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Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Daily OS. It is Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the thirteenth of January. My name is Sam Kazloski. Joining

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Speaker 1: me today is the co founder of the Daily Os,

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Speaker 1: Zara Seidler. To take us through the news, and then

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk all things filibuster, a uniquely American

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Speaker 1: concept to right Sarah.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, sure is. But first we will discuss tennis

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Speaker 2: as we have every other day this week. Novak Djokovic

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Speaker 2: has admitted he attended a media interview while knowingly infected

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Speaker 2: with COVID nineteen back in December. In a lengthy statement

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Speaker 2: on Instagram, Djokovic said this was an error of judgment

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Speaker 2: and I accept that I should have rescheduled this commitment.

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Speaker 2: It comes as Immigration Minister Alex Hawk is yet to

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Speaker 2: make a decision on whether or not to use his

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Speaker 2: ministerial discretion to recancel Dokovic's visa.

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Speaker 1: The New South Wales government has announced it is now

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Speaker 1: mandatory for residents to register a positive rapid antigen result

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Speaker 1: via the Service New South Wales app. Premier Dominique Perrete

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Speaker 1: said failure to do so would result in a one

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Speaker 1: thousand dollar fine, with enforcement to come into affair from

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Speaker 1: the nineteenth of January. Yesterday afternoon, Consumer Services Minister Victor

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Speaker 1: Dominello told to GB that nearly fifty four thousand people

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Speaker 1: had already uploaded their positive rapid test via the app.

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Speaker 1: We'll see the numbers later this morning to see how

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Speaker 1: large that influx of rapid tests is.

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Speaker 2: Queensland's Chief Health Officer, John Gerrard has said unvaccinated people

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Speaker 2: are nine times more likely to end up in hospital

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Speaker 2: with COVID nineteen compared to people who have had their

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Speaker 2: booster shot. Queensland currently has five hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 2: people with COVID nineteen in hospital, with thirty of those

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Speaker 2: people in ICU and.

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Speaker 1: Today's Good News. Book sales in the UK in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one were the highest in a decade, were two

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Speaker 1: hundred and twelve million print books sold. The big genres

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Speaker 1: that did really well were crime, science fiction, fantasy, romance

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Speaker 1: and personal development. They all saw an increased popularity.

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Speaker 2: Sam it feels like we have it's been very Australia

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Speaker 2: focused as of late, and that's because there's been a

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Speaker 2: whole lot of news out of this small country. But

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Speaker 2: today we're heading over to the US and we're talking

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Speaker 2: about a concept called a filibuster. You might have heard

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Speaker 2: it before. It's often represented in you know, political dramas

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Speaker 2: and the like. But we're talking about it today because

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Speaker 2: there could be a major change on the horizon.

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Speaker 1: Before we continue, it's worth having a look at what

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Speaker 1: exactly a filibuster is because it's a uniquely American idea.

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Speaker 1: We don't really have anything like it in Australia. So

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Speaker 1: the filibuster is a rule, and it's specific to the

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Speaker 1: US Senate, and it allows senators to debate a bill

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Speaker 1: on the Senate floor for an extended period of time.

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Speaker 2: And when you say for an extended period of time,

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Speaker 2: that's not entirely capturing how long these things can go

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Speaker 2: on for. At times, we've seen filibusters extend for over

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours, and that's because they're used strategically by

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Speaker 2: senators to delay the progression of a bill. So think

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Speaker 2: of it like procrastinating. If you sit down to a

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Speaker 2: project and then get asked to do fifty other things.

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Speaker 2: By the time you get back to actually doing that project,

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Speaker 2: you're in a very different stage to where you were

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Speaker 2: at the beginning. That's what the filibuster is. It's a speech,

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Speaker 2: or it's a debate to procrastinate a legislation moving forward,

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Speaker 2: and the.

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Speaker 1: Overall aim here is to sideline the bill.

