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

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Speaker 1: the twelfth of March. My name is Zara Seidler, and

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Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Sam Kozlowski.

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Speaker 1: Making news today a new respect campaign, Indigenous deaths in custody,

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Speaker 1: some good news about plastics.

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Speaker 2: And a discussion about the WA election this weekend. He

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Speaker 2: is Today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: The federal government's announced the immediate national rollout of a

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Speaker 1: suite of educational materials called Respect Matters, which will go

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Speaker 1: out in high schools. This is in response to a

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Speaker 1: petition launched by twenty two year old Chanel Contost that

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Speaker 1: has gone viral across the country. Education Minister Alan Tudge

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Speaker 1: said he was quite shocked at the extent of the

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Speaker 1: number of people who were coming forward with stories of

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Speaker 1: sexual assault and harassment.

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Speaker 2: The New South Wales Coroner has found the Indigenous man

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Speaker 2: Nathan Reynolds, who died in custody in twenty eighteen from

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Speaker 2: an asthma attack, was denied quote at least some chance

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Speaker 2: of survival by an unreasonably delayed response from prison guards

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Speaker 2: and New South Wales Corrective Services health staff. Meanwhile, Victorian

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Speaker 2: Corrective Services released a statement confirming another Indigenous man died

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Speaker 2: in the Melbourne prison on the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Brazil has recorded over two thousand COVID nineteen deaths in

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Speaker 1: a day for the first time. During the entire pandemic,

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Speaker 1: Brazil has had the second highest deathtally in the world,

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Speaker 1: behind the US, and is now struggling to control a

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Speaker 1: new mutation of the virus that has led to fifteen

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Speaker 1: of the country's largest ICUs being at over ninety percent capacity.

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Speaker 2: And the Friday good news is that Queensland is the

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Speaker 2: latest Australian state to ban single use plastic and polystyrene

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Speaker 2: takeaway items. The law originally included only single use plastics,

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Speaker 2: but Queensland did a survey and found that ninety eight

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Speaker 2: percent of respondents wanted the band to include polystyrene, so

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Speaker 2: they included it. So, guys, when I tried to make

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Speaker 2: plans with Zara on Saturday night, she said she could

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Speaker 2: because she was watching an election. This isn't the first

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Speaker 2: time it's happened, and I know Zara is just bursting

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Speaker 2: to tell you all about the WA election. Who are

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Speaker 2: the main players, what are the big issues.

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Speaker 1: That's actually just my excuse because we spend too much

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Speaker 1: time together during the week and we don't need to

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Speaker 1: spend our weekends together. However, it is the Wa election

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and this is a unique one for a number

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Speaker 1: of reasons. Firstly, a couple of weeks ago and we

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Speaker 1: posted about this on our Instagram. At the time, we

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Speaker 1: had the opposition leader in Wa. His name is Zach

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Speaker 1: Kirkup and he's a Liberal. We had him come out

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Speaker 1: and basically concede that there was no way that the

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Speaker 1: Liberal Party could win this election. He said this two

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Speaker 1: weeks before the election actually took place. This is not

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Speaker 1: something that political leaders ever do and it was seen

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Speaker 1: to be an admission that Mark McGowan, who is the

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Speaker 1: Premier of Wa, is simply unbeatable. He has the highest

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Speaker 1: popularity rating out of any leader in the country.

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Speaker 2: We know the popularity of political leaders this year is

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Speaker 2: mostly to do with their COVID response. Is that the

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Speaker 2: case here?

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Speaker 1: Yes, so, mister McGowan, or mister eighty eight percent as

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Speaker 1: he is referred to, with his eighty eight percent popularity rating,

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Speaker 1: he's really popular in Wa because it's known that Wa

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Speaker 1: has quite an independent streak, meaning they like being separate

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Speaker 1: from the rest of the country. So when McGowan closed

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Speaker 1: the borders pretty early on. That played right into the

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Speaker 1: hands of voters and they saw this is a really

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Speaker 1: good thing and his popularity just continued to grow during

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Speaker 1: this time. But all in just the borders, WA's economy

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Speaker 1: has the strongest projected growth of any state in Australia,

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Speaker 1: and that's mostly to do with mining and iron ore,

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Speaker 1: but it means that they're in a really good economic

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Speaker 1: position heading into this election. More generally, elections that take

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Speaker 1: place during a crisis or a pandemic like this usually

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Speaker 1: favor the incumbent, and the incumbent in this case is

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Speaker 1: Mark McGowan, the premier. So an incumbent is just another

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Speaker 1: word for the person already holding power. And we've seen

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Speaker 1: this trend happen across Australia. So there were elections in

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory, in the Act in Queensland, and across

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Speaker 1: the Ditch in New Zealand, and in all those cases

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Speaker 1: the incumbent was returned to power, So the sitting premier

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Speaker 1: or leader of that country was returned to power.

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Speaker 2: So you've painted a picture of a pretty one sided contest.

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Speaker 2: Does Zach Kirkup actually have to turn up tomorrow?

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Speaker 1: It's a good question. So the Liberal oppositions strategy now,

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Speaker 1: as defined by Zach Kirkup, is basically just to have

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Speaker 1: a strong opposition. He's resigned to the fact that they're

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Speaker 1: not going to be governing, so he's saying that you

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Speaker 1: need to vote Liberal so that Labor is held to account.

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Speaker 1: Zach Kirkup, the Opposition leaders, actually at risk of losing

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Speaker 1: his own seat. So he only won his seat at

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Speaker 1: the last election by three hundred and forty three votes,

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Speaker 1: and earlier in the week he said that if he

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Speaker 1: didn't win his seat, he'd be resigning from politics and

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be re entering. And this is from a man

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Speaker 1: who handed John Howard a business card in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and four that said Zach Kirkup future Prime Minister. So

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Speaker 1: it is looking pretty dire for the Liberals. Some polls

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Speaker 1: are predicting a twelve point five percent swing towards Labor,

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Speaker 1: which would make it the biggest election win in Wa history.

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Speaker 1: Whether or not those poles are correct will remain to see,

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Speaker 1: but it's looking pretty clear that Mark McGowan will be

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Speaker 1: leading the next Labor government in Wa. If you don't

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Speaker 1: know who Mark McGowan is by the way. I would

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Speaker 1: advise looking up Mark McGowan kebab on YouTube and you

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Speaker 1: can watch a video of him absolutely losing it at

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Speaker 1: a press conference when he gets asked about going for

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Speaker 1: a run and eating a kebab. You'll find it on

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Speaker 1: YouTube and it's.

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Speaker 2: A good watch. And like every big week should, I

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Speaker 2: think we'll leave it on the kebab. Thanks for tuning

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