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Speaker 1: President of the ten Pin Bowling Association here in the territory, Janine,

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Janine talk us through how important the Planet is to

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Speaker 1: the ten Pin Bowling Association.

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Speaker 2: The Planet is the only center in Darwin that we

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Speaker 2: can play competition in. It's not just a matter of

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Speaker 2: having a bowling alley. There is a level of registration

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Speaker 2: certification on the lanes for us to be able to

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Speaker 2: play the sport and the Planet's lanes are registered and certified.

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Speaker 2: So for the sport we need the Planet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I guess some people listening right now might

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Speaker 1: be thinking, oh, why can't you go to you know,

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Speaker 1: to Kingpin or go somewhere else, But it's got to

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Speaker 1: be those lanes have got to be a specific way

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Speaker 1: for you to actually be able to compete on them

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Speaker 1: and train on them, don't they They certainly do.

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Speaker 2: And the idea behind Kingpin is its entertainment. If the

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Speaker 2: bowling is not the focus. Bowling is one of the

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Speaker 2: activities that you can do when you go to Kingpin.

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Speaker 2: But obviously there the peak times for entertainment is during

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Speaker 2: the evenings and on the weekends, and they are the

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Speaker 2: peak times for our sport. When it's being played and

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Speaker 2: when our tournaments are being run, so obviously there would

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Speaker 2: be a clash with the activities at Kingpin Saws. I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure that it would work.

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Speaker 1: No, and look that's fair enough. You know the answer.

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Speaker 1: I guess you know the answer here is that everybody

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Speaker 1: does want the planet to be able to open at

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Speaker 1: that new location and to try to work out this

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Speaker 1: finance situation. Janine, can you talk us through how many

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Speaker 1: you know, how many people we currently have that are

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Speaker 1: utilizing the planet when it comes to being part of

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Speaker 1: the bowling Bowling Association.

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Speaker 2: We have in the association across the Northern Territory, we

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Speaker 2: have approximately two hundred members. At least two thirds or

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Speaker 2: more of those are using the planet for competition. So

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Speaker 2: at least two thirds of those who in Darwin. And

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Speaker 2: those members range from juniors that are not even double

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Speaker 2: figures yet, they're not even ten years of age yet,

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Speaker 2: to our oldest competitor who is eighty five and just

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Speaker 2: absolutely love coming into the bowl and bowling. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I had the pleasure of bowling against him last night

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Speaker 2: and he just loves the sports, just loves it.

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Speaker 1: Janine, I know that there are so many rep players

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Speaker 1: as well. We ten pin bowling, talk us through some

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Speaker 1: of those, you know, some of those high achievements that

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Speaker 1: have that you've had over the recent years.

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Speaker 2: We've had well, we have one bowler who is currently

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Speaker 2: in the Australian team, but COVID stopped her from being

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Speaker 2: able to compete overseas. We had another one of our

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Speaker 2: Dawen members who actually is Bruno's daughter. She was in

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Speaker 2: the Australian team competing in Qation in twenty nineteen. We

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Speaker 2: have punched above our weight on the national stage at

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Speaker 2: our national championships, winning medals in all levels of competition.

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Speaker 2: We have a very large group of disability bowlers or

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Speaker 2: bowlers with a disability I should say. They go away

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Speaker 2: to their own national championships every year and they come

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Speaker 2: back with a rafter medals. And look, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of state pride on the line because we play state

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Speaker 2: versus state competitions as well. Apart from that, you have

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Speaker 2: individual tournaments where bowlers will go to get that interstate competition,

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Speaker 2: different conditions on the lanes, different plane conditions, so that

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Speaker 2: they can build their skills to continue to play the

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Speaker 2: sport at a high level or whatever level that is

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Speaker 2: included to them, Janine.

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Speaker 1: What is going to happen for all of these are

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Speaker 1: wonderful bowlers. If a solution is not able to be found, we.

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Speaker 2: Have nowhere to bowl. Our next closest competition Centervella Springs.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit far to go for training. So

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Speaker 2: when the doors closed on the planet, I mean, look

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Speaker 2: from the association point of view, we have to put

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Speaker 2: some plans in place for the teams that are already

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Speaker 2: selected to competing to state this year. We have the

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Speaker 2: disability bowlers have their National Championships in June. The Disability

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Speaker 2: Committee is looking at options for them to train. We

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Speaker 2: have our National Championships team, so our Rockway team and

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Speaker 2: our seniors team will be competing in August. We have

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Speaker 2: another MTY team going to a National timpin Bowling Carnival

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Speaker 2: in Townsville and another one for over forty five going

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Speaker 2: to Sydney. So all of those people we now have

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Speaker 2: to sit down and say, how do you want to

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Speaker 2: go about this? Do you still want to stay in

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Speaker 2: the team knowing that you won't have bowled for three

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Speaker 2: or four months before you go away. If there is

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Speaker 2: no solution found to the issue that we as a

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Speaker 1: Janine, what do you reckon can happen here? But does

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Speaker 1: the government need to step in?

