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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Friday,

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Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of February. My name is Zara side

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Speaker 1: Love and helping me make sense of today's news is

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Speaker 1: Sam Koslowski. Making news today, dosage issues.

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Speaker 2: Soft power in Australia, some.

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Speaker 1: Good news for our Victorian listeners.

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Speaker 2: And let's have a chat about quantus. He is today's

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Speaker 2: Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: Two people have been given the incorrect doses of the

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Speaker 1: fires A vaccine in Queensland. The two elderly patients were

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Speaker 1: given four times the correct dosage amounts by a doctor

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Speaker 1: who reportedly hadn't finished his mandatory online training. The CEO

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Speaker 1: of Healthcare Australia, which is the private contractor used by

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Speaker 1: the federal government, has stepped aside following the incident and

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Speaker 1: we don't want this incident to diminish public confidence in

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Speaker 1: a vaccine that's going to save lives. And Chief Medical

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Speaker 1: Officer Paul Kelly has said that during clinical trials of

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Speaker 1: the vaccine some patients were given higher doses and that

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Speaker 1: the side effect data was not a big problem.

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Speaker 2: Australia has entered the top ten nations with the most

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Speaker 2: effective soft power in the world, according to Brand finances.

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Speaker 2: Global Soft Power Index US slipped five spots, coming in sixth,

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Speaker 2: while Germany ranks first and Japan second. A good way

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Speaker 2: to think about soft power is how persuasive a country

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Speaker 2: can be without hard power. So an example of hard

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Speaker 2: power would be the military. An example of soft power

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Speaker 2: could be cultural or economic power. The index surveyed more

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Speaker 2: than fifty five thousand people in one hundred countries to

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Speaker 2: create the list.

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Speaker 1: And in case you are all missing, some Facebook news

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Speaker 1: for today. Facebook has announced it will block all accounts

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Speaker 1: and ads linked to Myanmar's military controlled state and media entities.

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Speaker 1: The social media giant said it was treating the military

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Speaker 1: coup that occurred earlier this month as an emergency, adding

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Speaker 1: events since the February one coup, including deadly violence, have

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Speaker 1: precipitated a need for this ban.

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Speaker 2: And some epic news today for our Victorian listeners who've

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Speaker 2: been through quite a year. After six consecutive days of

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Speaker 2: no new locally acquired cases of COVID, Premier Daniel Andrews

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Speaker 2: will today announce the further easing of some restrictions. Restrictions

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Speaker 2: are likely to head back to COVID safe summer settings

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Speaker 2: that were in place around Christmas.

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Speaker 1: And the big story today that was flying around all

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Speaker 1: the WhatsApp groups is that Quantus has announced that they'll

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Speaker 1: be planning to resume international flights from October. This came

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Speaker 1: the same day as the company posted a one billion

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Speaker 1: dollar revenue half year loss.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this announcement was made by CEO Alan Joyce yesterday,

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Speaker 2: but I think it's helpful to take a step back

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Speaker 2: and put it in the context of what else Quantus

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Speaker 2: told us yesterday, and that was, of course their massive

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Speaker 2: financial loss you just mentioned. It's definitely a matter of

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Speaker 2: trying to find some good to match the really bad.

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Speaker 2: But in any case, it's a pretty important announcement and

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Speaker 2: does give a little bit of light at the end

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Speaker 2: of the tunnel, although I got to say that tunnel

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Speaker 2: does feel like it's getting longer.

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Speaker 1: So before yesterday you could actually buy a ticket to

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Speaker 1: the US, UK in a few other countries for after

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Speaker 1: July first, but now that's changed and the earliest you

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Speaker 1: can fly overseas is October. Alan Joyce said yesterday that

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Speaker 1: Australia will need to have effectively finished most of the

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen vaccine rollout before international flights were back on

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Speaker 1: the cards. And the federal government has given us an

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Speaker 1: indication that they're hoping that that HERD immunity is reached

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Speaker 1: by October.

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Speaker 2: But if we actually break this down, it doesn't really

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Speaker 2: matter what QUANTUS wants to do. It's always going to

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Speaker 2: rely on whether borders are actually opened by the Federal

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Speaker 2: government later this year. It seems to us like the

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Speaker 2: government's going to be in a pretty tricky position. After

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Speaker 2: we're all vaccinated, or most of us have vaccinated, Australians

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Speaker 2: are going to be pushing really hard to travel to

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Speaker 2: countries that have also completed a vaccination program. QUANTUS will

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Speaker 2: be keen to get some bums on seats and some

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Speaker 2: dollars in the bank, but the government will be very

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Speaker 2: cautious with allowing visitors into Australia or allowing Australians to

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Speaker 2: come back home from overseas without a quarantine program.

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Speaker 1: And if TAZZI is a bit more attainable than the

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Speaker 1: Amalfia host Quantas also announced yesterday that they're expecting to

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Speaker 1: increase domestic capacity to eighty percent of pre COVID levels

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Speaker 1: by midyear. Alan Joyce said yesterday that he's also spoken

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Speaker 1: to state and federal leaders and asked them to promise

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Speaker 1: that after a certain point in the vaccination program, there'll

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Speaker 1: be no need to reimpose state boarders if there are

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Speaker 1: smaller breakouts, so hopefully domestic travel is also on the

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Speaker 1: cards for the coming months.

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Speaker 2: That's all we have time for today, but in the meantime,

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