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Speaker 1: Now if you've just joined us, we have been talking

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Speaker 1: throughout the morning about this terrible vision which we've seen

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Speaker 1: outside the Fanny Bay Supermarket Fanny Bay IgA, and we

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Speaker 1: have shared that vision now on the Mixed one oh

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Speaker 1: four nine Facebook page, so you can get a bit

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Speaker 1: of a better understanding of what or what Manual and

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Speaker 1: his wonderful team they have had to deal with.

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Speaker 2: This happened on Monday afternoon as I understand it.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line to tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about the situation is Manuel's son Alexi.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to your Alexi Katie mate, thanks for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning. Firstly, how's your mum and dad and

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Speaker 1: how are all the staff there at the IgA after

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Speaker 1: what unfolded earlier in the week that.

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Speaker 3: Fairly shook up from it all? To be honest, my father,

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Speaker 3: my mom and bab that I've owned the chaff for

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Speaker 3: a fair wall now and the violence is getting worse

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Speaker 3: and no matter what preventions they seem to put into place,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't seem to help. Nothing seems to help. So

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Speaker 3: speaking from my from my parents, they don't sell the

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Speaker 3: cask wine. That that a lot of the tenant problems

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Speaker 3: happened with they've they've stopped selling that many many years

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Speaker 3: ago to try to keep the area clear, but it

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Speaker 3: just doesn't seem to help. They're buying alcohol from other

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Speaker 3: places than coming into that area and causing the trouble.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I spoke to you dad.

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Speaker 3: People are unknown to the area. They've they've never been

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Speaker 3: in that area. The staff have never served them, they

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Speaker 1: I spoke to your dad about that, you know, about

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Speaker 1: the that serving of the alcohol a few years back,

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Speaker 1: and I remember him telling me that even on a Sunday,

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Speaker 1: that there was still that problem of drinking, you know,

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Speaker 1: an issue where people are getting alcohol somewhere and it's

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Speaker 1: still having an impact on all of those wonderful businesses

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Speaker 2: This happened one day afternoon, didn't that he did?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mat Apparently it was over from what the police

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Speaker 3: that interviewed the gentleman said, it was over someone's wife

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Speaker 3: or something like that. But they seem they appeared to

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Speaker 3: be friends, but they managed to beat the living daylights

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it was.

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Speaker 3: It happened. It was quite hectic, really, it really was.

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Speaker 1: I look, I'm watching this vision as I talk to

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Speaker 1: felt really worried for your dad. At one point I

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Speaker 1: he's got one person in front of him. Someone has

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Speaker 1: got a massive rock in their hands. I worried about

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Speaker 1: I was really worried about your dad. So I can't understand,

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Speaker 1: like I can only imagine how you must have felt.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, the flight wasn't there to start with, so

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Speaker 3: unfortunately spilled out to the front of the shop and

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Speaker 3: it became their problem once they were trying to get

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Speaker 3: He work sixteen hours a day, seven days a week,

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Speaker 3: and in all honesty, he shouldn't have to put up

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Speaker 3: I watched the image and as his son I got

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Speaker 3: I got quite scared for him because I sort of

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Speaker 3: older is his senses aren't quite as sharp as they

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Speaker 3: That guy through the a frame match and he was

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Speaker 3: lucky that Scotty, he's his manager. They caught it and

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Speaker 3: and it was just I don't know if you noticed,

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Speaker 3: I was worried. I was I was worried for the gentleman.

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Speaker 3: I was trying to help my my father in Scotty,

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Speaker 3: They ran into the shop and they locked the shop.

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Speaker 3: It was just, you know, the guy that helped my dad,

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Speaker 1: It's not a have you heard from that bloke who

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Speaker 3: He said, I actually said, my dad, did you have

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure he'll catch him next time he comes

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if there's one thing I know about

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Speaker 1: He's feeding my children. He treats his customers like they

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Speaker 2: And that's why it's so heartbreaking to watch.

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Speaker 3: Look it is and the worst part is we're not

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Speaker 3: it's not a nice lead into him. We're not alone.

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Speaker 3: It's happening all over Darwin. You walk through Kasina, it

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Speaker 3: And he's at his end. He I saw them do

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Speaker 3: No matter everything bad that happens, nothing is ever resolved,

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Speaker 3: nothing ever becomes of it. He doesn't know what to

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Speaker 3: I think I think he's just about done, so he's

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Speaker 1: And you can understand it, you know, you think you

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Speaker 1: Like I said, they treat you like family. Alex, How

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Speaker 1: I know that you'd said all that. Certainly it had

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were fantastic. So they obviously got a few

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Speaker 3: there was probably about three or four different women calling

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Speaker 1: Yeah, made its a long time territory, and you know

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Speaker 1: you've obviously seen your parents working in that job, running

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Speaker 1: and and you think about some of that crime and

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Speaker 3: And I'm scared for them, I'm gonna be honest, you know,

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Speaker 3: like one o the days when when we were younger,

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Speaker 3: there was there was a little bit of like there

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Speaker 3: was bad behavior, but there was that compassion. There was

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Speaker 3: that sensel I suppose a little bit of common sense.

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Speaker 3: That's all born. Nobody cares for anybody, No one has

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Speaker 3: I makes you want to go back to I want

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Speaker 3: to make you want to go back into the business

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Speaker 3: to make sure I'm there to look after him, to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And Alexi, I think the whole community is just

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Speaker 1: Like why are we not sort of saying that this

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Speaker 1: are the things that we're doing to try and prevent

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Speaker 3: Look, it's a big question Katie. And you know, as

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Speaker 3: I said, we're not alone. It's everywhere. Everywhere you go,

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Speaker 3: every business owner you speak to, every shopping center you

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Speaker 3: be us this time. Yeah, it would be somebody else

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Speaker 3: next time, you know. So well, unfortunate, but something really

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Speaker 3: needs to give, something really needs to happen. Yeah, enough talking, yep.

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Speaker 1: I agree mate. I really appreciate you talking to me

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Speaker 1: this morning. Please pass on my love and best wishes

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Speaker 1: to your parents and to everybody there at the IgA.

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Speaker 1: I know that they do listen to the show, so

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Speaker 1: they're probably hearing it themselves, but I hope that they're okay.

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Speaker 3: No, okay, we'll do. Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Thank you,