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Speaker 1: Good morning, team, Welcome to the Daily OS. It's Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the eighth of September. Yesterday, in New South Wales there

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Speaker 1: were twelve hundred and twenty COVID cases, Victoria had two

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty six COVID cases and the ACT recorded nineteen.

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Speaker 1: My name is Sam. Let's get straight into the headlines

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Speaker 1: of the day.

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Speaker 2: The story that dominated the new cycle yesterday was that

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Scott Morrison traveled home to Sydney over the

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Speaker 2: Father's Day weekend and received a travel exemption from ACT

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Speaker 2: Health to return to Canberra on Monday. As we well know,

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Speaker 2: both cities are in lockdown and talking to Sky News

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday, the Prime Minister denied he was given special treatment,

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Speaker 2: saying that MP's have been given exemptions as essential workers.

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Speaker 1: Victoria has a new opposition leader. Matthew Guy has become

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Speaker 1: the new leader of the Victorian Liberal Party after he

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Speaker 1: defeated Leader of the Opposition Michael O'Brien in the leadership spill. Guy,

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Speaker 1: who led the party between twenty fourteen and twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: regained leadership after receiving twenty votes to eleven in the spill.

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Speaker 1: The process reportedly took less than ten minutes yesterday morning.

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Speaker 2: El Salvador has become the first country to accept bitcoin

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Speaker 2: as a legal tender. And we spoke about this happening

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Speaker 2: a couple of months ago, and now it's actually happened.

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Speaker 2: The nation will accept both bitcoin and the US dollar,

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Speaker 2: and the government has created a digital wallet app for

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Speaker 2: its citizens to use, and they're going to gift thirty

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Speaker 2: dollars worth of bitcoin to citizens who use the app.

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Speaker 2: There is, however, some skepticism about the cryptocurrency among citizens,

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Speaker 2: with recent polls revealing seventy percent of participants oppose the

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Speaker 2: adoption of bitcoin as legal tender.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news. The Northern hairy nosed wombat, a

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Speaker 1: typical nickname of me Australia's largest wombat species, has grown

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Speaker 1: from the brink of extinction. The wombat species dipped to

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Speaker 1: as low as thirty five in the early nineteen eighties,

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Speaker 1: but has now grown to more than three hundred in

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Speaker 1: the past fifty years.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think mister Morrison's exercise poor judgment in

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Speaker 3: this case. I was a bit surprised when I ready

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Speaker 3: had done this. To be honest, it's not that he

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Speaker 3: doesn't deserve to see his kids, but so does every

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Speaker 3: other Australian. And I think that when your people are

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Speaker 3: doing it tough, you've got to do it tough too.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's a bit of a cheap shot, to be honest.

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Speaker 4: I mean Bill knows full will what these rules are.

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Speaker 4: In fact, he took advantage of them three weeks. He

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Speaker 4: went home and spent the last three weeks rather than

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Speaker 4: being in Parliament because he could return to Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, the news cycle and all of the media was

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Speaker 2: focused on this story about the Prime Minister traveling from

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Speaker 2: Canberra back to Sydney, where he lives, and then returning

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Speaker 2: back to Canberra and receiving an exemption from Act Health

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Speaker 2: to do so. Scott Morrison sat down for an interview

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Speaker 2: yesterday with Sky News where he defended the move and

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Speaker 2: said that as an essential worker, this was nothing new.

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Speaker 2: Our comment section was flooded with people's thoughts and opinions

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Speaker 2: on this. It is obviously a really emotionally charged period

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Speaker 2: for a lot of people, especially those who have been

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Speaker 2: in lockdown for many, many months. Well we wanted to

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Speaker 2: talk talk about today was a reflection on a conversation

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Speaker 2: that the TDA team had yesterday before deciding whether or

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Speaker 2: not to cover the story. A prevailing thought or value

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Speaker 2: that drives TDA is whether or not something is news

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Speaker 2: or whether it is noise. We always try to stay

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Speaker 2: away from the stories that provide noise without being any

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Speaker 2: sort of value.

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Speaker 1: Add it was a really robust discussion where both sides

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Speaker 1: had a lot of merit in terms of whether it

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Speaker 1: was worth a space on the grid for our Instagram

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Speaker 1: followers and whether it was worth a discussion on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: On one hand, there are some compelling arguments to be

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Speaker 1: made about whether this is in the public interest or not.

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Speaker 1: We have two of Australia's largest states and the national

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Speaker 1: capital in lockdown. Millions of Australians have been separated from

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Speaker 1: family and friends for extended periods. We had just seen

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Speaker 1: footage of reunions across the New South Wales Queensland border

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Speaker 1: for Father's Day. It's definitely an important part of the

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Speaker 1: conversation when the Prime Minister of Australia takes the actions

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Speaker 1: that he did on the weekend. There's a couple of

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Speaker 1: other ways to look at this too, one being that

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Speaker 1: the travel is publicly funded. It costs about one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars and on a wider level, though we expect

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Speaker 1: our leaders to be in the trenches with the rest

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Speaker 1: of us in times of national hardship.

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Speaker 2: A lot of the comments in our comment section yesterday

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Speaker 2: were about the fact that a lot of people hadn't

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Speaker 2: been able to see their families and weren't reunited with

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Speaker 2: their fathers for the second Father's Day in a row,

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Speaker 2: and yet the person who holds the highest office in

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Speaker 2: the land as Prime Minister, as this role model for

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Speaker 2: the country, was presumably not in the same situation. Other

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Speaker 2: people in the comment section commented things like we have

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Speaker 2: bigger issues to focus on, that there are significant policy

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Speaker 2: areas that voters should be paying attention to, with many

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Speaker 2: highlighting the vaccine roll at as one of those. Whether

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Speaker 2: or not you see this as news or noise is

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Speaker 2: really a personal opinion at this point. It's not for

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Speaker 2: us to tell you one way or another.

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Speaker 1: There were ultimately two dar different factors that went into

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Speaker 1: our decision to publish the story and to talk about

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Speaker 1: it on today's podcast. On one hand was the decision

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Speaker 1: of the Prime Minister himself to sit down with Sky

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Speaker 1: News for an interview at about midday Sydney time. That

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Speaker 1: gave us an opportunity to stop thinking about the what ifs,

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Speaker 1: and to stop thinking about speculation online and especially on

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Speaker 1: social media, but rather hear some concrete facts about the situation.

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Speaker 1: It's worth noting also that the act Chief Minister, Andrew

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Speaker 1: Bard delivered a statement around the same time, and between

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Speaker 1: the two of them we could get a clearer idea

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Speaker 1: of the type of exemptions available to members of Parliament

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Speaker 1: and how mister Morrison was allowed back into the nation's capital.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, we really want the Daily Odds

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Speaker 1: to be a tool that's useful, and so if we

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Speaker 1: know that the story is popping up on pretty much

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Speaker 1: every major news outlet and it's more likely than not

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Speaker 1: to be in your social media feeds, we wanted to

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Speaker 1: make sure that we gave you the facts and that

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Speaker 1: we gave you a clear picture of what is going on.

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Speaker 1: But I think for the team, it was an interesting day,

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Speaker 1: and it was interesting because we held off on publishing

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Speaker 1: the story until much later in the day, and that's

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Speaker 1: worth discussing and that's worth thinking about when we consider

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Speaker 1: what we expect of our media.

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Speaker 2: On that meta note, we will leave you there for

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