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Speaker 1: A few months back, you might recall that we were

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Speaker 1: speaking quite a bit with the chairperson of Sanderson Middle

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Speaker 1: rendering it unsafe for students and indeed footy players who

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Speaker 1: train there. Now, the chair, Mark Ferguson, has been long

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Speaker 1: advocating to get bollards installed to protect the field from

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Speaker 1: damage and to ensure the safety of students and other

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Speaker 1: community users. Now there was some, well, finally some progress

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Speaker 1: made regarding those ballards when the COLP came to power,

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Speaker 1: with the chair Mark Ferguson telling us that they were

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Speaker 1: given the green light to install the ballards, the department

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Speaker 1: reimbursing the costs was the plan. Now joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line to give us a bit of an update

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Speaker 1: on the situation. He's the chairperson for Sandersen Middle School,

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Speaker 1: Mark Ferguson, Get a Mark, let's try again. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what I've done there with that phone line. I'll

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Speaker 1: try it once more. Good morning, Mark.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie and your listener. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Oh good to be good to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me where are things at with these ballards

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Speaker 1: being installed? O, Katie?

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Speaker 2: I can finally say that they're being installed as we speak.

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Speaker 2: Oh who they're record of the way through our jays

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Speaker 2: is doing a really good job at putting him through

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Speaker 2: and you know they should all be completed by Christmas.

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Speaker 2: So we're so happy we've got the money, we've got

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Speaker 2: the funding for it, we've been able to put them

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Speaker 2: in and it's starting to get done. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: absolutely brilliant, mate.

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Speaker 1: It has been a marathon to get to this point,

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Speaker 1: hasn't it. Oh?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. It started about four years ago, especially with one

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Speaker 2: one car coming over the the oval and we had

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Speaker 2: to cancel our whole sports dage because of it.

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Speaker 1: So it's unbelievable really that you know that it has

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Speaker 1: taken this long, that it has taken the effort that

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Speaker 1: it has to get those ballards installed. You must be

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Speaker 1: feeling so relieved though that it is finally happening. I

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Speaker 1: mean the staff, the students, the club, the footy club,

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Speaker 1: everybody must be so relieved that it's finally happening.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, Katie. We are absolutely esthetic that it's going

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Speaker 2: to happen. Our staff, our students, the Sanderson community as

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Speaker 2: well as the sporting clubs have been advocating to this

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Speaker 2: we're finally getting it done so that we can all

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Speaker 2: be safe. It was all safety. It was all about

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Speaker 2: mitigating that risk, Katie.

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Speaker 1: And how I mean, how important is it as well

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Speaker 1: that you're able to get this done over the holidays

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Speaker 1: and hopefully avoid sort of anybody able to get out

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Speaker 1: there and destroy that oval over the holidays as well well.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Katie. It's actually vital to the community because it

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Speaker 2: is a community oval as well. We've opened up to

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Speaker 2: have all the community use the oval, especially at night,

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Speaker 2: in the afternoon and after hours of school and on

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Speaker 2: the school holiday, so it's actually quite vital to have

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Speaker 2: this risk mitigation taken away. It's absolutely great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It's such I mean like it's a

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Speaker 1: I just feel for you guys and for the footay Club,

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Speaker 1: for everybody involved that you've had to fight this bloody

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Speaker 1: hard to get some ballards.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, Katie, I must. You know, it has been

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Speaker 2: a very long and hard little yard that we've done,

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Speaker 2: but it's actually been your show that actually got a

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Speaker 2: lot of a lot of it done for us. So

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Speaker 2: we we'd like to say thank you, Katie, call your

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Speaker 2: heart helping us as well.

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Speaker 1: Mate, any time, you know, for me It comes down

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Speaker 1: to making sure those kids are safe, making sure that

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Speaker 1: making sure the students the school are able to use

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Speaker 1: the oval. And I think anyone that's you know that

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Speaker 1: thinking to yourself, they can't use an oval because they're

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Speaker 1: worried about the danger of somebody driving on to it

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Speaker 1: is just horrendo us. It should have been common sense

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, Katie. But you know what, we've got them now.

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Speaker 2: We're looking up. It's positive. We've even got a couple

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Speaker 2: of other m some other clubs that are interested in

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Speaker 2: the great big positive. It's open for all the community.

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Speaker 2: So it's great.

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Speaker 1: Good on you. Now, tell me just in terms of

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Speaker 1: the funding and everything, is everybody holding up to sort

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Speaker 2: I will tell you now, Katie, everyone is holding up

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Speaker 2: to their end of the bargain. We've actually got the

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Speaker 2: paying RJ's for it. I've got to give a great

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Speaker 2: big start it. Shout out to r J. They've actually

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Speaker 2: worked their butt off. If I'm allowed that these ball

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Speaker 2: are's done and to have them in all by Christmas.

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Speaker 1: So thanks, so good on, good on Jays. I hope

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Speaker 1: they're out there listening this morning. And if they are

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Speaker 1: well done, and I know how to be hot and

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Speaker 1: hard work out there, so so well done to them

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Speaker 1: getting it done before Christmas. Mark. I'm so glad that

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Speaker 1: it's happening. I am so glad for you guys, for

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Speaker 1: the school, for the students, for the footy club, for

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Speaker 1: absolutely everybody that uses that school. Oval. I'm so pleased

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Speaker 1: that the common sense has prevailed.

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Speaker 2: Mate, thank you very much, Katie. Before you go, I

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Speaker 2: can I just a couple of things. Our teachers throughout

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Speaker 2: the territory have done an amazing job this year, especially

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Speaker 2: with some of our funding that we've been able to

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Speaker 2: change for next year. Some of the schools are indeficite

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Speaker 2: and some of the teachers use their own money to

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Speaker 2: get resources to support the teacher, the students as well

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Speaker 2: as the schools that they represent. I just want to

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Speaker 2: do a big shout out to all the teacher and

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Speaker 2: the staff for every single school, especially Sanderson. Not being

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Speaker 2: biased or anything, but I would just like to say

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Speaker 2: thank you to them all. They work their butt off

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Speaker 2: this year. It's absolutely amazing to have such great educators.

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Speaker 1: Throughout there here, you know. And as we sort of

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Speaker 1: head into it's the final week of school, I know

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Speaker 1: some kids are finishing today, others finishing tomorrow. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if anybody's still there on Friday. But you know, you,

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Speaker 1: spot On, a big thank you to all of those teachers.

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Speaker 1: They work incredibly hard. I know under sometimes it can

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Speaker 1: be really difficult, difficult situations and as you've said, you know,

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Speaker 1: money out of their own pockets for the classroom at

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Speaker 1: different times too. So yep, I agree with you Mark,

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Speaker 1: a big thank you to all of those wonderful teachers.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Katie. And you know we can't

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Speaker 2: do anything without those teachers, so so thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely good on. You have a lovely Christmas. See if

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking to you before.

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Speaker 2: Then Katie, you and Christal have an absolutely amazing Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mite, thank you