UXA2022 Day 1; Corey Tutt - The inspiration for what is DeadlyScience

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UX Australia 2022 – Hybrid Conference
Thursday, 25 August 2022
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(AFTERNOON TEA)
STEVE BATY: Hello. Hello.
All right. Let me introduce our last speaker of the day and our
guest speaker for the afternoon. Corey was recently awarded an Order of
Australia medal for his work in promoting STEM amongst Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander remote communities around Australia. He is
passionate about education, passionate about science, technology,
engineering and maths. He is a proud Kamilaroi man and we are very,
very happy that he is joining us this afternoon. Please join me in
welcoming Corey Tutt. (APPLAUSE)
COREY TUTT: Thank you so much for having me. Sorry, I'm just trying
to share my screen. Got a bit of drama here, tech drama. First of all, I
just want to pay my respects and say Jingalari on the lands of the
Bundjalung people and pay my republics to the traditional owners of the
land I am on today. It is an honour to be joining you today. My
presentation does contain images of children and community members
that have since passed but we have permission to use their photos and I
have this general warning even if they haven't passed but this is one of
the sad realities of working in remote communities that unfortunately
people do pass away. So we put this in here and pay our republics to all
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have joined us. A little
bit about me, don't worry, deadly is a form of slang that us Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people use to describe something as cool or
awesome. Anything - think of deadly Science as being awesome or cool
science but less lame. I pay my respects to all the traditional owns of the
land and our people, again, we have 65,000+ of science and culture. We

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are the oldest living continuous culture in the world. We - our people are
the first astronomers, the first carers of the country, land, sea and sky as
well and today we have a cultural - we have a cultural responsibility to
make sure that the next generation of deadly Scientists have all the tools
they can to do what their ancestors did for 65,000+ years on this
continent and still do today.
A little bit about culture and a little bit about where I come from.
So my - both my parents are Indigenous. So my mother is from
Kamilaroi country here in Walgett up here. My father actually came from
Kamilaroi country as well and is from a place called Armadale where my
mouse is there. Both those mobs, even though they are in the same
country are completely different. This is an AIATSIS map and that is a
really cool map. There are over 500 different clans and language groups
in Australia. As you can see by the sheer size of some of the communities
and nations the differences are completely different. For example, you
take Wiradjuri country and you can go up towards Dubbo and the
language is different. Down south near Deniliquin and Hay, it is pretty
exciting. This is only a basic map of all the communities. There is a lot
more dialects. The most linguistically diverse place on earth is
Maningrida, right up the top here, right there, they speak 15 different
languages in that community and there is no place on earth like it. It is
pretty amazing.
Sorry, a bit about me. I'm a Kamilaroi man, I grew up in Dapto. I
started my career working with animals. I started off working in zoos. I
worked at Shoalhaven zoo. I dreamt of being Harry Butler when I grew
up. I wanted to be Steve Irwin. Most of my childhood is picking up piece
of tin and catching blue tongue lizards and different reptiles. My
childhood was pretty rough. I was often isolated from other people. My
dad had left the family home at 9 months old so I didn't actually know my

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biological father. That was really tough for a kid. My oldest sister played
a huge role in raising me. Mainly because my mum had to work and
other issues around my family as well. It meant that when I got
to - when I was 16 and I got to year 10 and they said, "What do you want
to be when you leave school?" The options given to me were stick to a
trade, kids right you don't go to university, kids like you aren't smart, you
should probably - you are not going to become a zookeeper or wildlife
documentary and stop dreaming go and get a trade. I started working at
Dapto Coles and McDonalds. I save up some money and went to Western
Australia as a 16-year-old. I worked in a place called Roo gully which was
like Tiger King but for kangaroos. It was a tough experience for me
because I left home really young and it meant that I was this kid that
really barely knew how to put toast in a toaster and, you know, it was a
real sort of coupon moment in my life as a young person. I spent time
with this couple called Jim and Norma. Jim and Norma were amazing.
They are no longer with us but they taught me how to cook lasagne, how
to make a bed and all the basic life skills I missed out on. I came back
and worked at Shoalhaven zoo, not known for its study HS records, so
please don't Google that. One thing sort of led to another and I made a
friend down the zoo and we were in the process of moving in together and
he unfortunately passed away tragically and it led me to finding an ad in
the paper for an alpaca handler job. I actually sheered alpacas for three
years and went around Australia and New Zealand shearing alpacas and
then I came back and I started working at the RSPCA. With the shearing
of alpacas it was really interesting because my time at the zoo you were
always challenging yourself. I always wanted to prove my careers
advisors wrong, I wanted to prove people wrong that I could do it and I
always had that determination. Whether that came from the fact that my
father left at 9 moths old and I didn't want to have the same life he did or

