1 00:00:10,614 --> 00:00:15,934 Speaker 1: You're listing to a Mumamea podcast. Mummameer acknowledges the traditional 2 00:00:15,934 --> 00:00:22,254 Speaker 1: owners of land and waters that this podcast is recorded on. Hi. 3 00:00:22,414 --> 00:00:25,574 Speaker 1: I'm Alex Nicholson from Mummamea's twice daily news podcast, The 4 00:00:25,614 --> 00:00:29,974 Speaker 1: Quickie with Your Headlines for Thursday March twenty seven. Commercial 5 00:00:30,014 --> 00:00:32,774 Speaker 1: operators may be barred from future involvement in a state's 6 00:00:32,774 --> 00:00:36,174 Speaker 1: acute hospitals following a toddler's death at a privately run facility. 7 00:00:37,054 --> 00:00:39,334 Speaker 1: Joe's Law will be introduced in the new South Wales 8 00:00:39,414 --> 00:00:43,174 Speaker 1: Parliament to ban public private partnerships from hospitals running emergency, 9 00:00:43,294 --> 00:00:47,334 Speaker 1: surgical and impatient services. It follows the September death of 10 00:00:47,334 --> 00:00:49,974 Speaker 1: two year old Joe Massa, who collapsed and died after 11 00:00:50,014 --> 00:00:52,454 Speaker 1: he and his parents waited three hours in the emergency 12 00:00:52,494 --> 00:00:56,494 Speaker 1: department at Sydney's Northern Beaches Hospital. The hospital, which opened 13 00:00:56,534 --> 00:00:59,894 Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen to replace two smaller public hospitals, runs 14 00:00:59,934 --> 00:01:02,974 Speaker 1: under a controversial public private partnership set up under the 15 00:01:02,974 --> 00:01:06,694 Speaker 1: former Coalition State government. Premiere Chris Minn says Labour believes 16 00:01:06,694 --> 00:01:09,934 Speaker 1: critical public services like hospitals should stay in public cans 17 00:01:09,974 --> 00:01:14,134 Speaker 1: and be safeguarded from privatization. Health Minister Ryan Park says 18 00:01:14,174 --> 00:01:16,934 Speaker 1: the proposed laws will honour joe memories and legacy by 19 00:01:16,934 --> 00:01:21,014 Speaker 1: protecting health facilities from any future privatization agenda. The two 20 00:01:21,094 --> 00:01:24,214 Speaker 1: year old's heart attack, caused by significant fluid loss, followed 21 00:01:24,214 --> 00:01:27,894 Speaker 1: repeated failures by hospital staff to conduct basic observations or 22 00:01:27,934 --> 00:01:31,654 Speaker 1: respond to his mother's concerns. The massive family previously called 23 00:01:31,694 --> 00:01:34,374 Speaker 1: for protection of public hospital care in law to prevent 24 00:01:34,454 --> 00:01:37,774 Speaker 1: further privatization and outsourcing, claiming the four hundred and eighty 25 00:01:37,814 --> 00:01:40,934 Speaker 1: eight bed hospital used flawed IT systems that differed from 26 00:01:40,934 --> 00:01:44,774 Speaker 1: those used in other emergency wards. A parliamentary inquiry into 27 00:01:44,774 --> 00:01:47,894 Speaker 1: Northern Beaches Hospital was announced earlier in March to investigate 28 00:01:47,974 --> 00:01:51,934 Speaker 1: serious incidents at the facility and how management responded. Employers 29 00:01:51,974 --> 00:01:54,454 Speaker 1: will soon have to commit to achieve or make progress 30 00:01:54,454 --> 00:01:57,774 Speaker 1: on gender equality targets in their workplaces after Federal Parliament 31 00:01:57,774 --> 00:02:01,094 Speaker 1: passed law changes. The changes apply to employers with more 32 00:02:01,094 --> 00:02:04,494 Speaker 1: than five hundred workers, meaning nearly two thousand workplaces will 33 00:02:04,494 --> 00:02:07,214 Speaker 1: need to meet the news standards. Three point nine million 34 00:02:07,214 --> 00:02:10,814 Speaker 1: employees are set to benefit from the changes. Employers will 35 00:02:10,814 --> 00:02:13,694 Speaker 1: be required to choose three gender equality targets, such as 36 00:02:13,734 --> 00:02:16,574 Speaker 1: intentional action to cover the gender pay gap, workforce and 37 00:02:16,614 --> 00:02:20,534 Speaker 1: board composition, support for cares and parents, consultation, and sexual 38 00:02:20,614 --> 00:02:23,774 Speaker 1: harassment prevention. They will then have three years to achieve 39 00:02:23,894 --> 00:02:27,254 Speaker 1: or make progress on their selected targets. According to Agency 40 00:02:27,294 --> 00:02:30,734 Speaker 1: Chief Executive Mary Wooldridge, the purpose of requiring employers to 41 00:02:30,774 --> 00:02:33,614 Speaker 1: set and achieve targets is to ensure all employees are 42 00:02:33,654 --> 00:02:37,574 Speaker 1: equally valued, rewarded, and safe at work. The targets will 43 00:02:37,574 --> 00:02:40,894 Speaker 1: be specific, time bound and measurable objectives for employers to 44 00:02:40,934 --> 00:02:44,094 Speaker 1: work towards. The targets will be specific, time bound