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Katie Woolf spoke with Dolly's Dad Tick Everett about dollysdream.org.au · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Mix one O four point nine dot com for all
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  Speaker 1: the latest news and information. Now three sixty with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone is listening Mix one oh four point nine one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: I know many of you out there listening would have
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  Speaker 2: heard of Dolly's Dream. It was established in twenty eighteen
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  Speaker 2: by Northern Territory couple Kate and Tick Everett after their
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  Speaker 2: fourteen year old daughter Dolly took her life after well,
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  Speaker 2: it followed sustained and ongoing bullying and online bullying. Now
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  Speaker 2: Dolly's Dream acts as a voice for those who can't
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  Speaker 2: speak for themselves, and every year they hold Do It
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  Speaker 2: for Dolly Day in her honor and ask communities to
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  Speaker 2: wear blue, stand up against bullying and spread kindness. And
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  Speaker 2: joining me on the line this morning to tell us
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more about how we can get involved.
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  Speaker 3: It is Tick Everett. Good morning to you, Tick. Good
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  Speaker 3: o Katie, how are you really well?
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you on the show, mate. We always
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  Speaker 2: appreciate your time time.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is good to hear from you. Now we
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  Speaker 3: know that Do It for Dolly Day.
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  Speaker 2: It is such a fantastic day in terms of raising
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  Speaker 2: awareness and speaking about the prevention of bullying.
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  Speaker 3: Mate.
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  Speaker 2: I admire you and your wife so much around the
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  Speaker 2: work that you've done after the loss of your beautiful
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  Speaker 2: daughter Dolly. It must be a bittersweet day for you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely it's mate. I mean, it's a bit of sweet,
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  Speaker 4: is definitely it. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we started, we started Billy's stream, so nobody
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  Speaker 4: else ll have to go down this path, well at
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  Speaker 4: least few people will, so I mean we've got to
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  Speaker 4: We've got to take the broad side out everything. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what we that's what we love about Ellie Day.
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  Speaker 4: It's a colorful day, it's a happy day, and hopefully
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  Speaker 4: it starts those conversations that parents don't know how to
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  Speaker 4: help with their children.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's such an important conversation I think to have.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've got little please, mine are a bit younger,
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  Speaker 2: they're ten and eight. But you know, you sort of
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  Speaker 2: wonder as a parent as well, how early you need
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  Speaker 2: to start having those conversations too.
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  Speaker 4: Oh for sure, I think you know, the earlier you
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  Speaker 4: can get you get the trust of your children and
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  Speaker 4: get their confidence that they can talk to you about
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  Speaker 4: whatever issues is going on. The easier the rest of
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  Speaker 4: their life and your life is going to be you
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  Speaker 4: know that they feel they don't have to keep a
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  Speaker 4: secret no matter what it is. You know, their whole
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  Speaker 4: life will will be a whole lot better off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, every year, you know, I just think it's wonderful
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  Speaker 2: to see the number of businesses, the number of people
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  Speaker 2: that get involved in do it for Dolly Day.
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  Speaker 3: It's happening tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: What can we expect for the day.
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  Speaker 4: There's a range of absolutely everything going on tomorrow all
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  Speaker 4: around the country. It's you know, it's actually it's very
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  Speaker 4: uwarming to see. There's everything from auctions to loose sausages
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  Speaker 4: to raffles too. It's the face painting to walks and
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  Speaker 4: runs and yeah, I think if you name it, it's happening.
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  Speaker 4: So which is which is exactly what we want. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's all about just raising the awareness and keeping the
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  Speaker 4: conversation going and and you know, it brings communities together,
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  Speaker 4: which is where it all starts. Enough that you've got
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  Speaker 4: a happy community, you've got happy kids, and then you've
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  Speaker 4: got a faith community. So that's what we're all about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, even the gym that I go to,
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  Speaker 2: they're encouraging everybody to wear blue tomorrow morning, which I'll
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  Speaker 2: make sure that I do. I reckon it's an excellent
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  Speaker 2: initiative and that message, like you said, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: really understand those signs of bullying as well and have
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  Speaker 2: that discussion as families is such an important thing to do,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely? Absolutely? You just can't do enough of it. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, as as I keep saying, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 4: not all about the money and everything else. It's about
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  Speaker 4: the conversations about helping the kids and you know, the
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  Speaker 4: little the kids of young middle and parents that don't
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  Speaker 4: know how to speak up when they need the help.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is such Yeah, I can't speak highly enough
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  Speaker 2: of the work that you and Kate have done. It's
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's something that I just think is pretty phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, the whole of the country is getting involved.
