September 5, 2024 • 15 mins
If you’ve watched any of the Paralympics over the past week, you’ve likely heard of Alexa Leary.
She has won two gold medals, broken two world records - well, the same world record, twice - and brought a smile to the faces of all of us.
So who is Alexa Leary and how did she become one of Australia’s most treasured paralympians this year?
We’ll tell you her story today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Already and this is the Daily This is the Daily OS. Oh,
now it makes sense. Good morning and welcome to the
Daily OS. It is Friday, the sixth of September. I'm Billy,
I'm Zara Alexa Leary. If you have watched any of
(00:23):
the Paralympics over the past week, you have likely heard
her name or watched one of her post swimming interviews.
She's won two gold medals, broken two world records, well
the same world record twice, and brought a smile to
the faces.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Of all of us at home.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So who is Alexa Leary and how did she become
one of Australia's most treasured Paralympians this year. We'll tell
you her story in today's Deep Dive. But before we
get there, Zara, what is making headlines?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The Australian Electoral Commission the eight has announced plans to
modify the boundaries of eleven federal electoral divisions in Victoria
and officially abolish the seat of Higgins. It means Labour
MP Michelle and Under Raja will lose her seat in
Melbourne's Inner Southwest. Ananda Rajah won the historically safe Liberal
seat in twenty twenty two, but the MP's political future
(01:20):
is now uncertain. The move also means that independent candidates
Lucy Bradlough and bronwin Bach, who you might have heard
on our podcast a little earlier this year they both
launched a campaign to job share as members for Higgins,
they'll now be unable to run in this seat. The
pair said they are working on a revised campaign. Residents
in Higgins will be assigned to surrounding electorates for the
(01:41):
twenty twenty five election.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
The Greens have won their first ever seat in the
Northern Territory Parliament, in a Darwin electorate previously held by
former Chief Minister Natasha Files. It comes two weeks after
the territory's election was won by the Country Liberal Party.
Green's candidate at Cat McNamara beat Files in the seat
of Nightcliff by around thirty votes. The result means Labour's
(02:06):
pre election majority in the territory has been reduced to
just four seats. Files resigned from the leadership last year
due to allegations she hadn't disclosed shares in a mining company.
Her successor as Chief Minister, Evia Laula, also lost her
seat at the territory election.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hip back against mass
protests calling for an immediate hostage release deal, saying and
I quote, no one is more committed to freeing the
hostages than me. No one will preach to me on
this issue. It comes after the bodies of six hostages
abducted by humas on October seven were recovered in a
tunnel in Gaza by the IDF over the weekend. Labor
(02:47):
unions in Israel have threatened to continue nationwide strikes until
the remaining hostages are released.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And today's good news, University of Queensland scientists have discovered
a filter to extract per and polyphlorical chemicals aka forever
chemicals from drinking water. That means that the separated chemicals
can then be used for renewable batteries. A team of
researchers is set to begin a full trial of the
filter at water treatment plants with state government funding. Lead
(03:18):
scientist doctor Chang Zang said quote, if this testing goes
as we believe it will, we hope to reach commercial
production within three years. Before we get to today's deep dive,
a quick message from our sponsor.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I've been following Alexi Leary on social media for I
think two or three years now, and it's been a
huge journey to watch her and watch her social media.
And I don't want to ruin too much. But if
people listening are not Alexileary loyalists, I have become billy.
Can you just give us a bit of a sense
(03:53):
of who she is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, I'll give you a quick overview before we tell
you her story. So, Alexi Leary is twenty three years old.
She actually just turned twenty three. She grew up on
the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. She is a Paralympic swimmer.
