1 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily os. It's Tuesday, 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: the thirteenth of April. My name is Sam Kazlowski, and 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Zarisidelock. Making 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: news today, vaccine targets abandoned. 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 2: Further allegations for Ben Robert Smith. 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: Some good news about women in space, and. 7 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 3: A breakdown of the Senate inquiry into medium monopoly in Australia. 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 2: Here's today's daily digest. 9 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has abandoned the target of having 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: all Australians receive their first dose of COVID nineteen vaccines 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: by the end of the year, despite contracting twenty million 12 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,639 Speaker 1: doses of the FIZA vaccine. Morrison is refusing to put 13 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: a timeline and target on the new rollout plan. Trade 14 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 1: Minister Dan Teen addressed the roadblocks delaying the rollout, saying 15 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: we have to remember that we're dealing with a pandemic 16 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: and things can change. 17 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,319 Speaker 3: Seven Networks Senior executive and former Special Forces soldier Ben 18 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 3: Robert Smith has denied allegations he tried to cover up 19 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 3: police and military investigations into alleged war crimes. Channel nine, 20 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 3: through its program Sixty Minutes alleged he buried USB drives 21 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 3: containing lewd images in classified documents. Robert Smith released the statement, 22 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 3: saying the allegations were quote baseless. He's also suing Channel 23 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 3: nine newspapers over old stories from twenty eighteen that alleged 24 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 3: he committed war crimes in Afghanistan. 25 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: Homes were destroyed in western Australia's Midwest coast after extropical 26 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: cyclones Sir Roja tore through the area. The category three 27 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: storm has left twenty six thousand residents without power, with 28 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: wind gusts up to one hundred and seventy kilometers an hour. 29 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: Emergency services had received numerous calls, but were unable to 30 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: assist due to being forced indoors themselves. The storm has 31 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: now weakened below cyclone strength. 32 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 2: And some good news. 33 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 3: Noura al Matruschi has made history by becoming the first 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 3: woman astronaut from the United Arab Emirates. She said, this 35 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: nation gave me unforgettable moments. Today, I aimed to work 36 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 3: hard to script historical moments and achievements that will be 37 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 3: etched forever in the memory of our people. Armatrushi, along 38 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 3: with fellow astronaut Muhammad al Muller will train with NASA 39 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 3: for future space exploration. 40 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 4: What I want to speak to is the way in 41 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 4: which one media organization in Australia, the News Corp that 42 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 4: belonging to Rupert Murdoch and his family, has profoundly changed 43 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 4: in the way it works on our democracy. 44 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 3: So that was one of Australia's former Prime ministers, Malcolm Turnbull, 45 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 3: speaking at a Senate committee hearing yesterday. He was speaking 46 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 3: about Murdoch Media and the monopoly that Murdoch holds in the. 47 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 2: Australian media escape. 48 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 3: If this topic sounds familiar to you, it might be 49 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 3: because you signed a petition. 50 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: In November last year. 51 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 3: Another former Prime minister from the opposite side of politics, 52 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 3: Kevin Rudd, he started a petition to call for a 53 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 3: Royal commission into media ownership in Australia, specifically to focus 54 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 3: on Murdoch Media. While that petition wasn't sixvil in creating 55 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 3: a Royal commission, it did lead to the setting up 56 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 3: of a Senate inquiry into media ownership in Australia. 57 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: Just to bring everyone up to speed. What exactly do 58 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: you mean by Murdoch Media in Australia. 59 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 3: So when our former Prime Minister is Malcolm Churnbull and 60 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 3: Kevin Rudd. When they're talking about this perceived monopoly, they're 61 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 3: talking about the ownership of News Corp by. 62 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 2: Rupert Murdoch in Australia. 63 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 3: So News Corp owns two thirds of daily newspaper circulations 64 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 3: in this country. And some of the newspapers that you 65 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 3: might be familiar with are The Herald's Son, the Daily 66 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 3: Telegraph or if you watch Sky News, that's all News Corp. 67 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: Just a quick bit of legal background on how media 68 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: ownership works in Australia. There's something called the two other 69 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: three rule, and that basically means you can't own radio, 70 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,119 Speaker 1: print and TV. You can only own two of those 71 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: three mediums. So Murdocks picked TV and print, and that 72 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: forbids him from owning radio. So as long as you 73 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: don't break this two out of three rule, there's not 74 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: many laws in Australia that forbids someone from monopolizing a 75 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: particular type of media. 