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Speaker 1: Now joining us on the line right now is Robin Lamley,

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Speaker 1: the Independent member for Ara lun Good morning to you, Robin.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. Good news about COVID, well good news.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no new cases.

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Speaker 1: So let's hope that you know, as we as we

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Speaker 1: sort of hear from the Chief Minister more extensively at

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Speaker 1: that press conference, that we can find out and get

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Speaker 1: a bit more detail about all of those close contacts

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Speaker 1: and all of those casual contacts as well. Whether they've

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Speaker 1: all been tested now so to Time will tell, Robin.

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Speaker 1: But I want to talk to you about a situation

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Speaker 1: that unfolded yesterday and Alice Springs.

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Speaker 3: I understand that.

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Speaker 1: You know that there was apparently a vehicle that was

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Speaker 1: driving through what is a pretty busy car park there

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Speaker 1: actually hit other people as well?

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Speaker 2: They didn't. The car that was driven didn't hit a

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Speaker 2: human being that had hit multiple vehicles allegedly. I'm in

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Speaker 2: lockdown in Darwin. Wasn't there, but I've heard from many

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Speaker 2: sources that it was just horrific. There were people flying everywhere,

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Speaker 2: people screaming and yelling, the sound of metal crushing screeching ties.

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Speaker 2: This was an outrageous, horrific incident that occurred twenty four

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Speaker 2: hours ago in the Coles Car Park in Ala Springs.

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Speaker 2: They then went on into other streets of the CBD

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Speaker 2: and I think allegedly ran into other vehicles. But this

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Speaker 2: was absolutely horrific what took place yesterday in Alice Springs.

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Speaker 2: Someone was hurt, they got tin between cars because of

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Speaker 2: that car ranning into another car. A lady, a lady

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Speaker 2: in her sixty she was hospitalized. I understand she's okay,

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Speaker 2: but people could have been killed, Katie. It was like

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Speaker 2: several years ago in when people died. That's what happened

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Speaker 2: in Alice Springs yesterday, twenty four hours ago. And we've

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Speaker 2: heard absolutely nothing from the Chief Minister or any other minister,

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Speaker 2: nor the police commissioner. I'm just beside myself, Katie. This

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Rob and I see that now, just I think.

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Speaker 1: In the last ten minutes, the Northern Territory Police have

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Speaker 1: issued a press release saying that they've charged a man

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Speaker 1: in relation to a number of dangerous driving incidents in

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Speaker 1: Alice Springs.

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Speaker 3: Yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So a nineteen year old was allegedly driving around Alice Springs,

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Speaker 1: a supermarket car park, as we've now discussed, pushing it

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Speaker 1: minor injuries. He then continued to drive erradically, colliding with

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Speaker 1: a number of vehicles as you've described. His vehicle broke down,

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Speaker 1: apparently on Palm Circuit, where he was arrested by police.

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Speaker 1: He underwent a breath analysis, providing a high range reading

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Speaker 3: Nine to eight percent.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: He's been charged now with a number of offenses, two

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Speaker 1: recklessly endangering serious harm, one of high range brec one

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Speaker 1: of driving a vehicle in a manner dangerous, as well

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Speaker 1: as entering an intersection with against a red light, and

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Speaker 2: Robin.

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Speaker 3: It sounds quite terrifying. Actually what unfolded.

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Speaker 2: People were terrifying, Katie. People were screaming, telling people to

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Speaker 2: was like a scene out of a terror incident. It

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Speaker 2: was a terror incident. It was terrifying, and we've heard

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Speaker 2: nothing from the government, nothing from anyone in a leadership position.

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Speaker 2: It's like it didn't even happen. If you don't talk

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Speaker 2: What more can I do as a local member of

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Speaker 2: Parliament to make this government respond to what's happening in

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Speaker 2: Alice Springs. They are not easy fixes. We hear these

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Speaker 2: motherhood statements in Parliament telling us how difficult it is

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Speaker 2: really beggars belief. It should be it should have been

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Speaker 2: police have just put out. We are the Paul Cousins

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Speaker 2: a classic example, Robin.

