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Speaker 1: Good morning everyone, Welcome to another week. My name is

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Speaker 1: Sam Kazlowski. It's Monday, the first of March. And helping

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Speaker 1: me make sense of today's news is Zarazeidler. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Daily Oz.

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Speaker 2: In the news today, Auckland.

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Speaker 1: In lockdown, a new vaccine authorized overseas, awesome news about NACER,

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Speaker 1: and a chat about new allegations regarding a cabinet minister.

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Speaker 1: Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 2: So over the weekend, Auckland unfortunately went back into a lockdown.

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Speaker 2: Now this lockdown is due to be in place for

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Speaker 2: a week, and it's in response to a new community

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Speaker 2: case that was found over the weekend that didn't actually

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Speaker 2: have a clear link to the existing cluster. Now it's

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Speaker 2: understood that the new case had remained in the community

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Speaker 2: for as long as a week while infectious, and that

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Speaker 2: the person had contracted the UK strain of the virus.

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Speaker 2: So PM Jacinta Adern did move very quickly and very

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Speaker 2: efficiently to shut down Auckland in response.

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Speaker 1: We had Astroseneka, we had Faiza, and now we've got

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Speaker 1: Johnson and Johnson. They're the third company to be given

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Speaker 1: authorization in the US to roll out their COVID nineteen vaccination.

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Speaker 1: There's a few key differences with this one though. One

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Speaker 1: it's actually a single shot, not a double shot. Two

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Speaker 1: it's more cost effective than the other two vaccines, and

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Speaker 1: three it needs to only be stored in a fridge,

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Speaker 1: not a freezer. The US have started their ordering with

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Speaker 1: one hundred million doses, which will be delivered by the

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Speaker 1: end of June.

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Speaker 2: Standing overseas, New York Governor and U Cuomo is facing

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Speaker 2: a second allegation of sexual harassment, also by a former AID.

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Speaker 2: So over the weekend we heard allegations from this former

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Speaker 2: AID that the governor had asked about her sex life

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Speaker 2: and whether she would have sex with old men. This

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Speaker 2: comes following a similar sexual harassment allegation from the governor's

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Speaker 2: former deputy secretary for Economic Development. He has denied both allegations.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news do you remember that film in

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, Hidden Figures?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: NASA has renamed its Washington, d C. Headquarter to the

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Speaker 1: Mary Jackson NASA HQ, in honor of America's first African

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Speaker 1: American female engineer, whose story was told in that film.

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Speaker 1: Mary Jackson worked at NASA for thirty years and is

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Speaker 1: credited with doing the maths behind some of the biggest

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Speaker 1: progressions in space exploration.

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Speaker 2: All right, Sam, So, as we were both going to

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Speaker 2: Friday night dinner, a pretty big story broke and that

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Speaker 2: was of an alleged historical rape that occurred in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty eight that concerned allegedly a sitting cabinet minister, and

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Speaker 2: a sitting cabinet minister is one of the most senior

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Speaker 2: members of a government and we know that this allegation

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Speaker 2: is against someone within the Morrison government. Now, this has

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Speaker 2: happened at a time when the government and just Parliament

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Speaker 2: in general is really on hire alert. It follows the

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Speaker 2: Britney Higgins allegations, follows the petition that's going around in Sydney,

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Speaker 2: and it's really just a really significant turning point. So

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Speaker 2: talk to me about what we know about this allegation.

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Speaker 1: So, as you just said, the story broke on Friday night,

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Speaker 1: and it broke in the form of a letter that

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Speaker 1: got sent to Scott Morrison, Sarah Hanson Young and Pennywong.

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Speaker 2: Without wanting to go into the details too much, it's

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Speaker 2: alleged that in nineteen eighty eight and now cabinet minister

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Speaker 2: who then wasn't in politics raped a woman who was

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Speaker 2: at that time under the age of eighteen. So there's

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Speaker 2: been quite a bit of chatter about who this cabinet

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Speaker 2: minister is and Sam, why can't we name him?

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to go a little bit law nerd

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Speaker 1: on you, but bear with me. The phrase natural justice

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Speaker 1: is going to come up a lot with this story,

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Speaker 1: and basically that just is the presumption of innocence and

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Speaker 1: it's the key legal idea in Australia that nobody should

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Speaker 1: be presumed guilty until the evidence in a court of

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Speaker 1: law shows that they are. That's the approach that the

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Speaker 1: government's taking here, and that's.

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Speaker 2: Particularly pertinent in a case like this, where the alleged

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Speaker 2: victim is no longer alive and therefore any criminal case

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Speaker 2: before a court is sig significantly impeded.

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Speaker 1: And when it does come out who the politician is,

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Speaker 1: does that politician have a chance of keeping his political

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Speaker 1: career alive?

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a big question it. Firstly, it depends

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Speaker 2: on who it is, and we're not going to go

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Speaker 2: into that, but there are two ways to look at it. Firstly,

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Speaker 2: the Prime Minister at the moment is facing what seems

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Speaker 2: to be quite a systemic issue of treatment of women

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Speaker 2: in Parliament, and some could say that he will need

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Speaker 2: to make a point out of whoever this politician is

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Speaker 2: on the flip side. Because the alleged victim suicided last year,

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Speaker 2: there is every chance that this story just cannot proceed.

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Speaker 2: So it will actually just depend on the AFP and

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Speaker 2: what their findings are. But it's certainly going to remain

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Speaker 2: a significant political issue, but more so hopefully a broader

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Speaker 2: communal discussion about treatment of women as the Britney Higgins

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Speaker 2: story was, as Chanelle Contos's petition was last week. This

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Speaker 2: is just now with regularity that I don't certainly remember

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Speaker 2: in the political cycle. Ever, we're just hearing more and

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Speaker 2: more stories, so I think the Prime Minister will be

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Speaker 2: forced to take action, but what that looks like will

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Speaker 2: remain to be seen. So we will keep you updated

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