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Hi i'm ailis Dulaney 2 00:00:15,495 --> 00:00:18,295 Speaker 1: from Mumma MEAs twice daily news podcast The Quickie with 3 00:00:18,375 --> 00:00:22,655 Speaker 1: your Headlines for Monday November three under fire Optus executives 4 00:00:22,655 --> 00:00:25,335 Speaker 1: have copped to parliamentary bashing for their response to a 5 00:00:25,375 --> 00:00:28,255 Speaker 1: triple zero outage linked to the deaths of three people. 6 00:00:28,975 --> 00:00:31,775 Speaker 1: Chief Executive Stephen Rue was in the firing line from 7 00:00:31,775 --> 00:00:35,015 Speaker 1: Coalition and cross bench senators for taking more than six 8 00:00:35,135 --> 00:00:39,135 Speaker 1: hours to tell the Communications Minister and Industry regulator about 9 00:00:39,135 --> 00:00:42,254 Speaker 1: a massive increase in the scale of the September outage. 10 00:00:42,654 --> 00:00:44,854 Speaker 1: An eight week old boy, a sixty eight year old 11 00:00:44,894 --> 00:00:47,574 Speaker 1: woman and a seventy four year old man died after 12 00:00:47,614 --> 00:00:50,575 Speaker 1: the network outage prevented more than six hundred triple zero 13 00:00:50,614 --> 00:00:54,255 Speaker 1: calls from connecting. Optus originally suggested the number of calls 14 00:00:54,295 --> 00:00:57,775 Speaker 1: involved was just a handful. The telco announced on Monday 15 00:00:57,855 --> 00:01:00,415 Speaker 1: three hundred people would be added to its Australian call 16 00:01:00,495 --> 00:01:04,015 Speaker 1: centers with a focus on the emergency network, while safeguards 17 00:01:04,015 --> 00:01:07,175 Speaker 1: surrounding triple zero calls would be ramped up. Following the incident, 18 00:01:07,655 --> 00:01:11,334 Speaker 1: Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson said the debts were preventable after 19 00:01:11,415 --> 00:01:14,335 Speaker 1: mister Rue said the company regretted not moving sooner on 20 00:01:14,415 --> 00:01:17,334 Speaker 1: reforms that would have detected the outage earlier and better 21 00:01:17,375 --> 00:01:22,615 Speaker 1: protected customers. New research has found Australian women are working 22 00:01:22,655 --> 00:01:25,135 Speaker 1: more and with better pay and job security than ever, 23 00:01:25,535 --> 00:01:29,295 Speaker 1: but uneven sector pay and domestic workload remains stubborn barriers 24 00:01:29,335 --> 00:01:33,255 Speaker 1: to equality. The University of Sydney Business School's first Gender 25 00:01:33,255 --> 00:01:36,735 Speaker 1: Equality at Work Index provides a national snapshot of gender 26 00:01:36,775 --> 00:01:40,695 Speaker 1: equality at work over ten years, measured against seven dimensions 27 00:01:40,695 --> 00:01:43,095 Speaker 1: to produce a score out of one hundred. The index 28 00:01:43,135 --> 00:01:46,815 Speaker 1: found overall gender equality improved by just three points between 29 00:01:46,815 --> 00:01:50,215 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen and twenty twenty four, from eighty to eighty three. 30 00:01:50,695 --> 00:01:53,855 Speaker 1: Director of the Australian Center for Gender Equality and Inclusion 31 00:01:53,895 --> 00:01:57,295 Speaker 1: at Work, Professor Ray Cooper, said despite having a higher 32 00:01:57,375 --> 00:02:00,775 Speaker 1: rate of bachelor level education than men, women participate at 33 00:02:00,815 --> 00:02:04,095 Speaker 1: lower rates, work fewer hours, at lower levels, in less 34 00:02:04,095 --> 00:02:07,295 Speaker 1: secure jobs in industries, for lower pay, and with poorer 35 00:02:07,415 --> 00:02:10,494 Speaker 1: levels of safety. Safety was the sole area in which 36 00:02:10,535 --> 00:02:13,775 Speaker 1: equality went backwards over the last ten years. The index 37 00:02:13,815 --> 00:02:18,095 Speaker 1: also shows Australia performs most poorly on gender segmentation of work, 38 00:02:18,335 --> 00:02:21,215 Speaker 1: a dimension that's only improved by three points over the 39 00:02:21,215 --> 00:02:24,655 Speaker 1: past ten years and remains thirty three points below equality. 40 00:02:25,655 --> 00:02:28,655 Speaker 1: Support for the opposition has plummeted to a record low 41 00:02:29,015 --> 00:02:32,815 Speaker 1: as voter backing for embattled Liberal leader Susan Lee nosedives. 42 00:02:33,295 --> 00:02:36,095 Speaker 1: According to a news poll published in The Australian, the 43 00:02:36,135 --> 00:02:39,135 Speaker 1: primary vote for the coalition has dropped twenty four percent, 44 00:02:39,535 --> 00:02:41,775 Speaker 1: well below its result at the May election, when it 45 00:02:41,815 --> 00:02:45,615 Speaker 1: received a historic dropping. The record low support coincided with 46 00:02:45,655 --> 00:02:48,175 Speaker 1: a new high for One Nation, with the minor right 47 00:02:48,175 --> 00:02:51,295 Speaker 1: wing party polling at fifteen percent of the primary vote. 48 00:02:51,575 --> 00:02:54,175 Speaker 1: The poll showed Labour retained a clear fifty seven to 49 00:02:54,215 --> 00:02:57,895 Speaker 1: forty three percent margin on the two party preferred vote 50 00:02:57,935 --> 00:03:00,495 Speaker 1: and the Block. Stan and Danny Riley are expecting their 51 00:03:00,535 --> 00:03:04,454 Speaker 1: second child. The couple announced their next chapter on Sunday night, 52 00:03:04,575 --> 00:03:06,735 Speaker 1: sharing a picture of the holding hands on a beach 53 00:03:06,735 --> 00:03:09,735 Speaker 1: at sunset. It comes after Dan and Danny lost their 54 00:03:09,815 --> 00:03:12,454 Speaker 1: daughter Bill e Vera. Riley are just ten days old 55 00:03:12,495 --> 00:03:16,335 Speaker 1: in December. Since Billy's death, the couple started Billy's Besties, 56 00:03:16,615 --> 00:03:19,295 Speaker 1: a charity fund founded in memory of their daughter to 57 00:03:19,335 --> 00:03:23,695 Speaker 1: support the Royal Women's Hospitals Newborn Intensive Care Unit. That's 58 00:03:23,735 --> 00:03:27,095 Speaker 1: your evening news headlines. On Tuesday's episode of The Quikie, 59 00:03:27,175 --> 00:03:30,015 Speaker 1: we're talking about whether chat GBT can really help with 60 00:03:30,055 --> 00:03:32,655 Speaker 1: your mental health, plus how to know if you're actually 61 00:03:32,735 --> 00:03:35,575 Speaker 1: getting a good deal in the online sales. Listen to 62 00:03:35,575 --> 00:03:43,775 Speaker 1: The Quikie wherever you get your podcasts. MoMA Mea acknowledges 63 00:03:43,815 --> 00:03:46,655 Speaker 1: the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast 64 00:03:46,695 --> 00:03:47,455 Speaker 1: is recorded on.