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Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody will welcome to the Daily OS. It

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Speaker 1: is the twenty second of November. Happy Teacher's Day in

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Speaker 1: Costa Rica, a big day for all high school teachers

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Speaker 1: in that South American nation, Zara. Another big week of

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Speaker 1: news in front of us. What is making headlines this morning?

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Speaker 2: Over the weekend, if you were in the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 2: there was a fair bit of news. The Bingjarian Rock

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Speaker 2: Hole communities in the NT went into a hard lockdown

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Speaker 2: on Saturday night after nine cases of COVID were reported.

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Speaker 2: So residents in these communities can now only leave home

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Speaker 2: in the case of an emergency, for medical reasons or

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Speaker 2: if required by law, so that is a lot stricter

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Speaker 2: than the usual four or five reasons we hear about

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Speaker 2: during lockdowns. Yesterday, though there was an update that there

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Speaker 2: had been no further COVID cases in that area.

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Speaker 1: It's nearly time to talk tennis and the Australian Open,

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Speaker 1: but there's news that the Australian Open has announced that

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Speaker 1: all players attending must be fully vaccinated against COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 1: So this comes after months of speculation about what requirements

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Speaker 1: players will face, with Victorian premier Daniel Andrews previously saying

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Speaker 1: all players, officials and spectators must be fully vaccinated to attend.

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Speaker 1: The reason why this is hitting the headlines is because

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Speaker 1: it casts out on number one ranked men's player Novak

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Speaker 1: Djokovic and his eligibility to participate. Djokovic has refused to

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Speaker 1: publicly announce his vaccination status, and even upon hearing the

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Speaker 1: news of the Australian Open rules, refused to commit to

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Speaker 1: coming to the tournament.

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Speaker 2: Over the weekend, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the

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Speaker 2: withdrawal of controversial agriculture laws that farmers have been protesting

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Speaker 2: against for over a year. The laws aimed to deregulate

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Speaker 2: and modernize the agricultural sector. However, farmers claimed the legislation

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Speaker 2: would cut the prices they would get for their produce

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Speaker 2: and they'd become vulnerable to competition from big business.

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Speaker 1: And your Monday Good News. NASA astronaut Jessica Watson's will

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Speaker 1: become the first African American woman on an international Space

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Speaker 1: station crew. Watkins was first selected as natronaut back in

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and will serve as a mission specialist. What

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Speaker 1: Can and three other astronauts are set to fly to

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Speaker 1: the space station in April next year, and there are

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Speaker 1: rumors that sheares plans for a moon trip as well.

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Speaker 1: So even though we had some massive protests over the

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Speaker 1: weekend in Sydney and Melbourne, we're going to take a

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Speaker 1: few letters away from Australia and talk more about the

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Speaker 1: Austrian lockdowns and their protests over the weekend. Last week,

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Speaker 1: the Austrian government announced a nationwide vaccine mandate. It requires

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Speaker 1: the entire adult population to receive the vaccine from the

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Speaker 1: first of February next year.

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Speaker 2: So, just to jump in here, that is very different

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Speaker 2: to what we have in Australia right now. There is

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Speaker 2: no federal government imposed vaccine mandate. There are mandates on

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Speaker 2: specific parts of the community, you know, whether that be

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Speaker 2: aged care workers, healthcare workers, or some of the more

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Speaker 2: vulnerable communities, but we don't have anything like what we're

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Speaker 2: seeing in Austria.

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Speaker 1: And this decision will make Austria one of the first

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Speaker 1: nations in the world to enforce such a mandate.

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Speaker 2: The strict measures are a result of Austria experiencing a

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Speaker 2: fourth wave of infections, which you know, on the backside

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Speaker 2: of lockdowns in Australia is not something you want to hear.

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Speaker 2: The difference, of course between our two countries is that

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Speaker 2: Austria has some of the lowest vaccination rates in Western Europe.

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Speaker 2: We know that according to our World in data, just

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Speaker 2: sixty five point two percent of the Austrian population is

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Speaker 2: fully vaccinated. If you compare that to where we are

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Speaker 2: as a country, over eighty five percent of the Australian

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Speaker 2: population is fully vaccinated. So in the European country, we're

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Speaker 2: seeing the seven day average of COVID nineteen cases sitting

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Speaker 2: around thirteen thousand, and that's among a population of eight

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Speaker 2: point nine million people. So as a result of this,

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Speaker 2: and as a result of the low vaccination rates, the

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Speaker 2: Austrian government has imposed a vaccine mandate, but they've also

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Speaker 2: imposed a nationwide lockdown. It started as just a lockdown

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Speaker 2: for the unvaccinated, but the spread of the virus has necessitated,

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Speaker 2: according to the government, a more widespread lockdown.

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Speaker 1: Interestingly, there is a historical precedent for Austria. In nineteen

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Speaker 1: forty eight, the nation set a national mandate for smallpox vaccines,

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Speaker 1: so it's not the first time we've seen mandatory vaccines

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Speaker 1: in the country. Despite that, there was significant pushback from

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Speaker 1: civilians across the country over major demonstrations throughout the entire weekend.

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Speaker 2: We know that some forty thousand people took part in

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Speaker 2: the protests, with demonstrators shouting things like freedom and resistance.

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Speaker 2: We also know that at least five people were arrested,

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Speaker 2: with many others receiving ridden violations. Leaders of the anti

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Speaker 2: vaccine movements and the far right Freedom Party were in attendance,

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Speaker 1: As we see in many other countries around the world,

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Speaker 1: the anti lockdown and anti vaccine stance is drawn on

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Speaker 1: party lines, with Freedom Party leader Herbert Kikel, who actually

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Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID nineteen, recently denounce what he called

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Speaker 1: totalitarian measures from a government quote that believes it should

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Speaker 2: So obviously we know that the northern hemisphere is heading

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Speaker 2: into winter. What else do we know about how other

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Speaker 2: European countries are dealing with COVID? Is Austria alone in

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Speaker 2: facing this fourth wave?

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Speaker 1: According to the World Health Organization, Europe is now quote

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Speaker 1: back at the epicenter of the pandemic. Death throws ten

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Speaker 1: percent in Europe in the past week, and they're are

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Speaker 1: spiraling outbreaks in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe. I

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Speaker 1: was reading some comments from the Chair of Global Public

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Speaker 1: Health at the University of Edinburgh as to why exactly

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Speaker 1: we've seen this spike, and of course vaccination rates, new strains,

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Speaker 1: weather all contributes, but there's one other factor that was highlighted,

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Speaker 1: and that was the fatigue of health staff who've now

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Speaker 1: been at the front of this pandemic for almost two

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Speaker 1: years and there are some seriously tired staff and resources

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Speaker 1: across Europe and they're set for a really difficult winter.

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Speaker 1: The expert said that there was a backlog of tests

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Speaker 1: and surgeries with exhausted or six staff, which puts some

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Speaker 1: immense strain across the system. And they also noted that

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Speaker 1: the vaccine passes that are now required to get into

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Speaker 1: public places and bars across Europe can actually give people

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Speaker 1: a false sense of security, which might be contributing to

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Speaker 1: the spike. We're also seeing a massive spike in the Netherlands.

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Speaker 1: The country announced the highest daily tally of new cases

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Speaker 2: I think it must be disheartening for anyone to hear

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Speaker 2: of this extension to a seemingly never ending pandemic. Of course,

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Speaker 2: here in Australia, we do seem to be in a

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Speaker 2: better position. We are highly vaccinated, we're heading into warmer

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Speaker 2: lockdowns like we're seeing in Europe.

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Speaker 1: As we keep an eye on protests this week both

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