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Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody, Welcome to the Daily Ours another week,

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Speaker 1: Happy Monday. It is the seventh of February. For those

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Speaker 1: in the Eastern States. Sorry to hear that there was

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Speaker 1: a bit of a drenching for most of the country

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. Hopefully we see some better weather coming

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Speaker 1: in the week ahead. I'm joined today by our journalist

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Speaker 1: Mariah Lattice to take us through the news and then

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Speaker 1: she's going to walk us through the Freedom convoy from

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Speaker 1: Canada to Canberra exactly what's happening and why. But first, Mariah,

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Speaker 1: why don't you lead us with the biggest stories of

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Speaker 1: the week.

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Speaker 2: A five year old boy in Morocco has died after

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Speaker 2: being trapped in a well for five days. The boy, Rayan,

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Speaker 2: fell down a thirty two meter well outside of his

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Speaker 2: home last week. The rescue efforts gained a significant amount

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Speaker 2: of attention last week over the last few days, with

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Speaker 2: hundreds of residents gathering at the well, as well as

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Speaker 2: many following online in solidarity.

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Speaker 1: This is a story we've covered on Instagram and on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Over one hundred episodes of Joe Rogan podcast

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Speaker 1: has been deleted by Spotify after Rogan made an apology

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Speaker 1: video for using racial slurs throughout some of the episodes.

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Speaker 1: According to Bloomberg, it was Rogan's decision to remove the

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Speaker 1: episodes after conversations with the streaming company. All episodes were

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Speaker 1: recorded prior to the Spotify exclusive deal that Rogan signed.

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Speaker 2: Some big news out of the UK yesterday, Queen Elizabeth

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Speaker 2: released a statement on the future of the monarchy during

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Speaker 2: her Platinum Jubilee, confirming she wants Camilla to be known

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Speaker 2: as the Queen Consort when Charles becomes king. The Queen said,

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Speaker 2: when in the fullness of time my son Charles becomes king,

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Speaker 2: I know you will give him and his wife Camilla

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Speaker 2: the same support that you have given me.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news is a very green story. According

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Speaker 1: to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, carbon dioxide

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Speaker 1: emissions resulting from the sale of new cars in the

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Speaker 1: UK have dropped to the lowest level in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one after an increase in purchases of electric vehicles. Average

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Speaker 1: new CARCIO two emissions last year in the UK fell

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Speaker 1: by a whopping eleven point two percent. Last week, The

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Speaker 1: Dahlias reported on a story about a freedom convoy that

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Speaker 1: took place in Canberra over the weekend footage emerge of

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Speaker 1: thousands of people who are still in Canberra all those

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Speaker 1: days later. Protesters were at Old Parliament House predominantly protesting

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Speaker 1: against vaccine mandates. Super interesting story, Mariah, Can you take

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Speaker 1: me through the background of how the Freedom Convoy came about?

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Speaker 2: So individuals from across Australia, every stay and territory you

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Speaker 2: can think of, traveled to Canberra on January thirtieth, so

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Speaker 2: last week, protesting against vaccine and COVID nineteen related mandates.

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Speaker 2: The demonstration has been dubbed the Freedom Convoy, and the

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Speaker 2: protests come after a similar convoy actually occurred in Canada's

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Speaker 2: capital city of Ottawa. So, taking a step back further,

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Speaker 2: I'll take you through how the original protests started in Canada.

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Speaker 2: So for over a week now, large protests have broken

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Speaker 2: out in Canada due to vaccination measures that required unvaccinated

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Speaker 2: truck drivers to quarantine for fourteen days if they crossed

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Speaker 2: the US Canada border. The measure was implemented by Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister Justin Trudeau's government earlier this year, which then led

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Speaker 2: to the Freedom Convoy as we know it. The convoy

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Speaker 2: first began with truck drivers who had traveled starting in

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Speaker 2: British Columbia, then traveling to Ottawa to protest the measure

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Speaker 2: that the Trudeau government had introduced. The protest had then

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Speaker 2: turned into a wider demonstration against the Trudeau government and

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Speaker 2: COVID related measures. After a couple days of these ongoing protests,

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Speaker 2: the Otdawa Police announced that they had started investigating several

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Speaker 2: incidences that had occurred at the demonstrations. And this included

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Speaker 2: and I quote threatening, illegal, intimidating behavior to police, city

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Speaker 2: workers and other individuals, and damage to a city vehicle.

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Speaker 2: And that's how it's all began. And the protests over

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Speaker 2: in Canada are still actually ongoing.

