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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to the Daily OS. It is Monday,

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Speaker 1: in the nineteenth of July. For those in Victoria and

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Speaker 1: New South Wales, I'm going to assume you didn't do

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Speaker 1: too much over the weekend, but for everyone else, we

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Speaker 1: hope you had some fun. For us Zara, what is

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Speaker 1: making news today?

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Speaker 2: We're going to chat about COVID numbers both here and

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Speaker 2: in Victoria, the death told from some really severe flooding

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Speaker 2: in Europe, some good news from Greenland, and a deep

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Speaker 2: dive into why everyone's talking.

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Speaker 1: About Big Rubber. So Yesterday in New South Wales, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and five locally acquired cases of COVID were reported.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven of those and remember this is the number

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Speaker 1: that Premier Ergicallyian is concentrating on, were infectious in the community.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday Premier Vergically instead of her decision to close construction

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Speaker 1: and all non essential work on Saturday, I'm not embarrassed

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Speaker 1: to say that in public life, yesterday was probably the

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Speaker 1: most difficult day I've had personally, because we don't take

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Speaker 1: these decisions lightly. But it wasn't all bad news. Yesterday's

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Speaker 3: Community to be more vigilant than ever before because I'm

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Speaker 3: convinced that working together, we will start to see those

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Speaker 3: numbers nudge and we are throwing all of our resources

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Speaker 3: and all of our efforts to making that happen. And

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Speaker 3: I just want to thank the community for their cooperation.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in Victoria, there were sixteen locally acquired cases of

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen announced on Sunday, all of which were linked

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Speaker 2: There's been a really big story occurring in Europe that

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Speaker 2: you might have missed because of everything that's going on domestically,

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Speaker 2: but there has been really really severe flooding in both

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy people have died. Record rainfall triggered the flooding,

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Speaker 2: and many people still remain unaccounted for. Local Belgian media

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Speaker 2: reported that an estimated seventeen thousand households don't have power

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Speaker 2: and approximately thirty thousand households don't have access to drinking water,

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Speaker 2: and that was as of Saturday morning, so that's some

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Speaker 2: pretty pretty horrific news. The flooding has also affected Switzerland,

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Speaker 1: It's the start of the working week, which has the

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Speaker 1: Tokyo Olympics at the end of it. But yesterday two

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Speaker 1: athletes were confirmed to have tested positive for COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: in the Olympic village. We don't know the identity of

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Speaker 1: who's tested positive outside of the village. Organizers say that

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Speaker 1: since July one, fifty five people linked to the Olympics

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Speaker 1: have returned positive COVID tests. Most Australian athletes will arrive

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Speaker 2: And there was also some Olympics related news on Friday.

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Speaker 1: Am I right, that's right. One of the opals, which

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Speaker 1: is our women's basketball teams star players Liz Cambridge, pulled

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Speaker 1: out of the Olympics citing mental health concerns.

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Speaker 2: Today's good news is courtesy of a country that we

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Speaker 2: don't often talk about on the daily OHS, but Greenland

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Speaker 2: has suspended all oil exploration as the government quote takes

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Speaker 2: the climate crisis seriously. The decision was made on June

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Speaker 2: twenty fourth, but was made public last week and here's

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Speaker 2: what it said. The future does not lie in oil.

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Speaker 2: The future belongs to a renewable energy, and in that

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Speaker 2: respect we have much more to gain.

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Speaker 1: We don't spend a lot of time, if any, talking

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Speaker 1: about pop culture on this podcast or on the Daily.

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Speaker 2: Ohs, and that's actually on purpose because while there's certainly

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Speaker 2: first person who wants to read it, we have often

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Speaker 2: felt in the past as though that's all that young

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Big Brother, which is definitely

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Speaker 1: something I didn't think we would say in the first

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Speaker 1: because this is a story that's emerged over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: and at its heart, it's really not about Big Brother.

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Speaker 1: It's really about the way that Australian's COVID nineteen, hotel

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Speaker 1: That person's name is Katie Hopkins.

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Speaker 2: If some of our listeners don't follow UK politics, then

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Speaker 2: Katie Hopkins might be quite unknown to you. Sir Sam,

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Speaker 1: Is In short, Katie Hopkins is basically a renowned speaker,

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Speaker 1: and she speaks on right wing political issues. She's of

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Speaker 1: She travels a lot, she speaks with right wing politicians

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Speaker 2: She's not heard everywhere. So Katie Hopkins was permanently suspended

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Speaker 2: about the latest development in the Katie Hopkins story, which

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Speaker 2: is that she is currently in Australia.

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Speaker 1: She's here because she was about to start on a

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Speaker 1: VIP edition of Big Brother. The headliner for that seems

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Speaker 2: Who is also in the country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's really firing up a lot of Australians

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Speaker 2: But we have had celebrities, and I'm really not sure

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Speaker 1: It's to do with her social media posting. So you

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Speaker 3: As someone knocks on the door, I'm trying to get

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Speaker 2: So that excerpt in particular got a lot of the

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Speaker 2: Karen Andrews, who is our Home Affairs Minister, was forced

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Speaker 2: She then added that she had directed the Australian Border

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Speaker 1: So as a result of that statement from the Home

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Speaker 2: But there was an incident concerning Channel seven just last

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Speaker 1: And with all of that important context in consideration, seven

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Speaker 1: But if we zoom out a little bit now, I

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Speaker 2: And that's been made even more difficult by the fact

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Speaker 1: Year, so that's kind of take stock of where this

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Speaker 1: production of a series like Big Brother. But it's worth

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Speaker 1: listening to a very well organized campaign from stranded Aussies

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Speaker 1: overseas who are saying that they haven't seen their family

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Speaker 2: We do continue to read the messages of stranded Ozzi's

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Speaker 2: to understand if there's anything further they can do. All

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Speaker 2: to the inbound passenger caps and also keep you up

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Speaker 2: they are kicking off in South Australia. That's all we

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Speaker 2: with us post eleven am if you're in New South

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Speaker 2: You don't always have to be the first person to

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Speaker 2: know everything, and we do know how difficult this lockdown

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Speaker 2: has been on many people.

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Speaker 1: Stay safe and we'll speak to you tomorrow