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Australia's inaugural First Nations Children's Commissioner says she will give young people a voice in parliament. The role and power of the commissioner will be legislated in parliament today. The position is designed to advocate and safeguard the wellbeing of young Indigenous people across the country. Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter says a big part of the role will involve listening to children's stories.

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00:00So part of my role will be to go out and talk to kids and get their voices.
00:06We can bring those back, we can do enquiries, make recommendations to Parliament around
00:12the systems from the voices of the children.
00:17What's really exciting is that bringing those young voices into Parliament to hear about
00:25the systemic injustices that are happening and what they need and want to see changed.
00:31I think that's significant that we don't have that outside noise.
00:34We're able to go forward and make our own agenda, make those recommendations to Parliament.
00:41We can push further than we've ever done before.
00:44This is going to be a fully independent commission that can look into systemic injustices wherever
00:51we see fit.
00:52Look, I think there's a lot of things we can check, particularly if we look at youth
00:57incarceration and child removal.
00:59We can always look at those numbers.
01:01That will take a long term because it's been in place for a while.
01:05So over the five years we hope to make a dent, particularly in those areas.
01:09I think one of the biggest things we want to see, not that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
01:14kids aren't thriving, we want to see more kids thriving.
01:17We want to work in partnership with other commissioners, with other bodies, so that we can make great
01:24change.
01:25And what we'll see is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids thriving in this country.
01:29.
01:38Great.
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