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Deborah Knight

Deborah Knight

Australian television presenter

Sep 20, 2026

3:47
But there is a lot of, particularly among young people,
3:50
they're not using condoms.
3:51
And there was a survey done recently amongst Australian young people, and they're just not using condoms.
3:58
And we're seeing a big rise in sexually transmitted diseases as a result.
4:02
And even with the new medication for HIV, a lot of people are just saying, well, I can just take medication.
4:09
I don't need to worry about being protected.
4:12
So this Australian company, they are a bunch of science nerds and they started a decade ago off the back of a pitch from the Gates Foundation to the world to say we've got a problem with condom use globally.
5:57
Tell us, what does it look like? How is it different from a normal condom?
16:08
... women from their 20s to their 80s.
16:10
Yeah.
16:10
Yeah.
16:11
One of my favorite is, when I was matchmaking, was a woman who was 65, 65, 66, 67, but he was just approaching 70, and they lived three and a half hour...
16:22
I want your audience to hear this.
16:23
They lived three and a half hours away from each other.
16:27
I fixed them up.

21 MINS LATER

37:07
Wow.
5:56
What actually, yeah.
5:57
And it's not the way I designed it, whether that's the animals that get to those bulbs or whether it's the weather that gets to the bulbs or whether they just don't sprout.
6:06
And so I think that- What's in between our planning, right? What's in between the planning and the goals that we set for ourselves and the opportunity that lies ahead is the possibility, right? And you and I have spoken about the possibilities that are there for all of us, and I think sometimes in life, particularly in places like big cities in North America where we're always running around and doing things so quickly, we don't stop and pause enough to look at the possibilities in the middle.
9:12
Yeah.
9:13
And so I expected I would get a job, and hopefully a job in my field.
9:17
I was studying arts administration at University of Toronto, so I wanted to work in the arts and culture sector, and I was really interested in working with people.
9:25
And so I got my first jobs based at, like, as internships and being involved in the arts sector, and I found myself laid off sometime around 1999 when I was working at a big arts and culture center, and it was purchased by an American company who came in and did a clean sweep of everyone that was Canadian-

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