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Finding Your Voice Through Music With JIMMY KYLE From CHASING GHOSTS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you about the time where the warriors
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Speaker 1: help strong. They've got a lot of colonial corps to
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Speaker 1: band them where they belong.
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Speaker 2: Anyone to tell you anyone else.
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Speaker 3: My name is Shimmy Kyle. I'm from Chasing Ghosts. Chasing
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Speaker 3: Ghosts an arm based band, and I'm in Lutraal Window
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Speaker 3: in Tasmania. Long testem but the majority of the bands
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Speaker 3: in nam had been there in Melbourne for a long time.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And a new single is a single called Amnesia Everybody,
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Speaker 3: and it's about colonial cop killers and the massacres in
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Speaker 3: Australia led by police officers and the collective amnesia the
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Speaker 3: country has around what's happened here?
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Speaker 4: Beautiful way. Thanks for joining us today, Jimmy, no worries.
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Speaker 5: You mentioned that Jason Goes recently released your new single,
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Speaker 5: Abne's Everybody not long ago actually, So how's the early
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Speaker 5: response been to it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Great, I think it's overwhelmingly really really really good.
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Speaker 3: I think it's just like reinvigorated the fan base after
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Speaker 3: a couple of years since our previous release, which was Homelands,
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Speaker 3: which did really well, and this one's taken a little
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Speaker 3: bit longer, just between moving between record labels, and sometimes
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Speaker 3: that can take a little bit longer than we'd like.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, so's it's been. We've been waiting for about
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Speaker 3: twelve months to have released this stuff, which has given
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Speaker 3: us an opportunity to write for a future record in
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Speaker 3: the interim. But it's really really relieving and satisfying to
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Speaker 3: be able to share this with people now.
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Speaker 5: Now we'll get into the song itself in a bit
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Speaker 5: more great detail soon, but first tells about the song
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Speaker 5: musically and what you're going for with it.
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Speaker 3: I think musically it was it has like a little
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Speaker 3: bit of this midnight oil that's kind of like in
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Speaker 3: my DNA from being a kid listening to midnight all records,
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Speaker 3: and there's just a little bit of that Hearst style drumming,
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Speaker 3: like it's really it's it's sort of really driven by
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Speaker 3: the drums, and it's it's a lot more high energy,
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Speaker 3: probably probably from previous Chasing Ghost records, and it's a
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Speaker 3: lot more polished than previous Chasing Ghost records. So between
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Speaker 3: the earlier material and the later material, one of the
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Speaker 3: places I felt we could evolved was in bringing a
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Speaker 3: really polished sound to the music, and that's not something
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Speaker 3: we've done Traditionally, I'd always been someone who's interested in
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Speaker 3: like recording to tape, using real to real and half
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Speaker 3: inch tape, and I didn't use things like beat detectors
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Speaker 3: or auto tune or or I didn't really go into
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Speaker 3: pro tools if I could avoid it. And as the
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Speaker 3: records have evolved, I've sort of expanded my ideas around
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Speaker 3: that and left some of that traditionalists stubborn kind of
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Speaker 3: archaic ways in the past and have seen the light
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Speaker 3: and have joined the contemporary new world producers in all
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Speaker 3: the luxuries that exist now when recording music. So that's
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Speaker 3: probably one of the big changes. It's big and shiny,
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Speaker 3: and that's that's been really good for us. It's been
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Speaker 3: something that's you know, we've sort of moved out of
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Speaker 3: that low fi kind of poison city record sounding punk
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Speaker 3: rock bands into something that's a little bit more luscious.
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Speaker 3: It's a little less intimate, but it's definitely big, shiny
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Speaker 3: and powerful good now.
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Speaker 5: As you say, the Son of self Lyrically, it deals
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Speaker 5: with a very important issue made or important issues, So tell.
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Speaker 4: Us a bit more about that.
