Speaker 1: Already and this is this is the Daily This is
Speaker 1: the Daily OS. Oh, now it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Friday,
Speaker 2: the nineteenth of April.
Speaker 1: I'm Zara, I'm Sam.
Speaker 2: It's better say that it has been an extremely heavy
Speaker 2: week of news, so for today's Friday episode, we thought
Speaker 2: that we would bring you around up of some of
Speaker 2: the more uplifting stories from the week, from the arts
Speaker 2: to sport and scientific innovation. We've got to wrap in
Speaker 2: today's Dick Dive to take you into the weekend feeling
Speaker 2: just that bit lighter about the state of the world.
Speaker 2: Before we get there, Sam, what's making headlines.
Speaker 1: The unemployment rate rose slightly to three point eight percent
Speaker 1: in March. That's up from three point seven percent the
Speaker 1: month before. The figure refers to the percentage of people
Speaker 1: who were looking for work last month but couldn't find
Speaker 1: a job. Despite the higher percentage of people out of work,
Speaker 1: the Australian Bureau of Statistics says the labor market remains tight,
Speaker 1: meaning there are businesses struggling to fill job vacancies.
Speaker 2: The bishop who was stabbed at an Assyrian church on
Speaker 2: Monday night in Sydney's southwest has said he forgives his
Speaker 2: alleged attacker, a sixteen year old boy. Mar Marie Emmanuel,
Speaker 2: made his first announcement since he was attacked, saying he
Speaker 2: was recovering very quickly after undergoing surgery. In his audio message,
Speaker 2: the bishop also urged calm in the community.
Speaker 1: Almost one billion people in India will head to the polls
Speaker 1: from today as Prime Minister Nearendra Mody seeks a return
Speaker 1: to power for a third time. More than five hundred
Speaker 1: and forty MPs will be elected, and Mody is set
Speaker 1: to face a fierce challenge from opposition parties hoping to
Speaker 1: oust him from another five year term. The election will
Speaker 1: take about six weeks to help ensure millions of voters
Speaker 1: can access a polling booth, meaning the results aren't expected
Speaker 1: to be known until early June.
Speaker 2: And Today's good News to give us a bit of
Speaker 2: a teaser before we dive into today's good News wrap
Speaker 2: of the week, the world's oldest wombat is about to
Speaker 2: turn thirty five. Wayne the wombat, nicknamed Mister Wine, was
Speaker 2: born in Tasmania in nineteen eighty nine and was less
Speaker 2: than a year old when he was sent to a
Speaker 2: Japanese zoo where he's lived ever since. The average lifespan
Speaker 2: of a wombat out in nature is about fifteen years,
Speaker 2: which mister Wine has managed to more than double. Guinness
Speaker 2: World Records has certified him as the oldest living wombat.
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Speaker 2: The news cycle has felt especially dark and especially heavy
Speaker 2: this week. I think it's a very strange sensation to
Speaker 2: feel like your attention is being dragged from one bad
Speaker 2: news story to another. It's like we couldn't even dwell
Speaker 2: in the sorrow or the tragedy that unfolded in one
Speaker 2: part of Sydney because you then had to focus on
Speaker 2: another part of Sydney.
Speaker 1: Which almost invented a third story of the two of
Speaker 1: those together exactly.
Speaker 2: And I think, as we've spoken about it length on
Speaker 2: the podcast this week, that does a lot for your
Speaker 2: mental health when you're watching it unfold. And so today
Speaker 2: we wanted to try to end the week by focusing
Speaker 2: on something a little different. Starting a news outlet, you
Speaker 2: hear all of the reasons why people don't want to
Speaker 2: engage with the news, sam like for the last six years,
Speaker 2: we've heard every reason under the sun, but the one
Speaker 2: that comes back time and time again is the news
Speaker 2: is too dark. I don't want to listen to it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to read it. It's too dark.
Speaker 1: It puts me in a bad mood, puts me in
Speaker 1: a bad headspace. And it's fair enough.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, especially this week, that's in
Speaker 2: hirely fair enough. If people have had to turn down
Speaker 2: their news consumption, that would be entirely fair. But when
Speaker 2: we started TDA, we acknowledged this fact. And that's why
Speaker 2: every single day on the podcast and every single day
Speaker 2: in our newsletter, we've been bringing you a good news
Speaker 2: story since the beginning of tda's existence.
Speaker 1: So that means you and I have done one good
Speaker 1: news story a weekday for just over seven years.
Speaker 2: It's a terrifyingly long time. And you know what, we
Speaker 2: wanted to just bring that all together today. We wanted
Speaker 2: to speak about only the good news so that you
Speaker 2: can hopefully go into the weekend feeling as uplifted as possible,
Speaker 2: of course, given the circumstances, and find that space to
Speaker 2: look at the brightness among the darkness.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm keen to get into this because I want
Speaker 1: to feel uplifted myself. Fair, what can we start with?
