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Speaker 1: Now we know that the territory's largest music festival, based

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Speaker 1: in the grass it wrapped up for another year on

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Speaker 1: the weekend, fourteen thousand people packing out Mindle Beach and

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Speaker 1: enjoying the music from some of Australia's brightest music stars.

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Speaker 1: But then we know that the supercars are set to

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Speaker 1: roar into town next month for three days of NonStop

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Speaker 1: action for the Darwin Triple Crown Supercars Indigenous Round. Now

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Speaker 1: joining me on the line to talk about both of

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Speaker 1: these wonderful events is the NT Major Events CEO. It

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Speaker 1: is Susanna Bishop. Good morning to you. Susanna, all, good morning,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Lovely to have you on the show. Now, firstly,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about Bass. We know that it went off

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Speaker 1: on the weekend about fourteen thousand people.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. We had quite a lot of people

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Speaker 2: having a great time last Thurtyday.

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Speaker 1: It's always a wonderful event, there is no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: And today we know that the supercar program has been launched. Susanna,

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Speaker 1: how's it looking for twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we're really excited. We hardly cool down from base

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Speaker 2: and we're hitting up already with supercars which happened just

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Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks. So we have a lot

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Speaker 2: of action, a lot of activity for modest sport lovers,

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Speaker 2: but also for families and even students with our Friday.

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Speaker 2: So lots of activity coming up.

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Speaker 1: And the program launched today. Anything sort of a bit

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Speaker 1: different for this year for the Indigenous round or what

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Speaker 1: can we expect?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're really excited. You know, we've been working really

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Speaker 2: closely with different partners including Larkia Nation and we'll have

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Speaker 2: the libraries for the cars coming back and coming back

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Speaker 2: really strong this year, so some fantastic artwork to look.

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Speaker 2: I think one different thing this year that we're really

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Speaker 2: proud is that we're extending Deny Transport at Convoy all

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Speaker 2: the way to Palmerston so more people can can chack

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Speaker 2: and get excited. I also come up to the waterfront

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Speaker 2: where fans can meet their more sport heroes and there

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Speaker 2: will be a Nitro up North car there on display

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Speaker 2: as well. So a very action packed week. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: three Days of Modern Sport.

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Speaker 1: Oh, people are going to be very excited to hear

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Speaker 1: that that night Convoy. So is it going to start

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Speaker 1: in Palmerston or how's it going to work?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's we're doing the whole tour, so from the

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Speaker 2: city to Palmerston obviously to get more details and know

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Speaker 2: exactly where you can be at what time. Has it

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Speaker 2: The website the www. Dowin Supercars, dot com dotu and

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Speaker 2: you can see these. You haven't hate your tickets. There's

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Speaker 2: an opportunity there to buy as well.

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Speaker 1: How wonderful and like I said, I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are going to be pretty excited to hear that,

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Speaker 1: so that'll sort of kick things off. And then we've

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Speaker 1: got the supercars. You've got the Australian superbikes, the Porsche,

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Speaker 1: the Porsches, and there are the Aussie racing cars combined

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Speaker 1: with Sedan's also hitting the track.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know, a little bit for everyone, that's what

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Speaker 2: we're trying to achieve. So if you are a loyal

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Speaker 2: motivesports fan, you have plenty to keep you busy. But

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Speaker 2: if you're part of a family, there'll be lots of

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Speaker 2: activities in your children age thirteen and nunder teens for free.

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Speaker 2: That's a fantastic opportunity to be really inclusive in this event.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we'll continue to have a lot of

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Speaker 2: those activities that were available for kids will have music,

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Speaker 2: you know, we'll have students on track the easter around

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Speaker 2: a band on stage. So much there really is activities.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, it's like such a massive sort of week

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Speaker 1: of action. And you see so many people travel from

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Speaker 1: all around Australia to get here for the supercars as well,

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Speaker 1: don't you.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely we're looking at around forty five percent of attend

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Speaker 2: event coming from in and maybe even international, so it's

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Speaker 2: a great way to showcase that with the back we've

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Speaker 2: got to offer in the Northern Territory. At the same time,

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Speaker 2: she really proud about our destination and welcome people from everywhere.

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Speaker 3: How many people are we expecting, well, listened last year

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Speaker 3: we probably had about forty thousand air tends across all

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Speaker 3: the day, so we know.

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Speaker 2: It's looking really hot. At the moment, all of our

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Speaker 2: hospitality has been sold out except from the Gravel Trap.

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Speaker 2: We are tracking a little bit ahead in sales from

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Speaker 2: where we were last year, so we think it's going

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Speaker 2: to be a really really big event.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt it will be.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 1: It's always a fantastic time to be in Darwin lent

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Speaker 1: Tea Major Events CEO Susanna Bishop, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for your time this morning, much appreciated.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: Thank you