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 Good morning and welcome to AM. I'm Sabra Laine, coming to you from Nipaluna, Hobart.

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 On today's program, tech giants forced to pay artists, musicians and authors if they use their work to train artificial intelligence models.

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 Basically what they're saying is we will not agree to dilute and weaken our copyright laws so that a small number of very large tech companies can have free and open access to very important and valuable cultural works.

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 And an Australian rules team on the brink of history after equaling the longest winning streak in both the men's and women's game.

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 Pedophiles have infiltrated Australia's $22 billion childcare industry by exploiting lax regulation through piecemeal oversight and glaring staffing inadequacies.

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 A Four Corners investigation uncovered almost 150 former childcare workers convicted or accused of sexual offences against children with more than a dozen currently before the courts.

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 And this follows a previous Four Corners exposé in March.

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 Adele Ferguson reports.

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 Australia's childcare system is being targeted by predators.

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 A major Four Corners investigation has identified 148 childcare workers alleged or convicted of child sexual abuse or inappropriate conduct.

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 The scale of the crisis has been hidden from the public.

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 We've found, right now, there are 14 people facing charges, like 26-year-old Joshua Brown, accused of 73 offences, including sexually penetrating children.

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 Nearly three-quarters of the alleged unproven offending occurred at for-profit services.

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 And these numbers are the tip of the iceberg.

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 Many, many, many, many cases drop out before they reach the stage where you would say it's in the official records.

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 84% of victims never disclose their sexual abuse in their entire life.

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 So we think we're capturing just a small amount.

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 That's Dr. Michael Burke, a world-leading forensic psychologist who's interviewed more than 1,200 child sex offenders.

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 In terms of how pervasive they are, do we have any idea how big this is?

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 Estimates range from 1% to 5% of society have some sort of sexual interest in children.

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 That's a scary number.

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 That means out of every 100 people in that church or in that neighbourhood or in your workplace,

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 there's someone that has a sexual interest in children.

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 And that's prepubescent children.

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 Over the years, likely many thousands have got away with it.

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 Professor of Criminology, Michael Salter, specialises in the study of organised sexual abuse.

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 He says insufficient staffing at childcare centres is enabling predators to abuse kids.

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 The offenders are giving us the picture.

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 They're painting the picture for us.

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 The offenders are choosing early childcare as a conducive place for the abuse of children.

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 So the offenders are speaking for us.

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 They are telling us that we have a massive problem.

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 This year, state and federal governments have announced a range of reforms to childcare they say will help protect kids.

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 Adele Ferguson there.

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 And if this story has raised concerns for you or anyone you know, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

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 And you can see Adele's report on Four Corners tonight on ABC TV at 8.30 or on ABC's iView.

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 The federal government's decided the big tech companies should pay Australian authors and creatives for copyrighted material used to train artificial intelligence computer models.

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 The government's main economic advisor, the Productivity Commission...