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Speaker 2: So that's basically going back to the procrastination analogy, to

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Speaker 2: procrastinate long enough that a bill takes forever to pass

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Speaker 2: or inevitably just doesn't pass at all. That's why it's

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Speaker 2: in the news this week. It's because Joe Biden is

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Speaker 2: looking at how the Democrats could change the Senate rules

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Speaker 2: to change how we understand and know the filibuster. We've

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Speaker 2: spoken you through what a filibuster is, but what it

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Speaker 2: sounds like is something entirely different. Here is a famous

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Speaker 2: snippet for you. It is Bernie Sanders in twenty ten,

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Speaker 2: in a filibuster that went on for eight hours.

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Speaker 3: In my view, the agreement that they reached is a

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Speaker 3: bad deal for the American people. I think we can

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Speaker 3: do better, and I am here today to take a

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Speaker 3: strong stand against this bill. And I intend to tell

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Speaker 3: my colleagues and the nation exactly why I am in

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Speaker 3: opposition to this bill. And you can call what I'm

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Speaker 3: doing today whatever you want. You can call it a filibuster,

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Speaker 3: you can call it a very long speech. I'm not

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Speaker 3: here to set any great records or to make a spectacle.

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Speaker 3: I am simply here today to take as long as

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Speaker 3: I can to explain to the American people the fact

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Speaker 3: that we have got to do a lot better.

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Speaker 1: So this tool used by US senators is in the

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Speaker 1: news this week, Zara, Why is Joe Biden so insistent

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Speaker 1: on pushing this through?

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Speaker 2: Any bill that goes through the Senate requires sixty votes

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Speaker 2: to either avoid the possibility of this filibuster or to

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Speaker 2: endbate once a filibuster has started. So currently the Democrat

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Speaker 2: only have fifty senators, meaning that they're more than likely

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Speaker 2: to not get the required support they need to pass

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Speaker 2: a certain bill that is on the agenda this week,

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Speaker 2: and that is a voting rights bill. This legislation has

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Speaker 2: multiple aspects and it's quite complex, but basically, it's looking

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Speaker 2: to enact national election standards that would overrule some state

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Speaker 2: based standards. It's aiming to reduce, you know, the influence

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Speaker 2: that exists in certain states, according to the Democrats. But

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden's administration is expecting some Republicans to employ a

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Speaker 2: filibuster to stifle debate in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: Right, so just kind of bringing all these pieces of

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Speaker 1: the discussion together. This tool that US senators can use

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Speaker 1: to make a debate go on for longer than it

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Speaker 1: needs to is particularly important this week because there's a

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Speaker 1: big voting bill up and Joe Biden's looking to actually

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Speaker 1: remove this tool altogether to make sure that his bill

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Speaker 1: has a chance of succeeding.

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Speaker 2: Biden did say that if no breakthrough on the legislation

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Speaker 2: could be achieved, Senate lawmakers should and a quote, change

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Speaker 2: the rules, including getting rid of the filibuster. For this,

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Speaker 2: he said that it was to protect quote our democracy,

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Speaker 2: and said I support changing the Senate rules whichever way

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Speaker 2: they need to be changed. Not all Democrats are on

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Speaker 2: board with this, however. Joe Manchin, who is a Democratic senator,

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Speaker 2: said on Tuesday that he believes any changes should be

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Speaker 2: made with substantial Republican buy in, so Republicans being the

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Speaker 2: opponents to the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: As always with any political discussions, it's important to look

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Speaker 1: at the multifaceted nature of this. It's worth remembering that

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Speaker 1: Democrats Joe Biden's party, use the filibuster technique to delay

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Speaker 1: debate on the former President Trump's border wall with Mexico.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like this is a one sided debate.

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Speaker 1: Both sides of US politics have been known to use

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Speaker 1: a filibuster over time.

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Speaker 2: And if the Democrats end up not holding the Senate,

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Speaker 2: that could mean that Republicans ultimately benefit from there being

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Speaker 2: no filibuster, and it could very much be a reverse

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Speaker 2: play there.

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Speaker 1: We definitely don't want this podcast I'm a filibuster. So

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