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

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Speaker 1: is Tuesday, the twenty eighth of September. My name is

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Speaker 1: Sam Kazlowski. Joining me today on the pod is Zara Sidler.

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Speaker 1: Let's quickly wrap around the COVID figures from yesterday. In

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Speaker 1: Victoria there were seven hundred and five cases and New

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Speaker 1: South Wales recorded seven hundred and eighty seven. That is

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Speaker 1: the same first number for both if I'm not mistaken,

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Speaker 1: and in the Act there were nineteen new cases. Zara,

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Speaker 1: I say, we heard some pretty big announcements from not

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Speaker 1: only New South Wales but the ACT as well. Kick

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Speaker 1: us off with New South Wales what changed.

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Speaker 2: It was a big day for road maps. New South

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Speaker 2: Wales Premier Gladysbury Jicklian outlined what the state will look

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Speaker 2: like when we reached that eighty percent fully vaccinated threshold.

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Speaker 2: So basically, when we hit that, which we're expecting to

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Speaker 2: be around two weeks after the eleventh of October, we

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Speaker 2: know that gym's personal services, entertainment facilities and retail stores

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Speaker 2: will all reopen for people who have had both doses

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Speaker 2: of the vaccine. And this is where the descriptores between

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Speaker 2: those who are vaccinated and those who are unvaccinated become

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Speaker 2: really clear because the premiere also outlined what the unvaccinated

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Speaker 2: can do, and it is a whole lot less than

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Speaker 2: what the rest of the population will be doing at

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Speaker 2: that time. For those who are unvaccinated, greater freedoms will

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Speaker 2: not happen until at least the first of December.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in the nation's capital, the Act also unveiled its

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Speaker 1: roadmap out of lockdown with a four step approach. Here's

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Speaker 1: a little bit about what the Chief Minister, Andrew Bayer

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Speaker 1: had to say about the roadmap.

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Speaker 3: So these steps will see us transition from high to medium,

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Speaker 3: then low and finally baseline public health measures.

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Speaker 1: So the lockdown in Canberra is going to end on

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Speaker 1: the fifteenth of October, when eighty percent of its population

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Speaker 1: is expected to be fully vaxed. Further restrictions are going

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Speaker 1: to be easying on the twenty ninth of October, when

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Speaker 1: all retail can reopen. Importantly for young people, all students

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Speaker 1: will return to face to face learning by the first

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Speaker 1: of November.

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Speaker 2: These roadmaps are not easy to understand. We've tried to

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Speaker 2: break them down on our Instagram, so head over there

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Speaker 2: if there is something in particular that you want to know.

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Speaker 2: You can also always just send us a DM if

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Speaker 2: there's anything that remains unclear to you heading overseas now

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Speaker 2: and preliminary results in Germany's election indicates that the left

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Speaker 2: leaning Social Democratic Party, the SPD has won the most seats,

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Speaker 2: beating the party a former chancellor Angela Merkel, the Christian

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Speaker 2: Democratic Union. However, with just over twenty five percent of

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Speaker 2: the vote, the SPD must now form a coalition in

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Speaker 2: order to form government.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news is about France, and it's not

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Speaker 1: about the fight that we're having with them. They will

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Speaker 1: double the number of COVID nineteen vaccine doses they send

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Speaker 1: to developing countries, bringing their total to one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty million doses. This was announced by French President Emmanuel

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Speaker 1: Macron during the Global Citizen Concert that was held yesterday.

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Speaker 1: It comes as President Joe Biden of the US announced

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Speaker 1: that his country would donate an additional five hundred million

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Speaker 1: vaccines to developing countries, bringing the total donation to more

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Speaker 1: than a billion. Fresh off his meeting with Australian Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Scott Morrison and the US President Joe Biden, Boris

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Speaker 1: Johnson the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is facing

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Speaker 1: an interesting crisis in his country. It's a developing issue

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Speaker 1: and it's one that we wanted to get on top

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Speaker 1: of now before it really escalates. As one senior government

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Speaker 1: insiders said overnight, this situation in England is very bad.

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Speaker 1: The root of this crisis is petrol. So we've got

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Speaker 1: a situation where almost a third of petrol stations in

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Speaker 1: the country have run out of the two main grades

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Speaker 1: of fuel, and as you can imagine, there has been

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Speaker 1: momentous demand for the petrol that's left and massive cues.

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Speaker 1: To tell us more about this story, we're joined by Mariah. Mariah,

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Speaker 1: what on earth is happening in the UK?

