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Speaker 1: Now I've had a great morning because I've gotten to

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Speaker 1: talk about sport a.

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Speaker 2: Lot today and joining me in the studio right now to.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit more about a couple of

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Speaker 1: young AFL teams heading away for well for the Nationals.

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Speaker 1: So the under twelve teams for both the girls and

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Speaker 1: boys heading away for the Nationals a little bit later

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Speaker 1: this year and in the studio to tell us a

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Speaker 1: bit more is Jeff Cameron, also known as Sharky. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, Sharky, good morning, good having you in

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Speaker 1: the studio.

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Speaker 2: And Cam Eilers. Well, everybody around the territory knows Cam,

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Speaker 2: don't they just about how are you mate?

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Speaker 3: Very well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, great to have you both in the studio now. Cam,

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Speaker 1: you'd contacted me a couple of weeks ago and said

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Speaker 1: that there's both the girls and the boys teams about

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Speaker 1: fifty young girls and boys heading away to represent the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory at the Under twelve AFL Carnival and said any.

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Speaker 2: Chance we can have a chat to you about it.

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Speaker 2: I love this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I love hearing about young people that are doing really

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Speaker 1: good stuff, particularly heading into state competing at whatever sport

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Speaker 1: they're you know, they're choosing, but particularly in something like

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Speaker 1: the AFL, so absolutely was keen to have you both

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Speaker 1: in the studio. Now when do they go away?

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Speaker 3: Firstly, fifth of August we had head off to Aubrey

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Speaker 3: were longer and Aubrey in South Wales.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful stuff. And so is there fifty of these.

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Speaker 3: Kids forty six kids two that are playing two umpires, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and then six staffs.

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Speaker 1: Oh how great, So a couple of umpires as well.

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Speaker 1: Are they the same age group.

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Speaker 3: A little bit older teenagers, so they're part of AFO

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Speaker 3: and t umpiring.

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Speaker 1: It's a massive amount of kids to be taking away

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Speaker 1: nearly fifty of these young people, and no doubt like plenty,

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Speaker 1: like plenty of training going into it.

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Speaker 2: When do you start the training?

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Speaker 3: Training starts next week Monday at Palmerston and then Wednesdays

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Speaker 3: in darn at Tripstone Middle School.

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Speaker 1: And so plenty of training obviously, you know, bringing the

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Speaker 1: teams together, making sure that they that they're working easimply

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Speaker 1: as a team when they go away and play. But

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Speaker 1: also it's pretty expensive to take away that volume of kids,

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Speaker 1: like that's a massive team. When you actually look at

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Speaker 1: it logistically, cam you are sort of looking at doing

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Speaker 1: some fundraising efforts as well, aren't you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, Look, obviously it's a great opportunity, you know

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Speaker 4: for all these young boys and girls to represent the

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Speaker 4: NT and obviously playing sport, and we all know how

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Speaker 4: important sport is, you know, the development, you know, the

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Speaker 4: team building, the socializing, you know, the well being, all

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Speaker 4: of that aspect. And now the great thing about this

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Speaker 4: team as well, obviously you mentioned it's the NT team.

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Speaker 4: It genuinely is an NT team. So we've got players

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Speaker 4: and Jeff knows exactly where they're from, but Ellis springs

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Speaker 4: from Catherine, from TenneT Creek, from arnhem Land and then

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Speaker 1: So taking that into account and I will go back

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Speaker 1: to that fundraising in a set camp. But taking that

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Speaker 1: into account, mate, how hard is it to actually.

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Speaker 2: Train them all when they're from everywhere?

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Speaker 3: So we've done. I've done like a training program that

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Speaker 3: I send to the parents and caregivers and teachers that

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Speaker 3: Elliott and Tenant and Baranga Nolan boy, so they're on

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Speaker 3: the same page as knowing what we're doing in the city. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but obviously we've got to come together just before we

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Speaker 3: we go down.

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Speaker 1: How many days they're going to have to actually train

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Speaker 1: together though before before you go away and start competing

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Speaker 1: against other teams one day. That's so Northern territories, Like

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Speaker 1: all these other teams from other states, they have been

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Speaker 1: training together for months. You know, you'll get these new

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Speaker 1: South Wales teams that play and train together all the time.

