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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, and to your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, Lea, the announcement today or late yesterday is all

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Speaker 2: So we're leading from opposition. We've got legislation ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Leah, look, you know it all sounds fine and good,

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Speaker 2: Do you Well, not just as an opposition, but we're

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Speaker 1: So you reckon or you think that you could actually

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Speaker 2: Well, if they really care enough about their electorates, then

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Speaker 1: Leah, these electronic monitoring bracelets. I mean, last week on

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Speaker 1: Look, it's certainly a tough one. I think you'd have

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Speaker 2: Something has to be done. No one wants to see

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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, it was reported by the Anti Independent

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Speaker 2: It's just not good enough for the Gunner government to

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Speaker 2: You know, they're trying to change the conversation now with

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Speaker 2: be in the detail. I know I keep saying that, Katie,

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Speaker 2: but it's true. I just don't want people to get

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Speaker 2: been willing to tackle this issue. Before two weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: we couldn't even get them to commit to bow reform,

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Speaker 2: So I think people need to be very cautious of

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Speaker 2: what it is the government's doing here. I think this

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Speaker 2: is a massive pr exercise to try and get themselves

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Speaker 2: on a better footing of what has been just damaging

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Speaker 2: disaster and you know, disaster after disaster for them.

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Speaker 1: Lea, just to go back to the Prime minister, is

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Speaker 1: he planning or making a trip to the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: in the near future if this is such an issue.

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Speaker 2: He is actually and we should see him a few

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Speaker 2: will be having Prime Ministers Scott Morrison in town over

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Speaker 2: the next couple of months.

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Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, some people

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Speaker 1: ones that called for the Royal Commission into Youth Justice

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Speaker 1: and now we're in the situation that we're in. Has

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Speaker 1: he committed to you that he is going to be

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Speaker 1: sort of taking a closer look at the issues that

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Speaker 1: we've got with youth crime.

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Speaker 2: Well, what we know is that the Federal government deliver

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Speaker 2: I think it's about half a billion dollars of you know,

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Speaker 2: youth services. So there's major and that came out of

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Speaker 2: out of the Royal Commission. There was this big question

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Speaker 2: mark about how federal and territory government money is spent.

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Speaker 2: Of course, then we had the Tripathite Forum to try

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Speaker 2: and work that out. So there is you know, the

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Speaker 2: Commons are a huge stakeholder in these but the territory

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Speaker 2: government are the ones to spend the money. And so

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Speaker 2: we really need some better answers coming out of the

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Speaker 2: Gunner government than generational change. I mean that is critically important,

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Speaker 2: but we need something happening now, and this government are

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Speaker 2: just too proud to realize that they've put us on

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Speaker 2: this trajectory to claw back from it, and we really

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Speaker 2: need them to take a good hard look. I want

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Speaker 2: them to support our laws this week in Parliament, show

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Speaker 2: a stand and then we'll have a closer look at

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Speaker 2: what they're proposing into the coming months.

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Speaker 1: Well lea Finocciaio opposition later we are going to have

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Speaker 1: to leave it there no doubt we'll be talking to

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Speaker 1: you throughout the week as Parliament sits. Thanks for your.

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Speaker 2: Time today, Thank you, take care.

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