Speaker 1: From the Daily Ours. I'm Harry Seculch, I'm Billy fitz Simon.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, the first of August. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: The US has announced a new round of tariffs for
Speaker 2: several countries, but has kept Australias at the baseline rate
Speaker 2: of ten percent, which has been in place since earlier
Speaker 2: this year. In the new tariffs announced by the White
Speaker 2: House today, Cambodia's rate dropped from forty nine percent to
Speaker 2: nineteen percent, while New Zealand's increased from ten percent to
Speaker 2: fifteen percent. The US also hit Canada with an increase
Speaker 2: from twenty five percent to thirty five percent, citing continued
Speaker 2: in action and retaliation of its northern neighbor. A spokesperson
Speaker 2: for Australia's Trade Minister, Don Farrell said we will continue
Speaker 2: to advocate for the removal of all tariffs in line
Speaker 2: with our free trade agreement.
Speaker 1: The Northern terror government has passed a raft of legislative
Speaker 1: amendments to the state's Youth Justice Act, ditching the previous
Speaker 1: government's detention as a last resort policy. Among the changes
Speaker 1: is the reinstatement of spit hoods in youth detention, a
Speaker 1: practice that has been banned for nearly a decade. The
Speaker 1: legislation also grants police expanded emergency powers. The reforms have
Speaker 1: drawn criticism from the NT opposition, First Nation's leaders and
Speaker 1: human rights advocates, who say the degrading, inhumane and dangerous
Speaker 1: practice is a breach of internationally recognized human rights laws
Speaker 1: for children.
Speaker 2: We told you in yesterday's stories about morio'callahan's incredible run
Speaker 2: at the World Championships in Singapore, and it has got
Speaker 2: even better since then. The Australian swimstar has now equalled
Speaker 2: in thought for the most World Championship gold medals won
Speaker 2: by an Australian Overnight, the twenty one year old anchored
Speaker 2: Australia's victory in the women four by two hundred meter
Speaker 2: freestyle relay at the Swimming World Championships in Singapore. She
Speaker 2: now has eleven World Championship gold medals, equal only to
Speaker 2: Ian Thorpe. O'Callahan could eclipse Thorpe's record tonight when she
Speaker 2: raises the one hundred meter freestyle.
Speaker 1: And while oh callahan's news is definitely good for Australia,
Speaker 1: we have even more good news. The world's oldest baby
Speaker 1: has been born in the US thanks to an embryo
Speaker 1: that has been in storage since nineteen ninety four. According
Speaker 1: to the MIT Technology Review, the baby was born on
Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of July in the US state of Ohio,
Speaker 1: to parents Lindsay and Tim Pearce, who were less than
Speaker 1: five when the embryo was created. The donor, a woman
Speaker 1: named Linda, is sixty two. In May nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: Linda and her former partner created four embryos. One embryo
Speaker 1: resulted in a healthy baby girl, who is now thirty,
Speaker 1: while the others were put in storage. Lina See, the
Speaker 1: parent of the new baby, said, we didn't go into
Speaker 1: it thinking we would break any records. We just wanted
Speaker 1: to have a baby.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily Os newsroom. If you
Speaker 2: are looking for something else to listen to, you can
Speaker 2: check out today's Deep Dive, where Harry and I go
Speaker 2: through all of the questions you have about hextet and
Speaker 2: hopefully Harry in particular answers them all expertly.
Speaker 1: I'll try my best belief. We'll be back on Monday,
Speaker 1: but until then, have a great weekend. My name is
Speaker 1: Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bungelung Caalcuttin woman
Speaker 1: from Gadighl country. The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast
Speaker 1: is recorded on the lands of the Gadighl people and
Speaker 1: pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait island and nations.
Speaker 1: We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,
Speaker 1: both past and present.