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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It is Friday,

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Speaker 1: the fifteenth of July. Happy Friday. You made it to

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Speaker 1: another end of the week. I hope you've had a

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Speaker 1: fantastic week. I'm here with Billy Fitzimon's editor of the

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Speaker 1: Daily ODS, to take you through the news. We're going

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Speaker 1: to be talking about the big disease making headlines from

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Speaker 1: Bali to Sydney and everywhere in between. But before we

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Speaker 1: do that, let's hear about our unemployment rate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So, Australia's unemployment rate for June fell to three point

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Speaker 3: five percent from three point nine percent in May. This

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Speaker 3: means unemployment is the lowest it has been since nineteen

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Speaker 3: seventy four, with nearly ninety thousand jobs added in June. Underemployment,

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Speaker 3: which is a measure of workers who are not fully

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Speaker 3: employed and want to work more hours, increase from five

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Speaker 3: point seven percent to six point one percent.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Anthony Alberanezi and Solomon Islands PM Manisseer Sogobare have

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Speaker 1: agreed that there will be no Chinese military base built

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Speaker 1: in the Pacific nation and Australia remains the quote partner

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Speaker 1: of choice and would call on them first if under

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Speaker 1: threat Sogovare also told Albanezi that if there was a

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Speaker 1: gap in Australia's support, he would quote call on support

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Speaker 1: from China.

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Speaker 3: A lawsuit against Uber has been launched by five hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty women in the US who are alleged to

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Speaker 3: have been assaulted by drivers. The lawsuit claims Uber knew

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Speaker 3: about the sexual misconduct by some of the drivers since

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Speaker 3: twenty fourteen. Two weeks ago, Uber released its second safety report,

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Speaker 3: which showed a decrease in reported sexual assaults between twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty and twenty and eighteen.

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Speaker 1: And Your Friday good News. The Sydney Opera House Concert

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Speaker 1: Hall has been reopened after lengthy renovations. It was about

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Speaker 1: two and a half years with better acoustics, improved accessibility

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Speaker 1: and a new flying system for aerial performers ready for performances.

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Speaker 1: The upgrade cost one hundred and fifty million bucks, with

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Speaker 1: the first performance to be held next Wednesday. Billy, there

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Speaker 1: are quite a lot of Australians currently in Indonesia gathering

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Speaker 1: for the annual pilgrimage in Bali, but they're coming back

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Speaker 1: with another concern they don't usually have, and it involves

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Speaker 1: feet and mouths. We're talking here about the foot of

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Speaker 1: mouth disease. Are we talking about the human disease here?

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Speaker 3: No, So that's called hand foot of mouth disease, and

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Speaker 3: that's completely different to what we're talking about today. So

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Speaker 3: we're talking today about foot and mouth disease, which isn't

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Speaker 3: really something that is a health risk to humans. It's

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Speaker 3: extremely rare for this one to spread from animals to humans,

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Speaker 3: so this primarily impacts animals.

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Speaker 1: Talk me through the actual disease itself.

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Speaker 3: So foot and mouth disease is a really contagious virus disease,

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Speaker 3: and the government says it's actually one of the most

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Speaker 3: serious of the livestock diseases, and so it affects cattle, sheep, goats, pigs,

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Speaker 3: and other cloven hoofed animals and it can be a

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Speaker 3: really serious illness for the animals. It can kill particularly

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Speaker 3: young animals, and can cause serious production losses. And as

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Speaker 3: I said, it's super contagious. It spreads mainly through infected animals,

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Speaker 3: but also just by the wind, and it can also

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Speaker 3: spread by MUDs sticking to footwear, clothing, or things of

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Speaker 3: that nature, which is why it's such a big concern

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Speaker 3: for travelers who are coming back to Australia from Indonesia.

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Speaker 3: But the primary reason really that we're talking about it

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Speaker 3: today is because of the really serious consequence this disease

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Speaker 3: could have if it does enter Australia and the really

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Speaker 3: significant impact it would have on the agriculture industry.

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Speaker 1: And is this the type of thing that is always

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Speaker 1: a live risk that Australians have to negotiate when they're

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Speaker 1: coming back from Indonesia or is there something that's happening

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Speaker 1: now that makes it more of a concern.

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Speaker 3: Well, the first thing to note is that foot and

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Speaker 3: mouth disease hasn't been detected in Australia for one hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty years, so the last time it was possibly

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Speaker 3: detected here they say that there could have been a

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Speaker 3: possible outbreak at around eighteen seventy two. So you can

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Speaker 3: imagine the huge shock that it would be if it

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Speaker 3: did come to Australia. But in terms of why we're

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Speaker 3: talking about it right now, so foot and mouth disease

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Speaker 3: was detected in Indonesia in May, and before then, Indonesia

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Speaker 3: had been free of foot of mouth disease since nineteen

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Speaker 3: were aware of the situation, that it had been detected

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Speaker 3: in Indonesia, and they said that the risk to Australia

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Speaker 3: was low. And then about ten days ago it was

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Speaker 3: confirmed that foot and mouth disease was now in Bali,

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Speaker 3: which of course is part of Indonesia, but is one

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Speaker 3: of the big tourist destinations as we all know for Australians.

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Speaker 3: And since then there's been a lot of news and

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Speaker 3: talk about what this could mean for Australia. The government

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Speaker 3: said that this quite significantly increased the risk to Australia

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Speaker 3: and that's because of the, as I said, large number

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Speaker 3: of travelers between Bali and Australia.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's say that this disease does enter Australia.

