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Speaker 1: Tomorrow, Australians are going to pause and reflect with a

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Speaker 1: minute's silence to remember those who served and lost their

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Speaker 1: lives in war on the eleventh hour of the eleventh

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Speaker 1: day of the eleventh month. Now joining us on the

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Speaker 1: line to tell us more about what is planned for

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Speaker 1: Darwin for Remembrance Day is Dan the Tank. Tell them

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Speaker 1: good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Dan.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Miss Curtie here are you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Really good mate, Thank you so much for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: Now welcome. Tell me what is planned for this year.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we've got a ten thirty start. The administrator will

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Speaker 3: come in at about twenty five past ten and we'll

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Speaker 3: stand for him to enter the event and then straight

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Speaker 3: into it and the peace still the resistance for tomorrow

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Speaker 3: will be the children from Loved Middle School saying their

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Speaker 3: poems for the first time ever. DBA had an exec

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Speaker 3: Day competition and lod Middle School one competition, so we

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Speaker 3: decided we'll grab two students to read their winning poems

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Speaker 3: on the day to remember.

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Speaker 2: And stay So oh mate, I love that.

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Speaker 3: This might be the beginning of something special because I

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Speaker 3: spoke to the schools on Monday and we're talking about

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Speaker 3: doing the same thing for Antic Day.

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Speaker 2: Next year, I reckon, that's such a great idea.

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Speaker 1: And the reason I think it's such a great idea

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Speaker 1: to begin with is because what it indicates to me

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Speaker 1: is that the schools are teaching those students all about

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Speaker 1: Remembrance Day and why this is so incredibly important to Australia,

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Speaker 1: to our history yep, and our traditions. So yeah, oh mate,

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Speaker 1: I think that'll be a lovely thing to do and

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Speaker 1: really nice to hear from that young generation and to

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Speaker 1: hear those poems. Tell me, it's obviously it's down there

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Speaker 1: at the Centotaph, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yep, Yes, And it starts at ten thirty and everything

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Speaker 3: should be wound up by ten fifteen. However, I've been

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Speaker 3: informed to let the community know in case of really

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Speaker 3: bad weather, what will happen is we will just chaotically

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Speaker 3: disperse and get to safety. Something that's just come up

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Speaker 3: over the last day or two with the weather coming in.

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Speaker 3: So if it's light rain, it won't be a problem.

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Speaker 3: But if there's lightning about or wind gusts that are

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Speaker 3: going to be extreme, we'll just chaotically disperse and that'll

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Speaker 3: be the end of the end of the ceremony.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully it's all good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know that it's really overcast and web

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Speaker 1: out there right now. But we're going to catch up

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Speaker 1: with Carl Linda's from Weather Matters after eleven o'clock and

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Speaker 1: I'm no doubt he'll give us a bit of an

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Speaker 1: update on what we can expect. But yeah, hopefully, hopefully

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Speaker 1: there's not too many issues.

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Speaker 3: Dan, I'll be waiting for eleven o'clock to hear it yourself.

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Speaker 1: We all will, now, mate, tell me, are you encouraging

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Speaker 1: everybody to attend? I'm assume yes, you know, the more

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Speaker 1: the better.

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Speaker 3: And please be courteous too. We've arranged for four hundred,

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Speaker 3: four hundred seats for the people that need it and

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Speaker 3: those that are able bodied that they could stand stand

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Speaker 3: behind all around and gather a lot we virtually do,

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Speaker 3: so it's going to be like a mini Anzact day. Virtually.

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Speaker 3: Just be polite and the people that need to be

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Speaker 3: seated because we'll be getting up and down like JeOS

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Speaker 3: for all the presenting arms and flags raised when the

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Speaker 3: administrator and the Catapault party. And yeah, it's a big

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Speaker 3: deal for us, so really looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it truly is.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me why is remembrance days so important for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a big day. It's it's it's an addition

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Speaker 3: to me for what Antact Day was all about. This

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Speaker 3: is more of a time to reflect and remember of

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Speaker 3: those past that serve their country for us and those

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Speaker 3: who didn't return. It's a solemn day and I normally

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Speaker 3: get a tier in the eye. I'll be reading the

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Speaker 3: ode tomorrow and normally by the the end of the

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Speaker 3: end of the ode or my body bobbling, idiot, just sentimental?

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Speaker 3: Is that sentimental to me? And that ode is just

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Speaker 3: so ringing and it's part and parcel of the remembrance Day.

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Speaker 3: And then I really I get a tear at the

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Speaker 3: last post. That cracks me up every time. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I reckon, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, I think every Australian when you hear the

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Speaker 1: last post, it's hard not to feel some sense of emotion,

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Speaker 1: that is for sure.

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Speaker 2: Now I understand there is a.

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Speaker 1: Bit planned, a bit more planned is there this year

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Speaker 1: for defense families as well.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we're having our annual Christmas fun run on Friday

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Speaker 3: the first of December. You're right studying at seven o'clock.

