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ABC 720 Perth (Perth) Demographics Afternoons - 19/03/2009 2:50 PM Male: 8000 Bernadette Young Female: 12000 Station Phone 08 9220 2700 AB: 3000 GB: 14000 All People: 20000 Kate Miller-Heidke, Singer talks to Young about her song which takes the perspective of a person who stands by and does not do anything about bullying. She says she likes writing songs from the perspective of people who often do not have a voice in pop songs. Young says a UK classroom used this song. Miller-Heidke says the kids used her song in a video clip set in their schoolyard. She says the kids' helpline at MySpace have taken the song and are running a competition now. She says a lot of teachers are using it as a teaching tool. Miller-Heidke studied at the Conservatorium of Music in Qld and was an opera singer. She says her heart was not really in it. Miller-Heidke is performing tonight at the Amplifier Bar. She used to charge family members five cents for shows when she was a child and says five cents would buy her three redskins. She performs live in the studio. She talks about being on Sunrise and performing a song which features the word s-h-it. She says for some reason, shite is a lot more acceptable and they allowed her to say shite on Sunrise.

Interviewees: Kate Miller-Heidke, Singer Duration: 8.55 Summary ID: P00034087803 © Media Monitors

Bullying face-off rejected Clip Ref: 00048197690 Daily Telegraph, 06/03/09, General News, Page 18 323 words By: Bruce McDougall

Curiour creature Clip Ref: 00048157759 Canberra Times, 05/03/09, Fly, Page 3 697 words By: None

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Kids standing out in a crowd Clip Ref: 00047540622 Daily Telegraph, 20/02/09, General News, Page 18 366 words By: Charles Miranda

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Bullying putting lives at risk Clip Ref: 00047414322 Daily Liberal, 17/02/09, General News, Page 8 379 words By: Anna Yeo

ABC 702 Sydney (Sydney) Demographics Drive - 16/02/2009 3:23 PM Male: 31000 Richard Glover Female: 43000 Producer Ms Sascha Rundle 02 8333 1218 AB: 17000 GB: 50000 All People: 74000 Interview with Kate Miller Heidke, Musician. She talks about her visit to Cambodia, and a concert she played to raise awareness about modern slavery and human trafficking. She also talks about the way in which her song "Caught in the Crowd", from her second album "Curiouser", is being used in the campaign to combat school bullying in Australia. The Education Dept, the Daily Telegraph and the Kids Helpline have launched a competition for kids to make a video to go with the song. A My Space page has been set up for the competition. Heidke says she has been the victim of bullying herself, and she has also been a part of the crowd looking on as other children were bullied.

Interviewees: Kate Miller Heidke, Musician Duration: 11.50 Summary ID: S00033723062 This program or part thereof is syndicated to the following 1 station(s):- ABC Central Coast (Gosford) © Media Monitors

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Bruce McDougall Education Reporter You Can beat the bullies WINaSWW5Swq EDUCATION bosses have stymied professional video hwm a ground-breaking plan to bring pacbq@ and a perforrrwtce Kate ViiMer-H*Ike bullies and victims together to work +r# out their problems face-to-face. for your school BullyingvictimKristieVasili wants the scheme launched across !E You CAUGHT NSW in a bid to break the vicious INS cycle of aggression that has crushed thousands of lives. CROWN? But the program widely used in Y5itdailyhek kamau and WWrJnf5paeela11 the United States hit a bureaucratic catjihr rxerar1 roadblock when Ms Vasili, 21, took IN detAi it to state and federal education departments. The NSW Depart- After Alex's death Ms Vasili ment of Education and Trainingasked the State Government to told her it already had strong anti-investigate the US program that bullyingpoliciescovering2240 stops bullies in their tracks. primary and secondary schools. Under the anti-bullying program Ms Vasili, who was profoundly run by Challenge Day organisation, upset by the death of 14-year-old leaders go to a school for the day bullying victim Alex Wildman, has and do activities. challenged Australians to stamp Students are asked if they have out the behaviour. ever been bullied for the colour of Alex took his own lifeaftertheir skin, their height, their weight, a fightwith another studentat what they wear, if they have braces, Lismore on the state's North Coastor for being gay, the way they talk in July last year. or the way they walk. Ms Vasili, a tai chi instructor "The bullies approached the kids from Lugacno in Sydney's south,they had picked on with tears in saidyesterday:"Basically,thetheir eyes and apologised," Ms education department is saying itVasili said.This teaches kids to be has programs in place already. kind and show love and compassion "To me this response was notfor one another.It's what our good enough. They didn't seem to schools need." care about the fact that a young boy Challenge Day claims to have ended his life and that many areinspired hundreds of thousands of depressed due to bullying." bullies to change their ways.

