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Speaker 1: Today is not only the twenty eighth of June, but

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Speaker 1: it is also the ninety sixth episode of the Daily

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Speaker 1: Os and it's the first one that Zara and I

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Speaker 1: are not together. Good morning everyone, Welcome to Monday. I'm

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Speaker 1: Sam and across the other side of Sydney's Eastern suburbs

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Speaker 1: is Zara. Zara, how are you going?

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Speaker 2: I am going. Well, it sounds like we are separated

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Speaker 2: by lots and lots of water, but really it's three hundred.

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Speaker 1: Meters it is. And that's what we're going to be

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Speaker 1: talking about today. We've got Sydney in lockdown.

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Speaker 2: We have got COVID warnings in the NT and.

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Speaker 1: WA finally have a little bit of good news about

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Speaker 1: vaccines and.

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Speaker 2: A chat about what the hell has happened in Australia

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Speaker 2: with COVID nineteen this weekend here Today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: So there were thirty new locally acquired COVID nineteen cases

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Speaker 1: announced yesterday here in New South Wales, and all cases

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Speaker 1: were linked to the Bondi cluster. Health authorities are expecting

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Speaker 1: to see a surge in cases over the coming days.

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Speaker 1: That's because close contacts and families have already infected individuals

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Speaker 1: will test positive in the next three or four days

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Speaker 1: while they're in isolation. Gladys sparagically and warns that things

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Speaker 1: could get worse before they got better.

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Speaker 3: I also do want a foreshadow that, given how contagious

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Speaker 3: this strain of the virus is, we do anticipate that

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Speaker 3: in the next few days case numbers are likely to

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Speaker 3: increase even beyond what we've seen today because we are

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Speaker 3: seeing that people in isolation, unfortunately will have already transmitted

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Speaker 3: to all of their household contacts. So we do want

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Speaker 3: to anticipate that case numbers will increase.

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Speaker 2: So as we were dealing with the news of thirty

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Speaker 2: new cases in New South Wales, there was something unfolding

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Speaker 2: in the Northern Territory, and that was that the Darwin,

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Speaker 2: Palmerston and Litchfield local government areas in the NT went

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Speaker 2: into a forty eight hour lockdown after four new locally

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Speaker 2: acquired COVID nineteen cases were recorded. Now all of these

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Speaker 2: are related to a worker at a gold mine whoted

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Speaker 2: positive to COVID nineteen on Friday. Here's Chief Minister Michael Gunner.

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Speaker 4: The Northern Territory is now facing its biggest threat. So

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Speaker 4: just the COVID crisis the game. The Security and Emergency

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Speaker 4: Management Committee meeting has just finished. There are a lot

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Speaker 4: of new developments that I need to update you on

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Speaker 4: relating to the positive case from the Tanami desert yesterday

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Speaker 4: and some extremely important decisions that will affect many territorians separately.

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Speaker 2: And because the Daily Is wasn't getting enough action on

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Speaker 2: Sunday as was, new restrictions have been introduced in Perth

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Speaker 2: and Appeal regions as well. So Stage one restrictions include

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Speaker 2: masks being worn indoors and outdoors where you can't socially distance,

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Speaker 2: and there's also a thirty person limit in homes.

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Speaker 1: For our first non COVID nineteen related news of the

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Speaker 1: week and only, and only, there was a federal ministry

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Speaker 1: reshuffle and that's all off the back of Barnaby Joyce

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Speaker 1: who was elected the new Leader of the Nationals and

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Speaker 1: Deputy Prime Minister last week.

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Speaker 2: So because Barnaby is now the new leader, he gets

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Speaker 2: to choose who he wants to join him on the

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Speaker 2: front BRNCH and it's usually that people that supported the

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Speaker 2: new leader in the spill are promoted in these roles,

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Speaker 2: So Sam take us through who we know was promoted.

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Speaker 1: So we've got Bridget mackenzie who's returned to the front

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Speaker 1: bench and she resigned during the Sports wrote saga last year,

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Speaker 1: while Andrew g not the Australian Idol host but the

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Speaker 1: National MP, will take on a new role as Minister

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Speaker 1: for Veterans Affairs.

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Speaker 2: And that one was actually pretty expected because the old

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Speaker 2: Minister for Veterans Affairs, who was Darren Chester, was very

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Speaker 2: closely aligned with Michael McCormack. So now he's moved back

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Speaker 2: to the backbench. Because it seems that everybody needs some

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Speaker 2: good COVID news, the federal government is planning to donate

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Speaker 2: a surplus of astrosenica vaccines to neighboring countries. A spokesperson

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Speaker 2: for the government said that the Australian Government has made

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Speaker 2: a commitment to support the countries in our region through

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Speaker 2: providing doses of COVID nineteen vaccines, and he's donating doses

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Speaker 2: of astrosenica to the region comes after PM Scott Morrison

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Speaker 2: said at the g seventh summit that he would donate

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Speaker 2: twenty million doses of board. So, as we alluded to

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Speaker 2: earlier in the podcast, it was a big weekend for

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen news. Not only was New South Wales waking

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Speaker 2: up to a new lockdown, but the NT entered a

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Speaker 2: short lockdown. Perth announced new restrictions. SA basically closed the

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Speaker 2: border to everyone else in Australia, including the Act. The

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Speaker 2: Act mandated that masks need to be worn indoors, even

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Speaker 2: though they've had no cases, and it was just a

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Speaker 2: bit of a maze really to try and understand what

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Speaker 2: was going on, where you can travel to, what the

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Speaker 2: latest was. And while going for socially distanced walks with friends,

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Speaker 2: the question kept coming up, how a year and a

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Speaker 2: half later, are we back here again.

