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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Daily OS. It's Wednesday, the

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Speaker 1: eleventh of August, and it was a record day of

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen numbers yesterday. But that's not all we're going

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Speaker 1: to be talking about. We're going to cover off COVID.

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Speaker 1: We're going to touch on some good news from Washington State,

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Speaker 1: and then Zara is going to take us through pork barrel,

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Speaker 1: which is not a food but the concept. Zara take

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Speaker 1: us through the New South Wales records.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately it wasn't a good record.

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Speaker 3: So New South Wales recorded three hundred and fifty six

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Speaker 3: locally acquired cases yesterday, so that's the highest this outbreak,

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Speaker 3: and fifty seven of those were infectious in the community,

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Speaker 3: while one hundred and fifty seven cases remain under investigation

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Speaker 3: the isolation status that is New South Wales Health also

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Speaker 3: recorded four more deaths, including one person who had been

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Speaker 3: in hotel quarantine, so that person was actually unlinked to

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Speaker 3: the current outbreak. Over in Victoria, there were twenty locally

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Speaker 3: acquired COVID nineteen cases. All of the cases were linked

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Speaker 3: to a known cluster, but only five had been in

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Speaker 3: quarant while infectious. So again we need that number which

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Speaker 3: was yesterday fifteen to be as close to zero as

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Speaker 3: possible for Melbourne to come out of lockdown.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited for tomorrow's episode of the pod Zarra.

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Speaker 1: We have New South Wales Premier Gladys beygiclian On as

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Speaker 1: our guest. You and her had a chat and I'm

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Speaker 1: really excited to bring it to air tomorrow. To Federal

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Speaker 1: News Now and Prime Ministers Scott Morrison has refused to

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Speaker 1: commit to a net zero emissions reduction target by twenty fifty.

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Speaker 1: These comments came amid the release of the IPCC report

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Speaker 1: and have a look on our instagram if you need

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Speaker 1: an explainer on not only the key findings but what

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Speaker 1: the report actually is. Basically, the key finding was that

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Speaker 1: the Earth will warm by more than one point five

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Speaker 1: degrees celsius for the decade. Morrison pointed towards investment and

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Speaker 1: technology as Australia's way out of this climate crisis. He said,

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Speaker 1: that is why our approach is technology and not taxes

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Speaker 1: to solving this problem. But I want to play you

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Speaker 1: a grab from the beginning of the press conference yesterday

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Speaker 1: where he particularly talked about the roles and responsibilities of

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Speaker 1: Australia in the context of the developed and developing world.

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Speaker 1: Have a listen.

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Speaker 4: We must take action as we indeed are, and continue

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Speaker 4: to take action as we will continue to in developed

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Speaker 4: countries in advanced economies. But we cannot ignore the fact

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Speaker 4: that the developing world accounts for two thirds of global

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Speaker 4: emissions and those emissions arising. That is a stark fact.

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Speaker 3: Virginia Gfrey, who's a longtime accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, has

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Speaker 3: sued Prince Andrew. The lawsuit was farred in a Manhattan

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Speaker 3: federal court and was brought under the Child Victims Act.

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Speaker 3: Giffrey alleges she was both trafficked and sexually abused by

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Speaker 3: Prince Andrew, and according to the allegations in the lawsuit,

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Speaker 3: Prince Andrew abused her on multiple occasions when she was

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Speaker 3: under the age of eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Just a note on this story, guys. This story is

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Speaker 1: about a civil lawsuit, so it's not about putting Prince

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Speaker 1: Andrew behind bars. Rather, this is going to be about damages.

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Speaker 1: So money to much better news now and a county

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Speaker 1: in Washington State has become the first jurisdiction in the

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Speaker 1: US to ban new fossil fuel infrastructure. This is really

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Speaker 1: good news. The ban includes the construction of new refineries,

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Speaker 1: coal fired power plants, and other fossil fuel related infrastructure.

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Speaker 1: The band also places new restrictions on existing fossil fuel facilities.

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Speaker 3: Pork Barreling is one of those terms that is often

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Speaker 3: used at liberty in political media and political insiders just

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Speaker 3: assume that people know what it means. But for the

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Speaker 3: most part, it's really really unclear and a lot of

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Speaker 3: people actually don't know what the term pork barreling means.

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Speaker 1: Zara, It has nothing to do with the yummy dinner.

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Speaker 1: What is it In the political world.

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Speaker 3: It's a political term that refers to Polly's spending taxpayer

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Speaker 3: money to basically woo voters in certain seats and in

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Speaker 3: turn win votes.

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Speaker 2: One of the more well known.

