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Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily os. It's Friday,

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Speaker 1: the fourteenth of May. My name is Sam Kozlowski and

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Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news Iszarra Sidelock. Making

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Speaker 1: news today, more vaccinations for Australia, Labour's budget reply, some

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Speaker 1: good news about offshore wind farms.

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Speaker 2: And a chat about Question Time. Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: The Australian Federal government and pharmaceutical company Maderna have reached

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Speaker 1: a deal that will supply twenty five million doses of

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Speaker 1: its COVID nineteen vaccine. One million doses will arrive by September,

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Speaker 1: with nine million doses following in December. The other fifteen

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Speaker 1: million doses are going to arrive in Australia in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. Moderna will submit an application shortly for approval

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Speaker 1: from Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration or the TGA. If the

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Speaker 1: application is successful, Maderna would join both Astroseneka and Pfizer

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Speaker 1: as vaccines approved for use for Australians.

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Speaker 2: So last night, Opposition leader Anthony Albernizi delivered Labour's Budget

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Speaker 2: replies speech to Parliament and this is a very normal

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Speaker 2: part of the budget cycle, the opposition usually just gets

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Speaker 2: up to respond with what they would have done with

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Speaker 2: the budget, so he highlighted renewable energy and initiatives of

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Speaker 2: women as key areas of Labour's budget reply. Albanezi also

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Speaker 2: revealed a new policy called Startup Year that will assist

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Speaker 2: two thousand young entrepreneurs with the costs of accelerator programs

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Speaker 2: in both unis and private sector incubators. The loans would

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Speaker 2: be part of the existing help system.

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Speaker 1: Tesla CEO and SNL star Elon Musk announced on Twitter

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Speaker 1: a suspension of the use of bitcoin to purchase vehicles,

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Speaker 1: citing environmental concerns around the mining of the cryptocurrency. The

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Speaker 1: tweet triggered a seven percent fall in the price of

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Speaker 1: bitcoin yesterday. Tesler announced in February this year that the

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Speaker 1: company had purchased one point five billion US dollars a

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Speaker 1: bitcoin prior to accepting the cryptocurrency as payment for vehicles.

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Speaker 1: This change saw an almost twenty percent run in the

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Speaker 1: price of bitcoin.

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Speaker 2: In a week that I think everyone needs a bit

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Speaker 2: of good news. The US has approved its first offshore

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Speaker 2: wind farm to be installed off the coast of Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: I've always managed to escape having to say that one

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Speaker 2: out loud. The two point eight billion dollar Vineyard Wind

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Speaker 2: project is made up of eighty four turbines that will

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Speaker 2: be split between two locations and are expected to generate

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Speaker 2: eight hundred megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power

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Speaker 2: roughly four hundred thousand homes. The farm is expected to

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Speaker 2: start supplying power by twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: We are reflected in this nation. We are afflicted with

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Speaker 1: this disgusting mudsucking creatures.

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Speaker 2: Bottom of dwelling mudsucking creatures, bob doing mudsacling creatures. Full

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Speaker 2: wick for the ite form of control is a version

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Speaker 2: of herpes to try and yet really disgusting mudsucking creatures.

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Speaker 2: So you were just listening to the dulcet tones of

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Speaker 2: Australian parliamentarians as they engage in question and today's deep

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Speaker 2: dive is actually into question time because yesterday there was

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Speaker 2: a Parliamentary Committee report that was handed to the Government

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Speaker 2: that laid out some changes that they want to make

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Speaker 2: to Question Time.

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Speaker 1: I see kind of two main points where Ossie's connected

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Speaker 1: to Question Time. One would be in year six on

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Speaker 1: the trip to Canberra, and the other would be if

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Speaker 1: you're home from school watching it at two point thirty

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Speaker 1: on the ABC by accident, that was only you, That

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Speaker 1: was only me, followed by Bolden and beautiful. For those

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Speaker 1: who aren't familiar with Question Time, why is it there

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Speaker 1: and what purpose does it serve?

