Speaker 1: Already and this is the daily This is the daily.
Speaker 1: Ohs oh, now it makes sense. Good morning, and welcome
Speaker 1: to the Daily OS. It's Friday, the twentieth of December.
Speaker 1: I'm Billy, I'm Zara Zara. Today is our last day
Speaker 1: in the office.
Speaker 2: Cannot believe it. What a year it's been. We do, though,
Speaker 2: I need to say at the top, have a summer
Speaker 2: series coming, So this isn't the last that you will
Speaker 2: hear Billy and I in your ears. Sadly, if that's
Speaker 2: what you wanted, we will have those episodes over the
Speaker 2: coming weeks. But today we are wrapping up the year
Speaker 2: that was. As we look back on twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: it will.
Speaker 1: Be a very good series. Just quickly. You're saying, cannot
Speaker 1: believe it. Do you think anyone ever gets to the
Speaker 1: end of the year and goes I can believe that
Speaker 1: it's been a long year.
Speaker 2: I think well, I think when we're younger, time goes slower.
Speaker 2: We have had this conversation. Time goes slower, and so
Speaker 2: perhaps you reach the end of the year and you're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: that was a roundred and sixty five days.
Speaker 1: Great time goes so fast when you're older.
Speaker 2: It feels like genuinely yesterday that Sam and I sat
Speaker 2: in this room made our predictions for twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: and here we are.
Speaker 1: And we'll get into them because I hear you were
Speaker 1: quite Acuratezara, So I'm glad you've been able to sneak
Speaker 1: that in early on too. Okay, So on today's podcast,
Speaker 1: we are going to reflect on what a big year
Speaker 1: it has been in the news. The Daily Os has
Speaker 1: been there every step of the way breaking it down
Speaker 1: for you, and today we just want to look at
Speaker 1: all of the biggest moments from politics to pop culture.
Speaker 1: I think the best way to wrap up a full
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five days. Oh it was a
Speaker 1: leap year.
Speaker 2: Was it a leapier this year?
Speaker 1: Yes, every four years it's a leap yere US election
Speaker 1: and Olympics, and that was this year.
Speaker 2: In a year.
Speaker 1: So we're going to go in themes. Why don't we
Speaker 1: start locally first with domestic politics?
Speaker 2: Soar, you're coming off strong and interesting.
Speaker 1: Your favorite topic is Australian politics, is it? Yes, a
Speaker 1: a nerd.
Speaker 2: Kick it off for us, Okay, So I think it's
Speaker 2: fair to say that this year in Australian politics was
Speaker 2: quite backloaded, and by that I mean it was like
Speaker 2: a kind of slow start to the year, but then
Speaker 2: the back saw quite a lot of progress and quite
Speaker 2: a lot of news events happen in this space. And
Speaker 2: I think that just goes to the fact that we
Speaker 2: are approaching an election and the government and the opposition
Speaker 2: both knew that full well as we got to you know,
Speaker 2: those last sitting weeks of the calendar, and that saw
Speaker 2: a whole lot of massive pieces of legislation passed through.
Speaker 2: So just to run you through them at the top
Speaker 2: of my head, you know, we had a social media
Speaker 2: ban pass parliament in a matter of weeks. We had
Speaker 2: the governments helped Buy and Build to rent legislation that
Speaker 2: was of course their big housing policy that passed in
Speaker 2: the last week. And we saw changes to the way
Speaker 2: that He's indexation works also pass through parliament.
Speaker 1: Both of those things, just a social media ban and
Speaker 1: also Hex's massive things for young people.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and I think again that speaks to the fact
Speaker 2: that the government is really looking how to bring young
Speaker 2: people into the folds ahead of that election. In terms
Speaker 2: of where I guess the country sits as a whole,
Speaker 2: it's fair to say that cost of living still remains
Speaker 2: top of the agenda, both for voters and for the
Speaker 2: government and the opposition. We saw in the US election
Speaker 2: that the economy really stuck out as a defining feature,
Speaker 2: and that is the same all around the world. It's
Speaker 2: especially the same here. It'll be interesting to see whether
Speaker 2: voters are talking about interest rates and things like that
Speaker 2: at the election. We know, of course that that's not
Speaker 2: something the government themselves can be changing, but we have
Speaker 2: seen in other elections that governments are punished for higher
Speaker 2: interest rates, so no doubt that'll be something that Anthony
Speaker 2: Albinezi will be thinking a lot about over the summer holidays.
