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70: Child Labour & Liberal Childishness

Serious Danger

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The Problem With the Child's Paper Round

A lot of jurisdictions, states and territories in Australia don't have a clear minimum working age. There are all these exemptions for like family businesses for delivering papers. You can deliver papers in Queensland from age 11. And similarly in WA, you can deliver papers from age 10. So everyone like strongly believes in the sanctity of the childhood paper round for some reason. But it's still labor. Why though? It's still doing something.

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