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

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Speaker 1: the second of April. My name is Zara Seidler, and

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Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Sam Koslowski.

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Speaker 1: Making news today, lockdown and Brisbane.

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Speaker 2: Lifts, a new US infrastructure.

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Speaker 3: Plan, some good news about climbers, and a.

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Speaker 2: Breakdown of the impending by election. Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 3: Some good news for Queenslanders.

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Speaker 1: The Greater Brisbane lockdown has been lifted five hours early

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Speaker 1: after only one locally acquired case was reported yesterday. That said,

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Speaker 1: some restrictions will remain in place for the next two weeks.

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Speaker 1: Residents will be required to carry a mask when they

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Speaker 1: leave home. Gatherings at home will be capped at thirty

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Speaker 1: and food and beverage venues must be seated with no dancing.

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Speaker 2: President Joe Biden has announced plans for a two trillion

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Speaker 2: dollar infrastructure package to create millions of new jobs and

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Speaker 2: win the global competition with China. The proposed plan will

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Speaker 2: be paid for by raising the corporate tax rate from

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Speaker 2: twenty one one percent to twenty eight percent. It includes

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Speaker 2: an emphasis on green technology, modernizing US roads, bridges and airports,

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Speaker 2: high speed broadband, and electricity grids. The plan will have

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Speaker 2: to pass both the House of Reps and the Senate

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Speaker 2: to come into effect.

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Speaker 1: Pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson has announced a really significant

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Speaker 1: loss of nearly fifty million COVID nineteen vaccine doses after

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Speaker 1: human error caused an ingredient issue. The problem was reported

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Speaker 1: at a Baltimore site that producers both Astrozeneka and Johnson

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Speaker 1: and Johnson doses where workers accidentally combine the ingredients of

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Speaker 1: the two vaccines. It's unclear how many doses exactly have

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Speaker 1: been affected, but Johnson and Johnson has maintained its still

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Speaker 1: on track to deliver the twenty million doses promise to

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Speaker 1: the US government.

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Speaker 2: And here's your Friday good news. Nepalese climbers have managed

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Speaker 2: to clean up two point two tons of rubbish while

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Speaker 2: tourists were away during the pandemic. This latest initiative involved

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Speaker 2: a team of twelve climbers for forty seven days. The

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Speaker 2: climbers cleaned up eight mountains, including Mount Everest and the

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Speaker 2: base camps of four mountains. The next phase of the

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Speaker 2: program will begin at the end of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: one climbing season. So we know today is good Friday,

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Speaker 2: and everyone's got a little bit more time on their

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Speaker 2: hands today. So what we thought would do is keep

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Speaker 2: talking to you about Australian politics.

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Speaker 1: Another day, another story about Australian politics.

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Speaker 2: We're really enjoying putting together the little pieces of the

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Speaker 2: puzzle that helps us understand the news. And there's one

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Speaker 2: time we're going to address because it comes up in

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Speaker 2: the news every so.

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Speaker 3: Often, by elections.

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Speaker 1: I can hear the round of applause from through the

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Speaker 1: microphones team. Anyway, today we're going to talk about by

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Speaker 1: elections because there is going to be one coming up

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Speaker 1: in New South Wales and that is because Michael Johnson

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Speaker 1: and Nationals MP has resigned. Here's the person who it

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Speaker 1: is alleged sexually assaulted a sex worker and also allegedly

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Speaker 1: paid one thousand dollars to bring the same sex work

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Speaker 1: into New South Wales Parliament. So earlier this week we

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Speaker 1: found out that he had resigned. And when that happens,

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Speaker 1: when a member of Parliament resigns, we need to find

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Speaker 1: someone else to replace them, because we can't just go

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Speaker 1: until the next election, which is on the twenty fifth

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Speaker 1: of March twenty twenty three without a member of Parliament there,

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Speaker 1: So what do we do.

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Speaker 3: We go to the polls and we have a by election.

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Speaker 1: You would have heard the term by election quite often

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Speaker 1: surrounding Wentworth and federal politics, when Malcolm Turnbull resigned and

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Speaker 1: Karen Phelps won in a by election. More recently, Christy

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Speaker 1: McBain won in a by election in eden Manaro after

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Speaker 1: Labor member Mike Kelly resigned. And what a by election

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Speaker 1: can be is a bit of a temperature check for

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Speaker 1: the government of the day or whoever holds the seat,

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Speaker 1: about how they are performing, because these elections are held

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Speaker 1: in between the state or federal elections.

