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Speaker 1: Empty. Legacy is celebrating it's fiftieth anniversary with the Legacy

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Speaker 1: Torch relay traveling to forty five clubs across the country.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line is Legacy Club President

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Speaker 1: Scott Perkins. Good morning to you, Scott O Katie Scott,

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Speaker 1: Thanks everybody, Yeah, thanks so much for your time this morning. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: tell us what exactly does Legacy do well.

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Speaker 2: Legacy was established one hundred years ago, so we've got

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Speaker 2: this happy coincidence of a centenary for Legacy Australia and

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Speaker 2: fifty year anniversary for Legacy and t But it was

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Speaker 2: established after World War One to look after the families

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Speaker 2: of those poor diggers who lost their lives in the

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Speaker 2: war and has been continuing that through both world wars

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Speaker 2: and the conflict since so across Australia. I think there's

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Speaker 2: something in the order of forty plus thousand families that

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Speaker 2: are under our care.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And the many thousands of children that have been put

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Speaker 2: through schooling from benefits of Legacy over the decades.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so talk us through what's happening. By the

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Speaker 1: look of it, that Legacy Torch really is traveling around

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Speaker 1: forty five clubs. That's going to head to across the country.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what a great thing it's been, just you know,

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Speaker 2: seeing the public respond to it. And it's at times

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Speaker 2: like this you see how generous the Australian public are

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Speaker 2: and how accommodating. But yet they have visited or in

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Speaker 2: the process of visiting every club in Australia and through

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Speaker 2: London of course, where we also have a club, and

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Speaker 2: finishes up in Melbourne and October. We have a national

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Speaker 2: conference in October at the finish of the lay and

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Speaker 2: it was through Darwin earlier in the year of course

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Speaker 2: early made Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so it's already it's already been through the

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Speaker 1: territories or is it coming back.

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Speaker 2: No, No, it's been through the territory. But here's where we

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Speaker 2: get to the central theme of Legacy Week for this

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Speaker 2: year is that Darwin has had some celebrations. We've had

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Speaker 2: the Legacy Torch through of course the Centenary Torch. The

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Speaker 2: Defense Force was very generous in allowing us to be

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Speaker 2: the nominated charity for their ball recently. It was also

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Speaker 2: in Darwin. So we've taken the opportunity to take our

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Speaker 2: torch to our regional centers. So we've had the ceremony

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Speaker 2: in our Springs recently and earlier this week at the

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Speaker 2: Adelaide Re War Cemetery, and Catherine will be in the

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Speaker 2: next week or two when we sort of get that organized. Yeah, well, I.

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Speaker 1: Think it's you know, it is wonderful work that Legacy

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Speaker 1: does and there is you know, there is no doubt

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Speaker 1: about that. Can you tell us as well, Scott, You know,

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Speaker 1: when you look at what Legacy does here in the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory, talk us through you know, I guess some

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Speaker 1: of that from a local perspective.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got one hundred families that we look after,

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Speaker 2: the vast majority those who've lost their husband, but we've

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Speaker 2: from time to time had widow wers as well, and

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Speaker 2: obviously over the fifty years that the club's been in existence,

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Speaker 2: many many children who are now adults in Darwin or

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Speaker 2: remember Legacy looking after them as well. And on top

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Speaker 2: of that, we have people in Catherine and Color Springs

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Speaker 2: and one or two remote people as well.

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Speaker 1: And in terms of raising funds, is there I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you've got plenty of sort of corporate sponsorships and I

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Speaker 1: know that there'd be people that do you know that

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Speaker 1: I'm sure are really happy to support legacy, but how

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Speaker 1: can people get involved if they're able to do so.

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Speaker 2: We everyone will remember that prior to both Anzac Day

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Speaker 2: and Rememberance Day, they'll find our volunteers out selling poppies

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Speaker 2: and other badges and memorabilia. So look forward to that

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Speaker 2: in November. But there's also been some very generous other

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Speaker 2: events put on for us. I mentioned the Defense Ball,

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Speaker 2: but the Defense and Police football match and all sorts

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Speaker 2: of stuff goes on. But we're about to have a

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Speaker 2: look and see what we can do to both create

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Speaker 2: that those events and raise funds for our purpose and

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Speaker 2: also give back to the community. So over the next

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Speaker 2: twelve months you'll hear a lot more from us about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff, and Scott, you know, I think unfortunately

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Speaker 1: over the weekend we saw the absolute tragedy that was

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Speaker 1: three US Marines dying after the osprey crash on the

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Speaker 1: Tiwi Islands. I know that they're US Marines, but I

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Speaker 1: have no doubt that this is something that you know

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Speaker 1: would have impact impacted you guys as well, considering what

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Speaker 1: you do.

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Speaker 2: It does Katie, and we also remember, of course that

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Speaker 2: there's been a recent aircraft accident down in Queensland, on

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Speaker 2: an exercise which took some lives. But in my twenty

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Speaker 2: years in the Defense Force, I can tell you that

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Speaker 2: we are trained on the edge and they still do

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Speaker 2: and that's why the Australian Army is such a respected

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Speaker 2: organization and the Australian Forces generally respected. And when you

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Speaker 2: do that, you know accidents can happen. Unfortunately, we see

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Speaker 2: that in order to maintain that very fine edge, sometimes

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Speaker 2: we have these unfortunate and drastic accidents. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, Legacy Club President, Scott Perkins, I really appreciate your

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Speaker 1: time this morning, and no doubt we'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: again soon when you do have something going on, please

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Speaker 1: do let us know. We'd be really happy to get

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Speaker 1: you back on the show.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, Katie, and you'll hear more from us in

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Speaker 2: due courses. I said, where's that plan comes together for

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Speaker 2: the next twelve months?

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Speaker 1: Good on you. Thanks so much for your time this morning, Scott,