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

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Speaker 1: the fourth of June. My name is Sam Kozlowski, and

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

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Speaker 1: Making news today, regional Victoria restrictions lifted.

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Speaker 2: Federal government support payments.

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Speaker 1: Some good news from the US, and.

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Speaker 3: A chat about a potential new quarantine facility in Melbourne.

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Speaker 3: Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: Victoria recorded three new locally acquired COVID nineteen cases yesterday,

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Speaker 1: with the cluster growing to sixty three. One of the

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Speaker 1: three cases was a resident from the Rkare Maidstone Age

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Speaker 1: Care Home. The state received a record fifty seven, five

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Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen test results yesterday. That is massive, massive,

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Speaker 1: as twenty three nine hundred and twenty one vaccination doses

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Speaker 1: were administered at state run vaccination sites. Some restrictions in

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Speaker 1: regional Victoria were lifted at eleven fifty nine pm yesterday

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Speaker 1: and you can check out those changes on our Instagram.

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Speaker 3: After a whele speak of the Victorian government calling on

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Speaker 3: the federal government for some financial assistance, yesterday, Scott Morrison

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Speaker 3: announced temporary payments for those who have.

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Speaker 4: Lost work as a result of the lockdown.

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Speaker 3: There's quite strict eligibility criteria for this, however, and you

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Speaker 3: can look it up online, but just quickly, you have

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Speaker 3: to be over the age of eighteen. You have to

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Speaker 3: be legally able to work in Australia, so a permanent

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Speaker 3: resident or somebody that has a visa to work. You

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Speaker 3: have to have less than ten thousand dollars in liquid

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Speaker 3: assets and you can't be receiving other COVID related payments.

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Speaker 3: So if you fulfill all this criteria and you are

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Speaker 3: working more than twenty hours, you'll receive five hundred dollars

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Speaker 3: per week. If you were meant to be working less

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Speaker 3: than twenty hours, you'll receive three hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 3: dollars per week. And that's as long as the lockdown lasts.

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Speaker 1: And if you're wondering what liquid assets are, that just

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Speaker 1: means cash in the bank. It means your savings account.

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Speaker 1: And over to the Middle East and Israeli Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: Benjamin Nenya, who is on thege of losing power for

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Speaker 1: the first time since two thousand and nine after a

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Speaker 1: coalition was formed between eight opposition parties. In the last

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Speaker 1: two years, the country has held four elections with no

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Speaker 1: clear winner. Emerging from any of them. However, a new

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Speaker 1: coalition is threatening to unseat Israel's longest serving leader. We

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Speaker 1: did a long post on this on our Instagram yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend checking it out.

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Speaker 3: And for some Friday good news, Wilberforce University in the

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Speaker 3: US has surprised graduates by clearing all of their school debt.

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Speaker 3: One hundred and sixty six students graduated over the weekend

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Speaker 3: with more than three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: of debt absolutely cleared. The school was able to wipe

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Speaker 3: out debts through the use of numerous scholarships, with the

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Speaker 3: university president saying in a statement that the school was

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Speaker 3: honored to be able to give them a fresh start

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Speaker 3: by relieving their school debt to the university.

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Speaker 5: Well, it would be fantastic because the hotel system is leaky,

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Speaker 5: prepared eighteen leaks in the last six months throughout Australia

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Speaker 5: and the main reason for that is that hotels aren't

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Speaker 5: fit for purpose. To your point, the secondary reason is

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Speaker 5: that we've taken a while to recognize that the virus

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Speaker 5: transmits through the air and that's why hotels don't work

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Speaker 5: so well.

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Speaker 3: So that was the head of the Burnett Institute, Brendan Krabb,

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Speaker 3: talking about the need for a fit for purpose quarantine

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Speaker 3: facility and the need for this has continued to grow

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Speaker 3: and has really been exemplified in the most recent outbreak

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Speaker 3: in Melbourne. According to an article in The Conversation yesterday,

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Speaker 3: hotel quarantine has caused one outbreak for every two hundred

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Speaker 3: and four infected travelers.

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Speaker 2: Ultimately, it was never meant to be the long term plan.

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Speaker 2: It was the short term response to.

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Speaker 3: A raging pandemic that has now seen its efficacy challenged.

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Speaker 3: So today we're expecting to hear about a new plan,

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Speaker 3: and this was proposed by the Victorian government a number

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Speaker 3: of months ago, but we are finally hearing that the

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Speaker 3: federal government is planning to go ahead with it.

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Speaker 1: We know that because yesterday the Federal government handed the

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Speaker 1: Victorian state government a memorandum of understanding for the project

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Speaker 1: that the Victorian government have proposed for the outskirts of Melbourne. Now,

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Speaker 1: a memorandum of understanding is not necessarily a legally binding document,

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Speaker 1: but it's a document that says this is what we

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Speaker 1: intend to discuss and this is what we're feeling right now.

