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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now, as I discussed throughout the week, that was this morning.
At about two pm. Earlier this week, an eighty five
year old woman, a mom, a grandma, a great grandma,
went to a very popular and public venue in the
community to meet a friend for coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Now, when she was.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Getting out of her car, she was thrown to the
ground and mugged by three girls, one teenager as I
understand it, and two minus. Now joining me on the
line is her daughter, Poppy Palitas. Good morning to you, Poppy,
Good morning Katie, Poppy.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
What happened on Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, Wednesdays started off as a beautiful day because it
was Saint Nicholas and it's a big name day for
the Greek Orthodox YEP. And we went to church and
Mum then went had and a haircut, feeling fantastic, and
then she was going to go and have coffee with
some friends at the night of Sports club and she
was meeting them there. I probably left her for ten minutes.
(00:59):
And she wants to be independent, Katie, and I don't
want to take that away from her. So she drives
within the community because we live in Nightclift YEP. She's
still a good driver. She's been tested, she's fine to drive,
so we let her go to close their years, you know,
because it was part of her independence and it's hard
to take that away from us. Yep. So she's got
(01:20):
out of her car. She said she was putting her
keys in her handbag and that's all she knew. Next
minute she's on ground. Somebody's come to help her pick
her up, and the fella that helped her there was
another man pulled up and they helped her and took
her inside. She couldn't ring me because they'd taken her phone.
(01:44):
She explained where I lived, and being longtime Nightclift people,
I think a lot of people because we ran the
supermarket for thirty five years, a lot of people knew us,
and the chicks knew us and knew where I lived.
And he came and was rattling my gate because we've
had her all sorts of security and tell me, your
mum's been robbed. You need to come to the club
(02:06):
straight away. She's really in it. So i'm myself. I
found this woman who's a trooper normally a tough girl, shaking.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Like a baby. Yeah, it's the most disgusting thing I
have ever ever seen. King to watch listen to god.
I'm sorry, but it is such a raw, raw anger
that I can't explain it. I just don't get those
(02:37):
bills and give them the flogging of their life, because
how dare they do that to my mother?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I am so sorry that this has happened to your mum.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I like I'm I'm in tears listening to you.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I was in tears when I read you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It is not just my this is happening every day.
When it took her to her lunch the next day
that she wanted to go to, there were ten other
women in us. Please be careful, this is what's happened
to mom. She's Oh, I had a girl snatch my
bag in the shop. I was putting shopping in the
car and they took my grossy. Where do I run to?
(03:19):
Who do I call? I don't know who they are.
Half of them don't even report this because you know what,
They're all underage, most of them, and they can get
away with it. And then how do you describe them?
These people are afraid.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It's not a joke.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
In look, every politician has a mother. Just put yourself
in my shoes for a minute. I wouldn't wish this
on anybody. It's the most discussing thing. I had to
wake my mum every two hours in the night to
see if she had a head bleep. For God's sake,
we don't know if this is triggered a mini stroke.
How the hell do we know what is going to
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happen to her? She's lucky, shouldn't break a hip. So
many things could have gone so horribly wrong. And what
happens to these shitheads? Oh two can taken home. I
didn't even get a strap on the wrist. The nineteen
year old was going to be charged, but apparently it's
only her first defense from what I've heard, but she
might let off. How wrong is that?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It is so wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Her cards to the BWS, I was so quick to
go off and buy alcohol, so you're prepared to kill
my mother nearly so you could go and buy yourself
some alcohol. And it was lucky that the guy at
the shop looked at the card and it was my
mother's business card, because we've got a nominee's business yep.
And they said, well, this doesn't look like the name
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that's on it, and he searched the name on Facebook
and one of my cousins is named after my dad.
And they looked at that and looked at and they
contacted him and said, mate, have you lost something? Have
you lost some cards? Gasana, it's not my card, it's
probably my uncle's, my cousins. And that's how they stopped
them from buying alcohol.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How is your mom today?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
She's quiet, she's not her normal self. She's broken inside.