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just a burning desire just to show people that I could do it and not have
that doubt but with me with alpacas I got quite bored of shearing alpacas.
I was always trying to look for the next best thing so I would often cut
their teeth or learn how the give them injections or worm them. I made
really good relationships with the alpaca breeders. It was a really great
job, I travelled around a lot. By the time I got sick of that job and I kinda
got home sick because I was moving around at the time, I was pretty
nomadic and was Australasian in different places at different times, I
worked at the RSPCA and started cleaning the dog kennels and really got
interested in training dogs because a lit of the dogs used to get
euthanased and I really wanted to understand dog behaviour so I ended
up getting my dog training certificate. I already had a diploma in captive
management from Bankstown TAFE as a zookeeper. I ended up at the
Animal Welfare League where I worked with a dog named bouncer.
Bouncer had his throat cut and I rehabilitated this dog. It was my
mission to get this dog adopted. Then I met my wife at an animal shelter
and the joke in our family is that she picked me up from a pound, but it
actually is true, she picked me up from a pound. I ended up working at
the Garvan Institute for medical research where I started chaining the
mouse books and then I got more interested in the research and then
more involved with the collection of tissues for DNA analysis and then I
got more involved in the genome editing process for rodents for research
and I ended up finding DeadlyScience in 2018 and I really wanted to
inspire other Aboriginal kids that had grown up just like me that maybe
they slipped through the cracks and they are highly intelligent kids but
they just need that person to believe in them. I started giving these talks
down at Redfern and Waterloo in Sydney and I really built a strong
connection with the community down there. We'd have 50 or 60 kids talk
about anything from tech to physics to science, you name it. It really

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grew organically and then I got on the blower one day and I started
Googling remote schools and ringing them up and asking about their
STEM programs and a lot of the schools would come back to me and say,
"We've got literally no STEM resources" one school in particular had 15
books in its entire school and from that moment I took up a second job. I
was working as a laboratory manager at that time in the Charles Birkin
Centre. I went back to the animal shelters and worked there and I raised
$20,000 of my own money and put that back into resources and started
sending them around the country. And then from that I start a GoFundMe
page which over its lifetime raised $250,000 and it send - I was able to
send thousands of resources and connect with communities all over
Australia. And then I ended up working as a research fellow for the
Matilda Centre and worked on the Cracks in the Ice project Indigenous
and that was a little bit out of my comfort zone again. I was learning
about crystal methamphetamine and resources in mental health and
substance use and for me I wanted to dip my toes into something that
wasn't animal related because I spent my career working with animals
and I'm always looking for the next challenge in my career to push myself
into a different direction. So mainly just because I - I love learning about
things that I don't understand and I could never really understand why
people took ice or how it got into community, how it was made. So I kind
of learned - I wanted to learn all that kind of stuff.
Here's all the boring stuff. So in the lifetime of DeadlyScience I
have been honoured in many ways because I have been able to engage
Indigenous kids in science and a lot of marginalised kids as well because I
had grown up as a marginalised kid, didn't probably know it at the time
but now I do. As a man I look back and see a lot of things, a lot of
parallels to a lot of kids out there that do struggle not just because of
race but because of social and economic status and things like that. So in

