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Speaker 1: This is gem nation were.

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Speaker 2: Well. There was an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Speaker 2: I think many parents could relate to. My eyes flashed open.

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Speaker 2: I jolted upright unrelenting WhatsApp notifications had disrupted my slumber.

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Speaker 2: What could be so important and so urgent? Well, what

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Speaker 2: it was was a group of other mums saying, it's.

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Speaker 1: Book week, it's book week. What are we going to do?

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Speaker 2: Book Week's hard in our day, let's winge a little.

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Speaker 2: These days you can go online and buy a highly

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Speaker 2: flammable costume if you can afford it. In our day,

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Speaker 2: something had to be made, or you make do with something.

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Speaker 2: Liam I think was Liam once? When does Willy Wonka

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Speaker 2: in a purple jacket that was mine? Is a little

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Speaker 2: puff sleeve.

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Speaker 1: I could never wear it again because I thought I

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Speaker 1: looked like Willy Wonka.

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Speaker 3: But he was wearing your actual clothes.

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Speaker 2: My actual clothes for dress ups. And I could never

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Speaker 2: wear it again because I thought, wow, that's it you

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Speaker 2: look mentally, I've always looked like Willy Wonka when I've

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Speaker 2: worn it.

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Speaker 1: Not easy? Is it? No?

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Speaker 3: Not easy at all? The book week for me is

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Speaker 3: it's a long time ago. All that stuff you know

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Speaker 3: with the Easter hat parade, remember that thing, and we

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Speaker 3: did the egg parade, the East Egg diorama thing.

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Speaker 1: You love a diorama, that is where you rock.

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Speaker 3: Well. We had controversy in two thousand and six with

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Speaker 3: my daughter's one because I convinced her to go with

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Speaker 3: the broken egg mountain.

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Speaker 1: Oh, brokeback mountain, mounting each other.

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Speaker 3: No, no, I had little tent and then one little tent,

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Speaker 3: little horsey, and then the egg and the other end

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Speaker 3: sitting around the campfire.

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Speaker 1: Did the teacher like it?

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Speaker 3: You know what? They wore a bit quiet about it

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Speaker 3: around that. It was two thousand and six. I don't

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Speaker 3: know people are ready for that. But it didn't win

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Speaker 3: bond Eggs one instead.

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Speaker 1: That's outrageous.

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Speaker 3: You're just shooting fish in a barrel.

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Speaker 1: But it's just hard, isn't it. You know, the night

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Speaker 1: before you say, so, what have you got this week?

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Speaker 1: I've got a book week tomorrow? You know, to make

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Speaker 1: an Elizabethan collar out of a WEDDINGX, how is this

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Speaker 1: going to work?

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Speaker 3: And then your kid shows up with, yeah, a paddle

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Speaker 3: pop sticks stuck to a bit of paper.

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Speaker 1: Oh, terrible, Jack with this?

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Speaker 2: Jack once went with two pieces of cardboard stapled together

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Speaker 2: and just his head poking out the top and.

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Speaker 3: What was that?

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Speaker 1: Terrible?

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Speaker 2: I can't even remember. Kids didn't want to go as

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Speaker 2: Spider Man. You think that's not a book.

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Speaker 1: That looks like we don't ready? And Harry Potter everyone

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Speaker 1: does that.

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Speaker 3: Harry Potter's just easy because you can buy a professional

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Speaker 3: costume for that now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but not everyone can you know, wants to spend

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Speaker 1: money on this stuff.