She's traumatized. Now, you know, none of us are even
going to let her go anywhere on her own. We're
going to have to escort her. And that's taking away
her independence. She was the most independent woman you've ever
met her, and.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
She deserves to be She deserves to be independent. Your
mom has to be well.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Your mom is eighty five and she has lived here
since when Poppy.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Nineteen fifty nine. She was actually you know, she came here.
She hardly knew my dad. They got married, they had
the best life. They built such a business. We had
the Errates of the Michael for thirty five years. We
met and still know so many people from that. She's
such a well known person in the community. She can
go anywhere and people know her, and she chats to everybody.
(05:44):
She's just she was just so out there, you know,
and now we have a completely different person happening right
in front of our eyes because somebody violated her so badly.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Oh there they Poppy.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Please tell your mom that she has this thought of
the entire community behind her.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I know. And we've been in on dated and it's
amazing how many people have written to us. And let
me tell you, Katie, I can hear Joel what he's saying.
I actually didn't speak to Joel a couple of weeks
ago when we went to a flowershow and I said,
you know, you should maybe incorporate all these juvenile, you know,
delinquents as a men's club that you're kicking them out of.
(06:24):
Put them in there. Maybe these old vets can teach
these boys something they've seen the worst. Mahybe they can
teach them a trade, you know, give them some dignity,
give them something to think about. We actually had that discussion.
She was absolutely right, and whether he took it on board,
I don't know, you know, but I am sick and
tired of talking to people. I went, you know, I
took the same letter to my local member. Now I
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haven't heard from her, and I gave it to her,
the secretary, and I explained what happened, and I said,
I'm also distubiding this dad everywhere else. Yep. People have
to hear about this. This is happening every day in
our community, and people don't speak up because they feel
it's hopeless, because it hasn't gotten any better.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
A year ago, my son I have two boys, and
one of my sons with his mates, were at the
skatepark and two kids stole somebody else's scooters and they
tried to stop the six year old crossing the four
lane road at Leanga Park. No, her brother came back
and pulled out a twenty centimeter knife out of his
bumbag and threatened my child.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Later, No, I go to the police. I go to
them my local member. Nothing happens. The police interview. We
can't do anything because they're under age. Okay, but do
you recognize them, maybe they know you know the family. No,
maybe you can tell us and we'll keep an eye
on them. But police have got their hands tied too.
And then six months later, my son's coming home, pulling
(07:49):
up in his driveway ten o'clock at night. His maids
are dropping him off, and somebody comes running out of
the bushes with a spear trying to stab my son.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
What the hell for?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
He didn't do anything, He didn't even see this bloke.
So he jumps back in the car and they drive off.
Six months ago, I had seven children when they were
young on video with ankle brainless and knives taken out
of their belts like they're showing them off, trying to
break into my house. It's there's video footage of them.
(08:24):
We go and turn every single light on, and then
of course they jump out of our fence, they jump
into the neighbor's fence and took off. What is going
on in this town?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's enough, honestly, Poppy, it's enough, and you know, yeah,
well ourselves, but also how we at the point where,
you know, where this kind of stuff is happening in
the community and the community does not accept it. We
do not accept it. We do not think this is okay.
So what is it going to take for our politicians
(08:54):
to understand that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
What is it going to take for them to realize
family members?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Unfortunately, because it doesn't seem to sink in, because this
is just ridiculous, how many people look at poor Declan.
They was working, I'd say, the poor Bangladeshi boy sleeping
in his own bed. What the hell is going on
in Darwin? Why can't they see there is a crisis.
We're attacking old women. Come on, what is wrong with
(09:19):
these politicians? How can they not do something? Harsher spring,
Babby corn back.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Come on, it's a little flogging.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Maybe they might think twice about doing it. And I
want to saying that in the joking manner. I just
think it's disgusting. It's absolutely disgusting, and there is no
excuse anymore. You handle them, we cuddle them, we give them.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Oh, you're poor little buggers. No you're not poor little buggers.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Poppy, you, Poppy, you have spoken or you have? You
have written an open letter? I mean this letter. It
has been shed far and wide. I've yesterday afternoon. I
had obviously already liaised with you, but I've been sent
your letter by a law lot of people. A lot
of people have read this because they feel disgusted in
(10:04):
what's happened to your mum. But as you've very rightly
pointed out, you know your mom is not alone in
what has happened.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
This isn't to one.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's off and that's the really disappointing part. But Poppy,
what what do you want our politicians to know this morning?
