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Speaker 1: We know that new crime statistics released on Friday have

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Speaker 1: hundred fewer offenses recorded between January and August, down seven

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Speaker 1: point four percent overall. Now that includes major reductions in assaults,

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Speaker 1: break ins, and commercial burglaries. The government points to increase

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Speaker 1: police resources, stronger bail laws, and frontline operations as key contributors.

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Speaker 1: But while those figures are certainly encouraging, questions remain about

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Speaker 1: what's driving the change and whether the trend's going to last.

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Speaker 1: But also, as you would have heard me read out

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Speaker 1: Thursday night. Now joining us in the studio is the

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Speaker 1: Chief Minister Leafanocchiaro. Good morning to your chief.

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Speaker 2: Mindis's nine into your wonderful listeners.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you in the studio. Now, I want

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Speaker 1: to start with these headline numbers. Crime obviously down across

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory, especially in Alice Springs. In your view,

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Speaker 1: what's time this shift? And I mean, is it more

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Speaker 1: boots on the ground, policy changes something else. What is it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all of the action we've taken across a

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Speaker 3: number of fronts. I mean, people will be familiar. In

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Speaker 3: that very first sittings of Parliament in October last year,

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Speaker 3: we passed a bunch of laws, including Declan's Law, through

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Speaker 3: the Parliament and we haven't stopped since. We've also backed

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Speaker 3: twenty years. So there's a lot of work been happening,

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Speaker 3: including on the corrections front, early intervention, child protection and

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Speaker 3: in it making courts more efficient. So we're really buoyed

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Speaker 3: by the data. Now we've always said people need to

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Speaker 3: feel safe, but data is important to tell you if

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Speaker 3: you're heading in the right direction and where peaks and

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Speaker 3: troughs are. And at a seven point four percent reduction

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Speaker 3: in the number of victims just to August this year

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Speaker 3: compared to last year, that's over twelve one hundred territories

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Speaker 3: who weren't victims of crime, which is significant. So plenty

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Speaker 3: more work to do, but it's going in the right

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Speaker 3: direction and we are not giving up, Katie. We will

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Speaker 3: just keep making sure reducing crime is our number one priority.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you do.

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Speaker 1: Though, have critics out there saying that the recording of

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Speaker 1: the data or the collection of the data since police

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Speaker 1: changed their reporting system, is making the stats seem better

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Speaker 1: than they are. I mean, are you confident that that's

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Speaker 1: not the case.

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Speaker 3: It is one hundred percent not the case. And I

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Speaker 3: don't know where this cynicism comes from. Now we have

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Speaker 3: had two full years of the new system which was

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Speaker 3: brought in under labor. So what we are comparing is

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Speaker 3: apples with apples. This is January to August this year

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Speaker 3: compared to January to August last year. There has been

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Speaker 3: no way in which police records stats.

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Speaker 2: None of that has changed.

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Speaker 3: Has been no change to how Attorney General Injustice produced

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Speaker 3: the stats, none of those things. So people can be

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Speaker 3: very very confident in these numbers. And above all else,

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Speaker 3: you know, we want the true numbers too, because if

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Speaker 3: we have to deal with more more resourcing, we will.

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Speaker 2: But look, I.

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Speaker 1: Guess the other arguments as well, though, is that sometimes

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Speaker 1: people just simply aren't calling things inn I mean even myself.

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Speaker 1: I was at Woolworths on Friday afternoon. I saw three

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Speaker 1: one of them had an ankle monitoring bracelet on. I

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Speaker 1: don't know whether the security were actually able to get

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Speaker 1: but I guess what I saw for myself and what

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Speaker 1: that should not be happening. That's become the norm right

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Speaker 1: in some situations in people simply aren't calling the police.

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Speaker 1: So do you think that has an impact on those statistics.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it has a big impact. And I'll

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Speaker 3: tell you why. Absolutely crime is still happening and it's unacceptable,

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Speaker 3: Some people have a general sort of what's the point

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Speaker 3: when it's exasperating, you know. And I was just talking

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Speaker 3: I was begging them, please please ring these jobs in.

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Speaker 3: So look, we can be encouraged by the data and

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Speaker 3: and we just keep that pressure on.

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Speaker 1: It does look as though there needs to be some

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Speaker 1: work in our regional locations as well. I mean the

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Speaker 1: likes of you know, well, even in Palmerston there is

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Speaker 1: still some of that violent crime, as well as Catherine

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Speaker 1: so I know that, you know a little earlier this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct.

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Speaker 3: So we have a number of strategies which police deploy,

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Speaker 3: and obviously we've done all of our preparedness for the

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Speaker 3: but including you know, we've I think there's been about

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Speaker 3: twelve months, so we're up on police numbers, which is great.

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Speaker 3: And then we've got all of the work we're doing

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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of that wrap around. But even

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Speaker 3: just when it comes to how we're dealing with people

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Speaker 3: in custody and rehabilitation, you know, we've had some excellent

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Speaker 3: and so it's heading in the right direction. But yes,

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Speaker 3: just have to continue, you know, proactive on alcohol bdos,

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Speaker 3: you name it, Katie. Our cops has row and the

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Speaker 1: Look, we've got a lot of messages coming through, you know,

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Speaker 1: some people sort of saying Katie in regards to the

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Speaker 1: crime figures. I lived near social housing up until a

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Speaker 1: this year and there's been a significant change in anti

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Speaker 1: I think that the government's policies are working. I just

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Speaker 1: hope that they continue with their efforts. You know, you've

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Speaker 1: still issues going on, and look and there are you know,

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Speaker 1: this is the thing. Unfortunately, even on Thursday night, we

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Speaker 1: those officers were allegedly assaulted as well. All three girls,

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Speaker 1: as I understand it, are in custody. Now. I get

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Speaker 1: I get that you're never going to be able to

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Speaker 1: stop everything, but what people I suppose are starting to

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Speaker 1: ask now is, you know, with some of these teenagers

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Speaker 2: Issue Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 3: And often what we see with these young people who

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Speaker 2: But we're not giving up.

