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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the update. I'm Heidi Teltons. Finally

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Speaker 1: some good news when it comes to sky rocketing power bills.

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Speaker 1: The Energy Regulator has drafted its default market offer, but

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Speaker 1: only for customers in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia.

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Speaker 1: It's proposing reductions of up to ten percent from July one.

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Speaker 1: More than half a billion liters of petrol and diesel

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Speaker 1: has now been released into the Australian domestic market as

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Speaker 1: a number of petrol stations run dry. Energy Minister Chris

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Speaker 1: Bowen says a bulk of the fuel is being directed

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Speaker 1: into regional Australia.

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Speaker 2: We have to be clear with people it will take

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Speaker 2: a little bit of time for this to flow through

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Speaker 2: the supply chain. The refiners don't have Trucksu're sitting their

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Speaker 2: way in to deliver the field in the car park.

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Speaker 2: What we have seen is real action between government and

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Speaker 2: industry to ensure that that supply can flow as quickly

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Speaker 2: as possible.

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Speaker 1: It sounds that National Fuels Are is appointed to ensure

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Speaker 1: more diesel makes its way into the regions amid the

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Speaker 1: Middle East conflict. Antheoharis will take on the role of

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Speaker 1: Australia's Fuel Supply Task Force Coordinator, having formerly headed up

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Speaker 1: the Australian Energy Regulator. Australia's jobless rate has ticked up

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Speaker 1: to four point three percent in February as more people

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Speaker 1: look for work. According to the ABS, thirty five thousand

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Speaker 1: more Aussies are unemployed. Most of the forty nine thousand

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Speaker 1: new jobs created were for part time roles. Authorities in

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Speaker 1: Queensland have again issued a blunt warning to those hoping

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Speaker 1: to film the next viral weather video. Tropical Cyclone NoREL

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Speaker 1: is expected to bring winds of more than two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty kilometers an hour when it crosses the coast

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Speaker 1: tomorrow morning as a Category five. Shocking new data out

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Speaker 1: of Victoria has revealed children are responsible for more than

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Speaker 1: fifty percent of carjackings and home invasions. The Crime Statistics

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Speaker 1: Agencies released its data for the twenty twenty five calendar year,

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Speaker 1: showing car theft has reached its highest level in twenty

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Speaker 1: five years. Police also seized a record seventeen thousand, four

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Speaker 1: hundred knives and machetes in the past twelve months. There

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Speaker 1: are concerns some young couples don't know the legal implications

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Speaker 1: of their relationship status. NIDADA shows a number of de

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Speaker 1: facto relationships in Australia has tripled in the last thirty years.

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Speaker 1: Kira dug And from the Australian Institute of Family Studies

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Speaker 1: worn some couples could be in for a surprise if

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Speaker 1: they break.

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Speaker 3: Up by the way in which all of their assets

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Speaker 3: may need to be pulled in a way that they

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Speaker 3: weren't expecting. This can apply to their finances. This can

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Speaker 3: apply to property and also to parenting orders.

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Speaker 1: Sport and entertainment annexed in sport cricket. Australia's boarders met

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Speaker 1: with state bosses in Melbourne today. Privatization of Big Bash

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Speaker 1: franchises and wagering revenue high on the agenda. Japan will

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Speaker 1: face Australia in the Asian Cup Final after defeating South

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Speaker 1: Korea for one and Osigolfer Hannah Green is in the

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Speaker 1: HU hunt for a hat trick. Green took out the

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Speaker 1: LPGA event in Singapore before being the first local to

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Speaker 1: win the Australian Open since twenty fourteen. She could cap

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Speaker 1: a charmed run with victory at this week's Australian WPGA

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Speaker 1: Championship in entertainment news Meta has announced it will shut

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Speaker 1: down the Metaverse after nearly eighty billion dollars in losses.

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Speaker 1: The platform's virtual world, which has been operating for around

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Speaker 1: five years, only has around nine hundred active daily users globally.

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Speaker 1: Hollywood star Val Kilma is being resurrected by AI for

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Speaker 1: a new film role just a year after his death.

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Speaker 1: The Act as a state has given permission for a

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Speaker 1: generative AI version to be used, and Ken We born

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Speaker 1: superstar Lord has gone independent. The twenty nine year old

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Speaker 1: singer as officially parted ways with Universal Music Group after

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Speaker 1: signing at age twelve. And that's the latest from the

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Speaker 1: Nova podcast news team. We'll have another episode of the

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Speaker 1: Uptake You tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Please to cu