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No, I was just going to say her
message is a beautiful.

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It's so positive and joyous.

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Her interpretation of my moment
all these years ago,

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she's embracing the concept that
I am doing it for others.

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So I was obviously representing myself,

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but representing my family and my community

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and Kuku Yalanji and Birri Gubba
people of whom I belong to.

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but also for young women, for athletes,
for First Nations people.

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You know, folks often touch on
the theme of reconciliation,

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especially on Australian soil.

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It was in Sydney.

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Once I sat down and, you know, kind of
took stock of what was happening

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in the stadium that night and their
reactions from everyone,

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I absolutely felt that it was
a significant time of

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significant time of unity.

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The generosity of people's hearts was palpable,

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the way in which they were happy for me

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and the people I was representing,

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because they embraced me and
they embraced my story,

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which I thought was lovely.

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That power of unity was incredible.

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Yeah, I kind of feel that she's capturing

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a really beautiful sentiment, especially from
the Indigenous community of Australia,

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and particularly from the community
of where she's from.

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It's powerful celebration of
First Nations achievement.

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You can see the words love.

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I love that's one of my favourite parts.

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Beautiful. Just beautiful.

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I think the world needs love, a lot of love.

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We have to remember what it is.

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what it is and the actions of love, what love
looks like, how it plays out in the world.

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Yeah, it's joyful. It makes me smile.

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There's a lot of images in there like
honey ants and the boomerang

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and, you know, the kangaroos with earrings.

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It's really quite joyous. She's even got
superhero figures up there as well.

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I think that's fabulous.

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It's fabulous.

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That's a genius of Kaylene Whiskey and her imagination,
the magic of her imagination.

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You can feel that she's completely free and
unafraid of being true to who she is.

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I feel quite honoured.

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It's probably more meaningful to me because
she's a traditional woman.

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You know, she's a woman of culture and ancient
culture, the world's oldest living culture,

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one of which I'm obviously very proud
to be a part of as well.

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So somehow, in some way, I've
become part of her life.

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Yeah.

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It's an honour,

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absolute honour.