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Speaker 1: Three bikes are apparently being gifted to kids in seven

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Speaker 1: remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, helping them to

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Speaker 1: get active. Now joining us on the line to tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more about this. About this wonderful

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Speaker 1: initiative is Revolve Recycling's general manager. His name is Hido Verbust.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you. Let's try that again. I'll just

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Speaker 1: press on that button. Good morning to your Hido Verbust.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: No worries, Thanks for inviting me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely to speak to you. Now tell us a

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Speaker 1: little bit about these bikes that are being well. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: I guess what sparked the idea to have these bikes

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Speaker 1: delivered to Northern Territory communities.

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Speaker 2: Well, we are a secondhand recycling business for a couple

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Speaker 2: of years based in Sydney, and all the adult bikes

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Speaker 2: we have been starting to keep the profit or make

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Speaker 2: an income we needed. But the kidspikes we treated very

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Speaker 2: differently because there are so many good quality second hand

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Speaker 2: bikes that come our way, but we also know that

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Speaker 2: there are so many kits that actually don't have access

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Speaker 2: to bikes, and that's the simple exercise. We then set

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Speaker 2: up a foundation for to give to those who don't

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Speaker 2: have the bikes from those who don't need them anymore

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Speaker 2: and fly Another program that I'm involved in, we were

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Speaker 2: introduced to the organization WANTA that is active in the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory and works with Aboriginal communities. They cave as

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Speaker 2: an update on the situation there and the shortage of bicycles.

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Speaker 2: So we thought, let's organize a run of a full

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Speaker 2: truck with one hundred and six bikes was it five

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Speaker 2: scooters to take them to those remote communities. And that's

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Speaker 2: what we did the last two weeks.

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Speaker 1: So which communities have they gone out to?

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Speaker 2: Say, in Hermersburg, in cal Karinji, in Ancour and then

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Speaker 2: a village closed by there for the schooters I can't

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Speaker 2: even remember, Rita something and then also near other Springs

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Speaker 2: itself and in Sampaterrecta is the other place that we

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Speaker 2: took them all to.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. What was the reaction from the kids?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Fun enjoying it? Yeah, they were immediately up. It's

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Speaker 2: primarily by a be a MIxS story that we brought

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Speaker 2: so that which is easy and can be used for

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Speaker 2: different ages and easy in servicing them. So when they

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Speaker 2: saw them, they were full of joy and jumping on

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Speaker 2: them immediately and taking them out. So yeah, it was

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Speaker 2: nice to see them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a wonderful, wonderful thing to do. Now. It

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Speaker 1: was volunteers, wasn't it. They worked to restore them. Talk

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Speaker 1: us through that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we have a pool of volunteer mechanics that

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Speaker 2: look after the kids bikes and the other mechanics look

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Speaker 2: after the adult backs for the commercial part of the business.

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Speaker 2: But they were they have been doing that for the

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Speaker 2: last year. So we already work on a program with

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Speaker 2: cycling to donate fifty kids backs per month to schools

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Speaker 2: who set up school library. So those volunteers were already

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Speaker 2: involved in that program, and when they heard about business

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Speaker 2: taken to the remote communities in Orn thirty, they actually

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Speaker 2: did so much extra hours and weekends and even to

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Speaker 2: the point that we had to prepare all those backs

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Speaker 2: with celand inside the tubes. We had to include some

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Speaker 2: seilant which makes them solid and torn proof as they

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Speaker 2: So yeah, they enjoyed it. They did it all because

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Speaker 1: Must have been quite a logistical challenge to get them

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Speaker 1: to all of those communities. How did you manage that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was indeed. We well, we had a relatively

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Speaker 2: big truck and I had to flatten them all the

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Speaker 2: It's just the loading of the truck took us a

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Speaker 2: half a day, three hours before people, So yeah, it

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Speaker 2: will past quite an undertaking. It was eleven thousand kilometers

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Speaker 2: it was not something that you easily go about. We

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Speaker 2: be serviced. So we left also keys or tools, I

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Speaker 2: we will follow up and we will stay in contact.

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Speaker 2: And that's why we want to be there to build

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Speaker 1: Reckon, that's a great thing to do. Also, teaching the

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Speaker 1: themselves is a fundamental part of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's first equally important. Like we always have

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Speaker 2: been saying, it's a lot more than a bike that

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Speaker 2: we are giving them. It's a tool to learn some skills,

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Speaker 2: it's a tool to get engaged with and responsibilities that

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Speaker 2: they can learn to look after it. So, yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: something that helps in many ways. It's also an incentive

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Speaker 2: for a lot of the kids to actually go to

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Speaker 2: within the community or connect to a school, they can

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Speaker 2: only access them if they go to the school. So

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Speaker 2: that's another element that helps building.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, only guys, that's a really I reckon. That's a

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Speaker 1: really great element to it as well. It's a bit

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Speaker 1: of a reward, I guess it is.

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Speaker 2: That's the way many of those communities decided they would

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Speaker 2: like to use them, and that was for another reason

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Speaker 2: to say, yeah, this makes sense in some anyway, so

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Speaker 2: we want to support it, and that's why it wants

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Speaker 2: to be there see it and miss my own eyes

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Speaker 2: hear from them, and more important, how we can continue

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Speaker 1: He know, it does sound as though it's something that

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Speaker 1: you are really hoping benefits the kids for a long

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Speaker 1: time to come.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, that's the whole idea behind it.

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Speaker 1: Good on you. I think it's a great thing to do,

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Speaker 1: and I really like the idea. You know, where you're

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Speaker 1: you're restoring them so that they are able to be

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Speaker 1: utilized out in the community. But I love that that

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Speaker 1: the kids that are attending school and want them to

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Speaker 1: learn how to maintain those bikes too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a very complete program. We call it actually

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Speaker 2: bike Equity. So he believes that all children should have

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Speaker 2: after it, and that's what we want to do with

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Speaker 2: that special foundation we have set up.

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Speaker 1: Peter, are you a ad cycling enthusiasts? Do you do

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Speaker 1: you cycle a lot?

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Speaker 3: I do cycle, but not a lot. It's primarily the

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Speaker 3: time that I think I don't have enough or don't

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Speaker 3: send not on it to do it. But yes, I

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Speaker 3: have my own bike and I'll do it occasionally.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good on you. No, I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love you know. I love it when people are

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Speaker 1: passionate about stuff and you pass that passion on to others.

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Speaker 1: And I really hope that you know that that's what's

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Speaker 1: happened here. I'd love to see that. Imagine if we

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Speaker 1: have a you know, a young indigenous cyclist ending up

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Speaker 1: really getting in there from getting a bike.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, that would be even assume the icing

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Speaker 2: on the cake as they call it, that would be great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh good stuff. Well, he know, it's lovely to

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Speaker 1: speak to you this morning. I really appreciate you having

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Speaker 1: a chat with us and and all the very.

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Speaker 2: Best, no worries, Thanks for the invitation.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,