1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: Steve Price Ossie corresponds with us right now, morning, Steve 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: good I Heather, So a couple of days to go, 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: and we've got the social media bankkicking in. 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is for anyone under sixteen. They'll be turned 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 2: off on their social media accounts for the actual providers. 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 2: That's the theory, but a lot of the excuse me, 7 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,240 Speaker 2: a lot of the parents that are a little skeptical. 8 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: So there's a polland Cinneymonny Herald this morning saying seventy 9 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 2: percent of voters back the ban, but only thirty five 10 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 2: percent of confident that the platforms will actually effectively manage 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 2: to bock their children. Resolve. Political monitor did this pole 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 2: for the Herald. Fifty three percent said that they would 13 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 2: pick and choose what their kids could access, and they 14 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: would review parental controls. Thirteen percent plan to take no action. 15 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,599 Speaker 2: So this is going to be really interesting because I mean, 16 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: I think most of us would say social media can 17 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: cause great harm. We've had awful examples of that, and 18 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: it would be better if children under sixteen. In fact, 19 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: I would say children under eight used it less. But 20 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 2: parents themselves realize that this is going to be really hard. 21 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 2: I mean, how do you tell a fifteen year old 22 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: that suddenly they're not allowed with the looming summer school 23 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: holidays coming to go on Snapchat. I mean, as a parent, 24 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 2: I think it would be really difficult to enforce. And 25 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 2: the government seems confident this is the best thing they've 26 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 2: ever done in the world, But I just think in 27 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 2: practical terms it's going to be very difficult. I mean, 28 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 2: you know, there's even evidence that kids are using photographs 29 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 2: of celebrities to pretend that that's who they are, ah, 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 2: so they can keep their accounts. I mean, I guess 31 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: the evidence is going to be and how the whole 32 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 2: thing does work eventually, But we'll see. 33 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, I see facing has started to kick them off, 34 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: I meet, you know with Facebook and Instagram started kicking 35 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: them off already last week. Have we had howls of 36 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: outrage from the kids. 37 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: Not yet, And so that means to me that they're 38 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 2: going to get around it somehow. 39 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, you might well be right now. Yeah, this business 40 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: with the ex ben su scandal is getting pretty It's 41 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: getting pretty full on, isn't it. 42 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, and interesting this is the minister in charge of 43 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 2: promoting the new laws on social media, Annika Wells. It 44 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 2: can be revealed into Sidney Morning Herald. Now that during 45 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two to twenty three Test cricket series 46 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 2: against South Africa, the minister charge taxpayers for a family 47 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 2: reunion flight so that her husband could come down to 48 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 2: the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne. The flights cost eighteen 49 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 2: hundred and eighty five dollars. She got three free corporate 50 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 2: tickets from Cricket Australia to go to the match, and 51 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 2: in twenty three twenty four, the match against Pakistan Australia 52 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 2: was playing, she got one free ticket and the husband 53 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 2: still flew down to Melbourne. Now she's not technically breaking 54 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 2: the laws. There are reunion rules around this that you 55 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: can have three flights a year if you're going somewhere 56 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: other than Canberra to be with your partner. But this 57 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 2: is the same minister who took two after New York 58 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 2: to attend a meeting of the UN to spruit the 59 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 2: new social media laws, and the air fares there were 60 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: eye wateringly expensive, over ninety thousand dollars for three of 61 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 2: them to go to New York and back. Now many 62 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 2: people suspect she's probably sitting in first class. We may 63 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 2: never know, but these things are never a good look, 64 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 2: particularly when you've got a country where there's a cost 65 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: of living crisis. People can't afford to pay their electricity bills, 66 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: and you've got ministers flying around the world in business 67 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 2: class and then getting their husband to fly down to 68 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: Melbourne to go to the Boxing Day Tests. It's not 69 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 2: a good look for Anika Wills. If she wasn't promoting 70 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 2: the social media changes this Wednesday, I suspect she might 71 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 2: have lost her job now. 72 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: I mean, Steve as you say, these other rules and 73 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: there's no indication that she's broken the rules. So had 74 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: she done it at a time when the country was 75 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: more flush and people were more flushed, to have been fine. 76 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 2: Probably, Although punters don't like politicians getting freebies, whether it's 77 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 2: tickets to the cricket or whether it's airfares, it's just 78 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: not something. I mean she says, Look, I've broken no rules, 79 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 2: and no you haven't. Well, maybe we need to change 80 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: the rules. I mean, why would taxpayers have to pay 81 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 2: for her husband, who lives in Brisbane to fly to 82 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: Melbourne to go to the Boxing Day Test. If he 83 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 2: wants to go to the Boxing Day Test, let him 84 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 2: pay for himself. 85 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more. Now, the lads 86 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: in the producing team here tell me that you're going 87 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: to be a bit dark on the Oscar Pa Yestree situation. 88 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 2: Well, I've almost given up, and I think Oscar had 89 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 2: two The team McLaren wanted Norris to win, and Lando 90 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 2: has become the world champion. I think the delicious moment 91 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 2: was lap one, turn nine Oscar passed Norris. I think 92 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 2: Oscar finished third in qualifying, so he had Norris him 93 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 2: to staping ahead of him, and all he wanted to 94 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 2: do I think to show the world was that he's 95 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 2: a better driver than Lando Norris, and he is led 96 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 2: the world championship for most of the season. We might 97 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 2: go back to mons or I don't want to be 98 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 2: too technical about it or this, but back in Monza, 99 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 2: Piastre was forced to let Norris go past as part 100 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 2: of team rules, and that cost Oscar three points, and 101 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 2: of course those three points went to went to Lando 102 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: and he won the world title by two points. So 103 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 2: you can make up your own mind. I mean he's 104 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: a better driver. They had two great cars all year. 105 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 2: The Stappen's are superstar. He's won five world titles and 106 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 2: you know if Norris, if Piastri couldn't win either, I 107 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 2: would have liked to have seemed to stab him. But 108 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 2: I just don't like Lando. He's a privilege pratt. 109 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: To be honest, Good on you, Steve appreciated, Steve price 110 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: Osi corresponding, weren't we just talking about this? Weren't we 111 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: just talking about the fact that he is incredibly privileged 112 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: because it comes from a rich family. 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