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Speaker 1: A little earlier this morning, we did let you know

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Speaker 1: that Tenant Creek. Well we know that they've got their

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Speaker 1: wonderful show that brings locals together. It's been happening since

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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties, the Tenant Creek Show organizers, defying the odds,

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Speaker 1: even putting the event on during COVID times. But with

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Speaker 1: the hard working committee pretty exhausted, the show came close

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Speaker 1: to being canceled earlier this week, but has now been

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Speaker 1: thrown a bit of a lifeline from what I understand now.

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Speaker 1: Joining me on the line to explain the situation is

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Speaker 1: the local mayor and his name is Jeffrey McLaughlin.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Jeff.

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Speaker 3: Good morning. How are you up there?

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, we're always good in Darwin. How are you

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Speaker 1: guys in Tenant Creek.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we're just amazing now, like we're getting there, but

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Speaker 3: you know, we've just got a drudge on and keep going,

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Speaker 3: you know. Oh, as we will stop us in Tenant Crew.

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Speaker 2: No, well that is good to hear.

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Speaker 1: Now what's going on with the show, because we had

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Speaker 1: heard that it was it was going to be canceled,

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Speaker 1: but it seems like it's going to go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Just in a bit of a different format. Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So what happened was is just the committity. The

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Speaker 3: committee has just worn out. We've got some members on

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Speaker 3: there for forty years, We've got local people, and they

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Speaker 3: just couldn't do it. And I was I went in

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Speaker 3: there to try and see if we could pull it off,

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Speaker 3: but it was it was just I was whisk them

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Speaker 3: on that. But in the morning I went and saw

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Speaker 3: a good old luckie at Chief Minister and Cabinet and

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Speaker 3: I just said, let's let's just see if we could

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Speaker 3: pull off a bare minimum because I know that Bell's

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Speaker 3: Amusements guys, they're down in the coming through anyway. So

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Speaker 3: my first thought was kids, because the kids in a

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Speaker 3: small town like us look forward to all those you know,

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Speaker 3: the one.

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Speaker 2: I won't go on, the scary ones.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's that's what we've done. So bare minimum.

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Speaker 3: The Chief has said, like, let's let's go, let's see

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Speaker 3: if we can pull the whole show off. So I

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Speaker 3: got it. More meetings. We've got local sparkys grounding together

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Speaker 3: there on site at the moment to see if the

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Speaker 3: showgrounds could be fixed safely, just so that we get

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Speaker 3: the power and if not, we've got three other backup

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Speaker 3: venues ready to go, right, friends in the entertainment industry

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Speaker 3: on call. So we're just going to do it. Ah.

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Speaker 1: So, has it been a situation where it was an

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Speaker 1: infrastructure thing or like what had sort of made you

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Speaker 1: reach the point that it wasn't going to happen earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week.

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Speaker 3: It's just the infrastructure, and a lot with the infrastructure,

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Speaker 3: all of us has got these massive bills all shared.

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Speaker 3: So it's just a lot of things like forty year

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Speaker 3: old infrastructure, leaking pipes and all of that, massive water bills,

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Speaker 3: massive power bills because it's all old. So because it's

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Speaker 3: not only the show that we're going to rescue here,

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Speaker 3: We've got the rodeo coming up. We've got we've had

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Speaker 3: the Tenet races. We have Central Land camp meetings, so

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Speaker 3: a bit of camp that's a right that came through

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Speaker 3: the wrong way. Yeah, So we're just it's the community

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Speaker 3: coming together really and trying to get positive. And all

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Speaker 3: those people who like putting us down, well, this is

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Speaker 3: your time to shine and come and volunteer. Because if

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Speaker 3: you're not going to volunteer, all those people I don't

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Speaker 3: want to see them there.

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Speaker 2: And now tell me.

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Speaker 1: So in terms of you know, like I guess usually

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Speaker 1: at a show you'd have things like you know, out

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Speaker 1: at the Rural Show. They've got the chooks, they've got

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Speaker 1: the you know, all the different animals out there on display.

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Speaker 2: They've got the cake competition, all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Jeff, is that stuff still going to happen or is

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Speaker 1: it more just going to be the rides and the

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Speaker 1: sideshow ali stuff that goes ahead?

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Speaker 3: Well, in the last twenty four hours, we're aiming to

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Speaker 3: open up the pavilion in the c WA Hall. So

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Speaker 3: I've talked to the CWA ladies. They're going to do this,

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Speaker 3: you know, like the famous corn beef sandwiches and the

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Speaker 3: tear in ham soup and the scones and a good

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Speaker 3: old cup of chat with it with all the people.

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Speaker 3: And we're looking at getting the pavilion going. And I

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Speaker 3: believe that the rodeo and some of the cowboys were

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Speaker 3: talking about bringing back cows back again, you know what

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Speaker 3: they're doing with the cows moo moo stuff. And then

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Speaker 3: we've got some people who have already come over and

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Speaker 3: I was working on Mike Wilton, so we're just saying

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Speaker 3: let's do it. So it's putting it back out to

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Speaker 3: the community that we're going to go for all these things.

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Speaker 3: You know, I might try and bring out my secret

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Speaker 3: French teacake recipe.

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Speaker 2: Why not? Why not?

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Speaker 3: Now telling me, Creek.

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Speaker 2: Mate, do it?

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Speaker 1: I just think, you know, it's it's really good to

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Speaker 1: hear that it is still going to be going ahead. Like,

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Speaker 1: how much of a blow would it have been if

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Speaker 1: you did have to entirely cancel the show.

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Speaker 3: I would have had to move to Darwin probably come

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Speaker 3: and be your sound engineer on your radio show. We're

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Speaker 3: notorious to this intant Creek just doing our best with

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Speaker 3: what we've got, and either way, we're going to pull

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Speaker 3: something off. And it's for the kids and the community.

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Speaker 3: We've got something really good to look forward to and celebrate.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I know you get your chance to talk

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Speaker 3: to your favorite politicians as well, whether you're on the

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Speaker 3: left or the right or out there in the universe

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Speaker 3: with the lizard people, I don't mind. But it's not political.

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Speaker 3: It's about community getting together. And I work with my

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Speaker 3: local chief minister and cabinet and I didn't even expect

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Speaker 3: At four thirty the arvo, the chief brings me and

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Speaker 3: I was talking to my wife. Oh sorry, love, I

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Speaker 3: can't talk to you.

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Speaker 1: The chiefs calling, you know, so well, they must have

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Speaker 1: wanted it to continue on, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: So it sounds like it's going to be a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Mate. We'll keep in contact and you know, find out exactly,

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Speaker 1: you know, what's to what capacity and that kind of

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Speaker 1: thing over the coming days. I really appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you for still having a yarm with us,

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Speaker 1: even though you were caught up in the in that

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Speaker 1: meeting a little earlier this morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah all right, thanks thanks for that, and thanks for

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Speaker 3: bringing the Bear Maligne to Tenor Creek today from Darlin.

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Speaker 1: Well, we might have to catch up a little bit

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Speaker 1: more often to find out what's going on in Tennant

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Speaker 1: Creek more often.

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 3: I think that's that's the best idea ever I've heard

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Speaker 3: since slice Bread maybe. Anyway, good check.

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Speaker 2: Thanks mine, appreciate your time