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Katie Woolf spoke with Gloria from Portuguese & Timorese Social Club · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf. Join the conversation with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: You are our eyes and ears in the territory mixed
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  Speaker 1: one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know that there has been some unbelievably generous
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  Speaker 2: territorians donating following on from some well you'd have to say,
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  Speaker 2: a terrible situation overseas at the moment, and joining me
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  Speaker 2: on the line to talk further about some of the
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  Speaker 2: donations that have been made and how territorians can help
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  Speaker 2: out is from the Timorese and or the Portuguese and
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  Speaker 2: t Marise Social Club. I am joined on the line
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  Speaker 2: by Gloria. Good morning to you, Gloria.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good morning Katie. Thank you for having me on
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  Speaker 3: on this chat or supporting our appeal.
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  Speaker 1: Or not a problem at all, Gloria.
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  Speaker 2: For those out there listening who maybe don't know a
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  Speaker 2: huge amount about what is happening at the moment in
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  Speaker 2: Ease Team More and also in Indonesia as a result
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  Speaker 2: of the flooding, can you give them a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of background.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, On the ninth and tenth of April, there was
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  Speaker 3: major infrastructure damage and disaster that actually overtake took the
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  Speaker 3: whole island of Timor, West Tiamoor and East s Teamo
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  Speaker 3: and East Steamer got the peripher of the cyclone Soosia
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  Speaker 3: and he actually created a major devastation infrastructure called Landslide,
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  Speaker 3: some loss of life in Timor in this steamer and
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  Speaker 3: about thirteen thousand people have lost their homes and are
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  Speaker 3: living in as refugees in their own.
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  Speaker 1: Land, Gloria.
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  Speaker 2: It is such a tragic situation for so many.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have family and friends over there.
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  Speaker 3: I've got my cousins and relatives. They are okay. They
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  Speaker 3: managed to survive the floods. But even with floods, as
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  Speaker 3: we know, it always causes damage and for people that
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  Speaker 3: have little, you know, so it means that they have
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  Speaker 3: to start all over again. And it's not easy, as
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  Speaker 3: we know, because you know, people don't have jobs, and
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  Speaker 3: we've had a year and a half of COVID, you know,
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  Speaker 3: sort of creating other issues for us around the world
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  Speaker 3: economically as well. So these people are still in very
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  Speaker 3: very difficult circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, they really are.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that from here in the Northern Territory
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  Speaker 2: at the Portuguese and Timrise Social Club. You guys have
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  Speaker 2: started fundraising and not just monetary fundraising, but also various donations.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me a little bit about what you have done
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  Speaker 2: so far.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, First of all, we've been overwhelmed with this genosity
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  Speaker 3: in supports from all the communities which I've been down,
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  Speaker 3: which is really truly the spirit of daur And we've
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  Speaker 3: had medical supplies, food, water, clothes, shoes, matters, all everything,
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  Speaker 3: water rise from everyone. People bring us and asks what
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  Speaker 3: can we donate, And it's quite overwhelming and emotional, to
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  Speaker 3: be quite honest, however, we'll be because we've got so much.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're getting into the dilemma of how to organize
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  Speaker 3: it to deliver it to this DEALI is Steamer as
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  Speaker 3: soon as possible, and we still need a bit of
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  Speaker 3: funding because we can obviously send over to deally to
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  Speaker 3: the local non government organizations to help the most needy,
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  Speaker 3: but we also need help from here to deliver the
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  Speaker 3: services that you know, the tim that is most needed
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  Speaker 3: this time. And I do believe the Australians take pride
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  Speaker 3: with their donations and they believe that they want them
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  Speaker 3: delivered professionally and immediately in order to alleviate human suffering.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is all disaster appeals are all about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you start on I think people want to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that everything gets over there and gets over
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  Speaker 2: there safely. Am I correct in understanding that yesterday or
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the week there were some veterans who had
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  Speaker 2: helped out in this space exactly.
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  Speaker 3: There was a former veteran Australian an Armed Force personnel
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  Speaker 3: that had been working in Timor that shuted a flight
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  Speaker 3: and was able to take some of our about seven
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  Speaker 3: hundred kilos of medical supplies that we had organized. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: not everything could be put on the plane and we
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  Speaker 3: had to go and bring them back to the club.
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  Speaker 3: But that's life. But he was able to take that
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  Speaker 3: to shatter that flight, he paid himself for it and
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  Speaker 3: he was delivered to the relevant organizations and we've got
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  Speaker 3: some of that and which is marvelous. It's quite you know,
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  Speaker 3: very self fulfillment, fulfilling to see that things that have
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  Speaker 3: been delivered to the right places and the right people
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  Speaker 3: that are in need.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how incredible generous and important.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 3: You know. The actual transportation that we have to have
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  Speaker 3: a plan B, which will be by sea. Would the
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  Speaker 3: containers only be leaving Darwin on the twenty first, It
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  Speaker 3: will be about a day or two at sea, so
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  Speaker 3: we really a bit later towards the end of the month.
