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Speaker 1: As she would have heard on the show yesterday.

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Speaker 2: We know that the Nightcliff Primary School that was well

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Speaker 2: and truly in a pretty difficult situation yesterday and investigations

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Speaker 2: are on going into that breaking at the school on Tuesday. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's you know, we know that there was classrooms, five

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Speaker 2: transition classrooms and two preschool classrooms that were damaged, with

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Speaker 2: the kids sent home for the day. Joining me on

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Speaker 2: the line to tell us a little bit more is

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Speaker 2: Alan Fanning, who is indeed the school board chair.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you, Al, Good morning Katie. How are

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Speaker 3: you not bad?

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Speaker 2: Mate? It sounds like it was a pretty ordinary day yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I'd spoken to some of the students and parents from

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Speaker 2: the school after school yesterday and yeah, it sounds like

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Speaker 2: there was quite a bit of.

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Speaker 3: Damage, Kadie, from the kids that I know at the

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Speaker 3: school that are all talking about it at lunchtime as well.

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Speaker 3: I don't think the damage was as bad as could

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Speaker 3: have been a nicer way of putting it, but it

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Speaker 3: disrupts the school and disrupts the staff and everybody involved.

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Speaker 3: And I think it's just pointless what these people are doing.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it absolutely is, and it's bloody frustrating. There is

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Speaker 2: no other way to put it. Ol. Has the school

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Speaker 2: reopened today to all of those students who weren't able

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Speaker 2: to attend yesterday?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe. So that's what we've had text message yesterday.

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Speaker 3: So the staff worked hard and they got the cleaning

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Speaker 3: obviously done and got everything back to ship shape so

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Speaker 3: the kids can go back to school.

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Speaker 1: Good on them. Good on the staff, you know for

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Speaker 1: doing that.

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Speaker 2: It's the last thing that they should have to do

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Speaker 2: is be cleaning up after a break in and our

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Speaker 2: quite a bit of mess. So I got told that

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Speaker 2: there'd been eggs thrown and all sorts of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Katie, eggs. I don't know why you throw eggs,

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Speaker 3: But anyway, these people are invisilees.

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Speaker 1: They truly are. Mate.

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Speaker 2: What's the extent of the damage? Like talk us through

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Speaker 2: you know what? You know, in terms of.

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Speaker 3: That damage, it's made cosmetic, Katie. At the end of

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Speaker 3: the day, like all the business a lot of business

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Speaker 3: owners in Darn have already been through this and they

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Speaker 3: just come in and yeah, they will just spray paint

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Speaker 3: or right stupid stuff on the wall. It needs to

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Speaker 3: be scrubbed off, you know, they throw things, paint, and

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Speaker 3: eggs around, and ye know, it's just they didn't even

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Speaker 3: take anything, so they're coming in causing this damage and

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Speaker 3: doing no help to the community whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, Hey, do we know what the repair bill is

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Speaker 2: estimated to be?

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Speaker 1: By the sounds of it, it sounds.

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Speaker 2: More like it's it's mess rather than them bad damage.

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Speaker 3: I haven't even I don't think they'd even know what

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Speaker 3: the repair bill. I don't think they have enough time

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Speaker 3: to assess what's been happening. But you know, you know,

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Speaker 3: obviously you're cleaning and stuff like that, so you because

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Speaker 3: it's done an emergency situation. Most of those things cost

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Speaker 3: money and it's un called for. You shouldn't have to

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Speaker 3: do it. And there's something that schools don't have budgets

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Speaker 3: for that in like you know, they're they're there to

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Speaker 3: teacher kids. They're not there to clean up after someone's

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Speaker 3: trying to break in and disrupt the way things are done.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Any update in terms of you know, what you've been

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Speaker 2: told in relation to the police investigation or anything like that.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not privile journey that at the moment, Katie,

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Speaker 3: because obviously it's operational stuff and the department will be

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Speaker 3: working through that once they work through that bit, and

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Speaker 3: we'll obviously get a bit of a breakdown after the

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Speaker 3: things has been done.

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Speaker 2: Said, what's been the sentiment amongst families and parents following

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Speaker 2: on from what had happened yesterday?

