1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:01,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to give me your thoughts on that, Nicholas with 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: us after five it's nine two ninety two. It's the 3 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: text number and standard text fees apply. 4 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 2: Now. 5 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: Mayors, it turns out, are not loving the fact that 6 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: David Seymour has asked them to help him get school 7 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: attendants up. So you'll be aware that yesterday he publicly 8 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: asked the country's mayors to keep an eye on his 9 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: new school attendance dashboard and then lead a conversation in 10 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: their communities about how to get the kids attending school 11 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: a little bit more and so on. Anita Baker is 12 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: put it to his man is with us? Now, Hey, Anita, hello, 13 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: So I see there are quite a few mayors who've 14 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: said they're not stoked about this. Are you one of them? 15 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 2: I'm not stoked about it. We do a lot with 16 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 2: our schools already. We're on top of working with our 17 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 2: schools in our young children. And the Prime Minister and 18 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 2: the local government form minister told us to stick to 19 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: our knitting, do our course course services. So if he 20 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 2: wants to play us a formal role, I think he 21 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 2: needs to look at funding us. Did he came is it? 22 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 1: Because I look at what he said it was pretty nebulous, 23 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: so it was a bit vague. It's not it doesn't 24 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: seem like it's there's no actual request there. He's just 25 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 1: asking you to sort of just keep an eye and 26 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: the kids go into school. 27 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: It made it sound like he didn't know what we 28 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 2: actually did already, and that we'd already work with the 29 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 2: schools and we have programs with them. So I just 30 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 2: thought that was a bit iffy on from his side. 31 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 2: He could have picked the phone up and spoken to 32 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 2: a few of us, worked out what was going in 33 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 2: the region. 34 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,919 Speaker 1: What do you do with the schools, how do. 35 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: You well, we have a school bus that goes to 36 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 2: the Lobber Decil schools that's funded. We have a maharing 37 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 2: A Tachi program which starts, and we have twelve kids 38 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 2: that come into council for ten weeks, one day a week, 39 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 2: and we do training with them. This month, there is 40 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 2: a try challenge that they're running, the Careers Expo, the 41 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:43,839 Speaker 2: Pacific Symposium. All our services work together around our children 42 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: and potty of us. So I just don't think he 43 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 2: realizes what we actually do. 44 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: So Anita, you can tell me if I'm wrong, But 45 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: the vibe I got from his as I say, pretty 46 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: wooly in vague request. Was it felt to me like 47 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,559 Speaker 1: he was basically just saying, hey, listen, if you guys 48 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: see and not just you as the mayor, but leading 49 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: but the communities led by them. Is you guys see 50 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: kids wandering around during school hours, tell them to get 51 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: back to school. Let's all start being adults keeping an 52 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: eye on each other's kids and telling everybody's kids to 53 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: go back to school. Was that the vibe you got? 54 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 2: Oh? It was? And it was looking at those numbers 55 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 2: every day, and I thought, I haven't got time to 56 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 2: look at the numbers. We've already got truancy offices that 57 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 2: go around, especially in our colleges, that take them back. 58 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 2: I don't see many kids wandering around in our community. 59 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 2: We have wardens down at the train stations so that 60 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 2: we don't have any issues after school. So I haven't 61 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 2: seen it is a huge issue that he's talking about. 62 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, what is your what's your attendance rate? Like 63 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: in Portador? 64 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 2: I haven't looked it up, to be fair, I've been 65 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: home sick all day and I haven't even loft. 66 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: I'll be one, So you yourself are truant. As it turns out, 67 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: I am. 68 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 2: I've slept for fifteen now. 69 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: Sorry, s wrong with you? Have you got COVID? 70 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 2: I think no. I tested. I'm sure it's a touch 71 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 2: the flu and I'll be back tomorrow. 72 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: Oh jeez, no, the flu takes you out for longer 73 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: than that. Listen, Anita, thanks very much, really appreciate your time. 74 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: I need to Baker portad Is Mayor Christ sush Mere 75 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: Film Major seems to be one of the ones leading 76 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: the opposition to this in a big way. He said 77 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: it's a bit rich of the government to make a 78 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: request like this after they've previously told counsels to go 79 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: back to basics. And Nick Minett he's going to be 80 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: the one cooking the school lunches and he's not clear. 81 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: Keen on that. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive 82 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: listen live to news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, 83 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.