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Speaker 3: Well, probably if you're like most Australians, there's probably a
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Speaker 3: pretty big blind spot around race relationships, and a lot
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Speaker 3: of that comes from and in particular with First Nations people,
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Speaker 3: not necessarily with others, but with Aboriginal folks, and a
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Speaker 3: lot of that probably has to do with that. In
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Speaker 3: our history that we're taught at school. Most people that
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Speaker 3: I would speak to have raised that there's a big
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Speaker 3: gap in their education around what's actually occurred in the country,
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Speaker 3: and that people have some broad understanding, but in reality,
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Speaker 3: the period of time before the mining boom, the gold
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Speaker 3: Rush and sort of back from the first fleet, there's
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Speaker 3: seventy years in our curriculum we just don't talk about.
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Speaker 3: And in that seventy years, the East Coast and the
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Speaker 3: West Coast were in endless skirmishes, battles, wars, confrontations with
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Speaker 3: First Nations peoples, and a lot of those people that
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Speaker 3: led those battles that let from an English perspective, many
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Speaker 3: of the people that have schools, universities, cities, towns named
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Speaker 3: after them, and many of them were open massacres on
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Speaker 3: what you might say is civilians. And I guess there's
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Speaker 3: this gap in the Australian psyche that won that Aboriginal people.
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Speaker 3: We did defend our nations with warriors that led resistances
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Speaker 3: like Jaegen and Jandamara on the West coast and on
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Speaker 3: you know, in Tazzy it was people like Chuggannini and
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Speaker 3: Malboyna and Tanamineweight, And in Queensland it was people like
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Speaker 3: Billy Barlow and Dunderley, and in places like New South
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Speaker 3: Wales it was pum Away and wind Hine and Garibaldi
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Speaker 3: and lots of resistance fighters all around the country fought
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Speaker 3: and led their nations to fight back against British colonialism.
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Speaker 3: And I think the what people probably aren't cognizant of
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Speaker 3: is that massacres that did kill women and children that
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Speaker 3: we often have idolized these people and senitized their their
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Speaker 3: crimes and senitize their history and whitewashed it to make
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Speaker 3: them out to be honorable people when in reality they
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Speaker 3: were murderers, and they were murderers of children and innocent
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Speaker 3: civilians that were defending their homelands. So a really good
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Speaker 3: example of that might be Governor James Sterling High School.
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Speaker 3: Governor James Sterling led the Pinjara massacre on the binjurab
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Speaker 3: Nongar people in borlou or Perth. And you know, I
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Speaker 3: wouldn't think it's appropriate to name a high school Martin
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Speaker 3: Bryant High School, and he led a massacre in this country,
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Speaker 3: and everyone was, you know, has to remember how massacres
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Speaker 3: like that, or the Christchurch killer massacre in New Zealand,
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Speaker 3: how they profoundly affected our nations. And that's no different.
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Speaker 3: That's really no different, except for we don't sanitize Martin Bryant.
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Speaker 4: And what he did.
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Speaker 3: We hold him accountable and we put him in a
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Speaker 3: prison cell for it. So that's like one small example.
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Speaker 3: There's quite a lot of others that I could illustrate
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Speaker 3: for you. You know, we've named our cities after slavers,
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Speaker 3: like Robert Towns, the slaver that towns Full is named
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Speaker 3: after Benjamin Boyd, the largest slaver in Australia, that Boyd
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Speaker 3: town is named after. McKay is named after John McKay,
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Speaker 3: another slaver, and between the three of them they enslaved
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Speaker 3: sixty five and a half thousand people in a period
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Speaker 3: of time when there would have been lucky to be
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Speaker 3: one hundred thousand non indigenous people in the country. The
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Speaker 3: fact that most people don't know that, and that's not
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Speaker 3: on the forefront of people's minds, especially when dealing in
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Speaker 3: indigenous communities in South the islander communities, I think is
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Speaker 3: evident in the poor relationships that we've got today. So
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Speaker 3: songs like this are about bringing it back to people's
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Speaker 3: attention to understand that there's not a country on the
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Speaker 3: planet that colonization has affected that the people colonized do
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Speaker 3: as well as the colonizer. In every single country that's
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Speaker 3: been colonized, the colonized are the powerful. They hold the reins,
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Speaker 3: they hold the purse strings, they steal the land, they
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Speaker 3: take the resources, they decimate the population, and then if
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Speaker 3: that population over the course of time talks out against
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Speaker 3: these things, they're gas lit as being the problem. And
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Speaker 3: I think most people today could see that that's that's
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Speaker 3: the reality of Australia, that we're in an occupied country
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Speaker 3: that doesn't have a treaty with its First Nations people.
