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Young Ballarat leaders share their vision for the city for the next decade.

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00:00 The urban nature of the Ballarat CBD has changed to reflect that more so of something that

00:05 you might see in a Brunswick or a Fitzroy.

00:07 It's become such a nice place to head out at 8 o'clock at night and grab a glass of

00:12 wine or grab a late dinner or something like that.

00:15 So the way that we've evolved over the last few years, it's become a much more desirable

00:21 place to live and it's something that we're proud of.

00:24 I'm very focused in what I want to bring to the Ballarat community.

00:31 When I say about flavours, I mean it.

00:33 I'm very serious about it.

00:36 Because flying chillies is not about spicy foods.

00:41 So all our food have chillies in there but we use chilli that is not spicy.

00:46 That actually when you cook it, it brings flavour to your dishes.

00:50 I want people to experience it as what they will experience if they're back home to Malaysia

00:55 or to Indonesia.

00:56 So to bring the authenticity in Ballarat is more important to me than ever.

01:02 It's a nice safe community that I can trust the people in it.

01:06 Good schools and access to brilliant facilities.

01:10 Everyone might laugh at this but I'd love to see Ballarat be more accessible by foot

01:15 and bike.

01:16 I think the quicker that we do that and if we do it early we will reap the benefits as

01:20 a community, not only environmentally but also I think we'll see a far greater representation

01:25 of people in town of an evening.

01:28 And by then I hope that we have a really safe environment where we can send our kids into

01:32 town and they can have a nice cold drink or something and come home after school.

01:37 I want the city to be accessible for people with disabilities.

01:40 I feel like that is the biggest gap that we have in our town at the moment.

01:44 When I take Emma out she's usually the only disabled child that's there and that's because

01:49 accessibility has not been thought about.

01:51 So I would love to go to an event where there's lots of kids with disabilities, you know,

01:56 there's lots of kids with invisible disabilities but Emma's also Maori so I'd like to see kids

02:01 that have ethnic backgrounds and more diversity.

02:04 I really want opportunity for all of those kids.

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