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  Speaker 2: There's people from all around the place doing different things.
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  Speaker 2: How far are we talking tick? I mean, where about
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  Speaker 2: the people getting involved?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Well, I mean we've I've heard of people from
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  Speaker 4: from Cansville. I've heard whiskers of stuff happening in Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: home in Darwen and home in Catherine. You know, the
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  Speaker 4: Catherine community is always their first one is to put
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  Speaker 4: the ends up. So you know, it's just amazing what's
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  Speaker 4: going on down there in that little down you know,
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  Speaker 4: the whole community is getting behind it, which is just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a wonderful place, Catherine and such good people.
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  Speaker 3: Dick, how does it make you, guys feel on you know,
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  Speaker 3: on do it for Dolly Day?
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  Speaker 2: When you sort of have a look on social media
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  Speaker 2: and you watch the news and you see how far
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  Speaker 2: and wide this message has spread.
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  Speaker 4: It's you know, it's an honor. It's you know, not
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  Speaker 4: just just a Kate and I. I mean, it's the
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  Speaker 4: water community that are prepared to speak up and put
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  Speaker 4: themselves out there and make themselves as vulnerable as Kate
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  Speaker 4: and I do. And we you know, and we've seen
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  Speaker 4: up and tell our story. It's it's one thing, but
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  Speaker 4: when you get complete strangers that are happy to turn
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  Speaker 4: up and tell theirs and you know, that's what we're
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  Speaker 4: all about. Very very heartwarming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh good on you guys. And of course people
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  Speaker 2: can get some more information on Dolly's Dream dot org
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  Speaker 2: dot au and I will make sure throughout the morning
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  Speaker 2: as well and tomorrow that we remind people of those
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  Speaker 2: seven signs of bullying. I think it's a really good
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  Speaker 2: practical way for us as parents to keep a bit
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  Speaker 2: of an eye out. And yeah, we really appreciate your time,
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  Speaker 2: but I really appreciate the work that you're doing as well.
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  Speaker 4: Good on you, Katie, thank you very much for everything.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, thank you to everybody near and far. And
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  Speaker 4: we really appreciate the sport.
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  Speaker 2: Any time, Tick, and I'll tell you what we'll all
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  Speaker 2: be doing it for Dolly tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Good on you, mate, thank.
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  Speaker 4: You, Good on you, Katy, Thanks very much, Aye, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And oh he's such a good blow, Tick Everett. He
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  Speaker 2: and his wife Kate. Honestly, the work that they have
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  Speaker 2: done is simply phenomenal if you ask me. But like
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  Speaker 2: you'd said there as well, the Catherine community, the way
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  Speaker 2: that you guys have rallied to support each other and
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  Speaker 2: to make this turn this absolute tragedy into something that
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  Speaker 2: the whole of the nation now gets involved in it
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  Speaker 2: is just admirable. And as I said, there are those
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  Speaker 2: seven seven signs which they're really urging parents to understand,
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  Speaker 2: the seven signs of bullying. One of them, they become
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  Speaker 2: upset or anxious when they're using their devices. The second
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  Speaker 2: one they suddenly stop using their devices, and there is
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  Speaker 2: a bit more detail with some of these points as well.
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  Speaker 2: The third one they lose interest in things that they
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  Speaker 2: used to enjoy or struggle with mood changes. The fourth
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  Speaker 2: is unexpected changes in friendship groups, the fifth a decline
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  Speaker 2: in schoolwork. The sixth one there avoidance of school or clubs,
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  Speaker 2: and that seventh one avoiding other teams teens or seemingly lonely, depressed,
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  Speaker 2: sad or anxious. And you know, just remember that those
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  Speaker 2: warning signs do not necessarily mean that a teen is
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  Speaker 2: being bullied online.
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  Speaker 3: There could be something else wrong.
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  Speaker 2: But the really important thing is to talk to someone
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  Speaker 2: who'll support you, such as a parent, a GP or
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  Speaker 2: a mentor. And you can speak to a mental health
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  Speaker 2: professional for free on Dolly's Dream Support line, which is
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  Speaker 2: zero four double eight double eight one zero double three.
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  Speaker 2: You can also head to Dollysdream dot org dot au