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Speaker 3: Instances of pork barreling is the Sports SATA that saw

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Speaker 3: the resignation of then Sports Minister Bridget mackenzie. So the

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Speaker 3: phrase is often new in situations where marginal seats might

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Speaker 3: be seen as receiving more funding than safe seats in

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Speaker 3: order to generate support in those seats.

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Speaker 2: I just said seats a lot, but.

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Speaker 3: The basic lowdown is if the coalition who is currently

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Speaker 3: in government thought that they were at risk of losing

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Speaker 3: certain seats because they didn't hold that seat very securely.

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Speaker 3: Pork barreling would be that they spend a lot of

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Speaker 3: money on taxpayer projects in those areas to basically incentivize

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Speaker 3: those voters to vote for them.

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Speaker 2: So if we are to point to the Sports Roots.

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Speaker 3: Saga as an example of this alleged behavior, in that case,

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Speaker 3: the coalition gave funding to sports clubs in marginal coalition

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Speaker 3: seats instead of in safe seats. So that means that

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Speaker 3: voters in those areas that might have voted Labor might

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Speaker 3: have voted Liberal, weren't really sure. They suddenly had a

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Speaker 3: whole new sports club set up and that was all

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Speaker 3: funded by the taxpayer. So the problem arose that this

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Speaker 3: is taxpayer money being spent on what is ultimately campaig aiming.

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Speaker 1: So now we're drilling down into the real issue and

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Speaker 1: the controversies around pork barreling. But I imagine it's pretty hard

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Speaker 1: to distinguish what is a genuine need in an area.

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Speaker 1: So if there's a new sports facility promised in the

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Speaker 1: lead up to an election, maybe they actually really needed

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Speaker 1: the sports facility. But maybe also there are these really

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Speaker 1: complicated other campaigning factors at stake.

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Speaker 2: That's an entirely fair assumption.

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Speaker 3: I think the difference is that there have been allegations

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Speaker 3: and in certain situations members of Parliament actually had a

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Speaker 3: map of marginal seats and those grants were mapped out

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Speaker 3: against those seats. So it wasn't this innocuous election commitment

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Speaker 3: from the last time around. It was actually quite a

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Speaker 3: pointed effort to sway those voters.

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Speaker 1: Is that why we're talking about it this week? Why

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Speaker 1: has it popped up in the news cycle.

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Speaker 3: So it's popped up this week because of a car

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Speaker 3: park grant system and Labor has really been drilling this hard.

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Speaker 3: We are seeing parliaments sitting at the moment, so it

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Speaker 3: gives labor the opportunity to really shape the narrative while

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Speaker 3: the government focuses on COVID nineteen.

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Speaker 2: A review from the Australian National.

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Speaker 3: Ordered Office actually said that the federal government's commuter car program,

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Speaker 3: which was worth about six hundred and sixty million dollars,

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Speaker 3: seventy seven percent of it was spent in coalition held electorates,

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Speaker 3: so basically in seats they were already voting for the coalition.

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Speaker 2: The Order actually found.

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Speaker 3: What I spoke about earlier, which was that the Urban

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Speaker 3: Infrastructure Minister at the time, Alan Tudge, had actually kept

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Speaker 3: and I quote top twenty marginal's sheets for awarding projects

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Speaker 3: to help the coalition win or keep seats at the

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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen election.

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Speaker 2: Politicians won't always.

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Speaker 3: Shy away from this pork barreling that I need to

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Speaker 3: add does happen on.

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Speaker 2: Both sides of politics.

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Speaker 3: It just happens right now that the focus is on

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Speaker 3: the government of the day. In New South Wales, Deputy

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Speaker 3: Premier John Barrellaro has in the past called himself pork Barrellaro,

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Speaker 3: saying and I quote, I have no apology because at

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Speaker 3: the end of the day, I will stand up and

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Speaker 3: fight for our communities. He said that in February this year,

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Speaker 3: and that's actually forming part of the truth defense in

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Speaker 3: a case with Friendly Jordy's. We're likely to see this

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Speaker 3: term occurring in the media as that case plays out,

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Speaker 3: but also as the car park story at a federal

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Speaker 3: level continues to be questioned.

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Speaker 1: That's all for today's podcast, But Keith and Eye on

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Speaker 1: our Instagram later in the day, where we will rival

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Speaker 1: Kanye West in the biggest drop of the month. He's

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Speaker 1: got Donda, we've got New South Wales Premier glad To

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Speaker 1: sparagically and much of a muchness, much of a muchness

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Speaker 1: talking about young people, vaccines and the HC with The

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Speaker 1: Daily Oz's own Zara Sidler. Until then, we'll speak to

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow