00:03Kids from Indaria making a splash more than a hundred kilometres from home.
00:08You can't have a flat edge of swimming.
00:13Lessons the kids love and teachers say are bringing more students to school.
00:17We've seen a huge uptick in attendance and I think it is because of these swimming lessons.
00:22Some couldn't even float when they started.
00:25By the end of the five-week block they were doing swimming strokes, full techniques and had those life-saving
00:34skills that they might need one day.
00:36The government's $3 million a year program is now permanent but Indaria has no pool of its own.
00:43These kids need to know that when they're in the creek swimming they have the life-saving skills to get
00:49themselves out of trouble.
00:50Royal Life Savings says five remote territory pools have already closed
00:54and more could follow without coordinated investment.
00:57The NT government quick to distance itself from the problem.
01:01School pools in communities are also run by local councils as well so that would be a question for those
01:10local councils.
01:11For these kids learning to swim still means travelling to town.
01:15School pools have encouragements of the methods.
01:17School pools are actually shown in Kwher.
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