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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OHS. Today is Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the fifth of August, and very excitingly, I am joined

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Speaker 1: by our South Australian TDA correspondence, the one and only

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Speaker 1: Mariah lattis Mariah. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good, Sarah, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Look, I'm in lockdown and you are free, so

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Speaker 1: I will let you answer that question. But on that note,

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Speaker 1: I'll jump straight into the day's COVID news because there

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Speaker 1: is quite a bit out there. Yesterday, New South Wales

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Speaker 1: recorded two hundred and three locally acquired COVID nineteen cases

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Speaker 1: and there were forty seven infectious in the community. A

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Speaker 1: further seventy three is still under investigation, which is the

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Speaker 1: number that is seemingly creeping up. There were tragically, two

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Speaker 1: further deaths reported and one of them was a man

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Speaker 1: in his twenties. Here's what Gladys Barygicallian said about the

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Speaker 1: tragic death yesterday.

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Speaker 3: But it demonstrates again how this disease is lethal, help

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Speaker 3: affects people of all ages. Unfortunately, the gentleman wasn't vaccinated,

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Speaker 3: hadn't had any dose of the vaccine, and as we understand,

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Speaker 3: and it happened.

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Speaker 1: The death happened quite suddenly. When asked about returning Year

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Speaker 1: twelve students, the Premier said, and I quote, we need

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Speaker 1: to make sure we adjust our policies according to what's happening.

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Speaker 1: So we know that Year twelve students are set to

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Speaker 1: return to school on August sixteenth, but there does remain

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Speaker 1: a question mark over that return date.

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Speaker 2: Queensland recorded seventeen locally acquired COVID nineteen cases yesterday, with

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Speaker 2: a previously announced case in Can's remaining unlinked, while testing

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Speaker 2: numbers were at a record high. Acting Premier Stephen Miles said,

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Speaker 2: this has become our biggest outbreak since the first wave

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Speaker 2: last year. Here's how Queensland's chief help.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Sarah Mariah has tried to say this

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Speaker 1: statement about Queensland's chief health officer a number of times

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Speaker 1: but seems to be getting stuck on the tongue twister.

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Speaker 1: So here's our Jeanette Young characterized this latest outbreak. So

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Speaker 1: going forward, we really have a challenge here as Queenslanders,

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Speaker 1: which I know we're up to, but I need your help.

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Speaker 2: Riah.

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Speaker 1: This was a story that we spoke a lot about

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Speaker 1: early in the year and you were writing about quite

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Speaker 1: a bit on our Instagram, won't you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was, and it was all over Australian news

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Speaker 2: sites as well.

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Speaker 1: So former chief executive Christine Holgate has received a one

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Speaker 1: million dollar payout from Australia Post after her departure amid

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Speaker 1: a Cartier watch expenses saga, so you might remember this one.

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Speaker 1: Under the settlement, Holgate will receive one million, as I said,

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Speaker 1: and that's been characterized as an employment termination payment, in

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Speaker 1: addition to one hundred thousand dollars to cover her legal costs,

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Speaker 1: while Australia Posts said that it and I quote regrets

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Speaker 1: the difficult circumstances in which Holgate departed the company. Know

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Speaker 1: what public apology was published.

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Speaker 2: And Zara's some good news. There has been more gold

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Speaker 2: for Australia with Matt Belcher and Will Ryan winning the

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Speaker 2: men's four to seventy sailing at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Every day on Instagram we get hundreds of messages from

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Speaker 1: our amazing audience asking us questions about different eachure of

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Speaker 1: our political system, about the news, about current affairs, about

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Speaker 1: a whole range of things. And one of the questions

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Speaker 1: that we got last week, which we thought was really

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Speaker 1: interesting and something that perhaps isn't explored in the day

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Speaker 1: to day news cycle is about Australia's head of state. So, Mariah,

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Speaker 1: is Scott Morrison our head of state?

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Speaker 2: No, So, as Australia is a constitutional monarchy, that means

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Speaker 2: that Australia's head of state is actually Queen Elizabeth the Second.

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Speaker 2: But you're probably wondering, Queen Elizabeth doesn't really have that

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Speaker 2: much to do with Australian day to day life, and

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Speaker 2: you would be right in that assumption. So Australia's response

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Speaker 2: to that is that it actually has two heads of state.

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Speaker 2: So the first one is the symbolic head of state,

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Speaker 2: which is Queen Elizabeth the Second, and the second one

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Speaker 2: is a representative of Queen Elizabeth the Second and that

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Speaker 2: person is known as the Governor General.

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Speaker 1: So if the Queen is there merely in a symbolic sense,

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Speaker 1: what does the Governor General actually do? In my head,

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Speaker 1: the Governor General is the person that swears in the cabinet,

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Speaker 1: and I probably couldn't tell you a whole lot else

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Speaker 1: other than that.

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Speaker 2: So, yes, Sarah, you are correct in saying that the

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Speaker 2: Governor General does swear in the National Cabinet. But when

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Speaker 2: looking at it in terms of the head of state,

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Speaker 2: the Governor General is seen as the constitutional head of

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Speaker 2: state and under the Constitution the only action performed by

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Speaker 2: the Queen is the appointment of the Governor General. So

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Speaker 2: the mention of the Queen in the Constitution is to

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Speaker 2: appoint her representative. Who is the Governor General.

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Speaker 1: And what exactly does that governor General do day to day.

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Speaker 2: So there's constitutional duties that we were talking about because

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Speaker 2: he's the head of state constitution wise, some of the

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Speaker 2: key constitutional duties of the Governor General include facilitating the

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Speaker 2: work of the Commonwealth Parliament and government, dissolving parliament and

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Speaker 2: issuing writs for a federal election, commissioning the Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: and appointing ministers and assistant ministers, and swearing in other

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Speaker 2: statutory positions.

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Speaker 1: So this is all the case because we're part of

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Speaker 1: the Commonwealth.

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Speaker 2: But that could change, right, Yeah, it absolutely could, and

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Speaker 2: Australia could eventually become a republic and there is a

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Speaker 2: growing movement within Australia for it to become a republic eventually.

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Speaker 1: As always, let us know if there are any other

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Speaker 1: quirks in our political system that you might want to know.

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Speaker 1: A bit more about or one of those questions. And

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Speaker 1: I very much fall under this category, one of those

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Speaker 1: questions that you think you're meant to know about, but

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Speaker 1: might not know about because we are always here to

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Speaker 1: answer them on the Daily Ods. Mariah, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining me, thank you so much for having me,

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Speaker 1: and please, for all of us Sydney Siders and some Coeenslanders,

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Speaker 1: go out and enjoy your day.

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Speaker 2: I will try my best.

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Speaker 1: We love to hear it. You heard it here first.

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Speaker 1: Mariah is trying her best today to have a good day.

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Speaker 1: Happy Thursday, and we will be back tomorrow with more

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Speaker 1: on the Daily Os.