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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie wolf On mixed one oh four

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Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main Darwin. Now, we have

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Speaker 1: absolutely done our best not to name any names in

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, what we're trying to do

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Speaker 1: here is get to the bottom of exactly what's gone on,

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Speaker 1: to make sure that the people that represent us here

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Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory are well engaged in activities and

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Speaker 1: not engaged in anything illegal. To talk more about it

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Speaker 1: right now is the opposition leader Leah Fanocchiaro.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Leah, Good morning Kaden to your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, I'm sorry we had to push your regular spot

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Speaker 1: was very important that we caught up with the woman

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Speaker 1: at the center of the alleged cocaine and sex scandal.

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Speaker 1: She says that no MLA has been involved in the

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Speaker 1: use of cocaine. Does that mean that there's really nothing

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Speaker 1: more to see here, Leah?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think what this has shown is that the

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Speaker 2: Chief Minister must conduct an investigation. It has been four

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Speaker 2: days since the news broken the newspaper. Since the allegations

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Speaker 2: were put in the newspaper, and the Chief Minister has

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Speaker 2: not denied them nor investigated them. Yesterday in Parliament, I

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Speaker 2: clearly asked him to deny that it involved a member

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Speaker 2: involved in the labor cocaine sex scandal. He did not

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Speaker 2: deny it. Katie I then asked him what had he

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Speaker 2: done to investigate it, and he essentially responded by saying, well,

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Speaker 2: you prove it or I'm going to do nothing about it.

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Speaker 2: And Katie, that is a cover up. An investigation by

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Speaker 2: the Chief Minister would reveal if it's true or not.

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Speaker 2: No investigation, no denial equals a cover up, plain and simple.

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Speaker 1: But Lea, this woman says that that the MLA did

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Speaker 1: not use an illicit substance and that the police have

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Speaker 1: there's there's nothing to suggest the use from an MLA

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Speaker 1: of an illicit substance. So I mean, what else do

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Speaker 1: at whether morally something wrong has happened?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure, Katie, what the biggest scandal is.

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Speaker 2: Is it the sex and drug allegations or is it

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Speaker 2: the Chief Minister's cover up. Any employer, manager, CEO, a

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Speaker 2: board faces serious sex and drug allegations about their own

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Speaker 2: organization has an obligation to investigator. And I want to

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Speaker 2: just make a little quote from the Australian Institute of

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Speaker 2: Company Directors and they say, and I quote, the board

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Speaker 2: plays an important role in this, particularly driving a culture

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Speaker 2: of reporting and not turning a blind eye. Bad news

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Speaker 2: should travel quickly and easily through the appropriate parts of

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Speaker 2: organizations so that it can be responded to at the

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Speaker 2: earliest opportunity. If this happened in any other office, it

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Speaker 2: would not be tolerated that the boss turns a blind eye.

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Speaker 2: What message is the Chief Minister's sending to vulnerable employees.

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Speaker 2: This is the worst kind of corporate cover up. I

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Speaker 2: mean the newspaper is reporting it is a fifth fourth

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Speaker 2: staffer that's caught up in this scandal. We've heard that

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Speaker 2: a woman has come forward. We now know that there

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Speaker 2: is an MLA who is married with children involved in

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Speaker 2: a relationship. The Chief Minister has to front up and

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Speaker 2: investigate this. He cannot hide This is a fundamental breach

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Speaker 2: of community standard. And if he doesn't address this scandal,

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Speaker 2: that implicates his staff and other male members of Parliament,

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Speaker 2: his colleagues. Then his legacy will be crime, cocaine and

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Speaker 2: cover up.

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Speaker 1: But lea, if an MLA has not used an illicit substance,

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Speaker 1: that's what this woman has seen. And if we're then

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Speaker 2: Well, what I know, Katie is for four days the

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Speaker 2: media have been reporting about a labor cocaine in sex scandal,

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Speaker 2: and that in and of itself requires explanation. I came

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Speaker 2: It doesn't pass any community standard, it doesn't pass the

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Speaker 2: pub deak. It's not acceptable and unfortunately it's the Chief

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Speaker 2: or serious allegations, he must be forced to investigate it

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Speaker 1: So you obviously were not satisfied with the response regarding

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Speaker 2: Well, we didn't receive any satisfactory response from the Chief Ministry.

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Speaker 1: But I mean during that interview this morning, you obviously

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Speaker 2: Look, you know, I'm not here to comment or interrogate

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Speaker 2: the woman who's made her comments. But what is clear

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Speaker 2: is that there are now more questions than there are answers.

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Speaker 2: We have a chief Minister in hiding. We have serious

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is the worst kind of corporate corruption

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Speaker 2: he doesn't investigator. And by simply covering his hands over

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Speaker 2: this is not good enough. People expect form now, any organization,

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Speaker 2: anybody working right now listening will know that if a

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Speaker 2: be investigated and this just doesn't pass the pub test.

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Speaker 1: Leah, just taking a step back. Obviously, when the COLP

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Speaker 1: there was a fairly salacious scandal which involves in MLA

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Speaker 1: at the time. We don't need to go back into

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Speaker 1: the details of it. I think that that person's already

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Speaker 1: lived through it. But we all know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: You know that involved. Really what many would say is,

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Speaker 1: I guess, you know, improper conduct you might call it

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Speaker 1: from an MLA. If we now have a situation where

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Speaker 1: we do indeed have an MLA who and I don't

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Speaker 1: now have an MLA who's involved in extra marital affairs,

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Speaker 1: I mean, is that anyone's business.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me quote to you from what Michael Gunner,

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Speaker 2: He said that was a fundamental breach of community standard.

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Speaker 2: He said, the behavior is an unforgivable breach of parliamentary

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Speaker 2: standards and he should resign immediately and not take his

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Speaker 2: seat in parliament. So you know, I'll let territorians be

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Speaker 2: the judge. But this does not stack up. The Chief

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Speaker 2: Minister has many questions to answer. He cannot not investigate

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Speaker 2: any longer. This is a test of his leadership. It

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Speaker 2: has questioned the integrity of himself, of his entire team.

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Speaker 2: You now have every male member of the parliamentary Labor

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Speaker 2: cannot walk into Parliament today with this cloud over the

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Speaker 2: Labor government.

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Speaker 1: Lea. I've just received a message from one of our

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Speaker 1: listeners that says, hey, Katie, if an MLA is having

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Speaker 1: an affair, who cares. That's his private life, not ours.

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Speaker 1: If drugs are involved, sure, but Leah has nothing to

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Speaker 1: stand on because, let's face it, gonna won't do anything.

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Speaker 2: Well, Michael Gunner has to do something and we're never

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Speaker 2: going to know the truth about the sex cocaine scandal.

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Speaker 2: If the Chief Minister doesn't take leadership and investigate this matter.

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Speaker 2: He has an obligation not only to territories, but to

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Speaker 2: his staff, to his parliamentary team, and it is unacceptable

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Speaker 2: to turn a blind eye to allegations of this serious nature.

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Speaker 1: All right lea fanokiiro. We will leave it there for now.

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Speaker 1: I know that there's plenty of other things happening in

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Speaker 1: Parliament today, but we will leave it there for now.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Take care,