Speaker 2: I think that if we take a step back, the
Speaker 2: other big defining part of the Australian political landscape this
Speaker 2: year were two independents. So Lydia Thorpe and Fatima Payman
Speaker 2: were both part of other parties. Lydia Thorpe was part
Speaker 2: of the Greens she left last year and Fatima payment
Speaker 2: was part of the Labor Government and she left this year.
Speaker 2: And I think both of them have been part of
Speaker 2: the biggest moments in Australian politics. Lydia Thorpes of course,
Speaker 2: and we've spoken about it on this podcast. Came when
Speaker 2: the King was visiting Australia with Queen Camilla and she
Speaker 2: stood up and staged a protest that made headlines all
Speaker 2: around the world, not just here in Australia. And then
Speaker 2: with Fatima Payman, she left the Labor Party due to
Speaker 2: their stance on the war in Gaza as.
Speaker 1: I was of a massive moment when she did that.
Speaker 2: Huge and you know, for a party that doesn't allow
Speaker 2: for people to cross the floor, so when you're in
Speaker 2: the Labor Party you need to vote with the Labor
Speaker 2: Party on all matters. She was standing against them and
Speaker 2: then left the party altogether. And since then she's really
Speaker 2: been making waves. And again to the point of young people.
Speaker 2: Fatima payment is one of the youngest people in Parliament
Speaker 2: and so to see her leave one of the major
Speaker 2: parties when we know young people are turning to minor
Speaker 2: parties and independents, that'll be an interesting thing to keep
Speaker 2: in mind. And of course there was another viral moment
Speaker 2: with Fadam A. Payman and Pauline Hanson when there was
Speaker 2: a bit of a tussle about Fatima Payman's citizenship, So
Speaker 2: that'll be a story to watch in the new Year.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take a breath now. But the other
Speaker 2: big political story I think that it would be remiss
Speaker 2: of us not to mention this year was the return
Speaker 2: of Julian Massange and that has kind of cross party lines.
Speaker 2: That's been something that both the Labor government and the
Speaker 2: Coalition have been talking about for years and years and years,
Speaker 2: and this year was the year that he was released
Speaker 2: from prison and returned to Australia and now walks as
Speaker 2: a freeman, which you know, when we went into twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, I don't know that would have been a
Speaker 2: foregone conclusion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's absolutely crazy. Juliana Massange feels like something that
Speaker 1: just went on for years and years and felt like
Speaker 1: the never ending saga. So to see that he finally
Speaker 1: did come home, that was just one of the moments
Speaker 1: of the year domestically. And then just quickly you've mentioned
Speaker 1: you're foreshadowed that we do have an election coming up
Speaker 1: next year. It needs to happen before May. But other
Speaker 1: than that, it's in the hands of Anthony Albersi as
Speaker 1: to when exactly it will be. What are your predictions
Speaker 1: as to what will happen there?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I think Firstly, in terms of the timing,
Speaker 2: A lot of the chatter seems to be that it
Speaker 2: will be held around March, just based on a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of things that need to happen for that election
Speaker 2: to be called. In terms of what will actually happen
Speaker 2: come that federal election, I don't think anyone knows really.
Speaker 2: I think based on the polling, it looks like it
Speaker 2: might be difficult for either of the major parties to
Speaker 2: win a majority. Support for both of the major parties
Speaker 2: has continued to slip, especially as I said, among young people.