What do you want them to realize this morning?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, they're not.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Doing their job.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I'm sorry. They can surround their round table and talk
and talk and talk. Wasn't as much as they like.
But I spoke to somebody a year ago about somebody
potentially stabbing my childhood was ten years old. And then
I spoke to her again six months ago about my
style and my fart being potentially stabbed out of the blue.
And I have also spoken to them about the countless
times they had people try to break into our yarn.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
This isn't new.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
This has been going on. To get this Why I'm
not the only one. Aren't they not listening? They need
to toughen their laws. They need to treat them as
they are little criminals. Make them work. I don't know.
If I had my way, I make them working a hot,
bloody sun cracking Bitchamen, Seriously.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, do you know what their jobs?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well, and Poppy, their jobs that a lot of us
have to do, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like we've all had to work bloody hard.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
We all have to what shame them, name and shae them.
We're being run and ruined my teenagers and kids who've
got no discipline, no respect, no value on anything that's
given to them because they just take something else from
somebody else. Poppy's ridiculous, Katie. Now I'm going to pack
up and leave.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It is so bad.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Can't they see this?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I know so many good families leaving Darwin. You know,
there's about two hundred and fifty politises in Darwa, and
one at a time people are leaving. They've had a
god full.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Poppy, I feel really heartbroken talking this morning, and I
know that you are. Please pass on my life. Yeah,
please pass on my love to your mother and let
her know that all of the community is thinking of her.
I know that she knows that, but please pass on
that love, and please also just have some face in
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the fact that there are still so many good people
in this place and all of us want this to change.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
We all have this behavior to change.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So please that is one thing that I tell myself often,
and I think that you have to.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, everyone's been saying to me, you've been so calm.
Well I'm not actually I haven't been so calm. I
have just said this dwelling of rage, and you've just
heard it. Can I tell you what, It's just so
horrible to feel this way because I notice so many
good people in Darwen, and we all hate what's happening
to Darlen. So many of us who grew up here
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have the best memories of childhood here, and yet this
run of kids, whoever the hell they are, of ruining
that for everybody. This used to be the envy of
the rest of the strated. Our kids could run around
all day in the sun, not in the cold weather,
having fun, you know, swimming the creeks, still, all sorts
of things that we all did growing up here. And
(13:10):
I've got the best memories, and I've always said to
my children, I wish I could give you the childhood
that I had in Darwin. But it's not happening anymore.
Darwin has just become a shithole run bay criminals, use,
criminals are just going.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Too far, just too far.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And yeah, tell you what, I'm so angry.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, poppy angry. I am going to have to wrap up.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I really appreciate you speaking to me this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I know, well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't actually, yeah, I don't know how your family feels.
I don't know, because you know, my mum hasn't been
rolled getting out of her car, and I hope she
never is, and I hope no other woman has to
deal with that. But unfortunately, the way things are going,
none of us can make that guarantee. Poppy, I bet
you will have every politician in the Northern Territory trying
(14:03):
to ring you after this interview. So I appreciate your time,
thank you for speaking to us, and thank you for
making everybody aware of exactly what's gone on.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Katie. I want to thank you too, because you always
bring this up on your radio show. You're not a
slack on this topic. You do bring it up, and
you bring it to head and they don't know what
to chell you because they have no answer. I understand
that they give us all this run around, but I
really do appreciate your efforts, Honest to God, thank you.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Got to be.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Something has to happen because we've all had enough. Everyone
has had enough.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We really have, Poppy, thank you, and I appreciate your
tom I feel really emotional hearing what's happened to you.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I hold back, Trady.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It is not a simple thing to deal with.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
No, it's not, it's really not.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I'm absolutely serious.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Thank you very much for speaking to me this morning. Poppy.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
We've got so many people messaging this morning for your mum,
so please make her aware of that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Oh will. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Now, as I discussed throughout the week, that was this morning.