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2020 I was embarrassingly named the Young Australian of the Year for
NSW. I came up against a little-known tennis player in the national
awards called Ash Barty. I was the first ever Indigenous person under 30
to win the Indigenous STEM champion award and then I won a Eureka
prize last year which was really lucky. It is a pretty prestigious award and
then just this year DeadlyScience was on a - was on the McLaren Formula
1 car and that was an incredible conversation. It was two days before I
was meant to get married and this guy was annoying me on LinkedIn and
he but saying, "Would you please meet with me?" I promised my wife I
wouldn't do any work. To be an expert you have to do 10,000 work but I
have put 70,000 hours in. I put a lot of money back into the kids and the
communities because I want to make a difference.
We got this call from McLaren F1 racing team and they wanted to
put our logo on the side of their carbon tax which was very generous. I
actually said no at the start because I really wanted McLaren to come and
meet the community and the kids. We invited them down there and to
their credit they came to Redfern and met everyone and the rest is
history. All the other stuff has been really great but with the Eureka prize
and all the awards, the responsibility... there is a responsibility to the
young people that look up to me. We actually printed off a bunch of
Eureka prizes and sent them to all the kids. This kid down the bottom is
deadly. She was the first ever Indigenous student to apply for a prize at
the Eurekas. She didn't win but the fact that remote kids hadn't applied
for that award before in an award dominated by private school children I
was just so proud. This is uncle Paul Butters our educator of the year for
last year. This guy is an elder. He is one of the greatest scientists I ever
knew or have ever known - and he is absolutely unbelievable. This is
working house kids, they are a boarding house school and we printed off
a Eureka prize for them and shared our award with them which is really

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great.
You will find me - this logo was drawn on a napkin and then it was
fixed up by my cousin who made it look a lot nicer. This is me at Werin
Aboriginal Medical Centre. Every time I go to the doctor - I have done
this since I was 16 - I will always make sure I leave something behind
whether it is a book or a piece of Lego, you name it because I really want
young kids to be able to go to the doctor and not be fearful of the doctor.
Our people die way too early, they die way too young. For me as
someone who has had a lot of relatives and people who have had
preventable illnesses in our life I really just want it to stop. We have
rheumatic heart disease in this country and 85% of the world has
eradicated it but yet in Australia we have children that have to have
open-heart surgery and are dying way too young of an illness that was
completely preventable. Trying to encourage kids to go to the doctor is
really important. It is part of the work that deadly Science does.
For me this is a very common scenario for me. This is an Australia
Post office as you can see by the - so the Darrel Lea chocolates there.
There is all the Australia Post workers tearing their hair out. Often I am
in Australia Post sending these parcels out to remote communities. I still
pack all the books and resources even though I have five staff now.
DeadlyScience has grown. We work with so many different communities
and so many different kids. It is really important. It is all hands on deck.
If you can donate today please donate because we need your help. It is
not a one man Band it is a community of people trying to make a
difference. These are the kids from Robinson River and we gave them all
lab coats. Again, I ask the question, "What is a lab coat?" When we ask
kids to imagine what a scientist is we get Albert Einstein, curly hair,
glasses - I'm not bagging out anyone with glasses or curly hair, but it is
generally Albert Einstein but he has Ben dead for a long time. It is time

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to show kids what a scientist really looks like or a technology gist and
really they need a mirror. For us we put a lot of lab coats in communities
because when kids do science they should feel like a scientist and a
scientist is not - it is not defined by race or gender, it is defined by who is
wearing the bit of PPE to protect you from the chemicals. I get really
excited when I see these photos because DeadlyScience doesn't just work
with kids in schools and remote communities, we work with kids in all
different backgrounds. This school on the far right-hand side is a juvenile
justice centre and that's why you can't see any of the kids' faces and we
work with them as well. So Don Dale youth detention facility,
Rockhampton youth detention facility, ACMINA in Grafton, DeadlyScience
has provided books to all the clients that have to attend those facilities
and it is really important that kids that make mistakes get opportunities
to love science and books and what not. If it wasn't for books I wouldn't
be here. I was very, very lucky to have a grandfather that gave me my
first book, which was reptiles in colour and that inspire ed me on a
journey to go through zoo keeping and to get me where I am today. If I
can be that person for these kids then I really want to be that person.
We provide high school and primary school students and I've got to
tell you this story because it is a really funny story but this kid here is
Alfie's younger brother and he is from Katherine. We took these kids to
Taronga Zoo and Taronga Zoo has been a real ally in DeadlyScience since
the get go. Being a former zookeeper I have a lot of contacts within
Taronga but during this first trip to Taronga Zoo we organised this trip for
him to come down to Sydney and spend time with Dr Karl and some other
cool scientists. There were these baby tiger cubs and we were telling the
kids about these tiger cubs and how their tiger stripes act as an insect
repellent and that is pretty cool. I did a head count and was missing a
student. I was panicking. I thought I just lost this kid from Katherine,

