Australia is why

FOOTAGE: We open at dawn on an outback landscape. A Telstra technician gets out of bed and we see his car driving along an outback road.

SOUND EFFECT: Alarm from phone / TEXT: We all have a why

FOOTAGE: We cut to a mother holding her newborn. The baby yawns and Mum starts to cry.

TEXT: He is why

FOOTAGE: We cut to a burnout landscape, then a wind farm.

TEXT: This is why

FOOTAGE: We cut to a young man wearing makeup, taking a selfie in the mirror. Love heart emojis float from his phone screen. The boy starts to cry with happiness.

TEXT: Kindness is why

FOOTAGE: We cut to a young woman in traditional dress hugging a young man who’s about to get married. There are lights and wedding guests in the background. / We then cut to a young girl in her bedroom watching the wedding on her computer screen.

TEXT: Love is why

SOUND BITE; “Are you ready?’

FOOTAGE: We cut to a phone box on a suburban street. A Mum and her son are in the phone box and there’s bushfire smoke in the background.

TEXT: That one call is why

SOUND BITE: “Dad it’s me, we got out. I love you dad”

FOOTAGE: We cut to the same Telstra van from the beginning, travelling along the outback road. We then move to inside the van and see a Telstra tech driving. HE has a grey beard.

SOUND EFFECT: Mobile navigation voice “308 Kms to your destination”

TEXT: Every hour is why

FOOTAGE: We cut to inside a moving ambulance during a medical emergency. A paramedic wearing headphones in the back of the van urgently reports to the ambo driver:

SOUND BITE: “No beds at St Michaels, get to The Royal”

TEXT: Every second is why

FOOTAGE: We cut to a group of designers and web developers huddled around a computer screen. They have uploaded something which is about to go live. They look excited and cheer when the word ‘published’ appears onscreen.

TEXT: Going live is why

SOUND BITE: “Here it comes….<cheer>”

FOOTAGE: We cut to a montage of male ballet dancers performing leaps on stage and in a practice studio, followed by an AFL player marking the ball.

TEXT: Going further is why

SOUND EFFECT: Crowd cheering

FOOTAGE: We cut to the same bearded Telstra technician from earlier who is getting out of his van, putting on his helmet and walking towards a telecommunications tower. There is another technician in the background.

FOOTAGE: We cut to an aerial shot of an outback school with kids running around. We then enter the classroom and see a teacher and her students in the middle of a guitar lesson that is being taught onscreen. The camera moves around the classroom to show the students who are transfixed by their lesson.

TEXT: Class 4B is why

FOOTAGE: We cut to a silhouetted shot of the same telecommunications tower and the technician is climbing up it. We then cut to a long-distance shot of the tower with a truck in front of it.

The ‘T’ for Telstra logo appears.

TEXT: Australia is why

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