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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody, and welcome back to the Daily OS.

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Speaker 1: It is a new year, but somehow still talking about

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Speaker 1: the same news. Sam, how was your summer break? No

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Speaker 1: doubt it was COVID filled in more ways than one.

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Speaker 2: It was, Zarah. I've just come back after a week

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Speaker 2: with the spicy cough. Very interesting experience, A huge, huge

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Speaker 2: appreciation for the health workers, everyone from the people at

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Speaker 2: the testing clinics to people from New South Wales Health.

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Speaker 2: You gave me a ring. I mean it was really incredible.

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling okay, but excuse a bit of a croaky voice.

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Speaker 2: How is your break?

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Speaker 1: I managed to dodge COVID spicy cos, but it does

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Speaker 1: feel inevitable with the number of cases that we are

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Speaker 1: seeing every day, So trying to stay out of trouble,

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Speaker 1: but feeling relaxed, which I know a lot of people

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Speaker 1: are not, so I'm very grateful.

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Speaker 2: For that getting into today's news now and from today,

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Speaker 2: approximately two point three million children in the five to

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Speaker 2: eleven year old age group and now eligible to receive

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Speaker 2: their COVID vat scene. In Australia, Prime Minisis Scott Morrison

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Speaker 2: said vaccinating our kids is the next step in our

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Speaker 2: national plan, which has continually provided us with a safe,

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Speaker 2: step by step pathway to keeping Australians safe throughout the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: There were some news from Queensland yesterday and Premier Anastasia

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Speaker 1: Palichet announced that the start of the twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: school year will be delayed by two weeks because of

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Speaker 1: and you guessed it, COVID. Originally, students in Queensland were

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Speaker 1: meant to return to school on the twenty fourth of January,

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Speaker 1: but the year will now begin on the seventh of February.

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Speaker 1: The school year will be extended by one week at

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Speaker 1: the end of the year until the sixteenth of December,

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Speaker 1: to compensate for the missed time. According to the government,

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Speaker 1: the decision to delay was made to allow more children

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Speaker 1: within the five to eleven year cohort to receive the

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen vaccine.

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Speaker 2: To non COVID news now and at least seven people

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Speaker 2: have died in Brazil, with at least three others missing

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Speaker 2: after a rock fell on top of several tourist boats.

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Speaker 2: Heavy rains are said to have caused the rock to

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Speaker 2: loosen and fall at furnace lage. Rescue efforts are set

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Speaker 2: to continue through to least Monday local time.

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Speaker 1: Today's good news, and we covered this story at the

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Speaker 1: back end of last year, but now Canada has officially

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Speaker 1: enacted its ban on gay conversion therapy after receiving unanimous

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Speaker 1: parliamentary approval in twenty twenty one. It is now illegal

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Speaker 1: to promote, advertise, benefit from, or subject any individual to

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Speaker 1: the practice.

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Speaker 2: So Zara, what we thought we would do today is

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Speaker 2: kind of similar to a segment that I love on

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Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert's late show called Meanwhile, It's the things you

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Speaker 2: might have missed over summer that don't have COVID nineteen

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Speaker 2: in their title. There's a lot of news that is

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Speaker 2: still making its way around. We could start off with

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Speaker 2: looking at the case of Wikilik's founder, Julian Assange. He

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Speaker 2: launched an appeal to the British Supreme Court over his

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Speaker 2: extradition to the US a few weeks ago, and this

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Speaker 2: came after the London High Court ruled the extradition to

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Speaker 2: the US can proceed.

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Speaker 1: Can you just pause there and just bring our audience

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Speaker 1: up to speed if they're not across this case.

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Speaker 2: So Assange was charged by the US government with the

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Speaker 2: publication of classified materials and conspiring to hack into US

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Speaker 2: military databases. He faces around one hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 2: years in jail, and he's been in the UK for

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Speaker 2: about a decade now. He spent a lot of time

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Speaker 2: in the Ecuadorian embassy and now he's making his way

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Speaker 2: through the UK judicial system fighting this extradition charge to

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Speaker 2: the US. Assange's appeal application is now under consideration by

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Speaker 2: judges from London's High Court. A decision on the appeal

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Speaker 2: application is not expected until after late January. But Australia

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Speaker 2: has a really interesting role to play here. It could

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Speaker 2: be the place that Assange actually serves his prison sentence

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Speaker 2: should he be found guilty in the US. After all,

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Speaker 2: Assange is an Australian citizen.

