Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, the fourteenth of November. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: At least seventeen schools in the ACT and Queensland have
Speaker 2: closed as a precaution after testing showed a children's sand
Speaker 2: product may contain asbestos. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Speaker 2: or a Triple C, issued a recall notice for decorative
Speaker 2: sand products from Kadink Education Colours and Creatistics. The sand,
Speaker 2: which is designed for sensory play and educational purposes, is
Speaker 2: sold in several colors at more than eighty retailers, including
Speaker 2: Officeworks and Woolworth's. Authorities have identified quote a low level
Speaker 2: of tremolite that's a naturally occurring asbestos and or chrysotile,
Speaker 2: the most common type of asbestos in the products. However,
Speaker 2: the most dangerous type, blue asbestos, has not been detect
Speaker 2: in the sand. Work Safe ACT and Queensland said the
Speaker 2: risk of exposure to traces of asbestos is low, but
Speaker 2: they've urged quote a precautionary approach should be adopted until
Speaker 2: further test results become available. Sixteen schools in the Act
Speaker 2: were closed today, while several others were partially closed. One
Speaker 2: school in Queensland also decided to close on Friday. Brisbane's
Speaker 2: Mansell College said it was quote acting with an abundance
Speaker 2: of caution after the sand was found at its campuses.
Speaker 1: The driver jailed over the fatal twenty twenty three Hunter
Speaker 1: Valley bus crash has lost an appeal against his thirty
Speaker 1: two year prison term. Brett Button was driving guests home
Speaker 1: from a wedding when he lost control and crashed, killing
Speaker 1: ten passengers and injuring twenty five on the June Long
Speaker 1: weekend in twenty twenty three. Button pleaded guilty to dozens
Speaker 1: of charges, including dangerous driving causing death. Last year, he
Speaker 1: was sentenced to a maximum of thirty two years in
Speaker 1: jail with a non parole period of twenty four years.
Speaker 1: Button launched an appeal in July after his lawyer's disputed
Speaker 1: findings that he knowingly drove under the influence of painkillers
Speaker 1: and claimed his sentence was too harsh. The appeal was
Speaker 1: dismissed by a panel of three Supreme Court justices in
Speaker 1: Sydney today. Button will remain behind bars until at least
Speaker 1: twenty forty eight, when he'll be eligible for parole.
Speaker 2: The BBC has apologized to US President Donald Trump over
Speaker 2: an allegedly misleading edit of a speech he gave on
Speaker 2: the sixth of January twenty twenty one, the day of
Speaker 2: the deadly Washington insurrection. However, the British broadcaster has rejected
Speaker 2: compensation claims from Trump's lawyers. Two senior staff resigned after
Speaker 2: the BBC was accused of deliberately cutting parts of a
Speaker 2: Trump addressed together, making him appear to encourage the Capitol
Speaker 2: Hill riot. The cutdown was part of an October twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four episode of Panorama, the BBC's flagship current affairs program.
Speaker 2: The President is now threatening to sue the public broadcaster
Speaker 2: for a billion dollars in damages. The BBC issued a
Speaker 2: formal apology on Thursday night local time, hours after a
Speaker 2: second clip was called into question over similar editing concerns.
Speaker 2: It said it accepts the Panorama edit quote unintentionally created
Speaker 2: the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct
Speaker 2: call for violent action. The BBC would like to apologize
Speaker 2: to President Trump for that error of judgment. A spokesperson
Speaker 2: said that while the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in
Speaker 2: which the video clip was edited. We strongly disagree there
Speaker 2: is a basis for a defamation claim.
Speaker 1: And today's good news. An ancient fossil discovered in New
Speaker 1: South Wales has researchers reconsidering what they thought they knew
Speaker 1: about insect evolution. Robert Beatty, a now retired school teacher,
Speaker 1: first presented the fossil to experts in twenty sixteen. After
Speaker 1: extensive research, watch the Australian Museum now estimates it to
Speaker 1: be a one hundred and fifty one million year old
Speaker 1: fossil of a non biting midge, a type of small fly,
Speaker 1: making it the oldest artifact of its kind in the
Speaker 1: Southern Hemisphere, according to the Museum. Until now, their oldest
Speaker 1: known fossils came from China and Siberia, leading scientists to
Speaker 1: assume they originated in the northern super continent of Laurasia,
Speaker 1: but this new Australian discovery suggests otherwise. The Australian midge
Speaker 1: proves that the Southern Hemisphere holds what experts called quote
Speaker 1: crucial pieces of the evolutionary puzzle that can fundamentally reshape
Speaker 1: our understanding of life's history on Earth.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily Oz newsroom. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for something else to listen to on your Friday commute,
Speaker 2: check out today's deep dive on the newly published emails
Speaker 2: between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: We will be back on Sunday with a special bonus
Speaker 1: weekend deep dive, but until then, enjoy the start to
Speaker 1: your weekend.
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