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Bill Raby Committee chair Gerry Wood says funding if available for programs that promote healthy living for people with diabetes · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: And joining me in the studio. We is our old
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  Speaker 1: mate Jerry what or young Macee. Just very experienced mate.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 3: How are you the same?
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  Speaker 2: Very well, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're always a wealth of knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry and we were talking about we were talking a
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  Speaker 1: little earlier about the YWCA building on Mitchell Street around
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  Speaker 1: the corner from Peery Street, and also talking about the YMCA.
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  Speaker 1: Now they are separate buildings, aren't they.
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  Speaker 4: The YWCA is just around the corner from here. So
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  Speaker 4: Mitchell Street it's been closed for ages. The YMCA Doctors Gully.
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  Speaker 4: It's a three or four story building there that's been
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  Speaker 4: there for a long time. He was threatened to be
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  Speaker 4: closed down some years ago. I know that people came
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  Speaker 4: to see me and we lobbied with Missus McCarthy then
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  Speaker 4: Jerry McCarthy. I think he had something to do with housing,
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  Speaker 4: and they put some money back into it and as
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  Speaker 4: far as I know, it was still open. So it's
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  Speaker 4: a great place for people who've got limited funds for accommodation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, so it is still operational.
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  Speaker 1: But the YWCAO Mitchell Street it's no longer operational.
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  Speaker 4: It's been out of action for a long time, signed doubt. No,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what it would cost them to bring
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  Speaker 4: it back into Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a difficult one, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking more about international students and the need
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  Speaker 1: for accommodation for those international students. It does feel like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as we're pushing for more and more international students,
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  Speaker 1: that we sort of dropped the ball somewhere along the
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  Speaker 1: way in terms of not making sure that there's enough
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  Speaker 1: accommodation for time.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I just remember a few years ago that h
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  Speaker 4: building in Mitchell Street Mitchell Street or is it Cavana Street,
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  Speaker 4: that was an office billion that was redone by a
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  Speaker 4: couple of local peoples. That's I believe accommodation now. So
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  Speaker 4: there's a case of one billing I know that was
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  Speaker 4: turned into accommodation. So not sure why others couldn't be. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: looking if you're far away from what you might say,
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  Speaker 4: the rock and roll venues in Mitchell Street, surely some
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  Speaker 4: of those buildings could be used for they're just sitting
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  Speaker 4: there wasted.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, if it can be.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're sort of your take on board hospitality and
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  Speaker 1: t CEO Alex Bruce had been in contact with me
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  Speaker 1: a little bit earlier and said, you know, Katie, we
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  Speaker 1: just wouldn't want a situation where, you know, for some
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  Speaker 1: of those live music venues where they're not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: play music after a certain hour if there is then
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  Speaker 1: residential nearby. But you know, if we're talking about other
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  Speaker 1: areas where there's not.
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  Speaker 3: A parb or live music venue, why not.
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  Speaker 4: Look at converting that when you got the services here,
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  Speaker 4: You've got Bubbi transport here, You're close to the services
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  Speaker 4: that people need. There's doctors and medical centers and all
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  Speaker 4: sorts pluses that are plenty places to eat, so you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're just bringing more people into the city. Yeah, well
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  Speaker 4: this is the eating buildings that maybe just sitting there
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  Speaker 4: stain't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, that's exactly right now, Jerry, let's talk about what
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  Speaker 1: we are, what we're keen.
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  Speaker 3: To have a chat to you about this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you're the chair of the Bill Raby Committee,
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  Speaker 1: which is part of Healthy Living NT and it does
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  Speaker 1: help people across the Northern Territory in terms of dealing
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  Speaker 1: with diabetes and related issues as well as promoting healthy
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  Speaker 1: living and daily activity.
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  Speaker 3: But as I understand that they commit.
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  Speaker 1: He provides up to ten thousand dollars to individual youths
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  Speaker 1: who have diabetes, as well as different community programs.