and 45 00:02:44,134 --> 00:02:47,654 Speaker 1: measurable objectives for employers to work towards. They will ensure 46 00:02:47,734 --> 00:02:50,654 Speaker 1: large employers are publicly accountable to take action and make 47 00:02:50,694 --> 00:02:55,174 Speaker 1: demonstrable progress towards gender equality. Employers that do not select, 48 00:02:55,254 --> 00:02:57,574 Speaker 1: make progress on or achieve the targets will fail to 49 00:02:57,614 --> 00:02:59,894 Speaker 1: comply with the new laws and may not be eligible 50 00:02:59,974 --> 00:03:02,934 Speaker 1: to tender for certain Commonwealth contracts if they do not 51 00:03:02,974 --> 00:03:06,014 Speaker 1: have a reasonable excuse. They could also be publicly named. 52 00:03:06,454 --> 00:03:09,534 Speaker 1: Drug laced cookies and confectionery have been seized, alongside more 53 00:03:09,534 --> 00:03:11,974 Speaker 1: more than two hundred and sixty thousand dollars in cash 54 00:03:12,014 --> 00:03:16,014 Speaker 1: from an alleged food delivery app style cannabis service. New 55 00:03:16,054 --> 00:03:18,694 Speaker 1: South Wales police say some thirty nine people have been 56 00:03:18,814 --> 00:03:22,414 Speaker 1: charged with drug supply and related offenses after numerous syndicates 57 00:03:22,414 --> 00:03:25,334 Speaker 1: were found advertising prohibited drugs for sale on an open 58 00:03:25,414 --> 00:03:29,214 Speaker 1: source website. Several were caught in vehicles packed with dozens 59 00:03:29,214 --> 00:03:32,414 Speaker 1: of bags of cannabis and other items including vapes, cannabis, 60 00:03:32,414 --> 00:03:36,694 Speaker 1: cookies and confectionery containing THHC, the main active ingredient of cannabis. 61 00:03:37,214 --> 00:03:39,934 Speaker 1: More than fifteen hundred individual bags of cannabis and two 62 00:03:40,054 --> 00:03:42,694 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two thousand dollars in cash were seized 63 00:03:42,774 --> 00:03:45,894 Speaker 1: during the targeted arrests. A thirty two year old man 64 00:03:45,934 --> 00:03:48,414 Speaker 1: was allegedly caught in a home in Sydney's Arncliff with 65 00:03:48,494 --> 00:03:52,014 Speaker 1: vacuum sealed plastic bags containing over five kilos of cannabis, 66 00:03:52,134 --> 00:03:55,014 Speaker 1: more than five thousand dollars in cash, and electronic money 67 00:03:55,014 --> 00:03:58,374 Speaker 1: counter and mobile telephones. The man has been bailed on 68 00:03:58,454 --> 00:04:01,774 Speaker 1: four charges, including drug supply. A second man is due 69 00:04:01,814 --> 00:04:04,214 Speaker 1: in court in April after allegedly being stopped in a 70 00:04:04,254 --> 00:04:07,054 Speaker 1: car in Bondai with forty two bags of cannabis twenty 71 00:04:07,054 --> 00:04:10,494 Speaker 1: four pre roll joints, THHC Cookies and over six hundred 72 00:04:10,494 --> 00:04:13,934 Speaker 1: dollars in cash. He faces three charges, including drug supply 73 00:04:14,014 --> 00:04:17,734 Speaker 1: and has been granted bail. Australian Survivor Champion David Janney 74 00:04:17,854 --> 00:04:21,334 Speaker 1: has just made reality TV history, scoring the largest primetime 75 00:04:21,414 --> 00:04:25,254 Speaker 1: TV prize ever, appearing on NBC's Deal or No Deal Island, 76 00:04:25,454 --> 00:04:27,614 Speaker 1: a spinoff from the original Deal or No Deal in 77 00:04:27,654 --> 00:04:30,934 Speaker 1: which contestants have to complete challenges for their cases. David 78 00:04:30,974 --> 00:04:34,494 Speaker 1: walked away with a whopping nine point one million Australian dollars. 79 00:04:35,014 --> 00:04:38,374 Speaker 1: This win adds to Jane's impressive reality TV resume, which 80 00:04:38,414 --> 00:04:41,294 Speaker 1: already includes a five hundred thousand dollars win on Australian 81 00:04:41,334 --> 00:04:44,974 Speaker 1: Survivor All Stars in twenty twenty. He previously competed on 82 00:04:44,974 --> 00:04:48,094 Speaker 1: Australian Survivor Champions Verse Contenders, and is set to join 83 00:04:48,094 --> 00:04:50,254 Speaker 1: the franchise for a third time when he competes in 84 00:04:50,294 --> 00:04:53,494 Speaker 1: the upcoming Australia Versus the World season later this year. 85 00:04:54,174 --> 00:04:56,894 Speaker 1: That's Who News headlines on tomorrow's episode of The Quikie. 86 00:04:56,894 --> 00:04:59,294 Speaker 1: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have made waves this week 87 00:04:59,334 --> 00:05:02,414 Speaker 1: with multiple stories, and we're looking at the impacted legacy 88 00:05:02,414 --> 00:05:05,014 Speaker 1: of Shonda Rhymes as a television mainstay heads for its 89 00:05:05,014 --> 00:05:09,174 Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary. Listen to The Quickie wherever you get your podcasts.