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Katherine resident Trent De With says he’s holding a fundraiser on Saturday to help cover the medical bills for a local woman who was brutally attacked · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: And we're heading on down to Catherine because joining me
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  Speaker 1: on the line right now is Trent to with good morning, Trent.
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  Speaker 2: Katie, Hey doing good mate? How are you trucking along? Beautiful?
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  Speaker 2: Twenty one degrees down here in Captain this morning, whisper
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  Speaker 2: of the dry season coming through.
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  Speaker 1: Lucky you. It didn't get that cool here we would
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  Speaker 1: class that as cold. I think up here in Darwarth
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  Speaker 1: we just.
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  Speaker 2: We get excited because you can go outside and you
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  Speaker 2: can feel there's something different in the air. So it's
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  Speaker 2: not far away from those ten degree mornings. Well, we
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  Speaker 2: really look.
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  Speaker 1: Forward to absolutely beautiful. I love it when the weather
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  Speaker 1: does start to cool down. Trent. How have things been
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  Speaker 1: going in Catherine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been kicking along good. It's starting to get busy.
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  Speaker 2: Starting to see a lot of tourists on the road already,
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  Speaker 2: which is really exciting. The car parking you're locally starting
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  Speaker 2: to fill up the vands and out of state number plates,
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  Speaker 2: so there's things in wheels are in motion for the
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  Speaker 2: good old dry season on floor. So yeah, definitely things
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  Speaker 2: are happening. And as far as the late night activities
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  Speaker 2: by a few locals, it has quieted down. It's flared
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  Speaker 2: up in the last day or so, but apart from
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  Speaker 2: it's actually been reasonably okay. As I touched a piece
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  Speaker 2: of wood here, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's well, that is good to hear. What do you
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  Speaker 1: mean it's flared up the last twenty four hours or
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  Speaker 1: so though, What's happened.
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  Speaker 2: Even just locally? So I just came to work yesterday
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  Speaker 2: morning and motorbike shop next door to me had a
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  Speaker 2: brick thrown through their window, and then when I looked
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  Speaker 2: on my cameras, they tried to smash my windows as well.
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  Speaker 2: So that was the only sort of you know, flare
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  Speaker 2: up that I was sort of referring to wash. We
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  Speaker 2: just had a few. They must have all been under twelve,
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  Speaker 2: I reckon. They were young bucks and they were just
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  Speaker 2: out just menacing.
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  Speaker 1: It's so frustrating, you hate like I've got you know,
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  Speaker 1: my kids are nine and eleven, and I just can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine them being out on the street, you know, throwing
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  Speaker 1: bricks at somebody's business.
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  Speaker 2: No exactly. It just makes you shake your head and
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  Speaker 2: wonder where the responsible adult is, where the guardians bough
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  Speaker 2: and how they keep getting dropped home to air quote
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  Speaker 2: responsible adult?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you spot on and that's a question that you
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  Speaker 1: know that we've had raised with us quite a few times.
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  Speaker 1: This week, we had Alarakia Elder Helen Secretary on the show,
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  Speaker 1: and she had said, you know, she'd said that that
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  Speaker 1: that you've got to take responsibility for the kids, and
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  Speaker 1: that parents need to make sure that they are taking
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for the kids, and you shouldn't have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about people throwing bricks at your shop, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the late hours of the night.
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  Speaker 2: No, definitely not. I heard that interview and everything that
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  Speaker 2: was said on I just put in't agree more is
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  Speaker 2: that it was such a positive a positive way to
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  Speaker 2: look at it. So yeah, yeah, definitely something needs to happen,
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  Speaker 2: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, there was a lot of love for Helen, there
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  Speaker 1: is no doubt about that. Hey, let me ask you.
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  Speaker 1: I know that last time you and I spoke, we'd
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  Speaker 1: spoken a bit about that trailer that you were you
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  Speaker 1: know that you were getting organized to go out and
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  Speaker 1: help people after they had been victims of crime, maybe
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  Speaker 1: to just sort of help them secure the premises and
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Have you got that up and
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  Speaker 1: running yet or how's that all going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So the trailer basically it was donated to us.