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Speaker 3: I've asked Dan if he could from the morning show.

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Speaker 3: It's you come Out, Come Out last year and tape

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Speaker 3: the show from from Bill roy House. And we've got

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Speaker 3: pet friendly so bring bring your puppies along. We had

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Speaker 3: a bloke who bought his pet. He brought the buddy

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Speaker 3: Pennhouse Magazine.

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Speaker 1: Took a moment for the penny to drop there. Dan,

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Speaker 1: I reckon our listeners will be thinking the same as well.

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Speaker 2: They'll be like, hang on a second. Now you are

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Speaker 2: for those who.

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Speaker 1: Don't know, and I know you've just touched on this,

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Speaker 1: but you're also the coordinator of course of Bill roy House.

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Speaker 1: And I understand you've got quite a bit organized for

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Speaker 1: Christmas this year.

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Speaker 2: Or is that the Fun Run?

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Speaker 3: That's yeah, that's that's mainly mainly the Fun Run. And

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Speaker 3: then we've also got the Fun Run this Saturday morning

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow morning, starting at East Point before the celebrations on

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Speaker 3: the Cenotaph's sixth that's also got coffee and barbecue breakfast

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Speaker 3: and that's been run by Mates and Mates for the

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Speaker 3: American Forum. It's in remembrance for the American American people

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Speaker 3: that haven't come back. So yeah, really part and parcel

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Speaker 3: or the celebrating of remembrance day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which I think is an incredibly important thing

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Speaker 1: to do.

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Speaker 3: Mate.

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Speaker 1: We have just had a question come through from one

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Speaker 1: of our listeners, Katie. Can you ask Tank what's going

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Speaker 1: on with the RSL and it's SGM and what's going

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Speaker 1: on with the new RSL.

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Speaker 2: That one there from Jack.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thanks for the question, Jack. It's not a hard one.

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Speaker 3: We're still in the process of building on our site.

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Speaker 3: We've done, we've had some action on that. We want

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Speaker 3: to rebuild on our side. We've got to get that

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Speaker 3: council on side. In the interim, we want to try

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Speaker 3: and turn it into a little bit of a car

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Speaker 3: park so we can make some fun so we can

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Speaker 3: pay our council rates. And the main goal is to

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Speaker 3: rebuild on our site. And it's still up in the

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Speaker 3: air whether how many floors are going to go up.

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Speaker 3: We're going to build bigger and better so the people

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Speaker 3: that build that eighty odd years ago. It was perfect then,

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Speaker 3: but we've outgrown it and we just want the RSL

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Speaker 3: Darwin well.

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Speaker 1: And that's something that is seen in so many other locations.

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Speaker 1: You know, like you go to Cans, they've got the

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Speaker 1: beautiful RSL there across the road from the Espanade, and

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Speaker 1: I guess for us at the moment, we just don't

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Speaker 1: have that home for the RSL at this point, which

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Speaker 1: for such a huge defense city, it is something that

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Speaker 1: everybody wants to see get back up and running, and.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately we had a we've had a few setbacks with

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Speaker 3: the building on the es Falard and stuff for of that,

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Speaker 3: and then we just thought we'd get our plans in

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Speaker 3: the pile and then there'd be someone come up, so, oh,

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Speaker 3: can you include a couple extra blocks on there and everything?

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Speaker 3: And it's just delaying the process. We know how our

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Speaker 3: members feel. And then the other part of Jack's question

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Speaker 3: was the SGM on Sunday, the twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that? So what's the SGM.

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Speaker 3: Special General Meeting? Okay, we normally have a bi annual

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Speaker 3: meeting and then we have our AGM in February, but

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Speaker 3: we've got one starting at ten thirty at the bus

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Speaker 3: Club the members to vote in new committee positions.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well, it sounds like it is all getting underway.

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Speaker 1: Let us know as well, Dan, when things do sort

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Speaker 1: of progress a bit more with the with the new

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Speaker 1: RSL facility. I know that it is something that we

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Speaker 1: get asked quite regularly, people wanting to know what's going

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Speaker 1: on with the RSL. So it will be a great

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Speaker 1: thing when it is able to be rebuilt.

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Speaker 3: Yep. We'll try and be open and transparent all about

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Speaker 3: it and let me know, let people know as things

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Speaker 3: are approved and get the go ahead. Where at the

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Speaker 3: moment we've got everything's in the planning stages and it's

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Speaker 3: like anything, it's not the cheapest possible quote, it's what

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Speaker 3: we want for fit, fit for purpose sort of thing.

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Speaker 3: So and to try and get developers and that it's

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Speaker 3: a lot pulling teeth at the moment. So but there

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Speaker 3: is work being done on it. Yeah, it's just slow

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Speaker 3: and the tedious.

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Speaker 1: Well acting President of the Darwin RSL Dan the Tank

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Speaker 1: tell them. Good to catch up with you this morning, mate.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your time.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the work you do for the community too,

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Speaker 3: Katie

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Speaker 2: No worries at all, thank you,