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Speaker 1: Today has been announced with in agreement has been announced

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Speaker 1: with the AFL to host the AFLW showpiece dream Time

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Speaker 1: Game in the Northern Territory for the first time.

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Speaker 2: It's happening on the twenty sixth of October.

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Speaker 1: And joining us on the line to tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit more is the head of AFL here in

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory, Sam Gibson.

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Speaker 2: Get a Sam good akatie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for me mate, wonderful news. Tell us a little

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Speaker 1: bit about how big a coup this is for Darwin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, great news obviously to have the dream Time

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Speaker 3: Game here. It's the first W game for about five

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Speaker 3: years as well, so to be celebrating women's footy but

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Speaker 3: also having it as part of the Indigenous round. He's

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Speaker 3: fantastic and all roads lead to October twenty six for us.

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Speaker 1: Now, now to anybody out there listening who doesn't understand

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Speaker 1: the significance of the dream Time Games, tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about you know why this is such

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Speaker 1: an important one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it's and a lot of people would have

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Speaker 3: seen when the men's dream Time Game came to Darwin

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Speaker 3: a number of years ago during start of COVID and

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Speaker 3: what that meant for Darwin and the players in the

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Speaker 3: in the game and the clubs involved. But essentially the

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Speaker 3: women's season, as the men's season does as well, have

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Speaker 3: an Indigenous round and celebrating all the contributions Indigenous people

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Speaker 3: make to the game across the country. And as part

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Speaker 3: of that round there'll be showcase games. And there's no

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Speaker 3: bigger than the dream Time Game. So Richmond and Essen

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Speaker 3: and I own the concept and came to us and

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Speaker 3: had really productive discussions about bringing that to Darwin, and

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Speaker 3: we obviously thanking the territory government for jumping in behind it.

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Speaker 3: It's a great opportunity and one which we hope, you know,

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Speaker 3: we're celebrating twenty twenty four, but into the future as well.

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Speaker 1: Now we've already got record numbers of women and girls

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Speaker 1: playing footy in the Northern Territory, but how important are

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Speaker 1: games like this as well in terms of you know,

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Speaker 1: really getting females involved in the sport.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like we see with some men's game, it's such

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Speaker 3: a motivator for young people in the territory when they

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Speaker 3: are able to see the elite game and see you know,

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Speaker 3: for Territorians and other people just like them who are

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Speaker 3: playing on the national stage, so you know, it was

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Speaker 3: really important from our perspective for women and girls in

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Speaker 3: the territory to be able to see that as well.

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Speaker 3: And as you know, I mean we've got around forty

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Speaker 3: percent of our distant the women and girls, which is massive.

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Speaker 3: It's nearly double the national figure and it's only growing further.

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Speaker 3: And we've got a lot of representation in the afl W.

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Speaker 3: I think we've had around twenty territorians drafted into the

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Speaker 3: competition inception and happens every year and we're looking forward

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Speaker 3: to more of that. So being able to bring the

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Speaker 3: games to Darwin obviously there will be a range of

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Speaker 3: community engagement around that and opportunities for people to rub

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Speaker 3: shoulders with some of the best in the countries. That's

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Speaker 3: really important. It can't be contified.

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Speaker 1: So Saturday, the twenty sixth of October is when it's happening.

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Speaker 3: That's right, it's the women's season runs just off the

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Speaker 3: back of the men's season and to the new year.

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Speaker 3: So great great from the Darwin as well over an

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Speaker 3: event in that shoulder season and we'll benefit both on

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Speaker 3: the field and offered I think, which is fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, will they be doing a bit of work.

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Speaker 1: I mean you sort of touched on this anyway, But

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Speaker 1: will they be doing a bit in the community and

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Speaker 1: getting out there to some of the schools or anything

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 2: Do you know at this stage we haven't.

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Speaker 3: Got the detail that the answer is yes, Richmond and

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Speaker 3: they both being fantastic around wanting to bring the game.

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Speaker 3: But I think you know in every conversation we have

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Speaker 3: with them, it's around more than just a game. They

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Speaker 3: want to come up and engage and inspire the community,

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Speaker 3: but also for their players, give them a taste of

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Speaker 3: the territory. So it'll be an exciting couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Hey, before I let you go this morning, I understand

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Speaker 1: as well that AFL and T have got a four

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Speaker 1: week women's coaching development program that's been launched.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we do. Like we're talking about before women's footy

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Speaker 3: across the territory is just going going to arts. Really,

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Speaker 3: it's we're getting run off our feet in terms of

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Speaker 3: the game's being played. So when we start to look

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Speaker 3: at how we maximize that growth, things like coaching and

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Speaker 3: umpiring and involving in clubs is really important. So a

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Speaker 3: four week coaching course on at the moment and plenty

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Speaker 3: of other initiatives to come to support the growth of women.

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Speaker 2: And girls good stuff. Have you got quite a few

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Speaker 2: people in that course?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw some photos. It looked like there was

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Speaker 3: quite a few. Haven't got the exact number in front

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Speaker 3: of me, but quite a few. And look, it's indicative

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Speaker 3: of the growth. We ran a women's only coaching course

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Speaker 3: on the TV Islands a few months ago and had

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Speaker 3: thirty five women go through that course just on the

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Speaker 3: TIV Island, so pretty much everywhere where we're developing with

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Speaker 3: the women's game at the moment, it's been really successful.

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Speaker 3: So it's great to see. And couple that with a

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Speaker 3: dreamtime women's game and we've got a complete picture.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I reckon it's a great thing.

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Speaker 1: And all you got to do is go and watch,

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Speaker 1: you know, the under twelves, the under fourteen's, under sixteen girls.

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Speaker 1: There is so many girls playing footy. It's such a

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Speaker 1: great thing to see. And yeah, the more you can

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Speaker 1: get involved as well in some of those behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes jobs and coaching jobs, obviously the better for the

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Speaker 1: whole game. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, absolutely, and you know, I've got to take my

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Speaker 3: hat off to the clubs and and all the people

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Speaker 3: who support the game, because you know, when we've when

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Speaker 3: we've grown like we have in different parts of the territory,

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Speaker 3: it's you know, it's off the back of a lot

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Speaker 3: of people's hard work and predominantly volunteers, so we really

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Speaker 3: appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: Well, Sam Gibson, good to speak with you this morning, mate,

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Speaker 1: and no doubt we'll catch up with your sewing.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Katy, thank you,