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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the daily yards. Today is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: the tenth of August, and last night we had a

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Speaker 1: major major climate purport drop. So other than that, which

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Speaker 1: I will cover shortly, what is going.

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Speaker 2: On in the world, Let's get your daily COVID numbers

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Speaker 2: out of the way. So yesterday in New South Wales

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Speaker 2: there were two hundred and eighty three locally acquired COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen cases, sixty four of which were infectious in the

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Speaker 2: community and seventy one of which remain under investigation. The

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Speaker 2: northeast regional town of Tamworth began a lockdown for seven

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Speaker 2: days yesterday at five pm, as well as the Byronshire,

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Speaker 2: Richmond Valley, Lismore and Balanashire local government areas. This was

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Speaker 2: after a positive case traveled to the region from Sydney

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Speaker 2: last week. At the New South Wales press conference yesterday,

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Speaker 2: doctor Richard Totaro, who's the head of ICU at RPA

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Speaker 2: in Sydney, was brought along to talk about the devastating

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Speaker 2: impacts of COVID nineteen in our emergency wards.

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Speaker 3: Almost all the hospitalization goes away, almost all the need

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Speaker 3: for ICU goes away, and almost all the death goes

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Speaker 3: away once people have been vaccinated properly.

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Speaker 2: Over in Victoria, there were eleven locally acquired cases of COVID,

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Speaker 2: with all cases linked to a knowin cluster. Lockdown was

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Speaker 2: lifted in regional Victoria.

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Speaker 1: So, as we spoke about at the top of this pod,

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Speaker 1: a really really significant climate report was handed down last night.

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Speaker 1: So yesterday's report came with strong warnings that it is

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Speaker 1: quote code read for humanity in the fight against climate change.

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Speaker 1: The report, which was written by the UN's Peak Climate body,

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Speaker 1: says humanity's damaging impact on the climate is quote a

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Speaker 1: statement of fact. The report says that ongoing emissions of

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Speaker 1: greenhouse gases could also see key temperature limits broken in

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Speaker 1: just over a decade. It also said that since nineteen seventy,

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Speaker 1: global surface temperatures have risen faster than in any other

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Speaker 1: fifty year period over the past two thousand years. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't oblique news, though. The report did also detail new

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Speaker 1: hope that deep cuts and emissions of greenhouse gases could

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Speaker 1: stabilize rising temperatures.

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Speaker 2: The Northern Territory has released its seven year Aboriginal Justice Agreement,

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Speaker 2: which will aim to reduce crime and First Nations imprisonment rates.

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Speaker 2: The reforms here include establishing local law and justice groups,

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Speaker 2: introducing community courts, and expanding access to programs that address

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Speaker 2: the root causes of offending. The Territory's Aboriginal Affairs Minister

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Speaker 2: said this agreement is a momentous step towards improving the

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Speaker 2: lives of Aboriginal Territorians and the safety of all Territorians.

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Speaker 1: Now good news is courtesy of Dolly Pardon and Australians

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Speaker 1: will soon have another vaccine to choose from, with the

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Speaker 1: Maderna vaccine provisionally approved for use by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

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Speaker 1: Based on what Health Minister Greg Hunt was saying over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, we are expecting to see doses first arrive

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Speaker 1: in the country by mid September. For more on the

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Speaker 1: roll out, here's what Prime Minister Scott Morrison said yesterday.

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Speaker 4: This means we have an additional twenty five million doses

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Speaker 4: of Moderna to add to the one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 4: five million buys A dose and fifty three million Astrazenica

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Speaker 4: doses we have already started rolling out. We will have

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Speaker 4: ten million of the MODERNA doses arriving before the end

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Speaker 4: of this year. The first one million doses is on

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Speaker 4: track to arrive next month and we'll go to pharmacies.

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Speaker 2: Are you a customer of Telstra, Optus or TPG and

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Speaker 2: have you been sold NBN speeds that you aren't getting?

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Speaker 2: These are the questions that the Atriple C will investigate

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Speaker 2: in court. Yesterday there was big news that they are

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Speaker 2: suing Telstra, Optus and TPG over the allegation that the

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Speaker 2: three telco operators misled hundreds of thousands of Aussies over

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Speaker 2: NBN speeds.

