Building lasting inclusion in the East Kimberley

[Background music starts playing.]

00:00 – 00:24
[The video opens with Sport4All’s First Nations artwork in the background. A soft animation introduces the segment.]
Voiceover: “Sport4All would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we all live, work, and travel upon. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge and respect the connection that First Nations peoples have to the sea, the sky, and the land. We acknowledge any and all First Nations peoples involved in making the following videos, as well as those who are viewing it.”

00:22 – 00:28

[The video transitions to a screen displaying the Sport4All logo. Below the logo, text appears: “Any sport, anywhere for anyone.” This is followed by additional text: “Giving community sport clubs and schools the support and skills to include people with disability when, where, and how they choose.”]

00:29 – 00:33
[The video transitions to a wide landscape shot of the East Kimberley region. On-screen text reads: “Inclusion starts locally. A Sport4All partnership with Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley.” Additional text follows: “Across Australia, people with disability are less likely to participate in sport – but local councils can play a pivotal role in closing that gap.”]

00:40 – 01:04
[Interview begins. Nick Allen, Director Planning and Community Development, Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley (SWEK), appears on screen, in an outdoor setting facing the camera and speaking.]

Nick: “Within our Indigenous population, disability is a bit of a stigma and a bit of an area that people don’t feel comfortable coming outside the home with. The lack of qualified people or experienced people with lived experience that’s worked in the area that can then sort of help and assist and promote disability access and inclusion in the area in a number of ways. I think programs like Sport4All is a great start.”

01:05 – 01:08

[The video transitions to a wide landscape shot of the East Kimberley region. On-screen text reads: “We are not here to ‘fix’ anything. We’re here to work alongside communities and ask how we can support”]

01:08 – 01:32
[Cut to Lucy Ballard, Sport4All Inclusion Coach at the Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley (SWEK), in an outdoor location. She is wearing a Sport4All polo shirt, looking at the camera and speaking. Shortly after she begins speaking, short B-roll footage appears showing the Sport4All team engaging with the local community. The B-roll continues while Lucy’s voiceover plays.]

Lucy: “Programs like Sport4All are really important because you can do as much delivery as possible with the community. If they don’t have the tools to be welcoming of everyone that they can be, then I think it’s a really uncomfortable position for them because you don’t know what you don’t know. And giving them that empowerment and capacity is so important because then once my programme leaves town, they still get to keep those skills.”

01:32 – 01:38

[The video transitions to a wide landscape shot of the East Kimberley region. On-screen text reads: “True inclusion is about feeling safe, and seen.”]

01:38 – 02:08
[Sarina, Wyndham Youth Officer, Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley (SWEK), appears on screen in a facility setting, speaking directly to the Sport4All team. Shortly after she begins speaking, short B-roll footage overlays the video. It shows young people playing on a basketball court, the Sport4All team engaging with local facilitators, and facilitators interacting with kids. Sarina’s voice continues as the footage plays.]

Sarina: “Whether it’s basketball, volleyball, painting, movie nights – the kids utilise the facility every night, even every afternoon after school. Just somewhere for them to come and hang out and play games, basketball or whatever activities are on that day. You know, they do feel safe because we do get a big turnout. The workers are really good with making sure that whether they’re having fruit, they’ve got water, they’ve got activities to do, or whether they just want to chill in the aircon – because Wyndham can get very, very hot.”

02:09 – 02:13

[The video transitions to a wide landscape shot of the East Kimberley region. On-screen text reads: “Inclusion means moving together not ahead.”]

02:14 – 02:32
[Tremane Baxter-Edwards, Media Spokesperson and Indigenous Community Leader, Wyndham Youth Aboriginal Corporation (WYAC), appears on screen in an indoor setting, looking at the camera and speaking. Shortly after he begins, short B-roll footage overlays the video. It shows young people playing footy, captured from different angles and perspectives. Tremane’s voice continues as the footage plays.]

Tremane: “The barriers hinder a lot of things. They hinder the ability for the community to come together. They hinder that, honestly, that respect between community members. Trying to break down those barriers is important and we need people to understand the power of sports and how it can change a community.”

02:33 – 02:38

[The video transitions to a wide landscape shot of the East Kimberley region. On-screen text reads: “It’s about builing curiosity, not compliance.”]