Her specialty in swimming is the one hundred meter freestyle
in the S nine category, and so far this Paralympics
(04:16):
she has one two gold medals. Now I mentioned the
S nine category if you're not familiar with the categories
at the Paralympics. Basically that S stands for swimming, and
so in other sports you'll see other letters. But here
the S stands for swimming and the number next to
it that relates to the degree to which the athletes
(04:37):
disability impacts their ability to compete. I had no idea, no, no,
so S one to S ten is for athletes with
a physical impairment, with one being the most severe, and
Alexa is in S nine. Now, a lot of people
will have come across Alexa for her post swim interviews.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
They're the best.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Her personality is just unbelievably infectious. It is hard not
to watch those interviews and have a smile, just ear
to ear. And I'm going to play a few as
we go through this deep dive, but I will save
them for now.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I'm very much looking forward to that, because you're right.
Anyone that has watched or listened to Alexa knows full
well that you cannot walk away from watching Alexi lear
without feeling better than you were you know, before you did.
But BILLI can you take us through a bit of
the story as to how Alexi Leary became a Paralympian
and a gold winning paralympian at that.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So Alexa wasn't always a swimmer, or at least she
wasn't always only a swimmer. So she was actually a
triathlete when she was younger, and she was really successful
at it from a young age. So Alexa finished second
in the eighteen to nineteen age group in the world
Triathon Grand Final in Switzerland in twenty nineteen. Now, Zara,
(05:56):
I know that you don't absolutely love exercise, I thought
I do a quick explain where I was going.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I know you don't absolutely love triathlons.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So in case you don't know when to triathon involves,
thank you. It is swimming, cycling and running. Now, Alexa's
dream was to go to the Olympics, and we know
this because her parents and herself has sheared it's several
times in different media interviews that that really was her
ultimate goal. But everything changed for Alexa in July of
(06:27):
twenty twenty one, so three years ago, when during training
for a triathlon, her front wheel on her bike clipped
the bike ahead of her and that caused an accident
that saw Alexa land on her head, and the accident
resulted in major brain damage, blood clots, and also several
(06:47):
broken bones. Now, Alex's parents have spoken many times, like
I said before, about just how severe this accident was
and that they were told that she could have died.
There were moments that they did didn't know whether she
could live. He's a short snippet of her parents talking
to her current affair just a few months after that accident. Yeah,
and that first night, I don't forget.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
At three fifty nine in the morning, the phone rings
and a lady just said, look, you have to make
a decision now, will either take your daughter's scalp off
or she'll pass. It's horrible because she'd walk out of
there going we're going to come back tomorrow. She's going
to be alive.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So Alexa spent a week on life support and then
when she woke, she pretty much had to learn to
do everything again. She had to completely learn to walk
and talk again. And she spent more than one hundred
days in hospital recovering from that accident, during which her
family started a fundraising campaign to enhance the care in
(07:43):
her recovery. You might recognize it because it became quite
well known. It was called Move for Lex, And they
also started an Instagram page that documented her recovery and
that now has more than one hundred thousand followers, and
it still keeps followers updated on how her going, because,
as she also mentions in media interviews, she is still
(08:04):
in recovery. Yeah. And it was during her recovery, early
on in her recovery that she used swimming as another
avenue to help her rehabilitation.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I remember watching the move for lex Instagram page growing
and watching Alexa go from not being able to stand
unassisted to watching her swim and watching her, you know,
out with friends. And I think that social media is
denigrated for a lot of good reasons, but this is
(08:35):
one of those times where you really got to watch
kind of first hand experience, watch someone recover and watch
it really beautifully unfold. But obviously we only see parts
of that on social media, and for her the recovery
would have been so long and so difficult. At what point, though,
did swimming become not just part of the recovery but
(08:57):
actually something that she seriously want to pursue moving forward.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So I found this interview that her family did with
a Current Affair. I played a little snippet of it before.
