1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel. 2 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the fourth of February. Here's what's making headlines 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: this evening. 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 2: A second Australian has died in a skiing accident in 5 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 2: Japan in less than a week. A man in his 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 2: twenties was taken to hospital after skiing off course between 7 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 2: two resorts in the Hokkaido Alpine region. He was given 8 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 2: CPR by a group of skiers, but later died in hospital. 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 2: The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed its providing assistance to 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 2: the family of an Australian who died in Japan, but 11 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 2: did not provide further details. It comes days after the 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 2: death of an Australian snowboarder at a resort about one 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 2: thousand kilometers south of Hokkaido. Twenty two year old Brook 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 2: Day sustained critical injuries during a ski lift accident near 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 2: the city of Nagano on Friday. More than a million 16 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,959 Speaker 2: Australians traveled to Japan in twenty twenty five, up fifteen 17 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 2: percent on twenty twenty four, according to tourism officials. 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: Billionaire Clive Palmer will mount a challenge against political donation 19 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 1: reforms in Australia's Highest Court. Electoral reforms due to take 20 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: effect midyear, will introduce caps on how much money political 21 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: parties can spend on elections and how much people can 22 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: donate to candidates. Palmer claims the laws impinge on political 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: freedoms and said he'll seek to have them overturned in 24 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: the High Court. Special Minister of State Don Farrell said 25 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: Labour would defend the reforms, adding quote billionaires shouldn't be 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: able to use our democracy as their playground. Palmer donated 27 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,279 Speaker 1: fifty three million dollars to his own party, The Trumpet 28 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: of Patriots, at the last election. However, the right wing 29 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: party failed to win a single seat. 30 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 2: Nearly forty percent of all cancer cases are preventable, a 31 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: new global study has found. Researchers from the World Health 32 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: Organization and the International Agency for Research John Cancer analyzed 33 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 2: the eighteen point seven million new cancer cases that were 34 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: recorded globally in twenty twenty two. Research published in the 35 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 2: journal Nature Medicine found that tobacco, alcohol, and infections were 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: the most common risk factors. Researchers estimated that around thirty 37 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 2: percent of cancers in women and forty five percent in 38 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 2: men could have been avoided, or about thirty eight percent 39 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 2: of total new cases. Smoking was the dominant risk factor 40 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 2: in Australia. The study is the first global snapshot of 41 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 2: its kind. Addressing preventable causes is one of the most 42 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 2: effective ways to curb the growing global cancer burden, researchers set. 43 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: And today's good news. A dinosaur fossil discovered in Brisbane 44 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: has been confirmed as Australia's oldest, dating back two hundred 45 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: and thirty million years. The eighteen and a half centimeter 46 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: footprint was discovered by a teenager northwest of Brisbane in 47 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight. However, it remained un studied for more 48 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: than sixty years. University of Queensland research has confirmed the 49 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: artifacts age and significance, and it's now been recognized as 50 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:14,239 Speaker 1: Australia's oldest dinosaur fossil. The footprint, from the earliest part 51 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: of the Late Triassic period likely came from a small, 52 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: two legged dinosaur. Doctor Anthony Romilio from uq's Dinosaur Lab 53 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: said the footprint proves dinosaurs were present in Australia earlier 54 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: than previously thought. 55 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily OOS Newsroom. If you're 56 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 2: looking for something else you can catch up on. 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