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Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio right now is Anty Legacy

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Speaker 1: project manager Susie Spending. Good morning to you, Susie.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie. How you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm good, just trying to get that microphone under control.

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Speaker 1: It's not quite sitting where it's supposed to be.

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Speaker 2: It's okay, we'll work around that.

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Speaker 1: Now, Susie. I know that a brand new Legacy house

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Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory. It's going to be officially opening

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Speaker 1: for National Legacy Week, which runs from the second to

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Speaker 1: the eighth of September. There's a number of events planned.

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Speaker 1: There's so much really going on around this. But I guess,

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Speaker 1: first off, for those that don't know a huge amount

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Speaker 1: of legacy, what about legacy? What does legacy do here

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Speaker 1: in the Northern.

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Speaker 2: Territory, Thanks Katie. Legacy in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 3: We celebrated our fiftieth anniversary last year and legacy was

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Speaker 3: built on a promise in the battlefields back in nineteen

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Speaker 3: twenty three. Nationally, the promise was made to look after

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Speaker 3: the missus and the kids. Basically so for for those

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Speaker 3: fighting offshore. If they weren't to return, then the promise

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Speaker 3: was made, please mate, look after the missus and the

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Speaker 3: kids financially, emotionally, socially, all of those sorts of things,

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Speaker 3: and we've continued that promise on today we have what

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Speaker 3: we call beneficiaries. So traditionally, obviously yes, we looked after

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Speaker 3: the widows and the children of those families, but as

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Speaker 3: we know, contemporary veterans are very very different. So we

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Speaker 3: do have females serving who might leave behind a male partner,

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Speaker 3: they might leave behind children, they might be young veterans

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Speaker 3: who are leaving behind parents. So all of those beneficiaries

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Speaker 3: now fall under the banner of legacy, and they might

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Speaker 3: need support and services around helping through their bereavement, helping

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Speaker 3: through organizing and planning a funeral for example, which is

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Speaker 3: stressful enough as it is, and then adding on that

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Speaker 3: layer of the red tape, the defense just dealing with

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Speaker 3: the whole processes of how do I go about the

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Speaker 3: pension process, the debacing processes and all of that, and

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Speaker 3: for civilians it's a really tough it's really tough to

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Speaker 3: get their heads around. So we step in and we

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Speaker 3: work with other organizations, other ex service organizations to help

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Speaker 3: them through that process. And then moving on longer term,

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Speaker 3: we do help if there are young children who might

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Speaker 3: need help with schooling fees, who might need additional support

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Speaker 3: with extracurricular activities, sporting camps and all of that kind

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Speaker 3: of stuff. And then with some of our families if

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Speaker 3: there are financial constraints in regards to just looking after

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Speaker 3: general maintenance of the home. We've got some lovely ladies

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Speaker 3: who are incapacitated, who are immobile, so we like to

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Speaker 3: have social inclusion activities for them to get them out

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Speaker 3: and about.

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Speaker 2: It's a great thing to do.

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Speaker 3: It is a great thing to do, and we do

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Speaker 3: have monthly lunches and the ladies get together. I say

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Speaker 3: ladies because it is the general The group that do

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Speaker 3: get together are our widows and it is a wonderful

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Speaker 3: social inclusion event for them. They get together and have

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Speaker 3: a chat, and it also gives our volunteers an opportunity

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Speaker 3: to talk with those ladies about what their needs might

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Speaker 3: be and if there's anything that we can step in

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Speaker 3: and help with.

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Speaker 1: It's so very important, such important work that Legacy does.

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Speaker 1: And now I understand that you've got well this new

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Speaker 1: location opening, tell us a little bit.

