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Speaker 1: Every time that we've spoken to the wonderful Tory Star,

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Speaker 1: everybody wants to make sure that they are supporting Operation

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Speaker 1: Secret Center Aged Care. But Tory joins me on the

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Speaker 1: line right now. Good morning, Tory, morning.

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Speaker 2: Katie, Good morning to your listeners. Tory.

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Speaker 1: How are things going. The last time I saw you,

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Speaker 1: I didn't even recognize you. You and your son were

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Speaker 1: loading loading gifts into into a van there at Parrab.

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Speaker 1: How's it all going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't me doing much loading. Unfortunately, I can't

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Speaker 2: lift anything, so I had to bring out of my

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Speaker 2: own help a lot to provide me the muscles carrying

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Speaker 2: all the boxes for me. Yeah, things are going, Things

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Speaker 2: are going well, but I am definitely here to put

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Speaker 2: a last minute call for help out to people. We

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Speaker 2: were at CWA Countrywomen's Association last night until quite late.

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Speaker 2: They let me use their facility around the clocks free

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Speaker 2: of charge, which is amazing, and we've boxed up eight

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty five presents so far. Wow. So yeah.

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Speaker 2: They're off to the Legends at Centurion Transport today to

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Speaker 2: begin their journey to Alice Springs and that will cover

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Speaker 2: off Antenna Creek. They'll cover off the whole Central Australia region.

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Speaker 2: So that's done. Yeah, but we still read about six

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty more presents and I'm running really low

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Speaker 2: on donation all right, So.

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Speaker 1: What do you need and when do you need them?

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Speaker 1: By Tory, because I reckon we can make this happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be great to have them by Friday. I've

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Speaker 2: got a team of volunteers at the ready on the weekend,

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Speaker 2: so help me bag them up, box them and get

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Speaker 2: them on their way. And they can obviously be dropped

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Speaker 2: off at the four donation points across Darwin so Leasanoffiio's

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Speaker 2: office in Zakoli, Maurray Clair, Buoski's office in Palmerston Shopping Center,

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Speaker 2: Brent Potter's office in Perrap and the Paddock Garden gift shop.

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Speaker 2: And we need the full gamut. We need everything. We

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Speaker 2: need no books, pens, we need trinkets, we need toiletry

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Speaker 2: for men and women. Hankis. We've still got a lot

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Speaker 2: of the beautiful cod of stops. I've been making sure

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Speaker 2: that I save those up so we can get some

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Speaker 2: through the Darwin homes as well. But everything blankets, toilet trees, flannel, spacewashers.

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Speaker 2: Thank you if you name it, if your grandparents would

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Speaker 2: like it, and it's not flammable or edible, we'll take

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Speaker 2: it well.

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Speaker 1: I reckon. We can definitely get some more presents. I reckon,

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Speaker 1: we can make sure that every one of those senior

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Speaker 1: cities in an age care facility is going to have

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Speaker 1: a present, Tori. How tough is it going to be

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Speaker 1: for you though, over the next week making all of

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Speaker 1: that happen.

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's going to be a few late nights.

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Speaker 2: We were at CWA until about eleven o'clock last night

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Speaker 2: getting everything boxed up, and we'll have all the East

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Speaker 2: Anam and the Nulamboy region finish this afternoon and they'll

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Speaker 2: make their journey tomorrow heading off with Nighthawk Transport. The

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Speaker 2: Legends are taking it off for us over there and

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Speaker 2: the guys at chart Air and their next week, obviously,

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Speaker 2: I'll be doing a bit of driving around down capturing

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Speaker 2: out to Jabbarou drop those off, and the guys at

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Speaker 2: CODA are going to help me deliver the dar and

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Speaker 2: ones next week. They've got their codabus and to sign

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Speaker 2: them up for the challenge to help me deliver those.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, there's a lot of work to do picking

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Speaker 2: up donations from a delivery point, bringing them back, sorting them,

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Speaker 2: packing them up and boxing them and sending them on

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Speaker 2: their way.

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Speaker 1: All right, So Tory, did you say six hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty presents?

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Speaker 2: Still all right?

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Speaker 1: We need six hundred and fifty presents? Where do people

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Speaker 1: need to drop these off to so.

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Speaker 2: They can drop them off to the electorate office in

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Speaker 2: spill it? So leave and off the ro's Electric office

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Speaker 2: and spill it. Mary Klear Boosty's electorate office in the

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Speaker 2: Thompson Shopping Center out the front of Target. We've got

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Speaker 2: Brent Potter's Electric office in the pro Op shops and

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Speaker 2: also the gift shop at the Botanic Gardens for George

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Speaker 2: Brown Botanic Garden. And if for some reason someone can't

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Speaker 2: get to one of those locations, if they send me

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Speaker 2: a message through the Facebook page, I'm sure I can

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Speaker 2: get someone out to you to grab your body toy.

