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Speaker 1: Good morning, Happy hump Day, and welcome to the Daily os.

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Speaker 1: I'm Zara, I'm joined by Sam and today we're taking

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Speaker 1: you through the day's news, which includes a new New

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Speaker 1: South Wales premier. Before we get to that, though, a

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Speaker 1: quick rundown of the COVID news from yesterday. In Victoria,

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Speaker 1: there were one thousand, seven hundred and sixty three cases.

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Speaker 1: This was of course a new record for daily case

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Speaker 1: numbers across the country. In New South Wales the downward

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Speaker 1: trend continued with six hundred and eight cases and in

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Speaker 1: the Act there were thirty three new cases.

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Speaker 2: It is Dominique Perrete's first full day on the job

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Speaker 2: as New South wales Premier. He was officially sworn in

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Speaker 2: as the forty sixth Premier of the state after a

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Speaker 2: landslide victory in the Liberal party room yesterday morning. In

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Speaker 2: his first address, Perrote paid tribute to his predecessor, Gladys

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Speaker 2: spary Jiglian, saying quote her hard work, tyless dedication and

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Speaker 2: total commitment to her job was second to none.

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Speaker 1: Victorian authorities have confirmed that there are now seven positive

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen cases linked to the anti vaccine protests that

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Speaker 1: occurred outside the head Office of the CFMEU. A reminder

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Speaker 1: that the CFMEU is the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and

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Speaker 1: Energy Union. That protest occurred in Melbourne now two weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: And I hope your levels of anxiety have lowered after

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Speaker 2: the major outage of technology yesterday morning, Facebook, Instagram and

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Speaker 2: WhatsApp experienced a six hour outage yesterday. This actually caused

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Speaker 2: the media giants shares to fall five percent. This dip

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Speaker 2: in the stock price saw founder Mark Zuckerberg's personal holdings

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Speaker 2: dropped nearly ten billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: The good news today is that Netflix and Howard University

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Speaker 1: have established a seven point four million dollar scholarship to

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Speaker 1: honor the late actor Chadwick Boseman. The money will award

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Speaker 1: full scholarships to incoming students in the university's College of

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Speaker 1: Fine Arts, which Bozman himself attended. It's been a wild

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Speaker 1: couple of days in New South Wales politics. On Friday

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Speaker 1: we had the resignation of the former Premier, Gladys Paragiclian.

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Speaker 1: We then had the resignations of Andrew Constance and John Barrelaro,

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Speaker 1: and yesterday we had the elevation of Dom Perrete to Premier.

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Speaker 1: It's all a bit much to get your head around,

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Speaker 1: so we thought that we would take a step back

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Speaker 1: and explain what's happened, how it's happened, and how we've

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Speaker 1: gotten into today where we are ushering in the first

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Speaker 1: day of the youngest premier's new role.

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Speaker 2: So all of this shifting of sands happened against the

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Speaker 2: backdrop of the resignation of Premier Gladysperagiclian, who resigned on Friday.

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Speaker 2: She now faces scrutiny by the Independent Commission against Corruption

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Speaker 2: or AKAK, and we'll learn more about that in the

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Speaker 2: weeks and months to come. So the first thing to

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Speaker 2: understand before we go super deep into this chapter of

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Speaker 2: New South Wales political history is to understand factions. Zara

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Speaker 2: give us a rap of what factions mean in this context.

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Speaker 1: So, political factions are essentially smaller groupings within a broader

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Speaker 1: place party. They are not unique to the New South

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Speaker 1: Wales Liberal Party. They exist on both sides of politics,

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Speaker 1: and they also exist at a federal level. Factions are

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Speaker 1: typically organized by political interests, although sometimes they can also

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Speaker 1: be based around personalities. Prime Minister Morrison is one such

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Speaker 1: example because he is the leader of what we call

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Speaker 1: the Morrison Club faction. If we take this back to

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Speaker 1: New South Wales, Gladysborogiclian was part of the moderate faction

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Speaker 1: of the New South Wales Liberals. Other people in this

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Speaker 1: faction include Matt Keane, who has now become the new

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Speaker 1: New South Wales Treasurer but was the Environment Minister. Stuart

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Speaker 1: Airs who is now the new Deputy Premier. He is

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Speaker 1: also part of the moderate faction, as is Rob Stokes.

