government's authentic governments responsibility. But we have to

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Speaker 2: make Averygney people more accountable in the direction that we

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Speaker 2: are taking our identity and our purpose. And at this

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Speaker 2: time and moment, there is no purpose.

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Speaker 1: Michael, You've given us a lot to think about this morning,

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Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you coming on the show and

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Speaker 1: speaking out will I reckon. We're going to make sure

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Speaker 1: we catch up with you again, mate.

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Speaker 2: I look forward to it and these conversations. Like right now,

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Speaker 2: I'm sitting there blood of It's where it is, about

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Speaker 2: three hundred k from Alice Springs, and I need a

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Speaker 2: bit of a rest for myself. But I sid around

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Speaker 2: the people in the bush that helped me design a

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Speaker 2: workshop that I run around men's health and around men'swell

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Speaker 2: being and the purpose of identity, and we discuss all

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Speaker 2: these things amongst men. So when I'm shooting off and

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Speaker 2: talking to these content deliver delivering these types of conversations,

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Speaker 2: they're not just thought in my head that comes from

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Speaker 2: an authority, a Bush authority, and it comes out of

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Speaker 2: my mouth.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you coming on the show this morning,

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Speaker 1: and and I look forward to speaking to you again

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Speaker 1: in the very near future, Michael Little, thank you for

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Speaker 1: your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks mate,