Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie.
Speaker 2: I'm belief it's Simon's.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the twelfth of November. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: Liberal MPs have gathered in Canberra to discuss the party's
Speaker 2: future position on net zero emissions. It comes after their
Speaker 2: coalition partner, the Nationals Party, announced it was dumping support
Speaker 2: for the twenty fifty target. Net zero refers to balancing
Speaker 2: the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced and taken out
Speaker 2: of the atmosphere. Australia has a legislated target to achieve
Speaker 2: net zero emissions by twenty fifty. Liberal MPs and senators
Speaker 2: shared their views on whether the party should stick with
Speaker 2: net zero or walk away from it during closed door
Speaker 2: talks this afternoon. Those discussions will inform the Shadow Cabinet,
Speaker 2: who will meet tomorrow to determine the party's position. Once
Speaker 2: the Liberal Party has reached an agreement, it will negotiate
Speaker 2: with the Nationals on Sunday to determine the coalition's final
Speaker 2: stance on net zero.
Speaker 1: Ex Construction union boss John Setka has been charged over
Speaker 1: alleged threatening emails. Setka, the former head of the cfmeu's
Speaker 1: construction union was arrested at his home in Melbourne this
Speaker 1: morning as part of a joint operation between the Victorian
Speaker 1: and Australian Federal Police. He was charged with seven counts
Speaker 1: of using a telecommunications device to menace, harass and offend.
Speaker 1: Setka will face court in January, where prosecutors will allege
Speaker 1: he sent a number of allegedly threatening, offensive and abusive
Speaker 1: emails to a CFMEU administrator. Crime Command Assistant Commissioner Martin
Speaker 1: O'Brien said police quote will not tolerate behavior that aims
Speaker 1: to intimidate and harass people who simply want to go
Speaker 1: to work. It comes more than a year since the
Speaker 1: Federal government forced the CFMEU into administration over its alleged
Speaker 1: ties to organized crime and biking gangs.
Speaker 2: AZO Chief Mike Burgess has accused Chinese hackers of trying
Speaker 2: to access Australian infrastructure, including telco's. Speaking at the Australian
Speaker 2: Securities and Investments Commission annual forum, Burgess said the National
Speaker 2: Spy Agency is aware of multiple attempts by overseas actors
Speaker 2: to penetrate critical infrastructure, including water, transport, telecommunications and energy
Speaker 2: networks with potentially devastating results. He confirmed two hacking groups
Speaker 2: working for Chinese government intelligence and their military known to
Speaker 2: have accessed US telecosystems have also probed Australian networks. Burgess
Speaker 2: warned the threat could have led to high impact sabotage.
Speaker 2: There is no excuse for not taking all reasonable steps
Speaker 2: to manage the risk of security breaches that asioboss noted.
Speaker 1: And Today's Good News. Researchers are working to develop a
Speaker 1: camera that can search for life on distant planets as
Speaker 1: part of future space missions. NASA's Habitable World's Observatory HWO
Speaker 1: is a proposed telescope designed to look for signs of
Speaker 1: life on Earth like planets. Physics experts at Durham University
Speaker 1: in Northeast England a part of a group of researchers
Speaker 1: building a high resolution imaging camera for the observatory. The
Speaker 1: camera would be used to measure the mass of suitable
Speaker 1: planets and inspect their atmospheres for the chemical fingerprints of life,
Speaker 1: including water, oxygen, and methane. Durham University said the observatory
Speaker 1: will also be able to stare into black holes and
Speaker 1: solve the mystery of dark matter. HWO is expected to
Speaker 1: launch in the early twenty forties, not too far away.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hold your breath, Billy, but it's closer than
Speaker 1: a black hole.
Speaker 2: It is closer. That is the latest from the Daily
Speaker 2: Oz newsroom. If you're looking for something else to listen to,
Speaker 2: check out today's deep dive on the landmark inquiry into
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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but
Speaker 1: until then, have a good one bye.
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