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Speaker 1: Well. As you recall, last month I visited a number

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Speaker 1: of community centers around Adelaide and told you about some

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Speaker 1: of the excellent activities that they run. Their CEO of

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Speaker 1: communitys essay is Kerry Akama's You can hear her here

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Speaker 1: over summer on Sunday afternoons on five Double A Kerry

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Speaker 1: Overseas exploring community centers and how they operate there. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, Good morning mesuw Yes.

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Speaker 2: I certainly my first with Copenhagen.

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Speaker 1: Any differences, any learnings out of how to operate here.

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Speaker 2: Really just some different learnings Matthew. For a start, they

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Speaker 2: have this principal called of Hookie, and hookie is all

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Speaker 2: about being relaxed and come and I have a very

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Speaker 2: different structure of how they live life and how they

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Speaker 2: run their system of philosophy for looking after the disadvantage.

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Speaker 2: For one, it's interesting that they say they're happy in

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Speaker 2: come because they have one of the highest tax structures

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Speaker 2: in the world. Really, but it means that everyone has

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Speaker 2: access free education, there's very little homelessness, there's very little disadvantage,

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Speaker 2: and people are always looked after. This whole concept we

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Speaker 2: all look after each other. So I found that quite

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Speaker 2: interesting and communities further a religious society, but no one

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Speaker 2: goes to church for all. The churches have become community centers.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well that's happened here as well, the one on

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Speaker 1: glen Osmond Ride.

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Speaker 2: You've been with five News Trends. Well, what's interesting is

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Speaker 2: is the length of time over They literally open seven

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Speaker 2: they're serving breakfast, lunch and.

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Speaker 1: Dinner, something that you could see happening here.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps would require additional funding centers to do that or

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Speaker 2: donations from the public, but he forgets helping the disadvantage

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Speaker 2: by paying pap structures. The government funds these centers to

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Speaker 2: deliver that. But they really do some quite interesting things.

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Speaker 2: They have open mic nights. Anybody can go and perform

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Speaker 2: or sing or do comedy. They focused a lot on

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Speaker 2: the youth, and the youth can go there and rent

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Speaker 2: board games or they can come in the way to

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Speaker 2: room to sleep. So they're very focused on people not

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Speaker 2: being homeless and in fact down community conversations podcasts. This

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Speaker 2: week we've Leslate from State talking about the issues in

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Speaker 2: Australia and South Australia about the crisis of homelessness, but

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Speaker 2: here they're really using any space they can to provide

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Speaker 2: refuge in a place for people to street. So literally

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Speaker 2: I did not see anybody else sleeping in the street.

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Speaker 1: Having a bigger population over there, in a small country

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Speaker 1: like that, you'd expect the services, particularly with that tax space.

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Speaker 1: I suppose the services to be just top class, but

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Speaker 1: more people. Small country community centers, the demand would be

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Speaker 1: there for all food for instance, and open seven till

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Speaker 1: seven and everything else.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is. It's really interesting also, Sam, is that

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Speaker 2: the people we need to whole relaxed and you know

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Speaker 2: a way of things about happiness, because apparently the people

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Speaker 2: in coping the Danes were the happiest and are now

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Speaker 2: the second happiness. The Fins are the happiest. It's more

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Speaker 2: about this relax and calm. And of course they have

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Speaker 2: one of the highest percentages of electric bikes and cars,

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Speaker 2: so it's so quiet everywhere you walk, which adds for

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Speaker 2: this calmness.

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Speaker 1: What about England? Now, have you been to England yet?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've just come from England and the number of

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Speaker 2: sheer numbers of people here is just phenomenal and they're

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Speaker 2: not coping well at all. There is a lot of

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Speaker 2: more homeless and you would have been of course in

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Speaker 2: the papers about the riots. Yeah, a lot of unrest,

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Speaker 2: so yes, quite a different atmosphere, certainly not calm at all,

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Speaker 2: and community centers are really struggling to still fill the need.

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Speaker 2: And of course again England's one of the lowest tax

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Speaker 1: Have a system they're assisting homeless people. I understand in

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Speaker 1: England specifically, there's a campaign running at the moment.

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Speaker 2: There is a campaign running at the moment, but there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of homeless people. It's just think. So I've

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Speaker 2: walked through these market beautiful photographs, street photographs, and what

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Speaker 2: that side we're here is to start up a social

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Speaker 2: enterprise where they gave all these polowoid you know, the

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Speaker 2: old honoid chemists we used to have, and they would

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Speaker 2: them on carts and they sell them online for about

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Speaker 2: physically go and buy them and then they have a

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Speaker 2: vote for which are the best twelve when they put

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Speaker 2: them in a calendar, and it's a whole social enterprise

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Speaker 2: and it's so successful it's moving out to the rest

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Speaker 2: of the world. It's called my London and they have

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Speaker 2: someone in Sydney as well as My Sydney.

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Speaker 1: Okay, can we should have I was going to say,

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Speaker 1: are we going to see that happen here? You'd like

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Speaker 2: Well? A great idea for a social and the pictures

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Speaker 2: that they've taken are because they're literally off the streets

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Speaker 2: all the time and just sitting there all day and

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Speaker 2: something happens and they capture it. I really love seeing

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Speaker 2: that sort of innovation and I think there's a lot

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Speaker 2: more that we can be doing. And then there's another

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Speaker 2: one they do here for criminals who are going to

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Speaker 2: be paroleed. They put them story system where they teach

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Speaker 2: them to bake and work in bakeries and they make

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Speaker 2: that's where they come from, so at least it gives

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Speaker 2: them a skill before they come out. And a lot

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Speaker 2: of it is where they are fulfilling dietary requirements because

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Speaker 2: obviously in the UK massive numbers of people, but their

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Speaker 2: options for gluten free is incredible, so they do a

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Speaker 2: lot of dietary requirements, but it's prisoners learning skills before

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Speaker 2: they go out into the workplace, and they sell it

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Speaker 2: as a social enterprise.

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Speaker 1: There's lots of scopes for communities to get together and

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Speaker 1: come up with great initiatives like that. Kerry, look forward

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Speaker 1: to chatting to you again in about a month's time

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Speaker 1: about perhaps where Community Essay is that and some of

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Speaker 1: the wonderful things you're doing here.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, NEX, thank you enjoy your.

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Speaker 1: Trip, Kerry Akomans. You can hear a here on five

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Speaker 1: double a CE of Communities SSAY does a lot of

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Speaker 1: important work in centers around the state, bringing people together.

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Speaker 1: It's what it's all about.