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Speaker 1: Now it's been a massive few days at Hidden Valley

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Speaker 1: Raceway as the supercars wrapped up yesterday with brock Feenie

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Speaker 1: completing the dow and double with race victory yesterday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: the twenty one year old Gold Coaster competing the clean

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Speaker 1: sweep as we know of the weekend races and show

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Speaker 1: twenty eight critical points back from his Red Bull and

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Speaker 1: Pole teammate as well in the process. Now joining us

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Speaker 1: on the line is the CEO of Anti Major Events,

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Speaker 1: Susannah Bishop. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good morning to you, Susanna.

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Speaker 1: How did the supercars go?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we wrapped. We had a terrific sunny three days

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Speaker 2: with lots of modest sport enthusiasts and families and everyone

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Speaker 2: that just has loves to have a good time coming

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Speaker 2: out to Hidden Valley and enjoying the weekend with us.

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Speaker 1: So do we know exactly how many people attended?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we had high thirty nine thousand, so close to

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Speaker 2: forty thousand attend over the three days and around thirty

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Speaker 2: six percent of them coming from interstate.

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Speaker 1: So a big weekend, that is, I mean, that is

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Speaker 1: good to hear. How does that compare to previous years?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're a little bit down on that interstate visitation.

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Speaker 2: I think Territorians have, if anything, come out more, which

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Speaker 2: is great to see them supporting those great events, but

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Speaker 2: a bit of a heat on that interstate attendancy on year.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we know that a lot of Aussies

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Speaker 1: are living through a cost of living crisis at the moment,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes that discretionary spend does sort of go down

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Speaker 1: when you you know, when you're struggling a little. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised I guess in some ways that we

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Speaker 1: maybe don't have as many interstate visitors. But some huge

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Speaker 1: sort of additions to the supercars this year, some really

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Speaker 1: positive stuff. Particularly we're seeing the cars come through the city.

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Speaker 1: How did that all go?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fantastic, I think for us again, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's so important to those experiences to Territorians and for us.

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Speaker 2: What can we do leading up to the evenge that

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Speaker 2: is free, that is accessible for everyone. So we've worked

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Speaker 2: with supercars to create track to town and to actually

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Speaker 2: get the riders driving through the streets of Darwen and

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Speaker 2: coming to then do their signing. Phenomenal. We've got a

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Speaker 2: lot of drones image and we could see everyone coming

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Speaker 2: out and in their cars waiting to see those supercars

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Speaker 2: gone pass.

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Speaker 1: How important is it, do you think, you know, to

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Speaker 1: really sort of to make the supercars cars more accessible

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Speaker 1: to everybody in that way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we need to really look at the trends.

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Speaker 2: So for instance, this year, we felt that more people

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Speaker 2: came up for the day they bought their day tickets

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Speaker 2: and a little bit less people bought their three day tickets,

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Speaker 2: you know the So that tells me that people are

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Speaker 2: waiting until the last minute to decide what they're going

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Speaker 2: to do and make that purchase decision later on. So

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Speaker 2: how do we look at that ticket combination, How do

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Speaker 2: we look at our offer, whether it is generated mission

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Speaker 2: premium generate mission corporates to keep moving the event to

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Speaker 2: suit the needs of people, because that changes every year.

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Speaker 1: And so Xana, from your perspective, any real highlights things

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Speaker 1: that you go, oh, we've got to make sure we

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Speaker 1: do that again next year.

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Speaker 2: Oh. I think for us it was really important as

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Speaker 2: well to keep evolving the indigenous rounds. We work with

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Speaker 2: Racing together to make sure that we brought indigenous team

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Speaker 2: to participate on the combined sedans. They want their their races,

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Speaker 2: which they had a terrific outcome out of that. We

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Speaker 2: work with Contaft and we're bringing Clontaft kids from the

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Speaker 2: territory closer to the teams to help in different positions

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Speaker 2: and to learn. That's really important to us that we

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Speaker 2: keep adding that I and I felt that we've we've

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Speaker 2: made more progress this year. We had more categories doing

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Speaker 2: liveries and and bringing beautiful artistry from regional culture to

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Speaker 2: their to their cars across Porsche and the youths as well,

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Speaker 2: so that that was wonderful to see.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good to hear. So what's next for NT Major Events?

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Speaker 1: Is it Territory Day next?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Territory Day and then we go you know, Red Center.

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Speaker 2: It's it's about bringing together Red Center. That's another terrific,

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Speaker 2: modest sport activity. But also we have this year Alice

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Speaker 2: Springs Master's Games, which which which again October. So a

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Speaker 2: few more activities, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: So you guys never stop. NT Major Events absolutely never stops.

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Speaker 1: And when it comes to Territory Day, there's been a

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Speaker 1: couple of people messaging in asking is there still so

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Speaker 1: we know that the fireworks and that the celebration is

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Speaker 1: back at Middle Beach, but is there still something happening

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Speaker 1: at the waterfront.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what the Waterfront decided they were going to

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Speaker 2: invest themselves and fun additional fireworks and additional activity throughout

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Speaker 2: their loans areas. So what they they will continue doing

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Speaker 2: that they've already invested in that. So I think it's

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Speaker 2: just Territory wins. It's more more activities. We will bring

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Speaker 2: everything back to mindle but then the character the Waterfront

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Speaker 2: will also have more more to offer, So lots of

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Speaker 2: options for people to decide what suits them back.

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Speaker 1: And somebody's message through just wondering who's performing this year

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Speaker 2: The main act will be So we're going to get

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Speaker 2: that lineup out to you guys very soon. But I'm ecstatic.

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Speaker 2: I love Bouchera and I think he'll be incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw him a couple of last year, in

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Speaker 1: fact that at the Commercial Radio Awards. He was incredible,

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Speaker 1: a fantastic young act. So I reckon that will be

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Speaker 1: wonderful to see. Susannah. Are you guys confident as well

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Speaker 1: that you know any concerns or complaints you know that

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Speaker 1: that had previously been worried about that they that they

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Speaker 1: can be mitigated against Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Listen, we're working very you know, as we always do.

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Speaker 2: I think major events are inherently known for risk and

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Speaker 2: it is our job to always try to mitigate them

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Speaker 2: as much as we can. So we'll continue to work

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Speaker 2: with our stakeholders to do that and to and to

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Speaker 2: bring you know, an incredible event. Hey, someone else.

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Speaker 1: Has just messaged through wondering in terms of the the

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Speaker 1: buses will there be There will be buses and stuff

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Speaker 1: for Territory Day.

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Speaker 2: We will they Yeah, So you know, as we did

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Speaker 2: last year everything and whether we were at the waterfront

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Speaker 2: our free transport access as we do for all our

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Speaker 2: major events. So we just need to get all the

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Speaker 2: details out and you know, we're just taking the breath

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Speaker 2: from yes and pulling all of that together and make

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Speaker 2: sure that people have a lot of information coming through.

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Speaker 2: We will put together frequently asked questions and update our

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Speaker 2: website and make sure that you have plenty of time

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Speaker 2: to organize yourself and go out for a great day.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, we'll make sure we catch up with you

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Speaker 1: what you know where they can catch the buses and

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Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Suzanna Bishop, lovely to speak

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Speaker 1: with you this morning. Congratulations on a fantastic event out

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Speaker 1: there at the Supercars.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me, have a wonderful day you

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