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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Daily Ods.

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Speaker 1: It is the fourth of August. I'm joined today by

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Speaker 1: the co founder of the Dally Ods, Zara Sidler Zara.

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Speaker 1: How many cases were there in New South Wales and

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Speaker 1: what else is happening in the news today?

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Speaker 2: So yesterday we heard of one hundred and ninety nine

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Speaker 2: new locally acquired cases in New South Wales. There were

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Speaker 2: fifty of those cases infectious in the community and again

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Speaker 2: forty seven of those cases still remain under investigation. It

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Speaker 2: was also a very clear target outlined by the premiere

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Speaker 2: of what she wants the vaccination rollout to look like,

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Speaker 2: specifically in New South Wales. In New South Wales at

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Speaker 2: the moment we have three point nine million jabs of

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Speaker 2: vaccinations that have been provided and thank you to everybody

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Speaker 2: taking up the vaccine. By the end of August, I'd

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Speaker 2: like to see that number go to six million jabs.

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Speaker 2: Then over in Queensland there were another sixteen locally acquired cases,

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Speaker 2: so that's quite a bit of a jump. All of

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Speaker 2: those cases, however, were linked to a known cluster, so

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Speaker 2: no mystery cases there.

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Speaker 1: We've transitioned from doing daily posts on the Victoria account

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Speaker 1: to Queensland and will be sure to keep our Queensland

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Speaker 1: viewers and listeners in the loop. Around two five hundred

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Speaker 1: quantisant Jetstar employees have been stood down for an estimated

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Speaker 1: two months as a result of the COVID nineteen outbreaks

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Speaker 1: and state lockdowns. The airlines insist these are temporary measures

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Speaker 1: and that no job losses will be expected. This all

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Speaker 1: comes after the federal government announced the Retaining Domestic Airline

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Speaker 1: Capability Scheme and under this new scheme, airlines receive payments

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Speaker 1: of seven hundred and fifty bucks a week for at

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Speaker 1: least fifty percent of their frontline staff if they can

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Speaker 1: show a thirty percent downturn in their business, with the

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Speaker 1: scheme scaling up if the airlines drop further.

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Speaker 2: Before we jump into this one, a quick heads up

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Speaker 2: that it is a really disturbing story. Local authorities in

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Speaker 2: the Sudanese province of Kassala have confirmed around fifty dead

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Speaker 2: bodies were found floating in a river. It's believe the

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Speaker 2: bodies were those fleeing the war torn area in neighboring

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Speaker 2: Ethiopia's Tigray region. The river passes through areas with high

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Speaker 2: conflict in Tigray, and some of the bodies were found

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Speaker 2: with gunshot wounds or their hands bound. However, a forensic

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Speaker 2: investigation is still needed to determine the causes of death,

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Speaker 2: according to officials.

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Speaker 1: And for today's good news, we spend a lot of

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Speaker 1: time at the moment talking about Australia's vaccination target, where

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Speaker 1: we have a goal to hit overseas. The US has

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Speaker 1: reached President Biden's goal of having seventy percent of eligible

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Speaker 1: adults at least partly vaccinated against COVID nineteen. This means

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Speaker 1: that in real numbers, roughly one hundred and eighty point

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Speaker 1: seven million people above the age of eighteen have received

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Speaker 1: at least their first dose. This latest percentage is seen

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Speaker 1: as an important step towards America's status of herdmin so.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this week, opposition leader Anthony albernezi He proposed a

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Speaker 2: new incentivizing scheme for the vaccine. He proposed that any

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Speaker 2: Aussie that gets both doses of the vaccine by December

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Speaker 2: first should be offered a three hundred dollars cash PA,

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Speaker 2: and the idea is that this might incentivize and encourage

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Speaker 2: Ozzies who are either a bit hesitant or can't take

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Speaker 2: the day off work or something like that to go

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Speaker 2: get the vaccine. The policy proposal was costed at six

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Speaker 2: billion and would also backdate to include people who were vaccinated.

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Speaker 2: And this was one that people kept asking us on

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Speaker 2: our instagram. So there we've said it again. This would

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Speaker 2: include people who are already vaccinated. The thing to remember here, though,

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Speaker 2: before Sam jumps into it, is that this is just

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Speaker 2: a proposal from the opposition. The way our political system

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Speaker 2: works is that the opposition cannot implement a government scheme.

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Speaker 2: So even if Anthony Alberanzi does have a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of support from his own party, it's up to the

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister and the coalition to actually implement this plan.