Like I said, it was about five months after the accident,
and they spoke about just how natural she was in
the water.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
What is it like watching her get back to swimming?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh, just amazing. I mean swimming was a forte in Trithon,
she was swimming, was her best league while on White
Then in twenty twenty three, so two years after her accident,
she was chosen to represent Australia as an S nine
swimmer at the twenty twenty three World Para Swimming Championships,
So that was kind of her first step into the
professional para swimming race. And at those Championships she won
(09:42):
a gold medal in the women's one hundred meter freestyle
S nine and she also won a silver medal in
the women's fifty meters freestyle S nine.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Okay, so twenty twenty three was when Alexa Leary was
first chosen to represent Australia and then this year she
qualified for the Paralympics.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, I think if you weren't a of who she
was before this year, a lot of Australians came to
know Alexa during the Paralympic trials when just her complete
joy and her excitement after her spot in the team
was confirmed, it really just captivated the nation. I remember
seeing it on the front page of the newspapers the
day after. It was such a beautiful moment.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You just qualified for your first Paralympics.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, Lex, WHOA.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Now I'm trying not to get emotional because your journey
has been meteoric and this dream only materialized a few
years ago. As I just said, but how big a
part has that played in your recovery? Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Massive, Like I've actually come so far. I'm so impressed.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm even in the water. I'm like, yeah, Lex, like
it comes so far.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I'm so excited. I'm like, it's the Crepes for me.
And that audio is from Channel nine, who has the
broadcasting rights for the Paralympics. So thank you Channel nine
for letting us play that. I wish we could just
play her entire interview because, like we said before, her
energy is just so contagious.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And so the clip you just played was Alexa qualifying
or after qualifying for the paralymp Pics. And then this
week she's won gold medals in the Paralympics.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, She's had an incredible campaign so far, winning two
gold medals. The first was in a medley relay in
the four by one hundred meters where Alexa was doing
the freestyle legs, so the freestyle one hundred meter at
the end. I don't know if you saw this, but
it was just incredible to watch because when Alexa got
into the water, Australia wasn't coming first. We were behind
(11:36):
by quite a few body lengths. Alexa gets in the
water and just steams down the pool dominates, it completely dominates,
and I think she takes the lead in the last
like five seconds or something, and she secured the gold
for Australia. And then in her solo event in the
one hundred meter freestyle S nine, she actually beat the
(11:56):
world record in the heat.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Which is kind of on her.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You know, it's not often that athletes will use all
of their energy in the heat, but she didn't use
all of her energy. She actually then in the final,
which was on the same day, beat her own world
record that she had done that morning.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Again incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Here's again a little bit of what she said after
she won that race. It's been a long, rough journey
for me. But it's a miracle that I'm living and
I'm walking and I'm talking when they were told that
I never would three years ago, and I've just come
so far.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I'm so impressed with myself. I'm my Alex, look how
far you've actually come.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Again. That audio is from Channel nine.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
When you listen to those clips, I think one thing
that comes through loud and clear is Alexa's message of
loving herself and backing herself and you know, making really
clear how proud she is of what her body and
her mind has been able to achieve. Is that something
she speaks about.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, I think that really comes through every time I
have heard her speak. I actually want to read out
a quote that she said in an interview earlier this
year that is about a ritual that she does every
day to help her in that journey of believing in
herself and loving herself and being really proud of herself.
So she said quote, every day, I write an affirmation
(13:18):
on the mirror and I look at it and I
believe it, and I think it's through the day. It's like,
you love yourself, Lex look who you are. You've got
to learn to love yourself. So that's a big thing
for me.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I think that that is just the perfect energy to
go into a Friday with. I think that we all
have a lot to learn from Alexa and the way
that she shows up in the world each and every day.
And I do think it's important to say, of course,
that Alexa is just one of more than one hundred
people that Australia has sent to the Paralympics. There are
so many incredible stories that I would encourage everyone to
(13:50):
read and learn and listen about this is again just
one of those paralympians, but thought that we'd leave you
on a high on this Friday.