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it's done, everything is over, I was really self-conscious about it and then
this kid walks out of the pushes and is holding this bush turkey and I said,
"Alfie, you have got to put that down." He said, "Why, I want to eat it?"
I said, "You can't eat the bush turkey and hear are some reasons why."
During the Great Depression these birds were eaten nearly to extinction.
The male bush turkey has a phenomena for a beak and the baby bush
turkey is completely autonomous when it is born. He put it down and
said, "These bush turkeys are complicated." I laugh every time I see that
because it is really funny. It was a really special moment. Alfie is now a
man, like he is 16 and he has got his Ls and he is still going to the school
and dreams of going to uni and we have been able to keep this kid in
school which is really important. Down the bottom we have all the kids
from Redfern on the block and I had this idea during lockdown last year.
We had a lot of state lockdowns and I lot of our remote communities
couldn't travel interstate to experience anything like the zoo. A lot of kids
don't actually get to go to the zoo ever in their lives. We got all the kids
from Redfern. I gave them a sheet of paper with five animal facts on it
and said, "You do the rest" and we created this whole virtual excursion
experience. Kids in the bush could go to the school and it was other
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids teaching them about animals
and it was a phenomenal experience and I loved it.
Here is some of the impact. I was born on Yuin country and grew
up as a Yuin man, even though I am Kamilaroi, I grew up with other
people and a lot of the country burnt in 2020 and my book, the First
Science is actually the cover on the inside is about the bushfires and
Cobargo and other places going up in flames. It really affected me
because I spent a lot of my time and childhood there and spent a lot of
time shearing and working there and working on the South Coast as well.
We replaced a lot of the - we replaced the books of the kids who lost their

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homes in those communities not because it was - it was important that
those kids actually got replacement books and things like that because
possessions go but often people don't think about the educational loss
that comes with these natural disasters. Same with Port Macquarie, I was
in waste-deep water where I live pulling out - I was in a lot of the caravan
parks pulling out driers and washers and things like that during the
floods, it was pretty scary at times. There was a lot of people that had
their lives in danger and I helped out with the RSS and the Defence Force
in cleaning out a lot of houses and helping as will of people who lost
everything. We replaced the whole library at telegraph point that was
completely destroyed by the floods. We did the same this year for
cabbage tree island and a few other communities as well that was
damaged by the floods this year. We also successfully connected the
Redfern youth Connect centre with internet and gave teenagers a safe
space to do their homework. We have helped community schools reach a
40% increase in attendance and I just got off a meeting with the NT
education department yesterday and Robinson River school achieved 95%
attendance since 2018 and are able to get more funding now which is just
incredible. It is an incredible thing to do. It is an incredible goal for the
whole community to get attendance up really highly. These are the food
boxes.
So last year during the lockdown a lot of Aboriginal families
struggled with food so I organised over 2,000 food hampers to go out to
all the communities so children could be fed. You shouldn't have to live in
a country where a pandemic causes a global - almost a nation-wide food
crisis but we had that and I'm glad that deadly science was there. Yeah,
so, we actually provided - it was actually 2,000 hampers across Walgett,
Gilgandra, Orange, Redfern and Waterloo. We provided books to kids,
they didn't have access to internet at home. Not everyone has access to