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Speaker 1: One of the ways these protests have popped up in

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Speaker 1: my social feeds has been through their GoFundMe campaigns. I've

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Speaker 1: seen one for the Canadian protests and the Australian protests

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Speaker 1: in Canberra. But I know there's been some controversy around

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Speaker 1: the go fundme fundraisers. Are they still getting their funds

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Speaker 2: Yes and no. So over the weekend we found out

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Speaker 2: that the GoFundMe fundraiser in Canada, which is separate to

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Speaker 2: the one that occurred in Australia, was blocked by GoFundMe itself.

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Speaker 2: The company explained in a statement that the demonstrations in

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Speaker 2: Canada had begun peacefully, but the company then announced that

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Speaker 2: it had received later reports of confirmed violence and other

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Speaker 2: unlawful activity within the protests that then had violated the

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Speaker 2: terms and service of GoFundMe, and that fundraiser actually had

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Speaker 2: raised nine million dollars at the time that it was paused,

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Speaker 2: but because of that violation, it has since been paused

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Speaker 2: and I believe go fundme within seven to ten days

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Speaker 2: will be refunding all of those who donated, and then separately,

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Speaker 2: as we know that the Australian Freedom Convoy is sort

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Speaker 2: of a direct copy of what's going on in Canada,

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Speaker 2: the Australian Convoy had also set up a go fundme fundraiser. However,

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Speaker 2: the company announced that it had paused that fundraiser as

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Speaker 2: the group had not yet proved how the funds were

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Speaker 2: going to be spent, so GoFundMe requires proof of that,

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Speaker 2: and had paused the fundraiser at one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars on the first day of the Australian Convoy.

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Speaker 1: Talk to me more about the Australian aspects to this.

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Speaker 1: What's happened over the weekend in Canberra and across Australia.

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Speaker 2: It was a pretty big weekend for the Australian Convoy

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Speaker 2: and as we know it is still ongoing. There was

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Speaker 2: significant turnout with thousands of protesters. I believe police think

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Speaker 2: it was around two thousand protesters and they gathered outside

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Speaker 2: of Old Parliament House in Canberra yesterday. There were reports

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Speaker 2: of significant traffic delays in Canberra as well as a

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Speaker 2: result of the convoys, so the disruptions that it was

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Speaker 2: hoping to occur have actually happened. ACT Police also had

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Speaker 2: confirmed that one protester was arrested after she allegedly assaulted

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Speaker 2: police officers. Two men who interfered with her arrest were

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Speaker 2: also charged. Along with what happened in Canberra, there were

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Speaker 2: also reports of solidarity events around the country for those

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Speaker 2: who couldn't attend the rallies in Canberra. There were also

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Speaker 2: some recognizable faces at the convoy in Canberra as well.

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Speaker 2: MP George Christensen was in attendance, as well as United

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Speaker 2: Australia Party leader Craig Kelly. The following audio is from

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Speaker 2: Christians and social media live stream of the event gooday,

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Speaker 2: George Christensen.

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Speaker 3: Here, I'm at Cambridge, just outside Old Parliament House and have.

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Speaker 1: A look at this crowd.

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Speaker 3: Have a look at it?

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Speaker 1: Would you goes back?

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Speaker 3: As far as I can say, thouands of people here,

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Speaker 3: literally thousands of people here from all walks of life.

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Speaker 2: Minister for Home Affairs Karen Andrews also had a bit

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Speaker 2: to say about Christiansen's participation at the rally on ABC's

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Speaker 2: Insiders yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I don't agree with many of the views

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Speaker 3: that George has been espousing of late. I don't think

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Speaker 3: that it's appropriate for him to be attending those sorts

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Speaker 3: of rallies. But he is a member of Parliament. He

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about quite a different cohort, if you want

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Speaker 3: to call it that, and that's violent extremisms and I

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Speaker 3: don't think that anyone would put George Christensen in that category.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be really interesting to see how long

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Speaker 1: these protests continue for. I like that you gave all

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Speaker 1: of those parallels between Canada and Canbra and we do

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Speaker 1: know that the number of protesters in Canberra, and we

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Speaker 1: do know that the number of protesters in Ottawa dwindled

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Speaker 1: to only a couple of hundred mid last week, after

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Speaker 1: peaking at that several thousands figure last weekend. Whether Australia's

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Speaker 1: protests will follow the same pattern remains unclear, But if

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Speaker 1: you're traveling to or from or around Camber at the moment,

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Speaker 1: you are undoubtedly going to recognize their presence. That's all

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Speaker 1: we've got time for on the Daily ODS this sunny

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Speaker 1: Monday morning. Have a fantastic week. If you want to

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