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Speaker 3: We're the only Commonwealth country on the planet that doesn't
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Speaker 3: have a treaty with First Nations people. And we're also
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Speaker 3: have the worst statistics of every country that has been
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Speaker 3: colonized that doesn't have treaties with First Nations people. So
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Speaker 3: it creates a culture that one doesn't know the atrocities
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Speaker 3: that have occurred on its soil. It creates a culture
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Speaker 3: where victim blaming Aboriginal people for our own dispossession is common,
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Speaker 3: which would be in any other circumstances probably frowned upon,
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Speaker 3: where it's quite normalized in Australia to victim blame indigenous
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Speaker 3: people for our own dispossession, you know, and that'd be
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Speaker 3: like trying to you know, blame say Ukraine for Russia
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Speaker 3: invading and saying, oh, well, you know, it's might is right.
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Speaker 3: And I think Australians that think it's arguments like might
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Speaker 3: is right or we conquered Indigenous people, which I've heard
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Speaker 3: a lot of that sort of narrative, I think they
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Speaker 3: have to remember that if you believe miight is right
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Speaker 3: and the CCP one day decides to give Australia a
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Speaker 3: run for its money, they might want to remember that
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Speaker 3: might is not always right and also is at the time.
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Speaker 3: You know, we have to also understand that would how
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Speaker 3: would you how would we expect First Nations people to
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Speaker 3: respond to being occupied? And there's a you know, I
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Speaker 3: think we can see how everyone else on the planet
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Speaker 3: who's occupied, like Palestinian people for example, in the West
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Speaker 3: Bank and in Gaza. It doesn't look like people are
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Speaker 3: very grateful for the situation. That looks like people are
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Speaker 3: very resistant. And so that same sort of ethos for
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Speaker 3: Aboriginal people still exists, that this is Aboriginal land, that
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Speaker 3: many people call it home, and they're welcome to call
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Speaker 3: at home. But we have to reckon with our past
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Speaker 3: like mature adults and understand that you know, only eighty
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Speaker 3: years ago we still had massacres occurring in the Northern Territory,
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Speaker 3: that fifty percent of the massacres were led by colonial
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Speaker 3: police officers that killed unsuspecting innocent people en mass within
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Speaker 3: hundreds and hundreds of people at a time, such as
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Speaker 3: the Connistant Station massacre, which was in nineteen twenty eight,
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Speaker 3: in between World War One and World War Two, and
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Speaker 3: you know all the Rufous the Rufous River massacre of
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Speaker 3: nineteen twenty six in Western Australia. And I think if
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Speaker 3: you start to timeline these dates arguments like when are
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Speaker 3: we going to get over it? That'd be like me
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Speaker 3: saying to someone, well, when are you going to get
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Speaker 3: over World War one and World War two? And telling
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Speaker 3: that to a digger, you know, that would be highly offensive.
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Speaker 3: It'd be that those conflicts have shaped own nations identity,
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Speaker 3: but so have these massacres shaped Aboriginal people's identity as well.
