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Katie Woolf spoke with RSL Darwin Branch President Stephen Gloster · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf on Mixed one oh four
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  Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main.
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  Speaker 2: Darwin, we know that it is going to be well
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  Speaker 2: a big weekend with Anzac Day and all the commemorations
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  Speaker 2: that are set to take place, but we understand that
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  Speaker 2: the Governor General is going to be here on the
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  Speaker 2: weekend for an Zack Day and joining us in the
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  Speaker 2: studio to tell us a little bit more about what
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  Speaker 2: is planned, Darwin. RSL President Stephen Glocester, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: To you, Good morning Katie, and good morning listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Steven sounds like there is a lot planned for this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Talk us through what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we've got the one hundredth anniversary of the Cenotaph
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  Speaker 3: which will be on Saturday, and that'll kick off at
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  Speaker 3: four thirty. We'll have a smoking ceremony there. We've got
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  Speaker 3: the laroche of people involved, so we're having a smoking
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  Speaker 3: ceremony for the Flame of Remembrance. That'll go through an
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  Speaker 3: hour service where we invited the Governor General especially for
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  Speaker 3: that and the secondary is to have him there for
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  Speaker 3: the dawn service.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and he's agreed, hasn't he. He is going to
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  Speaker 2: be here, His Excellency.
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  Speaker 3: We've also got Minister Chester two, he's coming up as
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  Speaker 3: well for both services.
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  Speaker 2: Good did you guys, did you just think did the
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  Speaker 2: RSL think, do you know what? This is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a really special occasion for us. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we invite these dignit traies.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, With the me and dollar grant we got.
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  Speaker 3: Off the federal government, we have to have a special
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  Speaker 3: ceremony for the handing over, and part of that was
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  Speaker 3: to invite the dignities from the federal government. And we
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  Speaker 3: thought we'd invite the Government General too and just wait
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  Speaker 3: and see what happened.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what's happened.
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  Speaker 2: So you must have been pretty pleased to hear that
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  Speaker 2: he would be that he'd be agending, tending, I should say.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, absolutely, it's really good.
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  Speaker 2: So tell us a little bit more about the other
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  Speaker 2: things that you're doing for forranzaic Dale. I know that
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  Speaker 2: like this is such it's so great that we are
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  Speaker 2: still going to be able to have these commemorations. Last
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  Speaker 2: year and zach Day was really you know, plans were
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  Speaker 2: thrown into a spin, you'd have to say, due to COVID.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a wonderful thing. That everything's able to happen again, isn't.
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  Speaker 1: It It is.
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  Speaker 3: It's really good and we'll be kicking off on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have a gunfire breakfast for our diggers and then
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  Speaker 3: at six o'clock we'll start the ceremony at the Cenotaph,
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  Speaker 3: which we'll have the Governor General and everyone there. Now,
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  Speaker 3: something new this year, we're going to have a ditch player,
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  Speaker 3: which I think will be quite magnificent that hour of
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  Speaker 3: the morning.
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  Speaker 2: That's fantastic. How come you decided to mix things up
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  Speaker 2: a bit and do that.
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  Speaker 3: None of these things need to move on they and
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  Speaker 3: we need everyone involved. Yeah, and we thought with the
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  Speaker 3: Governor General coming here and with the Anzac day, the
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  Speaker 3: dawn service and the march is always covered by the ABC.
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  Speaker 1: Can I say that, yeah, you.
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  Speaker 2: Can say that. We don't get offended by that kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing. They send their cameras down and it's a
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  Speaker 2: good thing because it's national coverage for Darwin.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and they'll cover the dawn service and they cover
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  Speaker 3: the march. So we'll have the dawn service go through
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  Speaker 3: until seven o'clock. Seven point thirty. There's a church service
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  Speaker 3: at Saint Mary's Catholic Church Cathedral sorry, and then nine
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  Speaker 3: o'clock the march starts at the corner of Knuckie Street
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  Speaker 3: and the Esplanade, which will go along Knuckie Street, then
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  Speaker 3: turn it up into Kavanagh Street and that'll go for
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  Speaker 3: about twenty minutes half an hour. We've got a few
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  Speaker 3: jets flying over and a few other things, so it'll
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  Speaker 3: be back to normal what we used to have before COVID.
