Ryan Bridge: Have we lost the plot on Health and Safety rules?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 29, 2025 · 1m · transcript

Brooke van Velden's anti-health and safety crusade's taken a rather bizarre twist - it's the plot twist nobody saw coming.

She's consulting the public on safe activities kids are allowed to do on farms, like watering plants and collecting chicken eggs.

It's a bit of an odd strategy, but the strategy seems to be that there's a potential problem with the law.

Anyone under 15 is technically not allowed to do work on a working farm. You could get fined $50,000.

But nobody's been done for letting little Johnny pick up eggs.

So, it's a potential problem, but not an actual problem.

The Minister's…