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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily os. It's Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: the twentieth of April. My name is Sam Kazlowski, and

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Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Zara Sideline.

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Speaker 1: Making news today a new Royal commission, defense medals to remain,

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Speaker 1: some good news about cervical cancer.

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Speaker 2: And a breakdown of the situation for Ozzi's who are

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Speaker 2: stranded overseas. Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a Royal Commission into

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Speaker 1: veteran and serving defense personnel suicides. This comes after a

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Speaker 1: motion was passed by both the House of Reps and

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Speaker 1: Senate in support of a Royal commission last month. Morrison

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Speaker 1: said the Royal Commission will have a mandate to examine

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Speaker 1: the systemic issues in any common themes in past deaths

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Speaker 1: by suicide of Australian Defense Force members and veterans.

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Speaker 2: New Defence Minister Peter Dudden has overruled the decision to

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Speaker 2: strip medals from an estimated three thousand Special Forces soldiers

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Speaker 2: who served in Afghanistan. The Chief of Defense, Angus Campbell,

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Speaker 2: moved to strip the medals after the release of the

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Speaker 2: Brereton inquiry that found quote credible evidence of war crimes

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Speaker 2: committed in Afghanistan. Announcing that he had overruled the decision

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Speaker 2: to strip the medals, Dudden said, my judgment was that

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Speaker 2: we shouldn't be punishing the ninety nine percent for the

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Speaker 2: sins of the one percent.

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Speaker 1: Two men have died while passengers in a driverless Tesla

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Speaker 1: vehicle crash in Texas. The vehicle failed to navigate a curve,

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Speaker 1: crashing into a tree and bursting into flames. Constable Mark

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Speaker 1: Hermann said in an interview that local and federal authorities

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Speaker 1: were working together, but did not know whether the auto

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Speaker 1: pilot feature on the Tesla was engaged. The incident follows

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Speaker 1: previous scrutiny over Tesla's semi automated driving system after recent accidents.

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Speaker 2: I think after those stories, we need a bit of

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Speaker 2: good news. So according to the Cancer Council, Australia is

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Speaker 2: on track to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health

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Speaker 2: issue by twenty thirty. However, meeting this skuld does rely

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Speaker 2: on women continuing to get the cervical screening test. So

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Speaker 2: you can swipe up in our insta stories more information

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Speaker 2: on this.

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Speaker 1: We've spoken a lot in the last few days about

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Speaker 1: travel bubbles, and yesterday Prime Minister Scott Morrison came out

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Speaker 1: and flags the idea that home quarantine could be on

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Speaker 1: the cards for Australia if the States and territories agree.

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Speaker 1: This comes at the same time that the National Cabinet,

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Speaker 1: which we discussed in our podcast last week, is now

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Speaker 1: meeting twice a week and we can expect to see

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Speaker 1: some of these policy decisions around entry and exit into

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Speaker 1: the country move a little faster. Theavrid into the Australian

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Speaker 1: government requesting a review into the policy the government has

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Speaker 1: on the return of Australian citizens overseas. To give you

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Speaker 1: a little bit of context, DEFAT, which is the Department

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Speaker 1: of Foreign Affairs and Trade, estimates there's about thirty six

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Speaker 1: thousand Australians who remain stranded overseas due to government enforced

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Speaker 1: travel caps. However, advocates for Australians overseas say that number

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Speaker 1: could be a lot higher. Many Australians have chosen not

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Speaker 1: to register because to do so they must sign a

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Speaker 1: waiver that prevents them from taking legal action against the

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Speaker 1: government in the future. The top five countries with Australians

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Speaker 1: attempting to be repatriated which may is to return home India,

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Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, the United States, the Philippines and Thailand.

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Speaker 2: So how did the UN actually find out about this

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Speaker 2: case when they're seemingly so many issues going on at

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Speaker 2: a global level.

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Speaker 1: So it all started from the website strandedozsis dot org

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Speaker 1: and this has become a hub for Australians overseas to

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Speaker 1: chat amongst themselves about how best to get back into Australia.

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Speaker 1: Their two complainants, Jason, George and Alex whose last name

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Speaker 1: has been withheld, decided to take it a step further

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Speaker 1: and represent the group in a petition that they put

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Speaker 1: to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. They got one

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Speaker 1: of Australia's highest profile lawyers to represent them, and his

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Speaker 1: name is Jeffrey Robertson and his other big client at

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Speaker 1: the moment is Julian Assange. So basically the core of

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Speaker 1: the argument is this Australia is breaching a really important

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Speaker 1: human rights law that state no one shall be arbitrarily

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Speaker 1: deprived of the right to enter his own country. They're

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Speaker 1: arguing that Australia's limit on passengers coming in, which is

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Speaker 1: about six thousand a week, is a violation of that

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Speaker 1: policy as it's an arbitrary number. The government, on the

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Speaker 1: other hand, would argue that Australia's limited quarantine system has

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Speaker 1: been part of the secret source that's allowed Australia to

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Speaker 1: remain one of the luckier countries in the global pandemic.

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Speaker 2: Are these types of requests usually acted upon or listen

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Speaker 2: to what happens from here? Is this just something that

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Speaker 2: will continue to be an issue until hotel quarantine is

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Speaker 2: lifted or until the mandatory caps are lifted. What happens next?

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Speaker 1: So if you go deep into the letter that the

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Speaker 1: Human Rights Council sent to the Australian government, essentially how

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Speaker 1: it frames the argument is telling the government that if

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Speaker 1: they don't act now, there's going to be a reparable

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Speaker 1: damage to Australians stuck overseas. From that, we can kind

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Speaker 1: of conclude that the letter is a slap on the wrist. Really,

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Speaker 1: it's not with any enforceable action. There's no sort of

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Speaker 1: tariffs that are going to be enforced by the international

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Speaker 1: community because of it. But it's not a good look

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Speaker 1: on the world stage. I do want to reiterate that

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Speaker 1: according to the government, they are making every attempt possi

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Speaker 1: to bring home all Australians who are seeking to return

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Speaker 1: from overseas. That's why Prime Minister Scott Morrison talked this

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Speaker 1: week about the possibility of home quarantine for Australians that

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Speaker 1: have been vaccinated overseas. The problem is, of course, whether

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Speaker 1: the States accept such a measure as a valid form

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Speaker 1: of quarantine and can guarantee that they're not going to

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Speaker 1: close state boarders whenever there's a case of the mergers.

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Speaker 1: We've received a few messages on Instagram from Australians overseas

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Speaker 1: looking to get back home, and you can really understand

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Speaker 1: that there is a high level of anxiety around getting

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Speaker 1: back on Australian soil as Australia starts to emerge from

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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen pandemic. I think we're going to see

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Speaker 1: quite a few of these situations where you've got a

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Speaker 1: hardline approach to quarantine and to travel and to vaccinations

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Speaker 1: come into contact with the realities that people want to

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Speaker 1: get back together and back on the ground.

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Speaker 2: That is all we have time for today, but in

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