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Speaker 1: Let's get into it though, because joining me on the

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Speaker 1: line right now is just Enter Price. She is the

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Speaker 1: senator for the COLP. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Just inter Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: We're on our high horse about plenty of different things

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Speaker 1: around around the place this morning. But I tell you

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Speaker 1: what that vision that you've shared on your social media

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Speaker 1: and the message that you've got for the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: around crime in Alice Springs, it's something that we all

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Speaker 1: need to hear. What's going on in central Australia right now.

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Speaker 2: It just seems like absolute mayhem. And I don't know

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Speaker 2: if there's a correlation between the fact that alcohol is

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Speaker 2: just so readily available. I mean, for the first time

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Speaker 2: in a long time, I saw a group of group

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Speaker 2: of original mob walking past my house with the curtain

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Speaker 2: of VB and you know that used to be a

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Speaker 2: regular site before the restrictions came in, but now it's

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Speaker 2: sort of like open slaver and it's really distressing to

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Speaker 2: see that in the middle of the day we have

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Speaker 2: a situal where there's you know, a violent naked individual

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Speaker 2: jumping on top of a taxi and stomping in something

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Speaker 2: in the window. I mean, if that sort of thing

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Speaker 2: occurred in one of the capital cities, it would be

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Speaker 2: all over front pages. They'd be outrage. You know, they'd

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Speaker 2: be looking into who this individual was, what their background is,

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Speaker 2: why they've done this, you know, talking to people who

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Speaker 2: were witnesses. I mean, you know, kids walk out streets

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the day, and it is unsafe

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Speaker 2: even in the middle of the day when you've got

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Speaker 2: these sorts of things going on, and there just seems

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Speaker 2: to be no one. I don't believe that the police

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Speaker 2: media unit are actually telling us everything that's going on,

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Speaker 2: because I think there's a lot of issues that are

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Speaker 2: going under the radar that we don't know about because

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Speaker 2: we're hearing them, but we're hearing them from action from

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Speaker 2: Alice before the actual police media puts it out there.

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Speaker 2: So we don't know the full extent of exactly what's

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Speaker 2: going on, and we should know the full extent. And

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Speaker 2: it just feels like our police is so under resource

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Speaker 2: that they can't deal with the situation.

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Speaker 1: Just Cinter. I know you've spoken there about you know,

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Speaker 1: about this person who is jumping on the taxi. I'd

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Speaker 1: also seen some vision I believe that it was You've

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Speaker 1: had shared it over the course of the weekend of

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Speaker 1: a brawl inside one of the shopping centers in Alice

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Speaker 1: Springs that looked like teenage girls. Was that right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's right. And that's not an isolated scene.

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Speaker 2: You can go shopping on any given day and there'll

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Speaker 2: be brawls or there's you know, kids running a mark

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Speaker 2: and trying to smash things and that sort of thing,

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Speaker 2: and it's just consistent, it's ongoing. They're seemed like there's

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Speaker 2: no sort of no sort of reprieve from it, and

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Speaker 2: you know, locals are just absolutely done with it. They're

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Speaker 2: done with it, and it's really sad that we're seeing

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Speaker 2: longtime locals packing up and leaving because I just feel

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Speaker 2: like that's the only option that they're left with.

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Speaker 1: Now. You are calling on the Prime Minister Anthony Albinezi

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Speaker 1: to come to Alice Springs. You've even said, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe do it without the fanfare, just turn up and

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Speaker 1: see for yourself what it's like exactly.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, if he can put the effort

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Speaker 2: into attending to you know, places like Ukraine, you know,

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Speaker 2: to see what's going on the ground in terms of

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Speaker 2: the war that they're confronted with. While we're dealing with

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Speaker 2: day to day. It feels like a war zone in

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Speaker 2: some of our in our springs and some of our

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Speaker 2: remote communities. And yet there's no attention in his own backyard.

