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

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Speaker 1: finally Friday, and it is the eighteenth of June. My

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Speaker 1: name is Zara Seidler, and helping me make sense of

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Speaker 1: today's news is Sam Koslowski. Making news today a New

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Speaker 1: South Wales COVID update.

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Speaker 2: Our unemployment rate has dropped.

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Speaker 1: Some good news about renewables in the.

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Speaker 2: US, and we're going to have a chat about the

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Speaker 2: latest round of arrests in Hong Kong. Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: New South Wales recorded another locally acquired case yesterday after

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Speaker 1: a man and his wife tested positive on Wednesday night,

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Speaker 1: bringing the cluster in Sydney's East to three cases. Premier

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Speaker 1: Gladysbury Jiclian also announced that an additional man who they

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Speaker 1: didn't believe was linked to the current cluster, had also

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Speaker 1: tested positive, but officials are investigating whether that infection was

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Speaker 1: a false positive given how low his viral load was.

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Speaker 1: Here's the advice that Gladysbury Jeclian had for those in

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Speaker 1: Sydney's East.

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Speaker 3: Unless you absolutely have to attend a large gathering, unless

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Speaker 3: you absolutely have to engage in activities of a social

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Speaker 3: nation nature in the next few days, we ask everybody

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Speaker 3: to refrain from that, to be extra careful, to make

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Speaker 3: sure your hand sanitize you socially distanced. If you're catching

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Speaker 3: public transport, we recommend people wear a mask.

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Speaker 2: Some good economic news came in yesterday that is worth

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Speaker 2: a note. Australia's unemployment rate has fallen from five point

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Speaker 2: five percent to five point one percent, putting the unemployment

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Speaker 2: rate below pre pandemic levels. Beyond Jarvis, who's the head

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Speaker 2: of Labor Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, said

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Speaker 2: the unemployment rate was now lower than it was in

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Speaker 2: March twenty twenty, that's pre COVID and the same as

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Speaker 2: it was back in February twenty twenty. The underemployment rate

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Speaker 2: and underemployment is people who are employed but would like

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Speaker 2: and are available to work more hours also fell from

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Speaker 2: seven point eight percent to seven point four percent, and

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Speaker 2: that is a seven year low.

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Speaker 1: Australia's Health Minnestate Greg Hunt made a pretty big announcement

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Speaker 1: yesterday about astrozenica. So this came after Australia's Expert Immunization

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Speaker 1: Panel recommended that the Astroseneka vaccine should now only be

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Speaker 1: given to people over the age of sixty. We know

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Speaker 1: that before yesterday the recommendation was that people over the

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Speaker 1: age of fifty could receive astrosenica. Importantly, those who have

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Speaker 1: received their first dose of Astrosenka, even if they are

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Speaker 1: between those ages of fifty and fifty nine, are recommended

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Speaker 1: to receive their second dose. And that's because evidence shows

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Speaker 1: that the risk of clotting after the second vaccine seems

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Speaker 1: to be a lot lower than the first vaccine. Also,

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Speaker 1: the fires vaccine will now be made available to fifty

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Speaker 1: to fifty nine year olds who are yet to receive

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Speaker 1: their vaccine. So if that's you, go ahead and get

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Speaker 1: the jab. Here's what Health Minister Greg Hunt had to

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Speaker 1: say about the roller more broadly.

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Speaker 4: Are we on track to offer every Australian a vaccine

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Speaker 4: who is eligible during the course of twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 4: The answer remains and the advice we have is yes.

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Speaker 2: And the Friday good news. The consumption of renewable energy

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Speaker 2: in the US grew for the fifty year in a

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Speaker 2: row in twenty twenty. The latest growth is a new

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Speaker 2: record consumption for renewable energy within the US, and renewable

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Speaker 2: energy was the only source of US energy consumption that

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Speaker 2: increased in twenty twenty from twenty nineteen. Fossil fuels and

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Speaker 2: nuclear consumption both declined.

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Speaker 1: So on today's pod, we thought that we would talk

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Speaker 1: about the situation in Hong Kong because yesterday there were

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Speaker 1: some pretty significant arrests made that will have major implications

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Speaker 1: on press freedom and democracy in Hong Kong going forward.

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Speaker 2: So the big news overnight is that Hong Kong police

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Speaker 2: arrested the editor in chief of the Apple Daily, at

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Speaker 2: big newspaper in Hong Kong. Four other directors were arrested,

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Speaker 2: including the chief operating officer and other major editorial figureheads.

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Speaker 2: The arrests were done under allegations of national security offenses,

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Speaker 2: and it's actually interesting to note that it's the first

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Speaker 2: time authorities have cited media articles as potentially violating the

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Speaker 2: national security So let's stop for a moment and talk

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Speaker 2: a little bit about these national security laws. Hong Kong

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Speaker 2: was always meant to have a national security law, but

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Speaker 2: they could never pass one because what was proposed was

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Speaker 2: always so unpopular with a population that is always worried

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Speaker 2: about Chinese overreach into the way that they live their lives.

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Speaker 2: It's a really complicated relationship between Hong Kong and China,

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Speaker 2: and it's one worth researching after this episode. Now, what's

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Speaker 2: happened here is China have stepped in and passed legislation

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Speaker 2: that bypassed Hong Kong's local legislature, so their parliament.

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Speaker 1: It was really difficult for both people in Hong Kong

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Speaker 1: but also people across the world to understand what was

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Speaker 1: enclosed in this legislation because it was kept secret from

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Speaker 1: the public until enacted. But what we know now is

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Speaker 1: that the law targets and punishes crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism,

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Speaker 1: and collusion with foreign forces.

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Speaker 2: Remind me in this context what secession is.

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Speaker 1: So that's encouraging the departure of Hong Kong from mainland China.

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Speaker 2: Now, according to Hong Kong residents, the problem with this

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Speaker 2: law is that it is incredibly vague and broad. It

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Speaker 2: could range from physically being at a protests to comments

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Speaker 2: made on social media or in traditional media.

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Speaker 1: But Jimmy Lai wasn't arrested in relation to this issue.

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Speaker 1: So he was protesting against the Anti Extradition Law Amendment Bill,

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Speaker 1: which was a separate bill that also caused a lot

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Speaker 1: of tension within Hong Kong. He's been in jail since

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and yesterday we saw the arrests of four

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Speaker 1: further employees of his company. But these two bills are

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Speaker 1: not wholly separated, and it comes down to why we've

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Speaker 1: seen so many protests over the last couple of years

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Speaker 1: occur in Hong Kong. While that legislation is separate to

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Speaker 1: what we're talking about today, it is actually pretty inextricably

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Speaker 1: linked because a whole lot of protests have occurred over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years that relate to the pro

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Speaker 1: democracy movement in Hong Kong that is pushing back against

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Speaker 1: Chinese interfering in both the political and the media landscape.

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Speaker 2: The word from Hong Kong this morning is that the

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Speaker 2: Apple Daily has still released a publication, with all staff

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Speaker 2: instructed to do whatever was necessary to make sure that

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Speaker 2: a copy went to print for today. An employee of

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Speaker 2: the paper said, the editors of our team said all

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Speaker 2: daily work must carry on as usual. The best way

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Speaker 2: to face unknowns and terror is to keep doing what

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Speaker 2: we always do. On that note, that is all we

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Speaker 2: have time for on the Daily OS podcast this week.

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Speaker 2: Have a fantastic weekend and if you want to stay

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