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Speaker 1: Another depressing reminder that it doesn't matter how many reports

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Speaker 1: you right, not a lot seems to change. We've got

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Speaker 1: another report into at risk children who turns out are

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Speaker 1: no safer than they were three years ago. This all

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Speaker 1: came out of the Malachi Acerbit case, a five year

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Speaker 1: old who died. If you don't remember, back in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, the Chief Children's Commissioner, Doctor Claire Kimoda is, well,

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Speaker 1: there's clear good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Do you find it depressing?

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Speaker 2: I find this findings of this report deeply, deeply concerning

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Speaker 2: because at a part, it's about how we are treating

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Speaker 2: children in our country, in the children who are the

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Speaker 2: most at need in our community.

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Speaker 1: Are we a bit useless at this?

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, I think we have to get better. In

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Speaker 2: this report shows that we're not moving quickly enough to

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Speaker 2: act the systems that need to draw those safety nets

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Speaker 2: tighter and stronger to keep children safe. They simply aren't

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Speaker 2: prioritizing the safety of children.

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Speaker 1: They need to, they would tell you they are. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the same thing happens every time report comes out. Will

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Speaker 1: do better, they were working harder, report comes out and

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Speaker 1: run around we.

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Speaker 2: Go well, following this report, the children's agencies have acknowledged

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Speaker 2: that there's a lot more to do, and clearly this

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Speaker 2: report from the Independent Monitor shows that still children are

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Speaker 2: not as visible as they need to be by the

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Speaker 2: systems that are there to keep them safe. And you know,

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Speaker 2: in light of the Royal Commission of Inquiry, in light

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Speaker 2: of the fact that we still have one child dying

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Speaker 2: every five weeks on average homicide, this has to dealvanize

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Speaker 2: us to real action now because we can't afford to

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Speaker 2: keep leaving children in situations where they are potentially going

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Speaker 2: to be harmed. We have to act and we have

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Speaker 2: to do that with urgency.

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Speaker 1: Well, so you have a good weekend, doctor Claire Aukman,

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Speaker 1: who's the Chief Children's Commision.

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