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CELEBRATION TIME: Kate Mill er-Heidke performs at Canberra Day celebrations on Monday

Kate Miller-Heidke stands out from the pack, SARAH PARKES writes

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She says she can't shake it and herpull on the heartstrings and a mix of sense of rhythm is many genres. "incontrovertibly shite", but Kate "We went into this album with a Miller-Heidke has got everyone groovingvision. We mapped out how we wanted to the first single off her second album it to sound; the aesthetic, the spirit of it. Curiouser. Experimental, hooky, unashamedly pop Can't Shake It tells the tale of looking ... we wanted to exploit everything absurd on the dance floor and reveals that's unique about my music," she Miller-Heidke's sense of humour. This says. coupled with her operatic tones and Can't Shake It has been the most daring compilations makes her music commercially successful single for distinctive - a characteristic some peopleMiller-Heidke to date, but her favourite in the Australian music industry have from the album is the second single shied away from. Caught In A Crowd. It is the story of regret But the Brisbane artist has built her at having watched a friend being bullied own success. at school and doing nothing to stop it: "I "It's been a gradual steady process," was young and caught in the crowd/I Miller-Heidke says. "My music doesn't didn't know then what I know now/I was get played a lot on the radio. It's all beendumb, and I was proud/And I'm sorry," word-of-mouth and a lot of touring." she sings. The response to her debut album Little Miller-Heidke says the song came Eve landed her three ARIA nominationsfrom being traumatised at school and and won the attention of stars such as having the issues bouncing around in Cyndi Lauper, who she consequently her subconscious. However, she says it is joined on tour. a coincidence that bullying is a hot topic Now Miller Heidke has taken her at the moment. quirky style to the doorstep of producer "I wrote this song about a year ago Mickey Petralia in Los Angeles. He has now. And I'm not a political songwriter, worked with Beck, Peaches, and the yet. But if it does provoke conversation, Dandy Warhols, but it was his recent it is not a bad thing." work with the Flight of the Conchords that won Miller-Heidke over. The song has caught the attention of "We'd gotten heavily into Flight of thethe NSW Department of Education, Kids Conchords," she says. "Independent ofHelpline and MySpace who have the comedy it was musically brilliant. I'djumped at the chance to use one of the done a few comedy songs in my time as students' idols to raise awareness of the well and it's not easy to get that right. I social issue. Students will be encouraged knew this was the right guy." to create their own video for the song for A few producers made the shortlist, the competition. but it was Petralia who embraced Miller- At the same time, Miller-Heidke will Heidke's musical stylings. "He was innovative and slightly embark on her six-week Caught In The unhinged. He brought out the more Crowd tour, which will bring her to distinctive side of the music and the Canberra once again this weekend for more theatrical side. He actually the free Celebrate In The Park concert. encouraged me to be more operatic. He After the tour, the Brisbane artist will was a real positive force." take her music to the rest of the world. The American people were also While she is nervous about overseas enthusiastic about the unique flavour ofmarkets, she says she's even "curiouser" the songs written by Miller Heidke and about what the future holds. her partner and guitarist Keir Nuttal. "In Australia, on occasion people Celebrate In The Park we've worked with thought it was too weird. Here [the US], being totally With: Kate Miller Heidke, Hoodoo Gurus, different is good. I guess because there Jessica Mauboy, Los Chavos and more are so many people, they look for When: Monday, 2pm anything that sets you apart." Where: Stage 88, Commonwealth Park Curiouser is bound to do that with a wide range of songs, some that will get Tickets: Free people up and dancing, others that will

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Stamp out bullying Kids standing out inacrowd Charles Miranda

AN Australian song has inspiredance remarks, niggles to try and English school students to launch aundermine a person's self-esteem classroom anti-bullying campaign.and chip away at them I think. It's Students from Redmoor High invery subtle but has a long term the town of Hinckley in Leicester-effect I think." shire, in England's Midlands, have Jessica is now an ambassador for used Aussie singer Kate Miller-an anti-bullying campaign, deter- Heidke's song Caught InTheCrowdmined to change a culture among to make a rock clip about bullying.her peers. The same song is the centre of "I felt really alone," the 13-year- The Daily Telegraph's own anti-old said honestly of her primary bullying campaign, urging schoolsschool playground experience. and students to make their own Mark Greenwood, 13, who stars video clip to Miller-Heidke's songas the bullied boy in the video said for a national competition. it was important to get the message Together with her fellow dramaacross that bullying in any form was class pupils, bullying victim andnot acceptable. Year 9 student Jessica Hall pro- It can be a hard to share with duced a rock clip. someone because it's so personally Drama teacher Nigel Roberts found the song on the web anddirected at you," he said. thought its lyrics about bullying and "I think it's jealousy,I think turning your back on someone insometimes they just want to im- need would work as an exercise. Inpress their friends and make other just one hour, they rehearsed andpeople look small. But if you've got produced a clip which has sincesomeone helping you then it can go been shown to the school assembly.away quite easily." "Bullying is one of those thingsYou can beat the bullies in the British school curriculum WT 8 520 Sen4 ti that is always high on the agenda rdm hrdwarepockaWmd and the school here has a long RHWM;PM Dy KMP MIPr-tIQI ror Iar s traditionofanti-bullying,"Mr Roberts said. "Bullying used to be just physical but now it takes on a lot more forms,cyberbullyingand text bullying is really very common. 0 "It's remarks about appearance about someone having no friends, rwaysaeae takauyi tlNh eYnr rw retsfs no one loves you'is common. Quite often it's personal appear-