At about two pm. Earlier this week, an eighty five
year old woman, a mom, a grandma, a great grandma,
went to a very popular and public venue in the
community to meet a friend for coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Now, when she was.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Getting out of her car, she was thrown to the
ground and mugged by three girls, one teenager as I
understand it, and two minus. Now joining me on the
line is her daughter, Poppy Palitas. Good morning to you, Poppy,
Good morning Katie, Poppy.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
What happened on Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Well, Wednesdays started off as a beautiful day because it
was Saint Nicholas and it's a big name day for
the Greek Orthodox YEP. And we went to church and
Mum then went had and a haircut, feeling fantastic, and
then she was going to go and have coffee with
some friends at the night of Sports club and she
was meeting them there. I probably left her for ten minutes.
(00:59):
And she wants to be independent, Katie, and I don't
want to take that away from her. So she drives
within the community because we live in Nightclift YEP. She's
still a good driver. She's been tested, she's fine to drive,
so we let her go to close their years, you know,
because it was part of her independence and it's hard
to take that away from us. Yep. So she's got
(01:20):
out of her car. She said she was putting her
keys in her handbag and that's all she knew. Next
minute she's on ground. Somebody's come to help her pick
her up, and the fella that helped her there was
another man pulled up and they helped her and took
her inside. She couldn't ring me because they'd taken her phone.
(01:44):
She explained where I lived, and being longtime Nightclift people,
I think a lot of people because we ran the
supermarket for thirty five years, a lot of people knew us,
and the chicks knew us and knew where I lived.
And he came and was rattling my gate because we've
had her all sorts of security and tell me, your
mum's been robbed. You need to come to the club
(02:06):
straight away. She's really in it. So i'm myself. I
found this woman who's a trooper normally a tough girl, shaking.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Like a baby. Yeah, it's the most disgusting thing I
have ever ever seen. King to watch listen to god.
I'm sorry, but it is such a raw, raw anger
that I can't explain it. I just don't get those
(02:37):
bills and give them the flogging of their life, because
how dare they do that to my mother?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I am so sorry that this has happened to your mum.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I like I'm I'm in tears listening to you.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I was in tears when I read you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It is not just my this is happening every day.
When it took her to her lunch the next day
that she wanted to go to, there were ten other
women in us. Please be careful, this is what's happened
to mom. She's Oh, I had a girl snatch my
bag in the shop. I was putting shopping in the
car and they took my grossy. Where do I run to?
(03:19):
Who do I call? I don't know who they are.
Half of them don't even report this because you know what,
They're all underage, most of them, and they can get
away with it. And then how do you describe them?
These people are afraid.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It's not a joke.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
In look, every politician has a mother. Just put yourself
in my shoes for a minute. I wouldn't wish this
on anybody. It's the most discussing thing. I had to
wake my mum every two hours in the night to
see if she had a head bleep. For God's sake,
we don't know if this is triggered a mini stroke.
How the hell do we know what is going to
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happen to her? She's lucky, shouldn't break a hip. So
many things could have gone so horribly wrong. And what
happens to these shitheads? Oh two can taken home. I
didn't even get a strap on the wrist. The nineteen
year old was going to be charged, but apparently it's
only her first defense from what I've heard, but she
might let off. How wrong is that?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It is so wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Her cards to the BWS, I was so quick to
go off and buy alcohol, so you're prepared to kill
my mother nearly so you could go and buy yourself
some alcohol. And it was lucky that the guy at
the shop looked at the card and it was my
mother's business card, because we've got a nominee's business yep.
And they said, well, this doesn't look like the name
(04:34):
that's on it, and he searched the name on Facebook
and one of my cousins is named after my dad.
And they looked at that and looked at and they
contacted him and said, mate, have you lost something? Have
you lost some cards? Gasana, it's not my card, it's
probably my uncle's, my cousins. And that's how they stopped
them from buying alcohol.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How is your mom today?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
She's quiet, she's not her normal self. She's broken inside.
