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Speaker 1: Starlight is aiming to raise one point one million dollars

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Speaker 1: with their Christmas appeal this year. And to tell us more,

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Speaker 1: Starlight's wish granting manager. How's that for.

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Speaker 2: A job t shall put it on your card.

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Speaker 1: That's got to make you smile every day. I am

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Speaker 1: the wish granting manager, Courtney Smith as whether Hello, Courtney,

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Speaker 1: Welcome Courtney.

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Speaker 3: Hi, thanks so much for having me. And it's very

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Speaker 3: very very lucky to have that as my job titled.

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Speaker 2: That's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: So first of all, just tell us about Starlight. How

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Speaker 1: the Starlight Foundation works.

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Speaker 3: Sure, Starlight and exists because happiness matters. We know here

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Speaker 3: at Starlight that when a child is diagnosed with a

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Speaker 3: serious illness, life as they know it is all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden turned upside down. Their days become filled with stress,

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Speaker 3: and unfortunately the fear of painful treatments and their ability

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Speaker 3: to be happy is really significantly impacted. We know here

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Speaker 3: at Starlight that happiness is just so so important. It's

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Speaker 3: the strongest determinant of how we perform later in life.

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Speaker 3: And so our vision here at Starlight is for every

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Speaker 3: child to experience a happy childhood, and we do that

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Speaker 3: by providing moments of fun, joy and laughter to Serious

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Speaker 3: Deal children and their families in hospital through various programs

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Speaker 3: like our Captain Starlight program and the Starlight Express Rooms,

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Speaker 3: but also through graining wishes which bring an incredible gift

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Speaker 3: of happiness and hope as well.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful, you're talking about a goal of one point one million,

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Speaker 2: How many wishes would you get from that? Does it

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Speaker 2: depend on the industry?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's right. So this festive season, Starlight Children's

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Speaker 3: Foundation is calling on the community to help us bring

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Speaker 3: much needed joy the Serious Deal children and we are

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Speaker 3: aiming to raise one point one million during now Christmas

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Speaker 3: Appeal this beested season and that will help us bring

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Speaker 3: happiness and joy to the Serious Deal children right across Australia,

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Speaker 3: including our wonderful Pert Children's Hospital, and it will help

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Speaker 3: us also to grant four hundred and ninety eight which

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Speaker 3: is this year. So definitely need the help of the

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Speaker 3: community to help us to continue to bring that joy

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Speaker 3: and can jump on to Starlight dot org dot au

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Speaker 3: right now and up until the twenty fourth of December

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Speaker 3: and any donation big or small is just so truly

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Speaker 3: appreciated and needed. The programs keep growing, the need keeps

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Speaker 3: growing and definitely need the help of the community. So

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Speaker 3: Starlight dot org dot au is where you can go

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Speaker 3: and help us see spective seasons throughout Christmas Appeal.

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Speaker 1: What are the most common wishes that Starlight gets.

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Speaker 3: The beauty of the Starlight wish is that it's so unique.

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Speaker 3: It's the unique as the child who chooses them. But

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Speaker 3: our most popular wishes are things like bedroom makeover, is gaming, consoles,

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Speaker 3: cobby houses, holidays of course, and very companions are always

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Speaker 3: the top.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, you got a check with mum and

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Speaker 1: dad on that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned family holidays. Someone's going to ask the

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Speaker 2: wishes involve other family members because let's be honest, it's

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Speaker 2: not just the kiddies, it's the families are all affected

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Speaker 2: by this as wellies.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. I wish really gives the Starlight child

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Speaker 3: the power back to use what they would like to

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Speaker 3: wish for, which is fantastic, but definitely involves the family

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Speaker 3: as well, And that's one of the greatest things because,

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Speaker 3: like you say, the whole family is impacted. Be able

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Speaker 3: to bring that joy not only to the wish child

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Speaker 3: but to their family, to the parents and siblings as well,

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Speaker 3: is really really special.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think sometimes people forget the other siblings too,

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Speaker 1: because they really you know, they feel through all of

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Speaker 1: this as well. Would we Courtney, I imagine we would

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Speaker 1: be horrified to hear how many kids do spend Christmas

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Speaker 1: in hospital?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. There are loads of kids that spend

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Speaker 3: Christmas in hospital right across Australia. And this Christmas, well

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Speaker 3: every Christmas, Starlight Children's Foundation hosts Christmas parties in each

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Speaker 3: of the hospital, each of the Starlight Express rooms in

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Speaker 3: all the hospitals across Australia. And that's to help really

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Speaker 3: bring that joy during this festive season to all of

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Speaker 3: the festive.

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Speaker 2: Season, I see it a lot of functions and things

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Speaker 2: Captain Starlit. Even Lisa and I were in the phone

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Speaker 2: room there tell us on this year about four of

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Speaker 2: them behind how many people get dressed up on a

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Speaker 2: regular basis.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we've got loads of Captain Starlight. Yeah, down from

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Speaker 3: at Starlight each and every day. That's right. That's just

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Speaker 3: incredible to be able to bring that joy and you know,

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Speaker 3: that positive distraction in hospital in those Starlight Express rooms

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Speaker 3: and buy award rounds et cetera. And yeah, we couldn't

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Speaker 3: do it without them, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's just mention where it is that

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Speaker 1: you can donate right up until December twenty four again

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Speaker 1: starlight dot org dot au Ford slash Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Starlight dot org dot. Are you that's correct? And yeah,

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Speaker 3: calling on all donations big and small. Definitely your help

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Speaker 3: will the help of the community will help us to

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Speaker 3: bring the joy this best of season.

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Speaker 1: Well, nice work, Courtney, Yeah, Courtney, great job, Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 3: And Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, thank you.

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Speaker 1: How could It's just how could you not want to help? Really?

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Speaker 2: And you're right about the siblings too, because they not

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Speaker 2: only care about their siblings, but they also you know,

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Speaker 2: they lose a bit of attention on them and a

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Speaker 2: bit of a bit of time from parents and that

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Speaker 2: kind hospital Christmas especially to get some more treatment that's

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Speaker 2: going to knock you around. Absolutely