Speaker 2: And I think that we can take some notes from
Speaker 2: what we've seen globally, because twenty twenty four was the
Speaker 2: year of the election. We saw elections all around the world,
Speaker 2: and what we saw was a fairly uniform shift to
Speaker 2: the right. Billy talked me through this trend that we saw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we did see elections all around the world. It
Speaker 1: was actually the most amount of people that have ever
Speaker 1: voted in elections around the world than ever before. So
Speaker 1: it was a record making year four elections. I think
Speaker 1: it's safe to say that the most high profile election
Speaker 1: was definitely the US election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and it was a very dramatic lead up to the election.
Speaker 1: Obviously we had Joe Biden drop out just months before
Speaker 1: election day, and then we also had the two assassination
Speaker 1: attempts on Donald Trump, which just major news moments. And
Speaker 1: of course Trump did win in a decisive victory, and
Speaker 1: the race was nowhere near as close as what was
Speaker 1: predicted in the polls, which once again just shows us
Speaker 1: that the polls, I think the public's trust in polls
Speaker 1: is comminishing, is definitely diminishing. They've really struggled, especially with
Speaker 1: the US elections. To get it right, Zara, we have
Speaker 1: to play I mentioned it at the start of the
Speaker 1: podcast that last year when you and Sam did the
Speaker 1: episode on recapping Train Training three, you also predicted what
Speaker 1: would happen this year, and you did it has to
Speaker 1: be said, predict that Trump would win. Let's play a
Speaker 1: little bit of that now.
Speaker 2: I think he'll win the nomination and he'll win the president.
Speaker 1: So you think he's going to be the president.
Speaker 2: I think this time next year we'll be talking about
Speaker 2: President Trump. Yeah, Okay, well we'll come back in twelve
Speaker 2: months and sea, Yes, So what's going on? Hello future, Zara,
Speaker 2: talk to you? Then, thank you for giving me that credit.
Speaker 2: I will also just add, because the clip was not played,
Speaker 2: that sam My beloved best friend and co founder, did
Speaker 2: say on the same podcast that not only would Donald
Speaker 2: Trump not win the presidency, but he believed he wouldn't
Speaker 2: win the nomination and he was wrong on two her house.
Speaker 2: If that's okay. He was right about starting a business,
Speaker 2: so we still love him.
Speaker 1: If you guys could see Zara's face right now, she's
Speaker 1: just like glowing knowing that she was right exactly. Zara,
Speaker 1: what was your biggest takeaway from the US election?
Speaker 2: I think that the biggest takeaway for me was legacy
Speaker 2: media getting it wrong. And by that I mean the tone.
Speaker 2: The way that Donald Trump supporters were spoken about was
Speaker 2: again fairly uniform when it came to legacy media. If
Speaker 2: you flipped through you know, the big newspapers in the US,
Speaker 2: what you saw was this writing that suggested there was
Speaker 2: no way Donald Trump could win the presidency and that
Speaker 2: anyone that voted for him was just wrong. And what
Speaker 2: we saw was that more than half the country disagreed
Speaker 2: with that and ended up voting. And I think that
Speaker 2: this disconnect between the way that the media sees the
Speaker 2: political class and the way that ordinary Americans and it's
Speaker 2: not just an American issue, it's all around the world.
Speaker 2: But I think that disconnect was really really clear at
Speaker 2: the US election, and it.
Speaker 1: Was largely in legacy left wing media that you're talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and after the election happened, we sat down as a
Speaker 1: newsroom and went through a lot of the coverage from
Speaker 1: other newsrooms, and the words shocking was used a lot,
Speaker 1: and we kept saying or surprise, yes, and we kept saying,
Speaker 1: how could it be shocking if more than half of
Speaker 1: the people who voted in the election did vote for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump?
Speaker 2: It was shocking for the other side, and it was
Speaker 2: shocking because seemingly so much of the media sits on
Speaker 2: that side. But yeah, taking a step back, that sort
Speaker 2: of language around shock and surprise didn't really land for
Speaker 2: anyone else. What about you, Billy, what was your takeaway?
Speaker 1: I'm going to stay in kind of like the media theme.
