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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster. Robert Palmer is the music today. That song there arguably one of his lesser known songs, but still a cracker song. Every kind of people back in the day used to be all over the year waves. Nonetheless, returning to the present, Lindsay Wright. Lindsay's done a lot of really good work in the Royal Support Trust space over the years. He's a founding member there and he was fortunate enough to be the recipient of the King's Service Medal on the King's Birthday Honors which were released yesterday, and Lindsay's going to join us so afthnon have a bit of talk about it. It's a pretty cool story, Lindsay. Welcome and firstly, congratulations.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Andy. I really appreciate that. It's kind of a strange feeling to be rewarded for just during what you've been doing, but no certainly your privilege and very very gratified to receive.
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Speaker 1: It because you don't do these kind of positions to get the rewards, I suppose, But at the same time being recognized for what you've done it must be pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: Oh it is. It's lovely to have that recognition, both individual but also of the organizations. It's interesting you just say that because I've just doing some cleaning out here in Rafas today and I found a box full of the old newspaper cuttings from the twenty ten snow and you look back at the people that were involved in all the people that mucked in to get that, to deal with that snow, and it's just like, Yeah, that's what ural living's about. It's just people get on and work together and make stuff happen.
00:01:46
Speaker 1: Because I remember that snowstorm doing a landing beat. It wasn't a lot of fun, but you were yourselves and the real support trusted something about it.
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Speaker 2: That's right, And yeah, I think we weren't too sure what we were going to do about it when it first had but you just have a look at it. You get people together and we had some great support boats from the rural community, from environments not environments out the EMS, Emergency Managements Outland and Federated Farmers MPI. A lot of people came together and helped us and we did what we could to help them.
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Speaker 1: Is it a fulfilling role doing something like the Rural Support Trust?
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Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely yes, We've just knowing that you could put yourself out there to help the rural people, and over the years we gained their trust. And it was difficult at the start because we were learning as much as the people that we were serving were trying to learn. And so it's just the fact that you know, if you've been through some tough times, you can sit at somebody's kitchen table and be able to help them through and understand. You can never know how other people feel, but you can understand what's making them feel like that, and so that's I think that was the pleaser of it, being able to go there and just say to people, we understand, what can we do that's going to make it better for you.
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Speaker 1: Do you think it's a case, Lindsay, of people having to go through these situations to get a total comprehension of what other people are going through.
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Speaker 2: I don't think you maybe need to go through them, but it's understanding. I think you just picked that up on your way through farming life. But stuff happens, and sometimes you deal with it okay, and other times it's a challenge. You know, for me, it knocked me over, but that became an asset for me later on to be able to recognize that and other people and help them through. So yeah, it's just it's just a great organization to be part of. To know that you can make the rural community a stronger and the more resilient place for people to live in.
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Speaker 1: That'll be one of the things I'd say most proud of, lindsay the way that the stoic Southern persona over the past twenty to thirty years has kind of fallen by the wayside. It's okay not to be okay.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, that was that was our message sort of midway through. But it took a long time to get the trust reputation up and running. And I think the guys that have taken over in recent years, you know, they've taken that to a new level and the recognition, but the support that the trust's getting, I mean, I see like the Adam Newton house at the Field days, that was we would have dreamed of something like that back at the start. But to know that the industry and the real professionals and all that have got our back at the real support trust is just so gratifying because you know then that the whole Trust is recognized and got that respect in the province.
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Speaker 1: Now you've been involved through droughts, flood relief, like your players from Bovas as well. Just regarding in Bovas, what was your what's your initial reactions when you think.
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Speaker 2: Back, poor, Yeah, Bogus came out out of nowhere and it was just this huge wall coming at us. We weren't really sure what was happening because it was a biosecurity event. MPI were leading it, but we were really challenged by that. I was coordinator at the time and John Kennedy was the chair and he fronted a lot of that pressure in terms of dealing with the cases. That was tough because it was really a challenge for those that were affected, and gosh, there was some heartbreaking stories that went out as that progress through. So yeah, it was it was a tough call and a tough gig to be involved in.
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Speaker 1: The word resilience has frowned upon a lot of circles these days, regardless of what people think about it. Do you think it's something that Southerners have become.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's an interesting word because I can remember being in a meeting and somebody said, I'm sick of being told I'm resilient. I just want to be grumpy, but I don't. We kind of changed in a way to turn it resilience into self reliance, just because the times when things happen on farm and you know you're the one that has to handle it. So resilience or self reliance, I'm not quite sure which is the correct answer, but it's it's certainly something that rural life forces you to be. And sometimes if you get two or three resilient moments come one after the other, sometimes you just run out of resilient petrol.
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Speaker 1: Now the farm's basical end inside you're starting to step back these days. So when you look back over your time on the farm there, I suppose you could say you're leaving it in a pretty good place. Just the farming sector as such.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I wouldn't mind some of the lamb checks and beef checks and milk checks that are going out compared to what I had twenty years ago, Andy, But no, it's great to see that finally there's some returns coming back in that are going to make it better for people. Mind you, those returns are needed because the costs will go up as they do. But no, it's great to see the real sector in such a positive place at the moment, and I'm pleased for those that are out there doing it that they're getting rewarded for what they do.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Lindsey, thanks your time on the muster of this afternoon, of course, the King Service Medal and the King's Birthday honors for your work, We're getting this real support trust a good Yan initiative as well, and look yeah, a real good bugger doing awesome work and a lot of people say this is well deserved and thanks your time this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Cheers Handy, And I just add to that the thanks so much to all the people I've worked with, real support and good young Gosh, there's some good people in this world and we're very privileged to have them serving us wherever they are.
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