She's traumatized. Now, you know, none of us are even
going to let her go anywhere on her own. We're
going to have to escort her. And that's taking away
her independence. She was the most independent woman you've ever
met her, and.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
She deserves to be She deserves to be independent. Your
mom has to be well.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Your mom is eighty five and she has lived here
since when Poppy.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Nineteen fifty nine. She was actually you know, she came here.
She hardly knew my dad. They got married, they had
the best life. They built such a business. We had
the Errates of the Michael for thirty five years. We
met and still know so many people from that. She's
such a well known person in the community. She can
go anywhere and people know her, and she chats to everybody.
(05:44):
She's just she was just so out there, you know,
and now we have a completely different person happening right
in front of our eyes because somebody violated her so badly.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Oh there they Poppy.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Please tell your mom that she has this thought of
the entire community behind her.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I know. And we've been in on dated and it's
amazing how many people have written to us. And let
me tell you, Katie, I can hear Joel what he's saying.
I actually didn't speak to Joel a couple of weeks
ago when we went to a flowershow and I said,
you know, you should maybe incorporate all these juvenile, you know,
delinquents as a men's club that you're kicking them out of.
(06:24):
Put them in there. Maybe these old vets can teach
these boys something they've seen the worst. Mahybe they can
teach them a trade, you know, give them some dignity,
give them something to think about. We actually had that discussion.
She was absolutely right, and whether he took it on board,
I don't know, you know, but I am sick and
tired of talking to people. I went, you know, I
took the same letter to my local member. Now I
(06:49):
haven't heard from her, and I gave it to her,
the secretary, and I explained what happened, and I said,
I'm also distubiding this dad everywhere else. Yep. People have
to hear about this. This is happening every day in
our community, and people don't speak up because they feel
it's hopeless, because it hasn't gotten any better.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
A year ago, my son I have two boys, and
one of my sons with his mates, were at the
skatepark and two kids stole somebody else's scooters and they
tried to stop the six year old crossing the four
lane road at Leanga Park. No, her brother came back
and pulled out a twenty centimeter knife out of his
bumbag and threatened my child.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Later, No, I go to the police. I go to
them my local member. Nothing happens. The police interview. We
can't do anything because they're under age. Okay, but do
you recognize them, maybe they know you know the family. No,
maybe you can tell us and we'll keep an eye
on them. But police have got their hands tied too.
And then six months later, my son's coming home, pulling
(07:49):
up in his driveway ten o'clock at night. His maids
are dropping him off, and somebody comes running out of
the bushes with a spear trying to stab my son.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
What the hell for?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
He didn't do anything, He didn't even see this bloke.
So he jumps back in the car and they drive off.
Six months ago, I had seven children when they were
young on video with ankle brainless and knives taken out
of their belts like they're showing them off, trying to
break into my house. It's there's video footage of them.
(08:24):
We go and turn every single light on, and then
of course they jump out of our fence, they jump
into the neighbor's fence and took off. What is going
on in this town?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It's enough, honestly, Poppy, it's enough, and you know, yeah,
well ourselves, but also how we at the point where,
you know, where this kind of stuff is happening in
the community and the community does not accept it. We
do not accept it. We do not think this is okay.
So what is it going to take for our politicians
(08:54):
to understand that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
What is it going to take for them to realize
family members?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Unfortunately, because it doesn't seem to sink in, because this
is just ridiculous, how many people look at poor Declan.
They was working, I'd say, the poor Bangladeshi boy sleeping
in his own bed. What the hell is going on
in Darwin? Why can't they see there is a crisis.
We're attacking old women. Come on, what is wrong with
(09:19):
these politicians? How can they not do something? Harsher spring,
Babby corn back.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Come on, it's a little flogging.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Maybe they might think twice about doing it. And I
want to saying that in the joking manner. I just
think it's disgusting. It's absolutely disgusting, and there is no
excuse anymore. You handle them, we cuddle them, we give them.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Oh, you're poor little buggers. No you're not poor little buggers.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Poppy, you, Poppy, you have spoken or you have? You
have written an open letter? I mean this letter. It
has been shed far and wide. I've yesterday afternoon. I
had obviously already liaised with you, but I've been sent
your letter by a law lot of people. A lot
of people have read this because they feel disgusted in
(10:04):
what's happened to your mum. But as you've very rightly
pointed out, you know your mom is not alone in
what has happened.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
This isn't to one.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
It's off and that's the really disappointing part. But Poppy,
what what do you want our politicians to know this morning?
