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Speaker 1: Firstly, we know that on the agenda this morning for

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Speaker 1: the government is certainly this legislation around police officers being

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Speaker 1: assaulted and other frontline workers. What exactly is the change

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Speaker 1: to this legislation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, really important legislation amendments to the Criminal Code

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Speaker 2: which we'll make spitting an aggravating factor. So this means

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Speaker 2: that judges can consider it as a more serious offense

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Speaker 2: that carries higher penalties when they are considering before the court.

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Speaker 2: Because again, we absolutely value our frontline workers and we

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Speaker 2: need to make sure that when they are met out

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Speaker 2: there talking to people on the ground and looking to

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Speaker 2: protect the most vulnerable people, they are given that assurance

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Speaker 2: that they can do their jobs without being victim.

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Speaker 1: The opposition leader was just on the show. She reckons

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Speaker 1: that the reality is, you know it's someone that a

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Speaker 1: judge isn't going to convict someone for ten years for

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Speaker 1: spitting on someone and the should have been different so

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Speaker 1: that it made it a defense or you know that

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Speaker 1: there was time served for the first time round, no

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Speaker 1: matter you know what your history was, I mean, why

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Speaker 1: did you go down this path instead?

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Speaker 2: Look, as a government, we absolutely value the role of

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Speaker 2: our judiciary and the role that judges play and this

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Speaker 2: is about giving them a tool chest with measures in

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Speaker 2: that test to utilize when they are looking at sentencing.

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Speaker 2: The leader of the Opposition is not a judge, will

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Speaker 2: leave that for the judges to make that determination when

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Speaker 2: they're considering on a case by case basis.

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Speaker 1: Chancy.

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Speaker 2: We know.

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Speaker 1: One of the other things that's on the agenda this

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Speaker 1: week is indeed the Opposition hoping to bring forward a

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Speaker 1: motion which would see a Select committee into the concerns

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Speaker 1: that we've got right now within the police force, so

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Speaker 1: not into crime, but into the police force and certainly

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Speaker 1: the issues that we're seeing with attrition and morale. Is

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Speaker 1: this something that the government is going to knock back?

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Speaker 2: Look, Katie, the Government will consider things when they're brought

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Speaker 2: into Parliament. That matter hasn't formally been brought in to

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Speaker 2: Parliament and discussed yet, but obviously Minister Warden, Minister the Police,

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Speaker 2: Fire and Emergency Services is doing a great job in

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Speaker 2: the areas of reform when it comes to Police, Fire

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Speaker 2: and Emergency Services. We'll wait to see if that comes

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Speaker 2: on this week. The CELP have a good track record

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Speaker 2: of saying they're going to do stuff and delivering buggerall

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Speaker 2: we saw that with the fuel bill, so maybe they'll

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Speaker 2: discuss that this week as well.

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Speaker 1: I mean you must be concerned though, as a government minister,

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Speaker 1: particularly one based out of Central Australia, to see those

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Speaker 1: recent results from the police survey and the morale within

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory Police Force at the levels that it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, surely a look into this is a common

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Speaker 1: sense thing to do thirty days, you know, to have

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Speaker 1: a select committee look into it. We've done it before

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Speaker 1: with things like fas D to the former Speaker and

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Speaker 1: a Member of the Legislative Assembly Keisierpuric, who we spoke

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Speaker 1: to yesterday, So surely this would be a good thing

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Speaker 1: to look into, given the concerns not only from the

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Speaker 1: rank and file but with the community.

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Speaker 2: Look Katie again, if the CLP do decide to bring

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Speaker 2: this to Parliament this week to talk about the establishment

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Speaker 2: of a committee, certainly our elevant portfolio ministers will have

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to speak in Parliament about it and step

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Speaker 2: that through. But this can't just be a political witch

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Speaker 2: hunt for political points for the CLP. It's got to

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Speaker 2: actually be about working through those issues and issues. I

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Speaker 2: know firsthand that the Minister for Police buyer and emergency services.

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Speaker 2: Mister Warden is absolutely doing the heavy areas of work

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Speaker 2: in those police portfolios right now.

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Speaker 1: Now, Look, I know it's not your portfolio, so I

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Speaker 1: will leave that aspect of things there. We are going

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Speaker 1: to be catching up with the Police Minister as I

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Speaker 1: understand it, tomorrow morning, so I'll put some of those

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Speaker 1: questions to her. But Minister, what else is on the

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Speaker 1: agenda for the government this week?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Katie. Look, we've also got this morning coming

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Speaker 2: up the Animal Protection Bill that's again to increase certainty

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Speaker 2: to the fishing industry and stakeholders looking at streamlining that area.

