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NT Wheelchair Racer Clive Baxter, Nurse Amber and Tony Sievers are encouraging Territorians to take part in the Ride Against Cancer this weekend, which aims to raise funds for the Alan Walker Cancer Centre · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Well, there's so much happening around the place this morning.
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  Speaker 2: There always is, and there's always wonderful events happening around
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  Speaker 2: the Northern Territory as well.
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  Speaker 1: And when I.
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  Speaker 2: Found out about this next event, I thought, what a wonderful,
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  Speaker 2: wonderful thing to happen on the weekend. And so essentially,
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  Speaker 2: Ride Against Cancer is what it's called, and it's they're
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  Speaker 2: presenting a family friendly day on the race track and
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  Speaker 2: you can come and join in the fun and experience
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  Speaker 2: time on the track with all the proceeds going to
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  Speaker 2: the Alan Walker Cancer Center. Now, I think there will
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  Speaker 2: be a lot of people listening this morning who know
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  Speaker 2: a lot about the Allen Walker Cancer Center. You'd be
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  Speaker 2: hard pressed to find a Territory family who haven't actually
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  Speaker 2: had a loved one that has needed the support of
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  Speaker 2: the Allen Walker Cancer Center.
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  Speaker 1: I know I can vouch for that, and I've had
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  Speaker 1: a number.
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  Speaker 2: Of well my dad, also the late Great Pete Davies
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  Speaker 2: who used to do the show going through the Allen
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  Speaker 2: Walker Cancer Center and other friends and they do an
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  Speaker 2: absolutely phenomenal job, which is why I think this Ride
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  Speaker 2: Again Cancer is going to be a great event. And
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  Speaker 2: joining me in the studio to tell us more about it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Tony Savers, good morning to.
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  Speaker 3: You, Good morning Katie, and good morning listener.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderful to have you in the studio. Now we have
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  Speaker 2: also gotten the studio with us as well, Amber, who
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  Speaker 2: is a nurse from the Allen Walker Cancer Center.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning Amber, Good morning Katie, good morning everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in the studio as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm pleased to say that joining me on
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  Speaker 2: the line as well is Clive Baxter, who's actually a
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  Speaker 2: Northern Territory wheelchair racer.
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  Speaker 1: Get a Clive.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, come on, Katy and he go listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Good mate, So good to have you on the line
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Now I've got all three of you because we want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that we cover everything off here. And
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like it's going to be an incredible event. Tony,
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  Speaker 2: tell us first, what can we expect.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Katie, We've got a lot of families coming down
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  Speaker 6: on the day. It's this sad day coming and it
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  Speaker 6: starts around eight am in the morning, so come down
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  Speaker 6: you can. You can have a look on Facebook online
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  Speaker 6: Humanitics tickets and get some tickets.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not very dear.
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  Speaker 6: The idea is to get families together and raise money
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  Speaker 6: for a great cause, as you said, And we've all
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  Speaker 6: known people who suffered from cancer, and we all know
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  Speaker 6: what a great job Dell and Walker Cancer Cancer to do.
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  Speaker 3: So come down. You can.
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  Speaker 6: You can run around the track, you can walk around
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  Speaker 6: the track, you can ride a pushbike around the track.
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  Speaker 3: Your roller blades if you've got any, Katie, you've still
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  Speaker 3: got rollerblades.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know if I can even stand up
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  Speaker 2: in a pair of roller blades.
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  Speaker 1: Around the track.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a great, great event.
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  Speaker 6: You know. It's come about through Clive Cloves work in
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  Speaker 6: the background, approached Smoke Sports NT and you know, I
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  Speaker 6: went to our board and the board said, what a.
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  Speaker 3: Great idea, What a fantastic idea. And it's such a
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  Speaker 3: great course.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, we know the great work that you
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  Speaker 6: do with Run with Dad, you know, and the people
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  Speaker 6: you've mentioned over your radio show over the years and
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  Speaker 6: all the great things.
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  Speaker 3: So we're just happy to be part of it and
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  Speaker 3: to give.
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  Speaker 6: Something back to the al Walker Cancer Care Center that
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  Speaker 6: do so much they do.
