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

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Speaker 1: the twenty third of February. My name is Sam Kazlowski,

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Speaker 1: and helping me make sense of today's news is Zara Sidler.

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Speaker 1: Making news today, our vaccine program is up and running.

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Speaker 2: Indian protests continue to.

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Speaker 1: Grow, some good news about an interfaith hub in Berlin,

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Speaker 1: and a chat.

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Speaker 2: About petitions and where to from here on consent education.

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Speaker 2: Here's today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: About twelve hundred Australians were vaccinated yesterday as the rollout

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Speaker 1: officially began. The first Victorian to be vaccinated at seven

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Speaker 1: thirty am yesterday was Professor Ronda Stewart, who treated the

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Speaker 1: state's first COVID case fourteen months ago. Vaccines were also

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Speaker 1: rolled out in New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland and

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Speaker 1: the Act over the next three weeks. We're expecting thirty

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Speaker 1: five thousand frontline health workers to receive the JAB Now.

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Speaker 2: In a story that does not seem like it is

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Speaker 2: going away, more than one hundred thousand Indian farmers have

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Speaker 2: gathered in Punjab to protest against the farmer's laws, which

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Speaker 2: are still being negotiated between the government and union reps.

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Speaker 2: The farmers want three laws to be repealed, which they

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Speaker 2: say will give corporations more power to buy their crops

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Speaker 2: for cheap. The farmers' unions, on the other hand, are

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Speaker 2: calling for the largest day of protests to be on

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Speaker 2: February twenty seventh.

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Speaker 1: And the Victorian government has announced the establishment of a

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Speaker 1: Royal commission into Crown Melbourne's suitability to hold a casino license.

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Speaker 1: You'd remember this story from the weeks of coverage in

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Speaker 1: New South Wales, where there is a government inquiry into

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Speaker 1: the Crown casino in Barangaru. The inquiry found that Crown

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Speaker 1: was unsuitable to hold a license based on allegations of

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Speaker 1: money laundering, junket operators and jailed acquaintances in China.

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Speaker 2: And finally the good news, a new Berlin building will

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Speaker 2: link a church, a mosque and a synagogue together under

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Speaker 2: one roof. Construction of the Bear with Me Church moscagogue

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Speaker 2: will have a central meeting space shared by all three faiths,

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Speaker 2: and construction begins in May after ten years of planning.

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Speaker 1: The big story today is the petition for consent that

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Speaker 1: everyone's been talking about. It's time for us to have

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Speaker 1: a think about what's next for this petition and take

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Speaker 1: stock of where we are in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, I don't remember a time when there

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Speaker 2: were this many stories in the media about sexual assault,

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Speaker 2: treatment of women or consent. Between Grace Tame winning Ossie

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Speaker 2: of the Year aoc is speaking about a sexual assault

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Speaker 2: incident live on Insta, Brittany Higgins and three other women

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Speaker 2: bringing claims of sexual assault in Parliament House. Almost recently,

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Speaker 2: this petition that's just been signed by it seems everyone

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Speaker 2: I know. It really feels like it's permeating every single

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Speaker 2: sphere at the moment.

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Speaker 1: The petition has certainly gone viral. Over the weekend, we

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Speaker 1: received a heap of dms alerting us to the petition,

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Speaker 1: and since then we've seen Chanel Kontos, the author of

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Speaker 1: the petition, interviewed on what seems like every major Australian

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Speaker 1: news outlet. Two have massed over sixteen and a half

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Speaker 1: thousand signatures and two and a half thousand testimonies. Is

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Speaker 1: really significant and speaks to the timeliness and universe of

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Speaker 1: this issue. I've had a lot of friends ask me

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Speaker 1: what happens next and whether this petition will actually change anything.

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Speaker 2: It's a commonly asked question. So a petition has power

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Speaker 2: that is twofold. Firstly, it starts a national conversation about

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Speaker 2: something that might not have otherwise been discussed, which in

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Speaker 2: this case is about sexual consent. On the other hand,

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Speaker 2: it can also have very real legislative consequences if it's

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Speaker 2: submitted to a House of Parliament. So this petition which

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Speaker 2: pertains to the education of students could be lodged by

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Speaker 2: a Member of Parliament in state Parliament in New South Wales,

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Speaker 2: where the author, Chanel Contos is from. If petitions have

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Speaker 2: had more than ten thousand signatures, which this one has,

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Speaker 2: then that petition will be scheduled for debate in the House.

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Speaker 2: At this point, real policy and legislative change can arise.

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Speaker 2: Another way that this can happen is by reaching out

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Speaker 2: to your local member, which you can do via email,

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Speaker 2: via phone, or in person. If anyone wants any tips

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Speaker 2: on this, please feel free to DM on insta.

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Speaker 1: It's also really important to remember what the author of

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Speaker 1: the petition hoped for it to achieve and for that

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Speaker 1: message to remain as the petition somewhat takes a life

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Speaker 1: of its own. Chanelle Contos told us on the weekend

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Speaker 1: that she's pushing for education that not only incorporates key

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Speaker 1: elements of consent, but also the forces that shape behavior,

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Speaker 1: such as toxic masculinity and rape culture.

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Speaker 2: And that's just it. It is so important to address

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Speaker 2: all elements of this. And interestingly, when we were doing

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Speaker 2: some research for this podcast, we came across an ABC

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Speaker 2: article detailing a push for consent education in high schools.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't from February from this year, but from February

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Speaker 2: last year. It just showed us these issues aren't new.

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Speaker 2: Their presence in the news cycle is also not new.

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Speaker 2: What we do with this information, however, that is what

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Speaker 2: needs to be new.

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Speaker 1: That's all we have time for today. But in the meantime,

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