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Speaker 1: Now we are just a couple of weeks away from

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Speaker 1: Christmas and a lot of us are going to be

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Speaker 1: making the final dash to get presents organized on top

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Speaker 1: of all the other things needed for the festivities. But well,

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Speaker 1: one Territorian has the massive task sixteen hundred gifts to

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Speaker 1: ensure that seniors right across the Northern Territory have got

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Speaker 1: a present to open on Christmas Day. It is all

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Speaker 1: part of Operation Secret Center for the Aged, and organizer

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Speaker 1: Tory Star joins me on the line. Good morning Tory,

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Speaker 1: Good morning Katie Tory. How is it all coming along?

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Speaker 2: It's coming along smashingly well, but Christmas is closing in

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Speaker 2: really fast.

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Speaker 1: Very so it's a busy time for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: We're just organizing our families. You're organizing presents for sixteen

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Speaker 1: hundred seniors.

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Speaker 2: We are, we are. We've done all of Central Australia now,

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Speaker 2: so they are all bags boxed and ready to start

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Speaker 2: their journey this week down to Alice Springs in the

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Speaker 2: Berkley region. But we've still got the rest of the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory to go.

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Speaker 1: So talk us through. Is it still sixteen hundred gifts

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Speaker 1: that you need all up? And have you got them

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Speaker 1: all at this point or where are things.

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Speaker 2: At No, So at the moment, we've pretty much exhausted

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Speaker 2: our allocation of donations at the six hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: four presents we've already done for Central Australia, and we're

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Speaker 2: looking at hoping to get another eight hundred that will

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Speaker 2: do all of the residential facilities and all of the

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Speaker 2: remote and regional in home age care recipients. And then

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Speaker 2: our stretch goal beyond that would be to hopefully do

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Speaker 2: the in home age care recipients in the urban areas

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Speaker 2: as well, but that would be another eight hundred presents

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Speaker 2: on top of the extra eight hundred we already need. Well,

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Speaker 2: it's a lot.

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Speaker 1: So it's by the sounds of it, you are actually

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Speaker 1: really needing people to dig downe at this point in

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Speaker 1: time to make sure that those you know, that those

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Speaker 1: sceners do actually receive a gift.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're really hoping Territorians can help us out to

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Speaker 2: get this across the line, or even some local businesses

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Speaker 2: that might want to jump on board and help us out.

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Speaker 2: After I was on last time, and obviously I went

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Speaker 2: away for a couple of weeks. When I came back,

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Speaker 2: I actually had a bus full of donations. When I

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Speaker 2: drove around to all those pick up points, we laid

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Speaker 2: them out of the tables at c WA and we

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Speaker 2: took up all the tables. So Territorians really responded last

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Speaker 2: time I put the call out for help and not

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Speaker 2: only you know, donated through the GoFundMe, but also actually

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Speaker 2: went out and took the time to purchase a few

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Speaker 2: things or a bag of stuff and drop it off

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Speaker 2: to one of our drop off points. So I'm really

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Speaker 2: hoping that people will will help us again. And then

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Speaker 2: obviously all the amazing people that sit down and actually

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Speaker 2: craft and make us beautiful knitted blankets and beanies and

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Speaker 2: crocheted things and just amazing, amazing people that put a

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Speaker 1: Oh that is so lovely that people would actually hand

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Speaker 1: make a gift to give to our beautiful senior Territorians.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're absolutely gorgeous. Some of the wonderful things that

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Speaker 2: I picked up from a donation point so were really beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Tory, remind everybody what kind of gifts your either

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Speaker 1: after if they do want to go out and buy

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Speaker 1: a couple of things for seniors, or if they want

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Speaker 1: to make a donation. Just talk us through you know

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Speaker 1: what some of those gifts might be, I guess in

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Speaker 2: Sure, so we would take things that your grandparents would

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Speaker 2: essentially like for Christmas though, things like packs of hand

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Speaker 2: creams or toilet trees, flannels, hanky socks, knee rugs. We

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Speaker 2: can take notebooks, diaries, calendars with nice pictures in them

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Speaker 2: are always great, that they can hang on the wall

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Speaker 2: throughout the year, little decorative knickknacks that they might be

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Speaker 2: you know, lipsticks, all that type of stuff. For the

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Speaker 2: men in particular, often we struggle for men's gifts. Ladies

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Speaker 2: much harder, but they really appreciate things like, you know,

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Speaker 2: shaving kits or packs socks, your hankies, even books if

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Speaker 2: you've eaten some sort of large print books would be great.