Speaker 1: I think both campaigns really embraced new media for the
Speaker 1: first time in the US election. I'm thinking about Joe Rogan,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking a bat call her daddy. Kamala Harris's team
Speaker 1: really went hard on TikTok, as did Donald Trump's team.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump also spoke to the Paul Brothers, so there
Speaker 1: was a lot of talking to influences to try to
Speaker 1: reach a new audience that way. And I think that
Speaker 1: was really interesting and really smart on both sides to
Speaker 1: not just go go to the legacy media that we
Speaker 1: were just speaking about Sarah, but to think of new
Speaker 1: innovative ways to reach new audiences, especially young people.
Speaker 2: I'll be really curious to see if that translates here,
Speaker 2: Like we haven't seen the same. I mean, obviously we've
Speaker 2: had a sky minister and the opposition leader on this podcast.
Speaker 1: But we're included in that we are new media.
Speaker 2: But I don't know that there has been a kind
Speaker 2: of all of government or all of political class embracing
Speaker 2: of new media. I think that we're still a media company,
Speaker 2: whereas I haven't necessarily seen influences engaged in the way
Speaker 2: they were in the US. I'll be really curious to
Speaker 2: see if that happens.
Speaker 1: I actually just saw Peter Dunnan do an interview with
Speaker 1: Sam Frick I think his name is, who is the
Speaker 1: Olympic diver who's very famous on TikTok. Yeah, so he Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's an early indication that Christing possibly is going to
Speaker 1: go down a similar route to what Donald Trump did.
Speaker 2: Wow, I mean, definitely one to watch, and we will
Speaker 2: be absolutely knocking on the doors of both a prime
Speaker 2: minister and that position leader ask them to come on
Speaker 2: this part again ahead of the election. But Billy, not
Speaker 2: just the US election that happened. Tell me about everything
Speaker 2: else in the world.
Speaker 1: Before we get to that. We're going to hear a
Speaker 1: quick message from our sponsor. Okay, you mentioned this earlier,
Speaker 1: and I don't think I answered your question properly, But
Speaker 1: we did see across the world, not just in the US,
Speaker 1: a swing to the right. We also saw in Europe
Speaker 1: across several elections. So there was the European Parliament's election,
Speaker 1: which is the world's only democratically elected transnational organization. Was
Speaker 1: a mouthful, yes, but so it was a whole lot
Speaker 1: of countries that were part of this election. They saw
Speaker 1: a historic surge for small far right parties across Europe,
Speaker 1: and in particular that one election caused a lot of
Speaker 1: disruption to France, who had to call a snap election
Speaker 1: for its own parliament because of the popularity, the unexpected
Speaker 1: popularity in the rise in the far right. Like you said,
Speaker 1: and that has now led to months of disarray in
Speaker 1: French politics, and we've already seen another French PM come
Speaker 1: and go since that, and it's all because of this
Speaker 1: sudden surge in the right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it's a really interesting thing because so
Speaker 2: much of politics is cyclical in that it goes in cycles.
Speaker 2: You know, you have a swing to the left, then
Speaker 2: a swing to the right, and a swing to the left.
Speaker 2: But somehow this is still really surprising a lot of analysts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a similar thing also happened in Austria and Portugal,
Speaker 1: and also in Germany on a state level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on a state level, there were grounds made from
Speaker 2: far right parties that hadn't happened or hadn't been seen
Speaker 2: since World War Two. So that's definitely one. And we
Speaker 2: saw the German Chancellor Olive Schultz voted down in a
Speaker 2: no confidence vote just this week, so definitely one to
Speaker 2: keep an eye on in the new year, yeaph.
Speaker 1: And then elsewhere, we had the biggest election that the
Speaker 1: world has ever seen in India, where nearly one billion
Speaker 1: people voted over a six week period. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: that we have twenty six million people who need a
Speaker 1: vote in Australia, they had one billion people, unbelievable who
Speaker 1: needed to vote, and that resulted in incumbent Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Naranda Emodi returning to power for a third time. And
Speaker 1: then also just of note, Mexico elected its first female president.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we knew that that was a foregone conclusion
Speaker 2: because both candidates in the end were females. So either
Speaker 2: way it was going to end with a female president there.