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Speaker 3: It's left an indelible impact on us, and the lack
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Speaker 3: of recognition, the lack of responsible, mature dialogue, has declined
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Speaker 3: us into you know, silly Facebook comments, Sky News insanity
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Speaker 3: and Rupert Murdock brainwashing people. So it's a shame that
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Speaker 3: we don't have a curriculum that can mitigate some of
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Speaker 3: that irrational hyperbole that we hear in the media. And
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Speaker 3: the reality is we don't it. We don't have a
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Speaker 3: curriculum that teaches it. And so I'm fortunate to be
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Speaker 3: one of the people that do teach this subject as
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Speaker 3: a content expert, as a professional in the field, and
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Speaker 3: it naturally as an Aboriginal man. It permeates some of
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Speaker 3: my songwriting. And if you're a punk like I am,
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Speaker 3: and I've always proudly been into punk rock and metal
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Speaker 3: and hardcore and those sorts of things, is you have,
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Speaker 3: you know, your microphone is your weapon, and you have
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Speaker 3: an obligation to speak, to speak up and to speak
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Speaker 3: truth to power. And some people get their feathers ruffled
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Speaker 3: by it, but you know, I think It's ironic that
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Speaker 3: the same people who get their feathers ruffled by it
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Speaker 3: probably still seeing rage against the machine killing in the
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Speaker 3: name and don't realize what the lyrics are about. So
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Speaker 3: when you hear, you know, lines like some of those
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Speaker 3: that were enforces at the saying that burn crosses, that
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Speaker 3: is Australia's policing. You'd only have to look at the
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Speaker 3: most recent Northern Territory Police commissioner that this year resigned
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Speaker 3: after he was pushed out because he apologized to First
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Speaker 3: Nations people for the atrocities that had occurred in only
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Speaker 3: eighty years ago in the Northern Territory, the open poisoning
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Speaker 3: of people, the open shooting of people eighty years ago.
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Speaker 3: You know, I asked people to think about how all
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Speaker 3: their grandparents are and imagine, you know, in Australia we
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Speaker 3: have different lived experiences and some non Indigenous people that
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Speaker 3: come to the country have brilliant experiences and that's terrific.
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Speaker 3: We want more of that. But for many First Nations people,
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Speaker 3: it is in the lived memory of people. It is
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Speaker 3: in the historical memory. It is in the family DNA
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Speaker 3: that we know who the murderers were. We know about
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Speaker 3: people like Frank Hahn, the headhunter of the golf and
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Speaker 3: carpet terrier, who decapitated people and sent their skulls to Europe.
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Speaker 3: We know down here about in Tasmania about people like
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Speaker 3: William Crowther who dug up Aboriginal people's bodies and cut
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Speaker 3: them up and sent them to Europe and three years
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Speaker 3: later became the premier of the state. We know about
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Speaker 3: the Edward Hentyes that led the first massacres in Tasmania
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Speaker 3: and Victoria, and of course we named the town after
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Speaker 3: him as well. And this goes on and on. These
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Speaker 3: killer cops have streets named after him, and Darwin and
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Speaker 3: Alice Springs. They have a polith of things that try
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Speaker 3: and make them seem like decent people. But the basic
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Speaker 3: tenets we have as adults that we would teach children
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Speaker 3: is not to steal, not to be violent, to use
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Speaker 3: your words to resolve things. But yet we hold these
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Speaker 3: adults up up on statues, naming high schools after them,
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Speaker 3: cities after them, that we know exactly what they've done.
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Speaker 3: And that's like a cognitive dissonance. When we talk about
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Speaker 3: Australia believing in matship or the fair go, or that
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Speaker 3: we're a country that believes you should be measured on
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Speaker 3: your merit, not by the color of your skin. And
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Speaker 3: it's not to make people feel guilty there's they don't
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Speaker 3: have to feel guilty. That's not the purpose. The purpose
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Speaker 3: is to actually recognize what's occurred in the country and
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Speaker 3: make some mature roads forward.
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Speaker 4: Along those lines. Bro Like, when are your writing songs
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Speaker 4: like this?
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Speaker 5: Like are you more writing for yourself to sort of
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Speaker 5: get it off your chest, or you're writing it and
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Speaker 5: the hope of belief that other people might take it
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Speaker 5: on board and understand.
