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[Drone footage appears of a landscape consisting of red dirt, small patches of green grass and some trees and shrubs with larger trees on either side of a river curving through the middle of the footage]

Rebecca Wheadon: The challenges of the

[Image changes to a woman in a blue jacket (Rebecca Wheadon) with the CSIRO logo on the left chest standing in a shady area]

Rebecca Wheadon: SKA project are an incredible opportunity

[Image changes to an artist’s rendering of person-height metal Christmas tree-shaped radio telescope antennas arranged on red earth in circular groups, called stations, of a few hundred with many of the stations stretching towards the horizon]

Rebecca Wheadon: for Australians to showcase

[Image changes to six of the circular stations of tree-shaped antennas to the right of a lighter orange track curving to the left of the image]

Rebecca Wheadon: our skills to the world

[Image changes to a seated man (Shandip Abeywickrema) in a pale lilac shirt in a shady courtyard]

Shandip Abeywickrema: working on the SKA project is a

[Image changes to a close-up of a green plant, and then the focus of the camera changes to the river in the background]

Shandip Abeywickrema: career highlight

[Image changes to show Des Mongoo and Jennylyn Hamlett on Country walking towards the camera and talking to each other]

Jennylyn Hamlett: we’re ready to share,

[Image changes to a seated First Nations woman (Jennylyn Hamlett) speaking to camera outdoors]

Jennylyn Hamlett: so you know, welcome aboard

[Image changes to Jennylyn looking to the left of screen in front of a river]

Sarah Pearce: Large scale

[Image changes to woman in a navy jacket with SKAO pin in lapel (Sarah Pearce) seated in a boardroom]

Sarah Pearce: international projects with a diverse team

[Image changes to close up image of a collection of the tree-shaped metal radio telescope antennas]

Sarah Pearce: where we’re trying to do something

[Image changes to a wider shot of one of the circular stations of a few hundred tree-shaped metal antennas with some other stations visible in the background on red earth]

Sarah Pearce: for the first time that nobody in the world’s

[Image changes to close up of a grey and black computer rack in a processing centre with out of focus cabling in the foreground]

Sarah Pearce: ever done before

[Image changes to a man in a blue business shirt (Grant Hampson) and a woman in a black and white spotted blouse (Vani Naram) opening the glass door of a computing rack in a processing centre]

Karen Lee-Waddell: The SKA telescope is going to

[Image changes to a woman (Karen Lee-Waddell) in a pale pink and black floral dress speaking to camera]

Karen Lee-Waddell: produce so much data in quantities

[Image changes to Vani Naram pointing to the computer rack as Grant Hampson looks on]

Karen Lee-Waddell: that we don’t even currently know

[Image changes to Grant Hampson nodding]

Karen Lee-Waddell: how to

[Image changes to an aerial view of more than seven of the circular stations of tree-shaped metal radio telescope antennas on red earth]

Karen Lee-Waddell: handle.