Sam Emery: Australian correspondent on two children being found dead in New South Wales home

Two children were discovered dead in a Blue Mountains home, with a woman en route to hospital under police guard.

New South Wales authorities said officers were called to the location on Tuesday afternoon to investigate the welfare of the woman and two children.

The boys, aged 9 and 11, were found dead in the home by a family member.

Australian correspondent Sam Emery says investigations are still ongoing. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sam Emory, Aussie correspondent with US.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now, Hey Sam, Hell, that good afternoon. Sam.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Listen, You've got to fill us in on what's just
been breaking in your part of the world.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah. Look, some sad news just breaking through this afternoon, Heather.
We're still waiting for more details, but police are investigating
after two children were found dead in a home in
the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. Emergency services were
called to the home in Falconbridge at just before twelve
forty today due to concerns for the welfare of a
woman and two children. They arrived to find the bodies

(00:31):
of two boys at age nine and eleven. The forty
two year old woman's been taken to Westmead Hospital under
police guard. But police, this is the interesting part. Police
are sort of saying that they're not looking for anyone
else in connection with the situation. So a bit dubious
there and certainly a sad news coming out of the
Blue Mountains just west of Sydney. Jesse. It's tough to

(00:51):
hear that.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
What do you make of there? Some age limit for
the social media companies? What are you hearing round about? Fourteen?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Australia is definitely pushing for fourteen years old to ban
children registering on social media platforms. The pms come out
saying he thinks maybe sixteen or younger off the social
media platforms. They're going to try and get this legislation
through this afternoon. The South Australian premiere this afternoon. This

(01:20):
year I meet the Premier agrees that national regulations on
child access to social media would certainly assist parents. Some
people have sort of come out saying, why should we
ban them from it? We should be given them tools
to actually use them properly. But it's whether or not
these kids actually really want to be on it just
because all their friends are on it, or because they

(01:41):
actually want to connect with a lot of people. I
know that I was speaking before I came on with
your producers. Off Heather. I've got two kids, thirteen and eleven.
My son, you know, he's on Snapchat. He uses it
quite a bit. My daughter's got no interest in it whatsoever.
We're actually talking about it the other day and she says,
why would I need something like that when I can
quite easily. You know, they're on messages, they're on I Message,

(02:03):
they're on YouTube, they're constantly talking with each other, but
they're not actually on these apps, you know, looking at
photos and looking at all these other things, or being
exposed to these sort of advertisements. So I thought it
was very interesting to hear that from my eleven year
old saying that she didn't need any more connection, and
it may change by the time she gets to high school.

(02:25):
You know, teenagers will certainly want to be more connected,
but there's I think the general consensus here in Australia
is that what's the point of being on these things?
You know, at fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, you know what benefit
is it actually bringing to the youth of Australia. So
I don't think they'll have too much problem getting this
across the line with legislation. It's certainly something that people

(02:48):
want more powers around and more protection for kids, but
adults as well. You know, it's certainly not discriminating against
who finds it hard, who is being attacked online.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
It's a very good point. Listen, tell me what you'll
take on this. Is that video of David Spears snorting
the white powder real or is it not?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, he's calling it deep fake. He's been out on
News Limited. He's calling it on a few other news
sites as well as an artificially generated video. It's pretty
hard to say why would anyone go to the trouble
of making a deep fake video of a person who's
no longer in parliament with the former opposition leader. And yeah, look,

(03:36):
I think he's trying to sort of pull a bit
of a furfey over this one, and I think he
will quickly find that technology and experts will be able
to tell him whether or not it's a deep fake.
So I don't think we'll be sitting around waiting for
too long on this one, haven't Sam.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Do deep fake video makers go to the effort of
leaving details like an open laptop in the background and
a red bottle of wine and a lighter. It feels
very It feels very real, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
It does. I mean, I'm sure these deepak editors can
get creative in their own world, Heather, who knows what
they can create, but it's certainly you know why. I
just think the person, the profile, the reason behind it.
I just don't see why anyone would go to any
of that sort of effort to try and make something
like that. What's the point, what's the benefit for them?

(04:25):
And who's actually helping or not helping to right?

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Hey, Sam, thank you very much, really appreciated that. Sam Emory,
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