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Speaker 3: More about this so exciting and it has been a

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Speaker 3: couple of years in the making, so we were very,

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Speaker 3: very fortunate to receive a couple of bequests from our

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Speaker 3: families who had a long term relationship with Legacy in

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Speaker 3: the past, and they had left some money for Legacy

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Speaker 3: for this purpose. So Legacy House was in need of

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Speaker 3: a major facelift thrice. So rather than having a facelift,

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Speaker 3: we've actually deminished the building. That the building has been

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Speaker 3: removed or I should say demolished but removed and there's

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Speaker 3: a new building in its place, also super exciting. So

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Speaker 3: it has an office space plus a space for our

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Speaker 3: beneficiaries and volunteers for those social inclusion activities for community engagement,

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Speaker 3: which is super exciting.

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Speaker 2: And we've got our grand opening on the twenty seventh, wonderful.

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Speaker 1: So what does it look like and what will sort

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Speaker 1: of you know, what are you expecting it to be

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Speaker 1: utilized for aside from what you've just seen.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're hoping that it will be a space for

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Speaker 3: our beneficiaries to be able to come and have their coffees,

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Speaker 3: come and have their morning teas.

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Speaker 2: We've got a garden.

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Speaker 3: We've got a beautiful garden area. So if we've got

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Speaker 3: some gardeners who might like to come and potter around

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Speaker 3: they can come and go have crafting mornings. I'm working

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Speaker 3: on a relationship with loved Miller School down the road,

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Speaker 3: so we're hoping that the school children might like to

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Speaker 3: come and engage in those activities with the next generation. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: because some of our older families, they they have their

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Speaker 3: families down south, so to engage with that younger generation,

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Speaker 3: and we've got those defense families at loud Miller School

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Speaker 3: to have that lovely connection with.

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Speaker 1: That's a great thing to do and I think it

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Speaker 1: will be so hugely beneficial to the community in so

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Speaker 1: many ways. Susie. I know that you guys do so

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Speaker 1: much fundraising as well, don't you.

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Speaker 3: We do. We are a not for profit, we are

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Speaker 3: a charity, so we do rely on the generosity of

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Speaker 3: Territorians every Remembrance Day, every Anzac Day for our major fundraisers.

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Speaker 3: But we've got a couple of golf days coming up also,

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Speaker 3: one in Catherine on the twenty fourth. Pardon me, I

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Speaker 3: heard you talking about election Day, So we're advising people

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Speaker 3: in Catawan to pop in and get their votes done.

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Speaker 2: And come and see us at Katherine Golf Club on

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Speaker 2: the twenty.

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Speaker 3: Fourth and have a great day out and we've also

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Speaker 3: got what it helped to do on the thirty first,

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Speaker 3: so we've got amazing prizes donated. Our major sponsor, Murray Oakley,

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Speaker 3: has been very very generous, and we've also just been

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Speaker 3: nominated or just been announced as the beneficiary of the.

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Speaker 2: Beer Came Regatta. Awesome. So we're seeking volunteers.

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Speaker 3: If anyone's looking for something to do on Sunday, yeah,

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Speaker 3: come and make contact with myself or the Lions Club,

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Speaker 3: the Darwin Lions Club that is. And yeah, we're seeking

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Speaker 3: volunteers to help raise funds for our beautiful families.

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Speaker 1: How wonderful, well, Susie. If anybody's listening this morning and

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Speaker 1: they're thinking, you know, I want to get involved, I

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Speaker 1: want to help volunteer, or maybe they want to find

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Speaker 1: out more about legacy, where can they go to look?

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Speaker 3: Jump on our socials, our contact details around our Facebook page,

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Speaker 3: our phone number, our email addresses on there, So please

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Speaker 3: reach out. The beautiful Monique is sitting by at our office.

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Speaker 3: She can take any inquiries and forward them onto myself

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Speaker 3: and our board members are always happy to take on

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Speaker 3: new volunteers and we're always seeking ex defense Families personnel

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Speaker 3: or just interested community members who've got some time on

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Speaker 2: Where are very welcoming to anybody.

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Speaker 1: DAF good stuff well, Susie Spending. It is always lovely

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Speaker 1: to speak to Anty Legacy project manager. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie really appreciate it anytime.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,