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Speaker 1: Do you need people to help as well? Like, do

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Speaker 1: you need some extra hands?

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Speaker 2: We've got about ten people. So I've just had a

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Speaker 2: CWA with swarming with people on Sunday. So I've got

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Speaker 2: about ten people packing so far. So in terms of

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Speaker 2: the actual bagging for the weekend. I think we're okay,

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Speaker 2: But if anyone is free, if they could send me

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Speaker 2: to call in some back up, I can. I can

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Speaker 2: send them a message and call them in.

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Speaker 1: Well. Jared Mayley's just messaged. He said, Katie, I'm up

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Speaker 1: for one hundred dollars worth of presents. I'll drop them

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Speaker 1: off tomorrow. Tell Tory she's doing a great job. I

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Speaker 1: think absolutely everybody would agree with that. Good on you, Jared,

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Speaker 1: Thank you Tory. That'll that'll look how you know, if

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Speaker 1: people are wanting to buy stuff, how much do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: Is it to their own discretion how much they spend?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, honestly, if you can, if you can afford a

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Speaker 2: five dollars present, we'll take it. We appreciate no matter

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Speaker 2: how much. You don't have to spend a lot of money.

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Speaker 2: Many hands make light work, you know, whatever people can afford.

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Speaker 2: I understand it's a tough time a year for people financially.

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Speaker 2: I know people are struggling as it is, and quite

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Speaker 2: often it's those that are struggling that are the most

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Speaker 2: generous when it comes to their time and the donations.

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Speaker 2: But honestly, it doesn't matter how big or small. Everything

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Speaker 2: helps and everything adds up.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Tori. I just love what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: I think it is so wonderful the way that you're

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Speaker 1: taking your time, your effort to do all of this

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Speaker 1: for the seniors of the Northern Territory. I do want

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Speaker 1: to catch up with you again next week to just

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Speaker 1: get a bit of an update on where things are

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Speaker 1: at and can you let us know how you go

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Speaker 1: today and over the next couple of days with those

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Speaker 1: extra six hundred and fifty presents.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll do absolutely, And thank you for your on

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Speaker 2: going to support CATO.

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Speaker 1: No worries at all. And well done to your son

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Speaker 1: as well, who was your well, your large your bigger

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Speaker 1: elf helping last week.

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Speaker 2: Love you on to all else carrying boxes around. He's

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Speaker 2: in the middle of all his rugby league and rugby

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Speaker 2: union training and stuff for the MT said, so he

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Speaker 2: gets a bit of extra work out carrying boxes around.

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Speaker 1: Good on him though, and good on you, like, I

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Speaker 1: just think that's such a wonderful thing, you know, for

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Speaker 1: for you, like for you to be not only teaching

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Speaker 1: your son about giving back to the community, but you know,

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Speaker 1: like but him getting involved and showing the whole community

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Speaker 1: how it's done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good on you. All My kids, I have

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Speaker 2: to say, have been roped into helping in one way

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Speaker 2: or an other. Even the five year old comes around

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Speaker 2: a pack bags and so I love they're always relieved

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Speaker 2: when Christmas comes and goes on.

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Speaker 1: No good on them, good on them. Well Tory, please

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Speaker 1: keep us up to date, let us know how things

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Speaker 1: are tracking, and just once again give us those locations

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Speaker 1: if there is anybody out there listening who's in a

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Speaker 1: situation where they are able to.

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Speaker 2: Yep. So in Palmerston we've got Les and Occhiaro's electric

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Speaker 2: office which is in Ziicoli Plaza. We've got Murray Claire

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Speaker 2: Boothby's electorate office which is in the Palmeston Shopping Center.

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Speaker 2: And then you're in town, we've got Brent Potter's electric

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Speaker 2: office in the perrap shop and the gift shop at

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Speaker 2: the George Brown Botanic Guards. Any of those locations, and

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Speaker 2: like I said, if for some reason you can't get

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Speaker 2: donations to one of those points, just reach out. We'll

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Speaker 2: get one of our volunteers to be coming around them up.

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Speaker 1: Well, Tory start, thank you so very much for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning. We'll talk to you again either later

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Speaker 1: in the week or next week to find how it's

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Speaker 1: all gone.

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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thanks Katie, good on you, thank you.