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

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Speaker 1: the nineteenth of March. My name is Zara Seidler, and

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Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Sam Koslowski.

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Speaker 1: Making news today, Australian aid lands in PNG.

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Speaker 2: Tanzania's president passes away.

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Speaker 1: Some good news about nursing homes in the US.

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Speaker 2: And a breakdown of the proposed consent app Here is

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Speaker 2: today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: So continuing a story we've heard quite a bit about

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Speaker 1: this week, Queensland has now recorded eight new COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: cases in hotel quarantine, six of which were returning travelers

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Speaker 1: from Papua New Guinea. Flights between Port Moresby and Cairns

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Speaker 1: have been banned and there are now forty eight cases

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Speaker 1: in Queensland. Aid from Australia to support the fight against

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen Papua New Guinea has already begun arriving in

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Speaker 1: the nation's capital, delivered by eighty f personnel.

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Speaker 2: Tanzania's President, John Magafuley has died at age sixty one,

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Speaker 2: after being absent from the public since February twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: The Vice President announced the news, citing that the president

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Speaker 2: had died of heart failure during his absence. Rumors had

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Speaker 2: been circulating suggesting Mgafully had contracted coronavirus. The President had

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Speaker 2: been a prominent COVID nineteen denial.

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Speaker 1: And finally the good news. New data from John Hopkins

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Speaker 1: University has found COVID nineteen cases in US nursing homes

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Speaker 1: have fallen by over eighty percent since December last year.

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Speaker 1: A spokesperson for the American Health Care Association said the

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Speaker 1: vaccine appears to be having a dramatic effect on reducing cases,

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Speaker 1: which is extremely encouraging.

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Speaker 2: There's being self deprecating and then there's being Mick Fuller,

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Speaker 2: the New South Wales the Police Commissioner, suggested an app

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Speaker 2: yesterday to record sexual consent between two partners. He said,

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Speaker 2: to be honest with you, the app could be the

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Speaker 2: worst idea I have in twenty twenty one, but the

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Speaker 2: reality is that in five years perhaps it won't be

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Speaker 2: Zara tell me about the worst app idea in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one.

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Speaker 1: This was a funny one yesterday because the New South

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Speaker 1: Wales Police Commissioner, Mick Fuller's suggested that there should be

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Speaker 1: an app or technology used to record sexual consent between

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Speaker 1: two partners. He suggested that this would be led by

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Speaker 1: a private company, not the government, and that it would

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Speaker 1: entail people logging onto this app, logging their age, and

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Speaker 1: then swiping left or right depending on whether they had

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Speaker 1: provided explicit consent or op before engaging in sexual activity.

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Speaker 2: So the proposal of the app obviously caught a bit

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Speaker 2: of heat yesterday. What were the key concerns and criticisms

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Speaker 2: with the app?

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Speaker 1: The key concern was that consent is not black and white,

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Speaker 1: and that you can withdraw consent at any time during

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Speaker 1: a sexual experience. So a yes to one thing is

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Speaker 1: not a yes to all things, and that was the

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Speaker 1: overriding theme that was coming through. I was speaking to

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Speaker 1: Chanelle Cantos about this app yesterday and she made a

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Speaker 1: really great point about the fact that the same forces

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Speaker 1: that create sexual coercion will just coerce people into accepting

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Speaker 1: the app, and that it is bound to just protect

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Speaker 1: perpetrators over victims. Here's what Chanelle had to say when

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Speaker 1: we spoke to her earlier.

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Speaker 3: It's just a band aid solution that revolves the issue

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Speaker 3: around yes and no being said, where it's so much

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Speaker 3: broader than that. You know, we need to teach young

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Speaker 3: people how to have healthy intimate relationships. When to teach

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Speaker 3: society how to have healthy intimate relationships. Consent changes every

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Speaker 3: single second, every single position, every single new act, and

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Speaker 3: people need to learn to be empathetic and pick up

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Speaker 3: on body language and put their own desires aside for

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Speaker 3: the person in front of them's comfort at that time.

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Speaker 2: Something I've been thinking a lot about in the last

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks has been who are the voices in

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Speaker 2: the room leading this discussion? And while it's clear that

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Speaker 2: there are a number of technological and philosophical issues with

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Speaker 2: the app, I think a lot of the anger yesterday

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Speaker 2: was also about who was saying it.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily really think it was about who was

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Speaker 1: saying it versus who is actually thinking about this and

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Speaker 1: how much time they are spending thinking about these ideas.

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Speaker 1: If the police commissioner thought that this idea was a

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Speaker 1: bad one, I'm not sure it needed to be said

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Speaker 1: in a public space or in a public forum, especially

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Speaker 1: when women are feeling so on edge and so defeated

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Speaker 1: by the new cycle. We need to consult with the

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Speaker 1: women who are experiencing these sexual assaults so that the

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Speaker 1: nuance of consent and violence can actually be captured in

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Speaker 1: whatever response we do implement, and I commend the Police

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Speaker 1: Commissioner for starting to think about how technology can aid

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Speaker 1: that movement. But it does appear, and the Commissioner seems

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Speaker 1: to have acknowledged this himself. This is not the way

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Speaker 1: that we need to protect women, both at the time

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Speaker 1: of an incident and afterwards. There need to be responses

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Speaker 1: for women that acknowledge the role of consent. Education as

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Speaker 1: a preventative means reshaping the way we view our relationships,

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Speaker 1: but we also need structures in place after an incident

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Speaker 1: does occur so that more women are believed and that

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Speaker 1: more cases can be heard in court.

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Speaker 2: That's all we have time for today, But in the meantime,

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