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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: An update on thirty six months dot com dot au

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Speaker 2: the drive and the initiative to change the legal age

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Speaker 2: of kids joining social media from thirteen to sixteen. That's

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Speaker 2: what the thirty six months is thought. I'd bring you

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Speaker 2: across at guys, and I want to thank everybody who's

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Speaker 2: been involved to this point. So far. At the petition

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Speaker 2: we have seventy five thousand people put the hand up

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Speaker 2: and said, guys, enough is enough. We have enough data

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Speaker 2: to understand the damage of what social media can do

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Speaker 2: to the young adolescent brain and we need to change it.

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Speaker 2: So I still encourage everybody to get to the petition,

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Speaker 2: but now with the great news, we have enough numbers

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Speaker 2: there to be able to submit that, so that can

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Speaker 2: go to Parliament and be bought up and the conversation

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Speaker 2: can be had. And at the same time, behind the scenes,

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Speaker 2: we're sitting down with some of the leaders of the

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Speaker 2: country and saying, hey, we need your backing on this.

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Speaker 2: When the bipartisan support, of course, but at the same

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Speaker 2: time we'd be fantastic to have somebody tuck it under

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Speaker 2: their wing and really drive this. What's great also about

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Speaker 2: the petition is you can leave messages of support or

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Speaker 2: just your thoughts, and we've received a few today.

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Speaker 3: I sign this petition because I think it's very important

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Speaker 3: that they age be changed. I feel like social media

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Speaker 3: is addictive and damaging to our young children, and I

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Speaker 3: want to see that that age of social media is

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Speaker 3: raised by the time my children are teens, because I

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Speaker 3: don't want them exposed to it, and I think it

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Speaker 3: will be much easier for a parent to enforce this

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Speaker 3: if it's law, and it's the same for all children,

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Speaker 3: so they don't feel like they're missing out, and you

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Speaker 3: have to choose.

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Speaker 2: I spoke to your friend yesterday who has a WhatsApp

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Speaker 2: group across many schools. There's now two hundred families on

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Speaker 2: that WhatsApp group collectively, and the idea is to get

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Speaker 2: together and support like minded who are saying enough's enough,

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Speaker 2: so that the parents aren't caught out in a powerless

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Speaker 2: position where kids are saying, well, I'll be the only

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Speaker 2: one in the playground that does and have that.

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Speaker 4: Which is a bigger It's one of the biggest part

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Speaker 4: biggest argument, isn't it Yeah, It's like, well, it's all

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Speaker 4: well and good to say you're not allowed to be

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Speaker 4: on it, but then in some ways that ostracizes the

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Speaker 4: child as well.

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Speaker 2: The other amazing thing, too, is the drive. And I

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Speaker 2: thank everybody, even from Jim Jeffries this morning, who messaged

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Speaker 2: me the other day saying we've got to get behind this.

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Speaker 2: So he's posted, and we've been encouraging people, and I

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Speaker 2: see the irony of social media being the big driver here.

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Speaker 2: But he's posted thirty six months logo and then a

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Speaker 2: photo of him when he was thirteen, as Zoey Foster

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Speaker 2: Blake did, which was have you seen.

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Speaker 4: The photos of zoe yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Have you seen the photo of Kate Richie? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 2: But what I love about that is if you then

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Speaker 2: look at that photo and you've seen that photo of

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Speaker 2: me in Mahard rock t shirt with a tennis racket,

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Speaker 2: you think of that person at the age of thirteen

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Speaker 2: and think to yourself ask the question, how would have

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Speaker 2: they handled social media back there?

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Speaker 4: I think one of the biggest thoughts is, thank goodness

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Speaker 4: we didn't have to.

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Speaker 2: I would have been an absolute mess. There's no way

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Speaker 2: I would have been able to process or handle that,

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Speaker 2: as majority of adolescent kids aren't able to do. Here's

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Speaker 2: another message we received as adults.

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Speaker 1: It's our job to keep our children healthy and safe

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Speaker 1: and to guide them in this ever changing and complex world.

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Speaker 1: And I really think that the negative impacts on social

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Speaker 1: media for our youth outweigh the positive and we need

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Speaker 1: to keep them safe and healthy in those formative years.

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Speaker 1: As a mum, as a former teacher to high school

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Speaker 1: students including thirteen to sixteen year olds, a TV presenter,

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Speaker 1: and our content creator, I hope that we can all

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Speaker 1: get around this to support our youth. Now, we want

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Speaker 1: as many signatures as you can get without on the petition,

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Speaker 1: but is that enough so far to then take this

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Speaker 1: to the federal government and state governments and say we

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Speaker 1: need to do something.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely so behind the scenes, the stages are one sitting

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Speaker 2: down with the right police. Secondly, it's working out and

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Speaker 2: making sure the tech is possible, which we know it is.

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Speaker 2: And the next part is that is celebrating the idea

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Speaker 2: that we could consider giving thirty six months back to

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Speaker 2: the families, back to the kids, and what education can

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Speaker 2: we build into that thirty six months. So what I

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Speaker 2: want you to do is continue to go to the

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Speaker 2: petition thirty six months dot com dot au. You'll see

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Speaker 2: it there, but also share that petition in your WhatsApp group,

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Speaker 2: with your footy club, with your school. Be the person

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Speaker 2: that becomes the admin person and sends it out to

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Speaker 2: all those parents and families out there concerned about this.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a great idea, and all I know

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Speaker 4: is that when I posted it, no one said, oh,

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Speaker 4: this is a bit of a rubbish idea, or you know,

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Speaker 4: everyone's got their questions about it, But no one at

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Speaker 4: any point thought that giving children thirty six months back

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Speaker 4: social media free is a bad idea.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not at all. It makes perfect sense. Get

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Speaker 2: behind it, guys, and thank you. It's Whippa with Kate

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