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Tasmanian schools to provide free pads and tampons for students
It’s every teenage girl’s worst nightmare — getting their period at school and not having any sanitary items.
Key points:
- Period products will be free for girls in Tasmanian state schools from term three this year
- A 14-year-old girl in northern Tasmania prompted the change after she sent a letter to Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff
- A school in the state’s north-west that has recently installed a machine dispensing free pads and tampons says it has already seen the benefits amongst its students
But that fear will soon be a thing of the past, with pads and tampons to be freely available in all Tasmanian government schools from term three this year.
Premier Peter Gutwein made the announcement while delivering the State of the State…
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