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Speaker 1: Now I'm always keen to find out when there's good

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Speaker 1: things happening around the Northern Territory and joining us in

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Speaker 1: the studio right now, Taverna's NT Deputy chair Joe Fitzpatrick,

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Speaker 1: good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 3: Joe.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit more about Taverna's NT.

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Speaker 3: Firstly, okay, well, Taverna is NT and mission is to

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Speaker 3: give the young and disadvantage to sporting chants.

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Speaker 2: So we've got five pillars that we look to support.

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Speaker 3: And they come under Indigenous cricket, blind cricket, cricket for

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Speaker 3: the deaf, cricket for the intellectually impaired, and female participation

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Speaker 3: in sport here in the territory. Though we like to,

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Speaker 3: I guess share the love with all sports, so but

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Speaker 3: trying to I guess, you know, identify with those pillars

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Speaker 3: as well. So we've helped people in tennis, in basketball, tenpin, bowling,

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Speaker 3: for the intellection, he disabled, all sorts of things we've done.

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Speaker 2: So about cricket being a main focus, well, I.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's no secret that I absolutely love my sport.

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Speaker 1: Everybody or anyone who listens to the show knows that

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Speaker 1: I do. So I always love hearing about the work

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Speaker 1: that you guys do. To give us a bit of

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Speaker 1: an example, I suppose about you know, some of the

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Speaker 1: people that you have helped without naming anybody, what kind

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Speaker 1: of you know, what kind of situations have people been

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Speaker 1: in where the tavernas have been able to assist?

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Speaker 3: Sure, and we've probably got in the territory, we believe

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Speaker 3: often when people might be representing the territory or looking

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Speaker 3: to go compete in competition, obviously COVID is restricting that.

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Speaker 2: A lot at the moment. However, when people.

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Speaker 3: Look to travel, we think, you know, the distance that

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Speaker 3: people have to travel in the territory, they're in a

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Speaker 3: disadvantage already because of the costs.

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Speaker 2: So we look to support.

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Speaker 3: Family to be able to allow their young people or

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Speaker 3: even adults to actually represent the territory when they're going

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Speaker 3: away to compete in sport.

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Speaker 1: It is so important. I mean I grew up in

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Speaker 1: Mount Isa, where it was obviously difficult to get to

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Speaker 1: But then when you take it a step further and

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Speaker 1: look at kids that are maybe in a remote part

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Speaker 1: of the Northern Territory trying to get away for the

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Speaker 1: Australian titles or different tournaments. It'd be really tough in

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Speaker 1: some situations.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: In only a couple of years ago, we had a

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Speaker 3: young lad out in one of the communities far from

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Speaker 3: Catherine and he was representing the territory in AFL football. Yep,

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Speaker 3: he went down to Canberra to compete, and I think

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Speaker 3: the beautiful thing is when we get a photo sent

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Speaker 3: to us from him and a letter saying thank you.

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Speaker 3: You know, it makes it all worthwhile just to think

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Speaker 3: you've actually enabled them to go and compete.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, now, no doubt. There's always different things

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Speaker 1: that the Tavernas are doing to try to well to

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Speaker 1: raise a little bit of money, but also to let

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Speaker 1: people know exactly what you what kind of work you

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Speaker 1: do to help young Territorians. And I understand there's a

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Speaker 1: bit of a cricket match happening tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: There certainly is.

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Speaker 3: So we've actually got a Taverna's end cricket team together,

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Speaker 3: ye and we've invited quite a few I guess personalities

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Speaker 3: from around the top end and we've got the top

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Speaker 3: end All Stars team is they've we've put a challenge

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Speaker 3: out there, so there'll be a game of cricket on

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Speaker 3: at the Gardens Oval.

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Speaker 2: Yep, five point thirty.

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Speaker 3: Will be the coin toss tomorrow evening and thanks to

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Speaker 3: the City of Darwin, will actually be having the first

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Speaker 3: Taverna's game underlights at the Gardens Oval. So six o'clock kickoff,

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Speaker 3: so we encourage everyone just come down and have a

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Speaker 3: look at the game. It's going to be a bit

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Speaker 3: of hit and giggle. Yep, I've got a few personalities

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Speaker 3: out there. There should be a bit of banter going on.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, you mentioned this to me

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Speaker 1: about a week ago when we ran into each other

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Speaker 1: and I thought, oh, I can't play cricket.