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Speaker 2: All right, so Michael Johnson retires, what are the next

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Speaker 2: steps from there?

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Speaker 1: So we don't actually know when this will happen, but

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Speaker 1: at some point in the immediate future we will.

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Speaker 3: Be told a date for the by election.

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Speaker 1: At that point major and minor parties will be able

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Speaker 1: to put forward.

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Speaker 3: Candidates for this seat.

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Speaker 1: So the seat that Michael Johnson holds currently is the

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Speaker 1: seat of Upper Hunter And that's an interesting one because

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Speaker 1: he holds it on a really fine margin.

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Speaker 2: Talk me through fine margins.

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Speaker 1: So a fine margin is, in simple terms, just that

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Speaker 1: he didn't get that many more votes than his opponent,

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Speaker 1: and that means that if there was an election again,

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Speaker 1: it's possible that the Nationals would lose that seat. So

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Speaker 1: he only holds it with a two point six percent margin,

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Speaker 1: and there are some changes going on with redistribution in

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Speaker 1: New South Wales, so that margin could be cut to

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Speaker 1: zero point five percent, which is really really fine.

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Speaker 2: So that's when they talk about swing seats and safe seats.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, So a safe seat is where a margin

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Speaker 1: is really high. So there are safe Liberal seats, there

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Speaker 1: are safe Labour seats, there are safe Green seats, and

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Speaker 1: in this case, this is absolutely not a safe seat

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Speaker 1: for the Nationals. Even Gladys Barrygiclian, the Premiere of New

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Speaker 1: South Wales, isn't really that confident that the Coalition will

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Speaker 1: hold the seat. She actually said yesterday and I quote,

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Speaker 1: I have no doubt we won't retain this seat.

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Speaker 2: That puts a bit of a downer on things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she might be doing that thing where

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Speaker 1: you low ball so that people aren't disappointed. But either way,

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Speaker 1: this seat is really important for her, as we spoke

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Speaker 1: about earlier in the week. If the Coalition doesn't win

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Speaker 1: back this seat, so if a Nationals or Liberal member

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Speaker 1: doesn't win this seat, that means that the Beargiiclian government

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Speaker 1: is now a minority government.

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Speaker 3: And you guys know what that means now.

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Speaker 2: Just a clarifying question. So Craig Kelly in federal Parliament,

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Speaker 2: he moved from the Liberal Party to the cross bench,

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Speaker 2: why didn't we need a by election?

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Speaker 1: Then he actually didn't resign as a member of Parliament.

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Speaker 1: He just withdrew himself from the Liberal Party party room.

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Speaker 1: So he is still a member of parliament. He still

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Speaker 1: represents the electorate of Hughes and if he were to

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Speaker 1: resign from Parliament and from his position as the Member

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Speaker 1: for Hughes, that is when we would have a by election.

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Speaker 2: So for listeners not in New South Wales, how much

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Speaker 2: attention should they be paying on the New South Wales

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Speaker 2: by election? Does it actually connect to how people are

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Speaker 2: feeling about the federal government for example?

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Speaker 3: Big question there.

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Speaker 1: So, firstly, it's not the whole of New South Wales

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Speaker 1: that will go to the polls for this by election.

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Speaker 1: It's only the people in the electorate that Michael Johnson represented,

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Speaker 1: So it's only one electorate that will be voting, not

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Speaker 1: the whole state. To your other point, there is no

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Speaker 1: correlation between how a state government and federal government are viewed.

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Speaker 1: Of course they're both the coalition in this case in

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Speaker 1: New South Wales and federally, but they run very separate governments.

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Speaker 1: I mean at the moment, Gladysbury Jclian's government has actually

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Speaker 1: been quite harsh against the federal government on their vaccine rollout.

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Speaker 1: So a result in New South Wales means very little

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Speaker 1: for the federal government. But that's not to underplay how

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Speaker 1: significant it is for Gladysbury Jiclian if.

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Speaker 3: She loses this. See as I said earlier.

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Speaker 1: It's going to make her job a whole lot harder

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Speaker 1: because she's going to have to rely on the cross

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Speaker 1: bench to pass contentious legislation in the House.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for sticking with us through a by election explainer.

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Speaker 2: We've had a couple of really interesting political explainers this

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Speaker 2: week and we hope you really enjoyed it. That's all

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Speaker 2: we've got time for today, but we will be back

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Speaker 2: next week. You can follow us on Instagram for updates

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Speaker 2: over the Easter weekend and we hope you have a fantastic, healthy,

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Speaker 2: happy weekend with family and friends.