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Speaker 1: Already and this is the daily.

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Speaker 2: This is the daily, This is the daily.

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Speaker 3: Ohs oh, now it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Monday,

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Speaker 1: the eighth of April. I'm Sam, I'm Zara. In July

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Speaker 1: of twenty twelve, nearly fourteen years ago, eighteen year old

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Speaker 1: Thomas Kelly was cowered punched by Kieran Leverage during a

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Speaker 1: random attack in Sydney's once popular nightlife district of King's Cross.

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Speaker 1: The incident was part of a spate of violence in

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Speaker 1: introducing the city's now defunct lockout laws. Last week, Kieran

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Speaker 1: Leverage was granted parole towards the end of his thirteen

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Speaker 1: year sentence. On today's podcast, we're going to look at

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Speaker 1: the original incident that changed the Sydney forever, the lockout laws,

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Speaker 1: and where we're at fourteen years on the first Here's

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Speaker 1: what's making headlines. The New South Wales government has announced

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Speaker 1: a disaster relief program for residents of more than twelve

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Speaker 1: local council areas, mostly around the outskirts of Sydney, following

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Speaker 1: the rain over the last few days. They will be

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Speaker 1: funding available to councils to assist with the cleanup costs,

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Speaker 1: as well as for residents that are temporarily displaced, to

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Speaker 1: help with accommodation and purchasing essential items. The New South

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Speaker 1: Wales SES recorded almost two thousand incidents on Saturday alone,

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Speaker 4: Disney has confirmed plans to crack down on password sharing

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Speaker 4: on its streaming service Disney Plus. Disney's CEO said restrictions

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Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the death of seven aid

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Speaker 4: And the good news, researchers have developed the largest ever

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Speaker 4: three D map of the universe. The map was developed

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Speaker 2: and now back to the deep dive.

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Speaker 4: So Sam, this story re entered i'd say the popular

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Speaker 4: the parole requests of Kieran Loveridge. Now, if you're not

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Speaker 1: Yees. So it was July of twenty twelve when Thomas

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Speaker 4: So it was in that context of a number of

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Speaker 1: So, these discussions about Thomas Kelly's death really quickly moved

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Speaker 4: All right, lockout laws. If you're from Sydney, you experienced them,

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Speaker 1: Sure, what do we know about that? Well, King's Cross

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Speaker 1: And we know that many hospitality businesses were shut during

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Speaker 3: A coward punch.

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Speaker 4: We know about the consequences for Sydney's nightlife and everyone else,

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Speaker 4: what were the consequences for him?

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Speaker 1: So he was originally sentenced to seven years and two

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Speaker 1: So there's a couple of organized crime elements to Leverage's

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Speaker 4: So we've spoken about the perpetrator, but not about the

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Speaker 3: What have we heard from Thomas Kelly's family.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think the first thing to say about Thomas

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Speaker 1: We have been handed a double life sentence terrific. Now Loveridge,

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Speaker 4: I think this was such an important story that shaped

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Speaker 1: And we'll put a link in the show notes to

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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us on today's episode of The Daily os.

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Speaker 4: Take care of yourself today and we'll be back again tomorrow. Bye.

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