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Speaker 1: We're talking just a little bit earlier this morning too.

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Speaker 1: Well see the CEO of Tourism Central Australia, Daniel Rochford

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Speaker 1: about the Fink Desert Race kicking off this weekend and

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Speaker 1: Charles Darwin University is for the first time launching a

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Speaker 1: new paramedicine course in Alice Springs to train paramedics in

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Speaker 1: Central Australia and c to you. Student paramedics are going

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Speaker 1: to be providing emergency medical support to writers and spectators

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Speaker 1: under the supervision of qualified paramedics as part of the

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Speaker 1: Fink Desert Race in Alice Springs. Now joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line to tell us a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: the program, It's Charles Darwin University's College of Health and

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Speaker 1: Human Science, Dean Professor Dominic Upton.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Dominic.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie, how are you very well?

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Speaker 2: Great to have you on the show. Dominic.

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Speaker 1: Firstly, tell us about these students going to be assisting

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Speaker 1: at the Fink Desert Race on the weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, I mean, look at the first thing first,

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Speaker 3: I hope that they have a very quiet weekend. I

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Speaker 3: hope that they don't get involved in any sort of

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Speaker 3: events because obviously that's what we're try and avoid. But

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Speaker 3: if they are there under the supervision of qualified paramedic

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Speaker 3: staff that didn't be there working in the real life

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Speaker 3: situation the Central Australia, trying to support and help and

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Speaker 3: get really valuable hands on experience of what it's like

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Speaker 3: to work in the territory.

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Speaker 2: It is phenomenal experience. I would imagine.

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Speaker 1: It's been sort of a little while coming, though, hasn't

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Speaker 1: it to have a paramedic course in Alice Springs.

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. I mean we kicked off the

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Speaker 3: paramedic course here in Darlin two years ago and we've

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Speaker 3: had a couple of really good cohorts and they'll be

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Speaker 3: completing their training next year. And we thought it's been

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Speaker 3: so successful and the opportunities and the experiences are so

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Speaker 3: different in our springs that needs trying. A different cohort

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Speaker 3: down in Ourae Springs, as you can imagine the Darlins

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Speaker 3: in the Tropics is in the desert central desert region,

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Speaker 3: and so the types of conditions and types of experiences

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Speaker 3: and students are getting both of those will be completely different,

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Speaker 3: and we wanted to make sure that our students were

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Speaker 3: really trained. It for the work across the whole of

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Speaker 3: the territory. So you know, we're trying to make sure

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Speaker 3: the territory students in the Territory University to be fully

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Speaker 3: prepared for working in Northern Territory when they qualify.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a wonderful thing to do, and it

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Speaker 1: is all sort of part of trying to grow our

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Speaker 1: own here in the territory too, isn't.

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Speaker 3: It exactly exactly? Because you know, in the past, we've

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Speaker 3: had a students, a sorry qualified paramedics fly up from

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Speaker 3: interstate and they stayed here a year or two years

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Speaker 3: and gone home. But now that can stay here for

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Speaker 3: their three years training, stay here and become fully qualified

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Speaker 3: paramedics and hopefully spend a long and successful career and

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Speaker 3: then start tracking their future care thoughts as well. So

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Speaker 3: you know, just maintain that growing your own and maintaining

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Speaker 3: the growth of the paramous at the time.

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Speaker 2: Now, how many have you got enrolled in the course

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Speaker 3: In Alice zero because we're just started to market the course,

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Speaker 3: so they'll start in augusta this year. We're hoping for

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Speaker 3: a dozen or so on the Caserina campus in Darwin.

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Speaker 3: It's depending on the year twenty to thirty, thirsty to

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Speaker 3: forty in the second year or sorry, they're in their

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Speaker 3: first year, but yeah, the second year running and run

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Speaker 3: that program.

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Speaker 1: And so the ones that are going to be helping

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Speaker 1: up here in the Top End and traveling to Central Australia.

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Speaker 2: Oh, how exciting for them?

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Speaker 3: Well, exactly exactly. I mean they've trained up here and

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Speaker 3: so they've got the tropical experience. They're now going to

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Speaker 3: life experiences out in the Think. Yeah, you just imagine

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Speaker 3: what they're what they can to learn from that whole

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you know, like I said, I think growing

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Speaker 1: our own in the territories such a wonderful thing to do.

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Speaker 1: they do finish their university studies or whatever studies they're doing.

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Speaker 1: So we're able to you know, to have them here

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Speaker 3: That's right, and that's exactly what we've been doing over

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Speaker 3: I'm medicine to CEO and really sort of grow that

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Speaker 2: Dominic.

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Speaker 1: Just with the with the students that are going to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I mean it's usually when students go out

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Speaker 3: Saint John Ambulance and they'll be taking part in a

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Speaker 3: So is it that sort of balance and making sure

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Speaker 1: And do students get many opportunities like this to get

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Speaker 3: And then in the party that spend probably a whole

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Speaker 2: Are they go well and how many of them are

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Speaker 2: I reckon it's a fantastic thing to do.

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Speaker 1: And and you know, if you if you are studying

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Speaker 1: reckon it would be a fantastic experience for them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah like that. I really agree. I think it'd be

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Speaker 3: britain An experience than.

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Speaker 2: YEA, our good stuff.

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Speaker 1: We'll lovely to talk to you this morning, Dominic Upton,

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Speaker 1: the CDU College of Health and Human Science.

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Speaker 2: Dean, we really appreciate your time, brilliant.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Katie, thank you