00:02What is it like to be a young person growing up on the Tiwi Islands?
00:05It's like my safe space.
00:08Whenever I go to other places I always feel homesick the second I get to another place.
00:15Being a young kid growing up on Tiwi Island is pretty nice and fun.
00:21How important is culture on the Tiwi Islands for young people?
00:24It's really important. At school we have culture lessons every Thursday and we get out on country and do stuff.
00:34It's very important to learn at a young age so you know growing up so you can pass it on
00:40to the next generation or to your kids.
00:44How do you feel about children who don't get the opportunity to grow up on country with their elders and
00:51learn those sort of things?
00:52How different do you think your life might be if you didn't get to do those things?
00:56It's just dumb.
00:59I wouldn't want to be taken away from my family. I would want to stay with them forever.
01:05Because if you go in another place you probably get brainwashed and forget about your culture and all that.
01:14Especially those ones that are on the Territory family. Yeah, they don't know our culture much. Yeah.
01:22Because they only come once a year for a visit out in the community.
01:27Because it's hard for them to know who their family is, who they mob and culture, dancing you know.
01:41It's really hard. I feel for them.
01:45Why is it important that the government or the big politicians making the rules?
01:50Why is it important to hear from young people when they're making rules about young people?
01:56Because our voice matters.
01:58We worry that other kids will be taken from their communities.
02:03It's not good. Yeah. For them especially. To know who they are.
02:12They whole baseball this morning is….
02:15They lead by other people to see just as they are covid-1999,
02:17They keep in mind when the order rules are less than zero.
02:18They get them from that community. I think they can אחте their lives and they do not lose it.
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