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[Video: Upbeat music plays while the words "What do our kids want for the future of Auckland?" appears on screen against a dark blue, light blue and grey background. The camera pans to show a plasticine volcano, a red plasticine harbour bridge over a plasticine harbour and a grey plasticine sky tower and buildings behind it.]
[It then cuts to show a plasticine marae and toy car near a plasticine beach. Children are shown playing with the plasticine objects, while a group of parents insert ear buds to listen in. The screen is divided into two- the larger window shows the parents listening in while the smaller window shows the children speaking.]
Girl 1: I want the city to look more beautiful with less rubbish in our seas.
[Video: While the children are talking in the smaller window, the larger window keeps changing to show different groups of adults from different ethnic groups responding to the children's comments with smiles.]
Boy 1: Teachers don’t get paid enough.
Boy 2: In the next 10 years I don’t want to see any homeless people sitting on the streets.
Girl 2: That they shouldn’t make people rent anymore.
Girl 3: I think we should like ban all plastic straws and ban plastic bags and things like that
[Video: Adults react with smiles]
Girl 4: And I want to see less traffic.
Boy 3: Lots of people speaking fluent Māori.
[Video: Adults laugh and smile]
Boy 4: Auckland needs a little bit more environmentally friendly transport.
[Video: A different group of adults now appear in the larger window listening. The screen zooms in one of the children's mothers dressed in yellow]
Mother 1: I didn’t even know that she thinks about these things.
[Video cuts to another set of parents, a European man and a Japanese woman talking to the camera]
Mum 2: And they have their own opinion.
[Video cuts to a Sikh father wearing a purple turban and glasses]
Dad 1: They’re aware that the houses are very expensive in Auckland. They’re also aware of homelessness, which is a big surprise for me.
[Video: Cuts to a different father, European with a goatee beard]
Dad 2 [Rand Hazou]: I do like the idea that he imagines a future where maybe petrol cars become obsolete.
[Video: Cuts to show the toy cars again on a plasticine intersection]
Mum 3 [Natasha Diaz Cardona] : Environmentally we can do so much more.
[Video: Cuts to show plasticine trees on a plasticine landscape, before cutting to show another father, Miodrag Miljkovic in a checked shirt talking]
Dad 3 [ Miodrag Miljkovic] : What children feel about the environment.
I will say, how much they love and how much they are aware of what’s dangerous for the environment, how much they feel for their future, actually, we need to follow their...
[Video: Cuts back to show the plasticine volcano again surrounded by plasticine land and ocean]
Dad 3: you know, their love, their passion.
[Video: Cuts to another parent, Sonia Mehta]
Mum 4 [ Sonia Mehta]: It would be a valued lesson for them if they get to learn more about the Māori culture.
[Video: Cuts to show a different mum, Alexandra Pavlyuk, standing next to the previous mum in yellow talking]
Mum 5 [ Alexandra Pavlyuk]: Just educating the society about Māori people, and more about making ties and connections between all cultures, communities including Māori.
[Video cuts to show another mum, ]
Mum 6: What can we do to contribute...
[Video cuts back to show the plasticine marae again]
Mum 1: ...to this process I think the whole bicultural nation thing needs not just to be a lip service. We are manuhiri, we should be making the effort to actually get to understand Māoridom, Māori culture, Māori ways of thinking and being.
[Video: Shows mum 1 gesticulating to the camera while speaking, then the screen splits into the two windows again, in the small window a young boy appears, while some of the parents listen in the big window]
Boy 5 : I want to feel equality. I want to feel diversity. I want to feel acceptance.
[Video cuts to another child talking in the small window]
Boy 6: You know, equality all.
Mum 3: So I want them to be accepted as Kiwis.
Mum 1 [ Vivian Chandra]: And everyone, I think, wants acceptance, wants to belong. And yeah, I am just moved that these kids think about these things so deeply.
Mum 7: I like that they’re already starting to think about these things, even though they’re all quite young.
Dad 2: I think Auckland is gonna be in good hands.
Dad 3: Nice to have such a future, isn’t it?
Mum 2: I never think about how Auckland looks like for our children.
[Video: Cuts back to plasticine road scene with plasticine street signs and toy cars]
Mum 2: So I hope to contribute together.
[Video: Cuts back to plasticine road scene with plasticine street signs and toy cars, pans to show plasticine Sky Tower]
Mum: 4: Actually, this is an amazing city where we can learn from each other and there are so many things and so many interesting people with so many great ideas.
Children: I will build some more fun things so that everybody can have more fun.
[Video: Group of parents laughing]
Mum 3: Super cute.
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