Irma: If you were the Prime Minister what would you want to do?

Millie: Look after the trees. Because if we didn’t have trees we couldn’t breathe. Also, I would make a shop to look after animals in the wild.

I: Why is that important?

M: Because otherwise they will get extinct and then we won’t have much animals in the wild.

I: What do you think Prime Minister Julia Gillard does?

M: Has meetings.

I: What about?

M: About what we should improve and what should we make better and what should we add to the world and what we should … nothing else I think.

I: Do you think Julia Gillard is doing a good job or not?

M: Good job.

I: Why do you think that?

M: Because she’s taking control of everything.

I: How does she do that?

M: I don’t know.

I: If you could change one thing in the world what would it be?

M: I would like to change the way they make clothes.

I: How?

M: By getting some fruit and squashing it and just making it really flat so you can sew it into a dress. But you’d have to change dresses every day because it would get rotten.

I: What fruit would you use to make a dress?

M: Mango and apple and grapefruit, because grapefruit on the outside has a layer of this thing that’s yellow and if you cut it really thin it’s easy to get through with the needle.

I: What sort of dress would you make?

M: Mango pieces with lolly pops stuck to it.

I: Wouldn’t that be uncomfortable?

M: Yes. It would be all slobbery.

I: Would you eat the dress?

M: Of course.

I: But then you’d be naked.

M: I’d put some clothes underneath. That weren’t made of fruit.

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