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Speaker 1: And joining me on the line right now is Brian Harvey,

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Speaker 1: the president of the men Shed. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Brian, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good to have you on.

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Speaker 2: The show now.

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Speaker 1: I know that there's well, there's a bit of positive

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Speaker 1: news to kick things off. Back in twenty nineteen, of course,

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Speaker 1: the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics did advise that

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Speaker 1: you'd have to vacate the premises that you're currently in

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Speaker 1: and operating out of at the Casuarina fire Station. But

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Speaker 1: I do understand that you've now secured some federal funding

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Speaker 1: based on what Luke Gosling had told us on the

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Speaker 1: show a bit earlier this morning.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you have. Actually, Lea's been working with it, or

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Speaker 2: we've been working with Leake since probably two thy nineteen

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Speaker 2: when we foundly had to move. And I'm very pleased

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Speaker 2: at Leaks managed to secure some funding for us to

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Speaker 2: help us build our you shed.

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Speaker 1: So that's obviously the good news part of it, Brian.

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Speaker 1: But the hard part is you've got to find a

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Speaker 1: new location.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's quite a difficult one. Actually, we've been looking

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Speaker 2: since twenty nineteen, and I'm going to assure you I

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Speaker 2: know ten places that we can't go. So there's been

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Speaker 2: a lot of work in the background. But at the

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Speaker 2: moment we're looking at two locations possible locations, and that's

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Speaker 2: the old RSL side at Mara, but that's a link

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Speaker 2: up with hopefully some veteran groups and other stakeholders who

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Speaker 2: fast if we would link up with them to go there.

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Speaker 2: But there's a lot of work to happen with DIPPLE

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Speaker 2: to allow that to move forward, and I can see

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Speaker 2: that being a bit of a stumbling block at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Is the old council defot on the corner of Leanna

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Speaker 2: and Battle and Drive. We're not sure if the councilors

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Speaker 2: actually have an appetite for us to go to that site.

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Speaker 2: So we're in a bit of limbo in both areas.

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Speaker 2: But we'll move forward and approach both places and see

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Speaker 2: how we go.

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Speaker 1: And so you've got a couple of places sort of

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Speaker 1: the possibilities. I mean, do you like, do you need

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Speaker 1: to do a bit of a shout out to the

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Speaker 1: community if anybody knows of another location or is it

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Speaker 1: not that simple?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I know we can do a shout out that

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Speaker 2: we'd certainly like to link up and work with the

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Speaker 2: veterans insl side. Yes, we have the trans and emergency

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Speaker 2: service personnel that attend our shed and they're keen, as

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Speaker 2: are a lot of the men. Yeah, at the end

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Speaker 2: of the day, we just need a place to support

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Speaker 2: men's mental health and isolation, which is a big thing

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Speaker 2: for men and it's.

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Speaker 1: A great thing that you guys do with the Men's sheared.

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Speaker 1: How like, is it going to be a difficult process

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Speaker 1: for you guys moving out of your current location and

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Speaker 1: that type of thing, or are you hoping it's going

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Speaker 1: to be pretty seamless.

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Speaker 2: Be seamless. I can assure you we did get a

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Speaker 2: grant from the Community Benefit Fund to help us relay

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Speaker 2: Kate back in I think it's late to nineteen or

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Speaker 2: early twenty twenty. We still had those funds sitting there

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Speaker 2: until we're able to move. But that's just help us

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Speaker 2: relate k But we'll have to get you down to

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Speaker 2: the shed so you can actually see our setup and

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Speaker 2: you'll understand what I mean. It's not going to be seamless.

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Speaker 1: Plenty to move and you got like you're doing credible

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Speaker 1: stuff down there.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just having a look at some of the

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Speaker 2: stats and since twenty seventeen. We're see fifty six thousand

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Speaker 2: man hours in volunteer work at the shed, which basically equates,

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Speaker 2: if you take the volunteer right, we generate about half

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Speaker 2: a million dollars a year in supporting men's mental health

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Speaker 2: and men's isolation and services to man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is amazing. And it was International Men's Day

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Speaker 1: on the weekend as well. Did you do anything to

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Speaker 1: celebrate or do you always sort of just celebrate and

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Speaker 1: look after each other.

