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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk about ANZAC Day, as

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Speaker 1: there should be as we lead into ANZAC Day. And

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Speaker 1: joining me in the studio right now, let me just

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Speaker 1: make sure I've got those microphones on. We have got

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Speaker 1: because we know the ANZAC Shield footy matches are going

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Speaker 1: to be taking place between the ADF and the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory Police Fight and Emergency Services this Saturday. And joining

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Speaker 1: me in the studio, I've got Australian Army Captain Christel Jones.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, thanks for having us here this morning.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's so good to have you both in the studio.

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Speaker 1: And we've got senior Firefighter Brent Roli, Good morning to

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Speaker 1: your Brent.

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Speaker 3: Morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Now you both obviously have second titles as well. And

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Speaker 1: jonesy yours is the coach of the ADF women's women's team.

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Speaker 1: Are you also playing as well?

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Speaker 2: No, just coaching this year. I've gone past my playing years,

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Speaker 2: so the girls now get to hear my voice off

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Speaker 2: the field and potentially yelling on the fields.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, I love it. And Brent, you're the

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Speaker 1: co captain of the men's PFS side, aren't you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's Todd Hayes is the other co captain from

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Speaker 4: the police side of things to represent.

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Speaker 3: And then we've got Mark Dikson as our coach.

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Speaker 4: He's a longtime nightcliff star, so he's looking after the crew.

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Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you what, it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: fantastic day on Saturday the twenty fourth. It is of course,

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Speaker 1: like I mentioned, the ANZAC Shield footy matches. How seriously

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Speaker 1: are these games being taken?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to say we're going to take it

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Speaker 2: quite serious because it's all about the footy on the day.

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Speaker 2: But we all like to win, kay, But at the

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Speaker 2: same time, at the end of the day, win, lose, draw.

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Speaker 2: It's all about that ANZAC and the community feeling.

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Speaker 1: It really is. But jonesy as I understand it. This

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Speaker 1: is is this the first time that the women have

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Speaker 1: been able to play?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct. So in the past it's been men's

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Speaker 2: and obviously over the last few years COVID and other

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Speaker 2: things have got involved, we haven't been able to have

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Speaker 2: this opportunity. So this year we've really tried to fight

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Speaker 2: hard to bring back the AFL game and bring back

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Speaker 2: to Shield. But what better way to do it is

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Speaker 2: not only have the men's game, but let's have the

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Speaker 2: women's game, because look how strong the Darwin Women's League

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Speaker 2: is becoming, and it's just growing year after year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. And I mean you talk, we

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Speaker 1: talk about the competition and the competitiveness of it, but

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Speaker 1: it's also that camaraderie, isn't it And being able to

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Speaker 1: sort of get together and train together and then play

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Speaker 1: against each other, which, like you said, win, lose or draw,

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Speaker 1: it's a really important time to do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, one hundred percent. So COVID obviously has been

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Speaker 2: the thing in the current life at the moment. We've

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Speaker 2: been working together through community areas, arm in arm, But

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Speaker 2: what better way now is to actually take that footy pitch,

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Speaker 2: give them a little bit of a nudge. Hopefully the

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Speaker 2: boys will win by a goal and the girls will

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Speaker 2: buy a few more goals, but then afterwards shake hands

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Speaker 2: and then get back around each other, which we will

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Speaker 2: be really good.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now, Brent, you were saying to me, all fair

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Speaker 1: that I think the defense crew they really started training

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Speaker 1: a little bit early have in our pot and emergency services.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got a bit of a jump on us.

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Speaker 4: They had had a few training sessions before we'd even

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Speaker 4: sent the email out to see who'd like to play,

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Speaker 4: but a little bit of hurting cats early on. But

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Speaker 4: now they had a training session last night and we've

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Speaker 4: put a really strong team together, several players out of

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Speaker 4: the NTFL league. We've got our star Dean Staunton in

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Speaker 4: the middle there, so he's going to be really hard

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Speaker 4: for their side to stop.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, we're looking. I'm confident. I'm confident.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Brent, what I noticed. I actually saw this

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Speaker 1: news story on Channel nine the other night and I

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Speaker 1: thought to myself, Brent, do you still actually what grade

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Speaker 1: do you still play?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: You're still playing, aren't you. Yeah, I'm still playing.

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Speaker 4: I just not stopped two hundred and fifty games at

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Speaker 4: Tars actually just at the end of the season there,

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Speaker 4: and we got through to the grand final in the

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Speaker 4: Div two. Yeah, I've dropped back a few grades in

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Speaker 4: my older age, but still away. But yeah, we got

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Speaker 4: knocked off in the grand final against Pints. And I've

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Speaker 4: just because I'm still sort of getting to know a

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Speaker 4: few of the police guys. And yeah, I found out

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Speaker 4: that I might have been standing on one of the

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Speaker 4: guys that's in our sidet. He told me he reckons

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Speaker 4: he towed me up in the Grand Final, so there's

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Speaker 4: a bit of banter amongst us, and I'm sure it's

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Speaker 4: going to happen after a few biers with the Army

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Speaker 4: guys after the game as well.

