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Speaker 1: Already and this is the daily This is the Daily.

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Speaker 1: Ohs oh, now it makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: the twentieth of August.

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Speaker 1: I'm Zara, I'm Billy.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever missed a work deadline? What happened when

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Speaker 2: you did? Well, that's what the New South Wales Liberal

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Speaker 2: Party is reckoning with at this very moment in time,

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Speaker 2: after it failed to file essential paperwork on time. What

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Speaker 2: does that mean? Well, at least one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: eight Liberal Party candidates won't run in the upcoming New

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Speaker 2: South Wales local council elections. In today's deep Dive, we're

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Speaker 2: going explain what exactly has happened and what the Liberals

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Speaker 2: think should happen next. But first, Billy the headlines.

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Speaker 1: The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in the

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Speaker 1: Middle East as part of renewed calls for a ceasefire

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Speaker 1: a polio outbreaking Gaza with mass vaccinations. The Palestinian Health

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Speaker 1: Ministry said it has confirmed one case of polio in

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Speaker 1: an unvaccinated ten month old baby. According to the UN,

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Speaker 1: the Gaza Strip had been polio free for twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: In battled construction union, the CFMEU will be forced into

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Speaker 2: administration for at least three years after the coalition agreed

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Speaker 2: to the government's amended legislation yesterday, follows reports by nine

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Speaker 2: newspapers that the CFMU had been infiltrated by alleged criminals

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Speaker 2: to appoint an administrator to take control of the union,

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Speaker 2: but was blocked by the Greens and Coalition last week.

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Speaker 2: The government has now agreed to some of the coalition's

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Speaker 2: officials indefinitely and a requirement that they provide half yearly

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Speaker 2: reports to Parliament.

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Speaker 1: A national report has found nearly a quarter of music

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Speaker 1: creators combined revenue is at risk of being lost to

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Speaker 1: generative AI by twenty twenty eight. Music Rights management organization

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Speaker 1: APRA amcost surveyed more than four thy two hundred of

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Speaker 1: half of respondents believe AI can assist the creative process,

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Speaker 1: sixty five percent said the risks outweigh the opportunities, and

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Speaker 1: an increase in cultural appropriation, according to the report's findings.

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Speaker 2: In Today's Good News, scientists from the Australian National University

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Speaker 2: to more effective and longer lasting treatments. Malaria parasites feed

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Speaker 2: trick malaria parasites into consuming too much of it. The

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Speaker 2: giving it a lethal drug dosage. This development pays the

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Speaker 2: way for future malaria treatments and could be used in

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Speaker 2: the agricultural industry to treat infected livestock. At least one

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty eight Liberal Party candidates won't run in

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Speaker 2: the upcoming New South Wales local council elections after certain

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Speaker 2: paperwork wasn't filed on time. Billy Now there's a bit

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Speaker 2: of contests as to who is responsible for this mishap

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Speaker 2: that basically means that one of two major parties isn't

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Speaker 1: This is such a funny story because as a journalist

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Speaker 2: I mean, I this is just an annoying tangent, but

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Speaker 1: So interesting. Also, New South Wales local council elections isn't

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Speaker 2: Well, I think where we need to start with this

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Speaker 1: It's the season for local election two for two of.

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Speaker 2: Me just wedging in political knowledge. But hey, so with

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Speaker 2: that's the body that oversees the election, sets a deadline

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Speaker 1: Okay, so there's this deadline of twelve pm Wednesday, fourteenth

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Speaker 1: what happened Someone missed it.

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Speaker 2: Someone missed it. A whole lot of people missed it actually,

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Speaker 2: So after that deadline passed last week, it became very

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Speaker 2: few local council elections. Those council areas that will have

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Speaker 2: and he's estimated that the Liberals will miss out on

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Speaker 1: That is wild. We have all made mistakes a work,

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Speaker 2: A big one.

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Speaker 1: So who is responsible for this?

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Speaker 1: So just to recap a man named Richard Shields. He

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Speaker 2: That's where we're at. And so last week the message

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Speaker 2: last week the Liberal Party said what occurred this week

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Speaker 2: is simply not good enough. Then promised to refund nomination

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the big boss, Richard Shields, has not resigned,

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Speaker 1: he's been fired, but he was out of the job.

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Speaker 1: What happened to the person he delegated to, Don Harwan.

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Speaker 2: At the time of recording, Don Harwan is still in

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Don't know how tenable that is long term though.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and then you said that there was an update

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Speaker 1: So what they're legating more exactly to take the blame exactly.

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Speaker 2: So now the New South Wales Liberal Party is saying

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Speaker 1: So that's quite an ultimatum, it is. What did the

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Speaker 1: which they've now done. Will we be seeing legal action?

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's the golden question. There was this ultimatum

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Speaker 2: it would follow that they will now sue. We haven't

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Speaker 2: that's what they're going to do. Yesterday in a press conference,

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Speaker 2: New South Wales Liberal leader Mark Speakman said that if

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Speaker 1: What has the commentary been like about this online?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's fair to say it hasn't

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Speaker 2: has been catastrophically handled. So I don't think it's a

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Speaker 2: and he suggested that it was now on the Labor

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Speaker 2: Premier Chris Mins to play a role to allow the

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Speaker 2: as candidates for the council elections. Don't be afraid of competition.

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Speaker 2: Our democracy is only good as the competition of ideas

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Speaker 2: it's almost bigger than just one party. We're now talking

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Speaker 1: So just to understand what this could look like if

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Speaker 2: It's exactly what we'll see, and it'll be especially interesting

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Speaker 2: this idea of just not filing paperwork has pretty widespread implications.

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Speaker 1: It's really interesting when you think about democracy like this

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Speaker 1: moral dilemma. Yeah, how do you deal with this? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Look, I tell you what, I wouldn't want to be

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Speaker 2: the one who's responsible. That is my parting note.

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