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  Speaker 2: I dropped it off to a local fabricator guy in town,
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  Speaker 2: Brad Buckley, and I just told him to go over
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  Speaker 2: it and have a look at it, tell me what
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  Speaker 2: you think. Within I don't know, two or three hours,
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  Speaker 2: he sent me a message of a frame on the
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  Speaker 2: ground being built from the ground up and he said,
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  Speaker 2: I think this is a better way, mate. So he's
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  Speaker 2: actually built a whole brand new trailer for this out
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  Speaker 2: of his own time, his own money, and which was
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  Speaker 2: just beyond what I ever expected. A legend from there
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  Speaker 2: we've had. Ah, he's an absolute legend. But yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: he just went look that. You know, by the time
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  Speaker 2: I replaced this, replace that, and you know, he built
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  Speaker 2: a trailer in two days for me and it was
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  Speaker 2: up and running. We've got a tan blastard. It's currently
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  Speaker 2: being painted. The problem I have, Katie, Yeah, it's not
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  Speaker 2: a problem. It's a good issue is every time I
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  Speaker 2: take it to someone, they want to make this thing
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  Speaker 2: the biggest and best thing it can be. So every
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  Speaker 2: time it goes to someone, they want to do their
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  Speaker 2: best absolute you know, to this trailer and put little
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  Speaker 2: Nicki Knaki things on it and make it so it's
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  Speaker 2: really awesome. It is dragging out a bit, but that's
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  Speaker 2: in a good way because it's going to be an
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  Speaker 2: absolute machine once once it's out there repairing windows and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone wants to pimp it out, make sure that it's
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  Speaker 1: looking the best that it can.
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  Speaker 2: It's pimp your trailer, cash on repair style.
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  Speaker 1: That's Aughtso my love it. But how good is that?
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  Speaker 1: Because I reckon. What it actually shows is that you
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  Speaker 1: know that the community really wants to get behind it
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  Speaker 1: and look after each.
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  Speaker 2: Other absolutely, and that that is Catherine to a t.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I can't describe it any better than using
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  Speaker 2: this trailer as that example. Is that it just snowballs
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  Speaker 2: because people just they love their town and they want
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  Speaker 2: it to be the best that they can be, and
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  Speaker 2: they want to help any way that they can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he speaking of helping any way that you can.
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  Speaker 1: I know that there is a victim of crime fundraiser
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, as I understand, talk us through what this
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  Speaker 1: one's all about, Trent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So the Catherine Community Projects Association, which is the
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  Speaker 2: same group of people who are sorting out this repair trailer,
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  Speaker 2: we got whisper of a lady who was assaulted on
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  Speaker 2: her way home from work. She was eaten by about
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  Speaker 2: five or six youths to the point where she's got
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  Speaker 2: to have about five grand or so worth of dental
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  Speaker 2: reconstruction done on her teeth. Now, she is a working
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  Speaker 2: visa lady, so she's not really entitled to the sort
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  Speaker 2: of same medical system that we're so she's had to actually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this sort of stuff is not covered by
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  Speaker 2: any insurance, is not covered by anything, So she has
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  Speaker 2: to come up with that money. And yeah, once we
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  Speaker 2: heard about that, like, there was no way she works
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  Speaker 2: three jobs already, there was no way we were and
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  Speaker 2: to let her have to work more at ours try
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  Speaker 2: and come up with money to prepare her teeth that
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  Speaker 2: some cowards thought was a good idea to try and
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  Speaker 2: knock out of her mate. I was.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when I'd seen that detail emerge, and I
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  Speaker 1: felt utterly disgusted that that had happened and felt really sad.
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  Speaker 1: And then to hear that this person, that this woman
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  Speaker 1: is juggling three jobs and that she's actually now got
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  Speaker 1: to pay that medical bill herself is it's it is appalling,
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  Speaker 1: but it is a really good thing that the community
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  Speaker 1: is trying to support her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and we want it known to these people
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  Speaker 2: that like, we don't accept this behavior and we don't
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  Speaker 2: condone it in the slightest way at all. And if
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  Speaker 2: something like this is going to happen to anyone in
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  Speaker 2: our town, we're going to stand up for them and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to make sure that we put them back
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  Speaker 2: on the right path. Now, with her, we have had
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  Speaker 2: conversations with victims of crime and stuff like that. You
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  Speaker 2: know that all is in the pipework, but it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: so I think she lodged that form about seventeen days
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  Speaker 2: ago for an immediate payment, you know, seventeen days worth,
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  Speaker 2: and it's gone nowhere for her. So, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: have a good agreement with her. She doesn't want money
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  Speaker 2: off us. She wants us to just pay medical bills.
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  Speaker 2: She's not interested in taking people's money. She's absolutely fought
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  Speaker 2: me to the death on this, and I've told her
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  Speaker 2: she doesn't have a choice unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good, good on you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just such a it's such a Catherine thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The outpouring of support has been amazing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a fully painted buffalo skull here that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be first prize in a raffle We've had the
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  Speaker 2: local member come along and donate the second and third
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  Speaker 2: prizes for the raffle. We've just had people walking in
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  Speaker 2: giving five ten dollars. A doesn't matter, they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to be here on Saturday, but they wanted to contribute
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  Speaker 2: something to the younger lady. How can people the outcry
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  Speaker 2: of support is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: How can people donate? Trent? Because I reckon that people
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  Speaker 1: listening this morning, whether they're based in Catherine or whether
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  Speaker 1: they're based here in Darwin or any other part of
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  Speaker 1: the territory that they are actually really going to that
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  Speaker 1: they'll want to make a donation. Is there a way
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  Speaker 1: that they can do that?
