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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's. I had many discussions over the weekend

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Speaker 1: about the happenings in Canberra and in society in general.

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Speaker 1: It was talk at dinner, it was talk on my

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Speaker 1: dog walk, it was talk having coffee with a girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: We're all battling to get our heads around the horror

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Speaker 1: and the enormity of what's been unfolding and what it means.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to mothers of sons, mothers of daughters,

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Speaker 1: and everyone is distressed and unsettled about this recent dialogue

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Speaker 1: around rape culture, around abuse, around consent that's going on

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Speaker 1: in our schools, in the offices of Parliament. There are

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Speaker 1: many stories in recent weeks we've heard of women coming

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Speaker 1: forward and sharing, maybe the first time, their own experiences

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Speaker 1: of sexual abuse. And I know that classes and assemblies

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Speaker 1: at boys' schools have been attempting to tackle this, and

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Speaker 1: girls schools too. When a female principal said recently and

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Speaker 1: an email to girls, be more for what you were

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Speaker 1: at the Siming carnival, she was held down. When a

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Speaker 1: principal at another girls school said, think about your behavior

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Speaker 1: around alcohol and mix taking. Parts of the community also

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Speaker 1: held hurled to herdoun saying this isn't a female issue.

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Speaker 1: It's a male issue, and it's boys we need to

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Speaker 1: talk to. And it seems that to mention any behavior

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Speaker 1: other than that of the boys, to bring the girls

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Speaker 1: into the discussion is to victim, shame or to be

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Speaker 1: seen to be unsupportive of women. I think we have

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Speaker 1: to kind of look beyond that because the answer lies

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Speaker 1: in all of it. Another headmaster at a boys school

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Speaker 1: said parents need to help too. Don't host parties for

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Speaker 1: kids to be underage drinking, and where there are problem

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Speaker 1: areas in your home where they can get into trouble.

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Speaker 1: All of this needs to be looked at for us

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Speaker 1: to educate and guide our young men and women as

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Speaker 1: to what constitutes consent, what is sexual abuse, how to

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Speaker 1: respect yourself and respect others. Some of my friends said

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Speaker 1: that nothing's changed since their teenage years. The puberty blues years.

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Speaker 1: There it is again, and maybe this has been going

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Speaker 1: on since the dawn of time where boys had the

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Speaker 1: power and girls had no say. So what are we

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Speaker 1: on the cusp of discovering what can come from this

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Speaker 1: heavy time from our conversations that we're having, and maybe

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Speaker 1: women are no longer accepting that that's the way things

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Speaker 1: are so I guess we're calling for support in our communities,

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Speaker 1: our schools, our courts, our parliament because with all of this,

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Speaker 1: I can absolutely feel that change is in the air.

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Speaker 1: There is a time of reckoning because all of this

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Speaker 1: has to mean something. So let's make it more than

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Speaker 1: a conversation. Let's start to implement these changes. Because the

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Speaker 1: vast majority of cases in front of the court don't

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Speaker 1: come to fruition cases of sexual assault. There's a number

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Speaker 1: of ways we can be tackling this. Boys, boys' schools,

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Speaker 1: toxic male culture, girls' schools, parents, it's a job for

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Speaker 1: all of us, I think, and seeing Amanda's gamnation