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Speaker 1: We do know that the popular tourist spot, the Window

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Speaker 1: on the Wetlands, located on the top of the highest

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Speaker 1: point of the Adelaide River flood Plain. Well, it gives

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Speaker 1: onlookers a two seventy degree view of the Kakadoo Wetland areas.

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Speaker 1: It's reopened to the public with a new name after

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Speaker 1: being brought under new management, which is a one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent Aboriginal owned and operated business. Now Here to tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more about the Wetland view top

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Speaker 1: is the Proutical Aboriginal Cultural Tours owner Lynnette Canyon. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, Lynette.

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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, lovely to have.

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Speaker 1: You on the show. Lynette. How long ago did you

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Speaker 1: take over the management of the site and how did

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Speaker 1: it all come about?

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Speaker 2: Okay, cool, excellent, not too long ago. We basically, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was announced last October and this year we had

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to get in and renovate and tidy up

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Speaker 2: and yeah, and we've done all of that and yesterday

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Speaker 2: opened our doors for the very first time after it

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Speaker 2: being closed for over a year.

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Speaker 1: Oh, how wonderful. What was the reaction to it opening yesterday?

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Speaker 2: It was beautiful, It was magnificent. It was just one

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Speaker 2: of those moments, you know, when something means so much

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Speaker 2: to you and something is so special and you have

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Speaker 2: that opportunity to you know, to basically bring it back

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Speaker 2: to life. Is Yeah, it was just one of those

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Speaker 2: moments where everything just felt so special.

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Speaker 1: Because Lonnette, it's one of those locations that people were

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Speaker 1: so upset when it closed and they wondered what the

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Speaker 1: future would mean for that spot. Is it a place

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Speaker 1: that you hold, you know, in sort of in your heart.

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Speaker 1: Is it an area that that you've looked at in

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Speaker 1: the past and thought, oh, I'd love to be able

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Speaker 1: to manage that place.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, my myself a husband when we when we

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Speaker 3: were teenage, we were young, and one.

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Speaker 2: Day we said, one day we would love to manage

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Speaker 2: that place. And yeah, and hence the reason why over

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Speaker 2: a decade ago we started our own business, and that

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Speaker 2: was so that we could learn business and learn about

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Speaker 2: tourism and the industry. And so over two decades now

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Speaker 2: to be in a position where last year when the

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Speaker 2: center became available, we were ready.

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Speaker 3: So we were ready for it.

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Speaker 2: So for us, it's been a journey. Yeah, and yesterday

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Speaker 2: we kicked that goal. Yeah, for our family and for

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Speaker 2: the future of the center.

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Speaker 1: How awesome. We know that, like I mentioned, we know

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Speaker 1: that it did obviously close back in twenty twenty due

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Speaker 1: to declining visitor numbers. Was that a concern to you

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Speaker 1: or do you feel as though you'll be able to

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Speaker 1: get those visitor numbers back up to the standard that

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Speaker 1: they need to be.

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Speaker 2: Look, I think with COVID it was a concern for everyone,

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Speaker 2: you know, and as much as it was a concern

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Speaker 2: for us, it wasn't just us. It was the whole

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Speaker 2: tear Tree, you know, it was the whole of Australia.

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Speaker 2: So so we had great confidence that you know, it's

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Speaker 2: not like we had to bring the industry back ourselves.

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Speaker 2: The you know, the the Australian government, like it was

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Speaker 2: their job, and then like it is the Northern Terar

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Speaker 2: Tree Tourism's job, you know, like it is our job.

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Speaker 2: You know, like everyone plays a role in you know,

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Speaker 2: in in in the economy, and and we all thrive,

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Speaker 2: you know, to to want to do good business. But

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Speaker 2: to bring those numbers back, you know, it's up to

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Speaker 2: all of us as businesses and as individuals and you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess providing a bit of a different

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Speaker 1: experience as well. Is it quite different to what it's

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Speaker 1: been in the past. Is there some some you know,

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Speaker 1: some different things or your own flair that you've added

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, most definitely. I mean, you know, like we

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Speaker 2: stand by why it was initially created and built in

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Speaker 2: the first place. So it's about the wetlands, you know,

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Speaker 2: always has been and it always will be for us.

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Speaker 2: We live here like you know, this is this is

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Speaker 2: never going to change the you know, the purpose of

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Speaker 2: the history, you know, the heritage, the culture, you know,

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Speaker 2: all of that's important. And I think that's what everyone

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Speaker 2: They don't want to just know about, you know, the

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Speaker 2: of people live in the wetlands, you know, all of that.

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Speaker 2: It's all part of it. And I think for our business,

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Speaker 2: I think we actually draw on that, so we're able

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Speaker 1: I reckon it sounds wonderful. I know there will be

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Speaker 1: so many of our listeners who are so glad to

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Speaker 1: hear that it has reopened. It's obviously a new name,

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Speaker 1: new management, and I reckon it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: cracking spot as it always has been, but with with

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Speaker 1: so excited, Lennette. You must, you know, be so glad

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Speaker 1: that it's that it is up and running and and

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Speaker 1: really better than ever before.

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Speaker 2: Ah. Yeah, And that's you know, like I always say,

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Speaker 2: this senter and like me, when me and my husband

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Speaker 2: looked at it many many years ago, we always said,

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Speaker 2: it's a duel for the chair Tree, and and so

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Speaker 2: you know, so and knowing that and knowing that's how

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Speaker 2: means that we're going to give it everything we have,

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Speaker 2: like you know, all the love it needs. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be here and and you know, and anything that

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Speaker 2: it and we're going to fix it. So this center

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Speaker 2: is never going to be unloved ever again.

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Speaker 1: Before I let you go, Leanne, I know that staff

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Speaker 1: shortages right around the nation, in fact, just about everywhere

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Speaker 1: to find staff in various different industries. How's it been

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Speaker 2: Listen, you know, like our business has expanded now obviously, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but look we're coping, like we have stuff. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's a family business, so you know, so we're a

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Speaker 2: family and and you know, and we were and I

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Speaker 2: like if you you know, if your family six.

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Speaker 3: Together, then you know you can do it.

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Speaker 2: And we did that, like when we started our own.

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Speaker 2: We did that. And now to take on this because

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Speaker 2: it's been the working progress journey to get here, means

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Speaker 2: we know how to do it. So starting ways, we've

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Speaker 2: got it.

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Speaker 1: Covin, Well, wonderful stuff. Lynette Cannon from the Wetland View Top.

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Speaker 1: We absolutely are so pleased to hear that it's really

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Speaker 1: opened and really pleased to have a chat with you

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nice Katy, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, worries it all. Like I say, I think

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Speaker 1: it's fabulous that it has reopened and with your flair,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be amazing. So I appreciate your time today.

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Speaker 2: With our flat. It's going to shine awesome.

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Speaker 1: Love it, love it, Lynette, good on you. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much.

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Speaker 2: Katie, thanks very much your time. You two