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Speaker 1: This is the latest from your news speech. It's Friday,

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Speaker 1: the seventeenth of May. Almost three hundred and twenty thousand

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Speaker 1: Australians have been unemployed for between two years and a decade,

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Speaker 1: despite living through the biggest job booms in Australian history.

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Speaker 1: Unemployment data from March twenty twenty four showed more Australians

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Speaker 1: for jobless for between two and ten years than the

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Speaker 1: entire population of Woollongong. The figures come despite eight hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty thousand new jobs being created since the last

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Speaker 1: federal election. The University of Melbourne has warned pro Palestinian

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Speaker 1: protesters occupying a major building on campus that it will

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Speaker 1: send in police to break up their encampment because patience

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Speaker 1: is now at an end. The Herald Sun confirmed with

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Speaker 1: the university on Thursday night that it was closely working

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Speaker 1: with police to remove the protesters. Deputy Vice Chancellor Michael

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Speaker 1: Wesley says students had a right to protest at its

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Speaker 1: Parkville campus, but it was not a blank check. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back after this. A frightened mother from regional South

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Speaker 1: Australia says her child's school was forced into lockdown after

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Speaker 1: a seven year old boy with a history of behavioral issues,

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Speaker 1: produced a knife and threatened to kill classmates. The mother,

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Speaker 1: who asked to remain anonymous, said the boy brought a

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Speaker 1: kitchen block carving knife to Mount Gambia North Primary School

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Speaker 1: where her daughter attends, on Monday, forcing teachers to launch

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Speaker 1: an immediate evacuation or school lockdown. She said the boy

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Speaker 1: threatened to kill fellow students and struck her daughter with

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Speaker 1: his fist. The latest act in a rising series of

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Speaker 1: bullying incidents and the Queensland Government's alternative plan for the

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Speaker 1: Gabbett could cost one point one billion dollars and cut

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Speaker 1: its capacity by four thousand seats, it can be revealed.

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Speaker 1: Early discussions among stakeholders indicated the crazy spend was necessary

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Speaker 1: to reach code compliance and prevent the cracked and rusty

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Speaker 1: stadium from further deteriorating. For the same one billion dollar

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Speaker 1: price tag, former Premier Anastasia Paliche in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: said the Gabbutt could be demolished and rebuilt. Four thousand

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Speaker 1: seats could instead be removed as part of a billion

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Speaker 1: dollar plan to upgrade it and sun Corp Stadium. We'll

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Speaker 1: have an update to your newsfeed tomorrow