1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Monday, 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: the twenty first of June. My name is Zara Sidler, 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,720 Speaker 1: and helping me make sense of today's news is Sam Kozlowski. 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: Making news today, a New South Wales COVID. 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 2: Update, Billa Wheeler family news. 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: Some good news about the US and. 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,240 Speaker 2: We're going to chat through the Nationals Party. Here's today's 8 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: daily digest. 9 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: So yesterday we found out that New South Wales had 10 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: recorded another two locally acquired COVID nineteen cases, and we 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: were actually told that there are another two on top 12 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: of these that were going to be included in today's numbers. 13 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: That means that the cluster is officially up to nine cases, 14 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: but if we add those new ones, eleven cases. Additionally, 15 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: masks have been mandated indoors for seven local government areas 16 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: until Thursday. Here's what Gladys Barygicalian had to say yesterday 17 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: to the community. 18 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 3: My strongest message to the community is the next few 19 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 3: days are critical. Now we've held off on being more 20 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 3: heavy handed than what we are in relation to what 21 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 3: we're asking people to do, but that will depend on 22 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 3: what the cases, if any emerge in the next few days. 23 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: We just ask everybody not to be complacent. We know 24 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 3: everybody's tired, we know everybody is fatigued, all of us are, 25 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 3: but we have to keep doing the right thing until 26 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 3: we get the vaccine to the majority of our population. 27 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: And separate leader this for our Queensland listeners. Yesterday the 28 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: state recorded one new locally acquired case, and that was 29 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 1: an individual who had completed fourteen days of hotel quarantine 30 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: and she had returned negative tests the whole time, but 31 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: has now tested positive. 32 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 2: Four year old Tanika, whose family was moved from Christmas 33 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 2: Island to Perth earlier this week to be reunited, has 34 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 2: been released from hospital. She was receiving treatment for almost 35 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 2: two weeks for what doctors believed to be a blood 36 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 2: infection caused by untreated pneumonia. Health officials have indicated that 37 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: she'll need another eight weeks of specialist care and the 38 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: family is now located inside a community distension for the 39 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 2: in Perth. A national campaign for their release is continuing. 40 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: So we have the new South Wales budget coming up 41 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: this week, which means that the government has been in 42 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: the media all weekend flaunting their new initiatives, and one 43 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: of these plans is to waive stamp duty on electric 44 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: vehicle purchases, so vehicles priced under seventy eight thousand dollars 45 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: under this plan will pay no stamp duty, while three 46 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: thousand dollars rebates will be available for the first twenty 47 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: five thousand private purchases of electric vehicles priced under sixty 48 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: eight thousand. The Beiagiclian government also announced it would spend 49 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy one million on new charging infrastructure 50 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: for these vehicles. 51 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 2: And today's good news. America has a new public holiday, 52 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: and it's the first public holiday introduced since Martin Luther 53 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 2: King Junior Day was announced. It's called Juneteenth and it's 54 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 2: been celebrated for the first time in America over the 55 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 2: weekend after President Joe Biden established the national holiday last week. 56 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 2: Juneteenth celebrates the day nineteenth of June eighteen sixty five 57 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 2: that African American slaves were freed in Galveston, Texas, following 58 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 2: the US Civil Wars. 59 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 4: Curious preachers should be rehomed, Well, I actually agree with Peter. 60 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 1: They should be. 61 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 4: Rehomed into their inner city apartment so that they can 62 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 4: so that they can nibble away at their food and 63 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 4: their feet at night. And scratch their children at night, 64 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 4: that this is a disgrace by Peter. We always stand 65 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 4: ready to help our farmers. 66 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: So that was a clip of Michael McCormack, who is 67 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: the current Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and he's the 68 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: head of the Nationals and today you're likely to hear 69 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: a lot about him because we're hearing rumors of a 70 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: leadership spill within the Nationals. Before we get into what 71 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: a leadership spill is, the Nationals Party is a political 72 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: party in Australia and they're the other part of the coalition. 73 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: So we know the coalition is two forces, so that's 74 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: a Liberal Party of Australia and the Nats and they're 75 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: a twenty one member party with Michael McCormack as their 76 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: current leader. 