02:39 – 02:51
[Brooke Coleman‑Smeekens, Community Development Officer, Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley (SWEK) is in an ourdoor setting speaking to the camera.]

Brooke: “People have the idea that it’s quite a big thing, a hard challenge to be inclusive in sport. They don’t quite know what the first steps are to being inclusive.”

02:52 – 02:58

[The video transitions to a dirrerent wide landscape shot of the East Kimberley region. On-screen text reads: “The impact of sport goes beyond the field – its in our families, our culture and our kids’ future.”]

02:59 – 03:38
[Neville D’Silva, Chief Executive Officer, Wyndham Youth Aboriginal Corporation (WYAC), appears on screen. He is in an outdoor setting, in front of the Wyndham Community Club, looking at the camera and speaking. Shortly after he begins, short B-roll footage overlays the video. It shows young people playing basketball, a few shots of that, some b rooll footage of people playing footy captured from different angles and perspectives. Tremane’s voice continues as the footage plays.]

Neville: “Sporting events or sports in general bring the whole community together. It’s all these different barriers and stigmas that people have. It means a lot to the kids. That’s why when we give the kids food in the evening, we want the parents to come there and have, like, that family environment. Every clap that they give, the kids hear it. They are trying. Mum and dad are watching them, and that’s really what we’re trying to foster – that family thing. And it brings families together. It’s one of the best modes that we in this world have. It doesn’t matter what colour or creed you are, if you’re into sports, we all understand that language. It’s the one currency, breaks down barriers, brings people together. The next gen is what I’m trying to change, you know. So right now, crime has come down for us to nine in the year. Well, you know, it’s because of these things that we break and we bring all these kids together coming to our sports programme, then we give them feed, they go home and they go to sleep.”

04:00 – 04:26
[Brooke Coleman‑Smeekens, Community Development Officer, Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley (SWEK), appears on screen in an outdoor setting, looking at the camera and speaking. Shortly after she begins, short B-roll footage overlays the video. It shows the Sport4All team delivering an education session and engaging with facilitators and community members in an indoor setting. The footage includes a screen displaying the Sport4All presentation, participants viewing the course on their laptops, and a snapshot of a school engagement session with stakeholders holding giveaway materials.]

Brooke: “Seeing more people with disability engaged in community sport how they want to, you know, giving them the absolute choice to engage and play however they choose. And I can already see the real benefit that Sport for All has brought to our community with clubs that have engaged with Lucy already. And I can see that it’s gaining more traction. More clubs and more committee members are kind of seeing that it’s not as big a step as they might have thought.”

04:27 – 04:35

[The video transitions to a dirrerent wide landscape shot of the East Kimberley region. On-screen text reads: “Turning policy into lived experience, that’s where real inclusion begins.”]

04:36 – 04:57
[B-roll begins with Brooke Coleman‑Smeekens, Community Development Officer, Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley (SWEK), speaking in the backgroudn, as voicewover continues its b rool footag  shows, kids pplaying soccer in an indoor facility, facility shorts of images and paintings, trasnitions to Brooke in an outdoor setting, looking at the camera and speaking.

Brooke: “Bridging the gap between policy and real on-the-ground inclusion – it may seem big, but I think it can start with some pretty achievable steps. Just spreading the awareness, having the conversation more with people. And eventually, the more normal the conversation becomes, the more people are talking about it, the more curious and the more embedded it will become in community as well.”

04:58 – 05:04
[The video transitions to a dirrerent wide landscape shot of the East Kimberley region. On-screen text reads: “The biggest barrier to inclusive and accessible sport is in our midset”]

05:05 – 05:23
[Agustin Darwich, Gija Youth Manager, Gija Youth Program – Warmun Community Inc., appears on screen in an indoor setting that resembles a school. He is looking at the camera and speaking. Shortly after he begins, short B-roll footage overlays the video, showing young people playing basketball at school. The footage includes different shots of them playing, laughing, and interacting on the court.]

Agustin: “Everyone has the opportunity to engage with sport. It’s about us as people, what we can bring to communities, thinking of what we can do to have the other being welcoming activities or sports. So I think the power is in us.”

05:24 – 05.30

[The video transitions to a Sport4All logo with text, “Any sport, anywhere for anyone”]

[Background music fades out. Video ends.]