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Laura McClure: ACT Education Spokesperson on the Government backing down from changing homeschool laws · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Government backing down on changes to its homeschooling legislation. This
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  Speaker 1: after push back from keep parents, from educators and from
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  Speaker 1: ACT and from New Zealand. First, Laura McClure, ACT Education
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  Speaker 1: spokesperson with me this morning. Hey Laura, good morning, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: So did you vote for this the other day?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Look, I did vote for the amendment because at
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  Speaker 2: the speed in which it came up in the House
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  Speaker 2: meant that we you know, we had we had to
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  Speaker 2: vote for this part of the government and look, I
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  Speaker 2: was raising my concerns and David's office had been raising
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  Speaker 2: concerns in other ways so that we could look at
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  Speaker 2: some kind of different outcome past voting for the m
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  Speaker 2: the men in the house.
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  Speaker 1: So did you not when you say the speed of it,
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  Speaker 1: did you not really know what you were voting for?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? No, we knew what we were voting for, but
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  Speaker 2: the issues behind you voted against it because it came
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  Speaker 2: up so quickly in the last week and although we
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  Speaker 2: had had time to read through it, we hadn't had
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  Speaker 2: time to discuss with the Minister's office and come up
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  Speaker 2: with another solution. So it's part of the government committed
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  Speaker 2: to the coalition. Meant that we voted for it, and
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  Speaker 2: we worked on a solution behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Right, do you often vote for stuff that you don't
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  Speaker 1: agree with but that you have to do quickly?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I wouldn't say that. I'd say that there
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  Speaker 2: are times where we have to vote for things in
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  Speaker 2: the House that don't always align exactly with ex philosophies.
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  Speaker 2: It's been part of a coalition and a smaller party.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, that happens. But this particular amendment did come
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  Speaker 2: up very quickly. It meant that we had not a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time to consider the amendment. The way the
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  Speaker 2: wording was written, it also meant that the homeschooling community
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  Speaker 2: in particular didn't have any time to have a say,
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  Speaker 2: and we felt that was really undemocratic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and parents, I mean, if you're homeschooling your kid,
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  Speaker 1: you're not a horrible person, which I think was Is
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  Speaker 1: it fair to say? That was kind of the view
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  Speaker 1: that was that the bill was taking.
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  Speaker 2: Look, that was definitely how the homeschooling community felt. They
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  Speaker 2: felt like they were essentially targeted because of a couple
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  Speaker 2: of examples and issues that were given, and they felt
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  Speaker 2: like they weren't consulted at all, and Yeah, like we
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  Speaker 2: felt that we had thousands of emails over the last
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  Speaker 2: week in our inboxes, and it's fair to say the
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  Speaker 2: homeschooling community were right and we had to do something
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Laura, good to have you on. The show
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  Speaker 1: was always Laura McLure.
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