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Speaker 1: Listen. There are calls for tougher driver licensing requirements for

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Speaker 1: our young drivers because it turns out that our young

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Speaker 1: ones on the road, these are the ones under twenty four,

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Speaker 1: are three times more likely to die than those of

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Speaker 1: the same age driving in Australia. A study by the

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Speaker 1: University of Adelaide compared our licensing system with Australia's and

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Speaker 1: Lisa Wunderst's lead that study is with us. Now, Hey Lisa, Hi,

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Speaker 1: thanks for hemie. Why is this happening? Are our driver

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Speaker 1: is bad?

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Speaker 2: Well? I think that this gets down to sort of

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Speaker 2: the young driver thing. Like the young drivers tend to

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Speaker 2: have more crashes than any other age group, and I

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Speaker 2: guess we have to consider that they're inexperienced as well,

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Speaker 2: so it's pretty important they get a good foundation. They're

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Speaker 2: the licensing So.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's least about the fact that our

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Speaker 1: drivers are bad and it's more about the licensing, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 2: I guess comparing your licensing system to Australia that we

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Speaker 2: noticed that there was quite a few differences, So I guess,

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Speaker 2: for example, one thing that stood out was that well,

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Speaker 2: both of us can get our start to get our

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Speaker 2: learners permit at sixteen, but I did notice in New

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Speaker 2: Zealand that you can progress through quite quickly and get

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Speaker 2: your full license by abound seventeen and a half to

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Speaker 2: eighteen years and in comparison in Australia it's around about

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Speaker 2: twenty years old before you can get a full license

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Speaker 2: and terisictions how Lon?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how long are you guys sitting on your learners?

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Speaker 2: For well learners is usually a year, but it's that

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Speaker 2: restricted license, it can be for two or three years

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Is it okay? So you're not doing it for the

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Speaker 1: length of time those spending on it obviously? Is it

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Speaker 1: mandatory supervision? Like a number of hours they have to

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Speaker 1: complete under supervision? Is that how long? How they get it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we start of learners for a minimum of twelve

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Speaker 2: months and the whole idea is that you can then

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Speaker 2: get as much experience as possible in different conditions. So

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Speaker 2: and yeah, so that's where we have also requirements for

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Speaker 2: mandatory supervised hours. So this does vary from state to

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Speaker 2: state in Australia. Some states it might be eighty hours

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Speaker 2: and it could be up to one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: hours that you need to log in a log book

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Speaker 2: that you've been out driving with a supervised driver like

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Speaker 2: a parent. Yeah, can be a parent, a guardian, anyone

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Speaker 2: with a full license. Okay, that's a way to make

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Speaker 2: sure you get lots of experience in different situations. I

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Speaker 2: definitely do. Yeah. And its requirements to drive at nighttime

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Speaker 2: as well, so you know all those different times as well.

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Speaker 2: So I think that could really make a difference.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably right. Lisa Hey, thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Lisa wonder Sits, who's the lead author,

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Speaker 1: University of Adelaide. I mean, jeez, one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: hours a because it's going to fall on you and

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Speaker 1: you're a parent, you're gonna have to sit there gripping this.

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Speaker 1: My mum used to grip the door and I could,

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Speaker 1: like with white knuckles. I was a great driver until

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Speaker 1: I drove into the ballard anyway. So there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of that that were going to have to do. But

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Speaker 1: then again, isn't it worth it to save their little

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Speaker 1: lives and make sure that they're okay.

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