Speaker 1: From The Daily Oz. I'm billy, I'm emma. It's Monday,
Speaker 1: the seventeenth of February. He's what's making headlines this evening.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty six census will include a new topic
Speaker 2: on sexual orientation and gender and changes to ten existing topics,
Speaker 2: The Australian Bureau of Statistics has confirmed. It comes after
Speaker 2: the government announced gender and sexuality questions would be included
Speaker 2: in the next survey following backlash over its handling of
Speaker 2: the issue last year. According to the findings of a
Speaker 2: census topic review handed down today, the twenty twenty six
Speaker 2: census will ask for sex recorded at birth. Non gender
Speaker 2: terms will also be added to the household and Family
Speaker 2: Relationship section to be more inclusive, and a new topic
Speaker 2: on sexual orientation and gender will apply to over sixteen
Speaker 2: year olds. The new topic will include two questions. The
Speaker 2: exact wording of the questions will be published by the
Speaker 2: end of the year.
Speaker 1: National high school completion rates have improved for the first
Speaker 1: time since twenty seventeen. According to new government data, the
Speaker 1: percentage of students staying at school from year seven until
Speaker 1: year twelve rose to around eighty per cent in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Up from seventy nine per cent in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. For First nation students, this figure increased from
Speaker 1: fifty five point nine per cent to fifty six point
Speaker 1: seven percent. Meanwhile, the number of full time teaching staff
Speaker 1: rose by around three percent last year. A staffing boost
Speaker 1: has led to improved student to teacher ratios, which fell
Speaker 1: to an average of twelve point nine students to one teacher.
Speaker 2: European leaders will meet for crisis talks over fears Ukraine
Speaker 2: has been shut out of US Russia peace talks in
Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia nearly three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. American
Speaker 2: and Russian officials are expected to attend negotiations to end
Speaker 2: the conflict the US this week. However, the White House
Speaker 2: has not confirmed any Ukrainian officials have been invited. It's
Speaker 2: prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to call an urgent meeting
Speaker 2: of EU leaders on Monday in Paris. In an op
Speaker 2: ed for British newspaper The Telegraph, British PM Kiir Starmer
Speaker 2: confirmed he would be attending and urged the US and
Speaker 2: Europe to work together to deter Russian aggression. Starmer said
Speaker 2: he's prepared to send British troops to Ukraine. I do
Speaker 2: not say this lightly, he wrote, but any role in
Speaker 2: helping to guarantee Ukraine's security is helping to guarantee the
Speaker 2: security of our continent.
Speaker 1: And today's good news. The first AFL Indigenous All Stars
Speaker 1: game in a decade has drawn record crowds. Nearly thirty
Speaker 1: eight thousand fans showed up to watch the All Stars
Speaker 1: forty three point victory over Fremantle at Perth Stadium on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Around ten thousand spectators attended the last AFL Indigenous All
Speaker 1: Stars round in twenty fifteen. This year's pregame schedule included
Speaker 1: a Guard of honor made up of past players, partners,
Speaker 1: Indigenous AFL W players and non playing All Stars squad members,
Speaker 1: and an All Stars war cry led by Saint Kilda
Speaker 1: star Bradley Hill. North Melbourne co captain Jay Simpkin was
Speaker 1: awarded Player of the Match.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily OS newsroom. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for something else to listen to, make sure you
Speaker 2: catch up on today's deep Dive, where Billy and Zara
Speaker 2: explain Elon Musk's role in the White House.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive. Until then,
Speaker 1: have a great evening. My name is Lily Maddon and
Speaker 1: I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Calcottin woman from Gadigol Country.
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Speaker 1: all Aboriginal and Torres Strait island and nations. We pay
Speaker 1: our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both
Speaker 1: past and present.