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Speaker 1: And we know that. Prominent Indigenous leader, Senator just Enter

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Speaker 1: Price has shared a shocking photograph of her injured grandmother

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Speaker 1: and pleaded for Australians to stop turning a blind eye

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Speaker 1: to violence within remote communities now. She said that the

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Speaker 1: brutal assault on her grandmother, who attended her swearing in ceremony,

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Speaker 1: resulted in the elderly woman's head being split open. She

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Speaker 1: shared the photograph of her grandma and I tell you

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Speaker 1: what it is. It's absolutely terrible and it's really very

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Speaker 1: sad to see. Just Enterprice joins me on the line

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Speaker 1: right now. Good morning to you, Senator.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me how did this assault unfold on

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Speaker 1: your grandma.

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Speaker 2: It's been a result of family feuding that's gone on

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Speaker 2: out of the community of Hindermoo. It seems to have

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Speaker 2: stepped up. The level of violence in Yindamoo has increased

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Speaker 2: recently and prior to this incident taking place, my grandmother

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Speaker 2: and aunts have called me because of their concern around

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Speaker 2: the threats of violence being made on them and they

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Speaker 2: feel unsafe. They don't feel like there's enough of a

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Speaker 2: police presence in the community or that they can call

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Speaker 2: on police. Immediately enough to deal with these problems. And

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Speaker 2: as a result, my grandmother was attacked. She's had to

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Speaker 2: receive five stitches in her head because of this attack.

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Speaker 2: And she's a seventy eight year old woman. You know,

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Speaker 2: no woman at that age should be living with this

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Speaker 2: sort of threat on their life all the time.

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Speaker 1: How is she going now following on from that assault.

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Speaker 2: Well, she's out of the hospital. She's you know, obviously

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Speaker 2: taking it very easy and staying at home. There's always

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Speaker 2: sort of the threat, the possibility of the threat flaring

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Speaker 2: up again. My nieces, so my cousin's sons are also

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Speaker 2: who are quite young for six years old, have been

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Speaker 2: threatened with violence as well, threatened to be stabbed. Like

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Speaker 2: you know, if no child should have this kind of

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Speaker 2: threat around them, you shouldn't have to feel for the safety,

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Speaker 2: you know, feel worried for the safety of your own children.

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Speaker 2: But this is what goes on at a place like Hindmo.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not just Demo. We've seen outbreak of

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Speaker 2: violence up in whatever. And to think that in Australia

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, that there's this level of threat

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Speaker 2: going on in any sort of community in this country,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's just it's appalling and it shouldn't be happening.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's absolutely mortifying. And you know, then we've got

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Speaker 1: a situation obviously today where the federal governments say that

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Speaker 1: they're going to be releasing an updated plan which aims

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Speaker 1: to end violence against women and children within ten years.

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Speaker 1: They say that this plan had input from the states

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Speaker 1: and territory, survivors and organizations who help victims deal with

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Speaker 1: the aftermath. Senator, how far do you think a plan

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Speaker 1: like this will go in a community like you and

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Speaker 1: demou for example, Well, I think.

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Speaker 2: Any plan has to actually recognize where the violence comes from.

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Speaker 2: And I think in a lot for a lot of organizations,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people have political correctness sort of you know,

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Speaker 2: that any sort of level of you know, culture actually

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Speaker 2: in communities. Certainly, paybacks, the way that paybacks are you know,

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Speaker 2: you don't have that it's just not going to stop

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Speaker 2: and when you and in the meantime, there needs to

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Speaker 2: be more of a police presence in these communities. And

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Speaker 2: what really disappoints me is the fact that there are

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Speaker 2: leaders in the community of Yindamu who call for no

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Speaker 2: more guns, but then they don't call for no more

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Speaker 2: the community led violence between community members, instead focusing their

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Speaker 2: efforts on attacking our police, who we actually need more

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Speaker 2: of because there's people in those communities who are unsafe.

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Speaker 1: J Just sin do you've shared the photos of your

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Speaker 1: grandma on social media? Honestly they make me feel really sad,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I can't imagine how you feel. Obviously

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Speaker 1: What are you hoping is going to come from sharing

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Speaker 2: Well you until all Australians get up their backsides and

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Speaker 2: demand change, and if they're a demand better for you know,

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Speaker 2: sorts of change that need to take close because it

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Speaker 2: needs to be a whole entire response from everybody, you know,

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Speaker 2: the same way that people get up in arms about

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Speaker 2: climate change or Black Lives Matter. But seriously, this is

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And certainly community members also need to take responsibility because

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Speaker 2: such time as community members take responsibility, it will continue.

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Speaker 2: But and you know our police, then something needs to

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Speaker 2: Whether it's a royal commission into what the hell is

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Speaker 1: And so do you feel as though there is not

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Speaker 2: Now? Look, I think it's the circumstances quite across the board,

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Speaker 2: not just in Yndmu. Obviously, you know there are women

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Speaker 2: in the community of what who feel like they're unsafe

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Speaker 2: because you know, when they call for police, they're not

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Speaker 2: that's the difference between life and death.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I think communities, even prior to what's going on at

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Speaker 2: relationships with some police, sort of long term situations. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's an ongoing issue that needs to be addressed immediately.

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Speaker 1: Senator, How are things going from your perspective as well

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Speaker 1: in Alice Springs Right now? We are certainly hearing word

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Speaker 1: this morning that well that a senior business person has

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Speaker 1: How are things going from your perspective?

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Speaker 2: Situation is not getting any better at all. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, daily we're hearing reports of this going on.

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Speaker 2: You know, no one should feel afraid to run their

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Speaker 2: And I hear from business people that quite often they

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Speaker 2: won't be in their shop without another person after four

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Speaker 2: o'clock because that's when you know, young kids are terrorizing

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Speaker 2: you know, eleven year old gang of eleven year old

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Speaker 2: or defend themselves against these kids, they're the ones that

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Speaker 2: will end up being charged. And you know, this is

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Speaker 2: the situation we're confronted with. At some point, the community

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Speaker 2: have that either.

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Speaker 1: No, that's exactly right. I just enterprise the Senator for

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory. I always appreciate your time. Please pass

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Speaker 1: on our love and best wishes to your grandmother. I

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Speaker 1: really hope that she recovers quickly. And I've got to

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Speaker 1: tell you, I think that everybody listening this morning, if

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Speaker 1: they've seen those photos, must have been all. I certainly

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Speaker 1: felt mortified you know that she was in that situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, thanks, thanks Katie. I will pass that on

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Speaker 2: and yeah, I'll demanding for change. We all need to.

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Speaker 1: Please keep in contact with us, just sintil. We appreciate

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Speaker 2: Well do thank you, thank you,