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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily os. It is Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the sixteenth of June. My name is Zara Seidler, and

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Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Sam Kozlowski.

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Speaker 1: Making news today, the billi Wella family.

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Speaker 2: Is moved, a new trade agreement.

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Speaker 1: Some good news about Ghana, and.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have a chat about taking the knee

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Speaker 2: in sporting events yesterday's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: So there was a major development in the story of

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Speaker 1: the family from Billiwella yesterday. Immigration Minister Alex Hawk had

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Speaker 1: this to say.

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Speaker 2: They are unlocking on citizens.

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Speaker 1: Their immigration status has not changed. I had made a

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Speaker 1: compassionate decision that they can live into Perth commarly.

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Speaker 2: They will be able to stay there with support services

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Speaker 2: while they matters are being retailer.

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Speaker 1: So, according to the minister, the family will now reside

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Speaker 1: in community detention in Perth and that is apparently close

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Speaker 1: to schools, support services and ongoing medical treatment at the

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Speaker 1: Perth Children's Hospital. A decision on the long term arrangement

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Speaker 1: for the family, however, has not been announced, and the

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Speaker 1: minister made a big point of this yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Over to International News Now and UK Prime Minister Boris

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Speaker 2: Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. So BOJO and

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Speaker 2: SCOMO have agreed to an in principal trade agreement. Now

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Speaker 2: in principle means that the general architecture of the agreement

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Speaker 2: has been confirmed, but the details are yet to be finalized.

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Speaker 2: A spokesman said their agreement is a win for jobs, businesses,

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Speaker 2: free trade and highlights what two liberal democracies can achieve

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Speaker 2: while working together.

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Speaker 1: The Australian Club, which is a private members club that

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Speaker 1: boast the likes of Malcolm Turnbull, John Howard, James Packer

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Speaker 1: and George Pell, has voted overwhelmingly to remain a men's

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Speaker 1: only group. A statement from the club said that there

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Speaker 1: was a record turnout of members to consider and vote

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Speaker 1: on the resolution, but that the seventy five percent threshold

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Speaker 1: to pass the resolution was not met. Ultimately, this means

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Speaker 1: that women will continue to be barred from gaining memberships

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Speaker 1: to who the Australian Club currently, though they are able

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Speaker 1: to attend as guests of male members.

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Speaker 2: And your hump Day good news is from Africa. Ghana

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Speaker 2: has planted five million trees in a single day to

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Speaker 2: address deforestation and climate change. The day was fittingly labeled

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Speaker 2: Green Ghana Day, and it came after Ghanaian President Akufo

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Speaker 2: Ado said quote, we don't have tomorrow or the day

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Speaker 2: after tomorrow to do this. We have to act now.

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Speaker 2: Should football fans have the right to boo players that

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Speaker 2: are taking the knee during a national anthem? And more so,

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Speaker 2: should players and sportspeople have the right to take a

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Speaker 2: knee at spawning events? These are the questions around the UK.

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Speaker 2: After England's players kneeled before their game against Croatia at

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Speaker 2: the Euro twenty twenty tournament on Sunday, A minority of

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Speaker 2: fans in the stadium were not happy about it and

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Speaker 2: booed from the stands. Here's a clip of what's happening.

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Speaker 2: It's a little hard to hear, but you can sense

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Speaker 2: the tension in the stadium now. What you also heard

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Speaker 2: in that clip was fans cheering, and the strategy that

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Speaker 2: fans have taken in both the England game but also

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Speaker 2: in the Belgium versus Russia game is overwhelming the booze

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Speaker 2: with cheers. A recent poll from England found that fifty

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Speaker 2: four percent of England fans support players taking the knee,

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Speaker 2: with thirty nine percent saying that they don't and seven

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Speaker 2: percent were undecided on the issue. From a management of

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Speaker 2: the team perspective, the England manager Gareth Southgate has come

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Speaker 2: out and said he firmly supports his players taking the knee,

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Speaker 2: but this all raised some questions for me around what's

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Speaker 2: going to happen when we have an Olympics in six

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Speaker 2: weeks time. This isn't an isolated incident and what we

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Speaker 2: see time and time again is when politics moves into sport,

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Speaker 2: it quickly becomes a matter of public debate. We saw

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Speaker 2: that with the NBA last year during Black Lives Matter,

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Speaker 2: and this recent event in England has quickly gained comment

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Speaker 2: from everyone in English politics, even Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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Speaker 1: This isn't an issue that is confined to Europe and

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Speaker 1: we've already seen the Olympic Committee get out ahead of

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Speaker 1: the July Olympics with a statement on the matter. So

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Speaker 1: athletes will be barred from wearing Black Lives Matter apparel

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Speaker 1: at the Tokyo Olympics, and as a ban on taking

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Speaker 1: a knee and lifting a fist.

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Speaker 2: These physical acts come under the IOC's Rule fifty, which

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Speaker 2: forbids any kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial

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Speaker 2: propaganda in venues and any other Olympic area. Athletes risk

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Speaker 2: major fines and even disqualification for using the Games to

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Speaker 2: voice their political opinion.

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Speaker 1: So I have two questions on this. Firstly, did this

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Speaker 1: come about after the nineteen sixty eight Olympics where we

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Speaker 1: can all very clearly visualize the photo of Tommy Smith

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Speaker 1: and John Carlos with their fists in the air. And secondly,

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Speaker 1: what does the enforcement of this rule look like? Will

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Speaker 1: people be disqualified, will they be stripped of their medals?

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Speaker 1: How does this work in practice?

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Speaker 2: So the rule was introduced in nineteen o eight with

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Speaker 2: the Olympic Charter, and the IOC has released a number

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Speaker 2: of guidance notes since then saying that the rules should

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Speaker 2: be interpreted in different ways, but they've never gone as

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Speaker 2: far as striking the rule out. In terms of the

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Speaker 2: enforcement of the rule, it really comes down to the

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Speaker 2: country bodies. So the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee came

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Speaker 2: out very firmly in December saying they would not punish

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Speaker 2: any athletes who demonstrated at an Olympics with either kneeling

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Speaker 2: or raising a fist. Now, the reason I highlight the

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Speaker 2: American response there is that. You've got to remember that

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Speaker 2: America is a country that traditionally wins the most medals,

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Speaker 2: and they also have the most athletes at the game.

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Speaker 2: So essentially, when the leader of the pac comes out

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Speaker 2: and says we're not going to take a stand, it's

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Speaker 2: pretty hard for countries around the world to go against that.

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Speaker 2: My prediction is that we will see political demonstrations at

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Speaker 2: this Olympics, especially considering the last twelve months of racial

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Speaker 2: tensions around the world, and I think it's highly unlikely

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Speaker 2: that we'll see major peak sporting bodies take action against athletes,

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Speaker 2: but we'll have to wait and see what happens when

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Speaker 2: the games start on July twenty six.

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Speaker 1: While we're on the topic of the Olympics, I'm going

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Speaker 1: this morning's newsletter we do have a good read about

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Speaker 1: the political pressures that Japan's Prime minister is facing regarding

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Speaker 1: all we have time for today, but thank you, as

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Speaker 1: always for joining us. We will be back tomorrow morning

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Speaker 1: for more. Have a great day,