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Speaker 1: And then for us here in the territory, it's just

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Speaker 1: so different, but it's so unique and it's really what

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Speaker 3: I toutally agree.

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Speaker 1: Now, Cam going back to that fundraising, particularly then when

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Speaker 1: it's going to be pretty expensive processes Nash.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Look it's you know obviously to take that

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Speaker 4: many young boys and girls away into state is not

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Speaker 4: a cheap exercise. So what Sharky and I sort of

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Speaker 4: got together and how can we ensure that no matter

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Speaker 4: financial burden. So for them, they've done the hard work

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Speaker 4: by getting selected, so we want to get together and

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Speaker 4: try and raise as much money as we can to

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Speaker 4: make sure that you know, whatever we raise, the overall

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Speaker 4: worrying about finances. So you know, we've been very, very

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Speaker 4: lucky so far. We've got a number of different organizations

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Speaker 4: and people that have contributed money, which is which is great,

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Speaker 4: so you know, and I suppose it's accessing your allies,

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Speaker 4: So that's why I've reached out to.

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Speaker 2: You, Katie.

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Speaker 4: You know, I called them a good mate Joel Bowden,

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Speaker 4: and he said absolutely, cam lock me in for some

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Speaker 4: So we're going to run an auction night and have

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Speaker 4: a whole heap of different auction items that will run

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Speaker 4: raise more money. And it's for such a brilliant opportunity

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Speaker 4: for these young kids, you know, to see them go

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Speaker 4: away represent where they come from, be super proud. And

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Speaker 4: you know, others even like ours is spending some time

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Speaker 4: which is great. Nicole Brown or have done a fair

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Speaker 4: you know, when you do reach out and a great

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Now, if there is anybody out there listening this morning

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Speaker 3: They can contact your contact sport of ed YEP the

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Speaker 1: There now to really I guess make it hit home

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Speaker 2: It's such an enormous opportunity for them, is Nash.

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Speaker 3: Yeah totally. It's pretty cool they get the opportunity to

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Speaker 3: do that. But like Cam talked about before, I really

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Speaker 3: wanted the kids that got selected to you because they

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Speaker 3: that was the whole idea of promoting it and trying

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Speaker 3: to build it up. Ye. Yeah, everyone to go.

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Speaker 2: It's such an important point to make.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I was a girl who grew up in Mount I,

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Speaker 1: so we'd go away on our troops and you'd have

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Speaker 1: some of us, you know, they're going up the escalators

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Speaker 1: for the first time in their life when they're arriving

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Speaker 1: in Brizzy, and it's an incredible opportunity for kids, and

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Speaker 1: I just think it's really important that they get the

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Speaker 1: chance to do that. Hey, before I let you both go,

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Speaker 1: I know that there was a game yesterday as well.

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Speaker 2: Tell us what that was all about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, we had a ripping football match yesterday

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Speaker 4: against the Saint Pat's College down in Ballarat. So what

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Speaker 4: come together and again it was a sign that was

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Speaker 4: Good Millennia and Dale. So we brought to our year tens,

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Speaker 4: elevens and twelve lads together and they all sort of

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Speaker 4: played against Saint Pat's yesterday afternoon. It was an absolutely

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Speaker 4: brilliant occasion, terrific outcomes for everyone and you know for

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Speaker 4: the boys to represent obviously quantat Nty as a whole,

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Speaker 4: but then also for the Saint Pat's lads to be

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Speaker 4: a part of, you know, a great top end experience

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Speaker 4: involving some footy. But the other really good aspect to

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Speaker 4: got involved in our Quontaft academies as well, so giving

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Speaker 4: big buddy mentoring activities with them. So it's really building

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Speaker 4: the capacity of their students, but also the opportunities for

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Speaker 4: our students as well to mingle, get to know them,

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Speaker 4: and I suppose playing footy yesterday. They operate at a

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Speaker 4: pretty high level down there at Saint Pats and for

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Speaker 3: It was a really good.

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Speaker 2: Experience, wonderful.

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Speaker 3: They were very talented.

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Speaker 2: Ah, good stuff, Well, good on you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us in the studio

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Speaker 1: this morning, Jeff Cameron and also cam iileank. Great to

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Speaker 1: have you both in here and we'll catch up again

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Speaker 1: before the kids head away.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you, good stuff, Thank you.