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President of the Parap Village Traders Association Neville Pantazas outlines his vision to revitalise the Parap markets · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: We are due to catch up with Neville Pansazis from
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  Speaker 1: the president of the Parap Village Traders Association, also very
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  Speaker 1: well known from the beautiful Parap Fine Foods, in just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of moments to talk a little bit further
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  Speaker 1: about these proposed plans when it comes to Perap, the
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  Speaker 1: markets there and whether we might see some additional green
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  Speaker 1: space or exactly what the market's committee would like to
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  Speaker 1: see in that area and what kind of difference I
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  Speaker 1: guess it could make in terms of those of us
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  Speaker 1: visiting the markets and making it a little bit more enjoyable. Well,
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  Speaker 1: joining me on the line, I've actually got him right now,
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  Speaker 1: Right now, it is Neville Pansazis. Good morning to you,
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  Speaker 1: Neville Kat, Thanks so much for your time this morning. Now, Neville,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that there has been some discussion about whether
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  Speaker 1: we could make some changes to the Parap markets in
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  Speaker 1: terms of it, I guess being a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: green space, bit more enjoyable for everybody that attends each
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  Speaker 1: and every weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the whole idea in terms of it's almost
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  Speaker 2: an extension of what Council and government have done through
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  Speaker 2: kevinar Street and our boulevard and it's saying, well, look,
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  Speaker 2: you know it's looking so good, we've really got to
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  Speaker 2: start planting more trees and get this shade happening, which
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  Speaker 2: is part of what we've been discussing for the last
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  Speaker 2: keen years with you people like Aldham and Simon Niblock,
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  Speaker 2: who's been instrumental in assisting us in getting us to
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  Speaker 2: where we are today with our proposal.
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  Speaker 1: And so Neville, where is that proposal at and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, talk us through what you'd like to see there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the proposal is quite a costly one in the
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  Speaker 2: sense that we're not only looking at the cosmetics, and
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  Speaker 2: you know we're not. We're not We're not trying to
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  Speaker 2: change the face of Prap. What we're looking at is
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  Speaker 2: the integral running of the whole suburb as such. In
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  Speaker 2: terms of the first thing was tackling the drainage issues
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  Speaker 2: that we've got in this area. We've got old drainage
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  Speaker 2: systems that need to be fixed. So there's a big
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  Speaker 2: cost there. Now, that's one side of it. Put that aside.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of answering your question, what we'd like to
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  Speaker 2: do is the proposal is to basically pinch the road
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  Speaker 2: in front of Mick Well, what is was Michael Gunner's office,
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  Speaker 2: which is now Brent Potter's office, taking all of that
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  Speaker 2: because if you have a look at it even today,
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  Speaker 2: there's so much shade there that we're shading cars and
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  Speaker 2: we're what we're trying to do is, you know, expand
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  Speaker 2: this whole concept of just making our lives a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more comfortable and you know, getting people to come
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  Speaker 2: to suburbs and actually stay shop here, stay here, eat here,
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  Speaker 2: use the cafes here, use all amenities that are here.
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  Speaker 2: So if we can create the greening, then you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just going to make our life in
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  Speaker 2: dar And that much better.
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  Speaker 1: And Neville. Look, some people listening might be thinking, what
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  Speaker 1: about the car parking. It's already hard enough to get
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  Speaker 1: a park, you know when you go to the market,
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  Speaker 1: but how many parks are you talking sort of taking
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  Speaker 1: out and making into nice lawned area.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've used an architectural firm within the area, Rossy Architects,
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  Speaker 2: and ultimately, as much as we might be taking from
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  Speaker 2: one area, we're actually gaining by redirecting, taking away the
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  Speaker 2: angle parking in certain areas. So if we lose you know,
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  Speaker 2: twenty car parks. We're gaining probably eighteen somewhere else right,
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  Speaker 2: So overall it's kind of a nice balance. The advantage
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  Speaker 2: of what we're doing also means that on a Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: what we're trying to do is flow that traffic or
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  Speaker 2: ultimately take away the traffic from one side, which is
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  Speaker 2: the the Happy Garden side where you know, we won't
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  Speaker 2: have cars coming in in that direction side. That opens
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  Speaker 2: a whole area up.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: We're also looking at taking all the food stools out
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  Speaker 2: of Vimy Lane, which is a lane that goes up
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  Speaker 2: to the northern center of contemporary Art towards Saffron, and
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  Speaker 2: having that all as tables chairs as an eating where people.
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  Speaker 2: So we want to bring more tables and chairs so
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  Speaker 2: people can actually stay. The trees are grown there as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we've got lots of shade there, so we're kind of
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  Speaker 2: halfway there with greening. Yeah. You know, we're really lucky
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  Speaker 2: in perap Well, and.
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  Speaker 1: It is such a beautiful area and it is an
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  Speaker 1: area like we know that the parat markets are somewhere
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  Speaker 1: that every tourist that comes to the Northern Territory and
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  Speaker 1: comes to the top end wants to head along to
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  Speaker 1: the parat markets and making it as appealing and as
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  Speaker 1: enticing as we can could only be a good thing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess the big question is you know, where's the
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  Speaker 1: money going to come from?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what we've what we've proposed is you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: seen what's happened in Columbay, and you know that that's
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  Speaker 2: that's for us, that's exactly what we want to see.
