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Speaker 1: Thrilled to have in the studio with me Kerry Akerman,

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Speaker 1: CEO of the Community's Center's essay and also someone you

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Speaker 1: can hear on a Sunday afternoon here on five double

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Speaker 1: All Kerry.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Matthew, the new wood chopping aficionado. I hear yeah.

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Speaker 1: I did a bit of calling at the Royal Ladelaide shaw.

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Speaker 1: I knew nothing of wood shopping at the start of it,

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Speaker 1: but you know, Colin, you will learn a few things

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Speaker 1: along the way over the nine days. It was good fun.

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Speaker 2: Good to hear well. I've just spent a few weeks away.

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Speaker 2: The reason bing was for my daughter's surprise wedding, not

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Speaker 2: for everybody else, for us, but for everybody else. It was,

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Speaker 2: but also learned a lot about what people do with

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Speaker 1: Matthew, tell us about it. What did you find out?

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Speaker 2: One of the things that I really wanted to share

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Speaker 2: was about what they're doing in Slovenia, beautiful country, with youth,

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Speaker 2: because we all know we want to engage more youth

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Speaker 2: in our community centers, which is often difficult because you

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Speaker 2: think about how do you bring them into a place.

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Speaker 2: From what I found out there is they don't they

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Speaker 2: go out. They have a mobile community center goes out

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Speaker 2: on the streets and they send out kids who are

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Speaker 2: streets and they go out and talk to them. They've

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Speaker 2: developed these conversation cards where they go out and talk

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Speaker 2: about sexual health matters, drug use, but also philosophy questions

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Speaker 2: like do you want to be famous? And if you do,

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Speaker 2: who would you be? And they found that their levels

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Speaker 2: of engagement have increased significantly by going out into the streets.

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Speaker 2: And reminds me of Whoopy Goldberg and that great movie

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Speaker 2: Sister Act when they threw open the gates. So I'll

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Speaker 2: be back encouraging community centers to open our doors and

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Speaker 2: get out on the streets and go out to them

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Speaker 2: as well as to have a base to bring them

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, terrific. So how good is that that

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Speaker 1: is available? Any of this can be adapted here.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely all of it can. And the chatty cafes that

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Speaker 2: we have started in community centers, actually one started up

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Speaker 2: in murray Bridge where people just literally once a week

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Speaker 2: know that they can drop in. That's huge in England.

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Speaker 2: And the people that I met at some of these

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Speaker 2: community centers where they had lost partners or their life

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Speaker 2: circumstances have changed, and they knew where they could get

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Speaker 2: a friendly face and for a pound right which is

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Speaker 2: is not great overseas, I tell you, is that they

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Speaker 2: could go and have a cup of tea, a biscuit,

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Speaker 2: but most importantly, find a friendly face to talk to.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people said it's actually changed their

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Speaker 2: lives because they literally didn't go out their door. But

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Speaker 2: it takes a friend to take them. And I think

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Speaker 2: that's something that I really learned. If we want people

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Speaker 2: to come to our community centers, we need the community

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Speaker 2: to help them do that, but to go with them,

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Speaker 2: it makes an enormous difference.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think that's very very key

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Speaker 1: to it is just getting involved in you like today,

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Speaker 1: Are you OK Day? It's kind of along that line.

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Speaker 1: Hasn't it just been concerned for others and wanting to

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Speaker 2: Certainly isn't. All of our community centers will be involved

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Speaker 2: in our UOK Day. Encourage anybody to go to our

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Speaker 2: AU because we now have a mapping site where you

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Speaker 2: to our mensched Matthew and to where there might be

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Speaker 2: any particular type of activity you want to do. It's

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Speaker 2: it will bring up what's being done and also runs

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Speaker 2: some of our local events, like for example, you're saying

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Speaker 2: about Auok Day this week as walk for suicide prevention,

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Speaker 2: so a lot of our community centers will be involved

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Speaker 2: in that. And this Saturday, September fourteenth, this rotary says

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Speaker 2: artists are being exhibited and sharing their stories. And whilst

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Speaker 2: stories about the people, Matthew and as I traveled around

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Speaker 2: listening to different people's stories, you know, at the end

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Speaker 2: they're all being hit by cost of living of course,

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Speaker 2: all the places that I went to, and homelessness and

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Speaker 2: love the alternative solutions that they've got. So in Greece,

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Speaker 2: for example, they're building houses a bit like a spec

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Speaker 2: and finish it and fit it out right that you want.

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Speaker 2: So they're doing it en mass a great idea.

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Speaker 1: And what you pick it up and take it transportable, No,

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Speaker 2: This is how I want it finish. One has advertized

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Speaker 2: is caravans easily transportable. Who's got a caravan? You're not

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Speaker 2: using it all the time? Can we be housing people?

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Speaker 2: So I did see some more different housing solutions, lots

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Speaker 2: we're actually doing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. In fact, I was only talking to them

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Speaker 2: about our conference if I may, on November sixth at

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Speaker 2: the National Wine Center. We're holding out Adaptive Future Sustainability

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Speaker 2: in Community Development and it's all about future. So if

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Speaker 2: like to come along to our conference. We have all

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Speaker 2: about one hundred and thirteen community centers represented as well

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Speaker 2: as about two hundred our community partners, so we're going

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Speaker 2: to be talking about what's the future, how can we

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Speaker 2: it will need to change.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, that's interesting. Can people register to a.

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Speaker 2: ASN dot AU. Anybody from the public can come along,

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Speaker 2: five double A, and you want to find out how

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Speaker 2: happening in the future in community development. Come along. We've

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Speaker 2: got some fantastic speakers, some from around the state, including

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Speaker 2: She's releasing a book. Okay, so it's a conference, will

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Speaker 2: be well attended and a great way to find out

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Speaker 1: Indeed, And as you were saying, Kerry, anyone, no matter

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Speaker 1: where you live, what suburb, just look up nearest or

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Speaker 1: go to your website.

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Speaker 2: Community and you find your community.

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Speaker 1: You find the nearest one to you and what they

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Speaker 1: offer and the courses, the friendships you make going along

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Speaker 2: Well, one of the things you're like, Matthew, I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you're a gardener. You're a gardener really neither myne.

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Speaker 2: I love gardens, but not gardening. But over there they've

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Speaker 2: gardening at the end you do a call down. So

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Speaker 2: I did a podcast with Michael Killen from here about

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Speaker 2: what you can actually excellent. So what's happening.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic, Kerry, good on you, thank you for your

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Speaker 2: Great and I'll be back on Sunday, So if you're

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Speaker 1: All right, good on your Kerry Ackerman's the CEO Community

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Speaker 1: Center's Essay