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Speaker 2: There's no way of going, well, how can we as

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Speaker 2: the federal government look at how we can support better

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Speaker 2: support people in these circumstances in his own country? And yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I would ask that it'd be done that absolutely

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Speaker 2: without the media, without the fanfare. You know, this is

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Speaker 2: one thing that as much as people like to bash

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Speaker 2: Tony Abbott on, he regularly when he was Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: made trips to remote communities to understand what was going

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Speaker 2: on on the ground without the media and without the

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Speaker 2: understanding of how he could support those communities. Well, that's

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Speaker 2: what Albo needs to do. He needs to step up.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, they're banging on about this idea

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Speaker 2: of voice and constitutional recognition that is doing nothing for

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Speaker 2: the circumstances that we're confronted with. Write this minute now.

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Speaker 1: Just sint to look. There's going to be people listening

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Speaker 1: this morning thinking well, the territory government provides the funding

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Speaker 1: and provides the legislation. When it comes to the issues

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Speaker 1: that we've got with crime, What will a visit from

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Speaker 1: Anthony Albanezi actually do. Why do you think it's so important?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's important because I'm sure he wouldn't

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Speaker 2: allow it to happen. If it was directly out the

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Speaker 2: front of his home, he'd be outraged and he'd want

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Speaker 2: something to be done about it. But because it's so

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Speaker 2: far out of sight, out of mind, it just feels

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Speaker 2: like there's a little action. And because now this idea

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Speaker 2: of an intervention has got such sigma around it, Well,

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Speaker 2: now we're reversing what the intervention was intended for, which

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Speaker 2: is which was to ease alcohol, to try and make

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Speaker 2: things a little bit safer for people and communities and children.

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Speaker 2: And if we're not getting the support we need from

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Speaker 2: this territory government, then who else are we supposed to

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Speaker 2: go to? The schedule is the next step? I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm getting phone calls now from distressed form of foster

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Speaker 2: carers who have got phone calls from the mothers who

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Speaker 2: are saying our kids have been taken back off me

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Speaker 2: again because I've been locked up? Can you have the kids?

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Speaker 2: And Territory Families has removed, removed those kids some time

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Speaker 2: ago and tried to put them back, reintroduce them to

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Speaker 2: their family, and now the kids are less in limbos.

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Speaker 2: And this is again the alcohol is flowing. So what

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Speaker 2: are the parents interested in. They're interested in alcohol, not

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Speaker 2: the well being of their own children, who are now

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Speaker 2: back in a system, but not with the foster parents

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Speaker 2: that were providing in the care and the supports they needed.

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Speaker 2: So these kids are being retraumatized and they're going to

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Speaker 2: be They're going to be the next bunch of kids

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Speaker 2: on the street.

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Speaker 1: It's like, honestly, it sounds like it is a mess

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Speaker 1: in Alice Springs at the mind. You know, I love

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Speaker 1: Alice Springs. I lived there when I was younger. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a fantastic place. But it sounds at the

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Speaker 1: moment like the community is just on their knees, really

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Speaker 1: calling for help. However they can get it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely on their knees. And you know what, we don't

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Speaker 2: need this. We don't need a bureaucracy shoved in our

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Speaker 2: constitution to tell you what's going on right in our

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Speaker 2: communities right this minute. This government each you know, our representatives,

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Speaker 2: you know, and I'm part of that. But everyone needs

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Speaker 2: to be needs to be saying and doing something about it.

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Speaker 2: It's like there's not enough outrage. It requires national outrage

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Speaker 2: for anything to any change to happen, and we're not

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Speaker 2: getting that because where the territory, we're out of sight,

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Speaker 2: we're out of mind, we're a final frontier. It's like

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Speaker 2: whatever goes and now we've got alcohol ruining our communities

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Speaker 2: and our people all over again.

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Speaker 1: Well, just enterprise. The Senator for the Northern Territory, the

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Speaker 1: COLP Senator for the Northern Territory. I appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: this morning. Can you let us know whether you hear

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Speaker 1: from Anthony Albanezi?

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Speaker 2: Oh sure, will I'll let you know.

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Speaker 1: Good on you. Thanks so much for your time this morning.