What do you want them to realize this morning?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, they're not.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Doing their job.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I'm sorry. They can surround their round table and talk
and talk and talk. Wasn't as much as they like.
But I spoke to somebody a year ago about somebody
potentially stabbing my childhood was ten years old. And then
I spoke to her again six months ago about my
style and my fart being potentially stabbed out of the blue.
And I have also spoken to them about the countless
times they had people try to break into our yarn.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
This isn't new.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
This has been going on. To get this Why I'm
not the only one. Aren't they not listening? They need
to toughen their laws. They need to treat them as
they are little criminals. Make them work. I don't know.
If I had my way, I make them working a hot,
bloody sun cracking Bitchamen, Seriously.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Well, do you know what their jobs?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well, and Poppy, their jobs that a lot of us
have to do, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like we've all had to work bloody hard.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
We all have to what shame them, name and shae them.
We're being run and ruined my teenagers and kids who've
got no discipline, no respect, no value on anything that's
given to them because they just take something else from
somebody else. Poppy's ridiculous, Katie. Now I'm going to pack
up and leave.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It is so bad.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Can't they see this?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I know so many good families leaving Darwin. You know,
there's about two hundred and fifty politises in Darwa, and
one at a time people are leaving. They've had a
god full.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Poppy, I feel really heartbroken talking this morning, and I
know that you are. Please pass on my life. Yeah,
please pass on my love to your mother and let
her know that all of the community is thinking of her.
I know that she knows that, but please pass on
that love, and please also just have some face in
(12:12):
the fact that there are still so many good people
in this place and all of us want this to change.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
We all have this behavior to change.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
So please that is one thing that I tell myself often,
and I think that you have to.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, everyone's been saying to me, you've been so calm.
Well I'm not actually I haven't been so calm. I
have just said this dwelling of rage, and you've just
heard it. Can I tell you what, It's just so
horrible to feel this way because I notice so many
good people in Darwen, and we all hate what's happening
to Darlen. So many of us who grew up here
(12:48):
have the best memories of childhood here, and yet this
run of kids, whoever the hell they are, of ruining
that for everybody. This used to be the envy of
the rest of the strated. Our kids could run around
all day in the sun, not in the cold weather,
having fun, you know, swimming the creeks, still, all sorts
of things that we all did growing up here. And
(13:10):
I've got the best memories, and I've always said to
my children, I wish I could give you the childhood
that I had in Darwin. But it's not happening anymore.
Darwin has just become a shithole run bay criminals, use,
criminals are just going.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Too far, just too far.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And yeah, tell you what, I'm so angry.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, poppy angry. I am going to have to wrap up.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I really appreciate you speaking to me this morning.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I know, well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't actually, yeah, I don't know how your family feels.
I don't know, because you know, my mum hasn't been
rolled getting out of her car, and I hope she
never is, and I hope no other woman has to
deal with that. But unfortunately, the way things are going,
none of us can make that guarantee. Poppy, I bet
you will have every politician in the Northern Territory trying
(14:03):
to ring you after this interview. So I appreciate your time,
thank you for speaking to us, and thank you for
making everybody aware of exactly what's gone on.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Katie. I want to thank you too, because you always
bring this up on your radio show. You're not a
slack on this topic. You do bring it up, and
you bring it to head and they don't know what
to chell you because they have no answer. I understand
that they give us all this run around, but I
really do appreciate your efforts, Honest to God, thank you.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Got to be.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Something has to happen because we've all had enough. Everyone
has had enough.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We really have, Poppy, thank you, and I appreciate your
tom I feel really emotional hearing what's happened to you.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I hold back, Trady.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It is not a simple thing to deal with.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
No, it's not, it's really not.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I'm absolutely serious.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Thank you very much for speaking to me this morning. Poppy.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
We've got so many people messaging this morning for your mum,
so please make her aware of that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Oh will. Thank you so much. Thank you.
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