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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast Adopt Change.

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Speaker 2: We've had a great relationship with these guys. They're doing

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Speaker 2: an amazing job. But Renee Carter is the CEO. We've

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Speaker 2: got her on the line and the magnificent Deborah Lee Finess.

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Speaker 2: Are we connected there, deb.

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Speaker 3: I am so connected, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Wow, what about Renee? She connected?

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Speaker 5: I am here.

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Speaker 4: She is well connected as well.

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Speaker 5: Look at that, ladies, Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 5: How are you? Where are you at the moment? Debbie

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Speaker 5: over in the States? What are you doing.

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Speaker 3: In New York?

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Speaker 4: You're in New York coming home for Christmas?

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Speaker 3: No, we're not coming home, they say, well, I've just

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Speaker 3: been there for two months. I just shot a film

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Speaker 3: in Melbourne call Force of Nature. Oh, which is the

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Speaker 3: follow up. It's the follow up to The Dry. So

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Speaker 3: I feel like I've seen all fam and sort of

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Speaker 3: done all that.

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Speaker 2: Can I just say The Dry is one of the

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Speaker 2: best Australian movies that has been made in the last

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Speaker 2: twenty years.

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Speaker 5: So the author, the author of those books what's her

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Speaker 5: name again? Deb? So you've done the follow up? Because

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Speaker 5: The Dry with Areas.

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Speaker 3: Is the follow up Force of Nature with Eric Fanner. Wow,

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Speaker 3: and an unbelievable cast, with an unbelievable cast. And we

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Speaker 3: shot it in Warburton, and let me tell you, it

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Speaker 3: was one of the hardest shots I've ever done in

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Speaker 3: the mountains, climbing mountains, leeches in our ears and noses,

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Speaker 3: freezing temperatures, really unattractive portoloop. But hey, that's shabit.

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Speaker 5: Can I just bring this up.

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Speaker 2: I just saw you recently did a podcast and you

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Speaker 2: were talking about a psychic that you went and saw a.

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Speaker 5: Long time ago. Do you still go and see psychic

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Speaker 5: or was that a one off?

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Speaker 3: That was probably one idea you haven't seen it. I

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Speaker 3: could see that psych Oh my god, you're talking about

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Speaker 3: when I was in Hollywood. I said, he said go home.

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Speaker 3: You must go home to a street. She said, like

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Speaker 3: everything is back there, and that's from it my husband,

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Speaker 3: and so she was right.

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Speaker 4: And now you're drinking tea and still doing puzzles in

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Speaker 4: the morning with the great Man.

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Speaker 3: No, the husband does the puzzles. Puzzles to me is like,

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Speaker 3: I see I can't put them together.

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Speaker 4: So he's still obsessed with puzzles.

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Speaker 3: He does the puzzles. No, I'm I'm I'm alive, just

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Speaker 3: I paint and a sculpt and I design, I'm and

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Speaker 3: I'm writing, and.

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Speaker 5: The world all did did he? Did he get stuck

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Speaker 5: in the wordle or no? He didn't really know? We did.

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Speaker 3: I tried that with a friend. That's kind of fun.

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Speaker 3: Actually I get back into that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I get back in the world now.

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Speaker 2: Dev this is We know how close this is to

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Speaker 2: your heart and we love talking to you about this,

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Speaker 2: but adopt change means so much to you. You are

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Speaker 2: calling on all Australians to collect live towards where you're

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Speaker 2: actually working towards a home for every child. How many

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Speaker 2: How many kids are we talking now in Australia that

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Speaker 2: need a nurturing home, deb that need to find a home?

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Speaker 5: How many are we looking at?

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Speaker 3: Well, there's forty six thousand kids in foster care. There's

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Speaker 3: eleven and a half thousand kids that go into foster

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Speaker 3: care every year. But our big push this year is

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Speaker 3: we need making it really simple. We need four thousand

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Speaker 3: homes for kids this year. So we're saying to the

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Speaker 3: whole Australia, if you have it in you to open

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Speaker 3: your home and your height, we have all the support

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Speaker 3: we have care of training. If that's what you can do,

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Speaker 3: then we need four thousand homes and a lot of

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Speaker 3: these kids are going into residential care at the moment

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Speaker 3: that are under five years of age, some one year

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Speaker 3: of age. These kids are being separated from their families,

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Speaker 3: going into strangers. Can you imagine And if you can't

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Speaker 3: do that, we take donations. Everyone can help in some way.

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Speaker 4: Renee, when you as the see of adopt change, when

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Speaker 4: do you start and how do you draw up a

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Speaker 4: list of what you can do with the money?

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Speaker 1: After the COVID environment of the last couple of years,

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Speaker 1: when we're starting to see more kids coming into care

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Speaker 1: and as mentioned, they're quite young that we're trying to

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Speaker 1: find a home for. Really, we want our team to

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Speaker 1: be able to focus on finding more homes. So that's

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Speaker 1: something that we then work with government and different agencies.

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Speaker 1: And we started to hear from people yesterday when we

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Speaker 1: launched our campaign across Australia, you know. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's just about making sure that that message gets out

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Speaker 1: there and we find more people that can step up

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Speaker 1: and that we can support through that journey.

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Speaker 4: Great to talk always, StEB and also Rene. Great to

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Speaker 4: have you on the show as well, you know, such

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Speaker 4: an important message, as we said, with Christmas coming up

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Speaker 4: and we always love you sharing an update of where

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Speaker 4: we're at.

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Speaker 2: And like we said, I mean, if you want more

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Speaker 2: information to get involved, but even if you can't and

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Speaker 2: you want to donate, please go to the website a

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Speaker 2: Home for every Child dot org. It's run by adop Change,

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Speaker 2: deb belief Ess and also Renee Carda.

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Speaker 5: Thank you very much for coming on the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys, Happy holidays, ladies, See you guys.

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Speaker 5: Byee.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whippo podcast