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Speaker 1: In some good news, we know the Darwin community is

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Speaker 1: being encouraged to get behind the annual Black Dog Ride,

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Speaker 1: which aims to raise awareness of mental health and suicide prevention.

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Speaker 1: The one day motorcycle ride raising money for the cause

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Speaker 1: is happening this Sunday and joining us on the line

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Speaker 1: to tell us more is Black Dog Ride int coordinators

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Speaker 1: Shane Klein. Good morning Shane, Good morning Katie here are

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Speaker 1: you yeah? Really good mate, Thanks for joining us on

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Speaker 1: the show this morning. Now tell me a bit more

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Speaker 1: about the event for anybody who's not heard about it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is a one day ride that happens simultaneously

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Speaker 2: across all major cities and regional centers around Australia. I

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Speaker 2: think there's about forty six rides around Australia this year,

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Speaker 2: and this year the one in two in the wig

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Speaker 2: on my ed was one here and darn and one

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Speaker 2: in our strings. But for the Darwin listeners, the goal

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Speaker 2: one this year is going to start at the Nunamark Tavern.

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Speaker 2: It'll be leaving Nunamar Tabin at about ten thirty on

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Speaker 2: Sunday morning, but we're asking people to get there sort

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Speaker 2: at any time from about eight thirty onwards to complete

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Speaker 2: the registration and be there for the ride of briefing

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Speaker 2: and all that sort of thing, and then we're going

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Speaker 2: out to the people Mango Cafe and Brewy. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: and then get when we get out there, there's going

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Speaker 2: to be racals and we'll be talking to the group,

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Speaker 2: you know, all the writers and the supporters that come

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Speaker 2: along about about the Black Dog Cause, black Dog Ride, cause,

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Speaker 2: I should say, And then then yeah, so it's important tonight.

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Speaker 2: I think that the Black Dog Ride is about starting

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Speaker 2: a national conversation about the presion and suicide prevention, in

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Speaker 2: building that cultural awareness around inclusion, acceptance of living with

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Speaker 2: depression and anxiety.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such an important conversation to have. And you know,

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Speaker 1: and like I often think to myself, I really feel

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Speaker 1: as though we need to be talking about you know, depression,

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Speaker 1: We need to be talking about suicide, these mental health

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Speaker 1: issues in the same way that you talk about other

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Speaker 1: health issues.

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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, exactly, because it affects og portion of the population.

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Speaker 2: I think there's one in five Australians experience some form

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Speaker 2: of mental health condition each year. That equates for three

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Speaker 2: million Australians living with depression or anxiety. And on the

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Speaker 2: really bad end of that scale is about ourt Australians

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Speaker 2: a day take their own lives, which is a statistic

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Speaker 2: that we all.

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Speaker 1: Want to reduce absolutely. I mean it's a terrible statistic.

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Speaker 1: I know that the Black Dog Institute does provide support

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Speaker 1: and does a number of different things. Shane tell us

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Speaker 1: a bit about the work that the Black Dog Institute does.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, firstly, we're not the excellent black Dog Institute.

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Speaker 2: We're we're black Dog Writers Pray.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a bit different, but I believe some of

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Speaker 3: that some of the fund Rey Rays do go towards

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Speaker 3: Black Dog Institute and other organizations.

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Speaker 2: You'll see on our website, which is black Dog, black

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Speaker 2: Dog Ride or one word dot org, dot aut at

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Speaker 2: the top of our web page, you'll see a crisis

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Speaker 2: support link and on that link. At that link there's

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Speaker 2: a number of support agencies that you can be referred to.

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Speaker 2: The one that I always stuck in my head is Lifeline,

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Speaker 2: which is I tell people to call thirteen eleven fourteen.

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Speaker 2: But there's a range. You know, there's probably a good

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Speaker 2: dozen different agencies there, such as you know, kids Helpline,

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Speaker 2: ins Line, Veterans Line, all those sorts of organizations. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's that's the sort of thing we do. We raise

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Speaker 2: money through the sale of merchandise and riders taking registering

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Speaker 2: and all that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So Shane, for our listeners, where do they need

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Speaker 1: to be, what time? And can anybody get involved? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Look, absolutely anybody can get involved. You can probably you

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Speaker 2: can obviously only ride if you've got a motorbike, but.

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Speaker 1: No bicycles allowed. Mate, You've got to You've got to

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Speaker 1: have a proper motorbike.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you've got to. You're gonna have any sort

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Speaker 2: of it's got two wheels and it's no problems at all.

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Speaker 2: But but the thing is a lot of people come

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Speaker 2: along to support as well but that ride, and they're

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Speaker 2: quite welcome, you know. It's the ride's only only part

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Speaker 2: of part of the activities on the day. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: like I said, it's Ma Tavens starting where we'll be

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Speaker 2: taking registrations from eight thirty am. But we are encouraging

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Speaker 2: people to register on the d Sorry, we're encouraging people

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Speaker 2: to register online before then. So again, that that website

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Speaker 2: that I mentioned before, black dot ride dot org dot au.

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Speaker 2: You'll see the rides we link there. You can click

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Speaker 2: on there and go to the MP rides and you

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Speaker 2: can register, but we will have limited availability to help

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Speaker 2: people register on the day. But if you want that

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Speaker 2: to happen then please get there early is what I

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Speaker 2: would suggest.

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Speaker 1: Good advice will Shane Kleine, the Black Dog Ride NT coordinator.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to speak to you this morning, mate, all the

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Speaker 1: very best for the weekend.

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Speaker 2: No, it is okay, thanks for thank you, thank you.