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Speaker 1: Good morning and happy hump Day. It is Wednesday, the

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Speaker 1: twenty seventh of October. I'm Zara, joined by Sam and

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Speaker 1: we are taking you through the day's news, starting off

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Speaker 1: with some COVID numbers. In New South Wales yesterday there

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Speaker 1: were two hundred and eighty two cases. In Victoria there

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Speaker 1: were one thousand, five hundred and ten new cases and

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Speaker 1: in the Act just twelve new cases.

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Speaker 2: Sam.

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Speaker 1: A big announcement yesterday from the Prime Minister. Take us

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Speaker 1: through it.

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Speaker 2: With the Glasgow Climate Conference only days away, Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: Scott Morrison has announced Australia's plan to reach net zero

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Speaker 2: emissions by twenty fifty. We're going to have a further

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Speaker 2: conversation about this in the Deep Dive.

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Speaker 1: Sarah Crookshank, a former chief of staff to Gladysbary Jicklian,

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Speaker 1: has revealed to the New South Wales ey CAAC Inquiry

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Speaker 1: that she was told about the then premier's relationship with

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Speaker 1: Daryl McGuire in twenty eighteen. She said it was described

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Speaker 1: to her by Barry Jicklian as a historical relationship.

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Speaker 2: We told you last week about a COVID infected man

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Speaker 2: who caused a three day lockdown in Southern Tasmania. He's

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Speaker 2: now been charged for allegedly leaving hotel quarantine and breaching

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Speaker 2: a domestic violence order. As well as those two charges,

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Speaker 2: he's also been charged with knowingly provided false or misleading

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Speaker 2: information to authorities.

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Speaker 1: Today's good news is that South Australian Premier Stephen Marshall

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Speaker 1: has announced the state's plan to reopen with restrictions to

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Speaker 1: ease when the state is eighty percent and ninety percent

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Speaker 1: double dose vaccinated. Currently just over sixty three percent of

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Speaker 1: the South Australian eligible population is fully vaccinated. Yesterday we

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Speaker 1: found out that Australia has officially committed to net zero

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Speaker 1: emissions by twenty fifty. It was a badly kept secret.

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Speaker 1: There had been negotiations happening within the Cabinet, mostly between

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Speaker 1: the Nationals and the Liberals, about reaching this climate target,

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Speaker 1: and yesterday it finally happened. Before we go any further,

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Speaker 1: let's listen to what Scott Morrison said about this new

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Speaker 1: climate target.

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Speaker 3: Australians want action on climate change. They're taking action on

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Speaker 3: climate change, but they also want to protect their jobs

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Speaker 3: and their livelihoods. They also want to keep the costs

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Speaker 3: of living down and they also want to protect the

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Speaker 3: Australian way of life.

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Speaker 1: So that was mostly the tone of the press conference

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Speaker 1: with Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor, who is the Energy

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Speaker 1: and a Mission's Reductions Minister, and the two were outlining

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Speaker 1: the coalition's plan to reach net zero by twenty fifty.

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Speaker 1: It's important to note that this policy will not be legislated,

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Speaker 1: so there will be no legislation introduced to Parliament that

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Speaker 1: mandates reaching this target, but accountability measures are certainly mentioned

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Speaker 1: in the plan. What we know about the plan so

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Speaker 1: far is that it will be based on existing policies

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Speaker 1: and the government make clear that it'll continue to serve

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Speaker 1: our traditional markets whilst also focusing on new technologies. The

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Speaker 1: Government said that it will be guided by five key principles,

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Speaker 1: namely that this target will be reached through technology, not taxes,

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Speaker 1: choices not mandates, That getting to this target will be

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Speaker 1: a matter of driving down the cost of a range

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Speaker 1: of technologies, keeping energy prices down with affordable and reliable power,

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Speaker 1: and being accountable for progress in terms of the actual logistics.

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Speaker 1: The government did provide a PDF document of the plan

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Speaker 1: and it outlined what major sectors will need to reduce

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Speaker 1: emissions below two thousand and five levels and by how much.

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Speaker 1: So what we gleaned from that is that the electricity

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Speaker 1: sector will need to reduce emissions by between ninety one

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Speaker 1: and ninety seven percent, agriculture will need to reduce its

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Speaker 1: emissions by twenty nine to thirty six percent, and industry,

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Speaker 1: mining and manufacturing will need to reduce emissions by between

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Speaker 1: eighteen and fifty four percent. So that's a pretty big range.

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Speaker 2: So it feels like this process was really kickstarted by

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Speaker 2: the announcement from Barnaby Joyce that the Nationals are on

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Speaker 2: board with a net zero plan. Was there much talk

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Speaker 2: about the National's involvement in going forward to net zero yesterday?

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Speaker 1: I will answer your question, but to a point you

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Speaker 1: just made about it being kickstarted by the NATS announcement

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. The government has been in power for

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Speaker 1: nearly a decade and climate policy has always remained a

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Speaker 1: top issue that has divided the coalition, so this is

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Speaker 1: nothing new. In fact, it is not unique to the coalition.

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Speaker 1: It has also divided the Labor Party. But it's very

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Speaker 1: clear that this is not a recent policy, even if

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Speaker 1: it is a last minute announcement. And then to answer

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Speaker 1: the actual question that you asked me. So we did

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Speaker 1: find out that as part of the deal with the NATS,

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Speaker 1: the Productivity Commission will review the impact of reducing emissions

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Speaker 1: on regional communities every five years. That was all we

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Speaker 1: found out about the details of the agreement. Obviously, earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week, Keith Pitt, who is a National, was

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Speaker 1: elevated to Cabinet, so that must have been another part

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Speaker 1: of the deal, but there's been no forthcoming publicity around

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Speaker 1: what was actually discussed and agreed upon a we're further

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Speaker 1: signed to the nationals. The government's plan claims that sixty

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Speaker 1: two thousand new regional mining and heavy industry jobs will

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Speaker 1: be created.

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Speaker 2: I think I already know the answer to this before

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Speaker 2: I ask it, but I wonder how the opposition responded

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Speaker 2: to this.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Albernezi didn't mince words. Here's what he said today.

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Speaker 4: We learned net zero from the Prime minister's press conference.

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Speaker 4: We haven't seen the modeling and we haven't heard the detail.

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Speaker 4: Because there is net zero modeling, net zero legislation and

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Speaker 4: net zero unity.

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Speaker 1: Labor committed to net zero by twenty fifty, a fair

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Speaker 1: little while ago, but they still don't have a concrete

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Speaker 1: twenty thirty target, but we anticipate that will shore up

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Speaker 1: in the lead up to the next election.

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Speaker 2: So here's the state of play. We have the upcoming

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Speaker 2: Glasgow Climate Conference, where Prime Minister Scott Morrison will take

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Speaker 2: Australia's pledge of net zero by twenty fifty. He's expected

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Speaker 2: to highlight Australia's cooperation and ambitions in climate space as

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Speaker 2: the potential of a twenty twenty one or twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: two federal election looms.

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Speaker 1: What will be interesting though at Glasgow is that many

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Speaker 1: other nations are looking towards more ambitious twenty thirty targets.

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Speaker 1: That twenty fifty is almost a foregone conclusion and the

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Speaker 1: policies have been in place for a while, so it'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see how much emphasis is put on

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Speaker 1: those twenty thirty targets versus twenty fifty, which was seemingly

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Speaker 1: a uphill battle to get to.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty clear to us that the upcoming Glasgow Climate

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Speaker 2: Conference is one of the biggest stories of the year.

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