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Speaker 3: Both. Maybe both is probably the answer. I find it
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Speaker 3: really hard as a First Nations person to buy into
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Speaker 3: the jingoism of Australia. You know, I find it hard
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Speaker 3: because it's it's it's built on a lot of fabrication.
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Speaker 3: And I'd love to. I'd love to participate in the
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Speaker 3: in some sort of sense of patriotic nationalism of some sort.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'd love to, But I can't. No, I
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Speaker 3: can't as long as it's if we're not being honest
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Speaker 3: with one another. It's an elephant in the room and
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Speaker 3: it feels disingenuous. And when I see the response to
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Speaker 3: things as gracious as being welcomed to country and now
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Speaker 3: we have rednecks driving around with stickers saying it ain't
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Speaker 3: welcome me to main country. It's sad like five years
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Speaker 3: ago they wouldn't even know on what traditional lands they're on,
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Speaker 3: and they don't think. Well, we've made Aboriginal people tolerate
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Speaker 3: the national anthem that states that we're young and free
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Speaker 3: when we're the oldest continent, were the oldest people on
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Speaker 3: the con the in the in the world, and we're
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Speaker 3: the most incarcerated black population on the planet, eight times
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Speaker 3: higher than apartheid in South Africa, in Western Australia, eleven
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Speaker 3: times higher in the Nose than Territory. In fact, in
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Speaker 3: the Northern Territory at the moment, every single child in
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Speaker 3: detention is Aboriginal or Torrostraight Islander, which is bizarre because
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Speaker 3: that would infer that white children never commit crimes, which
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Speaker 3: means that in every other state somehow where white kids
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Speaker 3: commit crimes, usually seventy percent of the prison system would
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Speaker 3: be white because of the population that somehow, in the
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Speaker 3: Northern Territory, white kids just don't commit crimes. They just never, ever, ever, ever,
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Speaker 3: ever ever stuff up, and Aboriginal kids seem to always
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Speaker 3: be the ones. How can we have one hundred percent
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Speaker 3: incarceration of a group of people that make up thirty
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Speaker 3: percent of the territory population. And the answer to that
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Speaker 3: would be, well, perhaps the same people that were leading
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Speaker 3: massacres and staying in power until nineteen sixty seven, people
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Speaker 3: like Alexander Downer's grandfather who supplied the bullets. And then
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Speaker 3: you wonder how we get these legacy politicians that hold
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Speaker 3: racist beliefs. So perhaps those people have left a culture
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Speaker 3: in the police force where Aboriginal people are over policed.
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Speaker 3: Non Indigenous kids are seen as kids, they're not seen
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Speaker 3: as adults. And that, in the words of Mandela, that
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Speaker 3: we might understand that wherever there is poverty, we will
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Speaker 3: find crime. That doesn't mean people don't have personal responsibility
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Speaker 3: or accountability, but instead of working with communities as partners,
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Speaker 3: what we see is paternalism. We see treating Aboriginal people
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Speaker 3: with children, giving people, you know, telling people based on
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Speaker 3: where they live or on their race, whether or not
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Speaker 3: they're allowed to have a drink, which I find weird
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Speaker 3: because here in Tasmania, I can go into any pub
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Speaker 3: and see drunk white fellows all the time, and no
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Speaker 3: one says anything about their whiteness being the issue. I
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Speaker 3: can go to Melbourne and see every pub chocer block
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Speaker 3: full of drunk white fellows, and no one brings up
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Speaker 3: there whiteness as the catalysts for their alcoholism. In fact,
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Speaker 3: if you're white and you drink, you're an AUSSI alaric
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Speaker 3: and you're a champion. You know, we write songs about it,
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Speaker 3: like going on smokeo and having bees and all that vibe,
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Speaker 3: and there's nothing wrong with that. But let's be consistent
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Speaker 3: across the board that if we're if we're holding one
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Speaker 3: group to accountability, then perhaps we you know, we need
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Speaker 3: to hold everyone to accountability.
