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Speaker 1: From the Daily Oz. I'm Sam Kazowski.

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Speaker 2: I'm belief it Simon.

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Speaker 1: It's those day, the seventh of August. Here's what's making

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Speaker 1: headlines this evening.

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi has defended the Victorian government's plan

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Speaker 2: to legislate working from home protections. State Premier Justinto Allan

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Speaker 2: announced labour's proposal over the weekend, which would give Victorian

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Speaker 2: workers in the public and private sectors a legal right

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Speaker 2: to work from home two days a week. Alan said

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Speaker 2: the law would apply for workers who can reasonably complete

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Speaker 2: their work outside of the office. When asked about the

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Speaker 2: work from home legislation today, the Prime Minister called Allen's

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Speaker 2: proposal consistent with the federal government's stance. Albanesi told reporters

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Speaker 2: that Premier Allen is responding to what the community have said,

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Speaker 2: which is that flexible working arrangements help workers and they

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Speaker 2: help employers. The Victorian government will lead consultations to determine

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Speaker 2: when the specifics of its work from home proposal before

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Speaker 2: it introduces legislation in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Teachers in Queensland have resumed negotiations with the state government

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Speaker 1: after this week's widespread strike action around fifty thousand teachers

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Speaker 1: walked off the job for the first time in sixteen

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Speaker 1: years yesterday, amid calls for improved pay and working conditions.

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Speaker 1: Educators from at least twelve hundred state schools participated in

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Speaker 1: the strike, with some five hundred thousand students told to

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Speaker 1: stay home. The Queensland Teachers Union has refused to rule

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Speaker 1: out further strike action as it resumes talks with the

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Speaker 1: government today after months of stored negotiations. Teachers have rejected

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Speaker 1: an eight percent pay rise offer, but Education Minister John

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Speaker 1: Paul Langbrook said he's confident a settlement will be reached,

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Speaker 1: as he said the Queensland Government continues to negotiate with

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Speaker 1: the Queensland Teachers Union in good faith. It coincides with

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Speaker 1: the release of a new report from the state's Department

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Speaker 1: of Education, which found thirty three percent of Queensland public

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Speaker 1: school infrastructure is in poor or very poor condition. The

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Speaker 1: report estimates the required repairs will cost four hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty one million dollars.

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Speaker 2: US officials have ordered NASA to fast track plans to

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Speaker 2: install a nuclear reactor on the Moon. The technology would

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Speaker 2: generate enough electricity to power about eighty homes and support

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Speaker 2: a permanent lunar base. NASA has been given sixty days

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Speaker 2: to develop industry proposals for the project. After China and

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Speaker 2: Russia announced they were considering a joint effort to establish

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Speaker 2: a nuclear power station on the moon. US Transport Secretary

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Speaker 2: Sean Duffy has warned that whoever gets their first could

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Speaker 2: block other countries from setting up their own lunar bases.

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Speaker 2: We're in a race to the moon, Duffy said.

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Speaker 1: And some good news for your Thursday afternoon. New research

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Speaker 1: shows a BOO cancer screening initiative has led to an

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Speaker 1: increase in life saving early detection rates. It comes after

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Speaker 1: the US lowered its recommended colon cancer screening age from

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Speaker 1: fifty to forty five. According to findings published in the

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Speaker 1: Journal of the American Medical Association, screening rates jumped fifteen

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Speaker 1: percent over a two year period. This led to a

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Speaker 1: fifty percent increase in early stage cancer diagnoses. The survival

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Speaker 1: rate for early stage colon cancer ranges from ninety to

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent. Study author Rebecca Siegel said the increase

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Speaker 1: in early detection means more young lives are being saved

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Speaker 1: as colon cancer rates rise globally among young people. It

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Speaker 1: is hoped the results will encourage other countries to expand

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Speaker 1: their screening programs to more age groups.

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Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily Ears newsroom. If you're

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Speaker 2: looking for something else to listen to, you can check

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Speaker 2: out today's deep dive on what caused the Titan subdisaster.

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Speaker 2: That comes after a new report came out.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow with another deep dive for you.

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Speaker 1: Until then, have a great night.

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Speaker 3: My name is Lily Madden and I'm a proud Aarunda Bungelo,

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Speaker 3: young Kalkuton woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily oz acknowledges

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Speaker 3: that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the

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Speaker 3: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torrestrate

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Speaker 3: island and nations. We pay our respects to the first

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Speaker 3: peoples of these countries, both past and present.