Um, so in simple terms, what is Community Owned Australia?

Community Owned Australia, it's, it's about pulling together and resolving all of the pain points i- in, in a, in a single service that rural communities experience trying to do this.

So I, I don't, I don't wanna suggest for one second there aren't dozens of communities out there doing this already, 'cause there are, and, and they're, they're finding a way.

But there's no place they can go where they can understand what, what they don't know yet, what they need to know-Um, and be supported on their terms to have someone walk alongside them about the opportunity that they see for their community, and using that opportunity of solving an issue or creating something new as the motivation for the learning part.

And so what Community Owned Australia does is it does a diagnostic on your community and the, and the, the, the pr- the thing that you're trying to do, you know? And e- And if you're not there yet, you don't have the right team in place or there's not a business model, you know, that, that's, that's obvious and you're not sure about governance structures and all that, and that's all fine, by the way, if you don't have those, then, then we don't say, "Go away." We say, "Hey, uh, we, we run a whole learning and development service here that really quickly can get you up to speed about what's actually required to, to take something on." Because when you take something on like this, you're leading within your rural community context and you're put- you're putting at jeopardy sometimes four or five, or, or in the case of Aboriginal communities, 2,000 generations of working together.

And so you don't wanna underplay the seriousness of the community owning the supermarket and then it falling over 12 months later and people looking, looking to, to, "Who do we blame here?" You know? And, and that fracturing that we know can eas- so easily happen in rural communities.

Which is so, so why it's important that there's a feasibility grants program as part of this service, so that, so that when we think on paper and at a high level it can be feasible, there's a real business model here.

If someone, if community's listening in, someone, one of those key people in the community, what are, what are the first two or three things they should do if they wanna kick off something like a community-owned asset?