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Speaker 1: But in well, in a real change of pace. We

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Speaker 1: know that Nightcliff Oval is set to receive a new

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Speaker 1: for women and girls. It's been made possible by a

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each. As I understand it. Now,

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Speaker 1: joining me in the studio is the Nightcliff Tigers Football

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Speaker 1: Club president Mark Dodge. Good morning, Dodgy Katy.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, Yeah, really good.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you in the studio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Now, how needed is this change room complex?

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Speaker 2: It's been needed for a long time. And the thing

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Speaker 2: is the old change room facility who's built for men

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Speaker 2: and times I've moved on. We've got sixty percent of

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Speaker 2: our players now female. They just haven't got a proper

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Speaker 2: facility to change, to shower, to feel comfortable after a game,

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Speaker 1: And the thing is there's so many young girls and

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Speaker 1: women playing footy now that you know you do need

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Speaker 1: to make sure that there's appropriate facilities for everybody.

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Speaker 2: It's vital because it's all about being safe and feeling inclusive.

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Speaker 2: And what we're about at Nightcliff Football Club is do

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Speaker 2: you encourage women and girls to play football and become

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Speaker 2: better players and better sports people overall?

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Speaker 1: Mate, sixty percent of your players are women and girls.

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Speaker 1: So the girls are taken over by the sounds of it.

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Speaker 2: They are on our committee, which I'm very honored to lead.

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Speaker 2: I think it's about sixty percent female too, So fantastic

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, girls love playing football. You know my

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Speaker 1: do play football. Even here at work, we've got women

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Speaker 1: that play footy. It's definitely something that is all inclusive,

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Speaker 1: and you want to make sure that then the facilities

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Speaker 1: that are there to support the players are the same. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and we've we've been very lucky to have some

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Speaker 2: facilities supply to us by the Nightcliff Sports Club, who's

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Speaker 2: our major sponsor. But it was set up for me,

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Speaker 2: it was built a long time ago. It's got urinals,

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Speaker 2: it's got what did have we fill those in, but

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Speaker 2: it's got shower everybody showers in together, and that's just

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Speaker 2: not what they want. A separate area. And to the

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Speaker 2: point where we actually have to put a sign on

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Speaker 2: the door when the females are in there same men

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Speaker 2: please do not enter because we don't have if any

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Speaker 1: Right, so tell me Dodge. Is this something that that

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Speaker 1: the club's been pushing for for quite.

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Speaker 2: A while in different in different machinations we have. We've

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Speaker 2: we've had we've had a bit in there, but this

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Speaker 2: have been put together by Steve Glennon the Great Steve

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Speaker 2: Glenn has put many, many years and hours into it.

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Speaker 2: Many of us in the in the club, going back

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Speaker 2: it's been a long time coming. But this new one

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Speaker 1: You and so I guess the thing is you guys

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have, look at we had to change the

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Speaker 1: So what kind of features are they going to be

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's separated and it's going to be brand new.

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Speaker 2: You're going to have proper showers, You're going to have

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Speaker 2: So we'll be able to break away, if you like

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Speaker 2: So it'll be the nightcliff wing down there and it's

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Speaker 1: Dodg you, I understand. It's also part of the council's

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Speaker 2: Look, it's eventually I think there's some grandstand facilities to

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Speaker 2: be looked at. They'll be temporary because there's a lot

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Speaker 2: So there's something that's on the plans, but that's a

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Speaker 2: No, look, I think they probably started after the rain

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Speaker 2: now when it's but it's going to be project managed

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Speaker 2: which we will be using six months of a year

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Speaker 2: six months a year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Well, look, I think it's going to be

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Speaker 2: Look, we're talking about there's lots of social problems in

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Speaker 2: Darwa and the surrounding areas right now. Sport is a

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Speaker 2: great way to keep people active. I was having a

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Speaker 2: saying the same thing. He and I both grew up

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Speaker 2: straight and narrow by playing sport and being an associated

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Speaker 2: with sporting clubs. And that's something we can do which

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Speaker 2: is very practical, keep the kids off the street and

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Speaker 2: keep them doing some healthy stuff.

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Speaker 1: Teller what Dodgy and Mount Eyes. There was nothing else

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Speaker 2: There was a munch going ronning Frankston down south to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing. And look, I think sport is

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Speaker 1: such a wonderful thing for our young people. It gives

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Speaker 1: to our young people. So you know, so this does

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Speaker 1: seem to be a good announcement and yeah, certainly a

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Speaker 1: positive thing for Nightcliff Tigers, but also for everybody that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Mark Dodge, Nightcliff Tiger's football club President. Lovely to

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Speaker 1: catch up with you this morning. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for your time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks catting you and Merry Christmas. Stilled listeners, Thank you,