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I didn't think it would turn into what it did, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: So I haven't got to go fund me or anything
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  Speaker 2: up and running yet. Unfortunately, that's all right, and get
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  Speaker 2: that I can get that on the way, because I
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  Speaker 2: have had a lot of people say, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't live there, but I want to donate to it.
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  Speaker 2: And our association is still in its infancy, so our
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  Speaker 2: bank account's not actually fully open yet, so I don't
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  Speaker 2: even have an account for them to donate to yet.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe i'll fire up a go fund me and
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  Speaker 2: and we can spread that. Let us know, look, just.
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  Speaker 1: Let us know. Yeah, and you know, I think that
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  Speaker 1: it's by the sounds of it, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic fundraiser anyway. So when exactly is it happening
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  Speaker 1: that barbecue and that is it tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tomorrow morning, so that other people want to get involved,
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  Speaker 2: come for it. Dropped down to Catherine. It is absolutely
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  Speaker 2: beautiful this time of year. The pop Rocket Cafe is
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  Speaker 2: going to be firing up tomorrow morning, So go and
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  Speaker 2: get a coffee at the Hot Springs and then you
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  Speaker 2: can come down and get a sausage sandwich or a
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  Speaker 2: pulled pork burger from eight point thirty in the morning
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  Speaker 2: at Roden Raffle Tackle World. So we're just on Giles
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  Speaker 2: Street in Catherine. We're going to have the Raffle going.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be people. I think a lady's coming
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  Speaker 2: to give away free fairy floss to the kid. There's
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  Speaker 2: just yeah, there's going to be a great little buzz
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  Speaker 2: down here. And so if you feel like coming for
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  Speaker 2: a drive and you want to contribute to come down
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  Speaker 2: and check out cakem and take it out mate.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on a second, you go full gourmet for your barbecues.
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  Speaker 1: By the sounds of a shol we don't muck around.
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  Speaker 2: We don't muck around. Yeah. So I also do a
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  Speaker 2: little side business of smoked meat and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: And so tonight I'm going to at about eight o'clock tonight,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to put on two big, beautiful pork shoulders
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  Speaker 2: which are going to smoke all night and in the
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  Speaker 2: morning they're going to be ready to pull apart, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be doing pulled pork burghers as well
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  Speaker 2: as the sausage, saying is all morning, mate.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon Crystal, my producer, and I am just about
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  Speaker 1: ready to get in the car draftic.
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  Speaker 2: Catherine loaded up and down.
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  Speaker 1: I love it now before I let you go. This morning,
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  Speaker 1: you did just starlight swim. You were raising money and
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  Speaker 1: you were obviously swimming. I can't remember how many kilometers?
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  Speaker 1: Was it forty?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it was. I think that's nice. Yet it's a
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  Speaker 2: bit too many. It was sixteen kilometers.
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  Speaker 1: I feel extra.
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  Speaker 2: I did a kilometer a day for sixteen days. We
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  Speaker 2: ended up raising a touch over seventeen thousand dollars. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we were number four in Australia for donors, so that
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  Speaker 2: was you know, from the community and everyone involved. It
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  Speaker 2: was such a such a cool thing to see that
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  Speaker 2: we could be in the top ten, not just the
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  Speaker 2: top ten, the top five in Australia for donations. So
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  Speaker 2: it was really cool and yeah, I enjoyed that swim.
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  Speaker 2: I did indulge afterwards the colors fuelile in willing to
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  Speaker 2: get a touch up after those swimming days. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was it was so good A.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff mate. I love what you're doing in Catherine,
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  Speaker 1: all the great stuff that is going on, and I
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  Speaker 1: particularly think that it's wonderful that the community is really
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  Speaker 1: rallying for that young lady who was attagged after she
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  Speaker 1: was finishing work. I just thought it was appalling when
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  Speaker 1: we all sort of heard that story come through, and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the community is really rallying to support
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  Speaker 1: her is a beautiful thing and shows you what kind
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  Speaker 1: of community Catherine is.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely I was quite embarrassed actually when I saw that
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  Speaker 2: news report about what had happened. But this takes all
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  Speaker 2: that away, you know, when it has to be people
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  Speaker 2: rally around her because it's not what Catherine's about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a few cowards out there that are doing this,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, we're going to just let them know that
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  Speaker 2: it's not okay, and we're going to get this young
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  Speaker 2: girl fixed up and she'll be smiling beautifully again while
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  Speaker 2: she was working at brumby VP and McDonald's.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good honor. What an absolute legend. Well, Trent, you
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  Speaker 1: are a legend as well, mate. It is always good
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  Speaker 1: to catch up with. Thank you so much for having
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  Speaker 1: a chat with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Codie, appreciate the time. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks mate,