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internet at home. This kid is really fame use for the Q+A episode that he
asked professor Brian Cox who is a quantum physicist why stars blink.
That was his claim to fame this. Is one of the really awesome letters we
get. Kids are just - getting kids to write letters is so important. Literacy
and numeracy is really low in remote communities. Not everyone gets
the opportunity to read or write. This letter is a success story. We have
been replacing the schools that have lost books in the floods as well. Just
yet I was in Lismore visiting all those kids. We replaced all the STEM
resources and donated a bus to the Cabbage Tree Island community. The
first time they have had a school bus as well. Donated 10,000 Lego kits
and currently have another 50,000 pallets to go out. We have deadly
learner sessions if you are ever interested in volunteering can
DeadlyScience and are a professional you can help us by connecting with
remote schools and giving them experiences and different careers. I
know meeting someone that was a zoo keeper when I was young had a
huge impact on my life and helped me see that I could actually do it. You
never know the impact you may have on someone. We're developing the
first culturally appropriate chemistry kits for school. Rheumatic heart
disease is a huge problem in our remote communities but part of the
solution is making soap cheap and readily available. We are making that
readily available for communities and working with elders to develop
those kids. We are developing grants to remote schools so they can
apply for a grant of $5,000 to actually put a lab in their school. So
thinking about more solution-based problems to the great resource divide
and helping schools put labs in schools so kids can have access to these
kids that are really important to helping kids develop an interest and a
passion and a purpose.
We have DeadlyScience club. As you can see by my lockdown hair,
this is a portal where students can take control of their learning and help

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them with their development with the deadly science facts and have the
DeadlyScience learner sessions which have been phenomenal for remote
communities.
This young fella's name is Trey. He is an important kid. I taught
him to read and he is from Geraldton. He is 6 foot five and has a rat's tail
and is a pretty intimidating kid. He was really struggling with school. He
reminded me of myself a little bit, just with the school not really fitting
him and I took him under my wing and I'm really glad to say he now has
an apprenticeship with Rio Tinto as a geologist. He doesn't want to be a
deadly footballer anymore. He is a really great kid. He has my phone
number if he ever needs anything he gives me a call. Sometimes he
gives me a call just to prank me and pretends he is Kochie from Channel
Seven. I love that about him! I am lucky to have a lot of these kids in
my life who I have helped out. These are the kids from Wonga House.
They are the greatest kids I know. They leave community and leave
country to go and do education off country. They are always trying their
best and always have smiles on their faces and I think they are Deadly, I
have a real close relationship with all the houses and the kids call me or
send me face Times all the time. I will tell you a pretty emotional story
as well. One of my students unfortunately passed away in a really terrible
accident and I was really gutted. I was really down in the dumps and one
of the girls from Curren House which is one of the foster care houses up
there called me and just - they called me as a group and I had to cancel
our Deadly Learner session because I was really distraught and upset.
That is a common practice unfortunately. It is the reality when you work
with so many people these things happen. And there's this book
called - it's called Emperor penguins and I gave this book to this kid
because she really liked penguins and she read the book from start to
finish. That was one of my proudest moments as a human to have that

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and I met with that kid, she wanted to read a book to me because she
could read it from start to finish without having to stop. It is just a really
special moment. That is just the impact of DeadlyScience.
As I said we help kids out of the education system as well. Kids
who have dropped out of school, help them fall in love with science and
hopefully they come back. The teachers need educating too so we work
with teachers to make school more accessible to kids that have fallen out
at school. Science is really for everyone. Everyone can do a form of
science, it doesn't really matter, it doesn't discriminate so we help out a
lot with that.
We have a drink bottle project. We still do. Haven't done it in a
while but I gave every kid on Tiwi Island a sustainable drink bottle and it
was really special because for me, like every child in Australia should
have access to their own drink bottle and I think having a sustainable
drink bottle is just a basic human right and fresh water so we work
through the Poach Centre water project and got a new drinking project
installed in Wallaga Lake in Broken Hill.
This is our greenhouse project. We put a greenhouse in at Walgett
and on Mornington Island. We have a lot of problems with diabetes in
your community and preventable illnesses but if we can get kids growing
food in the classroom potentially we can create a micro economy for the
school and help reduce the food price in remote communities by allowing
communities to take control of their production of food. We do all this
kind of stuff with our solution-based model.
This is a really important one this. Is young Kayleen. She is
unfortunately no longer with us. It is a really special moment for me
because if you ever wonder why do I this and why I do DeadlyScience and
why I work two jobs and put myself out there on social media, I
am - people who know me personally, I am a bit of a jokester but I am

