If people have a lot of time on their hands, they can go through them as well, but they will be talking about things like import controls, talking about strong regulation around the marketing of these products. And today on their website they will publish a summary of their report and also all 4,000 submissions. The Therapeutic Goods Administration - The TGA which regulates drugs in Australia has been conducting a really deep consultation over summer. KARVELAS: Part of the issue is the importation of vaping products, should this be banned or greater regulation? What are you looking at?īUTLER: We're looking at absolutely everything. So, they get around all of the hard work, our country and other countries have done over recent decades to stamp out smoking. This is an industry that is trying to create a new generation of nicotine addicts. When you look at these things with pink unicorns on them and bubblegum flavoured - these aren't marketed to adults. This is an industry shamelessly marketing, not just to teenagers but to young children. KARVELAS: Sorry. Did you say under four, Minister?īUTLER: Under four, under four years of age.īUTLER: This is now the biggest behavioural issue in primary schools. The Victorian Poisons hotline in the state you're in right now has reported that in the last 12 months, more than 50 children under the age of four, have had to be reported to that hotline because of the dangerous ingestion of nicotine. It is causing very real harm to our children right now. You're right, vaping in and of itself is dangerous, it is bad for your health to be ingesting that many chemicals into your lungs, we know that it causes substantial lung damage including diseases like popcorn lung, but we are also particularly concerned because this industry is so shamelessly marketing to children - products with pink unicorns on them, bubblegum flavour and suchlike. It is a very serious public health issue, but I'm committed to making sure we get this back under control because we absolutely must. On some estimates almost as many people are vaping now as are using traditional cigarettes. Is it too far gone? Can you really limit their use?īUTLER: You’re right, it has exploded. KARVELAS: The vape black market has exploded. MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND AGED CARE, MARK BUTLER: Thank you Patricia. And may we all write better author bios in her image.PATRICIA KARVELAS, HOST: Minister, welcome back to the program. May we all have such clear-eyed confidence and warm, irreverent self-regard, such well-calibrated humor. Having spent too much time agonizing over how straightforward / clever / opaque / forthcoming / fun / boring to be in the various author bios I have been asked to provide over my career, I know how hard writing these can be (and how people will judge you on them), and Butler nails it. Kindred, among other things, is a rather shocking novel of slavery in early America, which probably should be read by every white American. She has written Patternmasters, Mind of My Mind, Survivor, Kindred, and Wild Seed. Octavia Butler is a hermit, living in the middle of Los Angeles, a pessimist (if she isn’t careful), a feminist, a quiet egotist, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive. The whole piece is worth a read (the gall of teenage boys! the grace of Octavia!) but one detail brought me particular delight: Esteban shares the author bio that Butler provided for the 1979 Fantasy Faire convention. Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Review of Books published a fairly wild essay by Miguel Esteban who, at the tender age of 14, commissioned a now-famous essay on race in science fiction from Octavia Butler.
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