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Speaker 1: Now, I mentioned a short time ago that Namajerra MLA.

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Speaker 1: Bill Yan has been left pretty frustrated after Facebook candied

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Speaker 1: him a twenty four hour band for posting a forty

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Speaker 1: second clip voicing residents concerns about the crime race in

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Speaker 1: Alice Springs. Now Bill Yan joins me on the line

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Speaker 1: right now. Good morning to you, Bill.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, and good morning. Can you listening?

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Speaker 1: Bell? Banned from Facebook? What happened?

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Speaker 2: I've been throwing the proverbial Facebook job. I'll dog and

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Speaker 2: kick that one off the bucket list.

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Speaker 1: Now, mate, what did you post? Well?

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Speaker 2: Last week I was out talking to people at Ladder

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Speaker 2: Penn and just hearing what's going on out there, and

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Speaker 2: there's still raising concerns about crime issues out in the

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Speaker 2: suburbs and kids breaking into houses, but more importantly, my

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Speaker 2: kids throwing rocks at cars when people are driving that night.

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Speaker 2: So I raised that as part of that post and

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Speaker 2: sort of said that govern needs to stump up now

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Speaker 2: try and deal with some of the issues out there.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, Friday morning got up and being banned from Facebook.

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Speaker 2: I've been tossed. So someone obviously didn't like the fact

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Speaker 2: that I raised the issue of what tappening out at

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Speaker 2: Lara Pinder. Must have made it to Facebook, and yeah,

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Speaker 2: I've got tossed for twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: How bizarre. So Bill had just said anything particularly controversial.

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Speaker 2: No, compared to some of the stuff that I put up, Katie,

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Speaker 2: it was. It was fairly tame as far as postgas.

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Speaker 2: It was just relating the facts and relating the issues

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Speaker 2: of the people out at Lara Pinter about what's going

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Speaker 2: on out there. And yeah, obviously I said someone didn't

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Speaker 2: like it. Someone took a fence and you know, all

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Speaker 2: I got was this message, you've breached the community standards

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Speaker 2: on Facebook. I'm getting sure what those community standards really are.

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Speaker 2: Literally was then trying to try to deal with it

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Speaker 2: and trying to sort out which effectively became impossible, and

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Speaker 2: just at the end of the day just gave up

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Speaker 2: and just wore the bend. I suppose bell was anything.

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Speaker 1: That you'd posted in that, you know, that short bit

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Speaker 1: of vision and what you'd posted, was any of it untrue?

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Speaker 2: No, certainly not, Kadie. So this is what the people

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Speaker 2: in the community and out in the suburb of Lardipinda

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Speaker 2: here in all springs were actually telling me these are

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Speaker 2: the things that are happening to them, and those are

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Speaker 2: the things that are keeping them effectively awake at night.

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Speaker 2: So I didn't mention any names. It was only me.

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Speaker 2: There was nobody else in the videos. So the fact

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Speaker 2: that someone got a bit sad about it and must

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Speaker 2: have reported the Facebook and got me shut down is

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Speaker 2: sort of beyond belief.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, Well, Bill, we're not

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Speaker 1: into censorship here on three sixty. So what exactly are

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Speaker 1: the issues that they're raising with you in Larapinta? Tell

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Speaker 1: us and tell our listeners, because I think that other

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Speaker 1: Territorians would want to know.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've seen a bit of a change and what's

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Speaker 2: happening down here in Centralustrae. So it has quieted down

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Speaker 2: in the CBD, but we still have a lot of

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Speaker 2: youth crime going on, and it's moving out of the

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Speaker 2: take on what's happening in the CBD. So what's happening

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Speaker 2: out in the suburbs is there's still gangs of kids

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Speaker 2: breaking into houses out there. But the big thing that

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Speaker 2: everybody spoke to me about and it's been going on

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Speaker 2: throwing rocks at cars and throwing rocks at houses, So

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Speaker 2: people are driving to and from the homes, the cars

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Speaker 2: are getting rocks and cars are getting damage. But also

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Speaker 2: kids throwing rocks on people's houses, so solar systems are

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Speaker 2: being damaged, smashed windows in the units and in the

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Speaker 2: been going on for ages. People have been reporting at

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Speaker 2: the police. The police they're really really difficult, I think,

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Speaker 2: That you've got a holy nobile kids who are sort

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Speaker 2: not just Lara Pender tapping all over our springs and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we are. That's exactly right, Hey, Bill, talk

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Speaker 1: indeed the Chief Minister were in Alice Springs and I

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Speaker 2: Well, we've seen some change to the alcohol laws here,

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Speaker 2: so we are reduction takeaway day, so the Monday and

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Speaker 2: for one of the better terms, the reintroduction of the

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Speaker 2: Stronger Futures legislation across the number of our communities. But

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Speaker 2: we've certainly seen a reduction in the amount of people

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Speaker 2: They've shifted on whether it be we've heard about man Eyes.

