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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Families with teenage children are stepping

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Speaker 1: into a new reality today with the Federal government's ban

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Speaker 1: on social media accounts for kids under sixteen coming into effect.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of talk about how kids will get

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Speaker 1: around the ban, with soaring sign ups for obscure messaging

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Speaker 1: and social platforms in mobile phone app stores. The ban

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Speaker 1: resulted from powerful advocacy by parents whose children had been

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Speaker 1: lost to bullying and victimization on social media, and a

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Speaker 1: campaign by News Corp Australia's mastheads around the country.

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Speaker 2: This band is bold and brave and I believe it

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Speaker 2: will help kids like me to grow up healthier, safer,

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Speaker 2: kinder and more connected to the real world.

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Speaker 1: That's Florence Broadribb, known as Flossi, a twelve year old

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Speaker 1: advocate for the band, who spoke with the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: and Communication Minister Anika Wells at Kirribilly House in Sydney.

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Speaker 1: And this is Minister Anika Wells.

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Speaker 3: Not that long ago auto manufacturers told us that making

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Speaker 3: compulsory seat belts would break their business model. It couldn't

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Speaker 3: be done now, Families choose cars based on who offers

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Speaker 3: the safest features. Big tech could compete like airlines lack

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Speaker 3: water manufacturers to have the best safety record to offer

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Speaker 3: their users. And that future is a little bit closer

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Speaker 3: today because of this world leading or Australia's.

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Speaker 1: Law, Wells is embroiled in another big drama. She's self

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Speaker 1: referred her extravagant use of taxpayer funded travel entitlements to

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Speaker 1: an independent authority. That's after it. It was revealed she's

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Speaker 1: spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on first class,

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Speaker 1: last minute and family reunion travel. Other MPs, including Dawn Farrell,

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Speaker 1: are also under fire for flying family members around the country.

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Speaker 1: Wells says she understands Australians have what she calls a

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Speaker 1: gut reaction to the numbers.

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Speaker 3: I'm abided by the rules the whole time I've been

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Speaker 3: a parliamentarian. Parliamentarians must follow the rules.

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Speaker 1: The legislation, which you can change.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and you know if you regularly reviews all of

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Speaker 3: these things, my job is to follow the rules. I

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Speaker 3: have followed the rules, I will always continue to follow that.

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Speaker 1: You can check out our deep dive on Anika Wells

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Speaker 1: family travel right now by scrolling back in your feed

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Speaker 1: to Wednesday morning's episode. And there's much more to come

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Speaker 1: on this story live now at the Australian dot com

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Speaker 1: dot a U and in forthcoming episodes of The Front

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Speaker 1: right here