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Speaker 1: Say best Upper house MP, Connie Banaros, Connie, good evening, Welcome.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Now you're here to talk about well, the big fat

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Speaker 1: and this is the part I love. Well done Leith,

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Speaker 1: my big fat Greek fundraiser. And you're raising money as

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Speaker 1: well for Kickstart for Kids against period Poverty.

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Speaker 2: I sure?

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Speaker 3: Look? I guess it's a crazy, crazy idea three minutes

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Speaker 3: And that's what he's been doing for years and it's

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Speaker 1: So Kickstart the Kids originally started supplying breakfasts to kids

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Ian was working at a school and could see

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Speaker 3: that organization today has a thousand volunteers. They deliver sixty

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Speaker 1: Why is it so much money in Victory? I mean,

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Speaker 2: No, but I'll tell you this much.

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Speaker 2: Need a toilet paper.

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Speaker 3: I'm Greek by background, and I thought, you know what,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to bring this all together and I'm going

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Speaker 3: think it'll be a nice feeling knowing that, you know,

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Speaker 1: So if he's coming along, this is on Saturday. The

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Speaker 1: We all know where it is. Now. How do people get.

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Speaker 3: Tickets there is? Well, they can call my office eight

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Speaker 3: Connie Binara's MLC has booking links available on there, so

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Speaker 2: We've got links on all.

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Speaker 3: Of those and I'm hoping that people will come because

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Speaker 3: and I'm going to talk about the stuff I've done

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Speaker 3: from every single event that I've been to with Kickstart.

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Speaker 3: I think about the society we live in and an

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Speaker 3: Ian knows this amazing people doing amazing things, extraordinary things

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Speaker 1: You said it might be the last thing you do

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Speaker 1: you're up for reelection?

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Speaker 3: Well outstanding, I said that, but I'm suddenly hoping that

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Speaker 3: And I can assure you that, regardless of what happens

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Speaker 3: at the election, I'll keep working with Kickstar. I'm very

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Speaker 3: proud to be one of their ambassadors. But you know

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Speaker 1: Okay, the threat would be one nation, presumably.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we all know Labor's doing exceptionally well. I

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Speaker 1: We've done it now, thrown into the Upper.

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Speaker 3: I've been there, and I'd like to think that over

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Speaker 2: Things and I want to keep doing that.

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Speaker 3: I want to keep doing the sorts of things that

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Speaker 3: I'm going to give it my all, and I'm you know,

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Speaker 3: it is a challenge. We all know it's a challenge,

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Speaker 3: and it doesn't matter whether it's me or any other

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Speaker 2: It is difficult, but I'm up for the challenge, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, see what happens, Connie. Great seeing you in the studio.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for popping in. This is a great cause obviously,

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Speaker 1: and kickstart for kids doing so much, so many different

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Speaker 1: adulthood as they go down that path. But my big

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Speaker 1: fat Greek fundraiser Saturday, the twenty first of feb Adelaide

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Speaker 1: Pavilion eight two three seven ninety two fifty nine the

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Speaker 1: Connie Banarus from the Say Best Party, the last remaining

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Speaker 1: Nick Xenophon candidate, going back all.

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Speaker 2: Those years, still standing.

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Speaker 1: Still standing. We'll see what happens from March twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming in tonight, Connie, Thank

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Speaker 2: You for having me