1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Job mission with joon Z and Amanda. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 2: He has been announced the new Australian of the Year. 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 2: Dylan Orcott as Australian of the Year. He is playing 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,239 Speaker 2: his very last tennis match tonight the Australian Open. He 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 2: announced last year the tom would mark his tennis retirement. 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 2: So a lot of emotion this week for him. Oh, 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 2: he's just he's just amazing. But he's a brilliant tennis 8 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: player and just a brilliant guy too. He's thirty one 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: years old. He said that he's already using this platform 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 2: to call for a rapid free, rapid test for people 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: with disabilities, people who are probably some more the vulnerable 12 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: people in our communities and their cares who need to 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: be able to fulfill their lives, know they're healthy, can 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 2: get out and about this is some interesting stats here. 15 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 2: He has said that of the forty four point five 16 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 2: million people living with a disability in Australia, only fifty 17 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: four percent of them are employed, and he said that 18 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: number hasn't moved in thirty years. 19 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: Wow. 20 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 2: So he's determined to put a spotlight on people living 21 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: with the disabilite. He has been so inspirational for so 22 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 2: many years, but The speech he made on receiving this 23 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 2: award was just extraordinary. 24 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: I've been in a wheelchair my whole life. I was 25 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: born with a tumor wrapped around my spinal cord that 26 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: was cut out when I was only a couple days old, 27 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: and I've known nothing but having a disability. And if 28 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: I'm honest with you, I cannot tell you how much 29 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: I used to hate myself. I used to hate having 30 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: a disability. I hated it so much. I hated being different, 31 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: and you know, I didn't want to be here anymore. 32 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: I really did it. And whenever I turned on the 33 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: TV or the radio or the newspaper, I never saw 34 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: anybody like me. And whenever I did, it was a 35 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: road safety ad where someone drink drives, has a car accident, 36 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: and what's the next scene, Someone like me in tears 37 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,919 Speaker 1: because their life was over. And I thought to myself, 38 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: that's not my life. But I believed that was going 39 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: to be my life. And I'm so lucky that I 40 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: had one of the best family and some of the 41 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: best friends, and my beautiful partnershan Tell, and my whole 42 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: team who told me that I was worthy and that 43 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: I was allowed to be loved you know, when I 44 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: reached the end of my teenage years, I started seeing 45 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: people like me. I also stand on the shoulders of giants, 46 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: not literally, but Paralympic athletes like Luis Savage, Kurt Fernley, 47 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: Danny Detorro, people that are the reason that I got 48 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: into sport. Advocates like Stella Young. They paved the way 49 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: so I can be here tonight. They should have been 50 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: Australian of the Year as well, and I'm honestly so 51 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: I wanted to be up here and it's because of 52 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,119 Speaker 1: them and everybody in my life that I sit here 53 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: as a proud man with a disability tonight. 54 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: He went on to say that he now sees his 55 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: disability is the best thing that ever happened to him. 56 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 2: So what an inspirational Australian of the Year he'll be. 57 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 2: And that's what it's about, isn't it With the Australian 58 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 2: of the Year. 59 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: It's just about that person for that moment in time 60 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: that inspire others to do great. 61 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 2: Things and shines a light. And that's what Grace Tame 62 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 2: has done in her year. A lot of commentators yesterday 63 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 2: weren't happy with the way her Australian of the Year. 64 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: Tenure ended with her photo shoot with Scott Morrison. We'll 65 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: talk about that next. Jonesy and Amanda's