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Speaker 1: Sam that did sound like an ad for a telco company,

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Speaker 1: but I know that that was not the intention. So

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Speaker 1: what is the a Triple C and why are we

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Speaker 1: talking about telco companies?

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Speaker 2: If that was an attempt at a telco ad, it

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Speaker 2: literally did the opposite. It was an ad against the

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Speaker 2: three companies. April C is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

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Speaker 2: Now they're the peak competition regulator in Australia and they're

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Speaker 2: a regulatory commission of the federal government. So basically their

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Speaker 2: job is to make sure that consumers in Australia have

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Speaker 2: fair choice when they're buying goods and services and that

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Speaker 2: the market behaves themselves. So An example of an area

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Speaker 2: they have a lot to do with is supermarkets. They

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Speaker 2: regulate the relationship between coals and woollies so that the

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Speaker 2: two supermarket chains can't agree to set your milk prices

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Speaker 2: at ten dollars, but instead it's fair and the consumers

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Speaker 2: always have the good end of the stick. Here's a

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Speaker 2: little bit more about what the ariple C actually said yesterday.

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Speaker 2: They basically said that the three telcos had promised customers

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Speaker 2: they would test line speeds and offer remedies such as

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Speaker 2: cheaper plans with refunds, if the speeds weren't up to scratch.

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Speaker 2: The problem is that the three telcos never actually did that.

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Speaker 2: They also alleged that Telstra, Optus and TPG wrongly accepted

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Speaker 2: payments from certain customers for NBN plans when they weren't

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Speaker 2: actually given the speeds that they were advertising. The trouble

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Speaker 2: doesn't stop there. The A Triple C further alleges that

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Speaker 2: the three telcos didn't have the proper systems in place

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Speaker 2: to implement speed checks. They didn't even know how fast

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Speaker 2: these speeds were, according to the A Triple C, and

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Speaker 2: that they didn't have any processes in place to adequately

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Speaker 2: rectify the situations for consumers who were angry if this

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Speaker 2: does succeed in court, and a fair warning to everyone

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Speaker 2: that this could take a while. We're thinking years here.

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Speaker 2: The companies could be forced to pay millions of dollars

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Speaker 2: in fines and even refund consumers like you and me.

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Speaker 1: This obviously sounds pretty major, and we have seen what

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Speaker 1: happens when the A Triple C sets its sights on

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Speaker 1: specific companies, like what happened with the social media giants

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Speaker 1: and the media Bargaining Code. What are the telcos saying

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Speaker 1: in response to this news.

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Speaker 2: Well, one of the really interesting things we learned yesterday

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Speaker 2: from Telstra's group executive was that Telstra actually self reported

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Speaker 2: these matters to the A Triple C. So they threw

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Speaker 2: their hand up and said, guys, we don't know if

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Speaker 2: you're investigating this or not, but I'm just flagging that

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Speaker 2: this might be something that we need to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Telstra have said that they're going to reach out to

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Speaker 2: customers who never received the notifications about slowing speeds and

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Speaker 2: offer them refunds. Optus, on the other hand, said that

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Speaker 2: they were still carefully considering this matter and they continue

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Speaker 2: to work to measure NBN speeds and inform customers of

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Speaker 2: the options that are available. Similarly, TPG said that they

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Speaker 2: will be making things right, but this is an ongoing investigation.

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Speaker 2: What I really found interesting here was the fact that

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Speaker 2: Telstra immediately differentiated themselves from the other two. They immediately

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Speaker 2: went on the front foot and threw their hands up

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Speaker 2: and said, Yep, this is a problem that exists in

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Speaker 2: our systems and we need to fix it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can hear Sam's legal nerdiness

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Speaker 1: coming out, but even so, it is a really big story.

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Speaker 1: When the a Triple C comes out with announcements like this,

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Speaker 1: it is usually followed by quite a significant change to

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Speaker 1: whatever landscape is being targeted. So this is one of

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Speaker 1: those stories that will remain in the news. And now

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Speaker 1: you have what you need to know to understand it.

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Speaker 1: That is all we have time for today. But go out,

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