Speaker 2: So I wanted to start with a homegrown good news
Speaker 2: story which is about everyone's favorite, well my favorite at least,
Speaker 2: succession star Sarah Snook. So this week Snook won Best
Speaker 2: Actress at the Olivier Awards, and that is for her
Speaker 2: role in the Picture of Dorian Gray that's currently showing
Speaker 2: on London's West End.
Speaker 1: If only I could remain always young and the picture
Speaker 1: could grow, Oh yes that I would give everything. I
Speaker 1: would give my soul for that.
Speaker 2: Have you heard anything about this play.
Speaker 1: It's a single woman play, right it is.
Speaker 2: I mean it literally is a single woman play. But
Speaker 2: Sarah Snook plays twenty six characters. Wow, in this show.
Speaker 2: It goes for over two hours. It's meant to be
Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. It was showing in Sydney and then Snook
Speaker 2: has been performing it in London. The play was developed
Speaker 2: and originally performed at the Sydney Theater Company a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago, and now, as I said, it's in London.
Speaker 2: Snook was incredibly modest in accepting her honor. She said
Speaker 2: that while it's built as a one woman show, it's not.
Speaker 2: It's the crew who are on stage with me all
Speaker 2: the time every night, and they are vital and constant
Speaker 2: support and they are inspirational. So thank you to the
Speaker 2: crew for being there in this show with me.
Speaker 1: Are the Olivier Awards, like the Oscars.
Speaker 2: Highly highly prestigious, the top on and you can win
Speaker 2: if you're an actor on the London stage. Not bad
Speaker 2: for someone that has absolutely killed it across the awards season.
Speaker 2: And I just, I don't know, I feel really proud.
Speaker 2: She's Australian and she's just clearly such a versatile actor.
Speaker 2: And I am dying to go see this play in
Speaker 2: London that closes a week before I get to London.
Speaker 1: It's incredible to see Ozzie's killed it overseas in entertainment.
Speaker 1: We love our global superstars and I think we can
Speaker 1: add Sarasnook to the list. What else have you got?
Speaker 2: So we're going to move over to Nigeria next, where
Speaker 2: the world's first vaccine against meningitis will be rolled out.
Speaker 2: This is a really significant story because Nigeria is a
Speaker 2: hot spot for the deadly disease in Africa, with one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty three deaths recorded over the past six months.
Speaker 2: Now the vaccine is reported to protect against the five
Speaker 2: major strains that are prevalent in the country. And we
Speaker 2: heard a bit from the World Health Organization's Director General
Speaker 2: who said, and I quote, meningitis is an old and
Speaker 2: deadly foe, but this new vaccine holds the potential to
Speaker 2: change the trajectory of the disease, preventing future outbreaks and
Speaker 2: saving many lives.
Speaker 1: It always strikes me when we report on medical innovation
Speaker 1: that we kind of throw it in as a good
Speaker 1: news story or we talk about it quickly. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine the years of research and work that has gone
Speaker 1: into creating a little vial of a solution that can
Speaker 1: literally save people's lives.
Speaker 2: It's incredible, and I think it's really important to give
Speaker 2: the space to these innovations that are, as you said,
Speaker 2: saving lives and changing the face of disease all across
Speaker 2: the world. It's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: We're going to definitely keep an eye on that story
Speaker 1: because it's clearly one that still has a bit to run. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about women's sport because we've talked
Speaker 1: about women's sport in this podcast a lot over the
Speaker 1: last twelve months, especially with the World Cup last year.
Speaker 1: We're steaming towards the Olympics, where a lot of the
Speaker 1: finest female athletes in the world are going to be
Speaker 1: on display. But locally, we've had a victory in women's
Speaker 1: sport this week.
Speaker 2: Right we have. So last weekend the A League Women
Speaker 2: made history, setting a new Australian record for the most
Speaker 2: attended season of women's sport ever. In the semi final
Speaker 2: between the Newcastle Jets and the Central Coast Mariners, the
Speaker 2: number of spectators reached nearly three hundred thousand people. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's surpassing the previous record held by the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three AFL women's regular season.
Speaker 1: It is just such a victory.
Speaker 2: It is I think that I just go back to
Speaker 2: all the naysayers during the Women's World Cup who said
Speaker 2: this is a moment in time, it will never convert meaningfully,
Speaker 2: And to see a domestic game getting those sorts of
Speaker 2: numbers months and months and months after the World's Cup.
Speaker 2: I think it just shows that support for women's sport
Speaker 2: isn't going anywhere, that sponsorship deals and funding for these
Speaker 2: games are going to have to reflect the spectator numbers
Speaker 2: that are flowing through. And I just think, you know,
Speaker 2: it proves everyone who said that wrong and shows that
Speaker 2: support for women's sport is a fixture in this country.