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Speaker 2: We've got introductions this week of the Monitoring of Places

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Speaker 2: of Detention also known as the OPCAT Bill being introduced,

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Speaker 2: and that's about providing an establishment of oversight for places

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Speaker 2: of detentions and that's in line with aspects of the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory's Royal Commission into the Tension of Children in

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Speaker 2: the Territory. Katie. We've also got the swearing in this

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Speaker 2: morning of our newest member of the Territory Labour Team

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Speaker 2: and the new member for Fanny Day. So certainly lots

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Speaker 2: on this week for discussion for debate and certainly we'll

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Speaker 2: see question Time being a fiery debate as it always.

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Speaker 1: In sure it will be well Leader of Government Business

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Speaker 1: Chatsey Paik. We are going to leave it there for

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Speaker 1: this morning. I appreciate your time and no doubt we'll

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Speaker 1: talk again.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, no, look, no worried, Katie. Thanks for the time.

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Speaker 2: And I also just think it is certainly a good

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Speaker 2: opportunity for the opposition leader to come out and denounce

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Speaker 2: the Proud Boys because the territory has no place and

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Speaker 2: there's nothing to be proud about any relationship with them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now, just on that. So obviously we did just

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Speaker 1: ask the opposition leader about it, and you know, she'd

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Speaker 1: sort of said that she gets photographs taken with all

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Speaker 1: sorts of people all the time. You know, what exactly

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Speaker 1: is the accusation here from your perspective.

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Speaker 2: Look, I think it's an important issue to discuss and

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Speaker 2: we absolutely need the leader of the opposition to come

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Speaker 2: out and apologize to territorians and to denounce the Proud

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Speaker 2: Boys in any relationship that the CLP have with them.

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Speaker 2: Getting a photo with someone who is a supporter of

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Speaker 2: the Proud Boy's movement, who holds the flag and does

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Speaker 2: the hand signals is absolutely appalling and we need to

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Speaker 2: be saying that that behavior is certainly not tolerated in

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Speaker 2: the territory. We've noted that there are photos of this

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Speaker 2: particular individual at anti Vaxx rallies, he's had photos with

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Speaker 2: the leader of the opposition, and we understand that he's

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Speaker 2: had photos that the CLP function for the Funny Bay

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Speaker 2: by election. So certainly this is something that people need

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Speaker 2: the assurance of that there is no room for this disgusting, bigoted,

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Speaker 2: vicious attitudes towards people, and we need to make sure

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Speaker 2: that no leader in the territory is allowing that behavior

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Speaker 2: to continue.

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Speaker 1: Chancey, is this just mudslinging by the government here, I

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Speaker 1: mean it is true. I'm sure that you've even had

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Speaker 1: photos with people at different times, and you know you've

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Speaker 1: not done a criminal history check on them, as Leafinocchio

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Speaker 1: said just before, Oh look, Katie.

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Speaker 2: I think that when you you have a public photo

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Speaker 2: of going around with an individual holding up the Proud

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Speaker 2: Boy's hand signal with a shirt on and the flag

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Speaker 2: at Anti Vaxx vllys Turk is small enough that people

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Speaker 2: know people and people could say to people, look, don't

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Speaker 2: we advise you to not be too connect the closely

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Speaker 2: to this individual. So look, if that is the case,

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Speaker 2: then it would just be a simple matter for the

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Speaker 2: leader of the opposition to come out apologize and say

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Speaker 2: she doesn't support that behavior and she doesn't support that

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Speaker 2: particular movement. You know, we were out at Calgarinji over

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Speaker 2: the weekend and the leader of the Opposition was there

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Speaker 2: standing with First Nations people saying that they value them

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Speaker 2: and that they value the contributions that the Aboriginal Landlight

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Speaker 2: that had made. And then it emerges that only a

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Speaker 2: few weeks beforehand, she was proudly standing next to getting

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Speaker 2: a photograph of the proud boy.

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Speaker 1: Look, somebody has just messaged through and said is the

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Speaker 1: government going to condemn the situation that is on the

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Speaker 1: front page of the paper today where there is a

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Speaker 1: former labor staffer obviously accused of some pretty serious accusations.

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Speaker 2: Look, that matter is before the courts, and of course

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Speaker 2: the Teritory Labor government does not support any behavior that

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Speaker 2: absolutely is discriminatory, that is vicious, that is bigoted, and

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Speaker 2: that puts people in harm's way, and we will absolutely

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Speaker 2: call out behavior where it is unacceptable and that's what

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Speaker 2: we're asking the leader of the opposition to stand up

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Speaker 2: and do well.

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Speaker 1: Chancey Paig, the Attorney General, but also the leader of

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Speaker 1: Government Business. I appreciate your time this morning. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: speaking with

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Speaker 2: Us, mate, Thank you, you two