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Speaker 1: Now to Papa's Gallipoli exhibition is amazing and it's shaping

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Speaker 1: up to be the most successful art exhibit in the country.

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Speaker 1: And that's because it's more than just an art exhibit.

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Speaker 1: It's a history exhibit. In twenty fifteen, Gallipoli The Scale

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Speaker 1: of Our War was intended to be on display for

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Speaker 1: four years. It was in twenty fifteen. It's still there.

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Speaker 1: It's had four point eight million visits, and now the

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Speaker 1: museum has decided to extend the exhibition stay for a

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Speaker 1: third time, this time by ten years, or until twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty two. Kate Camp joins me. Now Kate is a

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Speaker 1: to PAPA representative.

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Speaker 2: Helly Kate, good morning.

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Speaker 1: It's so good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean you've obviously seen it, and we know

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Speaker 2: that a lot of people in New Zealand have seen

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Speaker 2: it so many many times. One of the cool things

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Speaker 2: about Gallipoli is that people will come back. You know,

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Speaker 2: if they've got friends and family visiting from overseas, they

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Speaker 2: might bring them back again, or maybe they just kind

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Speaker 2: of want to come and pay their respects, because I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of people see it as a bit

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Speaker 2: of a pilgrimage.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the giant sculptures created by wetter are amazing. The

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Speaker 1: question is why not make it permanent?

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Speaker 2: Well, everything has a shelf life, and you might think

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Speaker 2: that something is as monumental as Gallipoli will last forever,

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Speaker 2: but the things in there are actually quite fragile, and

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Speaker 2: we've actually been surprised at how durable it's been. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, we think that it's a realistic time frame

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Speaker 2: for us to be able to extend it for another

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Speaker 2: seven years. And you know, New Zealanders didn't know about

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Speaker 2: it before it opened, but they sure know about it now.

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Speaker 2: But there's also all those internationals who haven't seen it.

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Speaker 2: So probably about fifty percent of the people who come

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Speaker 2: to Tapapa from overseas and they may never have heard

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Speaker 2: of Gallipoli, but they sure come out the other end

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Speaker 2: knowing all about it.

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Speaker 1: And sorry to be unsubtle, of course you charge the

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Speaker 1: international tour. So this is a good money own there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's so important for us to be

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Speaker 2: able to earn revenue. You know, if your guest bill

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Speaker 2: has gone up, you can imagine what's happened to ours

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Speaker 2: in recent years. So it's really important for us to

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Speaker 2: be able to earn commercial revenue to succome what we

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Speaker 2: get from the New Zealand taxpayer. So yeah, that's obviously

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Speaker 2: a really popular attention to be able to keep those

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Speaker 2: internationals coming in.

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Speaker 1: OK. I remember the very first time I walked in

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Speaker 1: and saw this thing with the giant sculptures and just

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Speaker 1: the exhibitor, and I was almost moved to tea as

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Speaker 1: it is an extraordinary thing, and it's a good decision

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Speaker 1: that it's extended, and I'd like to see it somewhere forever,

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Speaker 1: somewhere close. And I thank you so much for your

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