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Speaker 1: So what I wondered though, after I watched that report

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Speaker 1: on Channel nine is I thought, I reckon, the Police,

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Speaker 1: Fire and Emergency Service Group have got a few dark

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Speaker 1: horses in there, and you're just laying at low. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's the ones you've got to that are a bit

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Speaker 1: quieter that you've got to keep an eye on, and

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Speaker 1: you're not doing too much snack talking at the moment.

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Speaker 1: But I reckon, you've got a few good players.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see how we go.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we've had a few of these sort of

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Speaker 4: games against antieth Thunder and that in the past. This

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Speaker 4: is the first one against the Army since two thousand

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Speaker 4: and three, so that's really exciting. But yeah, we do

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Speaker 4: like to get together and have these games and let

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Speaker 4: our sort of on field skills do the talking sort

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Speaker 4: of thing. We'll let the Army tak themselves up to

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Speaker 4: be fit.

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Speaker 3: To be fair.

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Speaker 4: I did see them train the other day and they

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Speaker 4: look really sharp, So we're up against it, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think we're going to handyside coming into it.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like it's going to be fantastic, now, Jones, he

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Speaker 1: has I understand it. You've actually got a few of

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Speaker 1: the Dignit Trees as well coming down to watch that

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Speaker 1: game on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: That's correct. So Anzac Day been on Sunday, but our

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Speaker 2: game being on the Saturday. We got the Governor General

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Speaker 2: coming into location. But also we've got our first brigade

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Speaker 2: one star Bigay commander will be there as well, so

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Speaker 2: there'll be a lot of rank in the crowd, but

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Speaker 2: there will be a lot of community people hierarchy as well.

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Speaker 2: So it is gold coin donation supporting and all proceeds

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Speaker 2: going to the Legacy. So what better way is to

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Speaker 2: come down to a kind of free, free game, get

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Speaker 2: to watch the skills not only in the girls and

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Speaker 2: the guys, okay, but there will be a bit of

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Speaker 2: entertainment as well. Yeah, all proceeds going to Legacy, which

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Speaker 2: is really great, such.

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Speaker 1: An important cause and such an important group to go to. Brent.

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Speaker 1: Have you got the Commissioner and Spainy, the chief fire

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Speaker 1: officer and a few of them coming down.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, The Commissioner's definitely coming down. Hopefully we get Spainy

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Speaker 4: down there and maybe even.

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Speaker 3: Pull on the shorts. We tried.

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Speaker 4: We tried to get him to have a bit of

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Speaker 4: a run for us. In the last game we had

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Speaker 4: a run with the airport fires. He was out there

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Speaker 4: running water and stuff. So yeah, definitely they will be down.

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Speaker 4: I think our Assistant chief is having a run on

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Speaker 4: the bench as well for us as well, so Stosh Fisher,

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Speaker 4: So yeah, he's awesome coming along as well.

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Speaker 3: Oh good on you guys.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's going to be a fantastic day

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. It's such a huge weekend with those ANZAC

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Speaker 1: Day commemorations. Now what time should people get down there

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Speaker 1: if they are keen to watch those games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the gate to open down at too two. Okay,

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Speaker 2: gate to open from two pm. We've got an opening

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Speaker 2: ceremony which will commence at three point thirty and that's

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Speaker 2: all about the ANZAC Day. So we'll come together, united

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Speaker 2: with the community and stand arm with arm next to

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Speaker 2: each other, brothers and sisters. The girls will kick off

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Speaker 2: though four point fifteen with the Girls the Northern Territory

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Speaker 2: ADF kicking our first goal at about the two minute mark,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, and then we'll pass over to the boys.

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Speaker 2: They will kick off at about six thirty. So it's

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Speaker 2: a full afternoon or sport activities for ANZAC Day, but

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Speaker 2: it's really friendly, family friendly for Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Thank you both so much for coming in this morning.

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Speaker 1: I hope you get a great crowd down there on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I reckon that you will, and have a good weekend

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Speaker 1: as well. I think that we're going to see so

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Speaker 1: many territories turn out really given the fact that last

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Speaker 1: year we weren't able to get out for ANZAC Day.

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Speaker 1: It's such an important day for all of Australia, but

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Speaker 1: particularly for us here in the Northern Territory. Thank you

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Speaker 1: both so much. Thanks Kattie and if you had just

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Speaker 1: joined us. That was Australian Army Captain Cristelle Jones and

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Speaker 1: she's also the coach of the ADF women's side and

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Speaker 1: Senior Firefighter Brent Rowley and co captain of the men's

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Speaker 1: PFS side.