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Speaker 1: I definitely sense, not only on social media but also

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Speaker 1: amongst people that I was talking to as well, a

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Speaker 1: real sense of anger, and I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: that anger went to the economic impact of lockdown as

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Speaker 1: well as the continuing health concerns amongst those who are unvaccinated,

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Speaker 1: and there's a massive number of unvaccinated people, especially young Australians.

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Speaker 2: That was a very unintentional segue, But what we wanted

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Speaker 2: to speak about today was the state of Australia's vaccine rollout,

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Speaker 2: because the idea is, and as we've seen across the world,

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Speaker 2: if you vaccinate enough of the community. Then although COVID

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Speaker 2: can still spread and we know this, it's likely to

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Speaker 2: have less of an intense health impact on those individuals

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Speaker 2: who contract it. We've seen the US especially really moved

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Speaker 2: to open up significantly, open up travel and basically lift

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Speaker 2: all its restrictions because so much of the population is

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Speaker 2: fully vaccinated. Here in Australia, we're in a different position.

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Speaker 2: So what we know is that seven million, three hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty six three hundred and twenty people have received

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Speaker 2: vaccine doses, and that is very well publicized by the

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Speaker 2: Australia government. It's on all the Health Department websites and

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Speaker 2: it's very easily accessible. What's not so accessible is how

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Speaker 2: many Australians are fully vaccinated or what percentage of the

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Speaker 2: Australian population is fully vaccinated. So Sam and I have

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Speaker 2: tried to do a deep dive on this many times

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Speaker 2: and we keep coming to this roadblock, which is that

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Speaker 2: there are so many conflicting statistics on how Australia is bearing.

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Speaker 1: It's been a really interesting experience as people who take

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Speaker 1: our responsibilities to get you guys the news really seriously

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Speaker 1: to not be able to find a statistic that you'd

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Speaker 1: expect to be front and center of every COVID vaccination report.

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Speaker 1: Based on the data that we've reviewed, the number that

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Speaker 1: keeps coming up is four point seven percent of Australia zara.

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Speaker 1: How does that place us in terms of the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, it's not a great picture. We are

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Speaker 2: far below the expectations that were set by the Australian

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Speaker 2: government itself, but also compared to our allies across the world.

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Speaker 2: So there are some countries like Israel, Iceland, Chile who

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Speaker 2: are vaccinated upwards of half of their population fully vaccinated.

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Speaker 2: There's Hungary, the UK, the US who are all sitting

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Speaker 2: just below that fifty percent mark. And then there's US

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Speaker 2: who has vaccinated four point seven percent of our population.

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Speaker 2: And of course we don't have the same impetus as

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Speaker 2: these other countries in terms of really high hospitalization rates

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Speaker 2: and really high death rates. But the narrative that has

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Speaker 2: been driven is that our country can only open up

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Speaker 2: when we are safe from COVID nineteen, and we know

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Speaker 2: that the way to protect ourselves from the impacts of

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen is to be fully vaccinated. So there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of frustration in the community about the fact that

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Speaker 2: our vaccine rollout is going so slowly and we're seeing

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Speaker 2: lockdowns in multiple states and territories simultaneously when we know

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Speaker 2: what the answer is here. And of course, there are

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Speaker 2: certain factors that have impacted the way that this rollout

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Speaker 2: has been implemented. Number one, of course being that the

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Speaker 2: health advice on astrosenica was not anticipated or expected, but

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Speaker 2: the under ordering of Pfizer and the fact that we

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Speaker 2: have known now for a number of months that much

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Speaker 2: of the young population will not be able to get

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Speaker 2: astrosenica means that there are a whole lot of people

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Speaker 2: our age who want the vaccine but will have to

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Speaker 2: wait a really, really long time for it. While lockdowns

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Speaker 2: are really inconvenient and can have great economic impacts on

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Speaker 2: small businesses especially, it's really been distilled this weekend why

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Speaker 2: we need the vaccine so significantly and so quickly, Because

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Speaker 2: this outbreak in the NT is very close to Aboriginal

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Speaker 2: communities who are more susceptible to the impacts of COVID nineteen,

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Speaker 2: and we've already seen the Northern Land Council restrict travel

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Speaker 2: into Aboriginal communities so that it's essential only for anti

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Speaker 2: government staff so that they can protect First Nations people,

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Speaker 2: so that they can protect First Nations people from the

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen outbreak.

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Speaker 1: Guys, I think it's going to be a really really

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Speaker 1: huge week of news, and it seems to be news

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Speaker 1: that's far reaching across the country and day by day,

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Speaker 1: almost hour by hour, more Australians are affected by lockdowns.

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Speaker 1: Our mission this week is going to be to keep

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Speaker 1: you up to speed with what you need to know,

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Speaker 1: when you need to know it as soon.

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Speaker 2: As I hope. That's our mission every week.

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Speaker 1: It's especially our mission when the news matters so much

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Speaker 1: to small businesses and people across the country. That's all

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Speaker 1: we've got time for today. Make sure to jump onto

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Speaker 1: Instagram and we'll keep you up to speed, especially when

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Speaker 1: messages from state and territory leaders come up throughout the day.

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Speaker 1: And I hope you're staying positive and testing negative