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Speaker 1: The Remembering Cyclone Tracy Committee have announced the launch of

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Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary Commemoration Campaign. It's a series of events

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Speaker 1: to honor the resilience and the achievements of Darwin's community

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Speaker 1: in the wake of Cyclone Tracy. Now the commemorative activities

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Speaker 1: are going to bring together survivors, their families and the

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Speaker 1: wider community to reflect on the events of nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: four and to celebrate the spirit that helped to rebuild

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Speaker 1: Darwin into the vibrant city that it is today. And

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Speaker 1: joining me in the studio is Richard Creswick, the chair

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Speaker 1: of Remembering Cyclone Tracy Incorporated the committee. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Morning again, Katie, lovely to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good to have you on the show. And look,

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Speaker 1: I think it's really important that everybody knows all of

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Speaker 1: the wonderful events that are going to be happening, all

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Speaker 1: the really important events that are going to be happening.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me which of There is quite a number

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Speaker 1: of events to take place, but can you talk me

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Speaker 1: through some of them?

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Speaker 2: There's the well last Saturday in the NT News there

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Speaker 2: was a full page placed by the Council at listing

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Speaker 2: all of the events we have the last three slash

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Speaker 2: four events in that campaign really, so we remembering cyclone,

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Speaker 2: Tracy is restricting its activities to the week around Christmas.

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Speaker 2: So Monday the twenty third, we will have a welcome

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Speaker 2: function at Fosky Pavilion and where we've just opened a

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Speaker 2: landing page that's what the technical term is, I believe,

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Speaker 2: where people can register for that. Now that's a charged

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Speaker 2: event because we really need to know about numbers who

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Speaker 2: are going to be there. So that's five o'clock on

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Speaker 2: the Monday the twenty third. Then Christmas Eve five o'clock,

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Speaker 2: we have a storytelling event at the Railway Club that

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Speaker 2: is also a ticketed event, but very limited numbers. That

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Speaker 2: will be repeated on the twenty ninth of December, also

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Speaker 2: at the Railway Club. And then the big one is

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Speaker 2: the unveiling of the memorial at East Point at sunrise

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Speaker 2: on Christmas morning, and that is of course targeted at

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Speaker 2: survivors principally, but open to anybody who would like to

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Speaker 2: come along. We're asking people to register for that because

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Speaker 2: it will be good to know numbers. We've got traffic

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Speaker 2: management issues and parking issues and things like that that

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Speaker 2: we need to sort out, so we need an indication

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Speaker 2: of how many people are.

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Speaker 1: Turning up and so talk us through that event and

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Speaker 1: how that's how you plan for that to kind of

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Speaker 1: roll out and where it's all at you know that memorial.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, at this very moment, we're going through the

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Speaker 2: process of getting a works permit from the City Council

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Speaker 2: and we've had to jump through a few hoops get approvals,

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Speaker 2: Indigenous approvals, building permit approvals, the heritage issues and all

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Speaker 2: of that, but that's progressing well. We had an on

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Speaker 2: site inspection yesterday which was very, very successful. We've the

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Speaker 2: council people know the arborist mill knows where our frangipanny

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Speaker 2: sculptures are going to be, where the shelter is going

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Speaker 2: to be, and they're happy that we're not interfering with

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Speaker 2: any of the vegetates the trees down there. So Tetchi Masero,

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Speaker 2: the artist who is actually making the frangipannies, is well underway.

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Speaker 2: She's going for it like a trojan. We have engaged

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Speaker 2: McMahon Services as overall project managers just to oversight the

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Speaker 2: whole project for us, and they are proceeding apace with

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Speaker 2: things like traffic management, plans risk management, and they are

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Speaker 2: going to be digging the foundations for the shelter that

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Speaker 2: we'll go in.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of work really for that to happen.

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Speaker 1: I know that at different times you and I have

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Speaker 1: spoken as well about the cost of that. Did you

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Speaker 1: end up really with the amount of funding or money

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Speaker 1: that you had hoped?

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Speaker 2: We've for quite a while now, we've had the money

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Speaker 2: for the memorial itself courtesy of the Commonwealth governments three

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars and the previous NT governments one hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. And I'm in negotiations with the current anti

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Speaker 2: government about some funding for the events that we want

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Speaker 2: to hold, so the memorials covered and well we hope

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Speaker 2: barring rise and fall and that sort of thing, and

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Speaker 2: we're reasonably confident of funding for the events. And we

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Speaker 2: we're flying by the seat of our pants in a

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Speaker 2: lot of ways because.