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Speaker 1: We know that there's lots of people coming to and

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Speaker 1: from Bali all the time. Let's imagine a world that

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Speaker 1: it's here. What would Australia look like.

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Speaker 3: Well, as I said, it would cause serious production losses

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Speaker 3: for a lot of farmers, and essentially an outbreak of

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Speaker 3: foot of mouth disease among Australian livestock would have really

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Speaker 3: significant economic implications. So the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and

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Speaker 3: Resource Economics and Science, which is a government body, said

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Speaker 3: that their modeling suggests it could wipe up to eighty

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Speaker 3: billion dollars from the Australian economy. And one of the

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Speaker 3: big reasons for this is because many countries would stop

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Speaker 3: prove that we had completely eradicated foot of mouth disease.

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Speaker 1: And eighty billion dollars is a serious impact on the

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Speaker 1: bottom line. So it's clearly a concern to the government.

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Speaker 1: What are they doing to prevent it from entering the country.

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Speaker 3: Well, basically, they've just really up to the security that

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Speaker 3: you'll come across if you're coming back to Australia from Indonesia.

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Speaker 3: They said that they've put in place strict biosecurity protocols

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Speaker 3: in place for all travelers and high risk materials as

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Speaker 3: well coming to Australia from Indonesia. Here's a quick clip

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Speaker 3: of the Agriculture Minister Murray Wat's speaking about what the

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Speaker 3: government is doing and the preventions they're putting in place

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Speaker 3: in relation to.

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Speaker 2: Foot and mouth disease. We all saw that outbreak reach Bali,

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Speaker 2: which certainly did escalate the risk of foot and mouth

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Speaker 2: disease being brought to our country. Given the large number

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Speaker 2: of travelers between Bali and Australia, our government instituted tough

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Speaker 2: new measures at the borders. Public information campaigns has been

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Speaker 2: part of our response. Airport signage flyers which will be

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Speaker 2: distributed to travelers, increased social media campaigns. Every single flight

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Speaker 2: coming in from Indonesia will be boarded by biosecurity officers

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Speaker 2: and a specific message will be played to passengers about

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Speaker 2: the threat of foot and mouth disease and what they

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Speaker 2: can do to stop it. We have increased the number

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Speaker 2: of passengers who are being screened, we have increased the

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Speaker 2: luggage that's being screened. We've increased parcels that are being screened.

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Speaker 2: So we have really ramped up the measures that we've

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Speaker 3: And then yesterday there was also some news about whether

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Speaker 3: or not Australia would actually close its borders to Indonna.

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Speaker 3: We thought that we will pass that after COVID, but

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Speaker 3: apparently not after there were some calls from the opposition

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Speaker 3: to do so. But Murray Watt said that the government

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Speaker 3: had no plans to do that. He said he's received

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Speaker 3: no advice from biosecurity experts that a travel ban like

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Speaker 3: that is necessary at the moment. But the opposition has

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Speaker 3: also called for some more measures. For example, the Shadow

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Speaker 3: Agriculture Minister David littlproud has called on the government to

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Speaker 3: introduce disinfectant foot bars at airports for people traveling from Indonesia.

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Speaker 3: And that's because of what I said before about the

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Speaker 3: disease being able to spread just through footwear and things

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Speaker 3: like that.

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Speaker 1: So it's not unreasonable that we could imagine a world

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Speaker 1: where you're coming back and flying into Melbourne Airport or

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Speaker 1: Brisbane Airport and having to quickly bathe off your shoes

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Speaker 1: if you've come from Indonesia. Quite an interesting vision to

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Speaker 1: think about with an airport. What's the advice for people

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Speaker 1: returning to Australia right now from Indonesia.

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Speaker 3: Well, Smart Traveler, which is a government body, they say

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Speaker 3: it's really important to thoroughly clean any equipment, to those

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Speaker 3: of all meat and dairy products, to declare to authorities

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Speaker 3: if you have visited any rural areas whilst you've been

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Speaker 3: in Indonesia, and hand over any items that present possible risk.

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Speaker 3: But as you would have heard in the clip before

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Speaker 3: when Murray what was speaking. They've really ramped up a

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Speaker 3: public health campaign to make sure that people are aware

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Speaker 3: of what's happening and what they should do to prevent this.

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Speaker 3: Rural Doctors' Association of Australia has also asked travelers to

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Speaker 3: throw their thongs away and to stay off farms until

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Speaker 3: all your clothes have been washed and shoes disinfected. So

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Speaker 3: it's certainly something that the government is being proactive about

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Speaker 3: trying to prevent some people saying they're doing too little.

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Speaker 3: We'll see what happens over the next few months and

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Speaker 3: potentially years as well. It clearly could be a really

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Speaker 3: big threat to Australian agriculture.

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Speaker 1: Plenty of news to keep your eye on their billy.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've got your work cut out for you

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Speaker 1: in monitoring the uncharted territory as neither of us we

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Speaker 1: are around in eighteen seventy. But that's okay. I have

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Speaker 1: no doubt that we'll be able to tackle it, as

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Speaker 1: we will be able to tackle all the news that

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Speaker 1: comes over the weekend. We're going to do that over

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Speaker 1: on the Daily Ozza's Instagram. It's where now over three

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty thousand Australians get their news throughout the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Until then, we will be back on Monday morning. Have

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Speaker 1: a happy, safe and virus free weekend.