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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily os. It's Tuesday,

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

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

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Speaker 1: Making news today Christian Porter's defamation.

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Speaker 2: Claim, women's marches around the country.

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Speaker 1: Some good news about a.

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Speaker 2: Cellist, and Britney Higgins's powerful speech Today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: Just hours before women marched across the country, we saw

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Speaker 1: our Attorney General, Christian Porter, announce formal legal proceedings against

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Speaker 1: the ABC and Four Corners journal Louise Milligan. Porter's legal

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Speaker 1: team published a statement claiming the allegations of rape against

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Speaker 1: Porter had damaged the reputation of the Attorney General and

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Speaker 1: that the Attorney General had been subjected to trial by

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Speaker 1: media without regard for the presumption of innocence.

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Speaker 2: Tens of thousands of people have gathered in cities across

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Speaker 2: Australia to protest the treatment of women and the federal

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Speaker 2: government's response to allegations of sexual assault. Zara and I

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Speaker 2: were at the march in Sydney and there were some

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Speaker 2: significant numbers in Canberra. Former Liberal staffer and alleged rape

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Speaker 2: victim Britney Higgins delivered a speech calling for leaders on

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Speaker 2: both sides of politics to stop avoiding the public and

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Speaker 2: sidestepping accountability.

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Speaker 1: Over to State News, and Premier Dan Andrews has been

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Speaker 1: released from hospital and will now take six weeks of

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Speaker 1: medical leave. During this time, Deputy Premier James Millino will

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Speaker 1: act in Andrews's position to understood, discussions are currently underway

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Speaker 1: as to whether Millino will represent Victoria at the next

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Speaker 1: National Cabinet meeting on April ninth. In a statement, Andrews

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Speaker 1: said that he narrowly avoided permanent damage to his spinal cord.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news. Now there's a video that comes

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Speaker 2: with this one. Head to our instagram for the story,

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Speaker 2: where you can swipe up to watch it. But renowned

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Speaker 2: cellist and eighteen time Grammy winner yo Yo Ma has

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Speaker 2: celebrated receiving his second COVID nineteen vaccine by performing an

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Speaker 2: impromptuy concert at a vaccine site in the US. He

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Speaker 2: performed renditions of pieces by Bach and Schubert.

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Speaker 1: For Today's Big Story, we thought we'd do it a

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Speaker 1: little differently while Sam and I could sit here and

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Speaker 1: discuss how wonderfully powerful Britney Higgins's speech was in camera yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We thought it best to just provide you a snippet

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Speaker 1: of Britney's speech firsthand, so that you can hear for

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Speaker 1: yourself what the former liberal staffer an alleged rape victim,

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Speaker 1: had to say. Here's Britney Higgins.

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Speaker 3: I decided to resign and share my story because it

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Speaker 3: was the only thing I felt I could do to

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Speaker 3: say that I didn't co sign this behavior, that I

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Speaker 3: don't believe what happened was right, that I don't believe

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Speaker 3: a brochure is adequate support, that I don't believe people

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Speaker 3: should be isolated, intimidated, and ignored after try romatic incidents

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Speaker 3: inside the workplace. I came forward with my story to

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Speaker 3: hopefully protect other women. No one by staying silent, I

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Speaker 3: felt like it would have made me complicit, and if

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Speaker 3: something of this nature had ever happened here Gone again,

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Speaker 3: my ongoing silence would have inadvertently said to those people

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Speaker 3: in charge that you can treat people in this way

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Speaker 3: and it's okay. I want to be clear, it's not. So.

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Speaker 3: I have spoken out with what little I have to

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Speaker 3: say that this isn't okay and they need to do better.

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Speaker 3: We all need to do better. I encourage each and

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Speaker 3: every one of you to set boundaries for yourself and

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Speaker 3: be ruthless in your defense of them. Speak up, share

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Speaker 3: your truth and know that you have a generation of

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Speaker 3: women ready, willing and able to support you. Take ownership

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Speaker 3: of your story and free yourself from the stigma of shame. Together,

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Speaker 3: we can bring about real, meaningful reform to the workplace

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Speaker 3: culture inside Parliament House and hopefully every workplace to ensure

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Speaker 3: the next generation of women can benefit from a safer

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Speaker 3: and more equitable Australia.

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