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Speaker 1: We know that there's going to be a special event

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Speaker 1: celebrating Northern Territory women taking place at the Darwin Turf Club.

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Speaker 1: Now it's an inaugural event. It's all about uniting women,

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Speaker 1: embracing diversity and highlighting their contributions ahead of International Women's

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Speaker 1: Day on March eight. And the amazing woman behind it

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Speaker 1: all joins me in the studio right now, Rebecca Forrest.

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Speaker 1: Good morning morning, Katie. It's lovely to have you in

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Speaker 1: this studio. So good to see you. And in a

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Speaker 1: while it has Look I saw this and I thought,

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Speaker 1: how incredible. It looks like there is so much lined

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Speaker 1: up for the Festival of Women. Tell us a bit

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Speaker 1: about it. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, the idea was just to get everything under one roof,

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Speaker 2: and we're not even doing one roof. We're taking over

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Speaker 2: the whole turf Club. So there's you know, a health

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Speaker 2: and well being arena. There's different panel sessions every hour.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually really looking forward to a sex ology panel. Oh,

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Speaker 2: there you go, and women in emergency services, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 2: always great chat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, there's so many phenomenal women in the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 1: Like there's so many women you know to you know,

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Speaker 1: to use a bit of a commonly used thing, but breaking,

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Speaker 1: you know, the glass ceiling in so many different ways.

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Speaker 1: And I think that very often people think, oh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're living in the Northern Territory because you can't get

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Speaker 1: a job somewhere else. No way, man, We got like

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Speaker 1: the best women here, and they're here because they want

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Speaker 1: to see this place.

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Speaker 2: Throng and in all different fields as well. You know,

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Speaker 2: we are going to hear from women in innovation and

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Speaker 2: resources as well. And there's an entertainment hub, so women

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Speaker 2: in comedy. They're very talented too, so you know everything

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Speaker 2: is going to be there on Saturday. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 1: So Beg. You've done some wonderful things in the community

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Speaker 1: in this space. You know, you do things for men,

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Speaker 1: you've done things for women in previous years as well.

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Speaker 1: What made you decide to have a whole festival and

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Speaker 1: take over the turf cub? Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, I've run there No Woman Left Behind conference for

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Speaker 2: a few years and that's you know, beautiful, but the

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Speaker 2: four walls approach and also the price point you know

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Speaker 2: to run a conference and feed everyone and ven mus etc.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was around two hundred and fifty bucks

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Speaker 2: and is that really no woman left behind? And so

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Speaker 2: it hasn't sat well with me for a while. So

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Speaker 2: this Festival of Women is an evolution of that. And

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Speaker 2: it's you know, it's like twenty bucks, twenty five bucks.

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Speaker 2: You can come all day if you just want to

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Speaker 2: sit with your girlfriends and do trivia and you know

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Speaker 2: gin tasting and listen to live music and you know

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Speaker 2: women's comedy. You can literally sit on your butt in

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Speaker 2: that entertainment hub for the entire day. But if you,

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Speaker 2: you know, want to explore all of that women in Stem,

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Speaker 2: you know, thanks to Jack out of International, we've got

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Speaker 2: one hundred expos stalls there, Katie, So you want to

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Speaker 2: find out info on literally anything, fashion, domestic, violent support,

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Speaker 2: financial literacy. You can do anything.

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Speaker 1: That's so good. I mean, it's a wonderful thing that

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Speaker 1: you organize. Is it family friendly, Like, if you've got

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Speaker 1: the kids, can you take them along time?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do have a kid's corner, and in fact,

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Speaker 2: it's very strategically placed next to the men's hubs. So

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping dads might step up and be like, oh,

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Speaker 2: look after the kids, you go and enjoy yourself, hun

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Speaker 2: and she'll never return ten to six. She ain't coming back. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So of course we've got you know, the bouncy castle,

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Speaker 2: We've got you know, face painting, all the fun and

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Speaker 2: games for.

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Speaker 1: The kids v are as well.

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Speaker 2: They're going to have a great time in the expos

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Speaker 2: stall area, therapy dogs.

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Speaker 1: You know, Oh how cool. Don't be in the kids area,

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Speaker 1: I reckon, They'll be wanting to You're wanting to be there?

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Speaker 1: How many people do you? Reckon? You're going to get?

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Speaker 1: Have you got any idea?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got over nine hundred tickets sold already and

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Speaker 2: you know a lot of that is our fabulous stallholders

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Speaker 2: and supporters. You know, I've got incredible sponsorship through this initiative,

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Speaker 2: which has just been you know, I can't thank the

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Speaker 2: territory community enough.

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Speaker 1: We reckon.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get about twelve hundred women coming in

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Speaker 2: and out throughout the day and terrifying as well. Have

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Speaker 2: you hurt twelve hundred women all talking at one is

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Speaker 2: there's some noise?

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Speaker 1: Oh, it'll be so good, I reckon. It's wonderful to

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Speaker 1: see this celebration of women, and you know, it's really inclusive.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like everybody can go along. As you said,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's affordable for people too. We know it's

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Speaker 1: expensive living at the moment, so it does make it

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Speaker 1: really affordable for people. And I think that that will mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, the more that you've got there, the more

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Speaker 1: the marry oor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, and there's a space for everyone. You will

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Speaker 2: not be disappointed. I do not think anyone could come

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Speaker 2: along and not find something that wowed them and some

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Speaker 2: beautiful connection with another territory. Woman.

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Speaker 1: I know it's really hard. You can't have like a

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Speaker 1: favorite thing that you're hoping to see or like a

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Speaker 1: favorite stall, But is there something that you're really looking

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Speaker 1: forward to?

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Speaker 2: Oh, look, Tony Child's is always pretty amazing. She's going

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Speaker 2: to sing in the opening ceremony. And I love that

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Speaker 2: we've got all different ages and a culture participating in

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Speaker 2: the fashion show. So I think that's really exciting too.

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Speaker 2: You know, to think that there's fourteen year and eighty

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Speaker 2: four year olds that are going to struct their stuff,

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Speaker 2: showcasing our local designers, you know, our local produce. I

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Speaker 2: think that's the really exciting part. Most of the participants,

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Speaker 2: like the expo holders, are business women.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so how great is that? Well in supporting each other, right, Yeah, it's.

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Speaker 2: Going to be truly amazing, you know, the Health and

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Speaker 2: well Being Arena, the women that have come out of that,

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Speaker 2: and the stories that we're going to hear throughout the day.

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Speaker 2: It's going to hit the fields.

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Speaker 1: Katie. Oh, that'll be so good. Bet. Good on you

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Speaker 1: for the work that you do in this space. So

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be really wonderful and a really great

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Speaker 1: opportunity for women to women and men you know, and

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Speaker 1: everybody to get on down there and support each other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, we want everyone to come. It's this Saturday,

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Speaker 2: the first of March at the Darwin Turf Club and

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Speaker 2: you can get tickets at the gate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was going to say so we're otherwise can

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Speaker 1: they jump online if they're keen too.

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Speaker 2: We would love them to. In fact, it's only twenty

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Speaker 2: five bucks if you do it early, or bring a

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Speaker 2: whole group for two twenty five and that's through Humanitics

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Speaker 2: or at the gate's going to be thirty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff, Beck, lovely to talk to you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so mank so much, Katie. It sounds good.

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Speaker 1: Thank you