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Speaker 1: The uplifting story of the week. I reckon for me

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Speaker 1: is this thirty percent drop in parents taking kids out

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Speaker 1: of school for holidays. It's a single metric, I get it.

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Speaker 1: It's one travel agent. It will all be at a

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Speaker 1: big one. And it's hardly scientific. I understand that, and

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Speaker 1: that's not about to be published in Lancet. But it's

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Speaker 1: an insight into what might be happening, and even if

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Speaker 1: it's remotely accurate, it is a sign of several things. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: the power and the necessity of government. Think about it

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Speaker 1: all David Seymore said back in February was get your

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Speaker 1: kids to school, harden up. We will start keeping data.

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Speaker 1: We will hold schools and you to account and like magic,

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Speaker 1: a problem if not solved, we're starting to get addressed.

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Speaker 1: A government is leadership, and leadership in many many areas

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Speaker 1: is clearly needed, which is a bit depressing for a

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Speaker 1: person like me. I like to believe in self determination

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Speaker 1: and self starting more you less government. But in a

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Speaker 1: collective sense, we're only as strong as the weakest link.

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Speaker 1: And in social experiment terms, what we have seen in

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Speaker 1: recent years in all sorts of areas is if you

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Speaker 1: let the discipline and the leadership slip, all social hell

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Speaker 1: breaks loose the presence of police. It works, As we

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Speaker 1: heard the Copper say on the program this week, it's

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Speaker 1: based on the British system which is over one hundred

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Speaker 1: years old. Presents and visibility works. Not hard are the

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Speaker 1: testing in schools they announced yesterday. That'll have the same

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Speaker 1: effect if you offer excuses, if you can't be bothered,

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Speaker 1: if you let the guidelines slip, there are those who

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Speaker 1: will revel in being ordinary, if not hopeless. You could,

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Speaker 1: and I do argue that schools should have driven this

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Speaker 1: absentee as an argument themselves, but they didn't. But when

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Speaker 1: they were told to, it works. What a surprise. Cell

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Speaker 1: phones in schools, the calamitos mess they predicted, No you

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Speaker 1: haven't heard of peep, have you? Why? Because it works?

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Speaker 1: All it needed was a bit of discipline and a

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Speaker 1: bit of leadership. These are the small battles where the

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Speaker 1: tangible outworkings provide hope. A lot of people wondered and

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Speaker 1: wondered very loudly, whether the state of this country was

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Speaker 1: so bad it might take years to fix, if it

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Speaker 1: was even possible to fix it all. Well, these examples

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Speaker 1: this week I think are a good guide that we

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Speaker 1: might actually be seeing some fruits of some labor. Keep

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Speaker 1: it simple, work hard, expect more. You'll be amazed. For

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