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(14:18):
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and have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
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Bunjelung Kalkutin woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily Os acknowledges
that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the
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Already and this is the Daily This is the Daily OS. Oh,
now it makes sense. Good morning and welcome to the
Daily OS. It is Friday, the sixth of September. I'm Billy,
I'm Zara Alexa Leary. If you have watched any of
(00:23):
the Paralympics over the past week, you have likely heard
her name or watched one of her post swimming interviews.
She's won two gold medals, broken two world records, well
the same world record twice, and brought a smile to
the faces.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Of all of us at home.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
So who is Alexa Leary and how did she become
one of Australia's most treasured Paralympians this year. We'll tell
you her story in today's Deep Dive. But before we
get there, Zara, what is making headlines?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The Australian Electoral Commission the eight has announced plans to
modify the boundaries of eleven federal electoral divisions in Victoria
and officially abolish the seat of Higgins. It means Labour
MP Michelle and Under Raja will lose her seat in
Melbourne's Inner Southwest. Ananda Rajah won the historically safe Liberal
seat in twenty twenty two, but the MP's political future
(01:20):
is now uncertain. The move also means that independent candidates
Lucy Bradlough and bronwin Bach, who you might have heard
on our podcast a little earlier this year they both
launched a campaign to job share as members for Higgins,
they'll now be unable to run in this seat. The
pair said they are working on a revised campaign. Residents
in Higgins will be assigned to surrounding electorates for the
(01:41):
twenty twenty five election.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
The Greens have won their first ever seat in the
Northern Territory Parliament, in a Darwin electorate previously held by
former Chief Minister Natasha Files. It comes two weeks after
the territory's election was won by the Country Liberal Party.
Green's candidate at Cat McNamara beat Files in the seat
of Nightcliff by around thirty votes. The result means Labour's
(02:06):
pre election majority in the territory has been reduced to
just four seats. Files resigned from the leadership last year
due to allegations she hadn't disclosed shares in a mining company.
Her successor as Chief Minister, Evia Laula, also lost her
seat at the territory election.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hip back against mass
protests calling for an immediate hostage release deal, saying and
I quote, no one is more committed to freeing the
hostages than me. No one will preach to me on
this issue. It comes after the bodies of six hostages
abducted by humas on October seven were recovered in a
tunnel in Gaza by the IDF over the weekend. Labor
(02:47):
unions in Israel have threatened to continue nationwide strikes until
the remaining hostages are released.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And today's good news, University of Queensland scientists have discovered
a filter to extract per and polyphlorical chemicals aka forever
chemicals from drinking water. That means that the separated chemicals
can then be used for renewable batteries. A team of
researchers is set to begin a full trial of the
filter at water treatment plants with state government funding. Lead
(03:18):
scientist doctor Chang Zang said quote, if this testing goes
as we believe it will, we hope to reach commercial
production within three years. Before we get to today's deep dive,
a quick message from our sponsor.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I've been following Alexi Leary on social media for I
think two or three years now, and it's been a
huge journey to watch her and watch her social media.
And I don't want to ruin too much. But if
people listening are not Alexileary loyalists, I have become billy.
Can you just give us a bit of a sense
(03:53):
of who she is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, I'll give you a quick overview before we tell
you her story. So, Alexi Leary is twenty three years old.
She actually just turned twenty three. She grew up on
the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. She is a Paralympic swimmer.
Her specialty in swimming is the one hundred meter freestyle
in the S nine category, and so far this Paralympics
(04:16):
she has one two gold medals. Now I mentioned the
S nine category if you're not familiar with the categories
at the Paralympics. Basically that S stands for swimming, and
so in other sports you'll see other letters. But here
the S stands for swimming and the number next to
it that relates to the degree to which the athletes
(04:37):
disability impacts their ability to compete. I had no idea, no, no,
so S one to S ten is for athletes with
a physical impairment, with one being the most severe, and
Alexa is in S nine. Now, a lot of people
will have come across Alexa for her post swim interviews.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
They're the best.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Her personality is just unbelievably infectious. It is hard not
to watch those interviews and have a smile, just ear
to ear. And I'm going to play a few as
we go through this deep dive, but I will save
them for now.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I'm very much looking forward to that, because you're right.
