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

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Speaker 1: the twenty eighth of May. My name is Zara Saidler,

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

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Speaker 1: Making news today, lockdown in Victoria.

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Speaker 2: A landmark climate case, some good.

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Speaker 1: News about giant tortoises, and.

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Speaker 2: A chat about what's going on in the Victoria. He

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Speaker 2: is Today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the bad news out of the way first up.

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Speaker 1: As of midnight last night, Victoria has now entered a

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Speaker 1: seven day circuit breaker lockdown. This comes of the state

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Speaker 1: recorded twelve new cases yesterday, bringing the total number of

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Speaker 1: active cases in the state to thirty four. Yesterday we

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Speaker 1: heard the Acting Premier, James Milinos say the state's health

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Speaker 1: authorities are now dealing with over ten thousand primary and

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Speaker 1: secondary contacts. For those of you who DMed us asking

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Speaker 1: why we're seeing the acting Premier standing up there, it's

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Speaker 1: because Dan Andrews is still recovering from his mighty fall

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Speaker 1: a couple months ago. Here's what Prime Minister Scott Morrison

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Speaker 1: had to say about the lockdown yesterday.

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Speaker 3: The next seven days in Victoria will be very challenging,

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Speaker 3: and of course we are very mindful of the distress

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Speaker 3: and the difficulty that this will impose upon people right

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Speaker 3: across Victoria as a result of what is being described

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Speaker 3: rightly I think by the Acting Premier as a circuit

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Speaker 3: breaking lockdown.

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Speaker 2: A group of eight Australian teenagers have won a federal

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Speaker 2: court case against Federal Environment Minister Susan Lee, successfully arguing

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Speaker 2: the minister owes a duty of care to younger Australians

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Speaker 2: when considering which projects should be approved under national environmental law.

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Speaker 2: The Federal Court found the risk of death a coal

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Speaker 2: mine posed warranted serious consideration.

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Speaker 1: Over one hundred people are missing after a boat went

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Speaker 1: missing in the Niger River, Nigeria. So far, twenty people

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Speaker 1: have been rescued alive, four have been confirmed dead, while

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Speaker 1: the remaining one hundred and fifty six people are still missing,

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Speaker 1: according to authorities. A local National Inland Waterways Authority managers

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Speaker 1: said those missing are presumed to have drowned and.

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Speaker 2: Your Friday good news, which I know is especially important

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Speaker 2: to our Victorian listeners. Today. Scientists from Yale University have

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Speaker 2: confirmed that a giant tortoise found on the Galapagos Islands

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Speaker 2: two years ago is indeed a species that was reported

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Speaker 2: extinct in nineteen o six. There is now a desperate

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Speaker 2: search to find more in the family in order to

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Speaker 2: support the continuation of the species.

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Speaker 1: There's no other way to say it. The news out

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Speaker 1: of Melbourne yesterday was pretty shitty. It comes after Victorian's

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Speaker 1: hat to battle with lockdowns for much of last year

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Speaker 1: and it seemed like life was just getting back to normal.

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Speaker 1: We don't need to harp on about the conditions that

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Speaker 1: have led to this most recent outbreak, but we did

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Speaker 1: think it would be useful to chat about the relationship

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Speaker 1: between the Victorian government and the federal government in this

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Speaker 1: case is and why we're seeing some blaming from the

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Speaker 1: States and the Feds. This isn't the sexiest topic at

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Speaker 1: the best of times, but in the last year we've

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Speaker 1: really seen our federation and come under a microscope because

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Speaker 1: the things that we thought were state responsibility or federal

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Speaker 1: responsibility now seemed to be shared. So this has been

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Speaker 1: a growing issue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely noticed watching the press conference yesterday there

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Speaker 2: was a tinge of anger in Acting Premier James Molino

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Speaker 2: when he was discussing the vaccine rollout and the federal

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Speaker 2: government's responsibility in getting those vaccines into the hands of

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Speaker 2: GPS and health centers across the country. It was not

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Speaker 2: surprising then that Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Health Minister

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Speaker 2: Greg Hunt held a press conference only a few hours

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Speaker 2: later yesterday in the middle of the day, and it

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Speaker 2: really was a game of blame ping pong between the

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Speaker 2: two parties.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, this is a federation.

