1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Ods. It's Tuesday, 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: the twenty third of March. My name is Zara Seidler, 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: and helping make sense of today's news is Sam Kaslawski. 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Making news today, Jared Haynes. 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: Found guilty, a travel bubble delay with New Zealand, some 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 2: good news about Tanzania, and a breakdown of the Britney 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: Higgins internal inquiry. Here's today's daily digest. 8 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: Okay so, a New South Wales jury has found former 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: NURL player Jared Hayne guilty of raping a woman on 10 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: the night of the twenty eighteen NRL Grand Final. The 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: jury found Haynes guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: without consent without an element of bodily harm, but not 13 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: guilty of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent that 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: recklessly inflicted actual bodily harm. It was the second time 15 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: the trial had been held. The first trial ended in 16 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: December twenty twenty with a hung jury. 17 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: New Zealand PM Jacinda Adern has said that she will 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 2: announce the formal arrangements for trans Tasmin bubble. On April 19 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: sixth Ardirn told reporters that her government was not ready 20 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 2: to confirm certainty on safety measures for Australian travelers, saying, quote, 21 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 2: our position has always been clear. Opening borders to our 22 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 2: nearest neighbor is a priority. The Australian government amended biosecurity 23 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: laws to permit residents to travel freely to New Zealand 24 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: on Monday. 25 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: Now, we haven't spoken about him in a while, but 26 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: a senior aide to former President Donald Trump has said 27 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: that Trump will be quote returning to social media in 28 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: probably about two or three months on his own platform, 29 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: adding is going to completely redefine the game. This comes 30 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: after Trump was permanently suspended from multiple social media platforms, 31 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: including Twitter, after the insurrection at Capitol Hill on January sixth. 32 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: And today's good news, Samya Suhulu Hassan has become Tanzania's 33 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 2: first female leader following the death of President John Magafully, 34 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 2: which he reported on last week. Hassan said this is 35 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: not a time for finger pointing, but it's a time 36 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 2: to hold hands and move forward together, adding this is 37 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 2: a time to bury our differences and stand united as 38 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: a country. 39 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: Okay, so today's big story is a bit of a 40 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,679 Speaker 1: complex one, but we've gone through the context on our Instagram, 41 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: So if you need to do a bit of a 42 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: refresher there, pause this, go there and then come back. 43 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: But the people you'll need to know about for this 44 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 1: story is Phil Gatchins, who's the secretary of the Department 45 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: of Prime Minister in Cabinet, and Britney Higgins, a former 46 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: Liberal staffer who has accused a colleague of rape in 47 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: the office of her former boss, Defense Minister Linda Reynolds. 48 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: So a quick recap. When Brittney Higgins first came out 49 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: with her allegations last month, which was basically the beginning 50 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: of all this talk about sexual harassment and sexual assault, 51 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: there was a lot of discussion about who knew in 52 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: the Prime Minister's office and when they found out. Scott 53 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: Morrison said his office didn't know about the claims until 54 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: February twelfth this year, which was about the time that 55 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: the media went public with this story, but Britney Higgins 56 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 1: claims four people in his office knew around the time 57 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: of the incident, which was in twenty nineteen. Because of 58 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: these discrepancies, Scott Morrison asked his Department secretary, Phil Gachens, 59 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: to investigate how his office had handled the claims and. 60 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: Why are we talking about this story today? 61 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: So we are talking about this story today because of 62 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: what happened in Senate Estimates yesterday. And again, if you 63 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: need a refresh on what Senate Estimates is, please go 64 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: check out our Instagram. But we found out yesterday that 65 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: the inquiry into Scott Morrison's office had been paused weeks ago, 66 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: on March ninth, to be exact, and yet the Prime 67 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: Minister last week had been standing in Parliament talking about 68 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: the inquiry as if it was still going on. We 69 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: know that his office found out that it had been 70 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: paused because there was a fear that the review would 71 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: quote hamper with police investigations. This is what happened in 72 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: Senate Estimates when Phil Gachens said that the inquiry had 73 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: been paused in the best interests of Britney Higgins. 74 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 2: This is for the benefit of miss Higgins. 75 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, well she doesn't feel that way, Senator Hanson, Young, 76 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: Senator galahs, she that is not her view that everyone 77 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: sitting on that side of the table is here for 78 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: her interests. Yeah, don't please, please don't use her Do 79 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: not use her interests as a shield. 80 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 2: So this is different to the police investigation right. 81 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: Absolutely, So this investigation was just to look at who 82 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: knew what in the Prime Minister's office and when they 83 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 1: knew it, whereas the police investigation, on the other hand, 84 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: was looking into the actual allegations of rape that allegedly 85 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: occurred in twenty nineteen. But the thing about this is 86 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: that it feels as if we would have never found 87 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: out that the inquiry had been paused unless there had 88 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: been a question in Senate estimates. 89 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 2: Why does it matter to the bigger picture what the 90 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 2: prime Minister's office did or did not know. 91 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: It's important to understand what the Prime Minister's office knew 92 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: because there's an alleged rape that happened in Parliament House, 93 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: and from what we've been told, the Prime Minister didn't 94 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,919 Speaker 1: know about it until nearly a year later. So it 95 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: was really important for both Britney Higgins and the broader 96 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,559 Speaker 1: population to understand why that had happened and what needed 97 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: to be put in place so that next time, if 98 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: a horrific act like this were to happen again, the 99 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: right measures would be in place. 100 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 2: So now we're in a position where we know that 101 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 2: this investigation internally is paused and the police investigation is continuing, 102 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 2: where do we go from here? 103 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: Well, politically, it feels like there's going to be quite 104 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: a bit of heat on the Prime Minister about this 105 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: and about why the public wasn't alerted to the fact 106 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: that a major investigation had been paused. Legally, the investigation 107 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: led by the AFP into Brittany Higgins's allegations will continue, 108 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: so there will still be criminal investigations into those allegations 109 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: regardless of what happens with this internal inquiry. 110 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: What really struck me from the Senate Estimates hearing was 111 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 2: that bil Gachens also confirmed that while his inquiry was ongoing, 112 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 2: he didn't actually speak to Brittany Higgins as he wanted 113 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 2: to quote respect her privacy. 114 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: And on that note, we will leave you there, but 115 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: if you want to follow the day's news on Instagram, 116 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: please find us at the Daily OS. 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