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  Speaker 3: There is donations from Darwin, from overwhelmed from the community
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  Speaker 3: will be delivered to the stimary that any need.
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  Speaker 2: So, Gloria, what you're after at the moment, really, if
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  Speaker 2: it's in any way possible, is you are actually looking
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  Speaker 2: for somebody to be able to get those goods over
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  Speaker 2: there sooner rather than later. If there is able to
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  Speaker 2: be a charter flight, or if there is somebody who's
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  Speaker 2: able to help in some way.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right, that's sort of. I mean, we have
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  Speaker 3: our own plan, yep, but we've will so appreciate if
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  Speaker 3: there was a shatter plane or a flight, or if
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  Speaker 3: there was you know, yesterday I appeal to the ref
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  Speaker 3: because they've got the actual mechanisms of being able to deliver.
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  Speaker 3: It's only an hour away from Darwin, so but you know,
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  Speaker 3: they can only do what they can do. We understand
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  Speaker 3: the protocols, et cetera. Yeah, that will be ideal by
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  Speaker 3: by air because air freight will get there quickly, no doubt. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I saw yesterday that those medical supplies they were went
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  Speaker 3: by the shaft of flight. They would delivered immediately to
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  Speaker 3: the respective in organizations in need.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Gloria, we have a lot of people who listen
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  Speaker 2: to this show from lots of different lots of different
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  Speaker 2: areas and areas of expertise. I can't guarantee anything, but
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  Speaker 2: if there is anybody out there listening this morning who
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  Speaker 2: is potentially able to help, if you get in contact
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  Speaker 2: with us here at the radio station eight nine four
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  Speaker 2: one one O four nine, and we will be able
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  Speaker 2: to put you in contact with Gloria and see what
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  Speaker 2: maybe is able to be done. Gloria, as I understand it,
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  Speaker 2: you have raised well in just three days with Territory Ands'
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  Speaker 2: help and generosity, over twenty thousand dollars. Where is that
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  Speaker 2: figure out at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there was the initiative from Rosa Okayscaloon. She started
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  Speaker 3: a go fund a target was twenty thousand and she's
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  Speaker 3: actually raised thirty two thousand. Oh. You know, the funds
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  Speaker 3: are amazing because they will be delivered to his steamer
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  Speaker 3: once it's finalized. And you know that that help will
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  Speaker 3: be amazing because there are some supplies in tim or
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  Speaker 3: less as well which we can be used to also
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  Speaker 3: support those people in so much need and that's wonderful
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  Speaker 3: to know as well. Yeah. Yeah, I think the donations
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  Speaker 3: from down need also a little bit more support, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: from the broader community at large, so that we can
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  Speaker 3: deliver them immediately, because that's why we call on a
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  Speaker 3: disaster appeal. Yeah, because they need it immediately, not they
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  Speaker 3: don't need it in a month, that's right, They need
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  Speaker 3: it right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Gloria, again, if there is anybody out there listening
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  Speaker 2: this morning who is maybe able to help out with
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  Speaker 2: a charter flight, If you are in a position, in
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  Speaker 2: any position where you can help out in terms of
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  Speaker 2: transporting these goods across sooner rather than later, please get
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  Speaker 2: in contact with us. Eight nine four one one four
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  Speaker 2: nine Gloria, I really appreciate your time this morning. Is
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  Speaker 2: there somewhere is there a Facebook page or somewhere where
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  Speaker 2: people should go, or is there a time that they
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  Speaker 2: can come to the Portuguese and Team or EES Social
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  Speaker 2: Club if they have got a donation that they'd like
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  Speaker 2: to make.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've continued the appeal because the generosity is being overwhelming,
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  Speaker 3: and with such a short notice, which we appreciate, people
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  Speaker 3: still have to have time to organize the donations and
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  Speaker 3: deliver them. So we extended until this Saturday to be
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  Speaker 3: able to accommodate for people's generosity. And thank you from
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of Aha.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you Gloria.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have done an amazing job and I know
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  Speaker 2: that you know the people who have been impacted are
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  Speaker 2: going to be so incredibly grateful for the work that
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  Speaker 2: you've done and for those donations from territorians.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you to the spirits of Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you spot on, Gloria, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: your time this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, thank you very much for having the interesting out a.
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  Speaker 1: Bill, no problem at all. Thank you, Gloria.
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  Speaker 2: That is Gloria there from the Portuguese and Tim Maurice
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  Speaker 2: Social Club. And if you are in a position where
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  Speaker 2: you're able to help out, get in contact with us
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  Speaker 2: here at the station eight nine four one one O
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  Speaker 2: four nine