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Speaker 2: Coloring pencils and coloring books are always really well received

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Speaker 1: And then so they can drop them off at the

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Speaker 1: at the actual drop off points. Just remind our listeners

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Speaker 1: again where they can drop those gifts off if they

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Speaker 2: So we've got a long list, A full list is

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Speaker 2: on our Facebook page because we've actually got seventeen locations

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Speaker 2: across the entire top end this year. But your main

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Speaker 2: ones really are Ken mart Terry White, Chemmis and then

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Speaker 2: we also have the MLA officers, so all of the

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Speaker 2: colp MLA's in Darwin and Joe Hersey's office in Catherine

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Speaker 2: as well that you can drop off to. And if

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Speaker 2: you can't get to one of those points for some reason,

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Speaker 2: please reach out through the Facebook page and we can

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Speaker 1: Otherwise, they can always jump online as well and make

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Speaker 1: a donation, can't they In terms of in terms of

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Speaker 1: going on the go fund Me page.

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Speaker 2: Yep, they can do so if they search for either

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Speaker 2: Aged care NT and they will find a link on

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Speaker 2: the Facebook or directly through the go Fundme to be

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Speaker 2: able to donate funds now and they can do so

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Speaker 2: anonymously if they wish.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you've I mean, you've already said obviously

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Speaker 1: you've been able to you know, to get those gifts

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Speaker 1: to Central Australia, but you're really like you really actually

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Speaker 1: do need more at this point, don't you touring?

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Speaker 2: We really, we really do. If we're going to complete

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Speaker 2: need at least another eight hundred present so it's a

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Speaker 2: lot marks. But if we can, even if no donation

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Speaker 2: is too small. Yeah, so please don't think that, oh

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Speaker 2: I can only afford something small. That's fantastic, and we

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Speaker 2: graciously accept all donations regardless of what a person can donate.

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Speaker 2: We really do appreciate.

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Speaker 1: It, oh for sure. And you know, nobody wants to

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Speaker 1: see anybody in age care, you know, sort of lead

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Speaker 1: into Christmas without a gift or without someone thinking of them.

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Speaker 1: And even if they do have family going to visit

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Speaker 1: them and are fortunate enough to have their family nearby,

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Speaker 1: it's still a beautiful thing to know that other Territorians

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Speaker 1: are thinking of them as you lead into Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, the demographic is so grateful for everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh Tory, it's a beautiful thing that you do,

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Speaker 1: you and a group of volunteers. And again I will

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Speaker 1: point out that you guys are literally doing this out

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Speaker 1: of the goodness of your hearts. There is no gain

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Speaker 1: to you or to anybody else. That's embarking on this journey.

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Speaker 1: Aside from seeing the smiles on those seniors' faces when

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Speaker 1: they do receive a gift.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And it's so worth all of the late

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Speaker 2: is this worthwhile, Tori.

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Speaker 1: If there's anybody listening this morning, who's thinking, do you

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Speaker 1: know what I can help you in some way in

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Speaker 1: terms of transporting the gifts or in it in other ways?

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Speaker 1: Is the best way to get in contact? Just on

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Speaker 1: that Facebook page?

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Speaker 2: Yep, yeap, Just through that Facebook page. I do have

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Speaker 2: contact details on that Facebook page, so that's my one

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Speaker 2: sourcely through Facebook or through the contact details that are

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Speaker 2: provided on that page.

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Speaker 1: And just search Operations Secret Center for the.

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Speaker 2: Aged Aged Care Anti Age Operation Aged Care ANTI.

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Speaker 1: Good on your Tory. Thank you so very much for

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Speaker 1: having a chat with us. And it's certainly been a

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Speaker 1: busy time for you've also in the you know, throughout

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Speaker 1: all of this organization, you also went and got married,

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Speaker 1: so big congratulations.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thank you. It all seems like

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Speaker 2: a distant memory now we're back in the trenches of

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Speaker 2: secret Bear.

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Speaker 1: Oh lovely to speak to you this morning. Let us

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Speaker 1: know how it's all tracking along. We're happy to have

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Speaker 1: a catch up with you again next week as well

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Speaker 1: to find out how things are going good on your touring.

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Speaker 2: Thank you

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