Speaker 1: I had forgot that, Okay, and Zara. Whilst we are
Speaker 1: still talking about overseas, a big focus in the news
Speaker 1: this year has been what has been happening in the
Speaker 1: Middle East. Yeah, the changing geopolitics there. Do you want
Speaker 1: to take us through that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean the thing is that there are just so
Speaker 2: many different stories that are kind of interwoven and interlaced
Speaker 2: in this one region, and it has seen the biggest
Speaker 2: shift in decades just in the last couple of months alone.
Speaker 2: So obviously, I think the first thing to be said
Speaker 2: is that the war between Israel and Hummas in Gaza
Speaker 2: remains ongoing. That has not come to an end. It
Speaker 2: started this round of violence rather started on October seven
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty three. But there does seem to be
Speaker 2: a move towards a ceasefire, and perhaps the most meaningful
Speaker 2: steps taken to a ceasefire that we've seen in months.
Speaker 2: So based on reporting, there could be a ceasefire deal
Speaker 2: over the Christmas period, but we'll have to wait and
Speaker 2: see what happens there. Elsewhere. In Lebanon, Hesbela and Israel
Speaker 2: reached a ceasefire earlier this year, and that came after
Speaker 2: Hesbelah was really quite weakened. There had been an ongoing
Speaker 2: war since October eighth of last year between those two
Speaker 2: and Hesbela had this year lost its leadership almost entirely,
Speaker 2: and that ended up with, as I said, that deal
Speaker 2: being reached. Then if we go to another border that
Speaker 2: Israel has with Syria. In Syria, we saw the government
Speaker 2: collapse in recent weeks and there's been that vacuum of
Speaker 2: power that has been filled by the rebels there.
Speaker 1: So I guess kind of what we can take from
Speaker 1: there is that previously last year, a lot of the
Speaker 1: war was focused on what was happening in Gaza, and
Speaker 1: now a lot of it is based on what is
Speaker 1: happening at the borders of Israel on multiple sides.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, so Israel is fighting on multiple fronts, but
Speaker 2: I think the one commonality there is Iran. So the
Speaker 2: Iranian regime backs Hamas, it backs Hezbola, and until recently
Speaker 2: it was backing Syria and Bashar al Asad, and all
Speaker 2: three of those, as I just mentioned, have had quite
Speaker 2: significant changes. In recent months. We have seen Iran and
Speaker 2: Israel for the very first time directly attack each other.
Speaker 2: But that didn't really escalate into a direct war between
Speaker 2: the two, but it certainly symbolizes the biggest shift in
Speaker 2: the region in a very long time.
Speaker 1: An absolutely massive thing that happened this year and that
Speaker 1: will continue to keep a very close eye on in
Speaker 1: the new year. Zara, a bit of a change of pace.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about cultural moments.
Speaker 2: We had a fight about this.
Speaker 1: Oh my, that sounds like we hate each other. We don't,
Speaker 1: but we just argued about what the biggest cultural moments were,
Speaker 1: and I think that speaks to how fragmented everyone's algorithms are.
Speaker 1: What's very popular on your for you page obviously isn't
Speaker 1: the same as my for you page, which is what
Speaker 1: is so addictive about TikTok and yeah, algorithms that I
Speaker 1: think is so tailored to.
Speaker 2: You like, how interesting that in a conversation we're having
Speaker 2: about big cultural news moments, TikTok is the thing that
Speaker 2: has somehow shaped that like that is totally That in
Speaker 2: itself is so novel and I can't remember a time
Speaker 2: where it can dictate what is important to someone and
Speaker 2: not important to another person. But we'll stop with the
Speaker 2: preamble now, Billy, what was the stand up cultural moment
Speaker 2: for you this year?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, it's not one that you agreed with, no,
Speaker 1: but I didn't want to have recency bias, so I
Speaker 1: wanted to pick one that was from earlier in the year,
Speaker 1: and I would say it was Kate Middleton, which it
Speaker 1: feels so long ago, Yeah, but that was this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But it went on for about a month where the
Speaker 1: world was wondering what had happened to her, what she was.
