1
00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,240
Speaker 1: And we know that there has been quite a bit

2
00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,280
Speaker 1: happening in Catherine in recent days. There's always quite a

3
00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,479
Speaker 1: bit happening in Catherine. Unfortunately, though, I've seen a couple

4
00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,639
Speaker 1: of pressure releases come through about a break and entry

5
00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,560
Speaker 1: and then, as I understand it, a fire. Now joining

6
00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,880
Speaker 1: me on the line is the COLPS member for Catherine,

7
00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,720
Speaker 1: Joe Hersey. Good morning Joe, Good.

8
00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,680
Speaker 2: Morning Katie, and good morning listeners, Joe.

9
00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,279
Speaker 1: A couple of incidents that i'd seen sort of come

10
00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,440
Speaker 1: through from police media throughout the week in Catherine. I

11
00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,120
Speaker 1: understand that it was a pretty bad breaking. Earlier in

12
00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:33,760
Speaker 1: the week.

13
00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,400
Speaker 2: There was Katie, if you're talking about the one at

14
00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,760
Speaker 2: Godden mar the conference center, Yeah, that was Yeah, it

15
00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:42,839
Speaker 2: was shocking.

16
00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:49,760
Speaker 3: There was so many rocks inside the building, although interestingly enough, Katie,

17
00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,919
Speaker 3: none of the artwork was damaged. Nothing was taken in

18
00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,320
Speaker 3: the shop that they knew of when I spoke to them,

19
00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:00,720
Speaker 3: And it was just willful damage to most winds broken,

20
00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,000
Speaker 3: you know, from the front door. The rocks were right

21
00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:07,160
Speaker 3: down the back of the gallery and just glass everywhere.

22
00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:08,959
Speaker 3: It was a mess for them to clean up.

23
00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,920
Speaker 1: Oh that is terrible. Have that, I mean, I don't

24
00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,520
Speaker 1: know whether they've managed to arrest anybody, but that would

25
00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,800
Speaker 1: be like a terrible situation then for them having to

26
00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,520
Speaker 1: clean everything up and being able to get operating again.

27
00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:27,200
Speaker 2: Correct. So I went to the Saint Joseph's graduation last night.

28
00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:29,880
Speaker 3: They were due to have that in Godden marm and

29
00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,840
Speaker 3: fortunately everyone rallied around and Keegan from Dragonfly Catering made

30
00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,080
Speaker 3: the school hall look amazing for the graduates and it

31
00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,119
Speaker 3: was a really beautiful night. But that caused a lot

32
00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,360
Speaker 3: of anks to the school that they couldn't have that there.

33
00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:48,800
Speaker 3: And of course tonight we have the annual Catherine Prize

34
00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,320
Speaker 3: and that's been postponed and not able to go ahead.

35
00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,720
Speaker 2: So you know, it could have been a whole lot worse.

36
00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:01,920
Speaker 3: But my understanding was potentially, you know, thousand dollars worth

37
00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:08,480
Speaker 3: of damage at least there are two youths alleged to

38
00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,600
Speaker 3: have done the break in, but I'm not sure where

39
00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,480
Speaker 3: that is as we speak, Katie, Yeah, not.

40
00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:18,639
Speaker 1: The only one. I know that police arrested a man

41
00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,960
Speaker 1: in relation to a structure fireing Catherine as well. This

42
00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,760
Speaker 1: was yesterday morning, so shortly before six am, police and

43
00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,320
Speaker 1: fire crews ended up called to a business on Catherine

44
00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,959
Speaker 1: Terrace after a fire and smoke was seen at the

45
00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,760
Speaker 1: front of that location. Fortunately that fire caught well unfortunately,

46
00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,880
Speaker 1: I should say, the fire caused significant damage to the

47
00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,840
Speaker 1: front of the business, but it was quickly extinguished by

48
00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,880
Speaker 1: fire crews and well, fortunately the business was empty at

49
00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:50,600
Speaker 1: the time and nobody was injured, correct, Katie.

50
00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:51,440
Speaker 2: And I've spoken to the.

51
00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,960
Speaker 3: Owners of the building complex and it was the quick

52
00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,919
Speaker 3: actions by the police and fire that did bring under control.