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  Speaker 1: They do an incredible job for so many people.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Clive, tell me, mate, what made you sort of
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  Speaker 2: come up with this idea? Why did you think to yourself,
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  Speaker 2: he this would be a fantastic thing for us to do.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Look, Katie, what initiated it was? Unfortunately I lost
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  Speaker 5: my wife to small cell lung cancer twenty months ago
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  Speaker 5: and privy to that, she went through to nearly two
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  Speaker 5: and a half years of a chemotherapy and radiation, all
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  Speaker 5: supplied and supported by the Alam Walker Cancer Center. Now
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  Speaker 5: we come to a stage for her cancer journey, if
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  Speaker 5: you want to call it that, where chemo was well,
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't that. It wasn't an option. There wasn't anything
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  Speaker 5: left that was on the normal PB system. So there
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  Speaker 5: was an offer made to Chantel to see if she
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  Speaker 5: would like to take it on. And it was a
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  Speaker 5: trial drug, and of course the trial drug is there
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  Speaker 5: was that they had about one hundred and ten people
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  Speaker 5: that had actually tried it, so they didn't really have
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  Speaker 5: a lot of history or feedback on how good or
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  Speaker 5: bad the drug worked. So and with all these trial things,
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  Speaker 5: obviously there's a cost to it. So we were offered
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  Speaker 5: that and it was three sessions at five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 5: a session, so it's fifteen thousand dollars hit.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, Chentel and myself just said, look, let's do it.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to do We've got no choice. There was
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  Speaker 5: there was no option, and Chantel was just an absolute fighter.
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  Speaker 5: She just never gave up. Dying wasn't in her vocabulary
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  Speaker 5: and so hence we took it on. And unbeknown to us,
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  Speaker 5: a beautiful daughter, Valerie, who spent a lot of time
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  Speaker 5: she trained, it's heard from her job in Brisbane to
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  Speaker 5: be up here and help myself and help Chantell with
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  Speaker 5: her care over that period of time, herself and a
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  Speaker 5: great brunch my friends who are also my sport people
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  Speaker 5: got together unbeknown to us and said that listen, we'd
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  Speaker 5: like to give you guys some money towards this because
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  Speaker 5: we feel it's worth it. And look, it was actually
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  Speaker 5: a very emotional, emotional time and what they did was
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  Speaker 5: just give Chantal that option to they'll pay for it
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  Speaker 5: and she can concentrate on her well being rather than
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  Speaker 5: having to worry about getting the money together to do
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  Speaker 5: this trial drug. So I just said, look this, we
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  Speaker 5: need to return this some way, We need to give back.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's only fair that what our friends that
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  Speaker 5: done was absolutely beautiful, and I felt that it was
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  Speaker 5: just important, so I spoke to Chantel about it. I said, listen,
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  Speaker 5: I want to do something. I'm not sure what. I
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  Speaker 5: had this crazy idea and maybe pushing my chair to
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  Speaker 5: it to Catherine, and then I thought, no, that's stupid
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  Speaker 5: because road trains and wheel chairs don't get on. So
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  Speaker 5: it was a bit of a weird situation. I was
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  Speaker 5: with my physia just doing a bit of physio one
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  Speaker 5: day and I was telling him all about and he said,
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  Speaker 5: why don't you look at doing something around the racetrack.
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  Speaker 5: You're involved with no sports, and said, hey, that's not
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  Speaker 5: silly idea. From there we just started discussing it, and
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  Speaker 5: then Chantal was sixty six years of age when she
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  Speaker 5: lost a lot, so we decided to start up sixty
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  Speaker 5: six laps for Chantell and then hence here we are today.
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  Speaker 5: It's like I said, it's twenty months in Chentil passed
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  Speaker 5: and here we are on Saturday going to write against cancer.
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  Speaker 1: Clive, what a beautiful thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: What a beautiful tribute to Chantel, and what an incredible
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  Speaker 2: thing for you to do. Are There's so many elements
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  Speaker 2: of your story that make me feel quite emotional listening
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  Speaker 2: to it and hearing what you are doing now. I
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  Speaker 2: just think it's incredible. My hat goes off to you.
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  Speaker 2: And the way that this could actually assist other people is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's it's just such a great thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, through your.