Speaker 1: There had been a lot of speculation about it, and
Speaker 1: in March, on Mother's Day, she put up a photo
Speaker 1: of herself with her three children, and it was then
Speaker 1: discovered that that photo was photoshopped. And I think what
Speaker 1: stood out to me was the fact that Geddy and
Speaker 1: I think AAP as well, which are both photo agencies
Speaker 1: that we use at the Daily Os. They had put
Speaker 1: a kind of warning or cautionary message on that photo
Speaker 1: saying that this photo has been photoshopped and that you
Speaker 1: should be wary when you use it. And I have
Speaker 1: never seen anything like that before, And that was a
Speaker 1: conversation at the time that that was unprecedented for them
Speaker 1: to do that, and it then led to even more
Speaker 1: of a storm of speculation, and it was then revealed
Speaker 1: towards the end of March that Kate Middleton had been
Speaker 1: diagnosed with cancer and had begun chemotherapy, which I think
Speaker 1: was a very sad kind of ending to that speculation.
Speaker 1: I think it caused a lot of people to reflect
Speaker 1: on how they had reported and how they had commented. Discourse, Yeah,
Speaker 1: on her kind of disappearance, and they're not disappearance, but
Speaker 1: I would say that was, you know, in the first
Speaker 1: three months of this year, that was one of the
Speaker 1: biggest stories.
Speaker 2: And also I just had to google this to make
Speaker 2: sure it was this year. But King Charles was also
Speaker 2: diagnosed with cancer this yes, so Prince William had both
Speaker 2: his wife and his father battling separate cancer diagnoses at
Speaker 2: the same time. It's unbelievable to think what can happen
Speaker 2: in just one year. I do think that that recency
Speaker 2: bias is perhaps clouding my judgment, and I do remember
Speaker 2: it was a huge moment at the time, and you're right,
Speaker 2: like the implications were fairly far reaching.
Speaker 1: So I'll give you that, all right, Zarah, What was
Speaker 1: your biggest moment of the year in culture?
Speaker 2: Well, for me, when I think back to this year,
Speaker 2: the thing that stands out is just this rise and
Speaker 2: rise and rise of female artists, and specifically the idea
Speaker 2: that people think that Charlie XCX, Chapel Ron Sabrina Carpenter,
Speaker 2: that these people were overnight successes. And I have just
Speaker 2: loved reading, listening to watching the fact that these super
Speaker 2: stars have been decades in the making but have emerged
Speaker 2: into stardom very very quickly, and just you know, watching
Speaker 2: Chapel Roone performing busking on the street to nobody to
Speaker 2: then filling out the biggest festival audience that the world's
Speaker 2: ever seen. I just think like it's been the year
Speaker 2: of the female pop star, of the GIRLI Pops, of
Speaker 2: the Gurli Pops, and like, really, you know, I think
Speaker 2: last year was probably Harry Styles's year. This year has
Speaker 2: to be the year of the female superstar, led of
Speaker 2: course by Taylor Swift, but she has kind of reigned
Speaker 2: supreme for a very long time. So I think it's
Speaker 2: the new entrance who really characterized twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: For me, absolutely love it. Should we get to sport?
Speaker 2: Are you not going to mention Reagun? Billy has ridden
Speaker 2: here Reagun rise and fall, but maybe we can just
Speaker 2: leave that there. I don't know that we need to
Speaker 2: elaborate much more that happened.
Speaker 1: I didn't know whether to say Reagan's rise or Reagan's
Speaker 1: full both of the above, but I think that she
Speaker 1: was also one of the biggest cultural moments. I mean,
Speaker 1: literally six months ago we had never heard her.
