00:01At just two years old, Avaya is a seasoned patient.
00:06You're very brave.
00:07The toddler's highest reading was more than five times the national level that triggers
00:13investigation and support.
00:15It's horrible.
00:16Even me, I'm 29 years old now, and I have a childhood.
00:21I have learning difficulties.
00:23I'm worried about my kids now.
00:25The latest data shows 35% of young children in Broken Hill and 56% of Aboriginal children
00:34have blood lead levels above 5 micrograms per deciliter.
00:39The New South Wales government has announced a funding package of $37 million, which among
00:45other measures will double the number of homes remediated.
00:49You know, whilst it's a big investment, we think it's being targeted at the wrong areas,
00:53you know, particularly for Aboriginal children.
00:55Where there are clusters where we know there are high levels, and that would particularly
00:58be in the case of some of the Aboriginal housing in Broken Hill, that that will go to the top
01:03of the list.
01:04Lead has been mined in this city since the late 1880s and has contaminated some of the
01:09dirt children play in.
01:10Many end up ingesting those lead particles through their unwashed hands.
01:15That's why education campaigns like this one feature prominently.
01:19Whether you're Indigenous, Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal, your lead levels will lower with education
01:26and doing what is required to reduce lead in the home.
01:31I have that much knowledge of lead, it didn't stop any of my kids getting high leads.
01:35Like, I wash their hands, they eat fruit and vegetables, they eat meat, like it didn't
01:39stop it.
01:40A far-reaching problem that's just as complex to solve.
01:49What can you make of this?
01:50I'm going to play about that later.
01:50You know, a little bit more, but I might have seen like this.
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