Summary
The newly-elected Green Party co-leaders, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, come straight to the Newscast studio to talk about the future of the party and the planet, plus blues dancing and chickpea curry.
And before that, Australia is relaxing its strict pandemic border policy. We speak to Newscaster Sharon, who's living in London but is desperate to reunite with her family in Sydney.
Today’s Newscast was made by Danny Wittenberg with producers Alix Pickles and Georgia Coan. The studio director was Emma Crowe and the assistant editor was Alison Gee. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, every so often I'm just reminded about how tough the COVID border rules are in |
| 0:10.1 | Australia and if you're Australian there's a good chance you might not even |
| 0:14.0 | be able to go back home and see your family because the number of people even |
| 0:17.6 | Australians who can go there is strictly limited and I was going back |
| 0:21.7 | through the email inbox about this and found an email from |
| 0:24.7 | newscaster Sharon in May which really brought this home and she said I'm an |
| 0:29.4 | Ozzy who's lived in London for 20 years I love here, but I also miss home and I don't know when |
| 0:34.2 | I'll make it back again because Australia seems to have no plans to open up. I miss my family |
| 0:39.3 | and my city so much and I don't know when I'll see them again. And then she does this basically amazing, almost like poem, |
| 0:45.0 | about what it's like there. |
| 0:46.0 | And she says, I desperately want to go for a walk on Bondai Beach with my dad, |
| 0:50.0 | feel the warm sand between my toes, |
| 0:52.0 | and then have |
| 0:53.0 | gelato from an amazing little Italian place |
| 0:55.0 | around the corner from the beach. |
| 0:58.0 | So that was Sharon in May. |
| 1:00.0 | We've now got Sharon in October, |
| 1:02.0 | and Sharon, you've got some news. |
| 1:04.0 | I've got some amazing news it's super exciting this morning |
| 1:08.0 | I woke up and Australia is looking at opening its borders in the next month and I'm so excited. |
| 1:15.5 | Like I can actually start thinking about potentially planning a trip home. |
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