1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: As you know, last weekend, spent the weekend at Operation 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: Flinder's site in the Northern Flinders Rangers you Nina station 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: where they do such great work with teams of young 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: children teenagers who are going through tough times, dysfunctional family perhaps, 5 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: or whatever it might be. And they go up in 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: their school groups, and there were ten different schools represented there, 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: spread throughout the six hundred and thirty four square kilometers 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: of Youankin in a station, big, big area. You stand 9 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: on one of the mountain peaks there and look around 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: and as far as you can see, it's young and inner. 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: It's unreal how big it is. Anyway, they're scattered around 12 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: and I was taken around to meet some of the groups. 13 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: This is one group of kids going through the program 14 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: that I caught up with up there, and here's what 15 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:54,279 Speaker 1: they had to say. Some boys, you are part of 16 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: one of the teams in the Operation Flinders this weekend. 17 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: What do you think of it so far? All right? 18 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 2: Just doing it for the sacee points, I guess, and 19 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 2: the experience. It's pretty nice out here. Gets a bit 20 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 2: hot during the day, cold at night, but we're doing 21 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 2: all right. 22 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: What have you learned so far? 23 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 2: How a bit of hotchie do it? Well? No? So 24 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 2: like no wind and rain comes in? 25 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: Okay? What about you? What's been the highlights so far? 26 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 3: The height so far is coming out and see the 27 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 3: back of Australia. Coming from an international student, so yeah, 28 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 3: where are you from? I'm from Cambodia. 29 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: What do you think of the outback? 30 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,479 Speaker 3: I think it's pretty nice. The terrain is really it's 31 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 3: really significant. 32 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: It's mind blowing, isn't it. Yeah, just out here the 33 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: creek beds and everything else. What about you? What do 34 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 1: you think of it? I think it's mate. 35 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 2: It's back like back home from where my parents are from. 36 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, just it's good. What do you hope to gain 37 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: over the next six stays? What do you I hope 38 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: to gain leadership, more friends. What do you think of 39 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: it so far? I think it's amazing at the moment. 40 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, get away from family, get away from school. 41 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: Nah, but nah, it's good out here. What keeps you fit? Yeah? 42 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: Which you've done a lot of walking? 43 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 2: Yeah? 44 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: Done? Heaps walking and heeps more to come, keeps more 45 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: to come. I understand I'm sailing down the clifford. I've 46 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: seen the wall. I don't know if you've seen it yet, 47 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. We've seen it. Okay, what do you 48 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: reckon about that? That's high. I'm gonna scared. I'm a 49 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: bit scared for it. You'll be tied up. Yeah, I'll 50 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: be fine, though, You will be fine. What about coming 51 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: back to the beginning, where do you hope to gain? 52 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope to gain a bit of muscle on 53 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 2: my legs for sure. 54 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: Uh. 55 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 2: Hope to just get a better experience. I guess, just 56 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 2: more friends, better relationships. Yeah, just get close with people, 57 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 2: closer teachers over here. 58 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: The fact that you know it's meant to make you 59 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: more resilient. Do you see that? 60 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 4: Yeah? 61 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: Tougher met Yeah, yeah, I guess. 62 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to push yourself through the out back 63 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 2: or the all the walk and all that. 64 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 3: Yeah. 65 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: Bags and bags or heavy bags. 66 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe twenty heroosh on your back all day. 67 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 2: Pretty much everything in your back is like where you live. 68 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 2: So it's tough. 69 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: You want it over what do you? What do you 70 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: make of it all? So far? A couple of days then. 71 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 4: I think your shoulders. You get a good workout on 72 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 4: your legs and your shoulders, and you learn lots of 73 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 4: different things about living in remote places. 74 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: Resilience wise, do you reckon it's going to make you 75 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: mentally stronger? Yeah? 76 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 4: Probably because you just got to keep going. You can't 77 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 4: really stop and quit out. 78 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: Here go the right mind. 79 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: Sir, Yes, So that's what it's all about, is you've 80 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: heard there. But also one of the people up there 81 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: was a peer group mentor at Caitlin, and I had 82 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: to chat with her as well. Here at the high 83 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: Ropes course that Operation Flinder's Caitlin. Your role here what 84 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: is it? 85 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 5: I help out with the team leader and I try 86 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 5: to encourage the participants to keep on trying at their 87 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 5: best and everything they want to do. I tell them 88 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 5: about the next step program and also if they want 89 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 5: to come and become a PGM next year. 90 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: It you've been through it, haven't you. You came along 91 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: to Operation Flinders a few years ago? 92 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, so I was. 93 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: So. 94 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 5: My team leader was Tabby and we were her first 95 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 5: participant group and we tried our best to do all 96 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 5: the courses and stuff. But with me, I had to 97 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 5: I struggled a bit to climb Mount Rose, so I 98 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 5: had to walk around the bottom with Tabbian and with 99 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 5: another participant too. So my walk was then was really good. 100 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: Okay, you're you're enjoying coming back, and. 101 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 5: Yeah, I am enjoying it, but saw a bit, but 102 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 5: I'm managing it so beautiful. 