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Speaker 5: Brother, Now, is is Amnesia Everybody a standalone single for
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Speaker 5: you guys? Or is it a start of a new cycle?
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Speaker 3: Start of a new cycle?
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Speaker 2: Bro?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely?
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Speaker 4: Can you tell us about that? How far advanced is it?
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Speaker 4: What sort of directions are going to take?
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Speaker 3: More energy, more sing alongs, more anthems, more attitude, just more,
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Speaker 3: just more. I was trying to think, how do I
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Speaker 3: every record's changed, you know, like Chasing Ghosts is a
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Speaker 3: started out as like a punk troubadour or doing acoustic
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Speaker 3: folk music in the first record and then we're sort
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Speaker 3: of full records down the track and gone back to
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Speaker 3: many of us played in hardcore bands and punk bands
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Speaker 3: years ago, and it's sort of embodied some of that.
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Speaker 3: It it's come back to big energy sort of music
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Speaker 3: and the quiet patch, you know, the quiet ballads are
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Speaker 3: probably dissipated into the past, and the Yeah, there's a
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Speaker 3: resurgence of punk rock again.
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Speaker 5: I would you put that down to bro Like, it's
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Speaker 5: a lot of people grow and change over time in music.
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Speaker 5: But the change you've described then from the acoustics sort
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Speaker 5: of stuff to the full on punk stuff coming back
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Speaker 5: like the opposite.
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Speaker 4: Why is it change? What's happened with you guys to
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Speaker 4: make that change?
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Speaker 3: I think when I left the hardcore scene, or I
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Speaker 3: thought I left, like the thirteen years ago, it was
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Speaker 3: a real toxic kind of place. It's a lot better now,
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Speaker 3: thank god. It was full of egos and skinny leg jeans,
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Speaker 3: and I find it really bizarre that blokes with such
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Speaker 3: skinny jeans would act like they're such tough fullas And
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of hair straighteners I remember, and a
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Speaker 3: lot of hair spray and look, it was all it
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Speaker 3: was dope. It was a lot of good stuff too,
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Speaker 3: like I'm not gonna knock all of it. It was
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Speaker 3: a lot of good stuff. But I left and I
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Speaker 3: didn't like the attitude it had, and I wanted to
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Speaker 3: go and write something humble, something reflective, and I borrowed
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Speaker 3: my dad's guitar. I didn't even have an acoustic guitar.
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Speaker 3: I didn't have a lot of self confidence in my
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Speaker 3: ability to write songs. And it was like a rebirth.
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Speaker 3: And so I released that and toured around Australia, Asia,
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Speaker 3: New Zealand eventually to Europe and sort of pathed a
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Speaker 3: bit of a way forward in that folk punk space.
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Speaker 3: And you know, there were a couple of other people
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Speaker 3: doing similar things at the time. But and then by
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Speaker 3: the time I did the second record, I did it
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Speaker 3: with Andrew from Comeback Kid Andrew Newfield, and it was
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Speaker 3: like again, it wasn't a hardcore record, even though it
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Speaker 3: was a bunch of hardcore guys. It was a different
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Speaker 3: type of record. It was like a rock and roll record,
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Speaker 3: I guess. And then by the time the Third Incarnation
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Speaker 3: came around, we'd started to move back towards our punk
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Speaker 3: rock roots and here we are now, and I just
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Speaker 3: think it was I needed to express something in a
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Speaker 3: different way at the time, and chasing ghosts, you know,
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Speaker 3: reincarnated itself several times over and hopefully continues to do that.
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Speaker 3: I grew up on that legacy of bands that didn't
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Speaker 3: release the same album three times in a row. You
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Speaker 3: know that they did. They challenged themselves to write something
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Speaker 3: broader and bigger, and I don't know if I nail that,
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Speaker 3: but I think it's definitely in my DNA as a songwriter.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 5: He also set out on Twitter promoting a single next month,
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Speaker 5: starting in Brisbane October tenth. Then he hit Sydney and
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Speaker 5: Melbourne over consecutive nights. So what can people expect fro him?
