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Speaker 1: Good morning everyone, Welcome to the daly Oars. My name

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Speaker 1: is sam Keazlowski. Jointing me today is political journalist for

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Speaker 1: the dally oas Billy FitzSimons. Before we hit the news

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Speaker 1: and talk about needle spiking in the UK, a quick

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Speaker 1: recap of the day's COVID numbers from yesterday. In New

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Speaker 1: South Wales there were two hundred and ninety four cases

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Speaker 1: of COVID. Nineteen Victoria recorded fourteen hundred and sixty one

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Speaker 1: cases of COVID and in the Act they're in single digits.

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Speaker 1: They recorded nine cases. Billy, it's the second and final

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Speaker 1: week of the New South Wales ICAC inquiry. What did

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Speaker 1: we learn yesterday?

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Speaker 2: So During the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption

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Speaker 2: inquiry into Gladysbury Juclian, former New South Wales Deputy Premier

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Speaker 2: John Barrollaro described Daryl McGuire as a pain in the

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Speaker 2: arse who sought funding like a dog with a bone.

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Speaker 2: Barillaro also said Barry Jicklian's secret relationship with McGuire was

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Speaker 2: potentially a conflict of interest, but added there is no corruption.

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Speaker 1: Over in Wa and Wa police searching for a driver

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Speaker 1: in a vehicle that was seen leaving the Blowholes campsite

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Speaker 1: where four year old Cleo Smith disappeared now eleven days ago.

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Speaker 1: It comes after the WA government issued a one million

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Speaker 1: dollar reward for information that leads police to Cleo's location.

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Speaker 2: Nationals MP and Resources Minister Keith Pitt has been elevated

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Speaker 2: to Cabinet. It comes after the Nationals did a deal

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Speaker 2: with Prime Minister Scott Morrison that saw the regional party

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Speaker 2: support net zero by twenty fifty under secret conditions.

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Speaker 1: It's only a few days until Prime Minister Scott Morrison

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Speaker 1: heads off to Glasgow, so I'm sure we'll learn a

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Speaker 1: little more about what some of those secret conditions are.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the things that they're going to be talking

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Speaker 1: about in Glasgow. The good news today is from Paris,

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Speaker 1: where a plan has been announced for Paris to become

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Speaker 1: an one hundred percent cyclable city in four years. To

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Speaker 1: do this, it needs to increase the number of segregated

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Speaker 1: bike lanes by one hundred and eighty kilometers and will

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Speaker 1: triple its number of bike parking spots by twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Just a content warning before we get into today's deep dive.

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Speaker 1: There's some difficult topics discussed in this deep dive, particularly

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Speaker 1: violence against women. So if this is not a deep

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Speaker 1: dive for you, perhaps give it and join us tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: So Sam, over the weekend, my friends started telling me

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Speaker 2: about a story in the UK where there have been

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Speaker 2: several incidents of needle spiking, which involves a substance being

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Speaker 2: injected with a needle without consent. I actually was on

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Speaker 2: TikTok as well, and I saw a number of videos,

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Speaker 2: including girls wearing puffer jackets to prevent themselves from being

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Speaker 2: needle spiked. There's particular concern over this in Nottingham, where

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Speaker 2: police say they are investigating fifteen reports of needle spiking

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Speaker 2: in the last month alone.

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Speaker 1: It was a pretty shocking story to discover. As we

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Speaker 1: went a bit dep yesterday, it turns out that there's

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Speaker 1: over two hundred reports of this happening across the UK

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Speaker 1: in the last week alone, and it's caught the attention

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Speaker 1: of some of the highest lawmakers in the land. Basically,

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Speaker 1: what's happening is that young women are being targeted in

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Speaker 1: nightclubs and in bars, especially at a time where they are

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Speaker 1: so packed as people return to nightlife. And luckily a

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Speaker 1: lot of these women are being caught before they enter

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Speaker 1: any trouble by their friends. Here is what Leah nineteen

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Speaker 1: had to say about her experience.

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Speaker 3: I was out with my flat and I'd barely been

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Speaker 3: drinking at all when I suddenly came over feeling very

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Speaker 3: out of it, not really aware of what was going on,

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Speaker 3: and I went outside to get some air and my

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Speaker 3: wristside her and then I looked down at my wrist

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Speaker 3: and I had a puncture mark in my wrist. So

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Speaker 3: that was when it kind of added up that something

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Speaker 3: had happened because I was not in a good state

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Speaker 3: at all.

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Speaker 2: And sam if we zoom out a bit. This is

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Speaker 2: part of a broader trend that has been noticed in

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Speaker 2: the UK. So last month, a police watchdog in the

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Speaker 2: UK said that violence against women is an epidemic and

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Speaker 2: it should be considered as much of a priority as

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Speaker 2: counter terrorism.

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Speaker 1: And this is the similar sentiment we heard from the

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Speaker 1: Home Secretary Pretty Patel in the UK this week. She

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Speaker 1: requested an urgent update from police on their investigations. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: groups from more than sixty universities across the UK have

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Speaker 1: joined an online campaign calling for the Girls Night in

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Speaker 1: and that's going to be on the twenty seventh of

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Speaker 1: October so Wednesday our time to highlight the issue of

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Speaker 1: women's safety and put pressure on venue owners to tackle

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Speaker 1: the problem. Ultimately, it involves upwards of one hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty five thousand young women across the UK boycotting nightclubs

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Speaker 1: for the night. The other things that petition calls for

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Speaker 1: are covers for drinks, better training for nightlife staff, and

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Speaker 1: for police to conduct more rigorous searching of clubbers. This

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Speaker 1: was actually one of the key points highlighted by the

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Speaker 1: twenty four year old woman Hannah Thompson, who launched the petition.

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Speaker 1: She suggested medal detectors or pat downs similar to airport security,

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Speaker 1: to enter clubs. She told the BBC, I would much

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Speaker 1: rather have a PAS down than the needle in the back.

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Speaker 2: And as we talk about violence against women, I think

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Speaker 2: it's really important that we don't put the onus on

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Speaker 2: women to take these preventative steps to stop themselves from

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Speaker 2: a needle being pricked in their back. A labor MP

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Speaker 2: said over the weekend that we need to be really

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Speaker 2: careful that this conversation doesn't become one about what women

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Speaker 2: can do, and instead we should put the responsibility on

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Speaker 2: men who have been the perpetrators in this case. Nadia

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Speaker 2: Widam said quote, women should be able to go out

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Speaker 2: freely and enjoy themselves without fear of assault, sexual or otherwise.

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Speaker 2: And this is part of a much larger problem of

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Speaker 2: male violence, from sexual harassment to rape.

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Speaker 1: It's clear there are some really important conversations about this

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Speaker 1: topic happening overseas, and indeed here at home we have

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Speaker 1: such pioneers like Grace Tame and Britney Higgins steering similar

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Speaker 1: but different conversations. Here at home, we'll keep everybody up

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Speaker 1: to dated on this needle spiking story that is really

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Speaker 1: trending amongst young people in the UK. It's been interesting

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Speaker 1: to see how social media has been used to really

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Speaker 1: spread personal experiences of young women and really helps people

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Speaker 1: be alert to the risks as they are going out

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Speaker 1: on their night out. That's all we've got time for

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