Speaker 1: And we get to see them in sildas back in
Speaker 1: action in Paris in ninety eight days.
Speaker 2: But who's counting, sad me.
Speaker 1: Okay, we've got time for one more good news story.
Speaker 1: What can you take us out with?
Speaker 2: So this one is about a European Union announcement of
Speaker 2: a three point five billion euro investment in ocean protection
Speaker 2: and sustainability. Now that's around five point eight billion Australian dollars.
Speaker 2: The EU REPS said that the billions would be split
Speaker 2: across investments in pollution management, biodiversity and sustainable fishing. And
Speaker 2: I think this is a really good news story to
Speaker 2: end on because I feel like we obviously talk about
Speaker 2: the effects of climate change on this podcast really often,
Speaker 2: and just this week, scientists declared the fourth ever global
Speaker 2: coral bleaching event is underway. So I think that when
Speaker 2: we're talking about stories like that, when we are highlighting
Speaker 2: the very severe and very significant effects of climate change,
Speaker 2: I do think that we need to bring some hope,
Speaker 2: and we do also need to highlight the work that's
Speaker 2: being done to try combat the effects of climate change.
Speaker 2: And so in this case, a fairly substantial financial commitment
Speaker 2: by the European Union there hopefully to better protect oceans.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, try to balance the bad with
Speaker 2: the good and think this is a really meaningful contribution
Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll go a long way in protecting our oceans.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of money, so that's pretty impressive to
Speaker 1: see such a major financial commitment.
Speaker 2: It is now, Sam, before we jump off and head
Speaker 2: into the weekend, I wanted to ask if you have
Speaker 2: a recommendation to give our listeners to help them feel
Speaker 2: a little bit lighter over the coming days.
Speaker 1: Can you go first so that I can go last,
Speaker 1: because I have a surprise.
Speaker 2: Okay, I will go first. I have had a few
Speaker 2: restless nights this week where I haven't been able to sleep,
Speaker 2: and I find myself scrolling TikTok.
Speaker 1: Because that's really going to help you, not sleeping.
Speaker 2: I'd like to not hear from anyone about my sleep hygiene. However,
Speaker 2: what I have really enjoyed this week in my scrolling
Speaker 2: abyss is watching videos of people completing the Boston Marathon.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So firstly, watching anyone finish a marathon is an amazing,
Speaker 2: amazing thing to witness, like the pure strength and mental
Speaker 2: determination it takes. I'd know, jeez, I did a half
Speaker 2: half marathons, we're asking. I have not run once since then,
Speaker 2: and that was nearly two years ago. But watching people
Speaker 2: finish that is one thing. Watching people finish the Boston
Speaker 2: Marathon is another. We know obviously that there was a
Speaker 2: terrorist attack that took place a number of years ago
Speaker 2: in Boston at that finish line, and so I just
Speaker 2: think it shows the circle of life. It shows that,
Speaker 2: you know, strength, brightness, happiness ultimately wins and to watch,
Speaker 2: you know, I watched a seventy six year old run
Speaker 2: across the finish line and hug his wife and it
Speaker 2: was just so beautiful and it makes me really happy.
Speaker 2: So I would recommend watching those videos if you need
Speaker 2: a bit of a pick me out.
Speaker 1: The big tag line after the Boston bombings was Boston Strong.
Speaker 2: I was in Boston.
Speaker 1: Wow, and this idea of like a city coming together
Speaker 1: and keeping strong. And when I was watching some of
Speaker 1: the clips of this year's end, you can see Boston
Speaker 1: strong signs still everywhere. It's now part of the city's identity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Sam, that's yours.
Speaker 1: Okay. So I've been I think I missed a chapter
Speaker 1: and I don't of life of a good solid entertainment education.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I've missed this important chapter, but
Speaker 1: I feel like I've missed out on romantic comedies, and.
Speaker 2: So I've been an important genre.
Speaker 1: So important. There's so many references I now know that
Speaker 1: people are throwing out there that come from funny movies.
Speaker 1: So this week we're knocking some off to try and
Speaker 1: get some lightness back. Bridesmaids movie, had never seen that before.
Speaker 1: To watch that? And then have you heard of a
Speaker 1: movie called Honey? I have heard a movie because oh
Speaker 1: my god, that makes you feel so good.
Speaker 2: And there's twenty years too late.
Speaker 1: And there's a bit of as going to work.
Speaker 2: For a podcast.
Speaker 1: This is a bit of a this soundtrack.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: If I could set one song as an alarm, it'd
Speaker 1: be this. And I think this is a nice way
Speaker 1: to get everyrun, get every one out of the podcasts
Speaker 1: and into their weekend.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, on that note, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: We'll be back again on Monday.
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