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Speaker 2: It is a time during the parliamentary sitting day where

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Speaker 2: members of Parliament get to ask questions of government ministers

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Speaker 2: and those government ministers are obliged to answer. So the

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Speaker 2: whole idea behind it is that it's meant to be

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Speaker 2: a time when the government is kept accountable. Usually though

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Speaker 2: it just descends into absolute chaos and it really can

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Speaker 2: highlight the worst of politics.

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Speaker 1: So it's pretty easy to imagine what questions the opposition

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Speaker 1: would be asking the government of the day. They would

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Speaker 1: be challenging them on some key points of policy. What

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Speaker 1: does the government ask themselves?

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Speaker 2: What does the government ask the government? So the government

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Speaker 2: asks the government something called a Dorothy Dixer, and Dorothy

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Speaker 2: Dix's are rehearse or planted questions that are asked of

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Speaker 2: government ministers by a backbencher, so by another member of

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Speaker 2: the government, but just not a minister, and they're usually

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Speaker 2: a pretty rehearsed and you can hear them every single day.

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Speaker 2: So it would be something like, can the Honorable Member

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Speaker 2: for Kouyong, who's Josh Fridenberg, please update the House on

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Speaker 2: how the Morrison government is supporting the Australian economy and

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Speaker 2: you'd hear that day in day out, because it would

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Speaker 2: give Josh Fridenberg, our Treasurer, a chance to spook the

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Speaker 2: government's budget or spook any new initiatives that the Treasury has.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to simulate that now, could the Honorable

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Speaker 1: Member on microphone one please tell us why the Daily

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Speaker 1: And that is a Dorothy Dixon.

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Speaker 2: So Dorothy Dix's are the bane of a lot of

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Speaker 2: people's existence because you don't really get real answers out

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Speaker 2: of the government from them. So this Parliamentary Committee review

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Speaker 2: actually recommended that Dixes shouldn't exist because they often end

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Speaker 2: with a minister being asked about quote alternative approaches, which

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Speaker 2: is basically just giving the government a chance to sprout

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Speaker 2: their own policies while criticizing the opposition. So the first

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Speaker 2: recommendation of the committee is to ban asking about alternative approaches,

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Speaker 2: as well as getting rid of Dorothy Dix's The committee

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Speaker 2: also recommends shortening the time limit for questions to thirty

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Speaker 2: seconds and answers to two minutes, so that you can

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Speaker 2: allow for more questions twenty one questions actually each day.

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Speaker 2: Part of this recommendation said that ten of these questions

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Speaker 2: should be from the opposition, five from the government, one

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Speaker 2: from the cross bench, and five constituency questions which would

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Speaker 1: It kind of feels like a workplace is being told

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Speaker 1: how to be more efficient. Could the honorable member on

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Speaker 1: microphone one tell us about bands on mobile phones during

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Speaker 1: question time?

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Speaker 2: Yes? So the committee also recommended that a short term

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Speaker 2: trial of very limited use of mobile phones by members

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Speaker 2: during question time should be implemented. And if you've ever

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Speaker 2: watched question time, for me, it's one of the most

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Speaker 2: stark things. You see the Prime Minister, the Treasurer, the

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Speaker 2: Opposition leader, all of them. They're all just sitting there

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Speaker 2: on their phones ignoring what is happening. And you often

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Speaker 2: see tweets coming out through question time and parliamentarians actually

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Speaker 2: just responding in real time. So this recommendation goes to

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Speaker 2: the heart of that and it's trying to really limit

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Speaker 2: the distractions that might happen in parliament House. The committee

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Speaker 2: also wants to change how long MPs can be kicked

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Speaker 2: out for disorderly behavior. We see this happen all the time,

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Speaker 2: and the committee's deputy chair Labor MP Milton Dick, read

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Speaker 2: a submission that was made to the committee that said,

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Speaker 2: I see many highly paid people behaving extremely badly. And

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Speaker 2: that was the general sentiment from almost three five hundred

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Speaker 2: people who responded to a survey by the committee. More

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Speaker 2: than ninety five percent of them said changes to the

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Speaker 2: process were needed.

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Speaker 1: Here's to a more efficient question time and better TV

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Speaker 1: when you're sick in bed before Balden and beautiful. That's

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Speaker 1: all we've got time for today and this week. But

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