Speaker 1: This is number one hundred. You're on the air with
Speaker 1: Jason Lauren Clint here as well. We're doing it thanks
Speaker 1: to your shall already Express.
Speaker 2: Premier Premire, the Premier Victoria is in the house.
Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning to tell everyone what you just
Speaker 1: said to me off the air.
Speaker 3: Hope the kids aren't listening. We high five kids are
Speaker 3: back to school week. Parents around the state.
Speaker 1: Have you got in your house?
Speaker 3: I've got two and one. We've got a high school
Speaker 3: started this week, primary school start this week. So preppy, No, no,
Speaker 3: I've spread it out that much. No going back to
Speaker 3: going back to primary school. So last year primary school,
Speaker 3: first year of high school in our house, that's a
Speaker 3: big way.
Speaker 1: Seven. Do you open the school bags and the lunchboxes
Speaker 1: is still there from last year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did all that.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: I tried to get more organized this year and do it,
Speaker 3: did it early January. But still it's a bit of work,
Speaker 3: you know, new uniform, school bags and kids. They just
Speaker 3: keep growing and growing.
Speaker 1: And hey, good news for parents who have kids heading
Speaker 1: back to school. I saw the announcement that you throwing
Speaker 1: a bit of coin their way.
Speaker 3: Look, I think everyone knows about how tough it is
Speaker 3: at the moment. Costs, living pressures really real for so
Speaker 3: many and back to school costs they're one of the
Speaker 3: big things. You know, it comes at Christmas time, New Years.
Speaker 3: It's an expensive time. School shoes and books. Kids grow
Speaker 3: little treasures, they grow, so you've got.
Speaker 1: To make sure you treasures off the air.
Speaker 4: And my mum bought me school dresses that lasted like
Speaker 4: five years. They were just so big when I started,
Speaker 4: and I slowly grew into the rifty.
Speaker 1: At your school, did they do that thing where they
Speaker 1: measure the length of the skirt to make sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah we're in high in Yeah, like senior school. It
Speaker 4: was supposed to go to the knee, but they didn't
Speaker 4: measure it. But if it was too short, it's a problem.
Speaker 4: But we used to roll it up to make it shorter.
Speaker 1: Anyway, they were to the school bone.
Speaker 3: And so in order to help to help families with
Speaker 3: this expensive time of the year, we have rolled out
Speaker 3: the school saving bonus four hundred dollars per student. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter primary school, high school, primary school, high school.
Speaker 3: It's for government schools and for low fee paying non
Speaker 3: government school So about seven hundred students across the state
Speaker 3: eligible for it, and.
Speaker 1: The parents can spend that at Danfi's or it's got
Speaker 1: to be right. It's got a bit.
Speaker 3: It's targeted to uniforms because that is one of the
Speaker 3: big costs, and also camps and excursions because they're a
Speaker 3: big part of it. And also we know a few
Speaker 3: families that's one of the things that they don't do.
Speaker 3: If they're feeling get kids will miss out and you
Speaker 3: don't want your kids to miss out. So how did
Speaker 3: they get there cash? So it's been administered through through
Speaker 3: the schools. We've wanted to make it as easy as
Speaker 3: possible and I can. I got some the I asked
Speaker 3: the team for the info for you this morning. As
Speaker 3: at this morning, we've had ninety five million dollars bonus.
Speaker 3: People need it, Yeah, and that means that's money that
Speaker 3: parents have for other things that they spend on, and
Speaker 3: it has I've been in my own been visiting the
Speaker 3: uniform shop a bit this summer with the kids, and
Speaker 3: I've seen parents use I've seen you talking to that.
Speaker 1: Do you do ours in the tuch shop at your
Speaker 1: kids home?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I used to do a bit of reading in the
Speaker 3: classroom back in the day before I had Yeah, right,
Speaker 3: this job but no, I've been I was on uniform
Speaker 3: shop duty this year and it was really watching families
Speaker 3: use it. I could see how it was making a
Speaker 3: real difference.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Well we've got you. Can we talk about yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yes, Sam abdul Rahim, this is horrifying and for many
Speaker 2: in the community, it's really scary. Are you confident that
Speaker 2: the homicide squad the police have got this in hand
Speaker 2: and should the public feel concerned?
Speaker 3: Victoria Police and I think you might have been talking
Speaker 3: to them earlier as well. They're they're throwing They've got
Speaker 3: huge resources on this, they have their organized crime task
Speaker 3: courses and work incredibly hard. The advice I have, the
Speaker 3: advice at VIC Pole's given given me, is that this
Speaker 3: was targeted, very clear, Like it's horrifying, horrifying scenes and
Speaker 3: must be have been very distressing for the local community.
Speaker 3: But it was a targeted It was a targeted.
Speaker 1: I know everyone keeps saying that, and we were in
Speaker 1: this discussion before because it was a shooting in South.
Speaker 3: The similar circumstance, targeted attack.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's if I
Speaker 1: was in that car park yesterday, you know, and all
Speaker 1: hell breaks loose. You know, people are concerned that they're
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 3: That's a totally natural reaction. Look, I can take the
Speaker 3: vic Pole advice. They're saying it was targeted. They're saying
Speaker 3: there's no broader risk to the community, and we know
Speaker 3: that vic Pole they've got eyes on these groups and
Speaker 3: they are throwing that through a lot of resources at
Speaker 3: this work.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, while we're talking about feeling safe in the community,
Speaker 4: we have got a huge problem here with youth crime.
Speaker 4: A lot of finger pointing is going towards you and
Speaker 4: the government.
Speaker 3: What are we doing about it?