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  Speaker 2: Work then at the Allen Walker Cancer Center, when when
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  Speaker 2: you look at at you know, this fundraising, these fundraising efforts,
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  Speaker 2: and how it could help the people that you see
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  Speaker 2: each and every day, you must feel quite sort of
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  Speaker 2: humbled hearing Clive as well and thinking what a lovely
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  Speaker 2: what a lovely gesture.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, the first time, the first time I met Clive
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  Speaker 7: was to say a big thank you, like we're so
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  Speaker 7: grateful to be the recipient of such a beautiful charity
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  Speaker 7: donation and to be involved continuously through client, through Clive's journey. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: so being involved in this it just promotes.
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  Speaker 4: The work that we do. We have a very dedicated
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  Speaker 4: team at Alan Walker and it means that we might
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  Speaker 4: be able to buy a specialized equipment for the future
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  Speaker 4: territorians coming through the center.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, just to sort of, I guess make
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  Speaker 2: those out there in the community who maybe haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: the work that the Allen Walker Cancer Center do, so
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  Speaker 2: that they've got a bit of a better understanding talk
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  Speaker 2: us through you know, the types of people you see.
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine that somebody gets a cancer diagnosis. It's
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  Speaker 2: a massive shock for them, and in a lot of situations,
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  Speaker 2: they don't really know what the next steps are. And
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  Speaker 2: then I know, from the moment you walk into the
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  Speaker 2: Allen Walker Cancer Center, well you're welcomed and everything sort
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  Speaker 2: of becomes a little bit more clear in terms of
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  Speaker 2: your treatment options and the road that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: go down.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a huge team of dedicated staff which
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  Speaker 4: includes doctors, nurses, cancer care coordinators, radiation therapists, clinical trials coordinators,
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  Speaker 4: our administration team, our aboriginal liaison officers, our allied health professionals,
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  Speaker 4: to meet all as of all the Territorians.
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  Speaker 1: Canton, Oh, good on you guys. I mean the work
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  Speaker 1: that you do.
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody out there listening, if they've had any
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  Speaker 2: kind of contact with the Allen Walker Cancer Center, will
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  Speaker 2: know how incredibly important that work is. And and you're
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  Speaker 2: like a bunch of angels out there, really and how
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  Speaker 2: beautifully you treat people and how you know, the support
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  Speaker 2: that you provide to families at there really at their
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  Speaker 2: lowest point is just incredible. And I think that the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the fact that Clive wanted to do this
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  Speaker 2: is real testament to that, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Clive?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, Catie. I mean, as you're aware, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you go into the Alan Worker Center for the first
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  Speaker 5: time and it's it's, you know, like it tears rolling
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  Speaker 5: down my face and it was so daunting. And just
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  Speaker 5: looked looking at my beautiful wife, Chantell and she was
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  Speaker 5: just sort of in it. She's obviously that will be
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  Speaker 5: started or on her initial drugs, so she was a
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  Speaker 5: little bit sort of hazed and just just looking and
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  Speaker 5: we were just sort of, yeah, it's undescribable. But you
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  Speaker 5: know what that that that particular journey that I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we've spent close to two and a half years there
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  Speaker 5: and probably there every three weeks just about. Sometimes it
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  Speaker 5: was a quicker in session chemo runs and then you
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  Speaker 5: might have a break for six weeks just to let
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  Speaker 5: the body recop and what have you. But there was
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  Speaker 5: never a time you go there that you're not welcome.
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  Speaker 5: There's never a time you go there and you don't
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  Speaker 5: feel out of place, you know. And and the other
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  Speaker 5: thing that really brings to mind to me is cancer
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  Speaker 5: doesn't discriminate. You know, I've seen young people in there,
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  Speaker 5: two old people in there, and you know, it just
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  Speaker 5: really brings it home. How how how nasty is that
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  Speaker 5: if we want to call it a disease, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: sure the right words for it, but how nasty it is,
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  Speaker 5: and it doesn't discriminate, you know, And it's just so sad.
