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Speaker 1: We're coming to your live this morning from the Darwin

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Speaker 1: Triple Crown Supercars.

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Speaker 2: It is the Indigenous Round.

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Speaker 1: It is absolutely comming out here already and joining me

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Speaker 1: right on site. It is an Aorthern Territory Major Events

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Speaker 1: Company CEO Susannah Bishop, Good morning, Susanna.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: It is so wonderful to be out here. Really, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what an office we've got today.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's a thrill, it really is.

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Speaker 3: I wish I had this office three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: five days ely, And we're.

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Speaker 1: A little bit smoiled because we're sitting over the pits

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Speaker 1: right now where you can literally see the cars, you know,

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Speaker 1: racing past. We're watching the bikes a little bit earlier.

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Speaker 1: It's all happening.

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Speaker 3: It is all happening. The energy is fantastic, The sun

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Speaker 3: is out with just flashes of collar getting through our eyes.

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Speaker 3: Is absolutely the place to be, it really.

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Speaker 1: Is, Susanna. What's it like for you and your crew

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Speaker 1: on a daylight today? So much work goes into organizing

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Speaker 1: an event like this because and when it finally arrives

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Speaker 1: it must almost be a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit of a relief.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I think once you put all the preparation

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Speaker 3: and you do things as early enough, you then have

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Speaker 3: the hadspace to just deal with any things that may

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Speaker 3: come that we were expecting, which is the nature of

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Speaker 3: major events.

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Speaker 2: But the team is really pumped.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, there's a lot of passion for

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Speaker 3: everyone that works in major events and seeing how well

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Speaker 3: things have come together, it's a real excitement.

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Speaker 2: For us and Susanna. It's an opportunity for us as well.

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Speaker 2: It is the Indigenous Round, so we've got a.

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Speaker 1: Really spectacular display. I think of everything that's wonderful about

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territories, Indigenous.

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Speaker 2: Culture, what exactly is lined up?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's such an absolute pleasure for me to have

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Speaker 3: been involved in some of what it's rolling out. I

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Speaker 3: think the art is the art, the storytelling through the liveries.

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Speaker 3: Will have a gallery that will share a little bit

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Speaker 3: of the inspiration from the artists for the liver is.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've had a lot of support. We have

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Speaker 3: a lot of activities that I think will really demonstrate

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Speaker 3: the Northern Territory love for culture, love for country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it is incredible and I think it sort

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Speaker 1: of sets us apart from the.

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Speaker 3: Rest of the nation, doesn't Ash I really I think

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Speaker 3: it really does, and I think it demonstrates a little

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Speaker 3: bit of our destination, our lifestyle, what's important to us.

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Speaker 3: And that's what makes this event so unique.

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Speaker 2: It truly is a unique event.

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Speaker 1: I mean honestly, sitting here having a coffee watching.

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Speaker 2: The cars race by. Now, today's the it's it's like

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Speaker 2: a practice around today, isn't it correct?

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Speaker 3: Yes, And it's also students on track. So it's been

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Speaker 3: a pleasure walking around groups of students checking cars, checking

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Speaker 3: mechanics and looking how things are done from behind the

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Speaker 3: scenes and you know, inspiring the next generation of you know, mechanics.

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Speaker 2: Maybe race drivers. So it's been it's been a thrill.

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Speaker 1: Now it's a great family event too, So it's not

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Speaker 1: just a situation in a lot and a lot of

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Speaker 1: instances where you might come out on your own, you

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Speaker 1: might bring your whole family out and there is truly

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Speaker 1: something for everybody.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's how we plan for the event. So whether

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Speaker 3: you're teen an you want to do laser tag, you know,

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Speaker 3: whether you want to have something great to eat and

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Speaker 3: enjoy and relax on the grass, there's a lot of activities,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of casts to see, there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of displace to see, lots of different motorsport categories, so

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Speaker 3: there's something for everyone there.

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Speaker 1: Really, it's honestly, it's such a great event.

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Speaker 2: There is so much happening out here.

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Speaker 1: How many people do you reckon we're going to get

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Speaker 1: out here over the three days.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we're really.

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Speaker 3: Excited by the numbers we've seen, and we're quite on

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Speaker 3: track with last year, which it was a really big ear.

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Speaker 3: We're still expecting the same, but we also really pleased

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Speaker 3: to see really strong interstate visitation or even a little

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Speaker 3: bit ahead of where we were last year, so again

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Speaker 3: putting us back on the map, having people. I was

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Speaker 3: on the air Paul just a couple of days ago

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Speaker 3: and I could feel the excitement for supercars, so I

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Speaker 3: think it's been shared by everyone around.

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Speaker 2: It's such a great time to be in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: And the weather has turned it on for us as

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Speaker 1: hasn't anted and is the one thing we can rely

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Speaker 1: on is the beautiful anti weather, the.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful dry season.

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Speaker 1: They're lucky, just a couple of degrees or a little

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Speaker 1: the humidities just a little bit low.

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Speaker 2: It's so nice.

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Speaker 1: Well, it is no doubt going to be an absolutely

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Speaker 1: massive weekend. I know it's a huge weekend for you

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Speaker 1: and for all of the major of its stuff, So

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Speaker 1: thank you very much for having a chat with us

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Speaker 1: this morning at all the best.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me oh mess