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Speaker 1: Now I had seen on social media. Well, Jason Hannah,

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Speaker 1: a very well known territorian who had made the comment

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Speaker 1: or questioned, what's going on at the moment in terms

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Speaker 1: of a bit of an increase in young people doing

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Speaker 1: the wrong thing around the city. Now he joins me

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Speaker 1: on the line right now, Good morning to you, Jason.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Jason. What exactly is going on at the moment. Are

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Speaker 1: you seeing a bit of an increase in sam anti

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Speaker 1: social behavior?

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Speaker 2: Mate? Look, something, something is a mess, something not right.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's there's definitely an increase in in these

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Speaker 2: you know, juveniles that are in the city late at

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Speaker 2: night in large groups young you know, like eight, twelve,

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Speaker 2: fourteen years old. You know, they're they're literally terrorizing, you know,

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Speaker 2: the tourists. There's a you know, they're they're harassing people

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Speaker 2: for their scooters. You know, there's there's assaults happening. You know,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of loud sort of verbalizing threats. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure if you just talk to someone like Sean from

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Speaker 2: Salvatories that he would be able to tell you, you know,

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Speaker 2: a length of stories about the issues that he's been having.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just it's gotten worse. And I've been

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Speaker 2: told some stories. I don't know whether they're true, but

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Speaker 2: you know, the assumption is that some of these perhaps

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Speaker 2: safe houses or territory family houses have moved a little

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Speaker 2: bit closer. I'm also hearing that right now that these

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Speaker 2: kids are getting free bus rides into the city. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I wonder, what, right, there's an eight year old kid

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Speaker 2: in the city. Yeah, yeah, it's you know, I think

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Speaker 2: we need to really talk about it now. I think

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Speaker 2: we've got to jump on it because it's getting worse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and before it before it becomes a real issue.

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Speaker 1: Jason's funny that you say this. I've been told the

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Speaker 1: same thing. I'd actually been told that one of those houses,

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Speaker 1: or a couple of I don't know whether it's one

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Speaker 1: or a couple had moved into Stuart Park, and that

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Speaker 1: i'd actually been contacted by somebody a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago saying that their home had been broken into and

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Speaker 1: that they'd seen some issues in Stuart Park. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know exactly what's going on, but I reckon you're right,

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Speaker 1: you know, if we're starting to see an increase and

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Speaker 1: we're starting to see issues. If we don't jump on

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Speaker 1: this straight away, it's going to turn into something bigger

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Speaker 1: like we've seen in the past.

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Speaker 2: Look at you know, the security in the city. You know,

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Speaker 2: they're doing the best they can. For some reason, we're

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Speaker 2: seeing a very reduced police presence, you know, for whatever reason.

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Speaker 2: But that needs to be addressed. But you know that

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Speaker 2: when the security is trying to deal with these kids,

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Speaker 2: they're being you know, hurled volleys of assaults and yelled

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Speaker 2: words like racist and pedophile and rape, and you know,

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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden they're having things thrown at them.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've seen footage of you know, these little

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Speaker 2: little trips that are that are scamming tourists to try

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Speaker 2: and get their scooter. You know, they're trying to make

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Speaker 2: these scooters work and obviously, as you know that they

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Speaker 2: require credit cards, so all of a sudden they're not working.

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Speaker 2: These kids are throwing them all around the place. They're

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Speaker 2: just they're actually terrorizing they're sitting and honestly, they need

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Speaker 2: a good kick up the ass before it before it

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Speaker 2: gets out of hand. And I think now the time, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the gramas down at the waterfront, which you know, it's

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Speaker 2: been going on for a while now that now that

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Speaker 2: we mentioned it, that's been going on for a few months.

