Belinda Noble
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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Yeah, 100%.
And that ASIC investigation, which is extremely thorough, found that children are vulnerable to marketing, particularly children under six or under eight.
They don't recognise marketing information from school information.
They take it on as given equal weight and
And, you know, you shouldn't be able to use schools as an acquisition channel.
That's what the banking programs are doing.
And these fossil fuel companies, particularly the ones in those particular extraction communities, are using it as an acquisition funnel.
They make children feel positive about their industry.
And then later on in high school, they've got all the programs that try and get them to work in the fossil fuel industry.
So it's a recruitment funnel.
It certainly is part of the puzzle that we'd really like investigated.
We did some polling which found that 87% of parents and grandparents would prefer that schools are funded by governments instead of coal, oil and gas companies.
If there was a fair 25% tax on gas exports, we could more than make up the education funding shortfall in this country.
I think the issue isn't actually whether we can afford it.
The issue is if we want to rely on polluting businesses in order to deliver education, science education, mentoring programs and sports programs.
We know that marketing works, right?
These companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on marketing.
What it tells us is that children are receiving incomplete and biased information through these programs.
It teaches us that, you know, fossil fuels continue to delay pollution cuts, and this is what these whole programs are about.
They're about maintaining their business.
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