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Speaker 1: Well, you've heard from our next guest on a few occasions, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: because she's been targeted by crime a number of times.

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Speaker 1: In Catherine and Willow Blue boutique owner bec Beaumont joins

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Speaker 1: me on the line. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Beck, Good morning, Katie. How are you?

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Speaker 1: You're really good? Thank you for your time this morning. Now, Beck,

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Speaker 1: you'd messaged just yesterday to say that again you'd been

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Speaker 1: the victim of another incident, this time Saturday.

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Speaker 2: What happened, Yes, So Saturday morning, I got notified from

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Speaker 2: my landlord that we had another broken window, and I

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Speaker 2: went back through my cameras, starting, you know, from like

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Speaker 2: night before, because most of my issues have been at night,

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Speaker 2: but this one was actually at six twenty in the morning.

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Speaker 2: And basically it was an older an older guy teenager

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Speaker 2: two young kids. They've whacked the window with something and

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Speaker 2: then the old guy has just kept kicking the window.

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Speaker 2: He got his foot jammed in in the window in

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Speaker 2: kicked is where my Christmas tree is for my you know,

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Speaker 2: just making the window display nice. And then he tried

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Speaker 2: But it didn't stop there. He literally just kept coming

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Speaker 2: back and ended up kicking it about five times. And

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Speaker 2: it was at sit yeah, six twenty in the morning,

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Speaker 2: broad daylight. Excuse me. Cars driving passed like they didn't.

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Speaker 2: They didn't really care about it.

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Speaker 1: It's just senseless, like it's absolutely senseless behavior.

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Speaker 2: It is it is. They didn't steal anything. They literally

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Speaker 2: just broke the window. And then I, you know, had

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Speaker 2: I was driving out of Maca's drive through with my coffee,

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Speaker 2: there's two kids sitting at the courthouse and I was like,

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Speaker 2: that I've seen in the video. So I actually went

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Speaker 2: Them me if they were the ones that you knew

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Speaker 2: and I showed him the photo and then he just

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Speaker 2: spilt the beans. Oh, we had a shifter and we

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Speaker 2: making us do it, and he got arrested and he

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Speaker 2: which they did eventually give me. You know, I said,

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Speaker 2: what are you doing with those? No, we just found them.

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Speaker 2: I said, well where are you where are you going to?

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Speaker 2: What are you doing with that? And they said, oh,

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Speaker 2: we're going to give it to an adult. I said,

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Speaker 2: all right, well I'm an adult, so I'll take them,

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Speaker 2: which I did hand over to the police when they

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Speaker 1: It's not on. And you know, like, honestly, how many

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Speaker 1: really you know, you do want, you do want some

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Speaker 1: answers from the Northern Territory government. You've had to make

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Speaker 1: what the Northern Territory government is doing to support your business.

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Speaker 1: And I know other business owners are wondering the same.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's actually this is now my fourth window, and

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Speaker 2: it's literally within a nine month period. Right, My first

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Speaker 2: government will pay one thousand dollars to go towards broken windows,

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Speaker 2: you can only claim that three times within twelve months.

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Speaker 2: Natasha Filas did come to Catherine. I spoke to her

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Speaker 1: The thing is, if the government's not going to stop

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Speaker 1: So you've actually had four of these window breaks since

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Speaker 2: Months correct, Yes, so this is the fourth one. So

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Speaker 2: the first one was because there was a domestic violence

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Speaker 2: they were having a huge, big blue out the front

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Speaker 2: The next one was because kids broke into my shop.

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Speaker 2: And these are all kids from outlying communities. They're not

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Speaker 2: hell sure a shit, they're not. But all the issues

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Speaker 2: the ATMs got done, Carrie got done. And now this

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Speaker 2: one so again on Saturday or Friday night, Saturday morning,

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Speaker 2: Red Rooster's window got smashed, dollars and cents got done.

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Speaker 2: There was a window at Woolworst that got done. There

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Speaker 1: And so Beck, what you want the Northern Territory government

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Speaker 1: you're going to need to change. You're going to need

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Speaker 1: you're only allowed those three three claims in twelve months

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Speaker 1: because unfortunately, most businesses at this point are getting broken

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Speaker 2: More often than that. That's correct, Jody, how many times

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Speaker 2: Like it's just beyond an actual joke we need. My

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Speaker 2: a racist, do whatever as he likes to do. But

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Speaker 2: the issue is that the people that are coming into

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Speaker 2: like that, it's just getting beyond a joke. Like so

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Speaker 2: Why if they don't have a address, if they don't

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Speaker 2: it really isn't. I've got a lot of Indigenous customers

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Speaker 2: fact that so many businesses are getting targeted. Retail business

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Speaker 2: And continually we're having to sit here and where the

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Speaker 2: These kids are from Miniering and the parents aren't even

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Speaker 2: go find whatever, do whatever you want to do, it's

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Speaker 2: a free for all, I'm sure someone will just start

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Speaker 2: pulled over the ringer because of it. Well, why is

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Speaker 2: this not actually happening? These the systems, so many of

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Speaker 2: these kids down like nine years old. I actually really

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Speaker 1: Like the same here. It should not be happening. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not acceptable. It is not acceptable. Beck, we are

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Speaker 1: Do you think the Northern Territory government needs to increase

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, I mean you know, you can see the

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Speaker 2: like in this instance, they're not even breaking in. They're

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Speaker 2: literally doing it for shits and giggles. Yeah, they don't

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Speaker 2: care that it is daylight. They did not care that

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Speaker 1: Beg.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my concern with the respect. They don't respect anybody.

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Speaker 2: They don't respect their community. They don't respect their own community. Elders,

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Speaker 2: they sure as hell don't respect me. They don't respect you.

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Speaker 2: They don't respect anybody. And that's where it's just getting

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Speaker 2: beyond the joke, like something needs to be done with

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yes, it is not good enough. It's not

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Speaker 1: getting better. It's not good enough. Beck, I'm really sorry.

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Speaker 1: We are going to have to leave it there. I

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Speaker 1: really appreciate you talking to me this morning. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for your time throughout the year as well.

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Speaker 1: And let us see what we can, what we can

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Speaker 1: I really hope at some point, Beck, thank

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Speaker 2: You, no worries, Thanks Katie, thank you