Transcript
[Music: Upbeat Acoustic Corporate. NewZhilla.]
[Visual: Aerial view of a vehicle driving on a red, dirt road towards a remote community. Camera cuts to a regional Department of Transport Service Centre.]
Iain: The Department of Transport’s purpose is empowering a thriving community.
[Visual: Vehicle with a door sticker reading ‘Driving Access and Equity Program (DAEP). Driving your future. A WA State Government initiative’. Camera cuts to community members coming out of a building.]
Iain: The Access and Equity Program is a very important part of that.
[Visual: Iain talking to camera. Perth city is in the background.]
[Text on screen: Iain Cameron. Managing Director of the Department of Transport.]
Iain: Many people in our state don't have the same opportunities as others.
[Visual: Two people walking towards a vehicle with a yellow L-Plate. Camera cuts to two Officers walking.]
Iain: It's important they have access to a vehicle, an instructor and a supervising driver.
[Visual: A young person smiling and holding two red P-Plates. She is being hugged by an older person. The camera cuts to an aerial view of a regional landscape and roads and then Graeme talking to camera.]
[Text on screen: Graeme Hastie, Kullarri Regional Communities Indigenous Corporation, Beagle Bay.]
Graeme: It's one of the best programs that I've been involved in.
There just aren't the facilities in remote communities to help a lot of these young people get their licences.
[Visual: People talking inside an office, moving through a remote community, and back to Graeme talking to camera.]
Graeme: They find it difficult to find somebody that's got a licence to take them, somebody that's got a vehicle that's reliable, and time.
[Text on screen: Chantelle Shadforth. P-Plate. Beagle Bay.]
[Visual: Alternating between Chantelle talking to camera and then walking into the office.]
Chantelle: What they're doing here in the community actually really helps a lot of people.
Even though I had a big family I didn't really have any car on me. Yeah, I didn't really felt comfortable in keep asking someone, especially when they have their own life.
[Visual: Graeme talking to a community member. A vehicle with an L-Plate is in the background. The camera cuts to Richard talking to camera in front of a DAEP vehicle and then to instructors and a community member.]
[Text on screen: Richard Owen. Kullarri Regional Communities Indigenous Corporation, Beagle Bay.]
Richard: For anybody under the age of 25 they then just hit an absolute brick wall of meeting the supervised driving hours that are required.
[Visual: Richard talking to camera.]
What we can do with this program is give people access to vehicles. We can give people access to driving supervisors so that they can get their logbook hours.
[Visual: A learner driver in a vehicle having a lesson. A smiling person having their photo taken using a #drivingtestsuccess insta frame.]
Daren: It brings people who may not normally get an opportunity to get a driver's licence the same opportunities that most of us take for granted.
[Text on screen: Daren Hutchins. Department of Transport.]
[Visual: Daren talking to camera. Camera cuts to community members moving in and out of a service centre, and then the viewer travelling down a regional road towards a truck.]
Daren: A lot of these kids English is not even their third language, so what we're trying to do with this Access and Equity is to try and make things a bit simpler for some of these guys.
A licence means a job up here it's as simple as that.
[Visual: A road sign reading ‘Australian Government. National Building Program. Roads to Recovery. Project managed by Shire of Broome. Camera cuts to Daren talking to camera, an L-Plate driver having a lesson, and back to Daren]
Daren: What it enables the guys to do is to stay on Country, relate to the family and everybody, but they’re getting an income. They’re starting to become dependent on themselves.
[Visual: The Youth Involvement Council building. Camera cuts to Vila walking to an Administration building, talking to camera, and driving a vehicle with a yellow L-Plate.]
[Text on screen: Vila Maea. L-Plate. South Hedland.]
Vila: It was really difficult for me to learn how to drive manual.
I didn’t have access to a manual car, nor did I have access to any lessons.
[Visual: The camera cuts between a Joseph and Shanti talking to camera.]
Shanti: Probably the biggest barrier is none of them having I.D.
[Text on screen: Shanti Bernard, Youth Involvement Council. South Hedland.]
Shanti: It would be literally starting from scratch with a lot of them. Taking them to the courthouse to get another birth certificate, go to Centrelink and get proof of address, income statements, go to the bank and get a proof of address documentation from there as well.
If we can fund that for them then we will. Anything to break through that barrier.
[Text on screen: Joseph Stefan. L-Plate. South Hedland.]
Joseph: I want to give a big thumbs up for the supervisors because I, myself don't have a vehicle to do my hours with and it's really a privilege and honour to do it with this service that work provides.
[Visual: PCYC Police & Community Youth Centres building. Camera cuts to Bronte talking to camera.]
[Text on screen: Bronte Berenger. WA Police and Community Youth Centres, Broome.]
Bronte: Our focus is for people 16 to 25. So, at the moment we’re at capacity. I haven’t done any advertising whatsoever.
[Visual: The camera cuts back and forth between Bronte demonstrating vehicle movements with miniature cars on a white board and talking to camera.]
