WEBVTT - Headlines: ABS confirms changes to 2026 Census

0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.840
<v Speaker 1>From The Daily Oz. I'm billy, I'm emma. It's Monday,

0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.040
<v Speaker 1>the seventeenth of February. He's what's making headlines this evening.

0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.480
<v Speaker 2>The twenty twenty six census will include a new topic

0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:22.360
<v Speaker 2>on sexual orientation and gender and changes to ten existing topics,

0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:26.759
<v Speaker 2>The Australian Bureau of Statistics has confirmed. It comes after

0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.680
<v Speaker 2>the government announced gender and sexuality questions would be included

0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.080
<v Speaker 2>in the next survey following backlash over its handling of

0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.239
<v Speaker 2>the issue last year. According to the findings of a

0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.720
<v Speaker 2>census topic review handed down today, the twenty twenty six

0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.000
<v Speaker 2>census will ask for sex recorded at birth. Non gender

0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.000
<v Speaker 2>terms will also be added to the household and Family

0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.840
<v Speaker 2>Relationship section to be more inclusive, and a new topic

0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.760
<v Speaker 2>on sexual orientation and gender will apply to over sixteen

0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.520
<v Speaker 2>year olds. The new topic will include two questions. The

0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.480
<v Speaker 2>exact wording of the questions will be published by the

0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:03.320
<v Speaker 2>end of the year.

0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.679
<v Speaker 1>National high school completion rates have improved for the first

0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.480
<v Speaker 1>time since twenty seventeen. According to new government data, the

0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.600
<v Speaker 1>percentage of students staying at school from year seven until

0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.280
<v Speaker 1>year twelve rose to around eighty per cent in twenty

0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.120
<v Speaker 1>twenty four. Up from seventy nine per cent in twenty

0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.960
<v Speaker 1>twenty three. For First nation students, this figure increased from

0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.560
<v Speaker 1>fifty five point nine per cent to fifty six point

0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.199
<v Speaker 1>seven percent. Meanwhile, the number of full time teaching staff

0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.119
<v Speaker 1>rose by around three percent last year. A staffing boost

0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.520
<v Speaker 1>has led to improved student to teacher ratios, which fell

0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.600
<v Speaker 1>to an average of twelve point nine students to one teacher.

0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.000
<v Speaker 2>European leaders will meet for crisis talks over fears Ukraine

0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.840
<v Speaker 2>has been shut out of US Russia peace talks in

0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:55.400
<v Speaker 2>Saudi Arabia nearly three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. American

0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.160
<v Speaker 2>and Russian officials are expected to attend negotiations to end

0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.160
<v Speaker 2>the conflict the US this week. However, the White House

0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:06.280
<v Speaker 2>has not confirmed any Ukrainian officials have been invited. It's

0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.720
<v Speaker 2>prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to call an urgent meeting

0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.120
<v Speaker 2>of EU leaders on Monday in Paris. In an op

0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.640
<v Speaker 2>ed for British newspaper The Telegraph, British PM Kiir Starmer

0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.639
<v Speaker 2>confirmed he would be attending and urged the US and

0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:23.959
<v Speaker 2>Europe to work together to deter Russian aggression. Starmer said

0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.400
<v Speaker 2>he's prepared to send British troops to Ukraine. I do

0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.200
<v Speaker 2>not say this lightly, he wrote, but any role in

0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.680
<v Speaker 2>helping to guarantee Ukraine's security is helping to guarantee the

0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.160
<v Speaker 2>security of our continent.

0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.320
<v Speaker 1>And today's good news. The first AFL Indigenous All Stars

0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.320
<v Speaker 1>game in a decade has drawn record crowds. Nearly thirty

0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.800
<v Speaker 1>eight thousand fans showed up to watch the All Stars

0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.959
<v Speaker 1>forty three point victory over Fremantle at Perth Stadium on Saturday.

0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:56.400
<v Speaker 1>Around ten thousand spectators attended the last AFL Indigenous All

0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.600
<v Speaker 1>Stars round in twenty fifteen. This year's pregame schedule included

0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.840
<v Speaker 1>a Guard of honor made up of past players, partners,

0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.880
<v Speaker 1>Indigenous AFL W players and non playing All Stars squad members,

0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.960
<v Speaker 1>and an All Stars war cry led by Saint Kilda

0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:15.000
<v Speaker 1>star Bradley Hill. North Melbourne co captain Jay Simpkin was

0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.440
<v Speaker 1>awarded Player of the Match.

0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.440
<v Speaker 2>That's the latest from the Daily OS newsroom. If you're

0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.880
<v Speaker 2>looking for something else to listen to, make sure you

0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.160
<v Speaker 2>catch up on today's deep Dive, where Billy and Zara

0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.320
<v Speaker 2>explain Elon Musk's role in the White House.

0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.639
<v Speaker 1>We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive. Until then,

0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:42.280
<v Speaker 1>have a great evening. My name is Lily Maddon and

0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Calcottin woman from Gadigol Country.

0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.040
<v Speaker 1>The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on

0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.560
<v Speaker 1>the lands of the Gadighl people and pays respect to

0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.960
<v Speaker 1>all Aboriginal and Torres Strait island and nations. We pay

0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.920
<v Speaker 1>our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both

0:03:58.960 --> 0:03:59.840
<v Speaker 1>past and present.