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Speaker 1: Listen Murrayols. Murrayols was on before and he was talking

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Speaker 1: to us about I think what is probably the hardest

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Speaker 1: story to read today, which is the story of the

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Speaker 1: kindy teacher and Victoria who died yesterday afternoon saving the

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Speaker 1: kids from the truck that smashed into the candy. Truck

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Speaker 1: driver lost control. We don't know what happened. Might have

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Speaker 1: been a medical event, but whatever, the truck plowed into

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Speaker 1: the kindy teacher saw it coming. She rushed over, pushed

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Speaker 1: the kids out of the way, and in doing that

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Speaker 1: she couldn't get out of the way herself, and so

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Speaker 1: she died. Now, the thing is, we don't know why.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is that there have been complaints about

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Speaker 1: the speed of cars going past that area, and the

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Speaker 1: speed limit outside that kindy was supposed to be dropped

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Speaker 1: from fifty k's to forty k's and it hadn't been.

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Speaker 1: And the reason people are worried about it is because

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Speaker 1: the stuff is happening. Right a couple of weeks ago

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne, and suv crashed into a primary school and

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Speaker 1: it killed an eleven year old boy and four other

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Speaker 1: kids as well. Now, I don't love speed reductions. If

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Speaker 1: you listen to the show. You know, just resist. I

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Speaker 1: resist doing stupid things like that for the sake of it,

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Speaker 1: because all too often speed reductions are done in places

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Speaker 1: like open roads that actually don't need speeds to be dropped,

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Speaker 1: But when it comes to places where kids are I've

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Speaker 1: actually done a complete one eighty on this. I was

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Speaker 1: telling you I was reading the book a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, a few weeks ago when I was in Melbourne,

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Speaker 1: The Anxious Generation. The book talks about why kids are

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Speaker 1: having mental crises at the levels that they are at

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Speaker 1: the moment. One of the reasons obviously a social media

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Speaker 1: but another one of the reasons, and this is particularly

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Speaker 1: true for boys, is that since the nineteen seventies, parents

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Speaker 1: have increasingly stopped their kids from just going outdoor and

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Speaker 1: outdoors and playing around the neighborhood, you know, just roaming

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Speaker 1: around on their bikes or rowing around with other kids.

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Speaker 1: And the reason that they've stopped them from doing that

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Speaker 1: is because parents are scared of traffic and how fast

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Speaker 1: it's going. And with good reason, right if you think

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Speaker 1: about it, think about how fast the cars go in

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Speaker 1: your neighborhood. Is fast? I live on a thirty k road,

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Speaker 1: no one does thirty ks. I don't even do thirty ks.

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Speaker 1: We all go way way faster than that. Now, the

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Speaker 1: good news in New Zealand is that because of recent

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Speaker 1: rule changes here, all schools in the country are going

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Speaker 1: to have lower speed limits during school hours by the

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Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty seven. But gotta be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: I don't reckon we should stop there. We need to

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Speaker 1: find a way to slow down traffic around where kids

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Speaker 1: live and play. Just across the board. I get that

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Speaker 1: it's going to drive people absolutely bonkers having to slow

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Speaker 1: down all the time around parks and houses and schools

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Speaker 1: and stuff would require us sacrificing our time as adults.

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Speaker 1: But I think for the benefit of going as fast

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Speaker 1: as we do around kids, we are actually sacrificing quite

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Speaker 1: a lot, which is their best childhoods, and I think

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Speaker 1: we need to slow down around them, don't you. For

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