103 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: What did you get out of coming the first time? 104 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: You must have really enjoyed it to be back now 105 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: helping out. 106 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, I enjoyed it being outdoors and stuff. I actually 107 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 5: was in outdoor red four two and a half years. 108 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 5: That's actually the reason how I actually started coming out 109 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 5: in the outback. 110 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 6: More. 111 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: The kids here today that you've got, how are they they? 112 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: You know, from the very beginning a few days ago, 113 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: have they managed to coping with it? 114 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 4: Yeah? 115 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 5: They've actually managed really well. At the start, they had 116 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 5: trips and tumbles, but they kept them getting back up 117 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 5: and that's the one thing I thought was really good 118 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 5: about them. And also all the participants kids on pushing 119 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 5: team leaders to So. Yeah, we've climbed Extension Hill and 120 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 5: Manda and caps. Yesterday we did twenty kilometers. 121 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a pretty fair hike through rugged country. 122 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. 123 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 5: I at the last bit of the day, one of 124 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 5: the participants and I were like walking like zombers trying 125 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 5: to get to the camp site. It was real fun. 126 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: You're all encouraging each other. Yeah, we are peer group 127 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: mentor Caitlin there and the person who took me around 128 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: to all the camps, all the different sites of places 129 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: of interest around Yank Kaninna Kim Valentine who is the 130 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: marketing officer, so I had a chat with her up 131 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 1: there as well. Kim Communications or marketing officer with Operation Flinders. 132 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for showing me around over the 133 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,919 Speaker 1: last twenty four or so hours. It's just fantastic what 134 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: happens here. You've got a job dream come true, haven't you. 135 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 6: Yes, it certainly is a dream job, Matthew. It's a 136 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 6: big job to do, and after several years you get 137 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 6: used to a few things, but it's really amazing to 138 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 6: work for a preasure Flinders, a massive privilege. 139 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: You were telling me you've got wind of the program 140 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: years ago. You came on one or some experience here 141 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: and you thought, I've got to get a job. 142 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,799 Speaker 6: Yes, so I came up here with my previous employer 143 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 6: nine years ago today and the. 144 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: Universary, thank you. 145 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 6: And I came up on a small charter plane into 146 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 6: Lee Creek and got picked up and brought out here 147 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 6: and thought, what is this amazing program? And from then 148 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 6: on I volunteered for several years until I continued to 149 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 6: annoy the previous CEO with seeing what jobs are available 150 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 6: at time. 151 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: And here you are, nine years later. You've told me so. Well. Firstly, 152 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: you've shown me some amazing things the countryside. You've got 153 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: to see it to believe it. Just the Flinder's incredible. 154 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: But the things the kids go through here to teach 155 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: them resilience, to help them break out of safe spaces 156 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: and stretch the boundaries, you must see. And you've known 157 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: some of these kids, especially the ones that come back, 158 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: which is probably the best thing. They come back as 159 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: peer group mentors or do the Next Step program and 160 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: just keep going with it, which must be rufically rewarding. 161 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 6: Yes, it certainly is. And over the years, you see 162 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 6: young people that are in the program from the age 163 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 6: of thirteen to fourteen, and then they enter the Next 164 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 6: Step program and you see them get their drivers line 165 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 6: since that they're l's, they go to formal's, they get 166 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 6: their first jobs, and it's amazing to see. And then 167 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 6: they reach nineteen years old and then they spread their 168 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 6: wings and head off to do whatever they like to 169 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 6: do in life. 170 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: Given the backgrounds of some of these kids. One of 171 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: the stories here the cooks have told me this morning 172 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: as well about how there's a cake prepared at the 173 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: end of the camp the last day and that's part 174 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: of the sort of finishing ceremony and sadly, and it's 175 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: hard to believe, but some of these kids have never 176 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: had a cake presented to them before. 