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Speaker 1: More specifically, I guess you'd say, about their children not

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Speaker 1: whether they're diagnosed with the disability or you know, or

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Speaker 1: other other learning difficulties, whether they're able to access those

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Speaker 1: those support services that they that they require now Earlier, well,

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Speaker 1: last week, I guess you'd say, late last week, we

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Speaker 1: caught up with Jamie, one of our listeners, and she

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Speaker 1: had a really important story to tell us about her

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Speaker 1: where they've got the funding through the nd I S,

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Speaker 2: And unfortunately she's not alone.

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Speaker 1: You know. I've had messages come through on the Mix

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Speaker 1: one oh four nine Facebook page, on my own personal

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Speaker 1: Facebook page, to my own phone number, and to us

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Speaker 1: here at work on this very issue. But what I

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Speaker 1: wasn't aware of, and I wonder if there are people

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory Legal Aid.

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Speaker 2: They've got your story.

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Speaker 1: Disability Legal Support now joining us in the studio to

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Speaker 1: talk more about this. From the Northern Territory Legal Aid

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Speaker 1: Commission Legal Coordinator, Joanna Laidler.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you in the studio and I was

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Speaker 1: really pleased when you got in contact with us last

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Speaker 1: week after hearing Jamie on the show to let us

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Speaker 1: know that there are some different support mechanisms out there

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Speaker 1: at the moment to try and help people, particularly if

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Speaker 1: they're really trying to battle their way through the NDIS

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Speaker 1: and getting access to these services.

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Speaker 2: Can you talk us through.

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Speaker 1: Exactly what it is that Legal Aid does in this

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely so.

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Speaker 4: As you said, I am based at Legal Aid, but

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Speaker 4: I work for a national organization called Your Story Disability

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Speaker 4: Legal Support, And I know that's a little bit of

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Speaker 4: a mouthful, so I refer to it as your Story

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Speaker 4: going forward. And so Your Story has been funded to

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Speaker 4: provide free legal information and advice to people wishing to

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Speaker 4: engage with the Disability Royal Commission. And so one of

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Speaker 4: the reasons I really wanted to come on the program

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Speaker 4: today is to help raise awareness about the Disability Royal

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Speaker 4: Commission as a way for people like Jamie to have

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Speaker 4: their voices heard by the government, but also so that

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Speaker 4: people could be aware that there are services available to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is the thing I think that some

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Speaker 1: that there was a Disability Royal Commission launched Australia wide

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Speaker 1: People may not even like it really being referred to

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I mean we have definitely heard a lot of

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Speaker 1: And so obviously, if there are people out there listening

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, So obviously people can contact the Disability Royal Commission directly,

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Speaker 1: And Joanna, what kind of support would they be able

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, So your story can provide free legal information and

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Speaker 2: With other supports.

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Speaker 4: So the legal supports are only one part of the

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Speaker 1: What kind of stories are you hearing out of the

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Speaker 2: All, what types of things are you hearing in your role?

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Speaker 4: Look, to be honest, I think Jamie really covered a

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Speaker 3: In relation to the NDAs. But the breadth of the

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Speaker 3: Disability Royal Commission means that we can be hearing.

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Speaker 4: Stories about education, the justice system, mental health services.

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Speaker 3: The Disability Royal Commission wants to hear about it.

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Speaker 1: Gee, it must be tough for some parents. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think every parent does their bist to try to

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Speaker 4: And I guess while I'm in here, I should also

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Speaker 4: say that Anti Legal Aid also has a hotline available

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Speaker 4: and that can provide a really good starting point for

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Speaker 1: Well, Jamie, I mean sorry, not Jamie Joanna, I really

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Speaker 1: I know that it's it's certainly in the front of

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Speaker 1: people that are in those decision making situations here in

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Speaker 1: the territory and also nationally. So I do hope that

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, thanks for having me, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Katie, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: That is Joanna laid Laver, who is obviously with Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory Legal aid but with the Northern Territory Legal Aids

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Speaker 1: your Story Disability Legal Support Service. Now that number once

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Speaker 1: again if you do want to get in contact, is

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Speaker 1: one eight hundred zero, sorry, one eight hundred seven, one

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