Speaker 2: I know we did. Actually I will say our sport
Speaker 2: journo George did write a piece about who was ray
Speaker 2: Gun ahead of the Olympics, So we were ahead of
Speaker 2: the curve there. He always is that one. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: one could be recycled many times after the fact. But anyway,
Speaker 2: let's move on now, good segue here to the biggest
Speaker 2: sports story of the years. What's it for you? All right?
Speaker 1: I think it is the Olympics. Australia had its best
Speaker 1: performance at an Olympics. Ever, that's in terms of gold
Speaker 1: medals won and it was again year of the girlipops.
Speaker 1: It was really the Australian women who absolutely dominated our
Speaker 1: gold medal tally. We had Arian Timmis, Jessica Fox, the
Speaker 1: or the Fox Sisters, really Emma McKeon, just so many
Speaker 1: and then Raygun. Can we include Raygun? She didn't win
Speaker 1: a gold medal, but she was included in the rise
Speaker 1: of Australian sports women at the Olympics, which was just
Speaker 1: so exciting to see. One day, I remember we woke
Speaker 1: up to there being four gold medals having been won
Speaker 1: by the Australian Olympic team in the space of five
Speaker 1: hours or something.
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It was such a proud moment to be Australian, which
Speaker 1: is always such a nice feeling. Touche Zara, what about you?
Speaker 2: Mine is a more recent story, but it is just
Speaker 2: the unbelievable rise of Australians. Sprinting star Quaquat who broke
Speaker 2: the nation's longest standing record in athletics and the best
Speaker 2: part is that he did it at like a school
Speaker 2: loving festival, at a school carnival school carnival, I mean
Speaker 2: where else is a good place to be a you know,
Speaker 2: decades long record.
Speaker 1: It was like an all schools carnival, Like it wasn't here.
Speaker 2: It was like imagining my local school carnival.
Speaker 1: I was so nervous, but still just so exciting.
Speaker 2: So exciting, and I think that this signals and symbolizes
Speaker 2: the next wave of Ossie talent that we're going to see.
Speaker 2: And he's just at the beginning. You know, he's got
Speaker 2: his eyes set on twenty thirty two, but we know
Speaker 2: that he ran faster than you say Bolt did at
Speaker 2: the same age, So I think we have high hopes,
Speaker 2: but not too high. I think that it's an important
Speaker 2: message about not putting too much pressure on up and
Speaker 2: coming talent because he is so young and he has
Speaker 2: so much ahead of him. He's just going to take
Speaker 2: his time with it.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to see at the twenty thirty two Olympics.
Speaker 1: I'll be waiting eight years. Is that how long it is?
Speaker 1: But that will be a very exciting moment. But like
Speaker 1: you said, we can't put too much pressure on him, Zarah,
Speaker 1: that's twenty one. That's twenty twenty four. The year that was.
Speaker 2: Wow, what a year Lots has happened, lots more will happen.
Speaker 2: TDA will be there every step of the way, as
Speaker 2: you said, can't wait.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much to every single person who is
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast right now and to everyone who
Speaker 1: has been listening to The Daily Ors this entire year.
Speaker 1: Our podcast numbers, I've said this before on the podcast,
Speaker 1: but they've never been higher, and we're just so appreciative
Speaker 1: of every single person who listens to us appreciates new media,
Speaker 1: like we said, and we'll be back again next year
Speaker 1: to do it all again. Like we said, we've got
Speaker 1: the Australian election, which is just like Christmas. Christmas is
Speaker 1: being extended for the Daily Ohs because we have an
Speaker 1: Australian election.
Speaker 2: We'll wrap it up there, but take care of yourself
Speaker 2: over this holiday period. We will be back with a
Speaker 2: final good news rap tomorrow, but after that we have
Speaker 2: got our summer series, so stay tuned and have a
Speaker 2: wonderful summer.
Speaker 1: Bye.
Speaker 3: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda
Speaker 3: Bungelung Kalkotin woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily oz acknowledges
Speaker 3: that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the
Speaker 3: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres
Speaker 3: Strait Island and nations. We pay our respects to the
Speaker 3: first peoples of these countries, both past and present.
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