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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Odds. It's Monday,

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Speaker 1: the twenty ninth of March. My name is Zara Seidler,

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Speaker 1: and as always helping me make sense of today's news

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Speaker 1: is Sam Kozlowski. Making news today Andrew Lamming to leave politics.

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Speaker 2: A case of COVID nineteen in Brisbane.

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Speaker 1: Some good news about a driving teacher in Queensland, and

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Speaker 1: a breakdown.

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Speaker 2: Of Brazil's COVID crisis. Here is today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: So this story is causing more than a headache for

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister, but Liberal National MP Andrew Lamming has

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Speaker 1: announced he won't contest the next federal election. He'll also

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Speaker 1: be stepping aside from parliamentary duties in the meantime, after

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Speaker 1: a Brisbane woman accused Lamming of taking a photo of

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Speaker 1: her visible underwear in twenty nineteen, and two women accused

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Speaker 1: the MP of online harassment. During this period of medical leave,

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Speaker 1: Lamming will undergo courses in empathy and appropriate communication, as

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Speaker 1: well as clinical counseling.

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Speaker 2: Health authorities in Queensland have backtracked on claims a twenty

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Speaker 2: year old man who was waiting for his COVID nineteen

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Speaker 2: test results hosted a twenty five person party, Queensland's Deputy

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Speaker 2: Police Commissioner said, our initial indications were that there were

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Speaker 2: more than we thought at the house, but our contact

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Speaker 2: tracing inquiries have established that in fact there were only

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Speaker 2: five others. It is believed some individuals were allowed to

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Speaker 2: be at the house while authorities were checking the others

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Speaker 2: for any breaches.

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Speaker 1: I think we were all a bit confused reading that story,

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Speaker 1: so it's good that the police have now come out

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Speaker 1: with a bit of an explanation. Over to the US,

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Speaker 1: the state of Georgia has introduced a controversial new voting law.

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Speaker 2: The new law.

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Speaker 1: Adds id requirements for mail in ballots that previously only

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Speaker 1: required a signature. It bans the distribution of food and

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Speaker 1: water in voting lines. It adds additional state power to

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Speaker 1: take control of voting operations if problems occur. It limits

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Speaker 1: drop boxes for absentee ballots, and it shortens early voting

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Speaker 1: for runoff elections. President Joe Biden came out with fierce

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Speaker 1: criticism of the move, saying that this law, like so

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Speaker 1: many others being pursued by the Republicans, is a blatant

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Speaker 1: attack on the Constitution.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news is about an elderly volunteer driving

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Speaker 2: instructor from Logan Queensland Eplamers, who's eighty six, has chalked

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Speaker 2: up his seven thousandth hour of helping disadvantage youth learn

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Speaker 2: to drive in Queensland. You need one hundred hours of

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Speaker 2: driving to get a driver's license. By my maths, he's

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Speaker 2: helped out over seven hundred young people in Queensland.

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Speaker 1: For today's deep dive, I was tempted to talk about

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Speaker 1: the binfire that is Australian politics, but there is a

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Speaker 1: real crisis going on on the other side of the world,

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Speaker 1: and that is the COVID nineteen crisis currently unfolding in Brazil. Now.

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Speaker 1: You might have seen some headlines about this, but just

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Speaker 1: last week Brazil ticked over three hundred thousand deaths from

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen and a former president of Brazil called it

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Speaker 1: the biggest genocide in history. That's pretty significant language and

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Speaker 1: I think it's worth a deep dive.

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Speaker 2: So catch me up in one minute on the state

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Speaker 2: of affairs in Brazil.

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Speaker 1: That is no easy task, but Brazil now accounts for

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Speaker 1: a quarter of the entire world's COVID nineteen death More

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Speaker 1: than twelve million people have been affected, including the president.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday alone, there were three four hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: eight deaths, and Brazil's Health Institute Fio Cruz has said

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Speaker 1: the analysis by our researchers suggests it's the biggest collapse

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Speaker 1: of the hospital and health service in Brazil's history.

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Speaker 2: We've seen a lot of countries like the US and

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Speaker 2: Italy turned the corner in recent months because of the

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Speaker 2: vaccine rollout. Are we not seeing anything similar in Brazil?

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Speaker 1: No, We're not to be frank So, the President of

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Speaker 1: Brazil told everyone to stop whining about the pandemic earlier

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Speaker 1: this month. He's flouted expert advice on lockdowns and face masks.

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Speaker 1: He's pushed a drug regime that he calls an early

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Speaker 1: treatment package that scientists say actually just doesn't work, and

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Speaker 1: he's been a really vocal critic against vaccines. At a

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Speaker 1: governmental level. President Bolsonaro has now sworn in his fourth

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Speaker 1: health minister since the pandemic began. It's absolute shambles. The

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Speaker 1: vaccine rollout is not going to plan, and there were

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Speaker 1: a number of vaccines are going to be held for

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Speaker 1: the second rollout, and they've had to be brought forward

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Speaker 1: because so many people across the country just have not

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Speaker 1: had access to the vaccine.

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Speaker 2: So with this massive spike in the last few days,

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Speaker 2: has there been any government response.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so seemingly a bit late in the picture, but

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Speaker 1: Bolsonaro has launched a crisis committee to deal with a pandemic.

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Speaker 1: Not entirely sure why that's taken a year, but here

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Speaker 1: we are. As I said, He's also sworn in a

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Speaker 1: new health minister, and that health minister replaces an army

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Speaker 1: general who's currently under investigation by the Supreme Court over

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Speaker 1: alleged negligence. Beyond that, it doesn't seem like there's a

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Speaker 1: whole lot more being done by the government. Bolsonaro, who

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Speaker 1: I said earlier had contracted COVID nineteen, is seemingly putting

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Speaker 1: the economy before the health outcomes for the country. Reading

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Speaker 1: news like this really just drives home how lucky we

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Speaker 1: are in this country. I mean, we've spoken a lot

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Speaker 1: about this one case that's arisen in Queensland and now

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Speaker 1: there's the significant governmental response in place, and just reading

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Speaker 1: this news is really really dire and just again make

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Speaker 1: you're so thankful to live where we do live.

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Speaker 2: When countries continue to make strong COVID nineteen recoveries. Do

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Speaker 2: you expect them to provide extra assistance to countries like

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Speaker 2: Brazil that are really struggling under the pressure of the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a matter of time before we see

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Speaker 1: other countries helping or providing aid to Brazil, especially because

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Speaker 1: we're starting to see cases of the Brazilian variant manifest

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Speaker 1: in other countries across South America and North America, and

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Speaker 1: we know that it is highly contagious and therefore those

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Speaker 1: nations are at risk, just as Brazil is.

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