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Speaker 1: Jump Mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Our next guests are known as musicians as Identical Twins,

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Speaker 2: but most people don't know them as carers. This week

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Speaker 2: is National Cares Week, and since becoming carers to their mum,

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Speaker 2: the Veronicas have become ambassadors for a campaign raising awareness

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Speaker 2: to tell us More. Jess and Lisa.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hi guys, Hi.

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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 3: We weren't going to have Lisa or we just had

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Speaker 3: Jess for a minute there, but Lisa's come back into

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Speaker 3: the Zoom meeting, which is great.

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Speaker 2: We're excited to have you both. You're in the midst of.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I was going to say, I told them I

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Speaker 4: had to leave and talk to you, babes. It was

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Speaker 4: a non negotiable.

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Speaker 3: So here I am. Who were you? What meeting were

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Speaker 3: you having with someone that was so important that you

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Speaker 3: had to leave them for us?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: We're just currently filming a little TV show called Celebrity

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Speaker 4: Apprentice and so it was a bit of a production meeting.

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Speaker 2: How's that going? Is it stressful? Because they get you

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Speaker 2: to do a whole lot of stuff to raise money,

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Speaker 2: which is a great thing. But it's pretty full on,

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Speaker 2: isn't it.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty crazy for you guys. But yeah, it's all

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Speaker 4: in the spirit of charity. So we're raising money for

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Speaker 4: the Brain Foundation in honor of our mummy. So that's

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Speaker 4: what we're doing at the moment. So each week you

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Speaker 4: have to raise money in different ways to go to

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Speaker 4: your charity.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about your mum. What she does have

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Speaker 2: a brain condition? What's going on with her?

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Speaker 4: Sour mummy was diagnosed with a very rare neurological condition

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Speaker 4: called progressive supernuclea of palsy about five years ago and

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Speaker 4: it is a disease that affects the motor and cognitive

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Speaker 4: function of people and it's a very very difficult and

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Speaker 4: quick decline. And you know, she is our best friend.

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Speaker 4: She's the love of our life and we have such

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Speaker 4: a close relationship. She's you know, she's come on tour

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Speaker 4: with us with the Veronicas for the last fifteen years,

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Speaker 4: just been our absolute rock. And it's been a very

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Speaker 4: difficult and heartbreaking time to you know, watch our best

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Speaker 4: friend have to go through something this devastating. But we

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Speaker 4: care for her, which is why we're having this conversation.

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Speaker 4: Because it is Cares Week this week and there are

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Speaker 4: two point six million unpaid cares in Australia and it's

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Speaker 4: very important that we as a community thank everybody for

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Speaker 4: their compassion and their love and their care for those

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Speaker 4: that are in a similar position.

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Speaker 3: And it's so hard for because you guys came back

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Speaker 3: to Australia to look after you mum, so obviously putting

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Speaker 3: your career on hold, and people all around have to

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Speaker 3: do that. A lot of people have to quit their

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Speaker 3: jobs to look after their parents.

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Speaker 4: That's correct.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we've prioritized that, especially the last few years,

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Speaker 1: and people don't quite understand the you know, the the

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Speaker 1: huge amount of emotional, physical, mental responsibility that comes with

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Speaker 1: caring for somebody with.

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Speaker 4: You know, this this kind of a level of care

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Speaker 4: and it is incredibly difficult for for the person going

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Speaker 4: through it, and for and for the cares and for

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Speaker 4: the family, and yeah, it's a it's a it's a

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Speaker 4: huge time in someone's life. And you know, we've we've

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Speaker 4: had to put off a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 4: our career and we would in a in a second

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Speaker 4: because she is our number one priority and you know,

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Speaker 4: we want to be able to spend every minute we

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Speaker 4: can with her, making her as comfortable and as loved

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Speaker 4: as possible.

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Speaker 2: So in cares Week, what can we do to support carers?

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Speaker 4: So what we're asking is that cares know that they're

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Speaker 4: not alone, to know that there are definitely resources for support. Caresweek,

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Speaker 4: dot com, dot agu is a space that they can

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Speaker 4: go and share their stories somewhere to you know, have

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Speaker 4: a safe space to know that they're seen and appreciated.

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Speaker 4: And that's just spreading a lot. Yeah, we're just spreading

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Speaker 4: a love about that and really just getting on the

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Speaker 4: airwaves to say just to say thank you for anyone

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Speaker 4: listening that's caring for a loved one. We know how

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Speaker 4: incredibly difficult it is and that we really appreciate you

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Speaker 4: and thank you. Well.

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Speaker 3: Good on you guys. It's a very noble thing that.

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Speaker 2: You're doing, absolutely and I can't wait to see the

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Speaker 2: great results you guys get in Celebrity Apprentice in raising

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Speaker 2: money and.

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Speaker 3: A Winn's lots of money. Do you want to give

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Speaker 3: us the money?

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Speaker 4: I'll do it you guys up. Actually, that's okay. You

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Speaker 4: guys in our back pocket if.

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Speaker 2: You need us.

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Speaker 3: Let us know. We're always in someone's back pocket. You

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Speaker 3: know that.

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Speaker 2: To you and thank you for sharing your story. We

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Speaker 2: really appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you both for the time to talk

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Speaker 4: about this. It's so important and we really do appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks Lisa.

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Speaker 3: The Veronicas their cares week dot com dot au. Please

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Speaker 3: help out with James and Amanda