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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. Happy Friday.

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Speaker 1: It's the ninth of April. My name is Sam Kazlowski.

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Speaker 1: And helping make sense of today's news. Zara Sidelock. Making

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Speaker 1: news today, Astrosennka findings.

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Speaker 2: Gun control in the US.

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Speaker 1: Some good news about Sri Lanka, and a.

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Speaker 2: Breakdown of the Respect at Work Report. Here's today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 3: PM Scott Morrison announced last night that the use of

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Speaker 3: the fires of vaccine is now preferred over the astrosenic

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Speaker 3: of vaccine in adults aged less than fifty years. The

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Speaker 3: change follows recommendations from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on

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Speaker 3: Immunization after concerns the vaccine was suspected to be linked

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Speaker 3: to rare blood clots. Morrison confirmed the astrosenica vaccine will

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Speaker 3: continue to be administered to those aged over fifty where

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Speaker 3: benefit clearly outweighs the risk.

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Speaker 2: To the US now and the Biden administration has revealed

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Speaker 2: executive actions to address gun violence. Steps include nominating a

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Speaker 2: gun control advocate to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,

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Speaker 2: Firearms and Explosives, and regulations on ghost guns, which are

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Speaker 2: unregistered firearms that can be assembled from parts Violand's also

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Speaker 2: set to ask various agencies to allocate further resources to

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Speaker 2: community violence prevention measures as well.

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Speaker 1: China's ambassador to Australia has warned the China will respond

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Speaker 1: in kind if the federal government sanctions China over alleged

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Speaker 1: human rights abuses against Muslim Wigas. The warning comes after

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Speaker 1: sanctions were imposed last month by the US, Canada, the

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Speaker 1: European Union and the UK over the treatment of Wigan Muslims,

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Speaker 1: while Australia and New Zealand issued a joint statement at

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Speaker 1: the same time saying quote there is clear evidence of

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Speaker 1: severe human rights abuses.

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Speaker 2: And to the good news. Sri Lanka has banned imports

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Speaker 2: on palm oil and new palm plantations. Environmentalists say the

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Speaker 2: production of palm oil has led to deforestation and ecosystem degradation.

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Speaker 2: A statement from the President's office said those companies and

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Speaker 2: entities which have done such palm oil cultivations will now

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Speaker 2: be required to remove them in a phased manner, with

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Speaker 2: ten percent uprooting at a time and replacing it with

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Speaker 2: rubber or environmentally friendly crops each year.

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Speaker 4: It's so important to say it all starts with disrespect.

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Speaker 4: That's where it starts, and I would argue, not just

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Speaker 4: disrespect towards women, disrespect full stop. We've got to be

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Speaker 4: careful in our society that we don't allow the reservoir

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Speaker 4: of respect to drain, and I fear it is.

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Speaker 2: So that was the Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday speaking

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Speaker 2: about the government's response to the Respect at Work Report

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Speaker 2: that was handed down yesterday. And if you're not familiar

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Speaker 2: with this report. In mid twenty eighteen, as the world

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Speaker 2: was in the grips of the Me Too movement, the

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Speaker 2: Australian Human Rights Commission was tasked with examining sexual harassment

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Speaker 2: in Australia's workplaces. So Kate Jenkins, who you might remember,

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Speaker 2: is our Sex Discrimination Commissioner. She led this review at

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Speaker 2: the time in twenty eighteen, and in January of twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty she handed the government her final report that had

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Speaker 2: some really really horrific findings about the frequency of sexual

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Speaker 2: harassment in this country.

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Speaker 1: So just to clarify here, we're talking about sexual harassment

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Speaker 1: across Australia rather than in Parliament House itself, Yes we are.

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Speaker 2: So Kate Jenkins is actually now running a review into

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Speaker 2: that exact matter. But this one from twenty eighteen was

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Speaker 2: a broader review of things that were happening across workplaces

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Speaker 2: in the country. It actually found that one in three

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Speaker 2: people who had worked in the previous five years had

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Speaker 2: experienced sexual harassment, and found that women were more likely

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Speaker 2: to have experienced workplace sexual harassment than their male counterparts.

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Speaker 1: So you said it was handed to the government in

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Speaker 1: January twenty twenty. Why has Scott Morrison only talked about

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Speaker 1: it fourteen months later.

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Speaker 2: So there's a bit of a technical point to explain here.

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Speaker 2: When the government commissions a review like this one, it

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Speaker 2: is asking an external body, in this case, the Human

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Speaker 2: Rights Commission, to conduct this review. It then requests that

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Speaker 2: that review is handed to the government for the government

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Speaker 2: to consider a response. So here Kate Jenkins, the Sex

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Speaker 2: Discrimination Commissioner. She handed the government and made public the

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Speaker 2: findings of her review in January twenty twenty. The government

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Speaker 2: then until yesterday had that review in its hands, and

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Speaker 2: Scott Morrison says the reason there was such a long

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Speaker 2: time between being handed the review and responding as a

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Speaker 2: government was because of COVID, But some critics claim that

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Speaker 2: it was the recent events in Parliament House that sparked

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Speaker 2: the urgency of the government responding to this. So yesterday

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister and the new Attorney General, her name

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Speaker 2: is Michaylia Cash, they came out and announced how the

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Speaker 2: government was responding to the findings of the report. They

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Speaker 2: announced that they had agreed whether it was in principle

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Speaker 2: or fully accepting all fifty five recommendations from Kate Jenkins's report,

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Speaker 2: and the Attorney General MACAULEEA. Cash also highlighted specific parts

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Speaker 2: of the review that the government were going to pursue

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Speaker 2: with legislation. So the government can't just turn around yesterday

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Speaker 2: and say we're changing this about the Human Rights Act,

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Speaker 2: We're changing this about the Sex Discrimination Act. And that's

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Speaker 2: that they need to go and introduce legislation to Parliament

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Speaker 2: that needs to pass both the Lower and the Upper House.

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Speaker 2: As we've spoken about previously, that's where minority governments come

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Speaker 2: into play, and that is how the changes that were

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Speaker 2: proposed yesterday can come in. But the government is talking

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Speaker 2: about changing some things to make it harder for sexual

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Speaker 2: harassment to continue in workplaces.

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Speaker 1: Can you give me an example of a concrete recommendation

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Speaker 1: that was passed down in the report?

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Speaker 2: So one of the recommendations it was. Recommendation number ten

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Speaker 2: was that all Australian governs must ensure children and young

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Speaker 2: people receive school based respectful relationship education that is age appropriate,

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Speaker 2: evidence based and addresses the drivers of gender based violence,

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Speaker 2: including sexual harassment. So some of the pieces of legislation

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Speaker 2: that the government want to introduce before the next sinning period,

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Speaker 2: which is in May, is to amend the definition of

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Speaker 2: a serious misconduct in the Fair Work Regulations to include

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Speaker 2: sexual harassment. They also want to clarify that sexual harassment

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Speaker 2: can be a ground or a valid reason for dismissal.

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Speaker 2: And they want to clarify the scope of the Sex

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Speaker 2: Discrimination Act so that it extends to judges and members

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Speaker 2: of Parliament.

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Speaker 1: They all sound like pretty substantive reforms. Do we expect

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Speaker 1: Labor to oppose anything?

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Speaker 2: It's unlikely that there would be strong opposition to these measures.

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Speaker 2: Labour came out yesterday saying that the government had taken

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Speaker 2: too long to act, so I can't imagine that they

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Speaker 2: would stand in opposition to any of these changes.

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Speaker 1: As this legislation moves through both houses, we will keep

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Speaker 1: you updated as to their progress. Thank you so much

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