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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: the fourteenth of June. I hope those who had a

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Speaker 1: long weekend had a sensational one and no, there was

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Speaker 1: a lot of people working over the weekend, so I

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Speaker 1: hope it was pleasant for those people as well. Zara.

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Speaker 1: Another big week of news ahead of us. Today on

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Speaker 1: the podcast, we're going to be bringing you up to

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Speaker 1: speed with the latest in gun control regulations from the US,

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Speaker 1: but first bring us some news from New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: To kick us off.

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Speaker 2: New South Wales Premier Dominique Perrote used the long weekend

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Speaker 2: to bring up some old party plans that he had

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Speaker 2: when he was Treasurer, and that is to scrap stamp

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Speaker 2: duty over the weekend. He called it the worst tax

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Speaker 2: that any government can have and also said that stamp

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Speaker 2: duty is a massive impediment for people getting into the

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Speaker 2: housing market. He plans to advocate instead for an annual

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Speaker 2: broad based land tax, so that would be instead of

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Speaker 2: paying that stamp duty sum.

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Speaker 1: A new study by Amnesty International has found the Russian

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Speaker 1: forces have killed hundreds of civilians in the Ukraine city

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Speaker 1: of Kharkiv using indiscriminate shelling and cluster munitions. They're like

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Speaker 1: a group of bombs. According to the report, the bombardments

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Speaker 1: are indiscriminate attacks that constitute war crimes.

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Speaker 2: Moving over to New Zealand now and new data has

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Speaker 2: found that threats against New Zealand Prime Minister de Cindra

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Speaker 2: Adern have almost tripled over the last three years. It's

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Speaker 2: understood that anti vaccine sentiment and opposition to new gun

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Speaker 2: laws that were brought in after the christ Church massacre

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Speaker 2: were behind the majority of the threats.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news, Australia's first Indigenous Supreme Court Judge

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Crowley has been sworn in at a public ceremony

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Speaker 1: in Brisbane. Crowley said he was extremely proud and humbled Zara.

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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, the Daily Os reported on legislation that

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Speaker 1: had passed in US Lower House around gun control. Now,

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Speaker 1: we had to be very careful with our wording on

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Speaker 1: this first slide to set expectations for readers. The front

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Speaker 1: slide of the piece read the un US Lower House

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Speaker 1: has voted for stronger gun laws, but it's expected to

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Speaker 1: be blocked by the Senate. I guess this was us

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Speaker 1: making clear from the outset that the iteration of the

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Speaker 1: bill that had passed the House of Reps wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to make it through to the Senate. So since that time,

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Speaker 1: we've gotten news from the US that it looks like

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Speaker 1: some gun control measures could pass. So let's start from

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Speaker 1: square one with this discussion with the Protecting Our Kids Act, Zara.

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Speaker 1: This is what passed the Lower House last week, and

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Speaker 1: it included for the US fairly major measures in the

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Speaker 1: context of gun control.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really did. And that caveat that it was

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Speaker 2: big for the US is important to add because it's

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Speaker 2: not really big for anywhere else. But the Protecting Our

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Speaker 2: Kids Act was introduced to US Congress, and that was

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Speaker 2: at a time where it was less than a week

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Speaker 2: after the shooting at rob Elementary School in Texas. Their

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Speaker 2: nineteen students and two teachers were killed. So this act

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Speaker 2: aimed to raise the age for buying a semi automatic

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Speaker 2: rifle to twenty one and to ban selling ammunition magazines

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Speaker 2: with a capacity greater than fifteen rounds. Beyond raising the age,

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Speaker 2: the Act also looked to establish new federal criminal offenses

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Speaker 2: for gun trafficking and a federal framework to regulate guns

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Speaker 2: without serial numbers, all very logical things here. Under the Act,

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Speaker 2: the shooters in Uvaldi and Buffalo, who were both eighteen

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Speaker 2: years old, wouldn't have been able to purchase the semi

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Speaker 2: automatic weapons that they both used in their respective attacks. Now,

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Speaker 2: the good news was that this legislation passed two hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty three votes to two hundred and four votes.

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Speaker 2: All but two Democrats supported the legislation and on the

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Speaker 2: filip side, all but five Republicans opposed it. So it

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Speaker 2: was fairly split down partisan lines.

