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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Os. It's Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the eighth 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 a new vaccination hub in New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: Pill testing in Victoria.

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Speaker 1: Some good news about a new body image campaign, and

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Speaker 1: a breakdown of the Ukraine Russian border.

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Speaker 2: Here's today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: Amid what seems to be thousands and thousands of stories

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Speaker 1: about vaccines, the New South Wales government has announced plans

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Speaker 1: to establish a mass vaccination hub that's set to administer

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Speaker 1: half of the state's COVID nineteen vaccinations. The facility will

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Speaker 1: be in Homebush and its planned to open in the

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Speaker 1: next few months, with the hopes of administering thirty thousand

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Speaker 1: doses per week. An additional thirty thousand doses will also

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Speaker 1: be delivered to over one hundred state run clinics.

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Speaker 2: The Victorian coroner has made recommendations to the state government

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Speaker 2: to introduce drug testing following the separate deaths of five

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Speaker 2: men in Melbourne. Coroner Parisis Spanos said quote the successful

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Speaker 2: operation of drug early warning systems internationally, coupled with submissions

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Speaker 2: from those working in harmonimization demonstrated that these evidence based

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Speaker 2: interventions could save lives.

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Speaker 1: Social Services and Women's Safety Minister Anne Rustin announced yesterday

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Speaker 1: that the Federal government will hold a National Women's Safety

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Speaker 1: Summit on July twenty, ninth and thirtieth this year. This

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Speaker 1: follows calls from Queensland Premier Anastasia Palachet, who yesterday wrote

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Speaker 1: to Prime Minister Scott Morrison asking for a National Women's

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Speaker 1: Summer proposal to be placed on Friday's National Cabinet agenda.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news, the Butterfly Foundation has launched their

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Speaker 2: hashtag Everybody's Deadly campaign to support and encourage Aboriginal and

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Speaker 2: Terrestrait Islander people to talk about body image and eating concerns.

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Speaker 2: The initiative was created with the lived experience of Aboriginal

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Speaker 2: and Torres Strait Islanders at the forefront, and is an

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Speaker 2: important step to addressing the cultural barriers of receiving support.

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Speaker 2: A story that needs to be on your radar, not

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Speaker 2: necessarily because anything large has happened yet, but because it's

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Speaker 2: a good one to get ahead of before anything does happen.

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Speaker 2: What I'm talking about here is the Russian Ukrainian border.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about it this week because there are reports

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Speaker 2: of a large gathering of Russian troops along the border,

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Speaker 2: and Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council have reported up

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Speaker 2: to twenty five thousand Russian troops have gathered.

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Speaker 1: On the border.

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Speaker 2: There's obviously a really complex history in the Soviet Union,

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Speaker 2: but to cover it off super quickly, here's some key

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Speaker 2: points of background. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union

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Speaker 2: until nineteen ninety one. Today there's two very distinct parts

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Speaker 2: of Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine, which largely identifies with Russia, and

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Speaker 2: the rest of Ukraine, which sees themselves as part of

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Speaker 2: Europe and part of the Western world. You might have

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Speaker 2: heard of an area called Crimea. This was in the

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Speaker 2: news a lot in twenty fourteen between Russia backed separatists

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Speaker 2: and Ukrainian forces.

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Speaker 1: One second, there, can you just explain what a separatist is, So.

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Speaker 2: In this case, a separatist is a pro Russian Ukrainian

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Speaker 2: who wants that part of Ukraine to be governed independently

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Speaker 2: of the rest of the country. This gathering of troops

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Speaker 2: on the border is really big news, and the big

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Speaker 2: governments of the world are responding accordingly. Last week, the

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Speaker 2: US put its forces in Europe on higher alert than

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Speaker 2: they currently are after reports emerged of the gathering, and

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Speaker 2: the EU today came out and said they have severe

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Speaker 2: concern the Russian military activity surrounding the Ukraine is escalating.

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Speaker 2: The big tension here that everybody's thinking about is between

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Speaker 2: Russia and the US, So it's a little bit confusing

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Speaker 2: when the Ukraine gets brought into the mix. Last month,

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Speaker 2: President Biden called President Vladimir Putin a killer. President Putin

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Speaker 2: returned the favor and good President Biden a killer. There's

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Speaker 2: a theory that the build up of troops on the

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Speaker 2: Ukrainian border could be a retaliation to that sledge from

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Speaker 2: President Biden. President Biden and the US government has pledged

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Speaker 2: to stand with Ukraine here. So the fear is that

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Speaker 2: Ukraine could be come a battleground for the US Russia tensions.

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Speaker 2: Russia know that and have worn the US not to

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Speaker 2: send troops to Ukraine. The temperature is very high. Unsurprisingly,

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Speaker 2: Putin and the Russian government have denied any sort of

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Speaker 2: attack is on the horizon, but they haven't denied troop movements.

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Speaker 2: Because it's all over social media. There is plenty of

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Speaker 2: footage of Russian tanks and Russian military stacked up on

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Speaker 2: the border.

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Speaker 1: So let's say that hypothetically Russian troops do move into

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Speaker 1: the Ukraine. What happens next. Is this just a repeat

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Speaker 1: of what we've seen earlier.

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Speaker 2: The first thing we would be likely to see would

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Speaker 2: be a condemnation from Europe, because Ukraine is seen as

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Speaker 2: a bit of a bridge between Russia and Europe, and

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Speaker 2: the European Union has made it very clear that they

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Speaker 2: are not in favor of any tension in Ukraine. Unsurprisingly,

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Speaker 2: we'd probably see some sort of response from the US,

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Speaker 2: who would see it as an active aggression against an

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Speaker 2: ally of theirs. But most importantly, it's highly likely we

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Speaker 2: would see death destruction in the conflict. These are both

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Speaker 2: quite well stocked armies, and if history has anything to

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Speaker 2: go by, it would be inevitable that casualties would appear

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Speaker 2: on the battlefield. I think this is a really good

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Speaker 2: example of a story that is important to get your

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Speaker 2: head around before it breaks. This all might be a

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Speaker 2: bit of a false alarm and Russian troops might retreat

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Speaker 2: from the border, but in the case that it doesn't,

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Speaker 2: it's good if we can understand what's going on.

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