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Former NT resident Waldo delivers a poem he wrote for Police Remembrance Day · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Well, as we know, today is indeed Police Remembrance Day
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  Speaker 1: and it is an opportunity to reflect on the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice made by our very brave police officers. Now I
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  Speaker 1: am really pleased to say that joining me on the
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  Speaker 1: line this morning are two voices that I know you'll recognize.
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  Speaker 1: It is the absolutely wonderful Waldo and Sue. Good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you both. Yay go so good. It's so lovely
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  Speaker 1: to hear your voices. How things going in Tasmania?
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  Speaker 2: Bluddy? Now I'm apart from that love.
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  Speaker 1: Are you missing us?
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  Speaker 3: No, we miss you both, but we miss your poems made.
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  Speaker 1: And do you know when I realized that it was
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  Speaker 1: Police Remembrance Day, I thought, I remember when you had
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  Speaker 1: read me a beautiful poem a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 1: for Police Remembrance Day. And then Declan who works out
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  Speaker 1: in our reception, said that you'd been in contact, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought, oh, that's wonderful the way the universe works,
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  Speaker 1: and that you'd given us a call to jump on
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  Speaker 1: and delivered that amazing poem that you have got for
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  Speaker 1: Police Remembrance Day.
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  Speaker 2: But we can do a poem for you more often
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  Speaker 2: if you are well.
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  Speaker 1: Just we've got it. We actually do a math challenge
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday now, so what a maths challenge? So
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  Speaker 1: people have a go at a different maths challenge now
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday. It's notthing a bit different, mixing it up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, them having a crack at a at a
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  Speaker 1: maths question and lots of people getting on board to
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  Speaker 1: have a go at it. But we love having to
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  Speaker 1: catch up with you guys. But Waldo, what do you reckon?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think you could deliver that poem for us
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  Speaker 1: for Remembrance Day Police Remembrance Day?
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  Speaker 2: I certainly can because after I wrote it, the police
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  Speaker 2: asked me could they use it? And then they unveiled
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  Speaker 2: the police memorial at oh By No Road there and
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  Speaker 2: that broke me up. It's Emboston Bronze on the police
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  Speaker 2: memorial and it's called the Policeman from the Bush. Gwenywittson
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  Speaker 2: was a family man, a fine policeman too. He loved
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  Speaker 2: the job, his colleagues and was just like me and you.
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  Speaker 2: We respected it all walks of life. No matter who
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  Speaker 2: he met. You could meet a million people in your
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  Speaker 2: life at Glenn. He won't forget. He touched the hearts
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  Speaker 2: of all he met and many he had not. The
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  Speaker 2: territory came to a halt the day Paul Glenn we shot.
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  Speaker 2: His memory will never fade. He's always in our hearts,
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  Speaker 2: a territory icon, he will always be a part. Then
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  Speaker 2: people came from miles and miles and other countries too,
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  Speaker 2: all here to pay their last respects for the copper.
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  Speaker 2: They all knew the nt Aborigine gave him a secret name.
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  Speaker 2: It is whispered now with great respect from sea to
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  Speaker 2: desert plains, and the morals of this sad story to
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  Speaker 2: which we can relate. There are many more out there
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  Speaker 2: like Glenn. Please respect them. There your mates. Thank you, folks,
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  Speaker 2: and thanks Katie. I'll put Sui back on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you Waldo