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Speaker 1: From the Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel.

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the twenty fifth of March. Here's what's making

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Speaker 1: headlines this evening.

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Speaker 2: ABC staff have walked off the job, marking at the

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Speaker 2: public broadcast's first major industrial action in twenty years. The

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Speaker 2: twenty four hour strike commenced at eleven am Australian Eastern

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Speaker 2: daylight time on Wednesday as staff protests a deal offering

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Speaker 2: a below inflation pay increase. The ABC's main news channel

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Speaker 2: and some of its radio stations will air BBC World

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Speaker 2: News content for much of the strike, while TV programming

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Speaker 2: across the network will rely heavily on reruns. Journalists, camera operators,

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Speaker 2: technicians and other staff rallied outside more than sixty ABC offices,

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Speaker 2: including in Melbourne and Sydney. As the strike began, ABC

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Speaker 2: Managing director Hugh Marx defended the last rejected pay deal

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Speaker 2: ten percent across three years as financially responsible and competitive

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Speaker 2: for the industry.

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Speaker 1: The federal government has introduced legislation that could see fuel

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Speaker 1: companies find up to one hundred million dollars for misleading customers.

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Speaker 1: The reform would double current penalties for false and misleading

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Speaker 1: conduct and cartel behavior. It comes as petrol prices continue

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Speaker 1: to rise amid supply chain uncertainty in the Middle East.

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Speaker 1: Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the bill is about quote, protecting

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Speaker 1: consumers and holding suppliers and retailers to account. The conflict

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Speaker 1: overseas shouldn't be an excuse to profit off Australians, Charmers added. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: the New Zealand government has introduced a fuel subsidy for

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Speaker 1: nearly one hundred and fifty thousand families with children. Eligible

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Speaker 1: residents will receive a weekly rebate of fifty New Zealand dollars.

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Speaker 1: The scheme will last for the next year, or until

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Speaker 1: petrol drops back below three New Zealand dollars per leater,

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Speaker 1: which ever comes first.

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Speaker 2: A court in the US state of New Mexico has

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Speaker 2: fined Meta three hundred and seventy five million US dollars

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Speaker 2: that's more than half a billion Australian dollars for violating

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Speaker 2: child exploitation laws. The state's Attorney General launched action against

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Speaker 2: the tech giant overclaims it misled users about the safety

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Speaker 2: of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp and enabled child sexual exploitations

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Speaker 2: on these platforms. Following six weeks of hearings, a jury

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Speaker 2: found Meta breached New Mexico's consumer protection law. More than

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Speaker 2: forty state attorneys general have filed similar lawsuits against Meta,

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Speaker 2: accusing it of intentionally making its platforms addictive for young people.

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Speaker 2: A spokesperson for the company said, quote, we respectfully disagree

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Speaker 2: with the verdict and will appeal.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news. For the second time this year,

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Speaker 1: endangered mountain gorilla twins have been born at Verorunga National

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Speaker 1: Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. What makes

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Speaker 1: this so special is that twins are incredibly rare they

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Speaker 1: for mountain gorillas, making up less than one percent of

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Speaker 1: all births. The twins, a male and a female, were

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Speaker 1: spotted just two months after another set of newborn siblings

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Speaker 1: were identified in the same region. Rangers are now keeping

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Speaker 1: a close eye on the pair during their critical first

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Speaker 1: months of life for an endangered species facing high infant mortality,

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Speaker 1: The birth is being celebrated as a hopeful sign for

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Speaker 1: the mountain gorilla's survival.

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Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily os News. If you're

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

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Speaker 2: up on this morning's Deep dive where I look into

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Speaker 2: a celebrity deep fake scandal out of Germany that is

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Speaker 2: really a must listen in my opinion. Of course, that's

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Speaker 2: my bias, because I explained.

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Speaker 1: It, I was there and it's a very fascinating story,

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Speaker 1: one not to miss. We will be back tomorrow with

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Speaker 1: another deep dive, but that's it for today, so have

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Speaker 1: a good night. We'll speak to you in the morning.

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Speaker 2: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bund,

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Speaker 2: young Calgoton woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily oz acknowledges

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Speaker 2: that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the

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Speaker 2: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and torrest

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Speaker 2: Rate island and nations. We pay our respects to the

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Speaker 2: first peoples of these countries, both past and present.