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Speaker 1: Well, there's always plenty happening around the place, and in

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Speaker 1: a really good news story, I think you'd say, and

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Speaker 1: the first for innovative technology will to support those who

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Speaker 1: are doing it tough in remote Australian communities. We know

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Speaker 1: that orange Sky, supported by Australian electronics manufacturer and a

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Speaker 1: global visual communications platform, they've launched the world's first solar

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Speaker 1: powered laundry van. And joining me on the line to

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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about it is the

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Speaker 1: co founder of orange Sky, Nicholas MARQUESI good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Nicholas, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you on the show. I know that

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Speaker 1: Orange Sky do some phenomenal stuff. But for those out

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Speaker 1: there listening this morning who maybe don't know a huge

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Speaker 1: amount about orange Sky, tell us exactly what you do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, orange Sky started seven years ago in Brisbane

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Speaker 2: with a really crazy idea to put two washing machines

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Speaker 2: and two drives in the back of a van and

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Speaker 2: simply drive around and wash and dry clothes for free.

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Speaker 2: And what we stumbled on those couple of years ago

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Speaker 2: was something that hadn't been done anywhere in the world,

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Speaker 2: but something that did much more than washing and dry clothes.

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Speaker 2: That provide an opportunity that while the washing was on,

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Speaker 2: people could come together and connect. And we're now fortunate

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Speaker 2: to have thirty six services and twenty five locations around

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Speaker 2: Australia and now launching one of our u S vehicle variants,

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Speaker 2: the RV three point zero projects.

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Speaker 1: And obviously you know these services are provided in the

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Speaker 1: washing machine in the van and the dryer. It means

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Speaker 1: that those who are maybe doing it tough, or living

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Speaker 1: on the streets or living rough really have the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to clean their clothes and to claim what they've.

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Speaker 2: Got absolutely and you know, access to health hardware is

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Speaker 2: something that you know a lot of people take for

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Speaker 2: granted and whether that be one and two hundred Australians

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Speaker 2: who spent their first nine on the street or through

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Speaker 2: remote situations don't have access to reliable help hardware. So

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Speaker 2: you know, chucking some really great machines in a van,

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Speaker 2: getting it powered by the Australian sun, and putting some

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Speaker 2: really great technology like hot water and detergent into those machines,

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Speaker 2: we're able to really support those holistic approaches to healthy communities.

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Speaker 1: Now, so tell us a little bit more about the

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Speaker 1: fact that you've been supported by a couple of different

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Speaker 1: organizations or different businesses and what it means that it's

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Speaker 1: going to be the first of the world's first solar

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Speaker 1: powered laundry van. Who are you teaming up with and

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Speaker 1: how exactly is it working.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we've been absolutely blown away with the extraordinary

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Speaker 2: support of red Arc Electronics and canber and both those

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Speaker 2: organizations have enabled this project to go ahead. So through

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Speaker 2: Canvas funding two of the vehicles and red Ark through

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Speaker 2: all of the vehicles being our national power provider. What

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Speaker 2: it means is that we've had to invent our own

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Speaker 2: closed dryer, the Wararu dryer, and those dryers is ninety

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Speaker 2: percent less electrical energy than any dryer out there on

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Speaker 2: the market. So what that means is that we've we

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Speaker 2: can now run on renewable power through solar power and

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Speaker 2: battery technology, which means that for the first time ever,

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Speaker 2: our vans are actually generating the power that they use

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Speaker 2: and having a much less impact on the environment.

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Speaker 1: And they're going to be visiting will two territory towns,

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Speaker 1: Maningrida and what Air.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely we've been running a service in Maningrida for over

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Speaker 2: a year and a half now and I'm absolutely thankful

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Speaker 2: for the community trusting us with the service there, working

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Speaker 2: with Lala Help and over in What Air working with

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Speaker 2: TDC over the last couple of months to provide a

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Speaker 2: service there, and we hope to continue to see Orange

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Speaker 2: Sky services grow around the country and around the NT

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Speaker 2: to help as many people as possible.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it's awesome and I would imagine pretty popular

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Speaker 1: as well when you are out in the likes of Maningrida.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. You know, all of us need clean clothes

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Speaker 2: and wherever we are around the world and important, so

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Speaker 2: you know, having some nice clothes that do keep us healthy,

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Speaker 2: that do keep us feeling good mentally as well, is

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Speaker 2: really important to wherever you are in the world.

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Speaker 1: Well, Nicholas, I really appreciate your time this morning and

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Speaker 1: telling us a bit more about the great work obviously

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Speaker 1: you're now doing things.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for sharing our story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff. Thank you, Thanks so much for your time.