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Speaker 2: But we've got these excursions of ankle bracelet wearing juveniles

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Speaker 2: and young adults that have been brought down there for

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Speaker 2: a day trip. Now that the waterfront is a is

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Speaker 2: a you know, it's a jewel in the crown and

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Speaker 2: in daring to the tourism scene, also for holiday locals,

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Speaker 2: there's no reason for those little ship bags to be

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Speaker 2: brought down there, you know, by by government paid staff

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Speaker 2: who then go and sit down under a tree and

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Speaker 2: let them roam around. And you know, talking to business owners,

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Speaker 2: you know, people like Tina down there at Della and

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Speaker 2: and you know my guys at Chow. You know, they're

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Speaker 2: they're coppying abuse, they're coppying threat. I wonder, what does

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Speaker 2: anyone with an ankle base that actually need to be

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Speaker 2: when there's no essential services there for them at all. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, as far as if they want to give

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Speaker 2: them an excursion, why don't you get some gamber grass

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Speaker 2: buddy poison taken out bush. You know, they can they

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Speaker 2: can learn a few skills too knows they might end

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Speaker 2: up being a ranger when they when they grow up. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you know what, stay the hell out of their waterfront.

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Speaker 1: Jace, I reckon. There's probably going to be people who

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Speaker 1: get in contact with me this morning saying that they

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Speaker 1: want you to run for parliament based on some of

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Speaker 1: your comments this morning. So I know there will be

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Speaker 1: plenty of people who are agreed. Mate, Just like just

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Speaker 1: to give us, you know, a bit more of an idea.

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Speaker 1: Have you, like, have you seen increased break ins it

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Speaker 1: or is it more just that general bad behavior?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, I mean I think we we all know

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Speaker 2: that I'm the poster child for the breaking stadies. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and look touchwood that that hasn't happened for quite some time.

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Speaker 2: The security presences in the city has been a big help.

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Speaker 2: You know that the programs such as Alcohol Secure Secure

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Speaker 2: has been a big help. But you know, I've always

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Speaker 2: said that the people that were breaking in looking for

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Speaker 2: alcohol are these older sort of addicts and you know,

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Speaker 2: people that have really lost their way. Right now, I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about these juveniles, which I'm sure that people are

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Speaker 2: Parmesan are listening, are going well, you know, all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, now You're going to start listening to this

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Speaker 2: blake because it's happening in the city or at the

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Speaker 2: Press waterfront, when it's probably been happening out there in

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Speaker 2: the suburbs for quite some time, you know, wherever all

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Speaker 2: these houses have been. But yeah, you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to work out what we are doing.

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Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: Now, and I'm sure Gary hasbt will agree, we're just

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Speaker 2: breeding these these dangerous little buddy terrorists.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I think at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's Palmerston, whether it's the city, no

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Speaker 1: matter where it is, whether it's Casurina downstairs there at Casurina, it's.

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Speaker 3: Behavior that is not acceptable, and it's behavior that you

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Speaker 3: know that it hinders on tourism, It hinders on people

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Speaker 3: just out there, you know, living their everyday lives.

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Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to put up with some of the

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Speaker 1: stuff that goes on.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I actually got contacted as well by a parent on

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Speaker 1: told that you know that there was that there was

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Speaker 1: So no matter how you look at it, it's behavior

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Speaker 1: that we just don't think is acceptable and it shouldn't

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Speaker 2: Well, the fact is it is happening, and it doesn't

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Speaker 2: seem that the powers would be have got any real

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Speaker 2: answer as to how they're going to deal with it,

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Speaker 2: because everyone's walking around with these velvet gloves on, too

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Speaker 2: scared to touch them or do whatever has to be done.

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Speaker 2: And look, someone's going to get hurt.

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Speaker 1: Well someone did last week, you know, Like we said,

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Speaker 1: look at Gary haslt So we've already seen it happen,

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Speaker 1: and you know, and the thing is, if we've seen

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Speaker 1: it happen to him, what's to stop it happening to

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Speaker 1: somebody else.

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Speaker 2: Look, I mean it actually has been happening now we're

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Speaker 2: just hearing about it, that's right. Garry will agree that

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Speaker 2: that it's a shame that it takes a high profile

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Speaker 2: person likek and all of them, you know, for this

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Speaker 2: to happen to get on the front page. But I'm

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Speaker 2: sure if you talk to some under the left and

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Speaker 2: the right of you, they've all got the same story

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Speaker 2: of someone they know that this has happened to yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's not getting better setting ware.

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Speaker 1: No, Jace, I really appreciate your having a chat to

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Speaker 1: us this morning and giving us that perspective. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, and we'll talk to you again soon, anytime.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,