1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Odds. It's Wednesday, 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: the third of March. My name is Sam Kozlowski and 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Zara Sideline. 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: Making news today, New South Wales police close red. 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: Case order, news from WA. 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: Some good news about electronics, and. 7 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 2: A chat about mental health and Victoria. 8 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: Here's today's daily digest. 9 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 2: The New South Wales Police Force announced yesterday that they 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: won't be proceeding with an investigation into a historic rape 11 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 2: allegation against a sitting cabinet minister in the federal government. 12 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 2: A spokesperson from the police force said that there was 13 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: insufficient admissible evidence to proceed following the woman's death in 14 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: twenty twenty, a. 15 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: Press conference in Western Australia has taken an interesting turn 16 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: when Premier Mark McGowan suggested he's considering extending the policing 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: of WA's hard border after the end of the COVID 18 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic in order to stop methamphetamines from entering the state. 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: He cited WA's reduction in metham fheedamine importation during the 20 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: pandemic as a key reason for his comments. 21 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: Now to overseas News, a public health England real world 22 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 2: study has found that since January, the astrozenicar and fires 23 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 2: of vaccines have their twenty eighty percent reduction in hospitalizations 24 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 2: of over eighties. Over twenty million people in the UK 25 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: have had their first round of a COVID nineteen vaccine. 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: And today's good news. Are you ever frustrated that you 27 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: can't repair an electrical device that's only a few years old. Well, 28 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: in the EU they've passed a new law acquiring companies 29 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: that sell electronics such as TVs or fridges to repair 30 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: them for up to ten years after they're sold. The 31 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: right to repair comes into force today and it means 32 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: that devices can't be glued together, a repair manual must 33 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: come with the product, and spare parts must be well 34 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: stocked so that people can access a repair. 35 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 2: And now to the big story of today and one 36 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 2: that is very close to my heart. The Royal Commission 37 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 2: into Mental Health and Victoria was released yesterday And for 38 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 2: anyone that isn't aware, a Royal Commission is an investigation 39 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 2: that's independent of the government. This was a really substantial inquiry. 40 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 2: It was led over two years and it included over 41 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 2: three thousand submissions, mostly from people who had lived with 42 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,399 Speaker 2: mental health issues in Victoria. One in two people will 43 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 2: need support with their mental health in their life, so 44 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 2: this matters to a lot of Victorians. 45 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: One of the key statistics I found particularly troubling in 46 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: the report was that emergency department admissions relating to mental 47 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: health were up one hundred and twenty eight percent in 48 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen compared to two thousand and nine Zara. What 49 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: were the key takeaways of this report? 50 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: There were a lot of takeaways and there were sixty 51 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 2: five recommendations that really spanned the whole depth of the 52 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 2: mental health system in Victoria. But one thing that Premier 53 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 2: Dan Andrews outlined was the general theme which was to 54 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 2: go local early, not hospital late, which means that the 55 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 2: Victorian mental health system was two crisis driven and that 56 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 2: it didn't support those living day to day with ill 57 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 2: mental health. So the government has now vowed to implement 58 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: every single one of those sixty five recommendations that the 59 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 2: Royal Commission put forward yesterday. 60 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: And so what were some specific recommendations from the report. 61 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 2: So one of the recommendations was to create a new 62 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 2: Mental Health and Well Being Commissioned and that this would 63 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 2: function to hold the government to account. The recommendation was 64 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 2: that this should be led by commissioners, including one commissioner 65 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,959 Speaker 2: who has lived mental illness experience, and that's really substantial 66 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 2: to have someone who has actually experienced the system lead 67 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: this response. Another one of the recommendations was for triple 68 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 2: zero calls regarding mental health crises to be directed to 69 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 2: ambulance officers instead of police. And we've seen this trial 70 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,839 Speaker 2: elsewhere in the world, so it's really really significant. 71 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: I remember we covered a story from Denver where they 72 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: had a similar model and the results there were outstanding. 73 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 2: There are certainly some evidence that this is working elsewhere, 74 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 2: so it'll be really interesting to see how this plays 75 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 2: out in Victoria. 76 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: Now. 77 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 2: Another recommendation that might be interesting for our listeners is 78 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 2: that the Royal Commission suggested that there should also be 79 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 2: thirteen services specific to young people who can access those 80 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 2: services up until their twenty sixth birthday. 81 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: Part of our mission at the Dallyios is to really 82 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: listen to young people's issues and government responses to them, 83 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: so that's particularly interesting for us. So I noticed in 84 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: the press conference with Premier Andrews yesterday that he kept 85 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: referring to the system as being overwhelmed is he referring 86 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: there to the toll that COVID nineteen had on the 87 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: mental health system. 88 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 2: Well, this Royal Commission actually pre dates COVID nineteen, but 89 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 2: it certainly highlighted a lot of the failures that already 90 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 2: exist within the Victorian mental health system. So more than anything, 91 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 2: the severe bush fire season and the COVID nineteen pandemic 92 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 2: amplified the pressures on the mental health system in Victoria. 93 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: And if you need to reach out, there's always someone 94 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: ready to listen. Lifeline is one three one one one 95 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: four and Beyond Blue is one three hundred two two 96 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: four six three six. And that's all we have time 97 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: for today. But in the meantime, follow the day's news 98 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: on Instagram at the dlios. 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