Bronte: Everyone's just come through word of mouth.
I've told a few agencies around town and yeah, we've been full within a matter of weeks really.
[Text on screen: Francine Bayet, WA Police and Community Youth Centres, Broome.]
[Visual: Francine talking to camera, cutting to PCYC staff laughing with a community member.]
Francine: I mean I think it's really important that we do recognise that the young people of today have different learning needs and different learning styles and part of that is technology.
We needed to adapt and make sure that what we were offering to the young people could meet their modern needs.
The simulator is a great tool it provides them that really relaxed setting to get introduced to road rules and before they even get in the car they've learned so much about road safety and road health and wellbeing.
[Visual: Craig walking with another person towards a vehicle and then cutting to Craig talking to camera while sitting in the passenger side of the vehicle.]
[Text on screen: Craig Day. Kullarri Regional Communities Indigenous Corporation, Beagle Bay.]
Craig: We're offering the kids the freedom to be able to get out of community if they need to, take Nanna to the hospital, head out of town for a few days, have a life that they wouldn't normally have got without having their licence.
[Visual: Craig instructing a learner driver, cutting to Aloysius talking to camera.]
[Text on screen: Aloysius Drummond. Kullarri Regional Communities Indigenous Corporation, Beagle Bay.]
Aloysius: It gives me great satisfaction, and it gives me fulfillment that I have achieved something by assisting a young person towards getting a licence and moving on to getting employed.
[Visual: Melinda walking towards a vehicle holding a P-Plate and talking to camera.]
[Text on screen: Melinda Councillor. P-Plate. Beagle Bay.]
Melinda: It means a lot because I was just waiting to get my full licence to get a job. I want to be in a job that I like to drive a lot.
[Visual: Daniel R and a young person walking into a centre, cutting to Daniel R talking to camera.]
[Text on screen: Daniel Roe. Nirrumbuk Aboriginal Corporation. Broome.]
Daniel R: We've had 25 and older participants referred to us, and they come with different circumstances so whether they've forgot to renew their driver's licence and let it expire.
Some had been under suspension and just assisting because we get unique cases that come through.
[Visual: The camera cuts between Daniel O walking into a site office, talking to camera, and moving around outside.]
[Text on screen: Daniel O’Neil. Ashburton Aboriginal Corporation. Port Hedland.]
Daniel O: I do enjoy what I do. Having a licence is a life changing thing and helping people get that in their life I think is pretty special in itself.
Driving schools if they are up here, they’re expensive so there's the affordability problem.
We're not here to compete with anyone, but we're here to deliver a service to people who otherwise wouldn't have that service.
[Visual: Linda talking to camera and then demonstrating in a workshop.]
[Text on screen: Linda Dodd. L-Plate. South Hedland.]
Linda: Well I’m a health worker and you need a car to go searching for jobs everywhere. If there's not much opportunity around here I was still stuck on my L’s but talking with Dan and doing learner driving with him it's gave me a lot of confidence yeah.
[Visual: Litara talking to camera.]
[Text on screen: Litara Kelly. Bloodwood Tree Association. South Hedland.]
Litara: I saw the job advertised and I was living in the Northern Territory. Having this job kind of brought me back to live closer to my family. I did my Cert IV for Driving Instructor with Bloodwood Tree.
It was good everybody kind of helped each other out.
We do pickups and drop-offs - so transporting them to the office and back and getting instructors to deliver the workshops.
[Visual: Shandi talking to camera, getting into a DAEP car, walking with a female instructor and driving.]
[Text on screen: Shandi Mead. L-Plate. South Hedland.]
Shandi: Get my licence to drive my kids to school.
I like to have a female instructor because I’m not so nervous, feel comfortable.
She’s calm and patient, learning a lot.
[Visual: Faith talking to camera and in the driving workshop.]
[Text on screen: Faith Joseph. P-Plate. South Hedland.]
Faith: I thought I'd struggle because I didn't have the resources to be able to train, to get my hours up, or to learn more about the road, but Bloodwood really help me out with that, made me really confident on the road especially, my driver's licence gives me a sense of like responsibility.
[Visual: Faith driving.]
Faith: It helps out so much. It just cuts out so much time. It just makes it so much easier for me to get around town.
[Visual: A Learn2Drive car moving from a parking bay, cutting to Daren talking to camera.]
Daren: We're already producing 50% more driver's licences for the kids up here, which might not seem a lot but for us it's absolutely huge.
[Visual: Bronte talking to camera.]
Bronte: What I love about this program is you really see young people open up become, more confident and kind of see like reach these little goals that they’re like working towards.
[Visual: Melinda talking to camera.]
Melinda: I can do whatever I want and go far how I want - in life.
[Visual: The camera cuts to between Bronte, Melinda, Francine, Chantelle and Daren smiling, and an aerial view of Pretty Pool Park, Port Hedland.]
[Text on screen: Government of Western Australia Department of Transport logo. Driving Access & Equity Program logo.]
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