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Speaker 1: Now, following that huge controversy over the creep who's been

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Speaker 1: working in daycares in Victoria, Australia has just announced strict

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Speaker 1: new rules for childcare centers. ECE workers will have to

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Speaker 1: put their names on a database, they will have to

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Speaker 1: attend mandatory safety training, they will not be able to

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Speaker 1: use their cell phones at work, and CCTV cameras will

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Speaker 1: be placed in three hundred centers around the country. Oli

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Speaker 1: Pederson is the presenter for six PR Perth Live Over

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Speaker 1: in Perth with us right now.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Oli, Hey, Heather.

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Speaker 1: What's been the reaction to this.

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Speaker 2: I think it's largely positive and I actually think probably

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Speaker 2: the best part of the announcement today is that there

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Speaker 2: will be inspections at these childcare centers which are unannounced,

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Speaker 2: So that really puts every childcare center in Australia on

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Speaker 2: notice that at any time the inspectors can arrive and

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Speaker 2: make sure that everything is what it should be. So

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Speaker 2: we've already seen some states jump, like where I am

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Speaker 2: in Western Australia. They followed the lead of Victoria and

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Speaker 2: South Australia in banning personal mobile phones in childcare centers

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Speaker 2: and by the end of the year it will become

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Speaker 2: a requirement. The Attorney's generals also working through this in

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Speaker 2: the States and with the Commonwealth government to roll out

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Speaker 2: closed circuit television networks, so they'll be security cameras put

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Speaker 2: in pretty much every child care. So look, from my

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Speaker 2: point of view, head, as you said those allegations made

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Speaker 2: by that absolute creepover in Victoria, I think the federal

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Speaker 2: government has done everything it could do, and I do

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Speaker 2: think the minister responsible for this, the Federal Education, mister

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Speaker 2: Jason Clare, he was very very strong on it this morning.

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Speaker 2: So I think that they've acted very quickly. You've got

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Speaker 2: to give the government and the state government's credit here

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Speaker 2: for obviously reacting to this situation and trying to beef

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Speaker 2: up the regulations as quickly as they possibly could.

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Speaker 1: What putting their names on a database have stopped this

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Speaker 1: creep from being able to do what he did, well.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think it comes back to

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Speaker 2: these working with children checks, and I already know that

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Speaker 2: New South Wales has jumped a bit earlier on that.

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Speaker 2: So they want to try and obviously prevent individuals who

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Speaker 2: are seen as posing a risk the safety of children

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Speaker 2: from working in a child related and employment. But look,

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Speaker 2: I've had one of these. I've had a working with

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Speaker 2: children check as a junior cricket coach. It's really easy

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Speaker 2: to do. You walk into a post office, you get

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Speaker 2: a form, you feel it out, and it's done and

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Speaker 2: you never hear from them again. So will this database

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Speaker 2: actually mean that this wouldn't happen again? Probably not, let's

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Speaker 2: be blunt about it. But it will obviously raise a

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Speaker 2: red flag if a particular childcare worker shouldn't be in

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Speaker 2: that setting. So that when they go to obviously apply

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Speaker 2: for a job and they put your name into the

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Speaker 2: database and they say we can't employ a loiver Peterson,

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Speaker 2: well then they're not going to hopefully employ all of

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Speaker 2: a Peterson. But if you change your name or you

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Speaker 2: get some way of getting around one of these police checks,

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Speaker 2: then you know this situation could happen here.

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Speaker 1: Now, Ollie, you have said on the show that you

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Speaker 1: don't like dads or men rather working in daycare centers.

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Speaker 1: You find it weird. Does this make you feel better

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Speaker 1: about it?

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Speaker 2: Not? Really like? And I know I might sound a

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Speaker 2: bit old fashioned saying that, but you know, even talking

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Speaker 2: with my friends, and I'm not I'm a young dad, right,

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Speaker 2: I've got a three year old and a seven year old.

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Speaker 2: You know that, but I just I find the idea.

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Speaker 2: I suppose a bit creepy that you know, another man

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Speaker 2: might be changing my son's nappy, for example, or wiping

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Speaker 2: his bottom. And I realize that sounds probably, you know,

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Speaker 2: straightaway sexist, and you're thinking, what are you talking about, Ollie?

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Speaker 2: Mums do it all the time. Why can't dads do it?

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Speaker 2: I just feel uncomfortable with it. And call me old fashioned,

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Speaker 2: that's fine, but I don't. I just don't. I just

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Speaker 2: don't know why men would want to work in childcare settings.

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Speaker 2: It just gives me the x. Ollie.

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Speaker 1: What I love about you is you just so forthright

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Speaker 1: and you do not you do not hold back your opinion. Mate,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, really appreciate it. Olli Peterson six

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Speaker 1: PR Perth Live Present. I suppose if you're going to

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Speaker 1: be sexist, at least you be sexist against your own,

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