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Speaker 1: Now we know the stand. It is no More, the

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Speaker 1: No More Campaign's most ambitious initiative yet and it is

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Speaker 1: a powerful community driven campaign honoring over ninety women lost

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Speaker 1: to domestic and family violence in the Northern Territory since

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Speaker 1: two thousand. Now you might recall about thirty days ago

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Speaker 1: we spoke about the launch which called on groups and

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Speaker 1: organizations to create ninety domestic violence action plans in ninety days,

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Speaker 1: each one a real commitment to change. So how are

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Speaker 1: things progressing thirty days in? We'll joining us on the

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Speaker 1: line is Norell Gostrae, Catholic here NTI's violence prevention manager.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, NoREL, Hey Katie, great to be chatting to

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Speaker 2: you again.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so good to hear from you as well. Now

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Speaker 1: tell me how things at thirty days in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really good. We got off to a pretty flying start.

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Speaker 2: So we've got twenty domestic violence action plans already created

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Speaker 2: by allanizations throughout the territory, all across Darwin, Alice, Catherine

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Speaker 2: and some remote communities. So we're pretty excited where we're

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Speaker 2: sitting and just really really looking to get more people engaged.

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Speaker 1: Well, twenty is awesome, and you know that is wonderful

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Speaker 1: that that number of businesses organizations have committed, you know,

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Speaker 1: to doing this for those out there listening this morning

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Speaker 1: who maybe don't know exactly what a domestic violence action

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Speaker 1: plan is and they're possibly hearing it and thinking, oh,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like something I want to be involved in,

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Speaker 1: but I don't really know what i'd have to do.

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Speaker 1: Just explain it for us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, Katie, it's a really simple approach. A domestic

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Speaker 2: violence action plan is literally just a few simple actions

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Speaker 2: that your organization can take to help contribute to ending

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Speaker 2: domestic and family violence. It can take the form of

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Speaker 2: kind of any anything from free actions on a piece

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Speaker 2: of books paper in the shed at you know, at

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Speaker 2: the local mechanics, to a fully fledged policy. So it's

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Speaker 2: a really easy thing to do. And we've got heaps

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Speaker 2: of tools and resources on our website, which is the

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Speaker 2: stand dot org dot au. And yeah, we can, we

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Speaker 2: can provide support, we can come out and talk to

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Speaker 2: your staff, give them more information. And there's also you know,

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Speaker 2: plenty of plenty of ideas already out there of what

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Speaker 2: people can do.

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Speaker 1: NoREL, are you able to tell us some of the

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Speaker 1: some of the organizations, some of the businesses that have

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Speaker 1: sort of signed on and it might like you know,

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Speaker 1: it might kind of motivate I suppose some of the

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Speaker 1: others or they might think, oh, hang on, I know them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So today we've had some really good support

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Speaker 2: from some of the cafes around town. So the Trader Win,

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Speaker 2: Alli Road and Matterbat Coffee have been putting their out

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Speaker 2: stand stickers on their on their coffee cups, hoping to

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Speaker 2: have another one next week, which has come about because

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Speaker 2: they heard the other ones. We're doing it most of

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Speaker 2: the organizations that have done them so far as social services.

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Speaker 2: So we're and I think we're having lots of really

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Speaker 2: good conversations with the businesses around town in Darwin particular,

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Speaker 2: but they're in developments. I can't really I don't want

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Speaker 2: to know out somebody just yet, but there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of really good conversations happening, Like you know, some people

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Speaker 2: in the construction industry. We do know that Impex is

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Speaker 2: doing one. They're one of our community champions, so that's

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Speaker 2: a much bigger organization. But we're also you know, whether

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Speaker 2: it's a mum and dad business or you know, it's

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Speaker 2: really for anyone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's also like I guess, and please correct

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Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, But it's also I guess, you know,

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Speaker 1: for those businesses sort of being able to stand up

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Speaker 1: and particularly some of those great male dominated industries stand

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Speaker 1: up and go, you know, we don't, we will not,

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Speaker 1: you know, in any way condone domestic violence, and we

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Speaker 1: want to stand up. And you know, some of them

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Speaker 1: might be thinking, they're not exactly sure how, but they

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Speaker 1: do want to support you.

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Speaker 2: Guys absolutely, and we know that we know that male

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Speaker 2: role models are really important for trying to get the

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Speaker 2: change that we're looking for. And so and I think

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Speaker 2: one of the things big things, Katie, is that a

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Speaker 2: lot of people think, well, I don't know what I

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Speaker 2: can do or how you know, what what is it

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Speaker 2: that we could possibly do? And so some of the

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Speaker 2: things that an organization could put into a domestic violence

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Speaker 2: action plan are really simple, and it's as simple as

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Speaker 2: ensuring that your staff understand it and feel comfortable about

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Speaker 2: accessing the DV leave that is a national offering these days.

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Speaker 2: You could do training for your support on how for

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Speaker 2: your staff on how to recognize, respond, and refer to DV.

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Speaker 2: You could do a fundraiser for one of the local

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Speaker 2: DV shelters like Dawn House or kasin booth YWCA or

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Speaker 2: even no more. You know, we'll put our hand up

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Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, but there's yeah, there's some really simple

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Speaker 2: things that you can include that don't take a lot

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Speaker 2: of effort but can make big change.

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Speaker 1: And Norell, I mean, the fact is domestic violence impacts

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Speaker 1: a lot more families and a lot more homes than

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Speaker 1: what people probably realize as well, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely so. The statistics used to be one in four women,

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Speaker 2: and just recently there's more data that's been released at

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Speaker 2: say one in three, which you know, obviously it's not

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Speaker 2: data might tell us is that people are starting to

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Speaker 2: report domestic violence more. But what it also is saying

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Speaker 2: that it's pretty rife in our community and it's really

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Speaker 2: important to know, like the Northern Territory is the highest

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Speaker 2: rate of DV in in Australia. But it does not discriminate.

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Speaker 2: It can affect anybody's you know, any race, religion, gender.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not just women. We know that the

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Speaker 2: majority and the more serious physical abuses against women, but

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Speaker 2: it really doesn't discriminate.

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Speaker 1: Norell if people are listening this morning, if businesses are

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Speaker 1: listening this morning, organizations, and they're thinking, this is something

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Speaker 1: I'd like to be involved in, you know, I want

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Speaker 1: to take the stand? Where should they go? How can

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Speaker 1: they find out more? Yet?

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Speaker 2: Really easy? So the stand dot org dot au. They

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Speaker 2: can go there to get information on how to do

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Speaker 2: a domestic violence action plan themselves. And on that page

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Speaker 2: there's three things they can do. They can email us

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Speaker 2: and ask for more information. There's already information on there.

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Speaker 2: They can email us ask for more support. They can

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Speaker 2: nominate an organization, So if you maybe are working for

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Speaker 2: a local business and you're not necessarily the decision maker,

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Speaker 2: you can nominate your business anonymously if you want to,

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Speaker 2: or put your name to it. And of course the

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Speaker 2: ultimate commitment, which is creating and submitting your own domestic

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Speaker 2: violence plan.

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Speaker 1: Well, NoREL Gostre, it is always good to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: We will catch up with you again, I reckon, what

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Speaker 1: do you think maybe when we hit the sixty days

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Speaker 1: and see how things are going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that'd be great.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Katie, good stuff, Good on you, Norell. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for your time this morning. All right, thank

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