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm not The difficulty and the issue that we

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Speaker 2: have here is that we have a privately owned business

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Speaker 2: where the sport is played and we rely on that

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Speaker 2: privately owned business. Look, we would love to have our

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Speaker 2: own center, that's called the Northern Territory tem Bevoling Associocean Center,

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Speaker 2: but in reality that it's not an option, not something

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Speaker 2: that that's on the table, I don't think. But we

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Speaker 2: are a peat sporting body. We are aligned the government

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Speaker 2: because we are a peak sporting body of the government.

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Speaker 2: We would like to talk. We have had meetings, but

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Speaker 2: there hasn't been a resolution so far or any sort

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Speaker 2: of outcomes. We just need the importance of the sport. Yeah, Janine,

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Speaker 2: be taking into consideration. And look, Bruno spoke about community

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Speaker 2: and that is just such an important thing in particular area.

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Speaker 1: It really is. One of our listeners has messaged through

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Speaker 1: and said could the government guarantee the loan similar to

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Speaker 1: what had happened for the turf club with their silks facility.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know whether something like that is an option.

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Speaker 1: But it does sound from what I've heard from Bruno

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Speaker 1: that you know, everybody sort of needs to sit down

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Speaker 1: here and see whether something can be worked out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I'm not privy to that particular arrangement or no,

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Speaker 2: those arrangements are made with government, but it's certainly something

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Speaker 2: that I know that Bruno and myself as the advocate

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Speaker 2: to the members, would certainly like to explore. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: a realistic option.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh exactly. And look, you know, I'm a bit

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Speaker 1: the same as you. Obviously we've spoken about it or

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Speaker 1: reported on it at different times, but I don't know

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Speaker 1: the ins and outs of something like that, Janine. I

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Speaker 1: really hope that something can be sorted out here. As

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Speaker 1: I said to Bruno, I know, I've had a lot

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Speaker 1: of people get in contact with me about this, and

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Speaker 1: everybody really just wants a resolution to be found so

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Speaker 1: that our wonderful bowling community is able to you know,

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Speaker 1: to continue to do what you do best do it

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Speaker 1: unbelievably well by the sounds of it. Hearing about some

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Speaker 1: of those competitive bowlers and their wonderful achievements.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I must admit on Sunday we aired

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Speaker 2: the media release to our associations Facebook page, but really

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Speaker 2: couldn't say much more than that because it was very raw.

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Speaker 2: But I had a ranch later on later on in

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Speaker 2: the evening, and I think the scenes that I highlighted

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Speaker 2: were the fact that we're not just a sport, we're

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Speaker 2: a community. We have gone to a great deal of

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Speaker 2: measures to work across the range of abilities in our

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Speaker 2: sports social grassroots level. We had no juniors two years ago. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: we had one or two juniors two years ago. They

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Speaker 2: were juniors who were the children of bowlers who were

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Speaker 2: already bowling. We have worked extremely hard to build a

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Speaker 2: junior coehort with the Center through our bawl patrol programs,

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Speaker 2: and we now have twenty odd juniors in a junior league.

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Speaker 2: They are a picture of our sport. We have a

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Speaker 2: large group of bowlards with a disability. I think from

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Speaker 2: memory it's about forty of them. Yep. This is not

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Speaker 2: just a sports for them. This is part of their life.

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Speaker 2: This is what they look forward to every single week

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Speaker 2: they have a ball. They're included in all of the

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Speaker 2: association tournaments. We don't see them as bowlard with the disability.

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Speaker 2: We see them as their members.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely then Janine, I'm really sorry. Yeah, I'm really sorry.

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Speaker 1: We are going to have to wrap up. Can you

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Speaker 1: please keep in contact with us and let us know

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Speaker 1: how things are progressing. I said the same to Bruno,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, please keep in contact with us. We'd be

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Speaker 1: really interested to see how things continue.

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Speaker 2: Not a problem, Gating. Thanks for the time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Janine, we really appreciate it. That is the

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Speaker 1: president of Tenpin Bowling the Ten Pin Bowling Association, Janine.

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Speaker 1: There