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Speaker 1: Another major story that broke over the Christmas New Year

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Speaker 1: period was that a jury found Gallaen Maxwell guilty of

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Speaker 1: sex traffic If you're not familiar with Glene Maxwell, she

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Speaker 1: was the former partner of convicted sex offender and disgraced

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Speaker 1: financier Jeffrey Epstein. She had pleaded not guilty to a

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Speaker 1: range of sex trafficking related charges that she was ultimately

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Speaker 1: found guilty of. She was found guilty of five of

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Speaker 1: the six counts after the jury deliberated for five full days.

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Speaker 1: She was, however, acquitted of one count of enticing a

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Speaker 1: minor to travel across state lines to engage in an

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Speaker 1: illegal sexual act. While Maxwell has been found guilty, no

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Speaker 1: sentencing date has been confirmed yet, so that's likely to

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Speaker 2: The third court case to bring up to speed with

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Speaker 2: is that of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of blood testing

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Speaker 2: company Therenos. She was found guilty on four charges of

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Speaker 2: fraud and conspiracy and now faces years in prison. The

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Speaker 2: thirty seven year old was the founder of this company

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Speaker 2: that planned to develop a new blood testing technique that could,

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Speaker 2: in her words, revolutionize traditional blood tests by conducting an

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Speaker 2: the number of tests on a single drop of blood

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Speaker 2: extracted from a fingerprick. There was some really high profile investors.

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Speaker 2: The company was once valued at nine billion dollars, but

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Speaker 2: it turned out to all be based on a number

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Speaker 2: of false premises, and Elizabeth Holmes is now guilty of

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Speaker 2: a number of fraud charges brought on by the US

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Speaker 2: Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Speaker 1: I did spend my summer holiday getting up to date

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Speaker 1: on this story. It was one that I just felt

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Speaker 1: like I had missed out on so I was listening

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Speaker 1: to an ABC podcast called The Dropout and I'd really

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Speaker 1: recommend It's a fascinating story and the Elizabeth Holmes case

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Speaker 1: is just mind buggling. So it was really interesting to

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Speaker 1: see the news break as I was getting up to

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Speaker 1: speed with this case. This update came just days ago,

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Speaker 1: but it was a major one. Three men were sentenced

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Speaker 1: to life in prison for the murder of a Marred Rbury.

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Speaker 1: Travis and Gregory MacMichael, the father and son who armed

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Speaker 1: themselves and initiated the pursuit of Arbury, were sentenced to

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Speaker 1: life in prison without the possibility of paroles. So there

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Speaker 1: is no possibility of parole for those two. The third man,

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Speaker 1: his name is William Bryan. He was sentenced to life

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Speaker 1: in prison with the possibility of parole, but that's only

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Speaker 1: after a minimum of thirty years, and that's for his

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Speaker 1: role in joining the pursuit and filming the murder of Aarbury.

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Speaker 1: Aarbury was just twenty five years of age when he

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Speaker 1: was chased down and fatally shot in February twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: A series of racial justice and Black Lives Matter protests

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Speaker 1: followed the incident, but it did only gain public attention

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Speaker 1: about two months after it occurred when a graphic video

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Speaker 1: was leaked online. The three men were arrested shortly after

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Speaker 1: the video surfaced, and again they were sentenced just last week.

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Speaker 2: So those are four pretty serious and major cases and

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Speaker 2: legal developments that happened over summer. Might have got buried

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Speaker 2: in the Omicron headlines, but hopefully it's a little taste

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Speaker 2: of the other stories that are happening around. We have

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Speaker 2: information on all these four stories over on our Instagram.

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Speaker 2: It's where over now and I'm not kidding when I

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Speaker 2: say this are a three high hundred and four thousand

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Speaker 2: Australians get their news. It's been a big summer for

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Speaker 2: the Daily Os over on Instagram. We have the not

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Speaker 2: so fun task of bringing case numbers which have just

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Speaker 2: gone up and up, but hopefully we've balanced that out

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Speaker 2: with some good news and some really interesting insights and

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Speaker 2: explainers from our wonderful journalists. That's all we've got time

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Speaker 2: for For the first edition back of the Daily Os

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, Zara and I are going to

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