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Speaker 5: Jason goes from those shows.
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Speaker 3: A lot of fun, a lot of I'm going to
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Speaker 3: let the music do the talking. I think, you know,
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Speaker 3: I've done some sort of spoken word acoustic solo shows
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Speaker 3: that have been really fun in the past. This will
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Speaker 3: be time to have a drink, time to bring your mates,
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Speaker 3: trying to have a sing along and you know, bang
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Speaker 3: your head a bit and tap your foot and get rowdy,
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Speaker 3: and we're just really keen to get out and see
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Speaker 3: lots of old friends that are coming out, which is
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Speaker 3: great lots of young fans coming out and people that
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Speaker 3: have been on the journey with us this whole time.
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Speaker 3: So we're just excited to be able to see people
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Speaker 3: and get out there and play music and bring some
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Speaker 3: new tunes to the stage.
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Speaker 5: Fan classic and just say, someone's watching this and they
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Speaker 5: like the sound of the band and they want to come.
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Speaker 5: They don't know if you will give us three songs
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Speaker 5: from Chasing Ghost to listen to so they know.
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Speaker 3: What to expect, all right, Well, latest single Amnesia, everybody
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Speaker 3: got to jump on that for sure. Bustard Lum which
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Speaker 3: has probably been our most successful single previously, which is
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Speaker 3: a folk punk banger, so I think people might dig
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Speaker 3: that one. And I'm going to go with a track
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Speaker 3: called an Anthem for Bastard Slyeres and cheats. They might
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Speaker 3: enjoy that one as well. So lots of punk rock,
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Speaker 3: lots of storyteller lyrics and yeah, lots of attitudes. Hopefully
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Speaker 3: everyone comes out and has.
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Speaker 4: A ball fantasy. Kimmy, thanks very much for your time.
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Speaker 4: I'd been an absolute pleasure speak with you. I need
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Speaker 4: everybody is out now.
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Speaker 5: Chors in Bristolane October ten, Sydney October eleventh, Melbourne, October twelve.
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Speaker 4: So get along and support the boys.
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Speaker 3: Thanks Chris Cheers.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you bad the time when the warriors
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Speaker 1: helps strong, they got's alettal colonial cops defend them where
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Speaker 1: they belongs.
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Speaker 2: But if there is anyone to tell you, if there
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Speaker 2: isn't anyone who's I should have been a lot to
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Speaker 2: tell you, must be pleasure. Everybody does. Everything is fine.
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Speaker 2: It's all okay, everything is fine.
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Speaker 3: Just no the sony die.
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Speaker 4: Let me tell you.
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Speaker 1: Bout the time the Gonja bulls came through. They let
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Speaker 1: the killings and rode the bulls pot justice when never know.
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Speaker 2: They shout up man, someone to tell you. They shout
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Speaker 2: up man, someone to sign a HIA protected poly statues
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Speaker 2: while they lied to you off by nature. Everybody, everything
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Speaker 2: is fine, it's all they the kind, Everything is fine,
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Speaker 2: just another day.
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Speaker 1: The once they caught and killed me come from never
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Speaker 1: took the ser wine.
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Speaker 2: Man's gone, but you're stilling.
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Speaker 3: You.
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Speaker 1: We still.
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Speaker 4: At the back of their part back.
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Speaker 2: Cleaning out that boots cry.
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Speaker 1: Walk around with my chin hell high snipe and is
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Speaker 1: always Corey.
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Speaker 2: Broad the back of their pop cleaning out back boots cry,
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Speaker 2: walk around with my chin how high living in West
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Speaker 2: notmin that's lit.
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Speaker 3: Everything's on the finde.
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Speaker 2: It's never been a guy. I think it's side. Somebody's
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Speaker 2: gone side.
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Speaker 4: What adcitation you.
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Speaker 2: Papa, even
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