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Speaker 1: Listen, I want to talk about kids being bashed by

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Speaker 1: their families. We've had a really bad run of it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you realized in the last few weeks,

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Speaker 1: as far as I can see, just in the last

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Speaker 1: eight weeks, just what I've seen, We've had the toddler

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Speaker 1: in the suitcase. We've had the baby in the bin

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Speaker 1: in Auckland. We've had a two month old go to

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Speaker 1: hospital with serious injuries that happened today. We've had a

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Speaker 1: three month old taken to hospital in Wellington in June,

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Speaker 1: and we've had a six month old critically injured at

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Speaker 1: a Foxton beach house in July. And we've hardly talked

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Speaker 1: about this. I mean, we've talked about the toddler in

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Speaker 1: the suitcase yesterday. I mean world media talked about the

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Speaker 1: toddler in the suitcase yesterday because it is so bizarre

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Speaker 1: it's hard to ignore. We talked about the baby and

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Speaker 1: the bin. That got about a day's worth of coverage

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Speaker 1: again because that was pretty out there, Ah, putting a

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Speaker 1: baby in a bin, But everything else almost no coverage.

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Speaker 1: Now do you know why that is? I mean, part

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Speaker 1: of it is obviously that this is now not unusual anymore.

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Speaker 1: We just bash our babies all the time in this

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Speaker 1: country apparently, but also because you're not actually allowed to

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Speaker 1: talk about it. I don't know if you realize this,

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Speaker 1: but if the moment that autong Atomadiki, which is the

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Speaker 1: new sif's the moment that ot uplift's a kid, the

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Speaker 1: family court orders basically automatic blanket suppression on it, which

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Speaker 1: means the police can't say anything. It means ot itself

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Speaker 1: can't say anything. It means the media can't say anything.

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Speaker 1: So the news coverage just basically dies. We got baby's

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Speaker 1: gone to hospital. That's the end of it, no more coverage.

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Speaker 1: It's actually only when the child dies that we can

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Speaker 1: talk about it in detail, because there is now no

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Speaker 1: young person to protect anymore. Now, isn't that the opposite

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Speaker 1: of what we want? I mean, I think this is

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Speaker 1: doing our kids a disservice. I understand why we did

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Speaker 1: this in the first place. While we put these suppression

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Speaker 1: orders in the idea was to protect the privacy of

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Speaker 1: these young people. But what it is also doing is

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Speaker 1: it's protecting the privacy of the thugs and their families

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Speaker 1: who put them in hospital or in the suitcase or

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Speaker 1: in the bin. And what it also means is that

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Speaker 1: no one then talks about what's going on. We're not

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Speaker 1: horrified by the detail because there is no details, so

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Speaker 1: we don't talk about it, including politicians. They should be

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Speaker 1: the ones pitching solutions. At the rate that we're bashing

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Speaker 1: our kids. This should be an election issue every single election,

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Speaker 1: but it's not because we hardly talk about it because

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Speaker 1: of the rules. So surely the rules should change. For

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Speaker 1: more from Heather Duplessy, Allen Drive and Live to News Talks,

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