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  Speaker 2: That is fantastic. What's been the feedback from the members
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  Speaker 2: of the RSL in terms of it getting back to normal?
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  Speaker 2: People pretty please that that's able to happen.
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  Speaker 3: I think everyone will be very pleased, and when they
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  Speaker 3: actually see it, they'll be more pleased. It's a big
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  Speaker 3: weekend and hopefully it'll put Darwin on the map that
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  Speaker 3: we can do things like this.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon it will. Now the Governor General's arrival, I
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  Speaker 2: know that he actually spent some time here in Darwin
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  Speaker 2: as well, didn't he So was he pretty excited about
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  Speaker 2: about heading here for this service? Or you haven't really
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  Speaker 2: spoken to him direct yet?
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  Speaker 3: No, I haven't spoken to him direct. It's just emails
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  Speaker 3: and a few phone calls, like he'll be here on Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: and we've also got a drinks up at Parliament House
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  Speaker 3: too on after the ceremony on Saturday, so it should
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  Speaker 3: be a good day. And then I hear he'll be
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  Speaker 3: heading down to Catherine for their March Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's fantastic, really good to obviously have him able
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  Speaker 2: to attend a couple of different events and spend a
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  Speaker 2: bit of time here. I've just got a message from
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  Speaker 2: one of our listeners that says, Katie, can you please
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  Speaker 2: ask Stephen what's happening with the old RSL site. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen they've cleaned it up and covered it in stones.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we've ash felted it, so keep it neat and tidy.
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  Speaker 3: After the ANZAC day, we've got a few organized a
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  Speaker 3: and we're going into meetings about what we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do on the site. It's fairly involved. It's just not
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  Speaker 3: just putting up a building. We've got to even if
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  Speaker 3: you put a club there on the ground floor, we
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  Speaker 3: still have to have another floor of parking and at
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  Speaker 3: all snowballs. So we've got developers we're talking to and
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  Speaker 3: other people, and we'll know more about that towards the
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  Speaker 3: middle of the year, going through to the second half
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  Speaker 3: of the year. But it's quite involved to what needs
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  Speaker 3: to be done.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll keep in contact with you and
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  Speaker 2: try to keep up to date with exactly what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: We might also try to share some of those details
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  Speaker 2: as well on our Facebook page, on the mixed page,
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  Speaker 2: if you'd like to let people know exactly what time
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  Speaker 2: everything is happening on the weekend for and Zac Davi,
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  Speaker 2: but also for the hundredth anniversary of the Cenotaph, because
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  Speaker 2: I think that's another really important one that people want
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  Speaker 2: to be is the general public. They're allowed to attend
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  Speaker 2: that one as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, it's all open to the general par both events.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Stephen, you must be pleased that everything's able to
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  Speaker 2: get back to normal for this year.
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  Speaker 1: Really great, Yeah, it really is. Forgot how much hard
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  Speaker 1: work he was involved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet you all, but you'd all be very
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  Speaker 2: busy leading into to Anzac Day. But gee, it is
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  Speaker 2: such an important event for all of us to commemorate,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that it's so incredibly important, particularly for
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  Speaker 2: us here in Darwin, to make sure we do it well.
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  Speaker 3: True, very true, And it's really good to see all
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  Speaker 3: the people who actually come out for that day like this,
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  Speaker 3: thousand's come out for the dawn service and the same
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  Speaker 3: in the streets. It's the only time we see the
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  Speaker 3: streets packed down Knucky Street, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's exactly right. And we will make sure
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be catching up with the Palmerston Council
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  Speaker 2: and we'll also try to catch up with Catherine as
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  Speaker 2: well to find out what's going on in some of
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  Speaker 2: those other areas. But if you are a member of
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  Speaker 2: the RSL in one of those other locations and you
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  Speaker 2: want to get in contact with us, we'd love to
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  Speaker 2: hear from you. Stephen Gloucester. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: your time today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Kenny.
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  Speaker 2: That was the Darwin RSL president there, Stephen Gloucester. Now,
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