1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,759 Speaker 1: We've been talking about the fact that poor on Catherine 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: was targeted overnight. Fifteen businesses as we understand it, broken 3 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: into in Catherine and joining me on the line right now. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: You'll recognize her voice because we've spoken to her before. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: It is Beck from Willow Blue. Good morning Beck, Hi again, 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:20,240 Speaker 1: Katie Beck. 7 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: How did you fail last night? What has happened? 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 3: Look I out of a lot of businesses, I've said 9 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 3: probably pretty well. I mean I've got two smashed windows 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 3: or broken windows that I do need to get replaced. 11 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 3: But like it's just ridiculous. We've had the two ATMs 12 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 3: hearing Catherine at the AMS Advances that were only newly 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 3: replaced that are both smashed, so they're out of service. 14 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 3: We've currently got a pretty decent size event happening in 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 3: Catherine with the Australian Stock Horse Camp draft. So you've 16 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 3: got a lot of people in town who would utilize 17 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 3: the services of the ATM and you can't even get 18 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:10,199 Speaker 3: cash out. Both of them are out of service, both 19 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 3: of them are both of them are being smashed. The 20 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 3: aims At Bank now closes at two point thirty on 21 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 3: a Friday afternoon, so people aren't even going to be 22 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 3: able to get cash out for the weekend. The old 23 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 3: Westpac Bank has had its doors absolutely shattered. There's just 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 3: glass everywhere over there. The kids. So I heard you 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 3: speaking to carry before and I actually I'm up here 26 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 3: now with her. The kids. They were basically using a hammer, 27 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 3: walking around smashing everything with a hammer, and the fact 28 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 3: that they just had no remorse, like it just I 29 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 3: could say so much, but I'm going to bite my tongue. 30 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 3: It's just it's appalling like they've they've just gone on 31 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 3: a rampage last night and just done as much damage 32 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 3: as they can and they don't care. They legit do 33 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 3: not care. They could not care less. We tried to, 34 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 3: you know, spin it to them in multiple different ways 35 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 3: to give them a bit of an understanding of some 36 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 3: of the damage that they've caused. But it was like 37 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 3: they weepin at us, like we had three heads, Like 38 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 3: it's just it meant nothing. It genuinely didn't mean anything 39 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 3: to them. 40 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: Which is devastating because you know, you think to yourself, 41 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: if if you're then looking at kids that are looking 42 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 1: at you sad and and you know, feeling some remorse 43 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: for what they have done, you know it wouldn't make 44 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: things better, but it would certainly sort of make you 45 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: feel a bit differently. 46 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 2: But then you wonder, how are we ever going. 47 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: To get to the point where we can fix this 48 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: situation if if there's no remorse when you've caused absolute 49 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 1: havoc for someone else. 50 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 3: It's truly, it's ridiculous, Like we tried to, you know, 51 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 3: use the avenue of trying to say to them, you know, 52 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: being amount of money in the amount of damage that 53 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 3: you've caused and the cost that it's incurred to us 54 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 3: is like all of the. 55 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 4: You know, taking away all of the facilities that you 56 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 4: like to use at the Big River Center, taking away 57 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 4: all the food that we provide you, all of those 58 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 4: sorts of things, and they sort of just feel that 59 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 4: there like they don't go to school one just like, oh, 60 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 4: I don't go to school itself. 61 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: You go, how like, how can then, how can we 62 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: not be in a situation in this day and age, 63 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory where kids like where there is 64 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: you know, where we're not. We don't pull up the 65 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: parents that they're not going to school. 