Speaker 1: From The Daily os I'm Zara, I'm Billy. It's Monday,
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth of March. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
Speaker 2: Ahead of the federal budget tomorrow, the Labor government has
Speaker 2: announced it will cut spending on outsourced private consultants by
Speaker 2: seven hundred and twenty million dollars, which it says is
Speaker 2: part of its plan to rebuild the public service. Finance
Speaker 2: Minister Katie Gallaher said this means the government can quote
Speaker 2: invest in the things that matter most like cost of living, support,
Speaker 2: medicare and housing. Despite the savings, the government is set
Speaker 2: to record a deficit for the first time in three
Speaker 2: years tomorrow, meaning it will be spending more than it
Speaker 2: earns in taxes. On Sunday, Opposition treasurer Angus Taylor said
Speaker 2: on ABC's Insiders, government spending continues to grow at a
Speaker 2: rapid rate to the highest level we've seen for fifty years.
Speaker 2: The public service has not been able to deliver the
Speaker 2: outcomes we want to see in areas like health.
Speaker 1: Independent MP doctor Monique Ryan has apologized after her husband
Speaker 1: Peter Jordan, was filmed removing a sign of her rival.
Speaker 1: Liberal candidate. Ryan is going up against liberal candidate Emelia
Speaker 1: Hamer in the seat of Kujong at the upcoming election.
Speaker 1: In a statement, doctor Ryan said, I apologize for the
Speaker 1: removal of the sign. It should not have happened. Ryan's
Speaker 1: husband also apologized and explained he believed the sign had
Speaker 1: been illegally placed, but said he should have reported his
Speaker 1: concerns to the council.
Speaker 2: The death toll in Gaza from ongoing Israeli attacks has
Speaker 2: surpassed fifty thousand, according to data cited by the United Nations.
Speaker 2: This death toll counts from the seventh of October twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, when the terrorist organization Hamas launched attacks on Israel,
Speaker 2: killing nearly one thy two hundred people. The recent rise
Speaker 2: in the death toll comes is Israel last week launched
Speaker 2: its largest attacks in the Gaza strips since Phase one
Speaker 2: of a seas took hold in January.
Speaker 1: And today's good news. At forty years old, American skier
Speaker 1: Lindsay Vaughn has become the oldest woman to have stood
Speaker 1: on a Skiing World Cup podium. Von won silver in
Speaker 1: the women's Super G, which is a speed event, at
Speaker 1: the Alpine Ski World Cup Finals on Sunday. The four
Speaker 1: time olympian retired in twenty nineteen, but returned to the
Speaker 1: sport at the beginning of the season following a knee reconstruction.
Speaker 1: The forty year old said after the race, age is
Speaker 1: just a number. If you feel good and you're mentally
Speaker 1: still driven and you work hard, you can achieve anything
Speaker 1: you set your mind to.
Speaker 2: That is the latest from the Daily OL's newsroom.
Speaker 1: And if you miss this morning's deep dive, we spoke
Speaker 1: about the coronial inquest into the murder of twenty one
Speaker 1: year old water polo coach Lily James.
Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive. Until then,
Speaker 2: have a great evening. My name is Lily Madden and
Speaker 2: I'm a proud Arunda Bungelung Calcottin woman from Gadigal Country.
Speaker 2: The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on
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Speaker 2: all Aboriginal and Torrestrate island and nations. We pay our
Speaker 2: respects to the first peoples of these countries, both past
Speaker 2: and present.