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Speaker 1: From the Daily Os.

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Speaker 2: I'm Billy, I'm Sam.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, the seventeenth of March. Here's what's making headlines

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Speaker 1: this evening.

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Speaker 2: The Victorian government has been accused of concealing corruption by

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Speaker 2: construction Union CFMEU on its multimillion dollar projects. Last year,

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Speaker 2: nine newspapers reported the union had allowed criminal figures to

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Speaker 2: work on large government funded projects, including Victoria's one hundred

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Speaker 2: billion dollar Big Build road and Rail infrastructure program, causing

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Speaker 2: the union to go into administration. In a follow up

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Speaker 2: investigation published over the weekend, it was alleged the Victorian

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Speaker 2: government had covered up the extent of the criminal involvement

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Speaker 2: in its projects, and separately that criminal behavior on work

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Speaker 2: sites had included assaulting women and blacklisting those who made complaints.

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Speaker 2: Victorian Premier Justint Allen has said the alleged actions of

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Speaker 2: the CFMU are shocking and completely unacceptable, while Opposition leader

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Speaker 2: Peter Dutton described it as the big corruption scandal in

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Speaker 2: our country's history. Victoria Police is now launching a new

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Speaker 2: investigation into the accusations.

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Speaker 1: Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed there will be a deficit

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Speaker 1: in the budget. A deficit is when the government hasn't

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Speaker 1: collected enough taxes to fund everything it wants to. This

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Speaker 1: means it needs to borrow money, which puts it in

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Speaker 1: an interest accruing debt. It comes after the government delivered

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Speaker 1: back to back budget surpluses.

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Speaker 2: This morning.

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Speaker 1: Charmers said the government's deficit will be much much smaller

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Speaker 1: than what it came to power with. The Treasurer said

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Speaker 1: his focus was on managing the budget responsibly and providing

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Speaker 1: cost of living help, but would not be drawn on

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Speaker 1: whether it would include any cost of living sweetness for Australians.

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Speaker 1: Charmers will announce the details of the budget next Tuesday

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Speaker 1: night and Sam the Daily Oz will be there. We

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Speaker 1: have three of our journalists going. They'll be in the

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Speaker 1: budget lot.

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Speaker 2: We never miss a budget, we.

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Speaker 1: Never do so if you didn't know, sorry, I'm going

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Speaker 1: on a tangent which we don't usually doing the headlines

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Speaker 1: anything for a budget though. Yes, So basically, at one

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Speaker 1: thirty pm next Tuesday, three of our journalists will go

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Speaker 1: into a room and the government literally locks you up

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Speaker 1: along with all the other journalists in the country and

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Speaker 1: you are given the budget early and then at seven

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Speaker 1: thirty pm the lock up lifts and the budget is

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Speaker 1: made public and the daily ods will be there every

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Speaker 1: step of the way to break down to you exactly

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Speaker 1: what is in the budget.

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Speaker 2: And if you've ever wondered why news organizations look so

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Speaker 2: prepared when all the announcements come at seven thirty pm,

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Speaker 2: they've had many, many hours in a room to think

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Speaker 2: about it all exactly.

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Speaker 1: They've had six hours literally just locked up looking at

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Speaker 1: nothing but the budget. You don't even get access to

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Speaker 1: the internet. You literally have no access to the outside world.

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Speaker 2: Sounds really fun and I'm glad I am not involved.

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Speaker 2: Let's get back to the headlines now. At least thirty

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Speaker 2: nine people have been killed in wide ranging storms across

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Speaker 2: the South and midwest United States. The storms brought tornadoes, wildfires,

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Speaker 2: and dust clouds, damaging properties and killing people across multiple

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Speaker 2: states over the weekend. In Oklahoma and Texas, wildfires found

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Speaker 2: by storm winds have killed four and destroyed hundreds of homes,

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Speaker 2: with officials warning the fire danger has yet to pass.

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Speaker 2: Poor visibility brought on by dust storms has led to

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Speaker 2: multi car pile ups on highways, while tornadoes across the

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Speaker 2: southeast have killed dozens. The storms are making their way

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Speaker 2: east and they are expected to blow out over the

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Speaker 2: Atlantic Ocean.

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Speaker 1: Later today, and today's good news, A retirement home has

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Speaker 1: been created for penguins at a US aquarium. Twenty seven

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Speaker 1: penguins from two different species at the New England Aquarium

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Speaker 1: in Boston have outlived their expected lifespan of fifteen years,

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Speaker 1: with some living into their forties. As a result, the

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Speaker 1: aquarium has established a time in area, it told The

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Speaker 1: New York Times is like a country club for older animals.

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Speaker 1: Separating the young penguins means that older penguins can be

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Speaker 1: fed properly and even undergo accupuncture and physical therapy. Manager

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Speaker 1: of Penguins Dayana Major said, being relaxed is key, and

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Speaker 1: we think the new retirement home will ultimately lead to

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Speaker 1: happier and healthier penguins.

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Speaker 2: Where do we find these stories? I mean, it's just amazing,

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Speaker 2: a good news story every day. Thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for joining us on the Daily OS. If you need

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Speaker 2: something else to listen to tonight, listen to this morning's

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Speaker 2: deep dive on Clive Palmer's latest party, which you might

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Speaker 2: have seen advertise during maps.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive. Until then,

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Speaker 1: have a great evening. My name is Lily Maddon and

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Speaker 1: I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Calcotin woman from Gadighl country.

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Speaker 1: The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on

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Speaker 1: the lands of the Gadighl people and pays respect to

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Speaker 1: all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island and nations. We pay

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Speaker 1: our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both

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Speaker 1: past and present.