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Speaker 1: Many of you will be familiar with Camp Quality, as

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Speaker 1: our station does indeed host an auction each year to

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Speaker 1: raise funds for kids with cancer. Well, the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: Government House they've hosted a kid's Camp Quality twenty five

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Speaker 1: years ago. So they hosted these twenty five years ago,

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Speaker 1: during which the children buried a time capsule filled with

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Speaker 1: memories and treasures, and this evening it's going to be retrieved.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line to tell us more

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Speaker 1: is Camp Quality's chief commercial officer, Sandy Hall.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Sandy, good morning, so happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely to have you on the show. Sandy. Twenty

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Speaker 1: five years ago the kids buried the capsule. Can you

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Speaker 1: shed any light on why they buried it? And you

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Speaker 1: know what the plan was.

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Speaker 2: Look, our camps and fundies are magical, wondrous things and

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Speaker 2: thanks to the amazing volunteers who pulled them together, there's

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Speaker 2: all sorts of wonderful things that can happen on camp.

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Speaker 2: So I'm absolutely sure this would have been an idea

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Speaker 2: of one of our volleys to you know, to mark

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Speaker 2: a moment and they would have had the well, they

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Speaker 2: did have the fool support of Government House and the

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Speaker 2: team there to put together something quite magical. I mean it,

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Speaker 2: it's got me wondering how many more of these are

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Speaker 2: out and across Australia. But no, very very excited to

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Speaker 2: on earth some memories today and really celebrate some incredible

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Speaker 2: families and impact.

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Speaker 1: And so whereabouts was it buried?

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Speaker 2: It was on the grounds Now I haven't been there,

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Speaker 2: so I just know it's somewhere on the grounds.

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Speaker 1: Of Government House, of Government Government House.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, so I believe the kids are actually hosted

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Speaker 2: in Government House. That's where they stayed on the camp.

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Speaker 2: So what an experience for families and kids. What a memory.

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Speaker 2: And yes, we got to reach out a few months ago.

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Speaker 2: You know, here's a picture of the plaque and as

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Speaker 2: an organization, I have to say we you know, we

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Speaker 2: didn't have a record of it. So, you know, incredibly

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Speaker 2: exciting for us and a great opportunity to celebrate everything

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Speaker 2: we do.

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Speaker 1: How exciting. So tell me what's planned for the unearthing

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Speaker 1: this evening and what are you expecting you might find

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Speaker 1: in this time capsule?

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Speaker 2: That's a million dollar question. Well, look, we are incredibly

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Speaker 2: lucky to be We're going to be welcomed to Government

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Speaker 2: House by the administrator and his partner, or for his

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Speaker 2: honor and his partner, and we will have some families

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Speaker 2: joining us, and some volunteers and our incredible ambassador Jared

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Speaker 2: would Get and his partner. I think they're going to

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Speaker 2: put on a reception for us. They're going to make

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Speaker 2: us all feel very special. And then we will go

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Speaker 2: down and I think I might be doing the unearthing myself,

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Speaker 2: and then we will pass, you know, pass the parcel

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Speaker 2: to the administrator and we'll start unpacking it, seeing what's

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Speaker 2: in there. And look, I have no idea. I'm expecting

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Speaker 2: some photographs, maybe some notes. Goodness, it was before smartphones,

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Speaker 2: maybe a CD ROM AVCR. No, I've got no idea,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, you know, you guys will be the first

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Speaker 1: Do you think it could be a bit of an

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Speaker 1: emotional time as well? I mean when you look at

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Speaker 1: what camp quality does and you know what those kids

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Speaker 1: may have actually put in there, could it be a

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Speaker 2: I think so. I think so. And the journey, you know,

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Speaker 2: childhood cancer twenty five years ago, Australia has made such

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Speaker 2: tremendous strides in survival rates. Now most kids will come

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Speaker 2: through it, and that wasn't true, you know, twenty five

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Speaker 2: thirty years ago. So absolutely, I think when we start

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Speaker 2: to understand who was at the camp, what they were

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Speaker 2: be some maybe bettersweet memories in there, but I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, we're all about fun and positivity and coming

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Speaker 1: Now in terms of who, like you said, there are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think one of our volunteers does. So I

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Speaker 2: haven't met there. We've got five of our amazing volunteers

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Speaker 2: to meeting that person, hearing the stories. And we actually

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Speaker 2: are fabulous in an of themselves, So we look forward

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Speaker 1: Oh how good, how good of government House to have

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Speaker 1: the kids say for a camp, you might have to

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Speaker 1: try and do that again. Hit them up for another

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Speaker 2: Would love that. I'm not sure they'd like us pitching

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Speaker 2: pents in the lawn, but we'll see. I know, I'll

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Speaker 2: asked the question.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, look, you guys do such a fantastic job.

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Speaker 1: Tell me, you know, for anyone who's not familiar with

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Speaker 1: Camp Quality, remind our listeners what the organization does.

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Speaker 2: Look, I have to say from the get goro your listeners.

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Speaker 2: You know, your station incredible supporters of what we do

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Speaker 2: and have been for so so long. But look, Camp

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Speaker 2: Qualities existed for forty years to bring positivity and laughter

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Speaker 2: into the lives of kids facing cancer and their families.

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Speaker 2: We do that a whole number of ways. The heart

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Speaker 2: and soul of what we do are our camps, our fundays,

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Speaker 2: and family experiences getaways. But now you know that childhood

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Speaker 2: cancer journey is different. So we have hospital, we have

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Speaker 2: services in hospital, in school to prevent bullying online and

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Speaker 2: all sorts of things. But fundamentally we are there on

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Speaker 2: that journey to give the moments of light and laughter,

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Speaker 2: and we couldn't do it without our incredible volleys. We've

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Speaker 2: got seven hundred across the story, and you know the

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Speaker 2: amazing funds raised from you know, your view of your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, yep, No, Well you know what, our listeners

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Speaker 1: love getting involved in our camp quality writing auction day.

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Speaker 1: It's always so much fun. There's no doubt about that,

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Speaker 1: Sandy Ilocket, because it's sort of I just get to

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Speaker 1: have a fun day. It just you know, I talk

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Speaker 1: about the good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was manning the phones last year and I

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Speaker 2: have to say it was it was full on, lots

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Speaker 2: of bids coming in. So no, it's deven. Oh gosh,

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Speaker 2: it's an amazing event. And you know we couldn't do

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Speaker 2: it but you already this year we've had a family camp,

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Speaker 2: We've had a funday, a family experience. We've got another

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Speaker 2: few fundays coming up, you know. So the funds raised

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Speaker 2: are very much going to the local kids and families

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Speaker 2: that we support, which is what it's all about.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Well, Sandy, do keep in touch. Let

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Speaker 1: us know what you find in that capsule.

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Speaker 2: We will very excited.

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Speaker 1: He's going to be exciting. Lovely to catch up with

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Speaker 1: you this morning, Sandy Hall, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: your time.

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Speaker 2: Great, thank you, thank you you, thanks so much