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  Speaker 3: Where are things at at the moment.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we can do with some more people or more
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  Speaker 4: young people and more groups who might be interested in
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  Speaker 4: setting up programs. And we have set up programs all
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  Speaker 4: over the Northern Territory. And I've given you a map
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  Speaker 4: this morning. We showed you from the top of the
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  Speaker 4: territory at the bottom of paratory. We have programs in
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  Speaker 4: will Aarra t Tree. We have them and Parmesan Gapa
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  Speaker 4: all over the place so people can apply for funds,
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  Speaker 4: youth who needs maybe some updated equipment for monitoring diabetes,
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  Speaker 4: or groups of people. We had a Galiwak I think
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  Speaker 4: it was some of the women put together a mural
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  Speaker 4: in traditional style to try and teach people eat better food,
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  Speaker 4: to have more traditional foods, encouraging people to basically look
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  Speaker 4: after their health and then we know diabetes. And I'll
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  Speaker 4: give you an example because we gave money to Danilla
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  Speaker 4: Dilber recently and that was one of their programs. I'll
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  Speaker 4: just give you some figures here. Did they have nine
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  Speaker 4: thousand regular clients? And around sixteen hundred of those clients
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  Speaker 4: have been diagnosed with type two diabetes melotus. Now we
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  Speaker 4: gave them money to help with footwear. And would you
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  Speaker 4: believe it or not that if you've got diabetes you
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  Speaker 4: can get problems with I think they caught peak plant
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  Speaker 4: and pressures and it was just pressures on your feet
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  Speaker 4: and frictions on your feet and toes. Now to relieve
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  Speaker 4: that those people have got diabetes so are going around
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  Speaker 4: in bere feet. We've given some money to help provide
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  Speaker 4: shoes for those people. So that's a great project that's
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  Speaker 4: really practical. So we were looking for other groups that
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  Speaker 4: may want some funds to try to improve the lifestyle
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  Speaker 4: of people. It may be, for instance, some of the
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  Speaker 4: sporting clubs. Now I occasionally umpire football at Jabru and
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  Speaker 4: I was out there late last year and I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to get a diet coat. I couldn't get one. They
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  Speaker 4: only had the full strength And I said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you've got a large population of Aboriginal people. Plus it's
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  Speaker 4: not just fabriginal people. You need to be providing something
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  Speaker 4: with low sugar. So next time I went some low sugar,
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  Speaker 4: I know I was down at Kolano doing umpiring this
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  Speaker 4: year in the Catherine competition, and they had some diet
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  Speaker 4: drinks there as well. So some of those small groups
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  Speaker 4: that provide drinks at football venues doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 4: afl any of the football venues who might see that
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  Speaker 4: there's an opportunity there to wrote alternatives to sugar content
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  Speaker 4: sugar high sugar content drinks. And when you see the
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  Speaker 4: amount of coke and other drinks that are sold in coals,
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  Speaker 4: we have a lot of people devouring a lot of
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  Speaker 4: sugar and we've got this you know schedule, I guess coke.
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  Speaker 4: Sixteen hundred people in Vanilla deal with diabetes too, So
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  Speaker 4: we've got issues there that we need to look at.
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  Speaker 4: And so people who would like to be you might
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  Speaker 4: get on the train with helping their little community. The
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  Speaker 4: grants can go from one thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 4: We've got some of the schools like Zatma Christian School
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  Speaker 4: doing aquaponics, teaching.
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  Speaker 2: The kids how to grow their own vegetables.
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  Speaker 4: So there's a whole range of opportunities out there for
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  Speaker 4: people if they'd like to get in touch with Healthy
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  Speaker 4: Living in Tea.
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  Speaker 2: The group that I'm in.
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  Speaker 4: It's only a small group, but we just then look
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  Speaker 4: at through our president, through our CEO and camp who's
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  Speaker 4: a wonderful lady, and the people out at Healthy Living
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  Speaker 4: in Tea in Tew and they're also now has been
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  Speaker 4: doing a huge amount of work trying to improve the
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  Speaker 4: lives of people, especially with diabetes, promoting activity, keeping healthy
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  Speaker 4: that way. So they then assess the applications and we
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  Speaker 4: also do that as well, and then we provide funds
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  Speaker 4: to those that are successful.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jerry, at this point in time, you are
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  Speaker 1: still after some more applicants. So if there's someone out
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  Speaker 1: there listening who has a program that they'd like to
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  Speaker 1: get off the ground, or maybe even a school that
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  Speaker 1: is thinking.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's right, yeah, even up till say the end
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  Speaker 4: of next week would be good. There'll be a website
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  Speaker 4: page if I can find it. But I know there's
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  Speaker 4: a website, but you look up Healthy Living in Tea
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  Speaker 4: just Google, you'll get on there straight away and they
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  Speaker 4: will give you all the information you need. And so look,
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  Speaker 4: there's an opportunity there for people who want to do
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  Speaker 4: something practical in their community about encouraging better eating, more
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  Speaker 4: activity and promote those sort of lifestyles because you know,
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  Speaker 4: diabetes costs a territory a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is the thing, and if you can intervene,
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  Speaker 1: or if you can help in the early days to
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  Speaker 1: prevent it in the first place, it makes a massive difference,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Look I'm around a fear bit.
