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Speaker 1: But the issue that a lot of people have been

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Speaker 1: that it moved from Stuart Park to Coconut Grove last year.

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Speaker 1: It was a move which concerned a number of locals

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Speaker 1: in anti social behavior. It was meant to be temporary

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Speaker 1: we learned that a development application has been laudged to

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Speaker 1: extend the current lease to September twenty twenty nine. Now

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Speaker 1: joining us on the line is a Coconut Grove business owner, Terrees.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you Therees.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie, Thanks.

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Speaker 1: So much for your time this morning. Terrese. What was

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Speaker 1: your reaction when you saw those pink signs go up

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Speaker 1: towards the end of the week last week.

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Speaker 2: Well, I shook my head and I thought, here we

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Speaker 2: go again. You're going on a merry go round, are

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Speaker 2: getting push from one side to the other, both labor

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Speaker 2: and liberal. I think you're letting us all down. Be

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Speaker 2: honest with you, When it opened last year, we pretty

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Speaker 2: much had trouble from then on. And I found a

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Speaker 2: lot of empty alcohol bottles in the street on dick

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Speaker 2: Wok Drive, and I took a photo and sent it

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Speaker 2: through to the events of the poll and so forth.

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Speaker 2: And his answer to me was, don't send me any

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Speaker 2: or emails thor here we go from then on, he said,

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Speaker 2: I We'll just get it all cleaned up. Osdenhouse said,

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Speaker 2: contact events that would make sure the streets to clean.

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Speaker 2: Then the violence started in the street prior to Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Of course, a lot of it did just come into town,

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Speaker 2: which is understandable because they get stuck out there in

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Speaker 2: the web season. So we had a huge influx of

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Speaker 2: the whole area, and up and down individual streets that

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Speaker 2: come off dick War Drive. We had lots of violence

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Speaker 2: in our street with card smash when those cars broken

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Speaker 2: into fighting on the road, blocking the traffic in the

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Speaker 2: and on and on. We're to ring the police so

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Speaker 2: many times. And I thought in some cases where I'd

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Speaker 2: have some screaming at my gate, I'd bring Laraki. One

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Speaker 2: night I rang their recreation. They said, oh, sorry, we've

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Speaker 2: only got one car tonight. It's at Palmerston. And I said,

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Speaker 2: I was just supposed to deal with these situations. Another

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Speaker 2: situation when I rang their recreation, they said, no, sorry,

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Speaker 2: wring the police, not our problem. And if you'd have

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Speaker 2: seen and read the initial proposal, all these people supposed

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So you reckon all those services that were

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Speaker 1: meant to be working together. They aren't.

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Speaker 2: No, they're not, they're not. I don't call anyone, says

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Speaker 2: I mean. We've got four neighbors in our street from

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Speaker 2: the park, sorry, from dick Wall Drive to the park,

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Speaker 2: which is a short distance. Four neighbors have put up

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Speaker 2: fencing and eltic gates. They've had to. And also Larichiean

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Speaker 2: Nation has done the same, put up all new fencing

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Speaker 2: and gates. I've lived in this street since nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: two and I've walked the dogs around this area all

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Speaker 2: the time, and Larochean Nation has never ever changed their fencing,

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Speaker 2: but all of a sudden they've done it. We've had

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Speaker 2: steel columns and roofing going all around the buildings, and

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Speaker 2: it's supposed to be temporary as far as the traffic goes.

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Speaker 2: You could if you put out a question to the

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Speaker 2: to put your brake some to car drive because they

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Speaker 2: You're in big trouble. You get charged, and the traffic

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Speaker 2: has banked up a lot, a lot. The other issue

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Speaker 2: we have is we had a meeting with Joshua Bergerlin

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Speaker 2: and Lourizio in the Park in February this year with

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: The DCA is obviously Joshua Burgoyne. So we feel that

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Speaker 2: don't get it, and I'm really disappointed listening to Leah

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Speaker 2: this morning, and no respected Leah because I admired her greatly.

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Speaker 2: But I did speak to her not long ago and

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Speaker 2: I said, well, what's happening. And then to hear this

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Speaker 2: go through I'm thinking, hang on, here we go again. Yeah. Everyone,

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Speaker 2: Everyone's had enough. Yeah, everyone's had enough. It's like they're

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Speaker 2: bouncing a basketball between the CRP and the Liberal Party.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Labor Party.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just bouncing back and forth, back and forth.

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Speaker 2: But no action, no action, nothing's happening.

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Speaker 1: And Territorians wanted sorted out. I mean, like this is

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Speaker 1: an issue over the weekend. Tories like, You're not the

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Speaker 1: people in the area. Other listeners have been in contact.

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Speaker 1: They're really quite concerned about this. We're going to catch

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Speaker 1: up with the Saint Vinis CEO role but butter a

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Speaker 1: little later this morning. But I mean, yeah, not to

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Speaker 1: it's temporary. It's only for a couple more years. What

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Speaker 1: positions that really can affect change.

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Speaker 2: Stop pushing one problem to another area. And that's all

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Speaker 2: they're doing. It's just moving one drama along the road

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Speaker 2: because of all the who are in Steel Park and

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Speaker 2: moving it down here and now we've got the same

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Speaker 2: problem they've having. What annoys me is that it's only

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Speaker 2: been operating for fourteen months. Excuse me, fourteen months, and

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Speaker 2: now they want to put us to do all the

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Speaker 2: submissions again by Friday, the twenty fourth of October, eleven

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Speaker 2: the twenty first of September twenty two six. I just

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Speaker 2: want to know what the hell is going on, yep,

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Speaker 2: and stop lying, stop making excuses and playing.

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Speaker 1: Games THERESE will try and stay on top of the issue.

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Speaker 1: Please keep in contact with me though, as well as

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Speaker 1: different you know, like as you as you get told

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Speaker 1: different things, you know. I want to try and help

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Speaker 1: you guys as best I can.

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Speaker 2: One thing i'd like you to ask, Yeah, please, we

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Speaker 2: next asking the question do the police support this in

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Speaker 2: coconut growth? It'd be interested, it'd be very interesting to

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Speaker 2: hear what he has to say. I'd like you to

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Speaker 2: do that if you don't mind.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yep, definitely. I don't know when we've got

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Speaker 1: him on next, but we'll definitely, we will will put

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Speaker 1: that question to the commissioner Therese. I really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: getting in contact with me and making sure that we're

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Speaker 1: aware of what's going on. Keep in contact and we'll

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Speaker 1: do our best to try and get some answers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you anytime. Thanks Teres