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Speaker 2: Of course, Catherine and Dale they've moved out of our area,

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Speaker 2: so that's been a bit of a welcome relief for

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Speaker 2: people here in town. But we're still seeing lots and

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Speaker 2: lots of kids on the streets all hours of the night.

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Speaker 2: I said, some of them are getting up to mischief,

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Speaker 2: some of them are that that is still taking place.

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Speaker 2: We're still seeing the crime happening. There's a horrendous incident

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Speaker 2: he sort of harmed himself as well. So I'm waiting

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Speaker 2: these are still horrendous things that have happened to kids

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Speaker 2: So that's still going on. The Chief Ministers actually here today,

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Speaker 2: a crisis within our health system down here in Central Australia.

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Speaker 2: What's that I don't get health We can't get health

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Speaker 2: staff for one hundred and forty four. This is a

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Speaker 2: midwives down I know Cathatch has been crying out for action.

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Speaker 2: A lot of it stems back to the anti social

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Speaker 2: behavior we've been seen. The hospital here and a health

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Speaker 2: they've got buses and people driving buses to move our

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Speaker 2: by violence and anti social behavior. That's what it's comes

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Speaker 1: Goodness may we might have to try and get Cathacher

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Speaker 1: But that's pretty unbelievable, isn't it. I mean, if they're

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Speaker 2: Bill, Yeah, I said, sadly, that's what has come to

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Speaker 2: in our community that our health professionals, our health staff

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Speaker 2: have to be said, bust to and from their homes

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Speaker 2: they're not subject to violence and anti social behavior. So

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Speaker 2: that's a pretty sad indictment on our community. I'm really

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Speaker 2: sad to have to say that sort of Yah, that's

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Speaker 2: what it's come to. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: will save it. I'll give credit where credits you good

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Speaker 2: on the health of partner stumping up and do something

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Speaker 2: to make sure that our health professionals kept saying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, if that's what

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Speaker 1: what needs to be done. Hey Bill, a few weeks

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Speaker 1: trying to relocate to Darwin. Is there much of an update?

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Speaker 2: Okay? I do have that I caught up with Fond

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Speaker 2: and they came back to his school again. Fine finishes

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Speaker 2: looked thanky to everybody who donated to help her out.

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Speaker 2: She's on the move to Darwin. She'll be starting work

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Speaker 2: they're not a great situation what's been happening, But there's

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Speaker 1: So I cannot believe that there was a third attack

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's ongoing. I am. I caught up

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm saying to see fine in a family leaving town.

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Speaker 2: I hope people leaving Old Springs, but I hold high

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Speaker 1: Darn Yeah, I agree with you. Bill. Look, we've got

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Speaker 1: plenty of messages coming through this morning. There's one here.

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Speaker 1: The woke army are working hard on the cancel culture.

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Speaker 1: I can't speak the truth about the art of control

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Speaker 1: crime across the Northern Territory. We have all had it

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Speaker 1: up to our ears and trying to silence those speaking

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Speaker 1: out will only make the community stronger. And Louder says

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Speaker 1: that text message, and I think that that is one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent correct. Honestly, trying to stop people from speaking

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Speaker 1: the truth is never going to stop the issues and

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, look, if I've got to keep doing what

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Speaker 2: I'm doing to hold the government to account, sometimes, sadly

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Speaker 2: the only way I can seem to get this government

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Speaker 2: to take any action is to either shame them publicly

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Speaker 2: I've got to continue to do that, and I copped

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Speaker 2: the occasional Facebook band for speaking out, speaking the truthfull,

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Speaker 2: that's the price I'm just going to have to pay

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Speaker 2: make sure the divorces the people down here keep getting hurt.

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Speaker 1: Yep, fair enough, I think it's absolutely fair enough. Bill Yan,

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Speaker 1: the member Fanamajira always appreciate your time. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for having a chat with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie and have a good day you too.

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Speaker 1: Thank you