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  Speaker 4: I see young people, especially some of my aboriginal friends,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just drinking large bottles of coke, and that
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  Speaker 4: looks like it's lunch, you know. And there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 4: with having some sugar drinks, you know, in moderate amounts,
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  Speaker 4: and if you're active, you're probably burn allow of that
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  Speaker 4: sugar up. But you know, if you're continually having that
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  Speaker 4: and you're not doing it not active, and you're not
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  Speaker 4: doing eating good healthy foods as well, well, then you
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  Speaker 4: know you're going to lead to some health problems and
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  Speaker 4: that costs us a lot of money. And that money,
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  Speaker 4: you hope, well we better spend on a new footy
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  Speaker 4: ground or better facilities exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of all that.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, it comes from the old life being
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  Speaker 4: because I used to be part of life in the
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  Speaker 4: territory and life being closed down, and so Healthy Livings
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  Speaker 4: asked that the life being at logo be passed on
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  Speaker 4: to them. So this is about Norm Yep and his family.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I think Norm's got your picture and next
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  Speaker 4: to their running. But the whole idea was just to
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  Speaker 4: be active, to be you know, to live a good life.
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  Speaker 1: Well and Jerry, you've bought in for me, which I
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  Speaker 1: absolutely love. A plate that says no your portions and
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  Speaker 1: it's got you know, your three serves of veggies are
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  Speaker 1: your one serve of protein, two of carbs. I tell
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  Speaker 1: you what, when I run too much, I need three
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  Speaker 1: or four serves of carbs.
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  Speaker 4: But well well, well look I can't say I probably
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  Speaker 4: have too many carbs. Sometimes I'm the cook at home
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  Speaker 4: and try and make food that my wife will eat
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  Speaker 4: as well. So I do tricks like put all the
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  Speaker 4: veggies in mixed up with mash Katona do that too,
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  Speaker 4: just quickly. Those magazines are so if you want to
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  Speaker 4: join join up ring them up, you can become a member.
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  Speaker 2: But just things like this one I opened up.
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  Speaker 4: The Charity Way is their magazine, so it looks at
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  Speaker 4: celad dressing, so it looks the best choice, occasional choice
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  Speaker 4: and limit so it has a whole list of which
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  Speaker 4: is the best salad dressing to have. Laterly, there's another
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  Speaker 4: one on cheese which is the best cheese to have.
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  Speaker 4: So it gives it all the breakdown. It gives you
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  Speaker 4: whether saturated fat, sugars, and sodium and tells you which
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  Speaker 4: ones that the better.
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  Speaker 1: I think that sometimes we take for granted the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you know that some of us may know that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: like some of us might come from. My dad was
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  Speaker 1: a simming coach and my mum's a nurse, so there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot, you know when it comes to health
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  Speaker 1: and nutrition that I've been taught as I was growing up,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not the.
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  Speaker 3: Case for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it is such an important thing to
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  Speaker 1: understand what is the best ways to fuel your body.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I had a mum that cooked at home,
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  Speaker 4: so we got good stuff where we had our sugar
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  Speaker 4: on special occasions, we had our lemonade on special occasions,
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  Speaker 4: but we didn't have it all the time. And I
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  Speaker 4: think the problem today is a lot of that food
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  Speaker 4: which we thought was special food, it becomes the norm
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  Speaker 4: and so it takes away the good eating that we
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  Speaker 4: should be having. So look, it's just putting out there
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity for little groups, sporting groups, could be schools,
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  Speaker 4: it could be Aboriginal groups, women's groups. If they'd like
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  Speaker 4: to get in touch with Healthy Living NT, just google it.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't find.
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  Speaker 1: I've got the No, I've got it here, Healthy LIVINGNT
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  Speaker 1: dot org dot au.
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  Speaker 4: Get onto them and I'm sure they'll send you out
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  Speaker 4: the information for an application for some funds. We'd love
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  Speaker 4: to hear from it. We enjoy actually what we do,
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  Speaker 4: the little group we're in because if we see such
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  Speaker 4: sucess out of that, we think, well we've achieved something evident.
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  Speaker 4: It's only small, but it's from little things to grow
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  Speaker 4: in this case, so we keep trying as well.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry would you're a legend, You're a you're a wealth
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  Speaker 1: of knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: But look at you.
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  Speaker 1: You know you've obviously retired from politics, but you certainly
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  Speaker 1: haven't retired from working and doing good things for the territory.
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  Speaker 3: Have you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm a grandpa that's grumpy. So that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's got that's what he's got on his
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  Speaker 1: shirt this morning.
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  Speaker 3: But no one believes that, Jerry. You'd never grumpy around.
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  Speaker 4: Me, mate, I got to be grumpy guys, Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 1: Worry, Oh, Jerrywood, It's always good to catch up with you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming in this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: of course anyone who is keen to maybe find out
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  Speaker 1: more they can head to healthy livingnt dot org dot.
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  Speaker 2: Au and have it done by next week. Next week, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that would be good.
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  Speaker 3: Good stuff. Good on you, Jerry, thank you,