66 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 3: It's it's crazy, Like I've got a daughter who is 67 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 3: the same age as these kids, and if my daughter 68 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 3: wasn't attending school. If my kids are even with me 69 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 3: and and I forgot to notify the school at they're home, 70 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 3: I get a message, my husband gets a message, your 71 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 3: daughter's absent. Please explain. Why is this not happening with 72 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 3: the parents. Why are they not being held to account 73 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 3: on this? So, yes, I you know, I can't say that. 74 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 3: I do understand that they're having a horrible life at home, 75 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 3: because I'm not in that situation. I'm very fortunate that 76 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 3: I've never experienced that. But what I don't get is 77 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 3: if they're not getting the care at home, then why 78 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 3: is that not being dealt with with the parents. Because 79 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 3: I can guarantee you sure as people shit every day 80 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 3: that sorry about the language, Oh sorry, but you can 81 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 3: guarantee that if it was my kid that was out 82 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 3: there doing that, I would be getting absolutely pulled over 83 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 3: the coals because of it. So why aren't these parents 84 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 3: And it's you know, I see it. Even with the 85 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 3: kids that actually broke into my shop the very first 86 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 3: time and they come back, the mom started on us 87 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 3: purely because we were looking at like we're looking over 88 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 3: that way. We won't even we weren't even looking at 89 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 3: them and she gave that's a mouthful and I was like, well, 90 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 3: what has this kid got to look up to when 91 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 3: that's his role model. Yeah, and it's just like it's 92 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 3: been handed down through the generations and it's really sad 93 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 3: to see because it's going to continue that way if 94 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 3: you don't do something about it. 95 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 2: Well, it's having a terrible impact on the community. 96 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: Beg. So just to talk us through from your understanding, 97 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: is it fifteen businesses that were broken into last night? 98 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 3: I don't not necessarily all were broken into, but they've 99 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 3: been damaged. So we had, yeah, the Westpac Bank, we 100 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 3: had Australia Posts. Apparently they've gotten in there and stolen 101 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 3: phones and what have you. They smashed the windows. The 102 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 3: Finch Cafe had a window smashed. There's a building in 103 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 3: a sort of next to the coffee club that's yetting 104 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 3: renovations done. They've got in there and they've smashed up 105 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 3: a whole heap of tiles. They smashed the truck wind know, 106 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 3: they've smashed glasses all along the all along the main street. 107 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 3: They've obviously broken in to carries. They've done a lot 108 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 3: of time here. 109 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: And so you had said that there is an event 110 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: on what was that event that's happening today or that 111 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: people are in town for. 112 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Australian stockhorse camp, draft, camp draft and 113 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 3: mass is the bigger ones that we've got in town. 114 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 3: There's folk people in town and you know we're like 115 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 3: we're already down in ATM because the Westpac bank isn't here. 116 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 3: We're now down another tomb because the issue were smashed 117 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 3: up glass. You can hear in the background that's one 118 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 3: of Carry's customers that have come in to help clean up. 119 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 3: Because there's just you know, glass and damage everywhere. So 120 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 3: it's just things like that, you know, the actions that 121 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 3: these kids are causing because they think having a fatal 122 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 3: time out on the street at night. It's the implications 123 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 3: you know, for everyone else later on down the track, 124 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 3: like how long is it now going to take for 125 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 3: these two ATMs to get fixed? And coming up to 126 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 3: all weekend because this is the suffering so much retail, 127 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 3: Like I'm down at thirty percent in my shop because 128 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:28,119 Speaker 3: customers sorry baby in the background, because you know, people 129 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 3: aren't stopping, they are not pulling up in town. We 130 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 3: had one of the staff members had a conversation and 131 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 3: they said that a whole heap caravaners are just going 132 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 3: through because they're scared of go. 133 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 2: Well, this is a really bad thing. It most certainly is. 134 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: Before we wrap up, what is your message for the 135 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: government today. 136 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 3: Grow some balls and actually do something about it, like 137 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 3: take a stand and start actually penalizing if you can't, 138 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 3: panels a kids, panalyze a parent, do something so that 139 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 3: these kids are not going to grow up to be 140 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 3: pretty much in and out of the system continually. 141 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,239 Speaker 1: Beck I really appreciate you speaking to me this morning. 142 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: I know you're a busy woman, juggling kids, juggling business, 143 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: and now juggling further vandalism and break ins in Catherine overnight. 144 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your time today. 145 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 3: You're welcome. 146 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:26,679 Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie, thank you.