Speaker 4: Because I think people are more Honestly, what I saw yesterday,
Speaker 4: I'm not as concerned about as someone's stealing a car,
Speaker 4: a kid stealing a car, getting arrested and then getting
Speaker 4: released again.
Speaker 1: On the home stuff, that's really it feels.
Speaker 3: Like it's out of contral No, there's no doubt. There's
Speaker 3: no doubt. The stats tell you, your lived experience tells you
Speaker 3: that we have seen an increase in that sort of behavior,
Speaker 3: particularly from there's some groups. And again this is the
Speaker 3: advice I get from vic Pol. There's a group of
Speaker 3: young offenders and they are repeat offenders. So in recognizing
Speaker 3: this is a real issue in the community. The Victorian Parliament,
Speaker 3: we passed the laws last year to give the courts
Speaker 3: and the police stronger powers, stronger powers to deal with
Speaker 3: the youth offenders, not grant them bail.
Speaker 4: Not because I feel like the police are doing their
Speaker 4: job and these kids again frustrating.
Speaker 1: Was it in Queensland? I saw over the holidays that
Speaker 1: they've lowered the age Yeah, adult crime at out time.
Speaker 1: This is what it's been as unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, that's that's Queensland's pathway. What we've chosen to
Speaker 3: do is give police more powers and the courts too,
Speaker 3: and also powers.
Speaker 4: But what about the courts because it feels like these
Speaker 4: kids are just.
Speaker 3: Getting there's stronger bail requirements, stronger new offenses if you
Speaker 3: commit about not getting bail, if you commit a serious
Speaker 3: offense while you're on bail. But it feels like it's
Speaker 3: not happening. Well, these laws are being rolled out right
Speaker 3: now and it is. You know, we're giving the courts
Speaker 3: these powers, We're giving the cops these powers. And then
Speaker 3: I also want to flag we're rolling out this year
Speaker 3: electronic monitoring, so on some of these youth offenders, the offenders,
Speaker 3: electronic monitoring because we need to make sure that there's
Speaker 3: an accountability.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, but as long as if someone's monitoring them and
Speaker 1: they leave their house, that we go and pick them up.
Speaker 1: Because I mean, without sounding like an old grumpy man,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like we're saying, oh, we've now got
Speaker 1: air tag technology.
Speaker 4: It feels like these kids are out smarting the system.
Speaker 4: Like I don't know, hang on, hang on, I don't
Speaker 4: know if you saw that video the other day of
Speaker 4: that kid who was driving and he was filming himself
Speaker 4: saying I do this because I can, because I'm going
Speaker 4: to get led out again, Like.
Speaker 3: And that's why we needed the That's why we needed
Speaker 3: those law changes. And also too, I can flag with
Speaker 3: you this morning, like if we need to do more,
Speaker 3: we will. We need to do more, we will. We've
Speaker 3: passed fields we need to do. And this is something
Speaker 3: again I hear this from hear this from police, hear
Speaker 3: this from people in communities right across the state. And
Speaker 3: what you said Lauren before about that frustrating that people.
Speaker 3: It's frustrating, you know, the repeats.
Speaker 2: So when are those bracelets coming?
Speaker 3: So we're rolling at that trial this year. In terms
Speaker 3: of the electronic monitoring and it is about I get.
Speaker 1: The monitoring, lock them up. I say, if someone breaks
Speaker 1: into my house at two o'clock in the morning, mate,
Speaker 1: they need to be locked down.
Speaker 3: Well, that's again why we've made those bail changes.
Speaker 2: Just finally, you'll a politician say, poles will come and go.
Speaker 2: I mean the most recent one had the primary aiate
Speaker 2: at around twenty two percent. I mean, why aren't the
Speaker 2: public buying what you're selling?
Speaker 3: Look, I absolutely expect understand, and again it comes from
Speaker 3: talking to people. Community wants more from their governments. We've
Speaker 3: been talking this morning about the cost of living pressures.
Speaker 3: Absolutely know that that's a real pressure for households and
Speaker 3: families across the state. It's why we've got the school
Speaker 3: saving bonus. It's why last week we announced a fuel plan,
Speaker 3: a fair fuel plan to save motors hundreds of dollars
Speaker 3: a year on fuel. I absolutely accept that governments me,
Speaker 3: people like me, and these leadership roles, we've got to
Speaker 3: work harder. We've got to understand where the community is at,
Speaker 3: listen to the community and respond to what they're telling it,
Speaker 3: and particularly on costs of living. It's real, it's hurting people.
Speaker 3: And my commitment is to fight for those households and
Speaker 3: families because.
Speaker 2: Much to come in where isn't there in a little
Speaker 2: while by election there?
Speaker 3: And look that is absolutely right, But governments and all
Speaker 3: political parties are put to the test at election times.
Speaker 3: That's why we live in this wonderful democracy.
Speaker 4: Okay, just into Alan the premiere with us this morning,
Speaker 4: just quickly. I know that that money for kids going
Speaker 4: back to school is a huge reliefe So if people
Speaker 4: do need it, they do they deal with the school.
Speaker 3: A lot of people find out, so families will have
Speaker 3: got emails from their schools like last year.
Speaker 1: Oh so many emails.
Speaker 3: We love compass the parent tell you about the camp
Speaker 3: coming up. Okay, but we need the cash. So what
Speaker 3: do we do? We can't find the email? We talked
Speaker 3: to school, Talk to the school, talk the school and
Speaker 3: what's it called? The school Safe Saving bonus? And our school?
Speaker 3: Can I give a shout out the admin teams in school.
Speaker 3: I was about to say they are fabulous and they
Speaker 3: are making sure that this money is getting to the
Speaker 3: people who need it.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in mate, Good to see you guys.
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