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Speaker 1: Five double A nice with Matthew Pantalas someday Victoria Square

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Speaker 1: as it is around the middle of November every year,

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Speaker 1: the Multicultural Festival is on, bringing together eighty five groups

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Speaker 1: representing sixty five different cultures. Zoe Bettison is the minister

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Speaker 1: who looks after this and she is on the line. Minister.

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Speaker 1: This must be the latest time any minister's ever been

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Speaker 1: on five double A good evening to you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much much, Matthew. It's great to talk

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Speaker 2: to you about the Multicultural Festival.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to em seeing that again. I forget how

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Speaker 1: many years now, four or five I think I've been

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Speaker 1: asked to go down there and help present that and

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Speaker 1: just chuff to do it. It's a pretty good event,

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Speaker 1: full of color, great food and dancing and all the

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Speaker 1: rest of it. It's more worth coming to have a

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Speaker 1: look at Look.

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Speaker 2: This is a free festival and every year at Victoria

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Speaker 2: Square a great opportunity. Now this year we're going to

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Speaker 2: have eighty five different cultural community groups.

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Speaker 3: There will be there.

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Speaker 2: Agy performances, fourteen activities, forty one stores, and of course

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Speaker 2: this year some new things including some cooking demonstrations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so the food is pretty good. I mean

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Speaker 1: you wonder around taking the smells and the taste for

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Speaker 1: the ones you choose to indulge in it, it is

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Speaker 1: pretty good.

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Speaker 2: I got to say, well, it's I think the hard

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Speaker 2: bit is what are you going to pick? How many

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Speaker 2: different can you have? You know, decide so many different

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Speaker 2: choices as well. And of course this year the cooking

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Speaker 2: demonstration is new, so we've got something from our Italian community,

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Speaker 2: the Latin American community and Spanish community, so something different

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Speaker 2: to try as well to see how these beautiful dishes

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Speaker 2: are made.

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Speaker 1: The weather looks stunning on the day thirty odd degrees

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Speaker 1: I think, or low thirty so it's just perfect for

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Speaker 1: an early starter or a later finish and always gets

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Speaker 1: a huge crowd. I don't know if you've done crowd

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Speaker 1: numbers in the past, but Jeeus Square really fills up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So last year there was about ten and a half

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Speaker 2: thousand people there, so really amazing, and so that was

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Speaker 2: in twenty three, and then eleven and a half thousand last.

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Speaker 3: Year as well.

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Speaker 2: Last year was like we went balley. The weather was

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Speaker 2: rather steamy, but that didn't stop people coming. So unexpecting

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Speaker 2: the same amount or more, and it's that from twelve

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Speaker 2: pm to six pm on the Sunday.

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Speaker 1: All right, so Victoria Square would be all abuzz the

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Speaker 1: multicultural festival do you have You must have groups wanting

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Speaker 1: to turn up and probably not enough room for them.

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Speaker 3: All.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually it's a competitive process. People actually have to

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Speaker 2: go through and apply and so not everyone gets the

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Speaker 2: chance to have a stall or do a presentation. They've

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Speaker 2: got to put that in and it goes through a

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Speaker 2: funding process. So yeah, it's very very competitive.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: One of the interesting things we've got was just expanding

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Speaker 2: it out a little bit the footprint wider to the

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Speaker 2: southern side of Victoria Square. We have this community services

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Speaker 2: hub that was incredibly you know, people loved it last year,

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Speaker 2: was really popular and that's going to include groups from

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Speaker 2: Breast Green Essay, Cancer Council, Diabetes Essay, Safehold Recruitment are

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Speaker 2: going to be there, the Heart Foundation, some really great

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Speaker 2: events and a time for people to just check up

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Speaker 2: into a bit of a health check or booking to

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Speaker 2: some of those appointments to check on their numbers and

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Speaker 2: see how they're going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's that's good tonight. I've just got on

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Speaker 1: the screen in front of me. The volleyball that is

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Speaker 1: on at the moment at Memorial Drive, which to me

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Speaker 1: is a far better use of Memorial Drive than tennis,

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Speaker 1: because I disagree, do you, Yeah, I find it boring,

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Speaker 1: but this, and it's been on every night here in