77 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 2: It's a situation that really matters to the Australian political landscape. 78 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 2: By the end of today or sometime this week, we 79 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 2: could have ourselves a new deputy Prime minister and that 80 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 2: is something that we need to talk about and it 81 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 2: follows a long pattern of leadership spills in Australia. Zia, 82 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 2: take us through leadership spills as a political idea and 83 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,559 Speaker 2: can you help me understand why we have so many 84 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 2: in Australia. 85 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: So a leadership spill is when there's a declaration that 86 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and that 87 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: therefore it's open for reelection. And this is something that 88 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: Ozzi's are more familiar with probably than any other political 89 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: mechanism because it's seen us lose a number of prime ministers, 90 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: especially in our lifetime. So a leadership spill is really 91 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: important and it's usually brought on when there is discontent 92 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: or disquiet around the current leadership. And that's what we're 93 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: here in out of Canberra about Michael McCormack's leadership. So 94 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: based on reports, we're hearing that the leadership spill could 95 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: happen as early as today. And what that means is 96 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: that the leader would call for a meeting with all 97 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: the members of the party, so all of the Nats, 98 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: there would be no Libs there, and at that point 99 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 1: all the leadership positions would be declared vacant. You'd be 100 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: able to nominate for your role and then a vote 101 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: would happen. So, as I said, there are twenty one 102 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: people in the NATS and there are sixteen members in 103 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: the House five senators, so the potential challenger would need 104 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: eleven votes to succeed, and we know that that potential 105 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: challenger is Barnaby Joyce. Tans your earlier question. I think 106 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: the reason that we have so many leadership spills in 107 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: Australia is because it's really easy for a leader to 108 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: be removed. So both of the major parties have changed 109 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: their rules so that it is harder to topple a 110 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: sitting leader. But the Nats don't have that same thing 111 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: in play because they haven't really had the same issue. 112 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: What we do know is that Barnaby Joyce has wanted 113 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: to be leader since he had to resign a number 114 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: of years ago over an extra marital of and since 115 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: that time he's been vying for the leadership. So Michael 116 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 1: McCormack has, in essence, had to keep looking over his 117 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: shoulder at Joyce this whole time. 118 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 2: Do we have any clear indication as to why there's 119 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 2: instability in Michael McCormack's leadership at the moment? Does this 120 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 2: vote stand a chance of passing? 121 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: So some commentators are saying that the discontent with McCormack's 122 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: leadership really boils down to his stance on climate change 123 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: and climate policy. It's understood that a lot of Gnats 124 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: are unhappy with the fact that Scott Morrison's seemingly looking 125 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: like he's going to edge towards zero missions by twenty 126 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: fifty and the Nats really don't want that. They represent 127 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: the regions, they represent farmers, they represent miners, and it 128 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: is not in their best interests to have the government 129 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: adopting this kind of climate policy. It's understood that they 130 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 1: think that McCormack isn't really standing up enough for what 131 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,359 Speaker 1: the Gnats need. In terms of your second question, this 132 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: isn't the first time Barnaby Joyce has tried to contest 133 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: the leadership. He did quite recently. He didn't win, but 134 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: things have changed now and we are also heading to 135 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: an election, so really anything could happen. It's also possible 136 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: that a third leader could emerge, David Little Proud, and 137 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: there are some people thinking that he could come up 138 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: the middle and actually win the leadership. Whatever happens, it 139 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: does have quite significant ramifications for the Morrison government. Obviously, 140 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: it means there's a new deputy prime Minister, but it 141 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: also means that the new leader would have to take 142 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: on portfolios in the Morrison Ministry, so they'd have to 143 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: be a bit of a reshuffle. So there's like a 144 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: whole lot of mess that would happen after this spill 145 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: if McCormack loses. 146 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 2: We never wish for it, but when it happens, we're 147 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 2: ready for a bit of drama in Canberra and we'll 148 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 2: be making sure to be totally on top of developments 149 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 2: as they come out. 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