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Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the twelfth of May. My name is Sam Kazlowski, and

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Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Zara Sideline.

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Speaker 1: Making news today, Victoria records a new COVID nineteen case,

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Speaker 1: a gruesome discovery in India, some good news about COVID

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Speaker 1: vaccines for young people in the US, and a.

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Speaker 2: Chat to our journo following yesterday's budget lock up.

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Speaker 3: Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: Victoria has recorded one new COVID nineteen case after a

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Speaker 1: man who completed hotel quarantine in South Australia returned a

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Speaker 1: positive COVID nineteen test result yesterday. The man flew back

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Speaker 1: from Melbourne last Tuesday, developed symptoms on Saturday and tested

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Speaker 1: positive on Monday. The Victorian government has not announced any

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Speaker 1: further restrictions, but published a list of initial exposure sites.

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Speaker 3: This is quite a horrific story.

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Speaker 2: The bodies of more than thirty people have been pulled

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Speaker 2: from the banks of the Ganges River in northern India.

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Speaker 2: It's unclear how the bodies came to be there, but

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Speaker 2: a local Officials Set Authorities quote cannot confirm whether the

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Speaker 2: deceased or indeed COVID nineteen positive. District officials have released

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Speaker 2: the statement, saying the condition of the bodies suggest they

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Speaker 2: had been in the water for three to four days.

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Speaker 1: A thirteen year old boy has died while sleeping in

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Speaker 1: an industrial bin that was emptied near a McDonald's restaurant

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Speaker 1: in South Australia. Three boys were asleep in the industrial bin,

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Speaker 1: one who managed to escape, another was not injured. However,

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Speaker 1: the other thirteen year old suffered fatal injuries. Superintendent Paul

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Speaker 1: Barr told reporters quote, Port Lincoln has an issue with

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Speaker 1: homelessness like every community, and from time to time we

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Speaker 1: do get rough sleepers, but we are not aware of

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Speaker 1: children sleeping rough.

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Speaker 2: And to today's good news, the Food and Drug Administration

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Speaker 2: has expanded access to the Pfizer BioNTech COVID nineteen vaccine

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Speaker 2: to children twelve to fifteen years old ahead of.

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Speaker 3: The next school year.

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Speaker 2: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the CDC will

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Speaker 2: meet this week to recommend how the vaccine should be

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Speaker 2: used in that age group. Administration of the vaccine can

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Speaker 2: commence once the CDC Director signs off on the recommendation.

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Speaker 1: So the big story that we of course haven't mentioned

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Speaker 1: so far is the federal budget, and that was handed

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Speaker 1: down last night at seven point thirty in the House

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Speaker 1: of Representatives by Federal Treasurer Josh Freedenberg.

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Speaker 2: The Daily OS was actually in budget lockup, which is

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Speaker 2: when the media gets locked in a room with the

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Speaker 2: budget paper so that they can analyze what is actually.

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Speaker 3: Included in the budget.

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Speaker 2: So we had Max, one of our reporters in Canberra,

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Speaker 2: in Parliament House for seven hours with those budget papers,

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Speaker 2: and we thought today we would ask him a bit

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Speaker 2: about what he read.

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Speaker 4: So Max, what was.

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Speaker 3: The standout announcement from the budget?

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Speaker 4: The biggest stout at was mental health. Probably there's over

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Speaker 4: two billion dollars in funding that the Federal governor has committed.

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Speaker 4: A large chunk of that, about five hundred million dollars

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Speaker 4: is being spent on forty adult mental health centers. There's

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Speaker 4: also three hundred million dollars in additional funding for headspace,

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Speaker 4: so it's a huge spend. On top of that though,

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Speaker 4: there's also this fairly new emphasis on suicide prevention. They've

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Speaker 4: got a new National Suicide Prevention Office that they're setting

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Speaker 4: up and a new scheme hoping to support people who

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Speaker 4: have been discharged from hospital following a suicide attempt. It's

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Speaker 4: a really big set of programs that they've put towards

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Speaker 4: mental health in this budget.

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Speaker 1: And what did this year's budget deliver for young people

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Speaker 1: in Australia.

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Speaker 4: It really depends on what type of young person you are.

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Speaker 4: I guess there's really nothing in there for university students,

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Speaker 4: no extra university funding, which some might think is a

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Speaker 4: surprise given how much universities have suffered during the pandemic.

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Speaker 4: But if you're a young person looking to just start

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Speaker 4: out a new trade, there's over three billion dollars worth

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Speaker 4: of programs for you in there. So there's new training

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Speaker 4: programs available, new funding that helps subsize apprenticeships and trainees ships.

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Speaker 4: So there's a lot of stuff in there if that's

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Speaker 4: where you're up to at that stage of your life.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's turn to the environment. Give us a quick

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Speaker 1: rundown on what environmental initiatives we're given a boost in

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Speaker 1: the budget this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we've known for a while now that the

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Speaker 4: federal government prioritizes producing lower emissions technologies rather than creating

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Speaker 4: more renewable energy sources. So that's seen really start with

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Speaker 4: in misbudget the government set aside one point two billion

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Speaker 4: dollars over the next ten years to try and encourage

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Speaker 4: private companies to create things like carbon capture technology and

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Speaker 4: regional hydrogen hubs. And there's in comparison to that one

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Speaker 4: point two billion dollars almost literally nothing for renewable energy.

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Speaker 4: There's a thirty million dollar battery being built in the

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Speaker 4: Northern Territory, but other than that, there's no solar panels

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Speaker 4: or wind turbines or anything like that. As well as that,

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Speaker 4: there's a new one point two billion dollar package that's

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Speaker 4: going to change how we respond to natural disasters, so

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Speaker 4: a new national agency that's going to handle them all

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Speaker 4: and a few more grunts to try and help communities

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Speaker 4: prepare for natural disasters before they happen.

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Speaker 1: And finally, how was it? How was it in budget lockup?

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Speaker 1: How was the day? Are you bored of numbers yet?

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Speaker 4: I know this is going out tomorrow morning, but for

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Speaker 4: a bit of context, I'm sitting in a corner room

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Speaker 4: at one end of the press gallery. It's nine to

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Speaker 4: fifteen pm and I've just spent all day a Parliament

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Speaker 4: in the budget lock up. The budget lockup is just

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Speaker 4: this six hour window where journalists get to look at

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Speaker 4: all the budget papers before they get released publicly, and

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Speaker 4: so I just spent six hours in the room with

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Speaker 4: other journalists with no phone and no internet connection, just

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Speaker 4: pouring over the numbers and trying to make sense of

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Speaker 4: it all. It's all it's all good fun. Everyone's just

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Speaker 4: trying to figure it out themselves, and the budget officials

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Speaker 4: actually provide you with a lot of help as well.

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Speaker 4: They weren't there in person this year, but you could

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Speaker 4: have a little web chat with them during the lock

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Speaker 4: up to ask any questions you have about any of

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Speaker 4: the detail and the documents. And just seeing the budget

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Speaker 4: papers up close and pouring through them, you get a

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Speaker 4: real sense of the amount of work that goes into

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Speaker 4: all these massive programs and it was great fun just

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Speaker 4: to see that up close and personal.

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Speaker 1: It was really great to have a member of the

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Speaker 1: Daly ODS team right there in Canberra getting the information

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Speaker 1: that you need, and we were particularly proud to be

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Speaker 1: representing young Australians in Cambria yesterday. That's all we've got

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Speaker 1: time for on today's edition of The Daily ODS, but

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