Speaker 1: From the Daily Os I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Billy forit,
Speaker 1: Simon's It's Wednesday, the second of April. Here's what's making headlines.
Speaker 2: Suceeding new hate speech laws have passed Victoria's parliament after
Speaker 2: the Labor government reached a deal with the Greens. The
Speaker 2: new legislation will introduce new criminal offenses for serious vilification
Speaker 2: and strengthen existing protections against vilification. The law will include gender, identity,
Speaker 2: sexual orientation and disability protections. The opposition voted against the legislation,
Speaker 2: saying it will create issues clogging up the courts. They
Speaker 2: also said that it will see people pursue each other
Speaker 2: rather than working together to educate each other to actually
Speaker 2: create the society we want going forward.
Speaker 1: Thousands of doctors across New South Wales will proceed with
Speaker 1: planned strikes next week after negotiations broke down with the
Speaker 1: state government. Doctors will take industrial action from the eighth
Speaker 1: of April to the tenth of April, that's Tuesday to
Speaker 1: Thursday next week, with public hospital staffing to be reduced
Speaker 1: to public holiday levels. According to union organizers, the action
Speaker 1: means that elective surgeries will be postponed outpatient clinics and
Speaker 1: non urgent consultations will be canceled and non urgent medical
Speaker 1: procedures will be rescheduled. New South Wales Health Minister Ryan
Speaker 1: Parks said he will take the most senior health officials
Speaker 1: offline for a two week period to quote, try and
Speaker 1: see if we can get a better outcome that keeps
Speaker 1: patients safe, that keeps our doctors in place.
Speaker 2: Democratic Senator Cory Booker, a one time presidential candidate, has
Speaker 2: spoken on the Senate floor in the US for over
Speaker 2: twenty five hours, breaking the record for the longest speech
Speaker 2: on the Senate floor in history. Booker said he would
Speaker 2: speak until physically unable to continue in protests of the
Speaker 2: Trump administrations two months in power, and to call on
Speaker 2: quote the people to stay up against it. To avoid
Speaker 2: seating the floor, Booker had to talk continuously and was
Speaker 2: only allowed to break when asked questions by Democratic colleagues. Booker,
Speaker 2: who didn't leave the floor for the full twenty five hours, said, quote,
Speaker 2: my strategy was to stop eating. I think I stopped
Speaker 2: eating on Friday, and then to stop drinking the night
Speaker 2: before I started on Monday. And that had its benefits
Speaker 2: and it had its really downsides. Now, if you're wondering
Speaker 2: if he went to the bathroom, I did just do
Speaker 2: a quick google, and no, he wasn't allowed to leave
Speaker 2: the Senate to go to the bathroom. But he did
Speaker 2: avoid a question about whether he was wearing a nappy. Interesting,
Speaker 2: which I think is a pretty smart strategy. But we
Speaker 2: won't be asking too many more details for that because
Speaker 2: it will probably be too much information.
Speaker 3: Moving swiftly along to today's good news to get us
Speaker 3: out of here, A group of around twenty elderly women
Speaker 3: who worked in US factories on the home front during
Speaker 3: World War Two have been honored with National Service medals.
Speaker 1: The women were among five million workers known as Rosy
Speaker 1: the Riveters, who worked in industries like welding and weapons
Speaker 1: manufacturing to aid America's war efforts. They performed jobs traditionally
Speaker 1: reserved for men at the time and were considered women's
Speaker 1: rights trailblazers. The National World War II Museum in New
Speaker 1: Orleans hosted a ceremony this week where eighteen surviving Roses
Speaker 1: received the Congressional Gold Medal. One hundred year old Mary
Speaker 1: Maski and Jello was among the honorees. She said, I
Speaker 1: feel proud at what I did. The museum said the
Speaker 1: real life wartime rosies helped pave the way for future generations.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the daly Ovs newsroom. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for something else, you can listen to today's Deep Dive,
Speaker 2: where we discuss cigarette reforms and the government's new smoking crackdown.
Speaker 1: We will be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive,
Speaker 1: but until then, have a wonderful night.
Speaker 2: I feel like I need to go do a wee
Speaker 2: on behalf of Cory Booker. My name is Lily Maddon
Speaker 2: and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Calkatin woman from Gadighl Country.
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