177 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's correct. It's really sad. And we make a 178 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 6: really good effort to get these cakes out, so statistically 179 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 6: you'll have a fair few birthdays on one exercise, and 180 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 6: it doesn't matter if the team is two, three four 181 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 6: hours drive out on the property. We'll make sure we 182 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 6: get a birthday cake to them. And some kids it's 183 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 6: not only just a birthday cake they've never had they've 184 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 6: never been told good night before, and they've never sat 185 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 6: around a to have it, to have a meal at 186 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 6: night with peers next to them or people next to them. 187 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: That's so sad, isn't it. When you stop and think 188 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: about that, it's just incredibly sad. 189 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 6: Yeah, And we say that these challenges in life don't 190 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 6: have a postcode, so it doesn't matter if they're in 191 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 6: the eastern suburbs of Adelaide or rural South Australia or 192 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 6: low socioeconomic suburbs. All these challenges are faced by these 193 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 6: young people. 194 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: It's tremendous work. What is Operation Flinder's about moving forward? 195 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: I know you've been a P five do a very 196 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: happy and proud to be associated with this. You've run 197 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: a campaign and still are this month asking people to 198 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: jump online and help out with some cash and make 199 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: a donation. 200 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 4: Yeah. 201 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 6: So it's taken thirty three years to get to ten 202 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 6: thousand young people and that represents not only that nine 203 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 6: nine hundred and ninety nine young people, but also the 204 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 6: hundreds and thousands of volunteers and the staff and the 205 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 6: people that have supported and from here, we don't want 206 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 6: to take another thirty three years to get to twenty thousand, 207 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 6: and I think we have a much bigger demand. There's 208 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 6: different challenges with young people and we want to expand 209 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 6: it to be more available to young people, even those 210 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 6: that don't go to a school. 211 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: Okay, so that is an option for kids beyond I 212 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: suppose school age. Is that what you mean? 213 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 6: So at the moment you have to be part of 214 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 6: a school that is connected to Operation Flinders and have 215 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 6: nominated in order to do an exercise or we have 216 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 6: to step out program. So they're probably are most at 217 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 6: risk vulnerable young people. A lot of them are through 218 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 6: the foster systems through DCP and have also been expelled 219 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 6: or excluded from school, so they can also do the program. 220 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 6: It's a matter of the capacity the funds to run 221 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 6: that because it does cost four thousand, seven hundred per 222 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 6: young person on the program. 223 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: So that's food and I suppose electricity and everything you 224 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: do here. 225 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,719 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, out in the field there's no electricity, but 226 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 6: it certainly keeps the lights on a base camp in 227 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 6: order for us to communicate with them, so it does 228 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 6: become quite costly. A lot of people have the assumption 229 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 6: that because they're out bush there's not a lot of resources, 230 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 6: but in some ways there are more resources because of 231 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 6: the safety and the risk. 232 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: And you volunteer. You know, some come from into state. 233 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: They're not just Adelaide based people, but obviously the word 234 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: has got out there. 235 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 6: Yes, right now we have two here from Canberra and 236 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 6: that's not uncommon. We have several that come from Queensland, 237 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 6: none from Perth yet, but they'd certainly are from all 238 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 6: across Soustralia and the eastern Eastern States. 239 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,559 Speaker 1: Amazing. Well keep up the great work. Thank you for 240 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: the hours you put into me over the last day 241 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: in a bit. It's just been wonderful to be here 242 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: and see this amazing program in action. In just the 243 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: most we're surrounded by mountain ranges to the left and right. 244 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: As far as you can see, it's Yankin in the station. 245 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: How big is it. 246 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 6: It's six hundred and thirty four square kilometers, so it 247 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,319 Speaker 6: is the size. 248 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: Of bar rain that's incredible, and driving one end to 249 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: the other is essentially adelaide to hear. 250 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 6: Yes, so not a lot of the roads are in 251 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 6: good condition. But if you go from the most southern 252 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 6: point of Yankin in the Station to the most northern point, 253 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 6: which butts up against Lyndhurst, that will take you about 254 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 6: eight to nine hours, maybe even more depending on conditions. 255 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: Such a big place. 256 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 6: It's huge, it's huge, and we only use about a 257 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 6: third of it for our young people, so they miss 258 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 6: out on little bit, but they do tend to travel 259 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 6: fair bit, over one hundred ks sometimes. 260 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: Over the week. Unreal. Thank you Kim again, wonderful and 261 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: I really appreciate the time you've taken. Thank you. I 262 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed your abs I did, Thank you, I did. Indeed, 263 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: it was good fun.