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Speaker 3: The parents and obviously upset. You know, look and most

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Speaker 3: people in Darwen in the Northern Territory are upset with

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Speaker 3: the crime raising moment. It is just uncalled for. Is

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Speaker 3: it disrupts people who are the victims of the crime.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know what the answer is, Katie, but

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Speaker 3: both sides of the government and all the community has to

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Speaker 3: be part of a process forward to stop this sort

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unacceptable, and you know, it's not just the

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Speaker 2: like it's the disruption obviously to the kids and you know,

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Speaker 2: and that sense of unease for the kids as well

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Speaker 2: when they go to school and something like that has happened.

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Speaker 2: But also then when you look at the fact that

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Speaker 2: and it's through no fault whatsoever of the school, but

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Speaker 2: then parents potentially having to take a day off work

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Speaker 2: to care for the kids that aren't able to go

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Speaker 2: to school. Like the on flow is it's like a

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Speaker 2: domino effect of.

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Speaker 3: Course it is. And this is what these people don't understand.

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Speaker 3: You take me gun to work, I get a phone

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Speaker 3: call for my wife's he's a teacher there. You have

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Speaker 3: to come and pick up our daughter because I can't

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Speaker 3: leave school. So I'm going to take a day off work.

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Speaker 3: That costs me one thousand dollars. But you just don't

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Speaker 3: know how much it costs. Yeah, that's not the only

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Speaker 3: skill that's happened to you know. It's not just a

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Speaker 3: monetary thing of the damage. It's the flow on effect.

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Speaker 3: Like you just said, Yeah, these people are just disrupting

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Speaker 3: in society and they should not be able to do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really I agree. I look, I don't know whether

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Speaker 2: you want to say or not. I don't expect you

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Speaker 2: to get in a political discussion about it, but I

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Speaker 2: some of what parents were telling me who live in

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Speaker 2: Nightcliffe yesterday. They were saying, you know, Katie, it's not

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Speaker 2: great in Nightcliffe at the moment in terms of there

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Speaker 2: being a bit of an increase in anti social behavior

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Speaker 2: and some of the break ins and things that have

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Speaker 2: been experienced in recent weeks.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon that's the case? Oal or is it

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Speaker 1: hard to tell?

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's just Nightcliff. You you can drive.

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Speaker 3: I drive around it being a contractor. Yeah, so I

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Speaker 3: see stuff on the street during the daytime, and yes

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Speaker 3: there is any social behavior. It is in Nightclif, it

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Speaker 3: is in Casherina, it is in Coconut Grave, it is

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Speaker 3: in loud Or, it is in crapp So someone, some

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Speaker 3: way has to stop. But get together with all the

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Speaker 3: people and let's put a pass forward. And it's not

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Speaker 3: just one government. It's going to take both sides of

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Speaker 3: the government. And like I said, the community to do it.

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Speaker 3: If you don't like it, you've got to get on

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Speaker 3: board and change it.

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Speaker 1: Yep, spot on.

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Speaker 2: Well, Al Fanning, I really appreciate your time this morning, mate.

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Speaker 2: I hope everybody at the school is going okay. It

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Speaker 2: is such a wonderful school and that's why I think

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Speaker 2: it's disappointing. I mean, so many of our territory schools are,

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Speaker 2: but it's such a lovely school, such a tight knit bunch.

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Speaker 2: So it was just really disappointing yesterday to hear what

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Speaker 3: Very disappointing. But the kids are good kids. They just

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Speaker 3: talked about it and I'm sure they'll get on with

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Speaker 3: what they have to do and go and enjoy their

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Speaker 3: school holidays. So the next three weeks and I'll probably

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Speaker 3: forget about it.

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Speaker 2: Made a couple of the kids I spoke to yesterday

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Speaker 2: were a bit disappointed it wasn't their classroom that was impacted,

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Speaker 2: because they were hoping for a day off as well.

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Speaker 3: Exactly right, They jumped right on this. They know what's

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Speaker 3: going on.

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Speaker 1: Cheeky little buggers.

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Speaker 2: They truly are good on you, al, thanks so much

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Speaker 2: for your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you