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also quite shy. The reason why I put myself out there with this kind of
work is because of people like Kayleen. She desperately wanted to look
for a telescope and I tried to look everywhere for a telescope for her and I
couldn't find one. I wanted one that she could have an iPad on that could
reflect the image of the telescope onto the iPad so she could have a
telescope that was accessible to her. It didn't exist. I got quoted 40
grand for something that might not have worked but I didn't really have
that money at that stage. That was the last promise - that was the
promise I really couldn't keep and I just felt - feel horrible about it but I
did the next best thing and Kayleen if you ever want a reason why
DeadlyScience is so special to me and a lot of other people it is because
of people like Kayleen. I got a projector and I turned off the lights and
projected all the galaxies around her. I put the stars around her. I think
that moment of just feeling so special and normal for that kid was just the
reason that I do it. I am really grateful for Kayleen. We maintained a
pretty strong relationship. Last year with the carers changed quite a bit
for kids with disabilities. It was pretty tough for me. I found this perfect
present for her. It was like a turtle with all the bells and whistle, it was a
projector that projected lava and it was under water stuff as well. It was
going to be nuts for Kayleen and I loved it. My wife and I sent this
present away with eagerness but it came back with a letter saying that
Kayleen had passed but I was really pleased that I could give that kid that
moment, that moment to smile how it impacted her in such an incredible
way. I'm very lucky that Kayleen gave us all the why for why we do this.
I am very lucky and blessed to know someone like her. I will never forget
her and I am just really grateful that I knew her.
This is some of the work we do with remove communities. It is
really beautiful. We take strawberry DNA, make lava lamps, work with
Dan sultan and learn about why gorillas fart. We provide remote schools

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with the lesson plans and it is really important that kids get these
experiences.
We've also been working with Tamika Davis to provide emotional
cards for kids with disabilities so they can communicate with us. This is
team Slade. Tamika is doing a really cool thing at the Koori knock out
where she is having the first tent for kids with sensory disabilities.
We are also giving communities a newfound excitement for STEM.
These are the great inu. We are getting kids to collect bill by samples and
send them to Australian genomics lab manning out the DNA of the bill by.
The kids are directly involved in it, which is awesome.
This is the great - we have programs with rangers and that is a
plumbers camera and we are taking images and sending the data off
which is pretty awesome. We actually ran - I have the partnership as well
as I am an ambassador of the captain starlight foundation. A lot of the
kids in hospital - will often present for captain Starlight. I think a lot of
Indigenous kids end up in hospital and I don't want them to miss out just
because they are unwell. Kids that make mistakes and kids that fall all
should not miss out on science and STEM. It is so important to include
them and make them feel wanted and part of being a scientist is being
deadly. I just want to help those kids out as much as I can so we work a
lot with them.
We distributed Lego to over 400 schools. We have so much Lego in
our warehouse at the moment. Our warehouse is actually lent us to. We
don't get funding for a warehouse. This is a mates rates kind of thing.
They lend us half the warehouse, which is really cool and we are taking
over that because we are taking so many donations in to send out to
school which is so important.
Deadly learner, deadly labs, deadly weather and deadly junior
scientist, if there is any technology companies listening we want to get

