00:03Today we've got the DV Awareness Cup working with the community and working
00:07with young people to educate them about the you know making right decisions the
00:12impacts of poor decisions and you know having other agencies come in and talk
00:16about the help that is available to them. Today is so much more than a rugby game
00:21it's an opportunity for the police and support services to talk to students
00:26about domestic and family violence and about what respectable relationships are
00:31all about and to get them comfortable to be able to talk to police and to know
00:35where to get help. Domestic violence is a massive thing in Australia and obviously
00:41I mean our young people don't really know about it or maybe they do and they
00:44don't even understand what's actually happening so I guess just spreading that
00:48awareness whether it's some you know themselves or a friend or a family member
00:52or even if they've gone through it themselves. With the Dragons we love
00:56kind of coming to these kind of events using ourselves and putting ourselves in
01:01these positions to make sure it's a safe space you know we use football and we use
01:07sport as a driver of that message and know that they're not alone. Starting
01:13conversations earlier and more often about domestic violence is really
01:16important because there are support services available.
01:27people that are very important because they are very important to think of a
01:29family that basically aren't there?
01:31They are very important to think of the knowledge of the rugby team and the
01:32activists, which is a trade-offs they're very important to think of the
01:33people who are very important to think about the game and going through it in a
01:33time that we use a lot of commuter as a team and they're talking about the
01:33team, they don't seem to think that they can help us with any of the
01:34team. They're talking about the people who are trying to believe in our
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