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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Got a local for you, actually, Fergo. I was watching

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Speaker 2: Fergo last night on the news and there's going to

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Speaker 2: be a very popular landmark that's going to be ripped

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Speaker 2: down in Sydney.

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Speaker 1: Greyhound racing here in Sydney has been given its death notice.

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Speaker 1: The Men's government set to bulldoze the historic Wentworth Park

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Speaker 1: track to make way for apartments and.

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Speaker 2: Making a difficult decision here today to not renew the

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Speaker 2: lease at Wentworth Park and then greyhound racing across the road.

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Speaker 1: There's haveitly no discussion, haven't got a phone call from here.

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Speaker 2: The government could face some issues from the industry. Now,

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Speaker 2: it's not that there's not housing's not going to go

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Speaker 2: onto where Wentworth Park is. That will be that will

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Speaker 2: be turned into local parks, which is a great idea.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's a beautiful park right next door to it.

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Speaker 2: Then you've got the brand new fish markets that will

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Speaker 2: be opening up. There's a new apartment buildings going up

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Speaker 2: where the old fish markets were. Sure so there will

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Speaker 2: be there will be some beautiful greenery around there and

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Speaker 2: for the kids to play and what a data have

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Speaker 2: a picnic, go to the fish market, go across the

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Speaker 2: road to the picnic and have a picnic over there.

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Speaker 3: But are you okay with that because your dream has

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Speaker 3: always been to have lunch at the David Jones food

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Speaker 3: court after being at the Greyhounds.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, we end up at the greyhouse. I tried

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Speaker 2: to get the team to go to the work one

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Speaker 2: night because it was a great night out watching the dogs. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Friday night wasn't. No one was keen.

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Speaker 3: No one ended up the DUT's at Canterbury.

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Speaker 2: I think Leno was the only one on the team

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Speaker 2: that put his hand up. He was keen as it

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Speaker 2: was really hard to leave you guys at two o'clock

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Speaker 2: in the afternoon at lunch that date and go and

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Speaker 2: watch the dogs. The racing industry is blind sided. They

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Speaker 2: say they didn't see it coming.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I reckon?

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Speaker 2: You go out with the bank?

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Speaker 1: What do you do?

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Speaker 2: Why don't you have one last greyhound race with all

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Speaker 2: the greyhounds in New South Wales And while they're demolishing it,

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Speaker 2: the dogs just have to jump over the rubble. Interesting,

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Speaker 2: it's like an obstacle court.

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Speaker 3: I haven't thought of that. You go out like it's

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Speaker 3: a nore greyhounds. Yeah, I've dog racing for me has

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Speaker 3: been a bit breetest. I would like to see a

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Speaker 3: mix up and maybe that's the way they could reinvigorate it.

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Speaker 3: So you have a I don't know, German shepherd. You

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Speaker 3: throw a pug in as well against the gray.

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Speaker 2: Could bring I could put I could have a dog

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Speaker 2: in the race.

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Speaker 3: I could bring beast as well, lanefall Beastie Fitzgerald lighting up. Now,

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Speaker 3: will it chase the rabbit? It is?

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Speaker 2: I think we all knew that it was going to

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Speaker 2: go at some stage, but confirmed overnight that Wentworth Park

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