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Speaker 1: I am keen to find out exactly what we can

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Speaker 1: expect with nate OC Week given the fact that things

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Speaker 1: have had to be rescheduled. And joining us on the

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Speaker 1: line right now, Robert Cooper, the CEO of Laroche and Nation,

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie, how are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for accommodating us this morning. I know we'd

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Speaker 1: had to move our times around a little bit, so

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you coming on.

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Speaker 2: Just don't grow me.

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Speaker 1: Save that for the police now. I know that nate

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Speaker 1: OC Weeks it was meant to happen this week. It

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Speaker 1: is such an important week. Unfortunately things have sort of

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Speaker 1: had to be rescheduled due to the COVID situation we

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Speaker 1: were in.

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Speaker 2: Yep, we are back up and running. We've reached most

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Speaker 2: of the events that we could for next week so

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Speaker 2: that we still have them during the school holidays. And

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Speaker 2: if you go on to the Lariche Nation facebook page,

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Speaker 2: we've actually got this morning the dates of the new

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Speaker 2: event up there for people to see.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic and so what can people expect, Robert? Is it

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Speaker 1: going to be as big as it always is or

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Speaker 1: have things had to be scaled down at all?

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping some of them will be bigger, awesome, so

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Speaker 2: certainly the audit has changed a little bit. So this

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Speaker 2: year the first flag raising will actually be out of

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Speaker 2: Parmiston rather than in here, and that'll be ninety five

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Speaker 2: at good A Square on Sunday, and then we will

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Speaker 2: have our traditional flag raising on Monday at our head

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Speaker 2: office here and no reasona believe that will be any

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Speaker 2: smaller than any previous year. We're still going ahead with

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Speaker 2: the Nadock Ball and owards evening on the seventeenth and

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Speaker 2: it will actually run through to some of the less

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Speaker 2: child friendly events will occur in the following week. Right,

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Speaker 2: we're still well over forty events that we've got on

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Speaker 2: during during the week that it is.

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Speaker 3: And so I mean, how important is it really, Robert?

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Speaker 1: There's you know that these Nadock celebrations as still able

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Speaker 1: to happen.

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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely vital for me as a white feller from

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. Nadock is the opportunity for me as the

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Speaker 2: CEO to encourage engagement between the Lark and indeed the

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Speaker 2: other language groups who are present in the Darwin area

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Speaker 2: and the wider population, whether it's the original Australians or

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Speaker 2: people who have come in recently from other cultures to

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Speaker 2: get a better understanding of what it means to be

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Speaker 2: on Laroche a country, and to get a better understanding

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Speaker 2: of Larcher culture and indeed of all the indigenous cultures

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Speaker 2: that they're here. I might buy unbiased viewers that it's

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Speaker 2: absolutely brilliant fortnite. Now you've got this week. You know

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Speaker 2: you've still got the opportunity to engage this week. You

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Speaker 2: can still go out of your way and talk to

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Speaker 2: the local mob and then it will carry on into

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Speaker 2: next week as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is fantastic. It is a fantastic celebration of

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Speaker 1: our rich and digit culture here in the territory, and

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Speaker 1: we know that that is such an important thing for

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Speaker 1: us here in the territory. Robert, I know it's been

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Speaker 1: a busy week. Last week was an incredibly busy week

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Speaker 1: for you guys with those COVID lockdowns.

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Speaker 3: How things going from that perspective, I've just come off.

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Speaker 2: A meeting of anti casts to talk about the transition

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Speaker 2: from the lockdown into the old new normal, making it

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Speaker 2: clear that we now have a better understanding among our

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Speaker 2: client base of the risk they face from COVID. So

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Speaker 2: wanting to keep running with that all to make sure

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Speaker 2: that we continue to keep our clients safe. We continue

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Speaker 2: to supply them with masks were necessary, We encourage them

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Speaker 2: to get their vaccinations. So Danila Dilber are working on

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Speaker 2: some resources to handle that side of it. We know

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Speaker 2: that a lot of our people went to ground for

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Speaker 2: those three days. As I've previously said, I take my

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Speaker 2: head off to them. They looked after themselves. So we

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Speaker 2: want to capture the knowledge that we learned last week

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Speaker 2: and take that forward so that we continue to keep

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Speaker 2: people safe, We continue to protect the vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon that we've got less people sort of

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Speaker 1: at the moment than what we did prior to to

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Speaker 1: the lockdown last week?

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Speaker 3: Has it sort of? Has it made more people want

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Speaker 3: to go back to community.

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Speaker 2: No, because they haven't been able to get back here. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 2: waiting on confirmation from some of the land councils, but

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Speaker 2: you were right in a way that they have certainly

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Speaker 2: been less visible we had during the lockdown. We had

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Speaker 2: two activities. One was to carry on our normal patrols

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Speaker 2: to keep people safe. The other one was to identify

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Speaker 2: all the clients that we had out here and to

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Speaker 2: give them information about the lockdown and what they could do.

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Speaker 2: And that group of people was definitely reduced in size,

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Speaker 2: so they were looking after themselves. They'd gone to ground,

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Speaker 2: they'd moved further into the scrub, they'd gone to stay

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Speaker 2: with friends and family and community in town. Definitely less

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Speaker 2: visibility and that wasn't our doing. That was then keeping

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Speaker 2: themselves safe. And I take my head off to them

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Speaker 2: for that.

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Speaker 1: Well, Robert Cooper, it is always good to catch up

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Speaker 1: with you. We always appreciate your time, mate. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for coming on the show this morning. And

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Speaker 1: just to encourage everybody, jump on the Larichie Nation facebook

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Speaker 1: page and you can check out all of the fantastic

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Speaker 1: events which are planned for Nadoc week.

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Speaker 2: And come to the march on the sixteenth.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good, Well, it's Nadog Fortnite just about now, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: I reckon that's better. Thank you, good on your Robert