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COHEN: I've never really taken action on anything.
I just don't see the point sometimes.
BRONSON: Well, I haven't really thought
about taking action to anything, honestly.
So I wouldn't have a clue.
SHANADE: I just sort of didn't know the way to go about it.
SPEAKER 1: Not knowing who to complain to,
or not knowing who to tell.
JACK: I haven't really taken action,
because I've been scared of doing it before.
And this is why I'm so excited to do it this time.
LISA WOODS: But again, I can't stress it enough.
We don't know if it's unsafe if no one's telling us.
So you can contact your counsellors
through Facebook or Twitter.
You're more than welcome to come in and speak to us direct
in a council meeting and we will all listen.
And in fact, that's probably the best way to do it,
because we hear from you directly.
Or the other thing is actually face to face.
So you can actually just come and talk to me
any time you see me, ring, social media, email, talk,
letters, lots of different ways.
BRONSON: To take action on an issue
would probably mean for me to actually do something about it
and try to make it to benefit everyone around you.
COURTNEY: I would personally benefit from taking action
because I'd feel like it was the right thing to do
and it could help me in the long run.
JACK: Some actions that young people could take is to--
SPEAKER 2: Create a radio show.
SPEAKER 3: Write a submission.
SPEAKER 4: Flash mob.
SPEAKER 5: Create a website.
SPEAKER 6: Writing an email to a politician.
SPEAKER 7: Organize a peaceful protest.
SPEAKER 8: Make a short film.
SPEAKER 9: Write a letter to the editor.
SPEAKER 1: Speak at an assembly.
SHANADE: Create a Facebook page.
COHEN: Find out the policies.
COURTNEY: Organize an art show.
JACK: Set up a stall.
COHEN: For the past couple of weeks,
we've been looking at an issue about heating,
and why they're damaged, and that we need new ones
at our school so we're not freezing.
SHANADE: It is freezing.
Everyone's cold.
JACK: Courtney usually complains a lot that it's cold.
She can really feel the cold.
COURTNEY: The teachers would benefit from it, I guess,
since then they won't be cold in class.
And then we will be less rowdy and fussy.
JACK: No one's really done anything
about this issue before, that's why we want to do it.
Because I asked my mum when I filmed it,
and she said the heating is pretty much exactly the same
since she left, which was 30 years ago.
LISA WOODS: Not every street in Warracknabeal
will have foot paths as well.
TYLER: My issue is that the foot paths in Warracknabeal.
BRONSON: Nice streets where they should be sidewalks
and foot paths don't really have any.
They're usually just dirt or gravel.
TYLER: Probably the senior citizens that
ride their gophers on the foot paths,
or people riding their scooters to school
would benefit the most from the foot paths being fixed.
This is a list of skills-- the ones that we're good at
and the ones that we aren't so good at.
I'm pretty good at presenting data and filling out forms.
I don’t reckon I'm very good at talking confidently to a group
or using a microphone.
BRONSON: Well, I think our group will probably be good possibly
using maybe humour in our issue.
TYLER: In today's top story, terrible foot paths.
In this instance, there is no foot path.
One challenge for going out and getting the foot paths fixed
would be actually finding the time
to go out and get petition slips signed and go into the council.
BRONSON: I have work on two days a week.
And then I also have football on my Saturday, and football
training two times a week as well.
JACK: The principal would be scared of cost and how much it
would cost just for a few heaters.
But we mightn't be able to do it.
We might just have to suffer.
TYLER: If we were successful in fixing the foot paths,
I'd feel pretty good about myself.
JACK: If we got heaters for the school, I'd feel really pumped
and I could do anything.
COURTNEY: I think I'd feel really
good to know that I could do it.
And if something else came up that I
wanted to take action on, I'd know how to.
SPEAKER 10: Coming from a frigid nation like Canada,
I've realised that being cold doesn't generally make
a student less likely to pay attention.
Rather, on the really warm days when it's quite hot,
I find that students are at a much more sleepy mood.
SHANADE: Our group's been really busy.
We've been talking about the issue on the heaters.
And first we made surveys, and then we interviewed people.
And then we presented our presentation.
JACK: The heaters at Warracknabeal Secondary College
are not capable of heating the room.
SHANADE: These are the opinions of a couple
of the students at the Warracknabeal Secondary
College.
SPEAKER 11: Why do you think new heaters will be good?
SPEAKER 12: Because, well, I've said this in both of them,
that students will want to get to class more and steal
the heaters and [LAUGHTER].
BRONSON: We took an action.
We talked to one of the counsellors, Lisa Woods.
And she said that we'd have to put together a folder
that we could give to the council.
And then she said that will go into a hierarchy
where the more important issues in the council
will get looked at first, but ours will eventually
get looked at.
And then we just put all the stuff
we've gathered together into a presentation
that we're going to be presenting to the local shire
tonight.
The one on the bottom right is just an [INAUDIBLE]
straight which doesn't have any foot path at all.
Just a pretty bad one, I would say.
TYLER: Have you ever had any incidents involving foot paths,
like tripping over or anything like that?
SPEAKER 2: Yes, I've tripped over them multiple times.
Pretty much every time I walk I trip over them.
TYLER: We have also started a petition of our cause, spoken
to a council representative about our issue.
Thank you for watching, everyone.
[APPLAUSE]
SHANADE: It felt really good to take action on the issue,
because it's making you feel like you actually contribute
something to the wider community.
JACK: I can talk to a group more confidently and not
stay shy and scared anymore.
SHANADE: This project has meant to me personally,
it's helped me get off on my feet.
So if I need to take action on something else, I know how.
And I know the steps needed to take.
BRONSON: Doing something that other people can benefit from,
knowing that.
TYLER: I definitely think that young people can take action
in the community.
I didn't before we started this thing, but now I reckon we can.