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Speaker 1: Well, if you're a regular listener to the show, you'll

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Speaker 1: know that in recent times there's been absolute carnage on

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory roads, with multiple lives lost through crashes, pedestrians,

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Speaker 1: strikes and hit and runs. A sixty six year old

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Speaker 1: male pedestrian was the most recent to lose his life

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Speaker 1: after being struck by two cars in Palmerston last Friday. Now,

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Speaker 1: one group that is dedicated to stopping tragedies like this

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Speaker 1: is the Indigenous Road Safety Academy and their CEO and

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Speaker 1: Larakia woman Martina Hazel Bain, joins me on the line

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Speaker 1: right now. Good morning to you, Martina.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, thank you for the invite.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you on the show. Now, Martina, tell

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Speaker 1: us what exactly does the Indigenous Road Safety Academy.

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Speaker 2: Do, Katie? Thank you. The Indigenous Road Safety Academy has

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Speaker 2: the exclusive license with Driver that World to utilize their

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Speaker 2: multi award winning multisensory ed Tech Learner Driver program and

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Speaker 2: we have the license to roll it out in eight

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Speaker 2: Aboriginal languages.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, So what exactly does that mean you head

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Speaker 1: out to those remote communities and try to educate people

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Speaker 1: in the communities.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, so we go out to remote Aboriginal communities nationally,

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Speaker 2: so all around Australia, and we take our role out

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Speaker 2: mats and our digital tools and our resources and we

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Speaker 2: go out and we educate in first language on the

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Speaker 2: ground in the community.

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Speaker 1: And do you reckon that that's part of the problem sometimes, Martina,

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Speaker 1: is making sure that people are actually, you know, are

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Speaker 1: educated in their first language so that you know that

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Speaker 1: they truly understand some of the different things that are

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Speaker 1: happening on the roads.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, if you can't understand English, and you can't understand

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Speaker 2: the road uses handbook and you don't read or write English,

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Speaker 2: how are you going to understand the road books?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a very fair point, Martina. What

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Speaker 1: are you reasons contributing at the moment to the high

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Speaker 1: number of pedestrians strikes that we're seeing here in the

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Speaker 2: Look, I certainly think you know, speeding, distraction, alcohol and

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Speaker 2: drugs is also a factor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and just

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Speaker 2: people not being people being complacent. Katie, you know, pedestrians

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Speaker 2: do have a right of way on the road.

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Speaker 1: What do you think needs to happen or how do

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Speaker 1: you think we can potentially try to minimize the pedestrian

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Speaker 1: strikes that we're seeing.

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Speaker 2: Look, I certainly don't have all the answers, but you know,

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Speaker 2: I think education is certainly a major factor. Educate. We

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Speaker 2: need to educate our people, We need to educate our community,

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Speaker 2: We need to educate society.

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Speaker 1: And Martina, when you go out to the communities and

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Speaker 1: you've got you know, you've got the roadmaps and things

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Speaker 1: that are in first language, what's the reaction that you get.

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Speaker 2: The reaction is remarkable in communities. It's highly engaging, proactive,

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Speaker 2: it's educational. You get a whole community involvement, and it's

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Speaker 2: what we need. Katie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Look, something's got to change at the moment, because,

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Speaker 1: as I said, we've like it has been a terrible

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Speaker 1: few weeks. I mean, yeah, like I knows it. You know,

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Speaker 1: when you look at those at the road statistics and

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Speaker 1: you look at the number of fatalities, it's horrendous. But

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Speaker 1: then there's also so many other crashes that happen, and

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Speaker 1: so many other things that happen where they're not fatalities,

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Speaker 1: but people are really seriously injured.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Look, and you know, every life lost is such

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Speaker 2: a tragedy. You know, in my own family structure. I've

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Speaker 2: experienced road trauma and you know, lots of words for deaths,

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Speaker 2: and you know, everyone feels that, you feel as a family,

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Speaker 2: you feel as a community, and we want to be

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Speaker 2: able to reduce we want to be able to reduce

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Speaker 2: those deaths on the roads.

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Speaker 1: Martina, what's part of the plan for the Indigenous Road

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Speaker 1: Safety Academy? Do you plan to work with some of

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Speaker 1: the other agencies like Larichia Nation and DIPPLE and you know,

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Speaker 1: others here in the territory to try and address those issues.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely locally, you know, Earthil. We are always actively seeking

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Speaker 2: partnerships in the community, you know, with government agencies, corporate entities,

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Speaker 2: indigenous organizations, because we strongly believe that by collaborative, by

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Speaker 2: being collaborative, you know, we're able to reach those sustainable

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Speaker 2: goals and improve the lives of you know, my people

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Speaker 2: really and I.

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Speaker 1: Know, look like you touched on then you this is

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Speaker 1: something that is very dear to your heart because your

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Speaker 1: own family has been impacted in different ways with some

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Speaker 1: with devastating things happening on the roads.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it has, it has, and I'm just going

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Speaker 2: to say it again. You know, every life lost is

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Speaker 2: a tragedy. It really is.

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Speaker 1: Well, Martina, I really appreciate your time. It's lovely to

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Speaker 1: talk to you and and the work that you're doing.

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Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic work and if we can see

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Speaker 1: it rolled out in more locations, hopefully we can see

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Speaker 1: a minimization in the harm that we're experiencing on our roads.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Katie. You know if we all work together, we

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Speaker 2: as a community, we can address these issues together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Indigenous Road Safety Academy CEO and Larichie a woman,

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Speaker 1: Martina Hazelbain, thank you so much for your.

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Speaker 2: Time and thank you for having me. Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you