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Speaker 1: I know this morning you have now written to the

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Speaker 1: the Chief Minister in this letter?

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Speaker 2: Very simply, we need help. We need them to take

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Speaker 2: a deeper look into the problems in central Australia. I

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Speaker 2: mean there was a man was killed less than two

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Speaker 2: weeks ago on the rough Highway near where these young

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Speaker 2: people were picked up. Yesterday the culprits. Yesterday a man

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Speaker 2: an alleged hit and run. Less than two weeks later,

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Speaker 2: we're talking about the most horrific scene you could probably

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Speaker 2: simply asking for the Chief Minister, the Minister for Police

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Speaker 2: at what's going on here. We can't have this so

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Speaker 2: of inaction that we're seeing at the moment. The police

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Speaker 2: was a crime scene. There were cars littered everywhere that

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Speaker 2: was smashed into. They did a good job, but we

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Speaker 2: need leadership. We need a whole of government, whole of

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Speaker 2: community response to what's happening in Alice Springs. Otherwise people

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Speaker 2: poor woman who was made or hurt yesterday. I saw

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Speaker 2: a post online she said, I've lived in town for

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Speaker 2: more than thirty years. I've grown my children up here.

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Speaker 2: I'm at my witsand that's it.

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Speaker 3: Robin, you sound absolutely exasperated.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is probably one of the worst situations I've

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Speaker 2: been multiple people killed yesterday, Katie. It's so serious, and

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Speaker 2: yet no one has even bothered to address the community

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Speaker 2: of Alice Springs. Yeah. I haven't met my wit Jen,

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Speaker 2: and honestly, what can I do. I've gone on Katie

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Speaker 2: Wolf's program to beg for some attention.

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Speaker 3: Well, Robin, I tell you what you know?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, honestly, as you know, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: always want to make sure that Alice Springs is not forgotten.

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Speaker 1: We are a whole northern territory. We're not just a Darwin.

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Speaker 1: You know, we cannot forget about our friends in.

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Speaker 2: Ourice thank you. But if this happened in the Nightcliff

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, you are and you're right, you know,

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Speaker 3: We didn't see it, so we didn't know that it happened.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: For me, I'm heavily reliant on people like you telling

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Speaker 3: But to me, I just think this is mortifying.

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Speaker 1: You know what if you're at the shops, you know,

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Speaker 3: You know, it does make you wonder how, Peter you.

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Speaker 2: Are feeling safe? Yeah, you think you're safe. Obviously, we

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Speaker 2: cannot shop during the day or night safely in Alice

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Speaker 2: We all do. We've got the choice of two supermarkets

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Speaker 2: such a serious incident that unfolded yesterday. I just hope

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Speaker 2: that the Chief Minister can drag himself away from what

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Speaker 2: is very important work with this lockdown, this COVID crisis

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Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty fair call and a fair

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Speaker 1: thing that you're asking there, Robin. You still are you

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Speaker 1: stuck in Darwin at the moment, Robin, Because if you are,

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Speaker 1: we'll get you back on for the week that was.

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Speaker 3: If you're still here on Friday.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm hoping I won't be on Friday, Katie. Hopefully

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Speaker 2: the lockdown will be living. We'll live tomorrow, if not

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Speaker 2: earlier possibly, And I'm on the first plane home. Can't

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Speaker 2: you get home? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: To your electorate and you were, yeah, you were anticipating

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Speaker 1: that Parliament was going to sit this week. We don't

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Speaker 1: being rescheduled. Do you think that these days need to

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Speaker 2: Well, they should be, but they won't be this time

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Speaker 2: last year or early in twenty twenty when we had

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Speaker 2: that was it. There's no reason why we couldn't have

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Speaker 2: sat this week, really, Katie, I mean that the federal

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Speaker 2: a major crime. But we could have socially distanced, had masked.

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Speaker 2: Parlaman House is a big complex. We could have done

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Speaker 2: it very, very safely. I think this is all a

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Speaker 2: Once again, I agree with the opposition leader Leah. I

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Speaker 1: Well, Robin Lamley, we always appreciate your time. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for letting us know what's going on in

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie.

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Speaker 3: Thank you