00:00I often say that we as farmers think about the diversity of what we're growing and where we're
00:03growing and how we're growing it but we often don't think about the diversity of who's farming
00:07it. So if we can think about diversity in all its forms and actually start getting Indigenous
00:11people back into agricultural systems we're going to have a much better and a much stronger and more
00:16resilient agricultural system going forward. The Indigenous agricultural representation is about
00:21two percent of Australia which is behind the general population representation which is
00:27currently about three point eight percent. We know that Indigenous youth is the only growing
00:31youth demographic in Australia. What we're really hoping is that while we actually start focusing
00:35on doubling Indigenous representation we actually need to double it again by 2050 to make sure that
00:40we have representation of population going forward. So we actually just need a lot more people we need
00:45to actually retain people who are getting involved and really strengthen the ability for young people
00:50and then particularly I guess young Indigenous people to start owning farms and managing farms
00:54to get more and more people back into the sector. The biggest gap I think at the moment that we
00:59can
00:59identify is pay gaps and also racism within sectors so we need to to really take that on start looking
01:06around a whole range of other industries and thinking about how we can get those HR and employment kind
01:11of skills and bring back into agriculture to actually have a much richer and gets a lot more strengthened
01:17agricultural workforce particularly for Indigenous people. We need to try and get more Indigenous people into the space
01:22If we can actually show that there's a pipeline and a demand for Indigenous products
01:26then hopefully young people can take that to a bank and say actually here's a demand
01:31that's what we're trying to meet and that will help kind of
01:34overcome the challenges of what we're seeing of young people getting involved at the moment of trying to
01:38prove a market and you know show that there's that potential. If we can show that the market's there
01:44we can kind of start working backwards as well. This all starts with connections and relationships
01:48we have a mutual love of this beautiful place that we live in called Australia now
01:53that we have a beautiful love for our farm and our ecosystem and the way in which all of that
01:57kind
01:57of correlates and if we just start by having a conversation around what all of our involvement
02:01should look like on that country then actually that's the kind of where rubber hits the road where
02:06we can actually start really building those relationships and thinking about what this landscape should look like into the future
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