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Speaker 1: Sam Emery, Australia correspondent with US. Now, hey Sam, have that?

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Speaker 1: How you going very well? Thank you? Now your childcare

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Speaker 1: situation just gets worse and worse, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's not looking good. This is a horrible story that's

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Speaker 2: just come out of Queensland Center facing national outrage after

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Speaker 2: it's emerged that a convicted child sex offender was hired

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Speaker 2: as a groundskeeper and given full access to the children

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Speaker 2: for more than a week. The man, who had prior

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Speaker 2: convictions for indecent treatment of children, somehow past the blue

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Speaker 2: card screening not once, but twice. The center's director failed

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Speaker 2: to verify his credentials and has since been sacked, as

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Speaker 2: reports that it was his partner who even hired him.

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Speaker 2: So clearly, parents are furious, the center's owners are calling

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Speaker 2: it unforgivable, and the state and federal governments, who are

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Speaker 2: the federal governments just back this week for the first

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Speaker 2: time since the election. They're scrambling to work out whether

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Speaker 2: it is a gap in the childcare vetting system or

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Speaker 2: people just simply not doing their job. But the Parliament

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Speaker 2: returns expect to this will dominate question time, with both

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Speaker 2: sides backing stronger legislation because you know, it's pretty scary

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Speaker 2: when a convicted pedophile can slip through the cracks like

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Speaker 2: that and end up on school grounds. You know. I've

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Speaker 2: heard some people say that the vetting system works. It's

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Speaker 2: just a simple case of people not doing their jobs.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully it's just not lost in question time and

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Speaker 2: money spent on more inquiries and questions when I think

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Speaker 2: it's clearly just you know, maybe a bit more stringent,

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Speaker 2: you know, oversight with the staff and people who run

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Speaker 2: the centers.

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Speaker 1: Now, Sam, what is the coalition's position on the signal,

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Speaker 1: this joint statement on Gaza.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's clearly a shift for Australia to even come

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Speaker 2: out and be negative towards Israel. Obviously Australia's joined twenty

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Speaker 2: eight countries condemning the drone strike that killed in Australian

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Speaker 2: the aid worker over there. So the Coalition has not

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Speaker 2: stayed silent. It's first parliament sitting for the new leader,

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Speaker 2: new Opposition Leader Susan and the Foreign Affairs spokesperson Michalia Cash,

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Speaker 2: who have slammed this statement as one sided, pointing out

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Speaker 2: that the letter neglects the October seven terror attack, as

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Speaker 2: they call it by Hamas. They argue Australia should reaffirm

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Speaker 2: its support for Israel and their right to self defense

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Speaker 2: while still pushing for a access to Gaza. Even Simon Birmingham,

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Speaker 2: Shadow Minister, has come out echoing that Australia must hold

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Speaker 2: both sides to account, calling out Hamas for breaking cease

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Speaker 2: fires while also condemning civilian suffering in Gaza. How you

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Speaker 2: can balance that. I have no idea how I feel

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Speaker 2: for the government at the moment in this situation, but

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Speaker 2: there's clear support on the ground with people and that's

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Speaker 2: why I think they put a government like labor in

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Speaker 2: that there is support now, you know, for Hamas and

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Speaker 2: for the Palestinians fought people in Gaza. And it's unusual

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Speaker 2: in our media here to be sort of hearing this

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Speaker 2: condemning of a very close ally.

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Speaker 1: Now interesting and I commented on this just a little

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Speaker 1: bit earlier, is that it's you guys are going a

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Speaker 1: lot harder in your media over this particular joint statement

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Speaker 1: than we are in New Zealand. I can't quite understand

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Speaker 1: why what's going on. Is it a slow news day

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Speaker 1: for you guys, or do people in Australia actually genuinely

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Speaker 1: want to discuss this.

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Speaker 2: It's I wouldn't say it's a slow newsday, you know,

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Speaker 2: with government sitting for the first day. It is. It

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Speaker 2: is a strangely hot topic here in Australia. Even whether

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Speaker 2: you're sitting in Parliament or whether you're sitting at a

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Speaker 2: dinner table, you basically can't really have a conversation without

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Speaker 2: it getting into this very heated, one sided conversation between

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Speaker 2: whoever's involved. And it seems that you know, we've got

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Speaker 2: we've always had a very close alliance with Israel and

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Speaker 2: you know, as a former journalists, I know that every

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Speaker 2: time I brought it up on air, there was always

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Speaker 2: letters following it no matter what you said, you know,

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Speaker 2: from different organizations and questioning why you were talking about

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Speaker 2: it in the media. So it's a very tricky and

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Speaker 2: oddly hot topic for Australia. But it is honestly will

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Speaker 2: dominate politics, I think, along with the childcare this week,

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Speaker 2: and I really don't know where they're going to land.

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Speaker 2: Clearly the public wants support for, you know, the people

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Speaker 2: who are the civilians who are getting killed and losing

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Speaker 2: their homes. But yeah, it's a difficult international diplomatic situation

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Speaker 2: for a new government to be handling.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sad wasten. Was it lithium batteries that caused the

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Speaker 1: fire on the flight?

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Speaker 2: Yep, it's another thing that's been discussed here in Australia,

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Speaker 2: these lithian batteries that are in U E bikes and

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Speaker 2: all these sorts of things and the terrifying scenes aboard.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like it was all handled very well. Virgin

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Speaker 2: of come out saying that the plane landed no problems.

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Speaker 2: It was a Boeing seven three seven at an engine

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Speaker 2: on the left hand side caught fire just after it

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Speaker 2: took off, and you know reports in the video if

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Speaker 2: you're looking at the footage online, you know the flames

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Speaker 2: licking the sky and all those things on the wing

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Speaker 2: of the plane. Everyone's worst nightmare when you first get

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Speaker 2: on a plane. You think, you know, gosh, people were

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Speaker 2: texting their loved ones. You know, they really didn't think

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Speaker 2: know where it was going to go and how it

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Speaker 2: was going to end up for everyone. But thankfully it's

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Speaker 2: all good news. Everyone is safe. But when you're twenty

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Speaker 2: thousand feet in the air and the wing looks like

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Speaker 2: it's on fire, it's certainly something that you don't want

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Speaker 2: to try and ever have.

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Speaker 1: To face alarming Sam. Thanks very much, look after yourself.

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Speaker 1: Sam Memory, Australia correspondent.

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