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Speaker 1: A very happy Tuesday, and welcome to the Daily OHS.

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Speaker 1: Today is the sixteenth of November. I'm Zara Seidler. I'm

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Speaker 1: joined by Sam Kozowski and today we are taking you

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Speaker 1: through the day's top stories. Sam kick us off.

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Speaker 2: New South Wales police have announced they have new evidence

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Speaker 2: in the disappearance of William Tyrrel and are now quote

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Speaker 2: looking for his remains hundreds of police who will return

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Speaker 2: to the New South Wales mid North coast where he

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Speaker 2: went missing from for a quote high intensity search. Detective

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Speaker 2: Chief Superintendent Darren Bennett said on Monday it's highly likely

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Speaker 2: that if we found something, it would be a body.

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that the Glasgow agreement

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Speaker 1: to phase down COLE will not spell the end of

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Speaker 1: the coal industry here in Australia. On Monday, he said

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Speaker 1: for all of those who are working in that industry

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Speaker 1: in Australia, they'll continue to be working in that industry

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Speaker 1: for decades to come. The comments do contradict, however, the

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Speaker 1: words of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said the

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Speaker 1: agreement sounded the death knell for coal power.

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Speaker 2: An update from Houston, Texas, a nine year old boy

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Speaker 2: has passed away from injuries sustained at Travis Scott's Astro

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Speaker 2: World Music Festival, becoming the youngest person to die following

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Speaker 2: the crowd search. The death toll from the concert is

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Speaker 2: now ten people.

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Speaker 1: There is some good news for all our South Australian

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Speaker 1: listeners or people trying to head into the state. Premier

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Speaker 1: Stephen Marshall has announced that fully vaccinated people entering the

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Speaker 1: state of South Australia will only have to quarantine for

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Speaker 1: seven days if they're identified as a close contact of

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Speaker 1: a positive case. From the twenty third of November.

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Speaker 2: We got news yesterday that Austria has introduced a nationwide

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Speaker 2: lockdown for all people aged twelve and older who are

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Speaker 2: not fully vaccinated against COVID nineteen. The lockdown comes as

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Speaker 2: the country has reported record high case numbers, with a

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Speaker 2: seven day average of over ten thousand cases a day.

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Speaker 2: The situation in Austria is about sixty five percent of

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Speaker 2: the nation's population has had both doses. Basically, the chain

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Speaker 2: in Austria means that unvaxxed people are only going to

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Speaker 2: be able to leave home for essential reasons such as

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Speaker 2: visiting the doctor. It really feels like a similar set

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Speaker 2: of restrictions as we had here in New South Wales

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Speaker 2: and Victoria at the height of the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: So now that we're looking at a post COVID vaccinated world,

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Speaker 1: the sentiment has shifted quite dramatically. We've seen it in

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Speaker 1: the way that things are reported in the priorities of governments.

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Speaker 1: We're clearly looking at vaccination as the key metric for

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Speaker 1: how a society can operate in a post COVID world.

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Speaker 1: So what we know is that unvaccinated people are five

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Speaker 1: times more likely than those who are vaccinated to be

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Speaker 1: infected by COVID nineteen and ten times more likely to

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Speaker 1: die from COVID nineteen. So that's from the CDC, which

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Speaker 1: is of course the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Speaker 2: Here's what the CDC director said about the pandemic of

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Speaker 2: the unvaccinated.

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Speaker 3: There is a clear message that is coming through. This

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Speaker 3: is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. We are seeing

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Speaker 3: outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have

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Speaker 3: low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk and

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Speaker 3: communities that are fully vaccinated are generally faring well.

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Speaker 2: It kind of taps into rehtoric that started in the

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Speaker 2: US but is clearly here in Australia as well, that

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Speaker 2: the next stage of the pandemic is going to be

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Speaker 2: a pandemic of the unvaccinated. And we're seeing a really

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Speaker 2: interesting situation play out in Germany, where The New York

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Speaker 2: Times noted that there's essentially a fourth wave of COVID

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Speaker 2: cases producing tens of thousands of new daily infections just

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Speaker 2: over the border from Austria, and it's more than the

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Speaker 2: country has had at any point in the pandemic. The

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Speaker 2: key finding from the New York Times report is that

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Speaker 2: it is the unvaccinated who are contributing most to the

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Speaker 2: wave of infections now burdening hospitals across the country. One

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Speaker 2: in three Germans are not yet fully vaccinated, and the

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Speaker 2: German vaccination rate is amongst the lowest in Western Europe.

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Speaker 2: So Zara last week we saw a lockout of unvaccinated

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Speaker 2: people in the Northern Territory, which to my mind is

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Speaker 2: sort of the most similar situy suation to that of

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Speaker 2: Western Europe and that of Austria, And it was interesting

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Speaker 2: to look around the world to see how different countries

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Speaker 2: are dealing with their unvaccinated population. We haven't seen lockouts

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Speaker 2: like we did in Austria and in Northern Territory across

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Speaker 2: the world, and there's actually some different ways that countries

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Speaker 2: are creating policies around it. What other examples are out there.

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Speaker 1: I think that the one that comes to mind first

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Speaker 1: is what the Singaporean government has done. So last Monday,

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Speaker 1: they announced that they'll stop covering medical bills for people

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Speaker 1: who are unvaccinated by choice after December eighth this year.

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Speaker 1: So that means that if you have access to the

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Speaker 1: vaccine and no reasonable exemption and you then get COVID nineteen,

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Speaker 1: you have to pay for any medical expenses that you incur.

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Speaker 1: And this is quite a big change of policy because

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Speaker 1: the Singaporean government until now has been footing the bill

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Speaker 1: for all COVID nineteen related medical expenses.

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Speaker 2: I think it's fair to say that every state government,

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Speaker 2: and indeed the federal government in Australia is grappling with

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Speaker 2: this idea of how long to block out unvaccinated people.

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Speaker 2: Epidemiologist Tony Blakeley and Professor Sharon Lewin, who's one of

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Speaker 2: the leading experts in public health in Australia, said that

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Speaker 2: once Australia hit ninety percent double dosed and infections had

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Speaker 2: reduced significantly. It would be unethical at that point to

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Speaker 2: keep the people who are unvaccinated out of society, but

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Speaker 2: it's a mechanism that would need to be turned off

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Speaker 2: and on with outbreaks. It's a fascinating issue that as

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Speaker 2: a society we're going to have to deal with in

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Speaker 2: the months and years going forward.

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Speaker 1: There was certainly a lot of chatter on our post

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Speaker 1: about this on Instagram. Once people came to terms with

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Speaker 1: the fact that we were not talking about Australia but

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Speaker 1: rather Austria, there was some pretty heated debate. It seems

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Speaker 1: to be an issue that is deeply divisive. At least

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Speaker 1: if our comment section is anything to go by, it'll

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Speaker 1: no doubt play a massive role in the future of

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Speaker 1: public policy and government decision makings, so it's certainly an

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Speaker 1: important one to think about. On that note, we will

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