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Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local

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Speaker 1: political landscape, Katie Wolf has it covered on three sixty.

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Speaker 2: Every one is listening Mix one oh four point nine.

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Speaker 1: And it is such a busy morning this morning. And

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Speaker 1: it's a bit of a rule with us here on

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Speaker 1: three point sixty that we don't have more than one

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Speaker 1: minister on in an hour or a day sometimes. But

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Speaker 1: this is a really good positive story. We know that

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Speaker 1: today is International Women's Day and the government is making

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Speaker 1: sure that students have access to essential sanitary products. Now

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Speaker 1: joining me on the line is the Minister for Education,

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Speaker 1: a Minister for Women, Lauren Mosk.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, minister, Good morning Katie, and happy International Women's

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Speaker 2: Day and.

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Speaker 1: To you too. Now this is a really good announcement.

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Speaker 1: It means that more than eighty seven hundred female students

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Speaker 1: are set to have access to essential and accessible sanitary products. Minister,

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Speaker 1: why has the government decided to make this announcement?

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Speaker 2: Look, Katie, I think all in all, this is just

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Speaker 2: something really practical that actually is not that hard to

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Speaker 2: do and probably should have been done a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it just means that we can take

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Speaker 2: the pressure off schools a bit, so some schools might

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Speaker 2: be doing this already and meeting the cost through their

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Speaker 2: school budgets. Lots of schools won't be doing these. These

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Speaker 2: are not luxury items. Pads, tampons, other sanitary items are

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Speaker 2: things that you know, all young women are going to

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Speaker 2: need at some point, and this is just about acknowledging

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Speaker 2: exactly that they're not luxury items, just about women's health.

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Speaker 1: And it's a forty thousand dollars initiative and it is

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Speaker 1: set to commence in term two in our government schools.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, it's going to ensure that those territory

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Speaker 1: students have got the confidence that they well that they're

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Speaker 1: going to be able to access these essential items. And

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Speaker 1: you know, look, I guess for some of us you go, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: well how come you need to get them at school?

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Speaker 1: But for others it's you know, no young woman should

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Speaker 1: feel embarrassed that they're not actually to access these things.

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Speaker 1: And I think that if you know, if it means

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Speaker 1: that they're then able to and don't have to, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't have to feel embarrassed about that. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: this is not a luxury item. This is something that's essential.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I think if you're in a position of thinking,

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Speaker 2: you know, why does somebody need to access that at school?

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Speaker 2: You're probably in a relatively good position yourself, or you're

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Speaker 2: a man and you don't need to use fanetary products yourself.

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Speaker 2: But look, I think we have to also acknowledge that

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Speaker 2: in some cases across the territory, you know, we have

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Speaker 2: got kids who are coming from houses that might be

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Speaker 2: really overcrowded, where families can't forward the basic items and

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Speaker 2: they can be incredibly expensive, and so you know, this

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Speaker 2: acknowledges that for one and makes it a lot easier

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Speaker 2: for those young girls. But I think just on the whole,

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Speaker 2: as you say, let's take the stigma away from it

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Speaker 2: and the embarrassment and just make sure that these things

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Speaker 2: are easy for girls to access when they're at school,

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Speaker 2: whether it's you know, through school nurse or in another

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Speaker 2: accessible location in the school. It just needs to be

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Speaker 2: normalized and just you know, girls just need to know

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Speaker 2: they've got that backup and that support and it's just

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Speaker 2: a normal part of life and it's something we can

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Speaker 2: support them in.

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Speaker 1: Minister, I've got a message here from Ben and it says, Hi, Katie,

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Speaker 1: could you please ask Minister Mosse the following. Will the

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Speaker 1: free sanitary products be available for international students too? Is

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Speaker 1: there room to expand this project for a VET and

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Speaker 1: h E students That one there from Ben Well.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a really good question. So in terms

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Speaker 2: of this role out, we're focused obviously on our territory

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Speaker 2: public schools. They're the ones that the Department of Education

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Speaker 2: is directly responsible for. But absolutely I think it would

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Speaker 2: be great to see places like Charles Darwin University and

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Speaker 2: other providers taking the initiative to do this as well.

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Speaker 2: So you know, this is just the first step. We're

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Speaker 2: running a bit of a trial because we know in

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Speaker 2: a community by community basis it might just look a

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Speaker 2: bit different how it rolls out in the school. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I hope other education providers, so you know what, we

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Speaker 2: should be doing that too. This isn't a big thing,

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Speaker 2: it's something that actually we can all do relatively easily.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Minister Moss, we really appreciate your time today

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Speaker 1: and I'll be seeing you at lunch. You and I

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Speaker 1: both speaking at an International Women's Day event which is

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Speaker 1: being put on by the United Nations of Australia's Association

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Speaker 1: for the Territory.

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Speaker 2: Looking Forward to it and it's a great day to

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Speaker 2: highlight just the incredible Territory women that we have out

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Speaker 2: and about in our community.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely good on your minister, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: your time today.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's Minister Lauren Moss there, and obviously with that announcement

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Speaker 1: there are the Territory government is going to be making

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Speaker 1: sure that students have access to those essential senatory products.