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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the mornings. You may have seen

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Speaker 1: some footage yesterday. It's distressing to watch. This footage went

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Speaker 1: viral and has had a great outcome, but it was

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Speaker 1: so hard to watch it. A mom from Brisbane has

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Speaker 1: shared vision of her son Quaydon. He has dwarf Ism

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Speaker 1: and he's been so bullied at school that this little

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Speaker 1: this boy who's nine, wants to take his own life.

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Speaker 1: Here's some of the video.

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Speaker 2: I've just picked my son up from school, witnessed a

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Speaker 2: bullying episode, rang the principal. And I want people to know, parents.

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Speaker 3: Educators, teachers, this is the.

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Speaker 2: Effect that bullying has. This is what bullying does right now,

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Speaker 2: this is the effect of bullying. This is what it's

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Speaker 2: doing and I want people to know how much it

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Speaker 2: is hurting us as a family. I want people to

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Speaker 2: educate their children now.

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Speaker 3: The poor little mind.

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Speaker 1: I stabbed myself in the heart.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe in this day and age, so people

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Speaker 3: still bully kids that my kids are all very aware of.

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Speaker 3: You know, if you say anything that's even mildly racist,

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Speaker 3: my kids are straight onto it. You know, it's not

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Speaker 3: like in our day.

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Speaker 1: Well, she's saying that we and that we need better

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Speaker 1: disability awareness, of course, and it's this video though, has

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Speaker 1: been viewed five million times. Many people have expressed love

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Speaker 1: for Quaiden. This has been the positive outcome of all this.

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Speaker 1: Many wonderful comments have been uploaded, and the Indigenous All

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Speaker 1: Stars URL team have got in touch with the family.

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Speaker 1: They're going to have Quaidon walk with him out onto

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Speaker 1: the pitch on Saturday. So Cody Walker is going to

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Speaker 1: take him into the Indigenous camp tonight. Then on Saturday

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Speaker 1: night he will lead out the team. US comedian Brad

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Speaker 1: Williams he started to Go Funmy campaign. He has the

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Speaker 1: same sort of dwarfism as Quayden, and so he's setting

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Speaker 1: up a Go Funmy campaign to send Quaidon to Disneyland.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven thousand dollars has already been raised. So there's

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Speaker 1: two sides to this story. One, absolutely, we need better

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Speaker 1: disability awareness in our schools, in our communities. This poor

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Speaker 1: poor boy, but I hope that he's absolutely feeling the love.

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Speaker 3: The parents should be of the fellow students in young

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Speaker 3: Quainton's class.

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Speaker 1: Have a talk to your kids, yes, and the headmaster, look,

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Speaker 1: how can you tolerate this happening in your school.

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Speaker 3: How was this happening in this day and age. You

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Speaker 3: look at the short statued people in like Peter Dinkli's

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Speaker 3: for example, you know he went through a hell of

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Speaker 3: a time as a kid, and he's gone through the

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Speaker 3: other side. Surely we've seen all this now. I don't

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Speaker 3: know how his classmates could not see that. How could

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Speaker 3: they not be aware of that?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what the backstory to

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Speaker 1: any of that is. But when you see a nine

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Speaker 1: year old boy so clearly distressed and wanted to take

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Speaker 1: his own life, how that can be tolerated in that

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Speaker 1: school is extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: It can't and we won't, so stop it. Jonesy and

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Speaker 3: Amanda in the morning.