76 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: So Kevin Rudd, when he created this petition, I don't 77 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,119 Speaker 3: think was necessarily going at the legalities of this monopoly, 78 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: but more than political implications. And this is what Malcolm 79 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 3: Turnbull was talking about yesterday in the hearing. So both 80 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 3: prime ministers, funnily enough, despite being from respectively the Liberal 81 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 3: and Labor Party, claim and blame News Corp for their downfall. 82 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 3: Making this point, Kevin Rudd said earlier last year that 83 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 3: in the nineteen most recent federal and state elections over 84 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 3: the past decade, the Murdoch media and I quote campaigned 85 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 3: viciously for one side of politics, and he claimed that 86 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 3: this was destroying alternative media voices. He also made the 87 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,239 Speaker 3: point that he wanted a Royal commission into this because 88 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 3: of the quote deep and abiding concern for climate change, 89 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 3: and he says that Murdoch and News Corp are climate 90 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 3: change denialists. Rudt also told a Senate committee that Murdoch 91 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 3: was quote a climate change denialist at the time, he 92 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 3: was covered by parliamentary privilege, so Rupert Murdock can't actually 93 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 3: take defamation action against the former Prime minister. 94 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: So what's going to happen from here with this inquiry? 95 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: How long is it meant to go for and what 96 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: happens after it. 97 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 3: Senate inquiries are very normal parts of the parliamentary system. 98 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 3: They happen all the time throughout the year, and they're 99 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 3: a really good way for in this case, senators to 100 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 3: understand more about a topic and acquire deeper into an 101 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 3: issue that matters either to their constituents or to the 102 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 3: country as a whole. So for this inquiry, we're expecting 103 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 3: to see a final report handed down on the fourth 104 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 3: of August this year, and that was extended due to 105 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 3: a number of reasons. When that happens, the committee, which 106 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 3: is made up of three Coalition senators, two Labor senators 107 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 3: and one Green senator, they'll write a report to government 108 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 3: with some recommendations about what they think the next steps 109 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 3: should be. Given the multi partisan makeup of this committee, 110 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 3: we aren't sure how it will go, but either way, 111 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 3: there will be some recommendations made and the Government can 112 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 3: then decide to either adopt or ignore these. But there 113 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 3: is nothing binding for the government. They don't need to 114 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 3: take any action just because a Senate inquiry says. 115 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 4: So. 116 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 3: I just want to finish up by saying, despite the 117 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 3: fact that there are heaps of articles about this Senate Committee, 118 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:16,359 Speaker 3: hearing process and the inquiry itself, this isn't an abnormal process. 119 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 3: It happens almost weekly in our Parliament and it's a 120 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 3: very normal part of our parliamentary and political process. 121 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 2: The reason that this is getting. 122 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 3: So much coverage is because of the very high profile 123 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 3: nature of people giving evidence, like former Prime Ministers Malcolm 124 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 3: Turnbull and Kevin Rudd, and this. 125 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 2: Is naturally going to attract a lot of media attention. 126 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 3: That's not to say though, that this That's not to 127 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 3: say though, that the outcome of this committee inquiry process 128 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 3: will be exceptional in any way. It's likely we'll see 129 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 3: some recommendations made to government and the Government will choose 130 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 3: whether or not to adopt or ignore those. 131 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 1: It certainly will be interesting to see what happens with 132 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: this Senate report. News is such an important part of 133 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: how we live our lives, and that's why you're here 134 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: listening to the Daily Odds and who owns it is 135 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 1: just as important. 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