Anyone that has watched or listened to Alexa knows full
well that you cannot walk away from watching Alexi lear
without feeling better than you were you know, before you did.
But BILLI can you take us through a bit of
the story as to how Alexi Leary became a Paralympian
and a gold winning paralympian at that.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
So Alexa wasn't always a swimmer, or at least she
wasn't always only a swimmer. So she was actually a
triathlete when she was younger, and she was really successful
at it from a young age. So Alexa finished second
in the eighteen to nineteen age group in the world
Triathon Grand Final in Switzerland in twenty nineteen. Now, Zara,
(05:56):
I know that you don't absolutely love exercise, I thought
I do a quick explain where I was going.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I know you don't absolutely love triathlons.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So in case you don't know when to triathon involves,
thank you. It is swimming, cycling and running. Now, Alexa's
dream was to go to the Olympics, and we know
this because her parents and herself has sheared it's several
times in different media interviews that that really was her
ultimate goal. But everything changed for Alexa in July of
(06:27):
twenty twenty one, so three years ago, when during training
for a triathlon, her front wheel on her bike clipped
the bike ahead of her and that caused an accident
that saw Alexa land on her head, and the accident
resulted in major brain damage, blood clots, and also several
(06:47):
broken bones. Now, Alex's parents have spoken many times, like
I said before, about just how severe this accident was
and that they were told that she could have died.
There were moments that they did didn't know whether she
could live. He's a short snippet of her parents talking
to her current affair just a few months after that accident. Yeah,
and that first night, I don't forget.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
At three fifty nine in the morning, the phone rings
and a lady just said, look, you have to make
a decision now, will either take your daughter's scalp off
or she'll pass. It's horrible because she'd walk out of
there going we're going to come back tomorrow. She's going
to be alive.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So Alexa spent a week on life support and then
when she woke, she pretty much had to learn to
do everything again. She had to completely learn to walk
and talk again. And she spent more than one hundred
days in hospital recovering from that accident, during which her
family started a fundraising campaign to enhance the care in
(07:43):
her recovery. You might recognize it because it became quite
well known. It was called Move for Lex, And they
also started an Instagram page that documented her recovery and
that now has more than one hundred thousand followers, and
it still keeps followers updated on how her going, because,
as she also mentions in media interviews, she is still
(08:04):
in recovery. Yeah. And it was during her recovery, early
on in her recovery that she used swimming as another
avenue to help her rehabilitation.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I remember watching the move for lex Instagram page growing
and watching Alexa go from not being able to stand
unassisted to watching her swim and watching her, you know,
out with friends. And I think that social media is
denigrated for a lot of good reasons, but this is
(08:35):
one of those times where you really got to watch
kind of first hand experience, watch someone recover and watch
it really beautifully unfold. But obviously we only see parts
of that on social media, and for her the recovery
would have been so long and so difficult. At what point, though,
did swimming become not just part of the recovery but
(08:57):
actually something that she seriously want to pursue moving forward.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So I found this interview that her family did with
a Current Affair. I played a little snippet of it before.
