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Speaker 1: morning and welcome to the Daily Oas it is Saturday,
Speaker 1: the twenty third November. I'm Sam, I'm Zara. Happy Saturday, everybody,
Speaker 1: and welcome to another episode of our good News podcasts Zara.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good news to get through today,
Speaker 1: to bring a smile, good problem to happen. I know
Speaker 1: it is that great good news overwhelmed. Why don't we
Speaker 1: talk about that more? Yeah, why don't we start with
Speaker 1: a really important peace prize that's given out every year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I loved coming across this story and it's
Speaker 2: that for twenty years, an organization called Kids' Rights has
Speaker 2: awarded the International Children's Peace Prize. I hadn't heard of it,
Speaker 2: but have loved learning about it. And this year it
Speaker 2: went to a seventeen year old Afghan woman, her name
Speaker 2: is Nila Ibrahmi, for her work amplifying the voices of
Speaker 2: Afghan girl.
Speaker 1: So to put that in perspective, that means she was
Speaker 1: one in two thousand and seven, which is pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: And my god, has she done a lot in her
Speaker 2: very young life. She fled Afghanistan with her family after
Speaker 2: the Taliban retook Coble in August of twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: and she now lives in Canada. Back in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: she founded something called her Story, and it's an online
Speaker 2: platform for Afghan women and girls to share their personal
Speaker 2: stories and their experiences. And I mean, I don't think
Speaker 2: I need to tell anyone why that's so significant, but
Speaker 2: just as a bit of a recap, since taking power,
Speaker 2: the Taliban has imposed many, many restrictions specifically on women
Speaker 2: and girls in the country. You know, they've banned them
Speaker 2: from high schools, from universities, from most forms of employment.
Speaker 2: Most recently, on the pod, we spoke about that women's
Speaker 2: faces and bodies now need to be fully covered in public,
Speaker 2: and that they're not allowed to use their voices outside
Speaker 2: their home. And so here we have a really young
Speaker 2: girl who has founded an online platform where that is possible,
Speaker 2: where women and girls can have their voices heard in
Speaker 2: the digital space.
Speaker 1: And I love these stories because we do spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time, especially at the moment, talking about the
Speaker 1: bad side of the internet. But here is an example
Speaker 1: of how the internet can really democratize this sort of
Speaker 1: exposure to stories.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent and after winning the award, Ibrahimi said,
Speaker 2: the voices of Afghan women and girls will echo across
Speaker 2: the world. We must all continue to give them strength
Speaker 2: and hope in the darkest of times.
Speaker 1: An amazing story and an amazing award given out to
Speaker 1: some clear you know, people who are doing amazing things now.
Speaker 1: But imagine what she's going to do in the decades
Speaker 1: to come. Now, let's send to sport. I am particularly
Speaker 1: excited today because it is the start of the Australian
Speaker 1: Test cricket summer that started yesterday. But we're not talking
Speaker 1: about cricket. We're talking about soccer. We are.
Speaker 2: I actually have two good news sports stories for today.
Speaker 2: So the first is that for the very first time
Speaker 2: ever an Australian national soccer team has won a World Cup.
Speaker 1: And they said it couldn't happen.
Speaker 2: Did you know that? So this week the Para Matilda's
Speaker 2: one the Cerebral Palsy World Cup and retained their spot
Speaker 2: at the top of the global rankings. The Para Matilda's
Speaker 2: scored six goals to defeat the US six to two
Speaker 2: at the finals.
Speaker 1: Take that that's always sweet anything.
Speaker 2: Team captain and goalkeeper Caitlin Smith scored three of Australia's
Speaker 2: goals from across the.
Speaker 1: Field goalkeeper superstar.
Speaker 2: So the team secured their spot in the finals with
Speaker 2: at ten neil victory over Denmark and didn't lose a
Speaker 2: match through the entire group stage. I mean, that's a
Speaker 2: pretty clear winning streak from the Ossies. And just to
Speaker 2: paint a bit more of a picture as to what
Speaker 2: this competition is. CP football is open to athletes with
Speaker 2: cerebral palsy or an acquired brain injury and the World
Speaker 2: Cup for both the men's and the women's game were
Speaker 2: held in Spain this month and it was our Ossie
Speaker 2: girls that took it home.
Speaker 1: You promised me two stories though, so we've got the
Speaker 1: CP World Cup of Victors. I'll be running with that
Speaker 1: one for a little while. Bring me another one.
Speaker 2: So this week it was announced that next year's NRLW season,
Speaker 2: So that's the Women's NRL League. It's been confirmed to
Speaker 2: be its biggest ever on record, so it has twelve teams,
Speaker 2: an eleven weeks regular season and a three week final series.
