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Speaker 1: This is the Fitzy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Prime Minism Mitsitakis. We were so

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Speaker 1: honored that you could join us. Our next speaker is

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Speaker 1: Michael Whipley or Whipper for our Australian audience, a radio legend,

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Speaker 1: a co founder of the thirty six Months campaign and

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Speaker 1: a critical advocate for Australia's social media minimum age laws.

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Speaker 1: Please join us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks very much. Today I feel proud to be an Australian.

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Speaker 2: Today I feel even prouder to be an Australian parent,

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Speaker 2: not just because of our government and their policy, but

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Speaker 2: also because of our people and their power. Thank you

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Speaker 2: to voices as mentioned Jonathan Hind, the anxious generation, empowering

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Speaker 2: mums and dads all over the world to believe that

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Speaker 2: it might just be to put the cat back in

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Speaker 2: the bag. Thank you again, Jonathan. Thank you to parenting

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Speaker 2: educator who's helped validate and encourage with generosity and grace.

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Speaker 2: Maggie Dent has been a major player in supporting this

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Speaker 2: campaign and movement. A big thank you to the Heads

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Speaker 2: Up Alliance who began this great work a long time

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Speaker 2: ago and played such a pivotal role in getting phones

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Speaker 2: out of classrooms. Thank you to weight Mate also for

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Speaker 2: building networks of like minded, wholehearted parents committed to making

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Speaker 2: a change in community and for community. Thank you also

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Speaker 2: to Before sixteen who were breaking new ground in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: We are there for you. Go your good thing, you

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Speaker 2: can do this. Thank you also to News Corp for

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Speaker 2: leaning in and helping amplify with our ambition. I would

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Speaker 2: also like to thank change dot org, who gave us

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Speaker 2: a vehicle for pioneering change. Through it became undeniable evidence

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Speaker 2: of public sentiment that gave parents everywhere a meaningful way

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Speaker 2: to contribute to the cause. Those signatures didn't just change

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Speaker 2: a law, I'll change a generation. So thank you change

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Speaker 2: dot org. Rob Galuzzo from Finchure myself put a name

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Speaker 2: to this effort. Thirty six months not a ban, a buffer,

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Speaker 2: a window of time that felt so important that we

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Speaker 2: had to do something. Thirty six months isn't just a

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Speaker 2: social media delay. It's a window of opportunity to be

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Speaker 2: more deliberate about healthy team development, just like our government

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Speaker 2: was when they restructured the cabinet and connected the communicationsfolio

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Speaker 2: with the Sports portfolio. Under Minister Annika Wells off their

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Speaker 2: devices and onto the playing fields. The PM said, if

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Speaker 2: TikTok and snapchat with the old playing field, the task

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Speaker 2: before us now is to define and build the new playfield.

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Speaker 2: We've got an extra thirty six months for kids to

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Speaker 2: get to know themselves before the world does. What are

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Speaker 2: we going to do with it? Thanks very much. It's

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