Video: The red Australia Post sign on a grey building
Video: The front cover of a children’s book with the front cover showing an illustration of a pig that is stuck under a truck. The title of the book is Molli bin git stak.
Video: Paul Graham, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Australia Post talking while standing outside beside post boxes.
Audio: Paul Graham: Today we're announcing a really important event, the 500 thousandth book that we're delivering as part of our relationship with Indigenous Literary Foundation. We've been in partnership with them since 2020.
Video: Two men inside a post office, holding a children’s book entitled Moli bin git stak.
Video: Paul Graham talking while standing outside beside some post boxes.
Audio: Paul Graham: Well, our role given that we are in every Community in the country
Video: Two men inside a post office talking and placing the children’s book in a postal satchel. The satchel is addressed to Cunnamulla in Queensland.
Audio: Paul Graham: the most geographically dispersed business that there is a natural fit for us to offer our distribution services to be able to get the books
Video: Paul Graham talking while standing outside beside post boxes.
Audio: Paul Graham: put them into our network and make sure they get to these Communities.
Video: Two men talking while standing inside the post office.
Video: Ben Bowen, Chief Executive Officer, Indigenous Literacy Foundation talking whilst standing outside next to post boxes.
Audio: The ILF was created about getting some books out into the Community. Now they hit a milestone of 500,000 books out there is incredible.
Video: Paul Graham and Ben Bowen walking out of the post office and hand the satchel to a female postal worker in an Australia Post uniform. She is standing next to an Australia Post van.
Audio: Ben Bowen: The book supply programme that ILF does is one of our core programmes.
Video: Children in school uniforms sitting outside on the grass reading books.
Audio: Ben Bowen: It's the primary programme for the function of our organisation. It gets out about 136,000 books every year to over 427 Communities.
Video: Paul Graham talking while standing outside beside some post boxes.
Audio: Paul Graham: So we'll be delivering half a million books all the way
Video: Female postal worker placing the satchel into an Australia Post van with NSW number plates. The van is driven away down a street.
Audio: Paul Graham: to Cunnamulla via Toowoomba DC and via Charleville. It shows the great distance that these books get to go, into the hands of kids, to teach them how to read and also sharing their own stories, which is fantastic.
Video: the postal van is travelling through a country landscape.
Video: aerial view of rooftops including a large industrial building
Video: Alf Foster, Delivery Manager, Australia Post standing inside an Australia Post delivery centre talking
Audio: Alf Foster: Today marks an important milestone for Australia Post. With the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, we'll be delivering the 500,000th book to our First Nations people at Cunnamulla.
Video: Alf collects the satchel from the back of a postal van and carries it across the facility.
Video: A postal van departs from the Australia Post Toowoomba Business Hub and travels on country road.
Video: Tammy Hickey, Cunnamulla Library Services talks while sitting on a stool in a library. She is wearing a uniform and there are bookshelves in the background
Audio: Cunnamulla Library is beside itself with excitement. The whole community is very, very excited.
Video: Aerial view flying into the town of Cunnamulla over a big colourful Cunnamulla sign and over the top of the roof of the Cunnamulla Post Office.
Video: Tammy Hickey walks into the Post Office with a collection card and hands it to the post office worker behind the counter.
Audio: Tammy Hickey: Without Australia Post we wouldn't be able to get the books here, of course,
Video: Tammy Hickey: talks while sitting on a stool in the library
Audio: Tammy Hickey: And it is a long way to Cunnamulla.
Video: The postal worker uses a scanning device to scan the satchel and passes it to Tammy Hickey.
Audio: Tammy Hickey: So we're very, very grateful to Australia Posts. And again, without the wonderful Indigenous Literacy Foundation, a lot of children wouldn't have books in homes.
Video: Children and a teacher sitting outside on the ground surrounded by grass. The children are listening whilst the teacher reads them the book entitled Moli bin git stak.
Audio: Tammy Hickey: We wouldn't be able to give books out for free.
Video: Several children outside sitting on a mat which is on green grass next to a river. Five of the children are holding up signs with the numeral 0. Another child runs into the group from the left. He is holding the numeral 5.
