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Andrew Bayly: Port Waikato MP on his member's bill aiming to crack down on unreported child abuse · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: A Bell Members bill toughening up child abuse reporting has
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  Speaker 1: been pulled from the Biscuit Tenet Parliament. It'll make it
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  Speaker 1: compulsory to report no one has suspected child abuse to police.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Bailey, Port Waikato MP with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It's his bill. Hey Andrew, how are you rying? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Really good? Thank you. I mean we hear cases, baby rue.
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  Speaker 1: We hear of cases where there's it's suspected that people
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  Speaker 1: know what's going on but they don't talk to police.
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  Speaker 2: Is this what it's trying.
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  Speaker 3: To fix exactly? So under this arrangement, there is no
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  Speaker 3: legal requirement for people to report are sold against children.
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  Speaker 3: So in those cases, this will give the police the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to see that if I can prove that you
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  Speaker 3: were there, you didn't report it. And in that situation
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  Speaker 3: where people don't want to incriminate themselves, they would end
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  Speaker 3: up going to jail for three years at least.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like it would put an end to it. Have
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  Speaker 1: you had any support or idea of support from.
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  Speaker 3: You, Well, I'm pretty certain there'll be crut rights support
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  Speaker 3: about it. The biggest share is there's a requirement for
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  Speaker 3: people to report suspected assaults so we just need to
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  Speaker 3: make sure we've got tight enough definition around that, and
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  Speaker 3: the Slick Committee will state will space through you. But
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  Speaker 3: Australia adopted similar legislation. And just to put this in context,
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  Speaker 3: Ryan over, since nineteen ninety two, there's two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: sixty children in New Zealand they've lost their lives because
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  Speaker 3: of abuse by their parents or guardians.
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  Speaker 1: How you nearly out to politics, aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: I am?
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  Speaker 2: How's it feel? What did you think of Stuart Nash?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, well, Stuart Nash and Paul here. You know
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  Speaker 2: you're a bit of a colorful character yourself. Andrew, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think when you see scandals like that news?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I thought Stuart Nash's comments were inappropriate, but it is.
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  Speaker 3: We're now getting into the political season and anything's going
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  Speaker 3: to get reported and used against people. But I'd just
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  Speaker 3: as we go through we focus probably more on the
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  Speaker 3: important things that Nzone needs to talk about and we
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  Speaker 3: don't simply you're talking about that enough at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Bailey put Wacatto MP with us this morning for
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