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Speaker 1: So yesterday on our Instagram page, we wanted to get

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Speaker 1: a gauge of what you guys thought about this proposal,

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Speaker 1: and we approached that challenge in two ways. One, we

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Speaker 1: put a poll up asking would this encourage you to

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Speaker 1: get vaccinated? And it was a yes and no answer,

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Speaker 1: And then we asked you why not? And I think

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Speaker 1: looking at the results is really interesting. So on the

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Speaker 1: first yes and no question, seventy five percent of the

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Speaker 1: dally Os readers would be encouraged by three hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. However, when we move over to looking

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Speaker 1: at the reasoning, we see a lot of resistance in

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Speaker 1: the answers given and there's a couple of themes that

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Speaker 1: I want to draw out. The most resounding answer from

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Speaker 1: dale OS readers was that this doesn't solve the issues

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Speaker 1: of supply, that it doesn't speed up whether under forties

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Speaker 1: are eligible for the vaccine, and that it doesn't address

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Speaker 1: issues of PISA allocations that are running short across the country.

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Speaker 1: The other really interesting response was a lot of people

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Speaker 1: saying they don't need the incentive. And I thought this

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Speaker 1: was fascinating because when you're throwing around free money, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we can think back to Kevin Rudd's stimulus program in

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Speaker 1: the height of the GFC and how well that was

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Speaker 1: received by the Australian public. Australians traditionally love a bit

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Speaker 1: of free cash. So the fact that we were getting

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Speaker 1: young Aussies, especially saying in our DMS that they actually

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Speaker 1: don't need it, and that they're convinced of the efficacy

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Speaker 1: of the vaccine, or rather.

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Speaker 2: That the money should be going to rolling out the

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Speaker 2: vaccine elsewhere or increasing.

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Speaker 1: Supply, right, that's really interesting, and that's a totally different

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Speaker 1: reaction to what we saw with similar incentive programs overseas.

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Speaker 2: We have seen some really creative incentive programs overseas. In Moscow,

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Speaker 2: the authorities are handing out five cars a week in

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Speaker 2: a prize draw for people to get vaccinated. Biden has

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Speaker 2: called on states and localities to do more to encourage

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Speaker 2: people to get vaccinated, including paying them one hundred dollars,

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Speaker 2: but that's not really in place yet. However, in some

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Speaker 2: of the US states specifically, they've offered independent prizes, so

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Speaker 2: we covered the Vaccine Scratch program, which is the best

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Speaker 2: name ever, which was providing lottery tickets for prizes up

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Speaker 2: to five million dollars.

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Speaker 1: In New York.

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Speaker 2: There was also shot in a beer program to encourage

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Speaker 2: eligible people from New Jersey ages twenty one and above

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Speaker 2: to get vaccinated and get a beer. Seems like something

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Speaker 2: would go down well here, and they're in Israel, which

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Speaker 2: is one of the most highly vaccinated countries in the world.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this year offered a discount on property taxes to

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Speaker 2: families in which everyone above the age of sixteen was

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Speaker 2: vaccinated for the month, and while was certainly too early

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Speaker 2: in the vaccination role out globally to understand the correlation

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Speaker 2: and causation between these incentives and people getting vaccinated. A

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Speaker 2: UCLA study carried out this year found that roughly a

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Speaker 2: third of the unvaccinated population set a cash payment would

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Speaker 2: make them more likely to get a shot. Interestingly, the

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Speaker 2: second popular incentive was going maskless and this is certainly

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Speaker 2: something that Gladysbury Jicklian has been talking about in that

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Speaker 2: incentivizing doesn't need to take the form of cash or

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Speaker 2: beer or whatever it might be, but especially for Sydney siders,

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Speaker 2: it could take the form of more freedoms. Sam, what

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Speaker 2: do we know about what the Prime Minister's thinking on

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Speaker 2: this is?

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Speaker 1: He essentially slammed the plan. He basically said it was

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Speaker 1: a vote of no confidence in Australians, saying that it

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Speaker 1: says that any health concerns they have about the vaccine

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Speaker 1: can be paid off. He said that cash is not

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Speaker 1: what motivates Australians, but rather the health benefits on offer

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Speaker 1: from a vaccine. This view was echoed by Federal Finance

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Speaker 1: Minister Simon Birmingham, who said it was not on the

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Speaker 1: government's radar at all. It was not to be considered

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Time will tell whether the government sticks to their guns

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Speaker 2: on that one or whether they capitulate and do offer

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Speaker 2: these cash incentives that the opposition is suggesting. We'd love

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Speaker 2: to hear a bit more about what you're thinking. There

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Speaker 2: was certainly an array of opinions here, and just because

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Speaker 2: we've highlighted some of the arguments against does not mean

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Speaker 2: that there was not a lot of support all the

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Speaker 2: cash payments. It should be said there are a lot

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Speaker 2: of people who said that they have been financially decimated

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Speaker 2: by the pandemic and that three hundred dollars would go

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Speaker 2: a really long way, which I'm sure is the case

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Speaker 2: for a lot of young Aussies.

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Speaker 1: Hit us up on the Daily OS on Instagram. It's

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Speaker 1: where over one hundred and fifty five thousand Australians are

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Speaker 1: getting their news at the moment, and we'd love to

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Speaker 1: hear your thoughts on whether an incentive would see you

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Speaker 1: getting the jab