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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, It's getting super close to the end of

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Speaker 1: the year now. It is the sixth of December, one

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Speaker 1: of the last Mondays of the working year. Happy last

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Speaker 1: night of Huneker, the festival of Lights, the festival that

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Speaker 1: keeps giving. Zara, I, hope you had a wonderful weekend.

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Speaker 1: We're really starting the heat up and it is well

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Speaker 1: and truly into the election cycle. What happened yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is nothing like a Sunday rally to get

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Speaker 2: you up and about. So yesterday Opposition leader Anthony Alberizi

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Speaker 2: announced a skills and training plan worth one point two

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Speaker 2: billion dollars that he believes will cover the cost of

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Speaker 2: four hundred and sixty five thousand TAFE places to be

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Speaker 2: implemented if Labor wins the next election. TAFE would receive

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Speaker 2: funding for free courses in industries that have been impacted

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Speaker 2: by the pandemic, like tourism and hospitality, and the package

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Speaker 2: also includes nearly four hundred and eighty million dollars to

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Speaker 2: fund an extra twenty thousand university places.

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Speaker 1: The other big story from yesterday was the Therapeutic Goods

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Speaker 1: Administration Provisional approving the FIZO COVID nineteen vaccine for five

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Speaker 1: to eleven year olds. The rollouts expected to begin from

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Speaker 1: the tenth of January next year, but it still needs

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Speaker 1: to receive approval from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Mmunization.

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Speaker 1: We know them as a TARGI.

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Speaker 2: At least thirteen people have died in Indonesia after the

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Speaker 2: Semaru volcano erupted, injuring dozens of others. Several areas within

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Speaker 2: the region have reported darkness due to fog from volcanic ash.

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Speaker 2: The volcano is almost three thousand, six hundred meters high

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Speaker 2: and is the tallest mountain on Java Island.

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Speaker 1: And to balance out that story with a good news

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Speaker 1: story about another volcano. Almost fifty days after volcano in

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Speaker 1: the Canary Islands erupted, thousands of honey bees have managed

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Speaker 1: to survive despite their hives being covered in volcanic ash.

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Speaker 1: The bees are a really important part of the local

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Speaker 1: ecosystem and economically vital for honey sellers throughout the region.

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Speaker 1: That is some very sweet news.

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Speaker 2: Before we go into the details of the incident, heads

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Speaker 2: up that this is quite distressing content.

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Speaker 1: Zara a story that we've been tracking almost for a

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Speaker 1: week now that we first reported last Wednesday, a fifteen

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Speaker 1: year old is accused of killing four students and injuring

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Speaker 1: seven others at a Michigan high school. What's been interesting

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Speaker 1: over the weekend is the charging of the two parents

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Speaker 1: of the fifteen year old. They've pleaded not guilty after

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Speaker 1: being charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, and it's

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Speaker 1: something that we should talk about.

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Speaker 2: So on Wednesday, Australian time, Ethan Crumbly opened fire at

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Speaker 2: his high school in Michigan. He killed four students and

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Speaker 2: injured many others. Authorities were alerted at twelve fifty five

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Speaker 2: pm local time of an active shooter. The school was

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Speaker 2: placed into lockdown, with children remaining in classrooms as the

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Speaker 2: scene was investigated by authorities. At the time, the Michigan

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Speaker 2: Governess said, we have a responsibility to do everything we

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Speaker 2: can to protect each other from gun violence. No one

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Speaker 2: should be afraid to go to school, work, house of worship,

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Speaker 2: or even their own home. So, Sam, when this news

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Speaker 2: first broke, sadly, it was something that was very familiar.

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Speaker 2: What's not familiar is the prosecution of Ethan Crumbley's parents.

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Speaker 2: Talk me through that.

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Speaker 1: So this is a development in the story. We only

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Speaker 1: found out about on Saturday morning, our time, when Michigan

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Speaker 1: prosecuted Karen McDonald stood up at a press conference and

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Speaker 1: spoke about the role of the parents. She then went

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Speaker 1: on to say that the parents are wanted for an

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Speaker 1: arrest but are actually missing. So James and Jennifer Crumbly

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Speaker 1: have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, which under Michigan law

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Speaker 1: essentially means that they contributed towards the murder of somebody,

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Speaker 1: even though they themselves didn't pull the trigger. The charge

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Speaker 1: can attract a sentence of up to fifteen years in prison.