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Speaker 3: The states have their authorities and their powers and they

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Speaker 3: will make decisions as they see them in the best

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Speaker 3: interests and the health interests of their state and territory.

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Speaker 1: Before we go on, let's just make clear what the

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Speaker 1: responsibilities are. So it is understood that quarantine and the

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Speaker 1: hotel quarantine system is a federal response ability. This is

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Speaker 1: set out in federal statutes and thus falls on Scott

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Speaker 1: Morrison's government. The other thing that is a federal responsibility

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Speaker 1: is the vaccine rollout, so these vaccines were to be

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Speaker 1: administered by the Commonwealth and given to the states to

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Speaker 1: roll out in health centers. Alternatively, things that are the

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Speaker 1: responsibility of the state are COVID testing, contact tracing, having

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Speaker 1: QR codes that work, and ultimately imposing the health measures

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Speaker 1: that can protect a community.

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Speaker 2: Not long after James Molino finished talking, and before Scott

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Speaker 2: Morrison got up and chatted, there were a number of

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Speaker 2: state and territory leaders who made announcements about Victorians coming

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Speaker 2: into their states and territories. Who's ultimately responsible for the

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Speaker 2: control of the borders.

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Speaker 1: So, as we've seen over the last year, state premiers

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Speaker 1: and so they are able to close or open borders

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Speaker 1: as they see fit. National borders, however, st Ralia's borders,

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Speaker 1: that's under the Buyer's Security Act, so that falls on

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Speaker 1: the federal government again, and that's why we've seen some

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Speaker 1: of the government come out and criticize state or territory

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Speaker 1: leaders for them closing or opening borders at a pace

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Speaker 1: that some in the government might believe to be too

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Speaker 1: quick or too slow. But it's also important to remember

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Speaker 1: here that there are also some parties and politics at play.

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Speaker 1: So the federal government is a liberal coalition, so that

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Speaker 1: is led by Scott Morrison. But then we have a

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Speaker 1: number of states that are not liberal states, so Queensland, WA,

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Speaker 1: the NT and Victoria are all led by labor leaders.

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Speaker 1: South Australia, New South Wales and Tasmania are run by

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Speaker 1: liberal leaders, so just keep that in mind when you're

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Speaker 1: reading criticisms from either side. So this cluster in Melbourne

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Speaker 1: actually grew because of a hotel quarantine case that originated

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Speaker 1: in South Australia. So somebody left South Australia traveled to

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Speaker 1: Victoria after completing two weeks of hotel quarantine but had

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Speaker 1: contracted COVID nineteen along the way. Now that person didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything wrong and they were free to travel after

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Speaker 1: they'd done the two weeks of quarantine. But again it's

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Speaker 1: highlighted that after a year of this pandemic, there are

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Speaker 1: still continuous leaks coming from hotel quarantine in a number

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Speaker 1: of states, whether it be South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria,

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Speaker 1: it's across the country because the responsibility has ultimately fallen

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Speaker 1: on the states to implement their hotel quarantine. There also

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Speaker 1: aren't consistent measures being implemented across the country, so things

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Speaker 1: like surgical masks and gear that hotel quarantine workers need

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Speaker 1: to wear, that's not consistent across the country. So we're

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Speaker 1: seeing different measures being implemented in different places. There's no

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Speaker 1: one reason why we're continuing to see these quarantine leaks happen,

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Speaker 1: but it is certainly highlighting the need for dedicated quarantine

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Speaker 1: facilities and that's been proposed to the federal government by

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Speaker 1: the Victorian government as well as the Queensland government.

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Speaker 2: I know this is a really tough weekend coming for

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Speaker 2: Victorians and if you need some there's always lifeline on

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Speaker 2: one three one one one four. Please be kind to

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Speaker 2: yourself if you're a Victorian in lockdown and DMS if

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Speaker 2: there's any questions you have around the rules and regulations

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Speaker 2: currently operating in the state.

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Speaker 1: That's all we have time for today, and a quick

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Speaker 1: note to say that my very wonderful colleague Mariah will

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Speaker 1: be taking over the podcast for the beginning of next week,

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Speaker 1: so please make her feel welcome. If over the weekend

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