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Speaker 1: But we know that there are some wonderful events that

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Speaker 1: will actually two of those events that are going to

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Speaker 1: be happening, remembering Cyclone Tracy Committee Secretary Catherine Phillips, good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, Good morning, Katie, And we've also got

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Speaker 1: producer Alison Evans, good morning to you. It is lovely

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Speaker 1: to have you both in the studio now. It's a

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Speaker 1: really interesting time I think to be in Darwin at

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Speaker 1: the moment. And I've heard a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of survivor stories in recent days. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: a tough time, I think for some survivors. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be potentially a very cathartic time as well for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people. And the event Tracy Tales, which

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Speaker 1: is going to be happening on both the twenty fourth

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Speaker 1: and also the twenty ninth of December, sounds like it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a beautiful, beautiful event.

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Speaker 2: Well, we hope so, Katie, because it's a it's an

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Speaker 2: opportunity for some very special storytellers to share their experience

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Speaker 2: of Cyclone Tracy after fifty years. Some of them were children,

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Speaker 2: some of them were young adults, some of them were

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Speaker 2: young mums. And they've got a variety of stories and

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Speaker 2: contexts that they're going to share with our audience. And

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Speaker 2: I think it will. It will I think be very emotional,

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Speaker 2: but as you say, also quite cathartic. And also I

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Speaker 2: And I think that's a really healthy thing for a

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Speaker 2: lot of those survivors to be able to do that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, you know, being able to be in

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Speaker 3: Say, yeah, we've got six storytellers, so each have an

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Speaker 3: opportunity to come on the stage and share their story.

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Speaker 3: We were a wonderful mc chella Williams and she didn't

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Speaker 3: experience the cycle on herself, but her family dead. She

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Speaker 3: grew up here. Sophia's very connected and so she'll help

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Speaker 3: weave all the stories together, which is really great.

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Speaker 1: So do you know at this point in time who

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll have our six storytellers and they they're the

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Speaker 2: main event for the night telling their stories. We've got

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Speaker 2: some very special guests coming that I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: tell you about come and we basically we've got a

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Speaker 3: It'll be.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a really moving occasion, I would suspect, particularly

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Speaker 1: well both of them, but particularly on the twenty fourth

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we with this meeting with this storytellers, I

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Speaker 3: want to share? And also knowing that especially on that

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Speaker 3: but also those funny little bits you don't think of.

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Speaker 2: And I think also it's a bit of an exploration

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Speaker 3: Journey, and the running theme of it all is just resilience.

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Speaker 3: That's why everyone really wants to share and that really

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Speaker 1: One of the most the most wonderful things I reckon

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Speaker 1: this place is so strong, it is so resilient. We've

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a wonderful event. Can

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Speaker 1: anybody go along? Are there's still tickets available.

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Speaker 2: There are still tickets available for the twenty ninth. We're

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Speaker 2: just about full house. It's only a very small space

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Speaker 2: through our Way Club, so we're a full house for

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Speaker 2: Christmas Eve. But Sunday the twenty ninth at seven pm,

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Speaker 2: we've still got plenty of space. Can I just say, Katie,

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Speaker 2: one of the things that struck me about this whole process,

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Speaker 2: and I embarked upon it twenty months ago with our

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Speaker 2: chair Richie Creswick. He scammed me into becoming involved, so.

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Speaker 1: You get all the best committee members.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You know I'm a non survivor. Yeah, you'll

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Speaker 2: be right, It'll only be a couple of meetings. So

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Speaker 2: here I am twenty months later. But what's really struck

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I think it's wonderful. I think it'll be

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Speaker 1: so wonderful what you have organized and such a great

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Speaker 1: experience for everybody to get along to. Now where can

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Speaker 1: or if they want to find out if they can

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Speaker 1: maybe purchase a ticket on the twenty ninth.

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Speaker 2: There's a website you should have that from.

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Speaker 1: I think I do here, or I'll certainly be able

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Speaker 2: I'll make sure you've got it when we've finished here.

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Speaker 2: But they just go on the website and they can

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Speaker 2: register for an event and get a ticket.

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Speaker 1: We will read that one out aap events dot eventsair

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Speaker 1: dot com and then Ford Slage fifty see why Tracy,

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Speaker 1: see why I see Tracy. I'll add that in.

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Speaker 2: Even if if they just google so remembering cycling Tracy,

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Speaker 2: it'll come up perfect.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you by so very much for joining

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Speaker 1: me this morning. All the best. Thank you as we

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Speaker 1: the wonderful event that you guys have got lined up,

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Speaker 1: of December and the twenty ninth of December, and you

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Speaker 1: can google search remembering cyclone Tracy and get that level

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Speaker 1: of detail. Thank you by it so much for joining me,

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Speaker 1: your support anytime