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  Speaker 2: You know, suburbs like that that are becoming a lot
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  Speaker 2: more active. What we want to do also is still
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  Speaker 2: maintain perhaps as the iconic suburb to be. And then
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  Speaker 2: if we do what we do and encourage Nightcliff and
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  Speaker 2: Rubber Creek and stew a part. Okay, where's the money
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  Speaker 2: going to come from? We always scream to council, we
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  Speaker 2: always scream to government. The whole idea is that you know,
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  Speaker 2: if it's a fifteen million dollar project, we're not we're
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  Speaker 2: not asking for fifteen million, fifteen million dollars straight up
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  Speaker 2: because like I said, a lot of that is infrastructure,
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  Speaker 2: which is drainage. Coming back to your question, what we're
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  Speaker 2: hoping is that you know, if it's if it's a
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  Speaker 2: two to three million dollar a year pose or where
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  Speaker 2: we can do this in stages at least, we're working
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  Speaker 2: towards you know, a probably a ten year plan.
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  Speaker 1: Never what are the next steps. How are you going
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  Speaker 1: to sort of you know, move forward and try and
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  Speaker 1: get these happening. Talking to you well and bringing the
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  Speaker 1: community on board.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing yeah, yeah. I mean, look, everybody is on board.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you talk to council, combat scholars, if
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  Speaker 2: you talk to you know, with local governance in our area,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Michael Gunner and now Brent Potter. Everyone is
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  Speaker 2: in favor of it. Everyone loves the idea. But at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, we've just got to be patient and
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  Speaker 2: wait until funds are available. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: it's not something that we've we've you know, we've we've
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  Speaker 2: come up with what we think is a great idea,
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  Speaker 2: because every idea doesn't necessarily mean that it's a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: What we're saying is, look, this is our proposal, have
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  Speaker 2: a look at it. What do you think At this stage,
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  Speaker 2: we're just getting we're getting the kick, so most people
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  Speaker 2: are loving it, they love the idea. We're still getting
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  Speaker 2: flow through into the part market, so you know, in
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  Speaker 2: terms of deliveries all that kind of stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is like I said, it's not an
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  Speaker 2: over note, overnight decision that we said, oh, this will
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  Speaker 2: be a great idea. It is something that we've been
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  Speaker 2: working on for over ten years.
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  Speaker 1: And Neville, do you think that you know that by
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  Speaker 1: having more green space there that it could increase any
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  Speaker 1: issues that you've had with anti social behavior? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: You know what, Yeah, I don't know. I kind of
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  Speaker 2: think not in the sense that if we've got more
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  Speaker 2: people coming into the area and staying in the area,
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  Speaker 2: because don't forget, wherever there's a tree, it's always two
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  Speaker 2: three degrees cooler. And we did that walk down Gregory Street,
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  Speaker 2: down Vickers Street, and can I tell you it was
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  Speaker 2: like Kavanagh streets. They are really hot streets. So so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I kind of feel like it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be good for everyone. So yeah, no, look I
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  Speaker 2: hope not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh absolutely, And I think that that is everybody's
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  Speaker 1: hope as well. And you know, the more enticing that
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  Speaker 1: we can make Darwin and make the Northern Territory, I
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  Speaker 1: think the better. You know, sometimes you travel away to
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  Speaker 1: different places and you see different markets and different you know,
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  Speaker 1: different sort of tourism destinations and the way that they've
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  Speaker 1: done things, and it does make you realize we could
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  Speaker 1: do with a you know, a bit of improving on
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  Speaker 1: what is already a wonderful thing for tourists to come
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  Speaker 1: and visit.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you know, you've got to give thanks to
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  Speaker 2: people like Jimmy Chu who it's a way that he
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  Speaker 2: documented Darwin in his his in his FBS series was
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  Speaker 2: just magnificent. I mean, look at the way that he
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  Speaker 2: filmed the Rabbit Creek Market. That was amazing. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: know we're using different filters than what have you, but
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  Speaker 2: it just goes to show you that what we're seeing here,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you could be anywhere in the world. But
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  Speaker 2: the thing is, that's the other thing though, we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be in Melbourne. We don't want to be Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: We want to say and keep our territory, you know,
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  Speaker 2: our own signature. So what we're doing is hopefully keeping
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  Speaker 2: within within the chitory theme.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Neville, I'll be really interested to hear how
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  Speaker 1: it progresses. We might see if if you do have
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  Speaker 1: any plans or anything that we could have a look
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  Speaker 1: at and possibly pop up online for our listeners to
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  Speaker 1: have a look at. We'd be really interested in doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time this morning and
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  Speaker 1: talking us through it all.
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  Speaker 2: You're very welcome and I'll arrange with those plans to
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  Speaker 2: get to come to you.
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  Speaker 1: You're a legend. Thank you, Neville. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Gtty, thank you,