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Speaker 1: the studio. One of the screens in here, there's more

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Speaker 1: screens in here than you'd find in JB High five,

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Speaker 1: but it's one of them is on this channel and

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Speaker 1: it'll just looks sensational and you know, it looks like

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Speaker 1: a decent amount of people turning up throughout and whether

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Speaker 1: Australia is playing or not, what a terrific event.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, there's one hundred and ninety athletes for more

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Speaker 2: than forty nations. This is an international event. It's the

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Speaker 2: World Beach Volleyball Championship, so great to host in Sounders. Look,

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Speaker 2: tickets are really reasonably priced, so there's still some available

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Speaker 2: for people through tick Atteck. I expect the numbers are

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Speaker 2: going to build quite a lot in the next few

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Speaker 2: days leading up to the finals on the Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so last day Sunday and if people

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Speaker 1: want to go down and have a look, well you've

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Speaker 1: got a few days left to do that and getting

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Speaker 1: all that handed great effort. It's tons of it apparently, isn't.

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Speaker 2: It that two thousand tons?

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Speaker 3: Wow? Amazing and it's I think it's thought out and

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Speaker 3: keeping meters or nothing like that was a lot and

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Speaker 3: it's never been converted before. There are also two other

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Speaker 3: courts on Pinky Flat and so it's a bit of

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Speaker 3: a festival veal with some music and food and things

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Speaker 3: like that as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, terrific, all right, and all of that can go

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Speaker 1: to West Beach and replenish down there I suppose at

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Speaker 1: the end. But a lot of sand and it. It

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Speaker 1: does look fantastic just watching it now on the telly. Hey,

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Speaker 1: one last thing will you hear as Tourism minister, you

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Speaker 1: must be disappointed at the news today that Adelaide unlikely

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Speaker 1: to get Cop thirty one.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, look, I don't know what that final decision is.

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Speaker 2: I think we don't know that final decision. What I

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Speaker 2: do know is that we've benefited just by being a candidate,

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Speaker 2: particularly in the conference and convention space you would see

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Speaker 2: business events Adelaide, who I work quite closely with. The

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Speaker 2: door has been opened for international events into the future

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Speaker 2: that we wouldn't even be able to get an opportunity

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Speaker 2: or have a meeting. So I'm where our final decision

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Speaker 2: has been made at this point. But I just do

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Speaker 2: know that people are asking who is this Adelaide and

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Speaker 2: that's really helped us in that opportunity for whole hosting

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Speaker 2: international conferences into the future.

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Speaker 1: All Right, all the marketing we do and they're still

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Speaker 1: asking who is Adelaide.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, I think certainly from a national point of view,

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Speaker 2: we've really done well. We're really big in the New

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Speaker 2: Zealand market. Of course, our connectivity to China has improved

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Speaker 2: dramatically obviously. Just last week we welcome back CAF Pacific,

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Speaker 2: a very much loved airline that's been here for more

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Speaker 2: than thirty years. China Southern is back as well, and

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Speaker 2: of course we recently announced that China Eastern from July

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Speaker 2: next year will be entering our market.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think people are that upset about us now.

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Speaker 1: I mean all the callers and texts tonight after the

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Speaker 1: nine years report that suggested it's not coming to Adelaide,

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Speaker 1: no one has been disappointed by that fact. I've got

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Speaker 1: to tell you, So you know, if it opens doors

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Speaker 1: in the future, because we've been talked about it that

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Speaker 1: this conference, well that's good, good for the future, I suppose.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I do think people are thinking about South

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Speaker 2: Australia differently than they have before. Certainly, you know, hosting

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Speaker 2: Gatheround and Leave Golf, along with our other international events

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Speaker 2: like the Tour down Under, these are things that attracting attention.

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Speaker 2: We've got a pretty much a premier who's out there

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Speaker 2: talking about our state as well, so these are certainly

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Speaker 2: turning people's heads. It's great for tourism, great for investment

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Speaker 2: in our stays well.

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Speaker 1: Zoe Betterson, great to speak with you tonight, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for your time.

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Speaker 2: Great to talk to you there.

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Speaker 1: Then let's see you at the Multicultural Festival on Sunday,