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Speaker 2: There's one sport that I'm no good at. Its cricket.

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Speaker 1: But my producer, Max Can, who's actually here in the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory at the moment playing cricket, now, did you

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Speaker 1: manage to rope him in?

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Speaker 3: We did, and I'm very pleased to say that he

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Speaker 3: has made the Tavernas NT team, so I might be

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Speaker 3: doing a little bit of trying to stack our team.

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Speaker 2: So we're ahead of the game.

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Speaker 3: Really looking forward to seeing Max out there with a

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Speaker 3: Taverna shired on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely all that's wonderful and I'll be really pleased

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Speaker 1: to hear how it all goes on Thursday. But some

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Speaker 1: other big names or some other names that people all

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Speaker 1: know are playing as well.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And look we've had a great lot of support

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Speaker 3: from the local government up here so these even I

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Speaker 3: guess it's council election times, so a few people are

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Speaker 3: looking to help out and come along and support us.

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Speaker 2: Which is great.

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Speaker 3: So you'll see we've got like Jimmy Bijoris, the alderman

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Speaker 3: for City of Darwin, he's coming out, the Deputy Mayor

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Speaker 3: of Palmerston and the Garden. She's volunteered to put a

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Speaker 3: hand up and come and compete, which is fantastastic.

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Speaker 2: Joel Morrison from Mt Cricket he'll be coming along as well.

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Speaker 3: So but also we've got some personalities like Squizzy Tailor's

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Speaker 3: gonna put on a shirt and come out as well.

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Speaker 3: And I think there'll be a few blokes out there

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Speaker 3: as well. We might be looking to really the glory days.

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Speaker 1: So it always happened, so then you end up someone

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Speaker 1: pulls a hamstring or hurts.

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Speaker 3: Himself exactly, so yeah, we might have to have some

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Speaker 3: first aid on hand. But we've also got the Captain

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Speaker 3: of the Top End all Stars. We've actually pointed Scott

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Speaker 3: Waters the SEEO city of Darwen will be the captain

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Speaker 3: for the.

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Speaker 1: Top end list and who's going to be the Taverner's

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Speaker 1: nt captain?

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Speaker 2: Julie Page.

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Speaker 3: She's on our committee and of course those of you

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Speaker 3: who are familiar with cricket, she's played a lot of

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Speaker 3: games of first class cricket down to South Australia and

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Speaker 3: also had represented Australia.

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Speaker 2: So it's stuff.

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Speaker 3: She says, she's retired now, but she's happy to come

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Speaker 3: out and show her skills with the bat.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. That's wonderful to hear. Now, when exactly is

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Speaker 1: it happening? And can anybody go along and watch?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, we'd encourage families, anyone to come along and have

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Speaker 3: a look where Basically the gates will open just before

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Speaker 3: five thirty coin toss at five thirty six o'clock the

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Speaker 3: game will start, take a couple of hours. Once sun

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Speaker 3: goes down, the lights will come on. But look, if

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Speaker 3: eat and come across to the gardens over that one stuff.

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Speaker 1: Hey Joe, if anybody's listening and they really sort of

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Speaker 1: like the sound of what tavernas NT do and they

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Speaker 1: maybe want to get involved or want to make a

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Speaker 1: donation as well. Do you guys have a website or

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Speaker 1: a Facebook page that they can go to.

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Speaker 2: We certainly do.

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Speaker 3: If you google tavernas NT you'll find our website and

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Speaker 3: there's also a link therefore, if you want to become

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Speaker 3: a member, has only sixty dollars become a member.

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Speaker 2: We encourage anyone please support us in any way that.

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Speaker 3: You can, and we also have a Facebook page tavernas

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Speaker 3: NT as well, so please follow us and see what

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Speaker 3: we're doing, and any support is very welcome.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. I think what you guys do is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I think it's really important that we support, you know,

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Speaker 1: young people in the Northern Territory when they're doing well,

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Speaker 1: particularly those who are maybe disadvantaged for different reasons. So

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Speaker 1: I think that it's a fantastic thing that the tavernas

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Speaker 1: NT do to you and the rest of the team.

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Speaker 1: And thanks so much for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Katie really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks you. That is Joe Fitzpatrick there, who's the deputy

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Speaker 1: chair of Taverna's Enter