Speaker 2: For the first time, the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs will field
Speaker 2: a women's side, while the new Zealand Warriors are returning
Speaker 2: to the competition after a few years away. Every club
Speaker 2: will have at least one night where the women's and
Speaker 2: men's games will be played back to back, which I
Speaker 2: kind of love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a fantastic initiative where you can go with
Speaker 1: friends and family and see both the men's and women's
Speaker 1: teams playing on the same night. Zara, We've got two
Speaker 1: more good news stories to get through. Where are you
Speaker 1: taking me in the world now?
Speaker 2: So don't even know if this is really a good story,
Speaker 2: but I just thought that it was funny.
Speaker 1: Which is actually how all good stories start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it turns out that Italian authorities have intercepted
Speaker 2: eight million euros, so that's about thirteen million Australian dollars
Speaker 2: worth of artifacts that were headed for the black market.
Speaker 2: So two thieves are alleged to have begun digging up
Speaker 2: the artifacts near Farmland and in the region of Umbria.
Speaker 2: And these artifacts included things like urns and beauty products.
Speaker 2: One thing that was found was a perfume bottles that
Speaker 2: Reuter's reported still smells of the original scent. But the
Speaker 2: reason that I think this story is so funny is
Speaker 2: that local art police, which I must say feels like
Speaker 2: a uniquely European proposition. They were tipped off about the
Speaker 2: thieves because the thieves started posting some of the artifacts
Speaker 2: on Facebook marketplace trying to find buyers, and they somehow
Speaker 2: through that were able to intercept this huge ring of
Speaker 2: black market artifact selling.
Speaker 1: We're very much in favor of the internet today. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know a couple of.
Speaker 2: I mean there's you know, we've had news of a
Speaker 2: social media band. We've had so much I was just
Speaker 2: trying to balance it out a bit today.
Speaker 1: I just love the image of some thieves digging up
Speaker 1: Nana's garden looking for artifacts that she's clearly buried at
Speaker 1: the back underneath the famous olive tree. I know, too good, Zara,
Speaker 1: let's take her back home now. To finish off with
Speaker 1: it was aria Awards this week week for Australian music.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I mean, I think that it's really nice
Speaker 2: when we get to take a moment to celebrate homegrown
Speaker 2: talent and the ARIAS has no shortage of inspiration and
Speaker 2: great news stories. I think there were two moments of
Speaker 2: the night that I wanted to highlight to take us
Speaker 2: out for the day. So the first was that we
Speaker 2: saw a record number of First Nations artists nominated for
Speaker 2: an ARI Award. I believe there were twenty two First
Speaker 2: Nations people who were nominated, and some of those First
Speaker 2: Nations performers took home trophies across multiple categories, things like
Speaker 2: Best Country Album, Best Hip Hop Rap Release, and Best
Speaker 2: Adult Contemporary Album. The list of First Nations winners included Nookie,
Speaker 2: Angus Field and Dallas Woods of three Percent, the hip
Speaker 2: hop band Troy Cassa Daily and Emily wore Amara. And
Speaker 2: I think that for an Australian Awards night, this is
Speaker 2: just such a good sign that we are recognizing and
Speaker 2: highlighting the incredible work of First Nations artists.
Speaker 1: Especially when there's been a bit of chatter in music
Speaker 1: circles about how hard it is to break into a
Speaker 1: local market now with how easy it is to listen
Speaker 1: to American artists and kaya that's really really good to see.
Speaker 1: And then there's always one induction into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: This is actually just becoming a Missy Higgins fan podcast.
Speaker 2: But we did speak about this story a little while
Speaker 2: ago when the ARIA did announce that it was going
Speaker 2: to induct Higgins into the Hall of Fame, and I
Speaker 2: mentioned at the time the reason that they were giving
Speaker 2: it to her was that they said that Missy Higgins's
Speaker 2: music had been cited as a formative influence by two
Speaker 2: generations of Australian singer songwriters, and we spoke about that
Speaker 2: at the time. But what I loved most at the
Speaker 2: ARIA Awards, and you actually alerted me to this, was
Speaker 2: when Missy Higgins got up on stage. She performed a
Speaker 2: medley of all her biggest hits and then foot scar
Speaker 2: which is the biggest banger of all. She was joined
Speaker 2: by a number of other Aussie superstars, people like Amy Shark,
Speaker 2: g Flip, Angie McMahon and Greta Ray, and all of
Speaker 2: these people have spoken about the influence of Missy Higgins
Speaker 2: on their own crafts and it was so heartwarming. It
Speaker 2: was so beautiful. You know, as you said, we so
Speaker 2: often fixate on these internet national superstars when we've got
Speaker 2: so many of them here at home, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to just take out this podcast with when all of
Speaker 2: these thing has got up and asked the crowd to
Speaker 2: sing the last chorus to Scarf, I'll leave it at
Speaker 2: that and ask you all to have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2: I hope it is filled with sunshine wherever you might
Speaker 2: be listening. We'll be back again on Monday morning, but
Speaker 2: until then, have a lovely weekend.
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