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Speaker 1: New Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Around twenty percent of

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Speaker 1: Australians live with a disability. It's a community that is

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Speaker 1: often underrepresented, especially within the music industry. Well until now.

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Speaker 1: Headliners is a heartwarming news series celebrates music and inclusion.

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Speaker 1: The show follows Ellie May Barnes as she leads the

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Speaker 1: quest to create two bands made up entirely of musicians

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Speaker 1: living with a disability. Ellie May, Hello, Hello, how's it going?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: Great? It's always great to hear the tin lids. I

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Speaker 3: know that a Christmas time is when the old man

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Speaker 3: gets it up there the play some din lids. But

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Speaker 3: it's great to see this new project that you're doing.

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Speaker 3: It looks fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what what is it thirty three years later? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: branching out for this project.

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Speaker 1: I'm so very close to your heart, Ellie May. You

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Speaker 1: were born with cerebral palsy and you've had to work

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Speaker 1: way through that. So was it your idea to try

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Speaker 1: and find a way to include other people who are

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Speaker 1: living with a disability.

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Speaker 2: I've always you know, I've never really seen somebody else

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Speaker 2: like me. Somebody liked me up there, you know, at

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Speaker 2: the front, really, you know, thriving, you know, the way

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Speaker 2: my dad has who's my hero, and I really needed

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Speaker 2: to see that representation going up. And my dad gave

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Speaker 2: me a space on his stage, which is a really

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Speaker 2: special feeling, and I really proved the thing to have.

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Speaker 2: And then to be able to then get the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to give other musicians, other incredibly talented musicians that we've

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Speaker 2: been missing out on because they don't have a stage,

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Speaker 2: to be able to give them that platform was an

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Speaker 2: incredible opportunity. So that's been kind of a dream of

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Speaker 2: mine for a really long time, and I've been able

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Speaker 2: to realize it on a massive scale with headliners and

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Speaker 2: just the representation, the conversations that can be had around accessibility,

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Speaker 2: and just I just think so so many beautiful things

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Speaker 2: came of this show. The friendships. These are incredible human beings.

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Speaker 2: These are incredibly talented musicians who were so vulnerable and amazing,

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Speaker 2: and I think I think everyone could see a little

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Speaker 2: bit of themselves in in these beautiful friends of mine.

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Speaker 1: What kind of people were they? Who who have we?

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Speaker 1: Who have you met?

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Speaker 2: I've just met some of the best people. You'll have

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Speaker 2: to have to tune in, I guess, But but there

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Speaker 2: are incredible musicians as people from with living with all

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Speaker 2: different disabilities. There's people, you know, living in wheelchairs, you

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Speaker 2: know those people, those people who have who are amputees.

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Speaker 2: There are people with jeffness, there are people with thurettes.

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Speaker 2: There are people with different forms of autism, and you know,

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Speaker 2: neurodivergence and things like that. And it's just there's blind

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Speaker 2: blindness involved, there's it's it's just a whole spectrum of disability.

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Speaker 2: The cerebral palsy of course, and and and I myself

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Speaker 2: struggle with my own disability throughout this and and it's

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Speaker 2: very rare and open, and I think and more than that,

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Speaker 2: we're all just human and and we're all going on

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Speaker 2: this journey. And we have seven weeks to put a

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Speaker 2: band of complete strangers together, regardless of anything. That is

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Speaker 2: a huge task, true bands of strangers, and get them

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Speaker 2: ready for a massive festival in Monday Monday with some

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Speaker 2: of the top artists in the country. And you know

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Speaker 2: normally that those artists are completely prepared seven weeks out,

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Speaker 2: so so it was a huge task regardless and I

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Speaker 2: and I had some some excellent help. What you do.

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Speaker 3: We got Tim Rodgers in their Ella Hooper, Tim Rodgers

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Speaker 3: from You and my Ella Hooper from killing uh these

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Speaker 3: they're Aussie rock Royalty.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Luckily I had very excellent hands to help mold

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Speaker 2: the bands and to help guide them, because you know,

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Speaker 2: they know how to help form bands, and bands are

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Speaker 2: about chemistry, and they know how to help lead bands.

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Speaker 2: And you know they've done at a time or two before.

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Speaker 2: They've been at festivals and they've they've rocked them and

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Speaker 2: and I've witnessed that, and so I I really did

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Speaker 2: need help because it was a very short time to

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Speaker 2: get everyone ready. You kind of need a masterclass. And

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Speaker 2: if anyone can do it, it's supposed too. And and

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Speaker 2: well and my dada and.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to get a band together the best of

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Speaker 3: times is pretty hard, you know, just just watching a

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Speaker 3: dude set up a drum kit that takes forever, so

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Speaker 3: you don't even get me started. Honestly, come on, how

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Speaker 3: many drums do you need?

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Speaker 2: And how many drummers does it take?

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Speaker 1: This sounds hugely emotional, in the same way that the

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Speaker 1: assembly on the ABC. That's right journal students who were neurodivergent.

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Speaker 1: This is an extraordinary thing. I just hope we see

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Speaker 1: more and more of it. Congratulations, yeah good, Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, thank you for having.

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Speaker 3: Me well so high of the gang, Jane and Jimmy

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Speaker 3: and the rest of the Klan, and you look after yourself. Okay,

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Speaker 3: we'll do.

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Speaker 2: And lot's of love back to you, guys.

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Speaker 3: Headliner's premiere is tonight at eight o'clock on the ABC

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