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Speaker 1: Now we know the National Retail Association as well as

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Speaker 1: the Shop Distributed and Allied Employees Association and plenty of

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Speaker 1: others are really calling for greater protection for workers in

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Speaker 1: the wake of the tragic bottle shop attack that we've

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Speaker 1: been speaking about this morning. Now joining me in the

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Speaker 1: studio from the SDA is the NT director Schlock Sharma.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to your Schlock.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Now, Mace, I know that everybody is absolutely reeling and

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Speaker 1: incredibly sad following on from what has happened. What would

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Speaker 1: the SDA like to see happen to ensure the safety

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Speaker 1: of workers in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, members needless to say, they're devastated. A

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Speaker 3: lot of them are angry, a lot of them are anxious.

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Speaker 3: Members do a lot of work and expose locations and

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Speaker 3: they have to witness the very worth of territory has

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Speaker 3: to offer. So a lot of them want to see

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Speaker 3: action in this space in terms of what you know,

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Speaker 3: we're going to be asking government to do. Look, we

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Speaker 3: don't want to see any reactions to this. We want

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Speaker 3: really we just want the government to take a minute

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Speaker 3: and just think about, you know, what they're doing and

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Speaker 3: is what they're doing making the lives of our members safer.

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Speaker 3: And our members just want the reassurance that the government

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Speaker 3: is with them and that they have the guarantee that

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Speaker 3: they can come home safely after a day of work.

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Speaker 1: And I think that that is a fair enough request

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Speaker 1: to make. Everybody deserves to be able to go to

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Speaker 1: work and to come home safely and to not be

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Speaker 1: in a situation like we have been. Like we've seen

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Speaker 1: earlier in the week. What are your members contacting you

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Speaker 1: and saying you to you at this point?

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Speaker 2: Look, right now, a lot of them are just anxious,

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 3: And there's a lot of parents actually contacting us right

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Speaker 3: now too that don't want to send their kids to work.

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Speaker 3: They don't they never want to see another incident like

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Speaker 3: this ever happen again. And yeah, a lot of people

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Speaker 3: are concerned for the safety of young workers right now,

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Speaker 3: just because what we've.

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Speaker 2: Heard about is it's terrible.

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Speaker 3: And I just feel for everybody in the hospitality industry

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Speaker 3: that everyone working bottle shops right now. They're a tight

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Speaker 3: knit community and it's just it's horrible what they're going through.

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Speaker 1: They sure are, And Schlock, I know that you and

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Speaker 1: I have spoken before as well about some of the

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Speaker 1: difficult and dangerous situations that our retail workers have been

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Speaker 1: put into. And yet we've been talking a lot about

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Speaker 1: those that work in licensed venues and also in bottle

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Speaker 1: shops over the last couple of days. But the fact

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Speaker 1: is there's a lot of really quite young retail workers

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Speaker 1: who aren't feeling entirely safe to go to work right now,

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Speaker 1: are they.

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Speaker 3: No, You're absolutely right, Katie, they're not feeling safe. And look,

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Speaker 3: I think another thing we just want to say to

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Speaker 3: the government is, look, we've been banging on about this

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Speaker 3: for a very long time. I've lost count of how

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Speaker 3: many times I've come on here to tell you about

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Speaker 3: some of the terrible things that are happening in our stores.

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Speaker 3: Like they just want the reassurance that the governments got

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Speaker 3: their back. And look, a lot of government members have

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Speaker 3: contacted the SDA. Their blood's boiling, they've got kids themselves.

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Speaker 3: We know that they care about our members, but we're

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Speaker 3: just asking them we'll take a macro look at this,

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Speaker 3: you know, take a look at everything. You know, is

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Speaker 3: the government resourcing the regulator enough to protect workers? You know,

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Speaker 3: take a look at you know, how many times this

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Speaker 3: particular individual interacted with the criminal justice system, and is

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Speaker 3: this something that the government could have done better. We're

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Speaker 3: not calling on them to do something straight away. We

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Speaker 3: know a knee jerk reaction is the worst possible thing

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Speaker 3: to do right now. Just take a look, review what

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Speaker 3: you're doing, be transparent about what you're doing, and just

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Speaker 3: think about whether or not you're working towards making the

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Speaker 3: lives of our members safer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Mate, I think that that's a fair enough call,

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Speaker 1: and I think that a lot of people would agree.

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Speaker 1: You know, people do deserve to be.

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Speaker 2: Able to go to work safely.

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Speaker 1: They do need to take a look at all those

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Speaker 1: different touch points and see whether things could be managed

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Speaker 1: differently and better to ensure that we are not in

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Speaker 1: a situation. Should light this again, Schlock. I always appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time, Always appreciate you coming into the studio. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for having your chat with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie. Thank you for advocacy for our members.

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Speaker 1: Thank you