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Speaker 1: A very good morning and a massive happy birthday to Sam,

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Speaker 1: co founder of the Dahlly OAHs and all round legend.

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Speaker 1: It's the thirteenth of December. Sam, how are you feeling?

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Speaker 1: Are you feeling old?

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Speaker 2: I am? I'm in my late twenties now I'm twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: No longer cool, no longer young, no.

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Speaker 2: Longer I have three more years until I am officially

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Speaker 2: not a young person ever. Sorry to all those thirty

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Speaker 2: one year old listeners out there, but no, A fun day,

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Speaker 2: A fun day to have a birthday, sharing it with

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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 1: From Taylor Swift to COVID nineteen booster shots. How's that

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Speaker 1: for a segue? Ausis can now get a COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: booster shot at the five month mark. So it was

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Speaker 1: that you were to get it six months after your

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Speaker 1: second JAB, but now that has been brought forward thanks

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Speaker 1: to Omicron. The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization more

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Speaker 1: fondly known as ATAGI has also approved MODERNA booster shots.

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Speaker 1: So now a TARGI is recommending either Pfizer or Maderna

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Speaker 1: for use as a booster vaccine. And I know that

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Speaker 1: I'm booking mine in this week.

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Speaker 2: In the US, at least seventy people have died after

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Speaker 2: twenty two tornadoes hit six states on Friday and over

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Speaker 2: the weekend, with some of the worst destructions seen in

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Speaker 2: the state of Kentucky. The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction

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Speaker 2: Center has received at least thirty six reports of different

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Speaker 2: tornadoes affecting the states of Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi,

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Speaker 2: and Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: The US has told Russia to withdraw from Ukraine, saying quote,

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Speaker 1: a large number of democratic countries will join us in

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Speaker 1: imposing costs. After diplomats from the Group of Seven Richest

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Speaker 1: Democracies met in Liverpool, a US senior State Department official

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Speaker 1: said if they Russia choose not to pursue that path,

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Speaker 1: there'll be massive consequences and severe costs in response, and

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Speaker 1: the G seven is absolutely united in that.

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Speaker 2: Quite a tense situation that the world will be watching

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Speaker 2: this week. In some much needed good news today, Queensland

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Speaker 2: has eased its borders after the state's eligible population reached

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Speaker 2: eighty percent. Fully vaccinated vaxed individuals can now travel to

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Speaker 2: the state without quarantining and can arrive by air or

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Speaker 2: by road. Don't forget to check the testing requirements upon entry,

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Speaker 2: though there are still some rules around that Zara. On

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Speaker 2: Friday in the UK, so Saturday our time, the UK

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Speaker 2: High Court ruled that Julian Assange, who is wanted in

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Speaker 2: the US over charges of the publication of classified materials

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Speaker 2: and conspiring to hack into US military databases, can be

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Speaker 2: extradited from the UK to the US.

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Speaker 1: You just said a lot of words in a short

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Speaker 1: period of time. Breakdown what you just said. So first,

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Speaker 1: who is Julian Assange? Fanny listeners who aren't familiar, and secondly,

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Speaker 1: how we got into the stage here where there are

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Speaker 1: countries involved in extradition and high court cases.

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Speaker 2: So first let's start with the man. Julian Nossannge is

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Speaker 2: the founder of website and organization WikiLeaks. They publish whistleblower content.

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Speaker 2: They're most notable for publishing contents surrounding the US war

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Speaker 2: in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just reminding here, a whistleblower is

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Speaker 2: somebody who releases information that they believe is from an

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Speaker 2: organizational person engaging in an unlawful or immoral activity. They're

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Speaker 2: normally on the inside of the organization, and Wikiliks is

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Speaker 2: founded upon confidential documents being leaked to them and they

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Speaker 2: then take charge of broadcasting them over the Internet. So

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Speaker 2: some of the big documents that put Wikiliks on the

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Speaker 2: map were surrounding the Afghan and Iraq wars. There were

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Speaker 2: documents from each war that were classified as secret, detailing

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Speaker 2: killing of civilians by US military. And after the twenty

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Speaker 2: ten leaks, so all these documents came out of them,

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Speaker 2: the US government launched an investigation into Wikiliks and Assange.