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involved in getting pathways set up for these kids so they can go into
STEM jobs in the future which is really important. So you can totally get
involved. Get in touch with us, go on our website, become a partner, help
us send resources, it is all really important. What you can help us with is
really important hip us bridge the gap for some of these remote students.
Please donate to DeadlyScience, if you have workplace
giving - volunteer yourself as well. Skilled volunteers are important for
an organisation like DeadlyScience, helps us bill. We want to build
partnerships that would employ deadly Scientists. I would love to see us
grow so we can employ more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
to replace me because success for me is not sitting in this seat talking to
you, it is actually one of my deadly junior scientists being the CEO of
DeadlyScience driving into the future. Sponsor, school and stem events,
become an ambassador, buy our books, do what you can to help us grow.
It is about the whole community, it is not about black or white, it is about
making sure kids out there have equal access to STEM is so important.
Yaluu. And I will leave this up and you can scan the QR code if you like. I
will go to questions now if anyone has any to ask.
STEVE BATY: Corey, thank you so much. I will look to the audience in
the room here and see if anyone has a question that they would like to
ask Corey and we do have a microphone with Emily over there and she
will bring it to you if you do. Does anyone have a question in here?
Stunned. Stunned. Corey, I have a question for you and I'm looking at
you on the screen in case you are wondering why I've got my back to
you. There you are, see? This is an incredible body of work that you're
create ing and an amazing spread of programs. From the sounds of the
work that you are doing, it is national. Like you're working with remote
communities right across Australia, is that correct?

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COREY TUTT: That's correct, we have a presence in every state and
territory. We only have five staff members as well and they are all based
in NSW. The beauty of technology connects us all. Actually I had a really
cool time last week, I was in Adelaide at the Aboriginal STEM conference
and handing out with kids from the APY Lands, some of the feedback was,
"Thank you for helping us believe in ourselves and be confident."
Everywhere from One Arm Point up in the Pilbara all the way down to the
Kimberley region to the Pia Wadjari community in Western Australia
across that great desert to Port Augusta to Ceduna, all the way through
the NT and Queensland out to Walgett, Lightning Ridge to some of the
Illawarra schools on the South Coast we have a presence, they are all
communities that we have sent resources to or we have done Zooms with
or have connected with in some ways. It takes a village so we wouldn't
be able to without support - we have a lot of support from members of
the public, which has been really great, and I'm just - I am a man on a
mission. There is 24 hours in a day and I am determined to use all 24 of
them to make a difference.
STEVE BATY: It is incredible what you are doing with your time. Thank
you for taking some of that time to speak with us today and tell us about
what you are up to. Please join me in thanking Corey. (APPLAUSE)
Does that make anyone else feel like they're wasting their time?
(LAUGHTER) Far out! One of the reasons why I wanted you to hear what
Corey is up to and what DeadlyScience is up to is that our society is full of
systems that are designed and work pretty much as they're designed and
they work really well for some people and they really don't work well for
others. And our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are
one of those groups where a lot of our systems just don't work well for
them. Our education system isn't working well for them, our health

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system isn't working well for them, our justice system isn't working well
for them. And as a result across a whole range of socio-economic and
demographic and health indicators, they are disadvantaged and the
systems are holding them back and what someone like Corey is doing
with his time and what DeadlyScience is doing with their resources and
their energy and their networks is actively intervening in those systems to
turn them around. And one child at a time, one school at a time, one
interaction at a time, one community at a time they are trying to change
those dynamics so that the trajectory of those kids' lives and the
communities within which they live and work and will ultimately
contribute, are shifted in turn. There is a lesson in there for us, I think, in
that all systems are operating as designed, our economic system is
operating as designed, our health system, but the design of that system
almost always means that one group is being disadvantaged while
another is being advantaged. And we can, and we should, think about
the ways in which not only are we designing things but the ways in which
our work can help change those trajectories, can address a problem, can
address a disadvantage, can address an inequality and shift the balance,
shift that dynamic and shift that trajectory of people's lives and they are
very, very real impacts that we subsequently have. So I wanted you to
hear that story because it is the story of success. Corey and
DeadlyScience are absolutely changing the lives of people, they're
changing the trajectory of those communities and it's something that I
think we can, and all should, aspire to.
That's it for us for this afternoon for day one. Thank you so much
for your attendance and your attention and your interest in these ideas.
Enjoy your evening and I look forward very much to seeing you all back
here online and in person tomorrow morning at 9am. Thank you so much
for a great day.

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UXA2022 Day 1; Corey Tutt - The inspiration for what is DeadlyScience

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