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Speaker 4: So, as you said, there is a lack of supply

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Speaker 4: of fuel at many petrol stations in the UK, and

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Speaker 4: BP and Oil and Gas Company released a statement saying,

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Speaker 4: with the intense demand seen over the past two days,

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Speaker 4: we estimate that around thirty percent of sites do not

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Speaker 4: currently have either of the main grades of fuel. So

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Speaker 4: this means that petrol stations and operators have had to

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Speaker 4: either ration supplies of fuel or completely close altogether. This

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Speaker 4: has now sparked panic buying amongst civilians in the UK,

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Speaker 4: and as you said, there's massive, massive queues outside of

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Speaker 4: petrol stations as people are wanting to get their supply

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Speaker 4: of fuel.

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Speaker 1: And what do we put this major change in the

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Speaker 1: conditions down to Is it a Brexit driven crisis.

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Speaker 4: So the lower supplies in fuel is actually a result

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Speaker 4: of the UK experiencing a shortage of long distance truck drivers.

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Speaker 4: The shortage of the truck drivers is resulting in a

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Speaker 4: shortage of fuel being transported. Transport Minister Grant Shaps of

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Speaker 4: the UK attributed the truck driver shortage to the pandemic

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Speaker 4: which disrupted the qualific cab process of becoming a truck

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Speaker 4: driver and that then prevented new labor entering the market.

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Speaker 4: So an increase in demand in the fuel from the

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Speaker 4: lack of transport of fuel has resulted in that panic

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Speaker 4: buying that we saw. So it's actually a lack of

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Speaker 4: truck drivers transporting the fuel that has caused the lack

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Speaker 4: of supply in petrol stations.

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Speaker 1: Interestingly, when I was having a read about this further,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like there's also some elements of an aging

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Speaker 1: workforce and this massive exodus of foreign workers following Britain's

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Speaker 1: departure from the European Union next year, so it sounds

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Speaker 1: like they're now in the situation where they don't have

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Speaker 1: enough bodies to literally drive the trucks to get to

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Speaker 1: the petrol stations. Is the UK government taking any steps

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Speaker 1: to resolve this.

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Speaker 4: I'm also just going to add Sam, the Brexit point

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Speaker 4: that you mentioned is a super important one. There's a

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Speaker 4: lot of strong discourse around Brexit being a contributing factor

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Speaker 4: to this situation as well. Opposition Labor Party leader Kiirsa

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Speaker 4: linked the shortage to Brexit and said this is a

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Speaker 4: complete lack of planning. We exited the EU just one

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Speaker 4: consequence was there was going to be a shortage of

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Speaker 4: heavy goods vehicle drivers. That was predictable and it was predicted,

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Speaker 4: So this is not something that has just come out

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Speaker 4: of the pandemic. According to quite a few people, this

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Speaker 4: is also a result of Brexit. So then as a

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Speaker 4: result of this, the government has had to introduce some measures,

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Speaker 4: including temporary visas for five thousand fuel tanker and food

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Speaker 4: lorry drivers to work up especially in the lead up

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Speaker 4: to Christmas, there's concerns about getting supplies during that really

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Speaker 4: busy time. And then in response to the panic buying.

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Speaker 4: The government has also suspended competition laws between oil firms

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Speaker 4: to make it easier for the companies to share information

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Speaker 4: and prioritize parts of the country that are in most

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Speaker 4: need of the fuel supply, and according to the BBC,

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Speaker 4: the government is actually reportedly considering even deploying the army

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Speaker 4: to distribute supplies of fuel around the nation as well well.

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Speaker 4: So there's quite a lot going on in the short

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Speaker 4: term to hopefully alleviate some of that pressure.

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Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about that competition point, because

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Speaker 1: I think it's a fascinating one. So what exactly do

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Speaker 1: you mean by removing competition laws here? Does that mean

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Speaker 1: that the fuel companies are working together.

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Speaker 4: In a sense. Yeah, so they will have the opportunity

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Speaker 4: to be able to discuss further with each other and

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Speaker 4: implement certain arrangements to ensure that the parts of the

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Speaker 4: nation and the parts of the UK that need the

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Speaker 4: supply most will be able to get it in time,

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Speaker 4: or will be able to get it faster. There's going

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Speaker 4: to be more collaboration between those firms.

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Speaker 1: A fascinating situation that the UK finds itself in, and

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Speaker 1: it truly is a confluence of factors coming together, because

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Speaker 1: I think ultimately you can't really isolate Brexit or the

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Speaker 1: COVID pandemic, or other economic factors, or high oil prices.

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Speaker 1: I mean everything is coming together and what really sounds

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Speaker 1: like a perfect storm. The losers are the people in

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Speaker 1: the queues trying to fill up a tank of petrol.

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Speaker 1: We'll be keeping an eye on this story. It's a

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Speaker 1: fascinating one. In Australia, we're seeing record high petrol prices.

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Speaker 1: It's not to do with the same issues as we're

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Speaker 1: seeing in the UK. A lot of us rely on

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Speaker 1: petrol prices and news about petrol prices to take into

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Speaker 1: account of our weekly budgets, and it's really important news

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