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Speaker 1: And on Sunday our time, yesterday, our time, the pair

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Speaker 1: were caught after tips to have submitted saying that their

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Speaker 1: car was spotted in Detroit. But let's go back a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Naturally understands the role of the parents in

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Speaker 1: this event, because you're right, Sarah, this is a very

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Speaker 1: different set of circumstances to other school shootings we unfortunately

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Speaker 1: have become very used to in America. But what's different

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Speaker 1: here is things like, you know the fact that the dad,

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Speaker 1: James Crumbly, bought the semi automatic handgun recovered in the

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Speaker 1: attack for his son four days before the shooting, and

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Speaker 1: We learned from the prosecutor during the press conference that

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Speaker 1: Ethan was with his father when he bought the weapon,

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Speaker 1: and that she cited social media posts to indicate the

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Speaker 1: gun was a Christmas gift. We also know that Ethan

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Speaker 1: was reported twice by teachers two school administrators, once for

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Speaker 1: catching him searching for ammunition on his phone during class,

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Speaker 1: and the second time for drawing out a school shooting.

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Speaker 2: When contacted by school administrators. Jennifer the mother texted her

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Speaker 2: son on that day saying, Lol, I'm not mad at you.

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Speaker 2: You have to learn not to get caught.

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Speaker 1: The drawings that Ethan was caught with were particularly disturbing.

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Speaker 1: What is more disturbing is the fact that he was

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Speaker 1: caught with them. On the day of the shooting. The

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Speaker 1: parents were called into the high school, I had a

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Speaker 1: meeting with the school administrators and ultimately decided not to

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Speaker 1: take their kid home from school, instead sending him back

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Speaker 1: to class. Shortly after he was sent back to class,

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Speaker 1: the shooting began. There is then a tragic text message

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Speaker 1: twenty five minutes after the shooting began from Jennifer the

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Speaker 1: mother to her son saying, Ethan, don't do it. Of course,

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Speaker 1: then it was too late. At one point thirty seven pm,

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Speaker 1: about half an hour after the shooting began, James the father,

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Speaker 1: called nine to one one to report the missing gun

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Speaker 1: from their house. Here is the prosecutor, Karen McDonald, speaking

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Speaker 1: directly about the parents' behavior.

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Speaker 3: You have a right to possess a gun, but with

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Speaker 3: it comes responsibility. Allowing it in the hands of somebody

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Speaker 3: that shows signs that they may hurt somebody is not okay,

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Speaker 3: and those people should be held accountable.

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Speaker 2: So, as we said at the top of this, the

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Speaker 2: role of the parents does seem unprecedented, and certainly the

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Speaker 2: bringing forward of charges against them is unusual. Why haven't

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Speaker 2: we seen this happen many times before in America? I mean,

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Speaker 2: we see tragic shootings almost weekly.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's a combination of factors. Firstly, you

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Speaker 1: have to remember that in America, state by state laws vary,

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Speaker 1: so the involuntary manslaughter the laws in Michigan allow for

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Speaker 1: these charges to be brought. But secondly, there are different

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Speaker 1: internal reporting structures in schools that again differ state by state.

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Speaker 1: For example, in California, if there was such a situation

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Speaker 1: like the drawing, or like Ethan being caught looking up

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Speaker 1: ammunition on his phone. The parents don't have an option

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Speaker 1: as to whether their child gets seen by counselors asap.

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Speaker 1: They are automatically mandated to see a counselor. There's obviously

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Speaker 1: a lot of sensitivities in this type of space around

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Speaker 1: the American ideals of freedoms and the right to privacy

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Speaker 1: and all of those kind of things, where really, unless

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Speaker 1: the police are called in, and keep in mind, you

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Speaker 1: need a certain burden of proof to actually call in

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Speaker 1: the police, there's very little that teachers can do in

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Speaker 1: terms of searching one's bag or compelling the parents to

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Speaker 1: take that action. This case and the subsequent arrest of

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Speaker 1: the parents has obviously called into question what Michigan specifically

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Speaker 1: do in terms of this mandatory reporting, and I was

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Speaker 1: really interested to read a lot of accounts of other

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Speaker 1: teachers across the United States talking about how the system

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Speaker 1: itself and the administrative system is really critical to understand

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Speaker 1: when dissecting these events. The fact that the parents could

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Speaker 1: send their kid back to class despite the compelling evidence

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Speaker 1: was within their right, but obviously now is under the

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Speaker 1: microscope of a court in looking at their role in

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Speaker 1: contributing to the four deaths.

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Speaker 2: In terms of next steps with what happens with the parents,

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Speaker 2: a Michigan judge has set a combined bail number of

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Speaker 2: one point four million dollars. It's a lot of money,

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Speaker 2: so we will see what happens in this case. No

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Speaker 2: doubt it will have repercussions across the country, a country

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Speaker 2: that does battle with gun violence more frequently than it should.

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Speaker 1: That's all we've got time for on today's edition of

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Speaker 1: The Daily OS will be back in your ears tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: Until then, have a fantastic start to the week, and

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Speaker 1: we'll speak to you tomorrow