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Speaker 1: And so this means that the legislation goes to the

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Speaker 1: Senate in order for it to become law. It's a

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Speaker 1: similar system to what we have here, that the law

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Speaker 1: travels from the House of Reps and the checks and

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Speaker 1: balances of the Senate gives it the tick. Now, given

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Speaker 1: that most Republicans opposed the bill in the lower House,

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Speaker 1: I imagine that this is the same as well happened

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's entirely right. And it's important here to

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Speaker 2: understand the composition of the Senate. We've spoken about it

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Speaker 2: before on this podcast, and we spoke about it in

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Speaker 2: the context of why it has stopped President Barden from

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Speaker 2: taking sweeping action on things like gun control. The short

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Speaker 2: story here is that in order for the Democrats to

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Speaker 2: pass legislation, they need at least ten Republicans to vote

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Speaker 2: with them, and that's in order to overcome the threat

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Speaker 2: of a filibuster. A filibuster is not something we have

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Speaker 2: in Australia, but it basically just allows a politician to

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Speaker 2: endlessly talk in order to obstruct the passage of a

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Speaker 2: piece of legislation. Now, with that context, let's talk about

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Speaker 2: Monday morning, Australian time, when it was announced that a

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Speaker 2: bipartisan group of senators had agreed on a framework that

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Speaker 2: would regulate firearms with enough Republican support to advance in

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Speaker 2: the narrowly divided Senate. So this bipartisan, which means that

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Speaker 2: both sides were involved in creating it. That bipartisan agreement

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Speaker 2: those ten Republicans on side. The group said in a

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Speaker 2: statement today, we are announcing a common sense, bipartisan proposal

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Speaker 2: to protect America's children, keep our school safe, and reduce

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Speaker 2: the threat of violence across our country.

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Speaker 1: And so, does this mean that that group has agreed

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Speaker 1: to the Protecting Our Kids Act? Is the agreement that

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Speaker 1: is in front of these bipartisan group of senators. Now

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Speaker 1: the same one as the bill that we started this

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Speaker 2: It looks very different, so it's not the same at all.

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Speaker 2: At a high level, the pan includes three major elements.

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Speaker 2: It includes support for red flag laws, so that keeps

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Speaker 2: guns away from potentially dangerous people and basically just allows

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Speaker 2: courts to issue in order that authorizes police to confiscate

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Speaker 2: guns from people that they say would be displaying concerning behavior.

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Speaker 2: So there's that red flag law that is number one.

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Speaker 2: Then number two. It also introduces tougher criminal background checks

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Speaker 2: for buyers under the age of twenty one. Now you'll

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Speaker 2: remember when we were talking about this at the beginning,

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Speaker 2: Democrats wanted to raise the age from eighteen to twenty one.

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Speaker 2: That is not the case in this agreement, but it does,

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Speaker 2: as I just said, include tougher background checks for those

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Speaker 2: younger people. There's also a crackdown on people buying firearms

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Speaker 2: for others who wouldn't pass a background check. I didn't

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Speaker 2: know this was a thing. It's called straw purchasing, and

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Speaker 2: the idea is that this behavior would be cracked down

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Speaker 2: on and would be a focus in the United States.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty clear that this falls well short of what

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Speaker 1: the Democrats were hoping to achieve in terms of stricter

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Speaker 2: It definitely does, but the plan has been praised by

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Speaker 2: President Biden as a quote step in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: It shows a willingness by Republicans to at least take

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Speaker 2: some action, even if it doesn't go as far as

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Speaker 2: Democrats would like. But it is important to say here

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Speaker 2: that it's far from a done deal. From here, the

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Speaker 2: bill will actually have to be written, and getting the

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Speaker 2: wording right will be really important. As we've said a

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Speaker 2: number of times throughout this podcast, the key here is

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Speaker 2: that Democrats need to keep all of those Republicans on

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Speaker 2: vote with them. There will be a lot of pressure

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Speaker 2: both from internally in the Republican Party externally from lobbyists

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Speaker 2: like the NRA trying to sway the outcome of this

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Speaker 2: bipartisan work. So it is far from a done deal,

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Speaker 2: but both sides will be keen to get it done

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Speaker 2: in some form, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: We will have to wait and see to see if

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Speaker 1: these modest changes actually do see the light of day,

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Speaker 1: But I think it's clear now that something needs to

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Speaker 1: be done in the US. I read a stat yesterday

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Speaker 1: from the Gun Violence Archive that said there has been

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Speaker 1: a mass shooting in the US every day this month

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Speaker 1: except one every single day.

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Speaker 2: It is shocking and it's no doubt something American voters

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Speaker 2: cared deeply about. And it'll be very interesting to see

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Speaker 2: what happens during the mid terms later this year in

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Speaker 2: November and whether or not gun control becomes an electoral issue.

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Speaker 2: It comes up time and time again in the news

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Speaker 2: side and then never seems to really stick electorally. So

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Speaker 2: a lot of people, especially on the progressive side of politics,

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Speaker 2: are asking people to only vote for those the will

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Speaker 2: enact stronger gun control measures, but whether or not that

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Speaker 2: actually happens remains to be seen.

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Speaker 1: Somehow, we find ourselves in mid June, so the November

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Speaker 1: midterms are not too far away. That's all we've got

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