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Speaker 2: Oh, look, we still opened up down the shed and

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Speaker 2: we've got a lot of projects for the community and

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Speaker 2: everything that we're trying to get out, and so we

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Speaker 2: were just working down the shed with all the guys

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Speaker 2: things down there. If you come down you don't have

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Speaker 2: to engage in woodwork or metal work. A lot some

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Speaker 2: of them just come down. They just want to chat, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and they just want to talk basically. No, it's quite good.

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Speaker 2: We got a lot of things we do down there,

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Speaker 2: is woodwork, metal work, scroll for work, wood turning, three

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Speaker 2: D printing, laboratory, pushboke, reservice, gardening, cooking. Yeah, you do

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Speaker 2: it all, well, you do it all. Everything is there

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Speaker 2: everybody's got to different skills, so whatever they would like

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Speaker 2: to do, we try and accommodate and move forward with it.

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Speaker 1: And Brian, how important is it do you reckon that

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Speaker 1: our blokes do have? You know, that kind of space

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Speaker 1: that the Men's Shed is to be able to do

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Speaker 1: that volunteer work you're contributing to the community, but to

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Speaker 1: also be able to have those conversations and purpose.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's extremely important. Some of the I suppose feedback

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Speaker 2: we get from some of the men that do turn

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Speaker 2: up there is there's very little in Darwin where men

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying there's not any other places, but they

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Speaker 2: like the Men's Shed. They come down, they can just talk, relax,

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Speaker 2: and they can talk about any of the issues they

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Speaker 2: may have if they chease, but it's just a friendly place.

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Speaker 2: If they want to tinkle with some of the tools

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Speaker 2: and make things down there, as they do quite good.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it's fantastic. So what's next, Brian, in terms

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Speaker 1: of this new location and in terms of what needs

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Speaker 1: to happen to get you there, what are the next

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Speaker 1: steps and is there any way that the community can

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Speaker 1: sort of help.

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Speaker 2: Well, the next steps is we're going to have a

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Speaker 2: meeting with all the stakeholders that are possibly heading to

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Speaker 2: were thinking of going to the Marara site, and put

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Speaker 2: a proposal forward to DIPPLE and try and get something

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Speaker 2: happening there is as quick as possible. Now I've been

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Speaker 2: told that's going to take several months for that, which

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Speaker 2: I think is quite a long time. Wanting to get

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Speaker 2: a kick along with the youth hub, so I find

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Speaker 2: that's going to be a bit of a stumbling.

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Speaker 1: Block, it sounds like it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and I'm not sure what's happening with the council.

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Speaker 2: They were doing an audit with all their property and infrastructure,

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Speaker 2: which is fine, but I don't know what they're doing

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Speaker 2: with the site down there. Nothing seems to come forward

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Speaker 2: with that one at the moment. Yeah, sure they will

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Speaker 2: say something soon, but yeah, they look they know of

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Speaker 2: any other places that would be good. Always listening, We

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Speaker 2: certainly don't chut anything out.

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Speaker 1: No, Well, Brian, I really appreciate you having a chat

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Speaker 1: with us this morning. Also, while I've got you, if

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Speaker 1: there are any blokes out there listening this morning and

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Speaker 1: they're thinking, you know, i'd like to get along to

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Speaker 1: the men shed is there, you know, like, is there

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Speaker 1: a way that they can find out a bit more?

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Speaker 2: Yes, they can. They can give me a call my numbers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we can pass it on to people if required.

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Speaker 1: But you've got a Facebook page too, don't you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we have Facebook page. Or they can just drop

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Speaker 2: into the old Casarina fire station and on Tuesdays and

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Speaker 2: Thursdays between ten and four or Sunday afternoon between one

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Speaker 2: and four when we'll be there. So yeah, no, it's good.

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Speaker 2: We've got a good people come down there. On a

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Speaker 2: another note, we had twelve members from remote communities coming

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Speaker 2: the other day. They're looking at starting men sheds out

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Speaker 2: in the community, so they came into us to see

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Speaker 2: how we're set up and they would like to duplicate

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Speaker 2: what we have out in the communities.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome, Yeah, I reckon, that's fantastic. Well, Brian,

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Speaker 1: it is lovely to talk to you this morning. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for coming on and telling us more

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Speaker 1: about what the Men's shed's doing, but also talking us

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Speaker 1: through you know, the changes to location. Please keep us

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Speaker 1: up to date, you know, as things do progress or

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Speaker 1: if you need.

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Speaker 2: A hand at all, not a problem.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks so much,