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

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Speaker 1: is Sam Kazlowski. It is Monday, the eighth of November,

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Speaker 1: joined by Zara Seidler for another week of talking you

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Speaker 1: through the news. Zara, we got some news from the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory yesterday or what is doing up there?

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Speaker 2: So the Northern Territory recorded zero locally acquired cases of

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Speaker 2: COVID yesterday. However, the lockout, so that's not a lockdown.

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Speaker 2: That's a lockout, which means that there are different rules

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Speaker 2: for vaccinated people and unvaccinated people. So that lockout in

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Speaker 2: Greater Darwin, which was scheduled to end at midnight last night,

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Speaker 2: has been extended to midnight tonight. The lockdown in place

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Speaker 2: in Catherine was scaled back to a lockout at three

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Speaker 2: pm yesterday.

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Speaker 1: This is a story that was all over the news yesterday.

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Speaker 1: At least eight people have died after a crowd surge

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Speaker 1: during rapper Travis Scott's headline set at the Astroworld festival

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Speaker 1: in Texas. The victims were reportedly between the ages of

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Speaker 1: fourteen and twenty seven. Seventeen people were taken to hospital,

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Speaker 1: with eleven of those in Kadi arrest. Police have begun

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Speaker 1: a criminal investigation into the incident, with Houston Police Chief

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Speaker 1: Troy Finner confirming the homicide and Narcotics divisions would be

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Speaker 1: involved in the investigation. After a security officer reported he

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Speaker 1: felt a prick.

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Speaker 2: In his neck, an assassination attempt on Iraq's Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Mustaffer al Kademi has failed after an explosive drone targeted

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Speaker 2: his home. Shortly after the attack, he tweeted, I'm fine

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Speaker 2: and among my people, thank God. Speaking to the Associated Press,

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Speaker 2: two Iraqi officials said seven of al Kademi's security guards

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Speaker 2: where injured in.

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Speaker 1: The attack, and today's good news is for all Victorians.

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Speaker 1: The Victorian government has announced a five million dollar voucher

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Speaker 1: scheme for diners in Melbourne's CBD. Residents who dine in

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Speaker 1: Melbourne's CBD restaurants and bars on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and

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Speaker 1: Thursday will be offered rebates. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said quote,

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Speaker 1: this is about getting people back to the CBD, but

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Speaker 1: also getting people's spending so Earlier last week, US President

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden announced that certain employers must ensure their workers

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Speaker 1: are fully vaccinated or tested weekly by the fourth of

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Speaker 1: January next year, or the businesses will face federal funds

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Speaker 1: starting at nearly fourteen thousand US dollars per violation. The

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Speaker 1: intention behind this is to push workers at businesses back

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Speaker 1: into the office and into the workplace to jumpstart the economy.

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Speaker 1: And this mandate, whilst it was unveiled on Thursday last week,

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Speaker 1: has been met with promises of legal action from Republican

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Speaker 1: governors and other groups who argue it oversteps the Democratic

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Speaker 1: administration's legal authority. It's become somewhat of a constitutional issue

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Speaker 1: in the US, and there was an interesting decision in

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Speaker 1: the courts yesterday when President Biden announced this mandate. Here's

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Speaker 1: what he had to say.

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Speaker 3: Even patient, what our patients is wearing thin and your

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Speaker 3: refusal has cost all of us. This is not about

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Speaker 3: freedom for personal choice. It's about protecting yourself and around you.

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Speaker 2: So a federal Circuit appeals court on Saturday state enforcement

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Speaker 2: of the Biden Administration's private employer vaccine mandate, saying it

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Speaker 2: raises grave statutory and constitutional issues sam state enforcement. What

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Speaker 2: does that mean?

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Speaker 1: Basically, that means that the decision is on hold until

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Speaker 1: the court has further opportunities to consider some of the

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Speaker 1: nuanced language and constitutional validity around the decision. It's like

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Speaker 1: one big pause button because they're not ready to strike

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Speaker 1: it out, but there's not enough to let it fly.

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Speaker 2: And this was being heard in the federal circuit appeals court.

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Speaker 2: What's that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the US legal system is very different to ours

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Speaker 1: when we get to this level of decision making, so

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Speaker 1: it's a bit of a weird idea to get your

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Speaker 1: head around. But basically, they've split up the US states

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Speaker 1: into thirteen circuits thirteen groups, and it basically means that

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Speaker 1: they can hear federal appeals concerning federal laws in groups.

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Speaker 1: The next level after a circuit court is Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: So the states affected by this particular decision are states

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Speaker 1: like Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah. But twenty

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Speaker 1: seven states filed lawsuits challenging the rule. It's worth mentioning

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Speaker 1: here that it wasn't just states who brought this decision

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Speaker 1: to the court. It was also some private businesses and

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Speaker 1: religious groups who also brought the action alongside the Republican

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Speaker 1: led states. Ultimately, what you need to know is that

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Speaker 1: the Republicans are pushing back on this law because they

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Speaker 1: believe it's unconstitutional and it's an overstep of presidential power.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind here that many businesses in the US

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Speaker 1: already require their employees to be vaccinated, and there's also

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Speaker 1: requirements for the US military and federal contractors. But this

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Speaker 1: law would affect about two in three of the nation's

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Speaker 1: workers and would set a new national standard of safety

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Speaker 1: at work, and that, in President Biden's words, is the

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Speaker 1: single best pathway out of the pandemic. However, according to

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Speaker 1: Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, this is a totally unconstitutional

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Speaker 1: abuse of w authority. So quite a polarizing difference between

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Speaker 1: the two approaches.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to know, as it sounds now, what percentage

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Speaker 2: of the US population is fully vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: So the latest rates tell us that fifty nine percent

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Speaker 1: of US citizens over the age of sixteen are fully vaxed.

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Speaker 1: But the US is the country to have been the

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Speaker 1: worst affected by the COVID nineteen pandemic. Globally, they've recorded

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Speaker 1: forty six point five million cases of COVID and seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four thousand deaths, and that is what

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration is using as the basis to this mandate.

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Speaker 1: They agree and their Legal council even said that this

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Speaker 1: use of emergency powers is unprecedented and there's no legal

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Speaker 1: basis for something similar that has happened in US history. However,

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Speaker 1: where things are getting a little tricky is that they're

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Speaker 1: using an existing act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act,

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Speaker 1: which explicitly gives the president authority to act quickly in

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Speaker 1: an emergency to execute these powers. So it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a dynamic where they're taking something totally un presented but

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Speaker 1: trying to channel it through an existing law, and it

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Speaker 1: sounds like from some of the legal analysis. So that's

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Speaker 1: where this tension is, is that the country isn't used

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Speaker 1: to a situation like this.

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Speaker 2: So looking forward, the Court has asked the government to

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Speaker 2: respond by five pm Monday local time, and has said

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Speaker 2: that it will expedite or speed up the case. The

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Speaker 2: Court hasn't specified whether its order will have nationwide effect

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Speaker 2: or will only apply to the states under its jurisdiction.

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Speaker 2: We're expecting, as I said a bit earlier, the government

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Speaker 2: to respond later today. Thanks for joining us today and

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