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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Australian of the Year was

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Speaker 1: announced of course over the Australia Day Long weekend. A

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Speaker 1: wonderful choice, Nil Danaher. He has raised over one hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars for Modern neur own Disease EXAFL great and

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Speaker 1: now this incredible campaigner for modern neur own disease which

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Speaker 1: he has a Senior Australian of the Year. I saw

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Speaker 1: a story on this wonderful man. Brother Thomas Oliver Pickett,

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Speaker 1: a Senior Australian of the Year. He has designed wheelchairs

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Speaker 1: that are adjustable as the child grows and more than

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Speaker 1: sixty thousand of these custom built wheelchairs, built in New

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Speaker 1: South Wales have been gifted to children in eighty countries

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Speaker 1: around the world. We've had a Young Australian of the Year,

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Speaker 1: a scientist, doctor Katrina Ruck. She's Indigenous and she is

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Speaker 1: working on new materials and sustainable methods to address contaminants

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Speaker 1: in water, hoping that this will help Indigenous communities. And

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Speaker 1: the Australia's Local Hero for twenty twenty five Vanessa Brettel

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Speaker 1: and Hanna Costello. They've got a business cafe called stepping Stone,

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Speaker 1: a gateway for women from migrant and refugee backgrounds to

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Speaker 1: get a job who would otherwise not be employed. But

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Speaker 1: did you know there's also an Australian Dog of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Hasn't gone to my dog funnily enough, which may I say,

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Speaker 1: did a dreadful pooh on the carpet yesterday because a

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Speaker 1: certain one of our producers fed my dog cheese and

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Speaker 1: biscuits at nauseum when we're away on the weekend. The

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Speaker 1: dog's guts finally gave up. Well. The Australian of the

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Speaker 1: Year dog is a dog called El who's a deaf

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Speaker 1: rescue dog who uses sign language to support anxious children

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Speaker 1: in the classroom. When I first read this, I thought,

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Speaker 1: how does a dog do sign language? What happens is

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Speaker 1: the children are taught to do signs for the dog,

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Speaker 1: and the dog will respond to them when it sees

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Speaker 1: the signs, and so the kids use this as a

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Speaker 1: kind of as therapy, but also as a reward for

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Speaker 1: doing well in the classroom. They get to play with

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Speaker 1: the dog and practice their sign language, etc. Practice the

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Speaker 1: signs that the dog knows. So this is a dog

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Speaker 1: that's helping children navigate anxiety, tough days and behavioral, behavioral

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Speaker 1: challenges they have at school. So this fabulous deaf dog

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Speaker 1: is a therapy dog. That's a great dog. Great dog.

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Speaker 1: What if it starts to lick itself in the classrooms,

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Speaker 1: Well you got expelled. What sort of message is that?

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Speaker 1: Who says that? Who looks at it in a therapy

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Speaker 1: dog and says, what sort of message is that that

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Speaker 1: licks itself? Didn't need to didn't need a date from

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Speaker 1: the school formal neither did you