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Henry Higgins pays tribute to Fay Miller remembering the grassroots projects she was involved in ahead of her state funeral tomorrow · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: You know that former Catherine MP and Mayor Fay Miller
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  Speaker 1: is going to be honored with a state funeral following
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  Speaker 1: her death at the age of seventy five. That funeral
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  Speaker 1: is happening tomorrow. And joining me on the line right
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  Speaker 1: now is a dear friend of Fays, Henry Higgins.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Henry.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie, Good morning listeners. How are you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, really well, Henry, thank you so much for your
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  Speaker 1: time this morning and for having a chat to us.
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  Speaker 2: Fay was an incredible woman.
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  Speaker 1: She joined us a couple of times on the week
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  Speaker 1: that was on this show and used to join me
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  Speaker 1: to go beyond the bear of the line when we'd.
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  Speaker 2: Catch up with her.
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  Speaker 1: As the mayor, she well and truly stood up for
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  Speaker 1: territorians and really for what the territory was all about.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I agree with that, especially in her role with tourism.
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  Speaker 3: She was very much territory orientated there, but also as
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  Speaker 3: mayor of Catherine, she was very much all about Catherine.
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  Speaker 3: She loved the.
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  Speaker 2: Town, she truly did.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, and I know that you and
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  Speaker 1: your wife Vicky very good friends of FaZe. She'll be
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  Speaker 1: remembered so fondly by so many.
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  Speaker 3: That is true. Vicky met Faye back in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 3: nine when they first when Faye come to Catherine as
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  Speaker 3: the wife of the A and Z bank manager, and
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  Speaker 3: they were two young ladies resumes in hand, wandering the
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  Speaker 3: streets looking to see who wanted to employ them.
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  Speaker 1: How lovely and where did they end up working?
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  Speaker 2: What happened from that point, Henry.
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  Speaker 3: Well not quite sure. Faye got mixed up in the
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  Speaker 3: tourism side of it and that just sort of snowballed
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  Speaker 3: on from that. Vicky ended up at the raft base
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  Speaker 3: managing the services canteen for the defense calls out there.
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  Speaker 3: But no from that day on, they remain very good friends,
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  Speaker 3: and Faye introduced Vicky to one of her passions, which
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  Speaker 3: was the Ladies Never Never Club, which is a beefsteak
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  Speaker 3: and burgundy club for fine wines and food appreciations. I
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  Speaker 3: have to thank Fae for that she introduced Vicky to that.
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  Speaker 1: How beautiful. It sounds like the kind of club I
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  Speaker 1: would have loved being part of. I think plenty of
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  Speaker 1: people would have.
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  Speaker 3: Look, they're a renowned club. They never never Ladies in
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  Speaker 3: Cataine are just awesome than the way they have to
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  Speaker 3: survive because as you can imagine, there's not a huge
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  Speaker 3: range of restaurants there, so they make some of their
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  Speaker 3: own dinner parties. And then Faye did some wonderful dinner
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  Speaker 3: parties at her place alone that had the Bali influence
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  Speaker 3: two of them. So yeah, that's just the type of
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  Speaker 3: lady she was.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know that the state funeral for Fay is
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  Speaker 1: happening tomorrow, Henry, how will she be honored?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Very highly, I would think. I honestly think protocol
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  Speaker 3: have underestimated here. If I know Catherine, people, they are
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  Speaker 3: going to turn out in their hundreds for this funeral,
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  Speaker 3: and I think they might find themselves overwhelmed there at
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  Speaker 3: the cathedral.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's going to be a massive turnout for
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful woman who is incredibly loved by the community.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, Henry, how.
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  Speaker 1: Are her family going at the moment and how will
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  Speaker 1: they and you know, such dear friends like you guys
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  Speaker 1: be remembering Faye.
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  Speaker 3: The family themselves, as you can imagine, I feel a
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  Speaker 3: great loss, but their soldiering up well because Fay being faced,
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  Speaker 3: she made sure everything was organized, that everybody was in
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  Speaker 3: the doing the right thing at the right time. So yes,
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  Speaker 3: the family's holding up. Well, we'll honor Fay in our memory,
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  Speaker 3: but we'll also honor her back in Catherine. For we'll
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  Speaker 3: say it a celebration and farewell, not a memorial, on
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  Speaker 3: the following Friday. So then you'll think, I think you'll
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  Speaker 3: find some very heartfelt emotions and stories will start to appear.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Fay was one of those ladies. I mean
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  Speaker 3: there's all these boards and that that everybody knows that
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  Speaker 3: she sat on and all that. But what I don't
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  Speaker 3: think a lot of people realize is all the little things,
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  Speaker 3: especially down in Catherine, that went on. She used to
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  Speaker 3: run a pink breakfast for the cancer clas. She always
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  Speaker 3: attended all the gatherings like the museum fundraisers and that,
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  Speaker 3: the junk festivals, she did, the Catherine Arts, which used
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  Speaker 3: to be the Lambert Trust, and then then there was
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  Speaker 3: always Goes. Your fallback was the never Never ladies. They
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  Speaker 3: had just arrange a dinner once a month and after
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  Speaker 3: they go. But I do know one thing I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to have to put in here. When you're voting for
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  Speaker 3: the Tina Turner song, they would want Nutbush. After the
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  Speaker 3: formal arrangements for the Debutan one balls were complete, and
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  Speaker 3: all the lovely ladies and gentlemen had finished doing all
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  Speaker 3: the classical dancing and all that new vague stuff. The first,
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  Speaker 3: their first song that they would be looking for after
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  Speaker 3: all the four all stuff was the Nutbush because that
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  Speaker 3: got everybody up on the floor, the mom's, the dad,
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  Speaker 3: the family and make it all yahoo together to celebrate
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  Speaker 3: the end of the Debutante ball.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Henry, thank you so much for having a chat
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning and helping all of the Northern
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  Speaker 1: Territory to really honor Fay in the way that she deserves.
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  Speaker 2: Like I say, I loved.
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  Speaker 1: Having her on the show, and I remember when we
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  Speaker 1: decided to do the week that was one week from
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  Speaker 1: the Catherine Show, the first person that was on our
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  Speaker 1: list that we wanted to have on that panel was
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  Speaker 1: Fay Miller. She was an incredible woman, and I know
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  Speaker 1: that she is going to be dearly missed, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that that farewell tomorrow is going to be an
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  Speaker 1: absolute cracker. So in her honor and certainly in Tina
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  Speaker 1: Turner's honor, let's hear a.
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  Speaker 2: Bit of Nutbush. Thank you, Henry for your time this
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  Speaker 2: morning
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, and well done on the Nutbush Thanks Fights,