53
00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,079
Speaker 3: It could have been a whole lot worse. But again

54
00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,560
Speaker 3: there's a lot of damage broken windows done to that

55
00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,000
Speaker 3: building as well, and you know it's not acceptable. So

56
00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,040
Speaker 3: fortunately they have caught that person.

57
00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,880
Speaker 1: Well, Joe, I'm glad that they have still a lot

58
00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:18,880
Speaker 1: for you guys, you know, to deal with tho. And

59
00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,280
Speaker 1: I know that you know that an incident like that,

60
00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,080
Speaker 1: it will It hinders people from being able to go

61
00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,880
Speaker 1: to work, It hinders businesses from being able to operate,

62
00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,880
Speaker 1: and people are quite frankly fed up with it.

63
00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,840
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Katie. And also you know it's a cost to

64
00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,920
Speaker 3: the business, to the building owners, and then you know,

65
00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,480
Speaker 3: do they absorb that, do they pass that on through

66
00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,600
Speaker 3: a rent rise or you know, these are all things

67
00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,360
Speaker 3: when we're living in a time where it is extremely

68
00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,920
Speaker 3: expensive here in the territory cost of living, so these

69
00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:54,960
Speaker 3: are all added pressures to people.

70
00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,760
Speaker 2: That go about their day to day of their business.

71
00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:59,960
Speaker 1: So how are things going in Catherine at the moment?

72
00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,440
Speaker 1: I meant, you know, when you talk tourism and the

73
00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:07,320
Speaker 1: number of visitors around the place, there the tourism.

74
00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,200
Speaker 3: The visitors have certainly dropped off.

75
00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,680
Speaker 2: I was actually at a Tourism NTE function.

76
00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,960
Speaker 3: At the Information Center last night and tourism and tea

77
00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,839
Speaker 3: were down and that was great.

78
00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,000
Speaker 2: We've had a good year of a tourists through town.

79
00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:26,640
Speaker 2: Tonight we've actually got Tom Curtin's launch of his new

80
00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,600
Speaker 2: album and that's fantastic, so I look forward to going

81
00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,000
Speaker 2: to that. And also we've got the launch of.

82
00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,479
Speaker 3: The showcasing Katherine in the middle of the Big Rivers

83
00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,640
Speaker 3: region at the meeting place this evening as well.

84
00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,800
Speaker 2: But we've had a bit of rain that's been lovely

85
00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,839
Speaker 2: to cool things down. And just on a positive Katie,

86
00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,680
Speaker 2: I've seen the school two school assemblies this morning, Catherine's

87
00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,320
Speaker 2: South Primary School and Clyde Penton Primary School and it

88
00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,560
Speaker 2: fills me with a lot of pride to see the

89
00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:01,359
Speaker 2: students getting their awards and we're in good hands in

90
00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,200
Speaker 2: the future with the caliber of students coming through in

91
00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,680
Speaker 2: the awards that they are getting and the respect and

92
00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:12,840
Speaker 2: resilience and achievements that they show. So that's a really positive.

93
00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,719
Speaker 1: That is that's awesome. And Joe, I'm pretty sure there's

94
00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,359
Speaker 1: a big Catherine Swimming carnival happening this weekend as well.

95
00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,880
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, there's a lot going on. I'm actually in

96
00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,880
Speaker 2: Dahua this weekend, so I'm missing the carnival, but yeah,

97
00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,279
Speaker 2: they've got their big carnival with this weekend and today

98
00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:31,919
Speaker 2: is the Luke Kelly Cup as well, which I'll be

99
00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,080
Speaker 2: going to have a look at.

100
00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:34,880
Speaker 3: Shortly.

101
00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,360
Speaker 2: So there's a lot on in Catherine. There's always a

102
00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,040
Speaker 2: lot going on, and there's never you know, there's.

103
00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,440
Speaker 3: Never a dull moment with you wondering what you're going

104
00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,200
Speaker 3: to go and see or do.

105
00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,400
Speaker 2: Or around the community.

106
00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,240
Speaker 1: Well that is wonderful, Joe. It's always great to catch

107
00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,120
Speaker 1: up with you. Thanks so much for having a chat

108
00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,839
Speaker 1: with us this morning and letting us know what's going

109
00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:56,320
Speaker 1: on in Cather.

110
00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,000
Speaker 2: No worries, Katie, good to talk to you.

111
00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:00,640
Speaker 1: Thanks