Like I said, it was about five months after the accident,
and they spoke about just how natural she was in
the water.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
What is it like watching her get back to swimming?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh, just amazing. I mean swimming was a forte in Trithon,
she was swimming, was her best league while on White
Then in twenty twenty three, so two years after her accident,
she was chosen to represent Australia as an S nine
swimmer at the twenty twenty three World Para Swimming Championships,
So that was kind of her first step into the
professional para swimming race. And at those Championships she won
(09:42):
a gold medal in the women's one hundred meter freestyle
S nine and she also won a silver medal in
the women's fifty meters freestyle S nine.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Okay, so twenty twenty three was when Alexa Leary was
first chosen to represent Australia and then this year she
qualified for the Paralympics.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, I think if you weren't a of who she
was before this year, a lot of Australians came to
know Alexa during the Paralympic trials when just her complete
joy and her excitement after her spot in the team
was confirmed, it really just captivated the nation. I remember
seeing it on the front page of the newspapers the
day after. It was such a beautiful moment.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You just qualified for your first Paralympics.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, Lex, WHOA.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Now I'm trying not to get emotional because your journey
has been meteoric and this dream only materialized a few
years ago. As I just said, but how big a
part has that played in your recovery? Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Massive, Like I've actually come so far. I'm so impressed.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'm even in the water. I'm like, yeah, Lex, like
it comes so far.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I'm so excited. I'm like, it's the Crepes for me.
And that audio is from Channel nine, who has the
broadcasting rights for the Paralympics. So thank you Channel nine
for letting us play that. I wish we could just
play her entire interview because, like we said before, her
energy is just so contagious.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And so the clip you just played was Alexa qualifying
or after qualifying for the paralymp Pics. And then this
week she's won gold medals in the Paralympics.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, She's had an incredible campaign so far, winning two
gold medals. The first was in a medley relay in
the four by one hundred meters where Alexa was doing
the freestyle legs, so the freestyle one hundred meter at
the end. I don't know if you saw this, but
it was just incredible to watch because when Alexa got
into the water, Australia wasn't coming first. We were behind
(11:36):
by quite a few body lengths. Alexa gets in the
water and just steams down the pool dominates, it completely dominates,
and I think she takes the lead in the last
like five seconds or something, and she secured the gold
for Australia. And then in her solo event in the
one hundred meter freestyle S nine, she actually beat the
(11:56):
world record in the heat.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Which is kind of on her.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You know, it's not often that athletes will use all
of their energy in the heat, but she didn't use
all of her energy. She actually then in the final,
which was on the same day, beat her own world
record that she had done that morning.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Again incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Here's again a little bit of what she said after
she won that race. It's been a long, rough journey
for me. But it's a miracle that I'm living and
I'm walking and I'm talking when they were told that
I never would three years ago, and I've just come
so far.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I'm so impressed with myself. I'm my Alex, look how
far you've actually come.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Again. That audio is from Channel nine.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
When you listen to those clips, I think one thing
that comes through loud and clear is Alexa's message of
loving herself and backing herself and you know, making really
clear how proud she is of what her body and
her mind has been able to achieve. Is that something
she speaks about.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, I think that really comes through every time I
have heard her speak. I actually want to read out
a quote that she said in an interview earlier this
year that is about a ritual that she does every
day to help her in that journey of believing in
herself and loving herself and being really proud of herself.
So she said quote, every day, I write an affirmation
(13:18):
on the mirror and I look at it and I
believe it, and I think it's through the day. It's like,
you love yourself, Lex look who you are. You've got
to learn to love yourself. So that's a big thing
for me.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I think that that is just the perfect energy to
go into a Friday with. I think that we all
have a lot to learn from Alexa and the way
that she shows up in the world each and every day.
And I do think it's important to say, of course,
that Alexa is just one of more than one hundred
people that Australia has sent to the Paralympics. There are
so many incredible stories that I would encourage everyone to
(13:50):
read and learn and listen about this is again just
one of those paralympians, but thought that we'd leave you
on a high on this Friday.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Thank you so much for listening it to this episode
of The Daily Os. And just whilst I have you,
we're currently running a podcast survey because we would love
to know your feedback on our podcast. We are always
looking for new ways to improve what we do here
and we can't do that without you letting us know
what it is you like and what it is you
(14:18):
think that we could maybe improve on. The link to
that is in today's show notes. Thank you so much
and have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Aarunda
Bunjelung Kalkutin woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily Os acknowledges
that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the
Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Island and nations. We pay our respects to the
first peoples of these countries, both past and present.
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