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Speaker 3: So we have that real focus on school and I

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Speaker 3: well family responsibility agreements. You know, we've signed up over

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Speaker 3: work ready. And look, it's a big process, Katie, there's

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Speaker 3: no doubt about that. But our police did a great

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Speaker 3: very quickly. And can I just say a big piece

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Speaker 1: We're confident people are going to want to do the job,

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Speaker 1: because it seems like that may be the issue at

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Speaker 2: No, we're very confident.

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Speaker 3: We've had an EOI process going and those numbers are

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Speaker 3: going strong. We're doing all of the change management work

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Speaker 3: we're in negotiation with the NTPA around the you know,

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Speaker 3: the terms and conditions of that employment. But once that

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Speaker 3: have a critical mass, it's going to be significant.

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Speaker 1: How many people have expressed interest in those that EI process.

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Speaker 3: I can't remember the exact number, but it's definitely dozens.

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Speaker 3: So we will have a full squad. The first squad

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Speaker 3: will be full provided all of those people who've expressed

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Speaker 1: And look, I've got no idea exactly what the remarks

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Speaker 3: And there's that fine line because we don't always want

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Speaker 3: Mandatory community service, grubbing graffiti, learning skills, paying back their

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Speaker 3: But there's always time and place for that too. There

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Speaker 1: All right, I want to talk to you about these

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Speaker 1: Do, all right, Chief Minister, I've got a few messages

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Issue is not new though, right Like I mean, I

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Speaker 3: enough money. You know, people sort of say, too bad,

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Speaker 3: I need it. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: of dollars. This is a huge issue of equity across

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Speaker 3: the country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look, someone's just messaged and said I had

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Speaker 1: got to hospital with the help of friends, bad back,

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Speaker 1: sat in a chair for seven hours, no beds available.

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Speaker 2: That's just an example.

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Speaker 1: But look, I'm gonna have to move along because I

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Speaker 1: know your press for time, as am I a couple

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Speaker 1: of things I want to just take you through though. Dan,

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Speaker 1: who we spoke to on multiple times about he was

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Speaker 1: accommodation in Howard Springs on that community order. He's just

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Speaker 1: called in to say that it came to a head

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. The man was allegedly making threats to stab

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Speaker 1: people and bash kids, even when as far as to

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Speaker 1: threaten to get Oh goodness me, I won't even say

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Speaker 1: that part sexually assault people. Residents went to the police

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Speaker 1: station and made formal statements with the man, now remanded

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Speaker 1: in custody, but Dan says it took an hour for

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Speaker 1: police to arrive after seven calls, and although he doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to criticize police, he said anything could have happened

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Speaker 1: in that time. He said he is also now aware

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Speaker 1: making threats to kill, aggravated assault and assaulted worker. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how is somebody like that then on a residential street.

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Speaker 3: Yep, good question, Kennie, and I'm glad the police were

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Speaker 3: able to apprehend the alleged defender and it sounds like

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Speaker 3: that community has had an absolutely horrific weekend. You know,

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, these continue to beachlenges

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Speaker 3: that Territorians are faced with, and we can't pretend it's

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Speaker 3: not happening. We can't shy away from it. All we

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Speaker 3: can do is to continue to empower our police, continue

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Speaker 3: to back them in so they can do their job

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Speaker 3: more efficiently, and continue to have strong laws that meet

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Speaker 3: community expectation.

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Speaker 2: And that's our commitment, Chief Finest.

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Speaker 1: I know you've got to go, but just really quickly,

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Speaker 1: what is on the agenda this week in Parliament?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this week we've had a two week sitting. This

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Speaker 3: is the final week. Tomorrow we're doing the extension of

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Speaker 3: our homegrown territory grants, so they're thirty thousand for people

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Speaker 3: who've already owned a home and fifty for first home buyers,

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Speaker 3: and we've had one thousand people take advantage of that scheme,

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Speaker 3: which means people are staying in the territory, so it's fantastic.

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Speaker 3: We've also got some legislation to really make sure we're

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Speaker 3: putting the energy and the structure in place to have

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Speaker 3: strong energy networks. Now, Katie, this won't be a surprise

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Speaker 3: to your listeners, but we have double the number of

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Speaker 3: blackouts in the Northern Territory than the rest of the country,

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Speaker 3: which is unacceptable. Are they whether related or oh all sorts,

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Speaker 3: just failure of infrastructure, aging assets, in instability in the grid,

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Speaker 3: you name it, Katie, And this is a big legacy issue.

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Speaker 3: We've inherited that we are putting a lot of energy,

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Speaker 3: time and resources into and territories. Will hear us talking

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Speaker 3: more about it because there will be significant funding investments

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Speaker 3: that will have to come through in the next budget.

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Speaker 3: So that's an important piece of work because people need

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Speaker 3: to be able to come home, turn the lights on,

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Speaker 3: turn the aircon on, and not worry about whether there's

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Speaker 3: going to be blackouts, so that's a big piece. And

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Speaker 3: then of course we have the Integrity and Ethics Commission

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Speaker 3: no legislation which I'll be introducing this week as well.

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Speaker 3: So plenty happening and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tune in.

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Speaker 3: You can tune in if you if you're interested, or

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Speaker 3: come and visitor Deep.

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Speaker 1: Please speak me to so they don't have to to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you. Chief. That's de lea fan. OK.

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Speaker 2: We better leave it there.

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Speaker 1: Thank you as always for your time, Take care everyone.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,