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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the first day of COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen vaccinations in Australia. It's Monday, the twenty second of February.

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Speaker 1: My name is Zara Seidler, and helping me make sense

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Speaker 1: of today's news is Sam Kosovowski. Making news today consent

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Speaker 1: education in the headlines.

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Speaker 2: Texas continues to freeze, some.

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Speaker 1: Good news about an epic solo rowing.

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Speaker 2: Effort, and a chat about the vaccination rolledout. He is

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Speaker 2: Today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: There have been a lot of conversations over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: especially among my friends, about sexual consent education. After over

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Speaker 1: eleven thousand people signed a petition calling for sexual consent

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Speaker 1: education to be started earlier and to be implemented in

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Speaker 1: a more effective way. It was created by Sydney woman

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Speaker 1: Chanel Kontos and it went absolutely viral. More than fifteen

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Speaker 1: hundred people have written anonymous testimonies detailing their experiences of

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Speaker 1: sexual assault.

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Speaker 2: Victorious lockdown happened at a particularly critical time for so

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Speaker 2: many businesses. We had Valentine's Day, the Lunar New Year

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Speaker 2: and the first week of the Australian Open The Victorian

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Speaker 2: government has allocated one hundred and forty three million dollars

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Speaker 2: in relief payments to businesses that were hit hard by

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Speaker 2: the five day snap lockdown. The payments will target businesses

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Speaker 2: directly affected, such as restaurants, florists, live entertainers, and accommodation providers.

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Speaker 1: In international news, President Biden has declared a major disaster

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Speaker 1: in Texas, with severe winter storms continuing to hit the state,

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Speaker 1: causing millions of residents to lose power and water. We've

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Speaker 1: seen some absolutely insane footage from over there, and as

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Speaker 1: of Friday, over thirteen million Texans still don't have access

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Speaker 1: to drinkable water because of the freezing conditions. It's reported

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Speaker 1: these storms have claimed at least sixteen lives.

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Speaker 2: And the Monday good news, Jasmine Harrison, a twenty one

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Speaker 2: year old swimming teacher from North Yorkshire, has become the

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Speaker 2: youngest woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Speaker 1: And finally, the big story of today, which is no

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Speaker 1: doubt the big story of the year, Australia has officially

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Speaker 1: begun its vaccination program.

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Speaker 2: An eighty four.

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Speaker 1: Year old World War Two survivor was the first to

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Speaker 1: receive the fires A vaccine yesterday. She was part of

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Speaker 1: a small group of aged care residents frontline workers and

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Speaker 1: government personnel, including the PM, who received their JAB ahead

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Speaker 1: of the national rollout which begins officially today. I must

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Speaker 1: say it was pretty monumental watching it and feeling like

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Speaker 1: this was really the beginning of the end of the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: felt like it had been such a long time coming,

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Speaker 1: and the symbolism of seeing the Prime Minister getting his

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Speaker 1: for me was quite significant. Over the weekend, we had

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Speaker 1: quite a few of our followers messaging us on Instagram

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Speaker 1: asking about what the next steps for this vaccination program were,

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Speaker 1: So let's jump into it.

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Speaker 2: The plan is to vaccinate enough people by October to

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Speaker 2: have achieved HERD immunity, meaning there is enough immunity within

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Speaker 2: the community, which is also the title of my next single,

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Speaker 2: To Suppress the Spread of COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 1: And we know what the first few phases of getting

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Speaker 1: us there looks like. One A starting today will include

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Speaker 1: border and hotel quarantine workers, frontline workers, aged care and

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Speaker 1: disability workers, and residents. But really, I haven't heard much

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Speaker 1: else beyond that. How am I meant to know when

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Speaker 1: I'm getting the vaccine?

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Speaker 2: For these really early stages of the rollout, you would

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Speaker 2: have received an invitation from the Federal government to register

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Speaker 2: for a COVID nineteen vaccine. We've seen a copy of

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Speaker 2: the email and it does look like you'll register with

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Speaker 2: your mobile number and a unique QR code will be

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Speaker 2: texted to you to show staff at the vaccination center.

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Speaker 1: Long live QR codes.

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Speaker 2: For those of us who aren't vaccine VIPs, there's a

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Speaker 2: really helpful online tool provided by the government that gives

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Speaker 2: you an indication of which phase of the vaccination rollout

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Speaker 2: applies to you. We'll put a link in the show

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Speaker 2: notes of this podcast. After this initial phase, Australians over seventy,

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Speaker 2: Australians under seventy with pre existing health conditions, Indigenous Australians

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Speaker 2: over fifty five and more critical and high risk workers

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Speaker 2: will get the JAB.

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Speaker 1: So which vaccine will they be getting? Is it just

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Speaker 1: the phiser one?

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Speaker 2: Yes, as we spoke about last week, it's only going

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Speaker 2: to be the FISA vaccine. The astrosenic vaccine has just

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Speaker 2: been approved by the TGA, so it's a few weeks behind.

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Speaker 2: Another important note is that the vaccine's going to be

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Speaker 2: free for all Australians.

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Speaker 1: And the government really is putting quite an emphasis on

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Speaker 1: trying to get the entire Australian population vaccinated, regardless of

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Speaker 1: their visa or citizenship arrangements, so everyone will have access

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Speaker 1: to this free vaccine, including Temporary Protection visa holders and

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Speaker 1: those people on bridging visas. There's been quite a big

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Speaker 1: push to ensure everyone in Australia understands the process, so

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Speaker 1: the Department of Health's website will feature all the information

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Speaker 1: in sixty three languages, advertising will be in thirty two languages,

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Speaker 1: and a vaccine explainer has been made in twenty nine languages.

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Speaker 2: In any language, that's some super good news that we're

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Speaker 2: at the beginning of the end of this pandemic.

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Speaker 1: That's all we have time for today, but in the meantime,

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