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event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 118 (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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 119 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 120 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 121 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 122 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 123 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 124 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 125 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,
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 126 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 127 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 128 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 129 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 130 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 131 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 132 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 133 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?
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 134 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
event and therefore may contain errors. This transcript is the joint property of CaptionsLIVE and the authorised party responsible for payment and may not be copied or used by any other party without authorisation. Page 135 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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