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Speaker 1: It's Friday. Everyone. Welcome to the Daily Ods. My name

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Speaker 1: is Sam and joining me today to tell us the

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Speaker 1: headlines that they're going to see us into the weekend

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Speaker 1: is Zara. I am particularly pumped because tonight we are

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Speaker 1: kicking off the Tokyo Olympic Games. Zara, what's making headlines

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Speaker 1: here at home?

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Speaker 2: First up, we've got a COVID update for the country.

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Speaker 2: New South Wales yesterday recorded a record high of one

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty four locally acquired cases and forty eight

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Speaker 2: of those cases were infectious in the community. When pressed

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Speaker 2: on weather, the Premier was still looking to get to

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Speaker 2: that zero transmission. Here's what Glvesbara Jactulyan had to say

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Speaker 2: about the Delta variant.

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Speaker 3: There's no doubt that Delta has been in every single

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Speaker 3: jurisdiction in the world. But that's why we've always sit

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Speaker 3: in New South Wales that we want to get close

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Speaker 3: to zero in terms of the numbers of people infectious

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Speaker 3: in the community.

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Speaker 2: Also, in Victoria there were twenty six locally acquired cases,

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Speaker 2: but the good news was that all of them were

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Speaker 2: linked and twenty four of those cases where in isolation

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Speaker 2: throughout their infectious period. So as we've been saying this

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Speaker 2: whole time. This is the new number that health authorities

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Speaker 2: are really focusing on. Over in South Australia, there were

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Speaker 2: two locally acquired cases of COVID nineteen as the state

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Speaker 2: entered another day of lockdown.

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Speaker 4: I take responsibility for the vaccination program. I also take

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Speaker 4: responsibility for the challenges we've had. Obviously, some things were

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Speaker 4: then out control, some things that are not, and I'm

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Speaker 4: keen to ensure as we have been over these many

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Speaker 4: months that we've been turning this around. I'm certainly sorry

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Speaker 4: that we haven't been able to achieve the marks that

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Speaker 4: we had hoped for. At the beginning of this year.

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Speaker 1: That was Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologizing for the Federal

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Speaker 1: government's role in the vaccine roll out this year. There's

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Speaker 1: been a little bit of media games this week getting

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister to say the words sorry. It started

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Speaker 1: on FM radio and it's gone across two press conferences,

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Speaker 1: culminating in yesterday. Morrison also announced that by the end

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Speaker 1: of the month, an additional four hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 1: around Australia are going to be able to administer the

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Speaker 1: astrosenica vaccine. There's currently one hundred and eighteen pharmacies around

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Speaker 1: Australia vaccinating the community.

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Speaker 2: So we're now talking about international news and France has

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Speaker 2: introduced a health pass that shows proof of a COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen vaccination or a negative test after the country saw

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Speaker 2: a rise in cases from the Delta variant. This health pass,

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Speaker 2: which is kind of similar to a vaccine passport, will

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Speaker 2: be required for cinemas, museums, sport venues and places catering

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Speaker 2: to more than fifty people. The introduction has triggered countrywide protests,

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Speaker 2: with over one hundred thousand people taking to the streets

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Speaker 2: on Sunday, which doesn't seem overly conducive when there is

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Speaker 2: an outbreak. Past was initially for large scale festivals or

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Speaker 2: for clubbing, but it's now been expanded in the wake

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Speaker 2: of this outbreak.

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Speaker 1: And the good news we are expecting a massive TV

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Speaker 1: audience for the Olympic Games opening ceremony, which starts tonight

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Speaker 1: at about eight thirty pm Eastern Standard time. The preliminary

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Speaker 1: events have actually begun already. We've had softball and Soco

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Speaker 1: already kickoff.

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Speaker 5: Sam, did you watch the softball answer?

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I am well versed in Australian softball. Now thanks

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Speaker 1: to these preliminary sports.

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Speaker 2: Anyone who knows me knows that I am not the

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Speaker 2: most well versed when it comes to sport. And though

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Speaker 2: Sam has been speaking about the Olympics every single day

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Speaker 2: leading up to today, I have been ignoring him for

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Speaker 2: the most part. I was thinking, however, the other day,

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Speaker 2: about the fact that I don't actually know how countries

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Speaker 2: and cities are chosen to host the Olympics. And obviously

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Speaker 2: we saw the good news about Brisbane being the host

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Speaker 2: city in twenty thirty two. But Sam, I did want

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Speaker 2: you to just run through how that happens and why cities.

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Speaker 5: I mean, obviously there's an economic.

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Speaker 2: Imperative, but why cities are so eager to host the games?

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Speaker 1: On the loving of the Olympics front, I will convert

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Speaker 1: you in a matter of days once you see a

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Speaker 1: flurry of activity on your TV screen, besides the fact

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Speaker 1: that you can't actually leave your house so you have

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Speaker 1: to watch it. Okay, So here's a quick summary on

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Speaker 1: how the host city is picked for the Olympic Games.

