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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the update. Unhidi Tilton's families earning

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Speaker 1: less than eighty thousand dollars a year would be given

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Speaker 1: access to free childcare under the recommendations of a new

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Speaker 1: report the Productivity Commissioners outlined its plan paving the way

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Speaker 1: for universal early childhood education. Education Minister Jason Clair says

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Speaker 1: the government will closely consider the report's findings.

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Speaker 2: We want to hear what Australia thinks of this report,

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Speaker 2: and in particular, we want to hear from early educators.

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Speaker 2: We want to hear from teachers, We want to hear

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Speaker 2: from the people that provide this essential service to Australian

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Speaker 2: families today on all of the recommendations in this report

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Speaker 2: and then we'll respond to it in the next few

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Speaker 2: months or so.

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Speaker 1: The Australian share market is predicting some welcome relief for

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Speaker 1: mortgage holders. Its Target Rate tracker expects for interest rate

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Speaker 1: cuts by mid to late twenty twenty five. It's predicting

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Speaker 1: the RBA will slash interest rates by twenty five basis

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Speaker 1: points in February, followed by three more cuts by August.

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Speaker 1: A former CIA agent says Israel's sneak attack on Hesbala

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Speaker 1: militants in Lebanon was so intricate even the US couldn't

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Speaker 1: have pulled it off. Nine people are dead and close

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Speaker 1: to three thousand wounded after a coordinated attack saw thousands

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Speaker 1: of the terrorist group's pages spontaneously explode. Former spy Robert

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Speaker 1: Behar says it would have only taken a very small

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Speaker 1: amount of explosives now.

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Speaker 3: To get this many pages all at once, and apparently

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Speaker 3: it's his ball as primary communication network. It's devastating for

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Speaker 3: his ball and takes an enormous amount of skill which

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Speaker 3: no country in the world, probably even the United States

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Speaker 3: could pull us off.

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Speaker 1: New rules for young people using Instagram are being welcomed

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Speaker 1: as a good start. The platform will make children's accounts

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Speaker 1: private by default, and will also notify them when they

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Speaker 1: spend more than an hour on the app, but the

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Speaker 1: federal government says Meta must also make sure young children

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Speaker 1: aren't accessing the platform before they're allowed to on. The

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Speaker 1: federal government's housing reforms has been delayed for another two

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Speaker 1: months after the Greens coalition and some independence teamed up

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Speaker 1: to block the help to Buy scheme. The Greens are

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Speaker 1: demanding of freeze on rent increases, an end to negative

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Speaker 1: gearing and more public housing in exchange for their support,

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Speaker 1: and the Scottish government has now confirmed Glasgow will host

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Speaker 1: the Commonwealth Games in twenty twenty six. Victoria's scrapped plans

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Speaker 1: to host the sporting event due to cost blowouts. Sport

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Speaker 1: and Entertainment and next in sport, Papua New Guinea has

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Speaker 1: got the green light to become the NRL's nineteenth team,

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Speaker 1: with the federal government backing a ten year funding plan

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Speaker 1: worth an estimated six hundred million dollars. Port Adelaide's optimistic

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Speaker 1: Charlie Dixon and Ryan Burton will be available for selection

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Speaker 1: for Friday's preliminary final against the Swans at the SCG,

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Speaker 1: and Daniel Ricardo could be racing in Formula One for

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Speaker 1: the last time this weekend at the Singapore Grand Prix.

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Speaker 1: There's reports the Australian could be axed in favor of

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Speaker 1: New Zealand's Liam Lawson. In entertainment news did his arrest

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Speaker 1: and jailing in connection with the federal sex trafficking probe

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Speaker 1: iss sent shockwaves through the music industry. Execs and record

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Speaker 1: labels are reportedly making contingency plans should damaging information emerge.

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Speaker 1: About the rappers alleged drug filled sex parties. Hot on

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Speaker 1: the heels of the Barbie smash hit its official Margot

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Speaker 1: Robbie and her husband Tom Ackerley have a new project

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Speaker 1: on the Horizon. The couple will produce a movie based

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Speaker 1: on the long running video game The Sims. And Prince

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Speaker 1: Harry will return to the UK later this month for

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Speaker 1: a charity event in London, but there's been no mention

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Speaker 1: of his wife, Megan, the Duchess of Sussex, on the

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Speaker 1: guest list for the annual well Child Awards. And that's

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Speaker 1: the latest from the Nova podcast news team will have

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Speaker 1: another episode of the Update for you tomorrow