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Speaker 4: So what do we know about the proposal so far?

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Speaker 1: So towards the end of last year, the Andrews government

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Speaker 1: proposed a five hundred bed facility at Mickelham.

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Speaker 4: Did you say the end of last year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a while. The federal government and the

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Speaker 1: States have been chatting about it for a few weeks,

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Speaker 1: but it's been on the cards for months. There's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of chatter and a lot of political speculation,

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Speaker 1: but this is the first time we've got a firm

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Speaker 1: signal from the government that they're going to come to

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Speaker 1: the table. So the Andrews government has budgeted about seven

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars for the site and they're asking the

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Speaker 1: federal government for a two hundred million dollar contribution. That

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Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars is going to go towards the

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Speaker 1: construction and then the Victorian go have said that they

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Speaker 1: will pay for the running of the site. So, as

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Speaker 1: I said before, the Victorian government are keen on a

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Speaker 1: site at Mickleham, which is in Melbourne's north and it's

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Speaker 1: next to an existing quarantine facility for plants and animals.

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Speaker 1: The Federal government, however, we believe, are more interested in

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Speaker 1: a site nearer to Avalon airport, which would obviously be

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Speaker 1: a lot easier for international arrivals. In terms of what

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Speaker 1: the facility actually is, it's basically a facility similar to

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Speaker 1: ones that we all went to for school camp. It's

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Speaker 1: a hotel without the hotel bits.

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Speaker 4: So is it what.

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Speaker 3: Exists currently in Howard Springs in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: It's much more similar to the Howard Springs model than

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Speaker 1: to a hotel in the middle of metropolitan Melbourne. It's

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Speaker 1: not as spread out as the Howard Springs facility, and

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Speaker 1: it's more of a multi level complex rather than a

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Speaker 1: widespread complex, but it has similar engineering principles in terms

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Speaker 1: of very carefully considered ventilation and enough space for people

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Speaker 1: to get some outdoors time while they're in the two

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Speaker 3: And so I imagine the logic behind this is that

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Speaker 3: we've seen a lot of hotel quarantine leaks happening from

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Speaker 3: doors opening intermittently for five seconds at a time, or

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Speaker 3: guards working at multiple sites, or even through the ventilation

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Speaker 3: systems of these hotels, and we've had epidemiologists for months

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Speaker 3: now calling on a new system of quarantines. So how

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Speaker 3: quickly could something like this realistically be built? Because we're

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Speaker 3: a year and a half into this pandemic and it

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Speaker 3: feels like it's a tiny bit too late.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to know a lot more by the

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Speaker 1: end of the day and perhaps early next week. But

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Speaker 1: at the moment we hear that Prime Minister Morrison believes

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Speaker 1: it could be built by the end of the year,

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Speaker 1: which would be a pretty speedy construction effort for a

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Speaker 1: three thousand bed facility, But obviously, because it is clearly

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Speaker 1: the most pressing construction need in Australia, it's not impossible

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Speaker 1: for it to be done on that timeline. The other

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Speaker 1: thing to consider with timeline is that the Victorian government

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Speaker 1: have clearly said that COVID is something we're going to

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Speaker 1: be with for a number of years, so a quarantine

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Speaker 1: facility is probably a necessary part of any state's effective

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Speaker 1: COVID strategy in any case, So even if they can't

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Speaker 1: meet that end of your deadline, the Victorian government would

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Speaker 1: clearly just like to see a facility like this exist

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Speaker 1: in the state which is now in its fourth lockdown.

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Speaker 3: And while we're on the topic of lockdowns, last night

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Speaker 3: we did a shout out for any Melbourne businesses that

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Speaker 3: we're doing it tough and we wanted to highlight one

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Speaker 3: small business a day until the end of lockdown. So

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Speaker 3: today we are shouting out to Bricklayne Bagels, which is

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Speaker 3: a small, family run bagel cafe in South Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: Now let me paint a picture of these bagels. These

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Speaker 1: bad boys are delicious, They are boiled, they are absolutely

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Speaker 1: fresh when they arrive at your door. You can order

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Speaker 1: them online. Bricklaine Bagels are open for takeaway all weekend.

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Speaker 1: Here's your instructions. You're going to order some you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get some smokedam and you're going to get some cream cheese.

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Speaker 1: You're going to cuddle up in bed and you can

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Speaker 1: now have yourself a delightful breakfast.

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Speaker 3: And with that picture painted in your mind the bagels,

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Speaker 3: we are going to leave it there. I hope you

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Speaker 3: have a brilliant weekend and for all Melburnians you are

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Speaker 3: nearly at the finish line. But in the meantime, follow

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