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Speaker 2: By this point, Assange was actually living in the Ecuadorian

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Speaker 2: embassy in London. He lived there for seven years, from

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Speaker 2: twenty twelve until he was arrested in April twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 2: He was at that embassy because he was wanted in

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Speaker 2: Sweden for allegations of sexual assault. Now that case was

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Speaker 2: later dropped. The reason why he was in the embassy

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Speaker 2: is because when you're in side an embassy that doesn't

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Speaker 2: have an extradition agreement with another country, you're protected and

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Speaker 2: you're almost not under the rules of the UK. If

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Speaker 2: you're inside the Ecuadorian embassy, Zara quickly runs through what

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Speaker 2: extradition is.

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Speaker 1: Extradition is the process by which one country sends a person.

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Speaker 1: So in this case Julian Assange currently in their custody

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Speaker 1: to another country to face criminal prosecution or to serve

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Speaker 1: a prison sentence. So if someone is in the control

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Speaker 1: that process and the process of bringing them out to

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Speaker 1: the other country is called extradition.

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Speaker 2: And so putting aside the Swedish extradition attempt that was dropped,

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Speaker 2: this extradition attempt is from the US who wants him

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Speaker 2: on these charges of the releasing of confidential material, and

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Speaker 2: the UK High Court has now ruled that he can

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Speaker 2: be extradited. He wasn't being extradited before this weekend because

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Speaker 2: there were concerns over his mental health and the concern

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Speaker 2: s to be safe. Therefore, the UK District Court said,

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Speaker 2: we can't agree to extrite somebody where there's a risk

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Speaker 2: to their life. Now the High Court has gone back

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Speaker 2: on this and said that when the US administration gives

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Speaker 2: a promise to the UK of fair and humane treatment

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Speaker 2: of a detainee, it must be trusted.

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Speaker 1: This isn't the end of the road, though, there is

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Speaker 1: still one more UK court that can hear and appeal,

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Speaker 1: and that's the UK's Supreme Court. Assange's lawyers said that

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Speaker 1: they would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court shortly

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Speaker 1: and it was just after this news that we heard

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Speaker 1: more news about Julian Assange. Stella Morris, who is his

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Speaker 1: partner and the mother of his two youngest children, posted

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Speaker 1: on social media to say that Assange had suffered a

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Speaker 1: stroke during this process. So during his High Court appeal,

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Speaker 1: she didn't provide any further update on his condition, but

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Speaker 1: did say that Julian is struggling and I fear this

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Speaker 1: mini stroke could be the precursor to a more major attack.

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Speaker 1: It compounds our fears about his ability to survive the

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Speaker 1: longer this long legal battle goes on.

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Speaker 2: And so what we're seeing now is a maive debate

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Speaker 2: over the health of Julian Assange, and not only the

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Speaker 2: mental health, but now interestingly the physical health as well.

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Speaker 2: You have to remember that this is somebody who's been

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Speaker 2: in some sort of custody or refuge for about ten

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Speaker 2: years now, so this is a long awaited extradition for

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Speaker 2: the us ZARA. Interestingly, Australia actually has a role to

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Speaker 2: play in this situation. Can you tell me a bit

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Speaker 2: about that.

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Speaker 1: When we're reading and hearing about Julian Assand they can

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Speaker 1: sometimes be this distance because his charges are almost movie

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Speaker 1: like it's this really big, massive moral story, but in

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Speaker 1: fact he's Australian and the story is extremely close to

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Speaker 1: home and of course goes to the heart of democracy.

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Speaker 1: What's the role of the Australian government during this whole process, Am.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting one because he is, as you said,

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Speaker 2: an Australian citizen. So the government has a responsibility to

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Speaker 2: monitor the case of any Australian citizen around the world

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Speaker 2: in another jurisdiction. But they've said very clearly yesterday that

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Speaker 2: they would can you need to respect the UK legal process,

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Speaker 2: including any further appeals under the UK law. That's obviously

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Speaker 2: referencing the upcoming appeal by Assange, and the government emphasized

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Speaker 2: that Australia was not a party to the case. Where

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Speaker 2: Australia's role could come into play though, is an agreement

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Speaker 2: made with US prosecutors that Assige could serve out his sentence,

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Speaker 2: and he's facing up to one hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 2: years in prison, he could actually serve that out in Australia.

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Speaker 2: To be closer to family as a some sort of

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Speaker 2: mitigating factor for the health concerns that are clearly top

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Speaker 2: of mind for Assange and his team.

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Speaker 1: As we said earlier, there is still room left in

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Speaker 1: the appeals process for Assignger's team, so no doubt this

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Speaker 1: will be back in the headlines shortly and until that time,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us on this Monday edition of The

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Speaker 1: Daily Ours. We hope you have a fabulous day and

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Speaker 1: enjoy your Monday