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BY CAMERON ADAMS

KATE Miller-Heidke (above) is speaking extent, as long as it doesn't totally crush www.myspace.com/caughtinthecrowd out about school bullying - through song. you forever." until March 13. The school that makes the Her new single, Caught in the Crowd, is Miller-Heidke is already getting best video will win a performance by about belated regret over not speaking feedback on the song's message. Miller-Heidke and a Sony video hardware out about a bully. "A lot of people were traumatised package. "It's written from the perspective of during their school years. People write to "I don't profess to be a spokesperson the passive observer who then feels me and say,'I hadn't thought about it for for the anti-bullying campaign," guilty," Miller-Heidke says. years, but I now realise how mean I was Miller-Heidke says. "I'vejust written this "A lot of songs are written from the toagirl inyear9'." song. I'm honoured people want to use perspective of the victim. I'm a big fan of One school in the UK found the song on the song for something creative. I'm talking about things in pop music that looking forward to seeing the videos and aren't normally discussed." the internet and made its own video for I hope kids have fun doing it." it, which they forwarded to her. Miller-Heidke says the story in the Miller-Heidke and her band are in the lyrics is a "composite" of her experiences "The teacher was using the song as a midst of a national tour that goes into and those of friends, and she recalls teaching tool. The video was beautiful. regional Victoria this week. being bullied as a child. The kids made it themselves. They cast "It's sometimes a dubious proposition. "I was bullied a lot, starting at all the different characters and acted it You book a gig and you don't know if pre-school. Not until year 11 did I learn a out. I got all choked up watching it. anyone's going to show up. So far it's few skills that helped me come across as Something about it seemed really been great," she says. less socially weird, but socialising didn't authentic because it was made by real see>Kate Miller-Heidke, Karova come naturally to me. kids," Miller-Heidke says. Lounge, Ballarat tonight. 9pm, $25 on the "I basically pretended to be someone I Australian children are now being door. The Capital, Bendigo tomorrow (all ages). 7.30pm, $20, 5434 6100, $25 on wasn't, to have opinions I didn't have. invited to make their own video for the door. Peninsula Lounge, Moorooduc, That worked quite well, but it was all song, using their own experiences. acting. It shaped me to a degree. It's Saturday. 8pm, $20,5978 8717, The videos can be submitted at character development to a certain $25 on door. W

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Lives are being put in danger by "The reason we have gone toinstances of bullying there must be failed attempts to stop school bul-these lengths is because the effectsliaisonbetweentheschool, lying, Opposition spokesman forbullying can have on students canDepartment of Education and education Adrian Piccolisaidbe so hard, self-esteem can beTraining, and the NSW police. recently, following Daily Telegraphdestroyed. In light of the issue popular reports that some students are "After all there is evidence thatAustralian singer Kate Miller- even threatening to shoot their tor-shows that one of the main causesHeidke has thrown her support mentors. of depression is consistent bullyingbehind the problem, offering to Mr Piccoli said the NSW Laboror harassment." perform at whichever school wins Government had shirked responsi- Mr Piccoli said that to stamp outthe current anti-bullying competi- bility for bullying in public schoolsbullying, the State Government and had failed to take any decisive tion running on had to start putting more counsel-o'o'1 invspace.coin/caiightinthe- action on the issue. lors into NSW public schools. Dubbo's St John's College cur- "School counsellors must be acrowd rently has successful anti-bullyingpriority, both to stop bullying Students are encouraged to tell procedures in place to protect itsbefore it occurs and to rehabilitatetheir own or someone else's stories students from harassment andbullies after the initial circum-about bullying through a short film principal Warren Frew believesstances of bullying," Mr Piccoliusing her recent song Canghtin the they are vital to ensure childrensaid. Crowd as the soundtrack. attending the school feel safe and "In 2002, The Vinson Report into Examples can be found on the happy. Public Education recommendedwebsite. "We currently have an anti-bul-an extra 700 counsellors for our The best film will win a Sony lyingco-ordinator,Margaretpublic schools. Sadly theProfessionalVideo Hardware pack- McNamara, who has developedGovernment has failed to act onage for their school and an exclu- and implements policies that pro-this recommendation. mote anti-bullying," Mr Frew said. sive performance from Kate. "School counsellors play an anna.yeo@'riiralpress.col] "Ms McNamara is also someoneimportant role in preventing and the children can liase with if theyreducing the effects of bullying, but feel they are being bullied. when it comes to more serious