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  Speaker 5: Had to see young and old in there and what
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  Speaker 5: they're going through and being with you know, on that
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  Speaker 5: journey with Centhil, she was tough and she never asked
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  Speaker 5: for anything, and she always praised the nurses. You know,
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  Speaker 5: like sometimes I couldn't get a needle in the arm,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you try ten times, and she'd say it's okay,
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  Speaker 5: it's okay, and I'd get frustrated, but she just she
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  Speaker 5: too took it on and always gave them praise. And yeah,
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  Speaker 5: then guys in there, they're just so wonderful. They make
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  Speaker 5: you feel part of that family and you do become
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  Speaker 5: part of it. And yeah, it's so important. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we need to dig deep and really put in and
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  Speaker 5: get as much support for the Allen Walker Cancer Care
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  Speaker 5: Center as we can.
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  Speaker 2: Lady mate, I'm getting messages from people saying they're balling
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  Speaker 2: their eyes out listening to your story. I'm struggling a
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  Speaker 2: bit through but the fact that I've got Tony and
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  Speaker 2: danbur In here is making me keep my eyes dry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing my best to not have a cry made.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so grateful to you for sharing your story because
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  Speaker 2: I know that it's not an easy process. I know
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  Speaker 2: it's not an easy thing to do to really put
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  Speaker 2: your heart out there. So I'm really grateful that you've
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  Speaker 2: done that this morning. Now let's lighten things up a little, Tony.
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  Speaker 2: I got told by Saint John's yesterday that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be pushing around some stretchers.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be having a bit of a race
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  Speaker 1: out there on the week.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, certainly, Okatie.
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  Speaker 6: So John's been great, and you know they came on
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  Speaker 6: board straight away, Craig Garaway and the team, and they're
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  Speaker 6: putting together a team you can enter in a team.
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  Speaker 6: So we want the fieries to come down, we want
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  Speaker 6: the police to come down, you know, correctional services, all
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  Speaker 6: the teams to come down that support such a great cause.
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  Speaker 6: And yeah, yeah, it'll be a fun thing to see
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  Speaker 6: and we'll be taking plenty of photos of course, and
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  Speaker 6: put them up on the Facebook and you know, it's
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  Speaker 6: a great event and it's a great opportunity for Territorians
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  Speaker 6: to two things. One to to come down support a
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  Speaker 6: fantastic the cause we've heard from Member and Clive today,
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  Speaker 6: and also get around the racetrack, the supercar track. You
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  Speaker 6: can actually be on it before the supercars come in
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  Speaker 6: four weeks time, so you can say when you're sitting
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  Speaker 6: there watching the supercars, I was on that corner, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and I did it for a great cause, you know,
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  Speaker 6: not only a great cause, but a right cause. So yeah, yeah, Katie,
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  Speaker 6: it's going to be a great weekend. It starts at eight,
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  Speaker 6: finishes at twelve. We'll have We've got the Lions Club
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  Speaker 6: coming down doing sausages and drinks and so forth, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, NTA Government have been fantastic. Shannon's of course,
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  Speaker 6: Total Tools have donated raffles, Bunnings have given us raffle tickets,
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  Speaker 6: so there's plenty of raffles going on and fun things
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  Speaker 6: for people to do as well.
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  Speaker 2: So where can people get a bit more involved. They're
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  Speaker 2: listening this morning and they're thinking that sounds like something
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  Speaker 2: I want to be involved in.
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  Speaker 1: Where should they go?
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  Speaker 6: Well, look at our Facebook site Right Against Cancer NT
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  Speaker 6: or look up humanitex tickets Right Against Cancer INT and
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  Speaker 6: you can. There's a QR code. Just scan that on
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  Speaker 6: your phone and off you go. It'll take you straight
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  Speaker 6: to the tickets boy. As many tickets you want. You
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  Speaker 6: can make a donation. Some people have made some great
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  Speaker 6: donations already, and all the proceeds, all the proceeds are
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  Speaker 6: going to the Allen Walker Cancer Care Center.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Well Tony Amber Clive, thank you all so much for
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  Speaker 2: your time this morning. I'm very grateful and I would
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  Speaker 2: encourage everybody to get behind this wonderful event. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much for coming in and having a chat today,
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  Speaker 2: and to you Clive for having a yarn to us
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  Speaker 2: on the phone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you very much, Katie, and thank you very
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  Speaker 5: much listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks Katie, Thanks thanks, thank you. No worries
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  Speaker 1: at all,