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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Daily Oz. My name

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Speaker 1: is Sam. It's Monday, the sixth of September. Taking us

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Speaker 1: through the news today is Zara Zara. It was another

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Speaker 1: big weekend of COVID numbers across most of the country.

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Speaker 1: Can you give us a quick rundown of.

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Speaker 2: What we miss Absolutely, but before we do, I just

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Speaker 2: wanted to touch on something we are moving through the

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Speaker 2: COVID cycle where we're looking ahead at vaccination rates and

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Speaker 2: how we get out of these constant lockdowns. And as

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Speaker 2: part of that, we asked the audience on our Instagram

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Speaker 2: whether or not they still wanted to see COVID numbers.

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Speaker 2: It was a resounding yes, people still want to see

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Speaker 2: the COVID numbers. But we'd love to hear from you

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Speaker 2: two as a podcast listener. Do you derive value from

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Speaker 2: hearing these numbers, especially because we're reporting them the morning after?

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Speaker 2: We'd love to know. But on that note, let's dive

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Speaker 2: straight in. Yesterday, New South Wales recorded one four hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty five locally acquired cases and New South Wales

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Speaker 2: Health reported another three deaths. Victoria recorded one hundred and

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Speaker 2: eighty three locally acquired cases, while the Act recorded just fifteen.

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Speaker 1: There was an interesting moment in the esterday's press conference

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Speaker 1: in New South Wales with premieer Berry Jiclin where she

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Speaker 1: was talking about the long awaited opening up to be

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Speaker 1: scheduled for mid October and the modeling that goes into

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Speaker 1: calculating when that will be. Here's what the Premier had

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Speaker 3: It's really important for us to be as open as

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Speaker 3: transparent as possible, but we also want to be clear

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Speaker 3: that the modeling changes every single day. There's so many

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Speaker 3: variables in it, so the day that we provide the

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Speaker 3: information will be our best information for that day. But

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Speaker 3: please please know that you base your modeling on the

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Speaker 3: best advice at the time, which is exactly what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: Two overseas News Now and the death tell from Hurricane

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Speaker 1: Ida rose to over fifty over the weekend. One week

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Speaker 1: after the hurricane made landfall. In the US state of Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: over seven hundred and twenty one thousand people in the

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Speaker 1: state remain without power, with providers estimating power will return

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Speaker 1: later this week. Over in New York, there are major

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Speaker 1: issues with the train lines, but train operators promised commuter

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Speaker 1: lines would be restored after being affected by the hurricane.

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Speaker 2: To Switzerland now, where thousands and thousands of people have

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Speaker 2: taken to the streets in support of the legalization of

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Speaker 2: same sex marriage. This comes as the nation is set

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Speaker 2: to vote in a national referendum and that's later this

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Speaker 2: month on September twenty sixth on the legalization of same

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Speaker 2: sex marriage. As it stands, same sex couples can only

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Speaker 2: get official approvals for civil unions.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news, the Scottish government is currently working

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Speaker 1: on a pilot scheme for a four day working week.

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Speaker 1: The government has pledged ten million euros for businesses to

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Speaker 1: trial the shorter working schedule without having to cut worker pay.

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Speaker 1: A government spokesperson said the pilot will allow us to

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Speaker 1: develop a better understanding of the implications of a broader

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Speaker 1: shift to a shorter working week across the economy. The

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Speaker 1: creator of the four day working week model is actually

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Speaker 1: a key we CEO, Andrew Barnes. He delivered a ted

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Speaker 1: talk on the four day working week and left us

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Speaker 1: thinking about this aspect of the plan.

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Speaker 2: For today's deep dive, we thought we would have a

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Speaker 2: chat about the situation unfolding in Willkenya. Wilkanya is a tiny,

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Speaker 2: tiny town in New South Wales. It has approximately seven

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty people that make up its entire population.

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Speaker 2: It is majority First Nation's people and it has become

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Speaker 2: the hardest hit area in New South Wales for COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen cases per head of population. So the original cases

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Speaker 2: stem from a funeral that was held. It was held

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Speaker 2: legally at the time, there were no restrictions in place

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Speaker 2: that would have inhibited this funeral going ahead, but since

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Speaker 2: then there have been a number of cases that have

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Speaker 2: hit the small town. Currently, more than thirteen percent of

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Speaker 2: the seven hundred and fifty person population has caught COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen and all this is happening while the vaccination rates

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Speaker 2: still remains low in the regional town. There have been

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Speaker 2: two major issues that have unfolded in Wilcanya. The first

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Speaker 2: was that there was a massive food shortage. This happened

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Speaker 2: when the only food store in town had to close

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Speaker 2: down for deep cleaning after a positive case entered the premises.

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Speaker 2: This meant that the small town, who had been reliant

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Speaker 2: obviously on that single store, had no source of fresh food.

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Speaker 2: In a video posted on nitv BA, Kinji woman Monica

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Speaker 2: Kerwin Wyman said they're treating us like were suburban Sydney.

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Speaker 2: A family said we've got no food and they said

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Speaker 2: go and get uber eats. When this happened, community reps

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Speaker 2: raised over one hundred and thirty thousand dollars to buy

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Speaker 2: fresh fruit and vegetables for the community. But this was

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Speaker 2: only one half of the problem. The other half was

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Speaker 2: that people were being told to isolate and stay away

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Speaker 2: from others, but this was not a reality for many

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Speaker 2: people living in Wilcanya who live in crowded homes, sometimes

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Speaker 2: with more than ten people in a single home. The

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Speaker 2: government recognized this as an issue and over the weekend

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Speaker 2: thirty new motor homes arrived in the town. The temporary

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Speaker 2: accommodation option began yesterday and the site has access to power,

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Speaker 2: water and waste disposal. It's hoped that it will reduce

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Speaker 2: the transmission of the virus in the community because people

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Speaker 2: can choose to isolate in these motor homes. New South

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Speaker 2: Wales Health said that it had set up base camp

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Speaker 2: at the site and that staff on the ground would

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Speaker 2: be there to support the community around the clock. It's

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Speaker 2: understood that New South Wales Health, New South Wales Police,

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Speaker 2: the ADF Aboriginal Affairs, the rural Fire Service and the ambulance,

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Speaker 2: among many many others, are all there to help the

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Speaker 2: people of Wilkenya. I think what this has shown more

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Speaker 2: than anything is, despite being eighteen months into this pandemic,

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Speaker 2: there are still cookie cutter solutions being provided for populations

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Speaker 2: that are inherently different to one another. What works in

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Speaker 2: suburban Sydney has clearly failed in the town of Wilkenya

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Speaker 2: and has led to an outrageously high transmission rate in

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Speaker 2: this regional town that doesn't have the resources to deal

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Speaker 2: with this outbreak like other places in New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: It's hopes that the presence of these motor homes is

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Speaker 1: really going to help stem the steep increase of COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen cases in the area. We'll keep you up to

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Speaker 1: speed with the developments from across New South Wales and

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Speaker 1: across the country. Definitely check us out on Instagram. It's

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Speaker 1: where over now two hundred and ten thousand Australians are

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Speaker 1: getting their news throughout the COVID nineteen pandemic. We're also

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Speaker 1: going to cover what else happens in Australian politics and

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Speaker 1: some major global affairs. We'll see you over there, have

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Speaker 1: a great week.