Pakenham

desks open 24 hours.

Will he be allowed to do that as an operational decision or will you restrict that? The latest one's Pakenham, which is

closed.

He has operational independence.

So very popular.

There's a lot of infrastructure that's coming out that way towards Pakenham.

But then you've also got in Narrow Warren, obviously, you've got the shopping centre there as well.

And you've also got that train line from Berwick into the Melbourne CBD roughly around about an hour on the train there.

Probably don't want to relive it, but let's just talk us through each run so far to where she's got to now.

Yeah, so we originally had an idea that we might be going to Caulfield first up in the How Now stakes, but because of a delay in a trial due to weather at Pakenham, they were shifted trials from the grass to the synthetic.

We ended up running a week later and the programming was such that there weren't any other options.

So it was Mornington, which we knew was a track that wasn't going to really suit her pattern of racing, but But we still thought or hoped that she might just get over the line in first place.

So can you tell me a little bit about some, you know, do you have any examples of actual stories of people that you came across that you could see that really stood out to you as examples of how ADRA can touch their lives?

Yeah, there's many stories from the bushfires at the start of the year to more locally at our ADRA bus in Pakenham.

where we operate a bus that has been repurposed so that we can provide groceries inside.

We also support with employment support, counselling and work development permits, which help people pay off their fines.

So I'm a psychologist.

I work in private practice in Victoria in Pakenham.

Much of my work is with people experiencing trauma.

grief and loss.