Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the seventeenth of September. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: Opposition leader Susan Lee has described debt as an issue
Speaker 2: of intergenerational fairness and warned Australians have become too reliant
Speaker 2: on welfare. Speaking at the Committee for Economic Development of
Speaker 2: Australia in Melbourne, Lee outlined the principles that will guide
Speaker 2: coalition policy into the next election, including a targeted approach
Speaker 2: to government subsidies and benefit payments. The opposition leader said
Speaker 2: the government quote should not be paying benefits to high
Speaker 2: income households and that support should be a safety net,
Speaker 2: not a hammock. Lee did not cite specific cuts or
Speaker 2: policy proposals during her first major economic address as Opposition leader. However,
Speaker 2: she claimed improvements can be made without attacking welfare or
Speaker 2: health or school funding to ensure the next generation inherits opportunity,
Speaker 2: not death.
Speaker 1: Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing Gaza City after Israel launched
Speaker 1: its ground offensive on Tuesday. The Israeli Defense Forces the IDF,
Speaker 1: which says its targeting hamas issued evacuation warnings telling Palestinians
Speaker 1: to go to a humanitarian zone in Almwasi in South Gaza.
Speaker 1: The UN said Israel had not taken effective steps to
Speaker 1: ensure the safety of those forced to move there, and
Speaker 1: that it had not provided enough space or services for
Speaker 1: those already there. UN officials have previously accused the IDF
Speaker 1: of targeting displaced Palestinians tents in Almwasi quote killing entire families.
Speaker 1: Israel's latest military action has been met with widespread condemnation
Speaker 1: from international governments and families of hostages taken by Hamas.
Speaker 1: The offensive began shortly after a UN Commission of Inquiry
Speaker 1: announced it had found Israel was carrying out a genocide
Speaker 1: of Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has called the finding fake.
Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump has revealed his planning to meet
Speaker 2: with Anthony Albanzi when the Prime Minister visits the US
Speaker 2: next week. Trump was criticizing an Australian journalist when he
Speaker 2: hinted at a face to face talk with the PM.
Speaker 2: ABC America's editor John Lyons was questioning Trump about his
Speaker 2: business ventures and White House spending when the President accused
Speaker 2: Lyons of hurting Australia very much. Right now. Your leader
Speaker 2: is coming over to see me very soon, Trump said,
Speaker 2: adding I'm going to tell him about you. You set
Speaker 2: a very bad tone. The comment is the closest recent
Speaker 2: indicator out of the US that a Trump Albanesi meeting
Speaker 2: will go ahead. The Prime Minister is expected to meet
Speaker 2: with his US counterpart in New York ahead of a
Speaker 2: meeting of the UN General Assembly.
Speaker 1: And today's good news in an Australian first, pet owners
Speaker 1: can now book tickets to bring their small dogs and
Speaker 1: cats on Virgin Australia flights. The airline's Pets in Cabin
Speaker 1: service officially on sale today ahead of the first services
Speaker 1: departing on the sixteenth of October. Virgin said it's launching
Speaker 1: the initiative across select flights between Melbourne, the Gold Coast
Speaker 1: and the Sunshine Coast before expanding the service to all
Speaker 1: eligible domestic flights in twenty twenty six. Virgin CEO Dave
Speaker 1: Emerson said, quote, with almost seventy percent of households owning
Speaker 1: a pet, we expect the service to be embraced by
Speaker 1: pet lovers all around the country. A limit of four
Speaker 1: pets per flight will be permitted and will cost passengers
Speaker 1: and extra one hundred and forty nine dollars per animal.
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Speaker 1: until then, have a great evening.
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