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Speaker 1: There was basically an old way and then in twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen it changed to a new way. Here's a quick

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Speaker 1: summary of the new way. Until recently, cities wanting to

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Speaker 1: that would often cost three or four million dollars to compile.

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Speaker 5: Why does a proposal cost four million dollars?

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Speaker 1: It costs that much because there was this culture of

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Speaker 1: have legendary stories of IOC the International Olympic Committee representatives

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Speaker 1: traveling to a host city candidate to check it out

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Speaker 1: and finding a beautiful diamond necklace under their pillows, and

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Speaker 1: that's how some of the costs come up. There was

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Speaker 1: massive lobbying efforts that were done all within the rules,

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Speaker 1: so it wasn't even a matter of corruption. It would

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Speaker 1: just was. There was not much regulation around the system.

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Speaker 1: This crazy bidding process culminated in a vote from the

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Speaker 1: Executive Board of the IOC, and it was always pretty

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Speaker 1: clear which country would win well before they were announced

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Speaker 1: as the host. That bit, interestingly hasn't actually changed. What

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Speaker 1: has changed is how much transparency there is in the system.

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Speaker 1: There is a big focus on ideas such as a

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Speaker 1: country's human rights record and the environmental considerations that a

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Speaker 1: candidate city can offer. So the process can begin as

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Speaker 1: early as you know, fourteen to fifteen years before the

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Speaker 1: Olympic Games, I mean Brisbane have just been announced. It's

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Speaker 1: in eleven years time, and their process has been about

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Speaker 1: two or three years. What happens is that a future

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Speaker 1: Host Commission is made up. There's actually two of them,

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Speaker 1: and they're interested parties around the world kind of come

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Speaker 1: together to launch informal and confidential exchanges with potential IOC

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Speaker 1: voting members. So that's basically when they table their interest

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Speaker 1: and there you can get kind of four or five

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Speaker 1: is why it's where the first checks and balances around

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Speaker 1: things like if it's possible to construct the venues that

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Speaker 1: costs going to be manageable, and if there's environmental and

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Speaker 1: human rights considerations that need to be discussed. After that,

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Speaker 1: the IOC Executive Boards targets a couple of cities to

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Speaker 1: enter into a more direct dialogue. It's at the end

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Speaker 1: IOC's Preferred City, and that's a city that the IOC

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Speaker 1: names before the vote, saying we want this city to

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Speaker 5: And that happened with Brisbane, right it did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So leading into the vote on Wednesday night, Brisbane

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Speaker 1: was the IOC preferred city. And quite often what you'll see,

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Speaker 1: the days before and Olympic Games in another city. I

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Speaker 1: think one of the key differences between the new system

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Speaker 1: that there's no big pitch event. There's no kind of

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Speaker 1: a continuous dialogue. So an IOC member might travel four

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Speaker 1: or five times to a potential host city to check

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Speaker 1: them out before the games, and that actually, in a

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Speaker 1: funny way, reduces the costs because there's no extravagant affair

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Speaker 1: discussions and the forming of a relationship to find out

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Speaker 1: which city is best to host the games. In terms

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Speaker 1: the Olympics, there's a couple of key reasons. So the

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Speaker 1: first of which which we cannot ignore, is economic. It

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Speaker 1: is a massive economic boost. Brisbane is expected to have

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Speaker 1: about thirteen billion dollars of tourism, money and attention streaming

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Speaker 1: it also does is it inflates property prices in the area,

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Speaker 1: It helps businesses, and it makes people want to set

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Speaker 1: up shop in Brisbane, so it often leads to massive

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Speaker 1: amount of economic growth in the years before and after.

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Speaker 1: Sydney's a great example of the lasting economic effect of

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Speaker 1: the Olympic Games. The other reasons, though less tangible, and

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Speaker 1: they're more around morale and national identity and positioning the

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Speaker 1: country to be a leader in hosting international events. You'll

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Speaker 1: often see the fact that the country's hosted the Olympics

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Speaker 1: come up in applications to host the fee for World

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Speaker 1: Cup or another global event, or even political forums like

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Speaker 1: an APEC conference or a G seven conference. It's all

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Speaker 1: about positioning yourself to be capable of executing such a

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Speaker 5: Here's to hoping that by twenty thirty two.

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Speaker 2: Our borders are open, we don't have lockdowns, and we

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Speaker 2: are fully vaxxed.

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Speaker 5: On that note, we hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

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Speaker 2: If you are in lockdown, take care of yourself and

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Speaker 2: enjoy the Olympics coverage all weekend.

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Speaker 5: We will be here with you on Instagram. We will

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Speaker 5: chat to you on Monday,