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Speaker 1: Well, you had hoped, I guess as well, to get

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Speaker 1: some donations, maybe some corporate sponsors, maybe some people on

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Speaker 1: board to make a few donations just to sort of help.

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Speaker 2: Right. Yes, it's been a bit surprising that we haven't

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Speaker 2: had support from businesses, which actually dated from pre cyclone

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Speaker 2: chasing and still exist today in Darwin. We've had a

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Speaker 2: couple of decent donations, but not the extent that I'd

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Speaker 2: really expected or hoped for.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: People tell me that things are tough and that people

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Speaker 2: don't have the money, But we're getting lots of little

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Speaker 2: donation right.

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Speaker 1: And I've got in front of me as well, just

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Speaker 1: a little card that you guys have made which does

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Speaker 1: give people the details obviously if they want to make

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Speaker 1: a donation. We'll keep some of those here at reception

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Speaker 1: as well, so if anybody wants to pop in and

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Speaker 1: grab one of those, they'll be able to. And I

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Speaker 1: can see you have got some great sponsors there. You've

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Speaker 1: got zip Print Mark he's a legend. He does some

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Speaker 1: great stuff there at Zipprint, and good on him. He's

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Speaker 1: always so good at supporting local businesses, I mean local

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Speaker 1: charities and events. You've got Kota the counsel of the aging.

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Speaker 1: You've got dco H. You've also got Nick pass Paley

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Speaker 1: to see that there's a few great territory businesses and

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Speaker 1: people prepared to help. Bart could do with some more, right.

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Speaker 2: Well, the other project that we had as part of

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Speaker 2: our memorabilia pack. We've sent out a lanyard and an

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Speaker 2: identification card, which is for the two thousand and three

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Speaker 2: hundred people who registered, we've mailed them out. We were

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Speaker 2: hoping that the card would be used as a discount

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Speaker 2: card for people, similar to the Senior's card, where people

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Speaker 2: could go to businesses in Darwin, cafes, restaurants, souvenir shops,

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Speaker 2: clothing shops, anything that retails really and so we're still

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Speaker 2: looking for people who are prepared to offer a discount

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Speaker 2: to those who are carrying this card. And we have

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Speaker 2: an email address, can I give you that?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: It's rct Romeo, Charlie Tango seventy four, Darwin. All of

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Speaker 2: that is lowercase at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: Now that is easy to rema, but because it's obviously

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Speaker 1: remembering cyclone Tracy seventy four Darwin at gmail.

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Speaker 2: It's easy.

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Speaker 1: It is, It is easy. Well, look, we are going

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Speaker 1: to need to get you in prior well closer to

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Speaker 1: the actual events as well. But Richard, it sounds as

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Speaker 1: so the committee has done what they can to make

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Speaker 1: sure that everybody that's coming to Darwin as well from

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Speaker 1: other locations has got a few different events that they're

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Speaker 1: able to attend as part of remembering Cyclone Tracy.

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Speaker 2: That week, we've got nearly thirty from overseas and well

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Speaker 2: an indeterminate number but possibly hundreds from interstate. Yeah, but

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Speaker 2: it's just this is the big unknown. How many are

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Speaker 2: there going to be in the end.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you do need to have a bit of

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Speaker 1: an idea, don't you. Particularly, you know, on that Christmas morning,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine everybody's sort of converging there on East Point.

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Speaker 1: And I tell you what, if I know anything about Darwin,

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Speaker 1: it said, people give you a very late notice if

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Speaker 1: they're going to be attending.

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Speaker 2: You're not wrong. It's a tradition in Darwin. Yea, believe

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Speaker 2: it as late as possible and come late.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Then they'll all rock up on Christmas

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Speaker 1: morning and it'll be I feel like it will be

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Speaker 1: such a moving events.

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Speaker 2: Well, I should tell you that the Administrator has accepted

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Speaker 2: our invitation to unveil, but it won't be the Administrator himself.

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Speaker 2: It will be the acting Administrator, who is the Chief

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Speaker 2: Justice of the Northern Territory, Justice Elizabeth Morris.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful and any idea like, do you know if you're

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Speaker 1: going to have the Prime Minister or any of anyone

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Speaker 1: like that on Christmas Day? Don't know.

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Speaker 2: We have invited the Prime Minister. The timing is not

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Speaker 2: very not very friendly and certainly for people with families,

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Speaker 2: young children, that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so it can make it a bit more difficult, Yes,

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Speaker 1: spot on, Richard Creswick. It is always one affod to

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Speaker 1: catch up with you. The Chair of Remembering Cyclone Tracy

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Speaker 1: the Committee. We will catch up with you again very soon.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,