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Speaker 1: Then we also have the right faction of the New

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Speaker 1: South Wales Liberal Party and that is where our new Premier,

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Speaker 1: Dominique Perrete comes from. In order to transition from a

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Speaker 1: premier who came from the moderate faction of the party

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Speaker 1: to a premier that comes from the right faction of

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Speaker 1: the party, there were a lot of factional deals made.

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Speaker 1: Because these were made public well before Dominique Perroite was

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Speaker 1: crowned the new Premier of New South Wales, we have

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Speaker 1: a bit of insight into what happened. Basically, what we

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Speaker 1: understand the thinking of the New South Wales Liberal Party

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Speaker 1: to be in this situation is that if the heir apparent,

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Speaker 1: who was Don Perrote, was to rise to the position

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Speaker 1: of a leader, the party was going to need to

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Speaker 1: balance his perspectives with that of a moderate, and that

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Speaker 1: is how Stuart Airs became the deputy. It was understood

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Speaker 1: before this weekend that Matt Kean would always be the

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Speaker 1: deputy to a future Dominique Perroite premier. But something shifted

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Speaker 1: this weekend, which was that the new South Wales government

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Speaker 1: realized that the next election will be won in Western

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Speaker 1: Sydney and Stuart Heirs, who comes from Western Sydney and

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Speaker 1: is a massive proponent for that area of Sydney, seem

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Speaker 1: like the logical contender to balance Perroite.

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Speaker 2: So it sounds like there's certainly a lot of willing

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Speaker 2: and dealing that happens over quite a short amount of time,

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Speaker 2: only a weekend. How does this actually play out in practice?

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Speaker 1: There is something in politics called a powerbroker, and it's

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Speaker 1: no official term, but it is the informal term given

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Speaker 1: to those that have power over their factions. So basically

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Speaker 1: the numbers men or women for those factions. Matt Kean

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Speaker 1: was the numbers guy for the Moderates, so once it

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Speaker 1: was apparent that he was no longer in contention for

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Speaker 1: the deputy position, he rang around and did the numbers

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Speaker 1: to get the moderates behind dom Perrete. That was really

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Speaker 1: evident in yesterday's vote, given that there were only five

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Speaker 1: people who voted for Rob Stokes, despite Rob Stokes being

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Speaker 1: part of the moderate faction.

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Speaker 2: Changing gears now a little bit, I'm interested in the

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Speaker 2: significance of Western Sydney to these political calculations. What did

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Speaker 2: the Liberal Party particularly see in Western Sydney that was

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Speaker 2: so important for them leading into the next election.

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Speaker 1: It's been widely reported and has been briefed out by

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Speaker 1: certain members of the Liberal Party that they see a

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Speaker 1: challenge ahead in Western Sydney because of how COVID was

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Speaker 1: dealt with in those areas. Obviously, Western Sydney is no

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Speaker 1: homogeneous group and it is impossible to create almost a

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Speaker 1: political persona for one area. But it is understood by

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Speaker 1: the Liberal Party that the effect of LGA hotspot lockdowns

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Speaker 1: and a seemingly disproportionate response to outbreaks in different areas

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Speaker 1: has angered some voters in those areas. So members of

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Speaker 1: the New South Wales Liberal Party have really identified key

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Speaker 1: seats in Western Sydney as the battleground for the next election.

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Speaker 2: That next election is still a while away, it's in

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Speaker 2: March twenty twenty three, so there is a lot of

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Speaker 2: time for this to play out in New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: I think another point that's often overlooked is just how

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Speaker 2: significant New South Wales politics is to federal politics and

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Speaker 2: how much it matters for our listeners. Not in New

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Speaker 2: South Wales.

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Speaker 1: It is going to be pivotal to a Scott Morrison

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Speaker 1: win that he picks up seats in New South Wales

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Speaker 1: and so understanding voter intentions in the state and how

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Speaker 1: voters might respond to a new premier is going to

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Speaker 1: be really interesting ahead of the next federal election as well.

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Speaker 2: There is a lot happening on both a federal and

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