1 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: From The Daily Oz. I'm Sam because Loosky, I'm Billy 2 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: fit Simon. It is Thursday, the eleventh of December. Here's 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: what's making headlines this evening. 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 2: Travelers from Australia and forty one other countries could be 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 2: forced to hand over five years worth of social media 6 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: data when entering the United States under plans put forward 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 2: by the Trump administration. US Customs and Border Protection has 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: published a list of possible changes to the country's visa 9 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 2: free travel scheme, known as ESTHER. Under the overhaul, social 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: media accounts would be made a mandatory data element. Travelers 11 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 2: have previously had the option of providing their online details, 12 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 2: but it hasn't been compulsory. At a press conference on Thursday, 13 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 2: Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi said Australians would comply with other 14 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 2: countries laws and that the government website smart Traveler would 15 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 2: be updated with the requirement if needed. 16 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: More than one thousand corrections offices across South Australia's public 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: prison network have voted to extend and existing strike to 18 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,199 Speaker 1: ninety six hours, calling on the government to increase pay rates, 19 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: lift staff numbers and improve safety. It means more than 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: two thousand prisoners have been confined to their cells since 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: seven thirty am on Monday. All striking staff will reconvene 22 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: on Friday morning to decide whether to take further action Corrections. 23 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: Officers are striking over what they say is an inadequate payoffer, 24 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: a surge in violence in prisons and a crisis in 25 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: staffing levels caused by low wages. It comes after an 26 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: inmate was beaten unconscious at a prison on Sunday. City 27 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: and suburban courts in Adelaide were forced to close and 28 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: postpone all listed matters on Thursday, with the state's Public 29 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: Services Union calling for Premier Peter Malanowskis to hear their 30 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: concerns in person. 31 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 2: Australian Olympians who give birth after today and are committed 32 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: to making a Olympic comeback will be eligible for a 33 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars grant per child as part of a 34 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 2: fifty million dollar funding package. The Australian Olympic Committee said 35 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: it is their most significant athlete funding initiative since the 36 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 2: build up to the two thousand Sydney Olympics. Retiring athletes 37 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: will also be entitled to the package. Olympians who complete 38 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 2: at two games are entitled to receive sixty four thousand dollars, 39 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 2: with one three hundred athletes projected to benefit from the 40 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 2: retirement grant. An Emir's, a four time Olympian and two 41 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 2: time Olympic gold medalist in track cycling, said she had 42 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 2: goosebumps after learning of the funding package. Meers said, for 43 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 2: female athletes, we are seeing that motherhood and high performance 44 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 2: careers can coexist and we want to be able to 45 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 2: further support that. 46 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: And today's good news. New evidence suggests pre human species 47 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: were making fire far earlier than previously thought. UK researchers 48 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: have found fragments of rock called iron pyrite, a mineral 49 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: used to strike sparks with flint, in the English village 50 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: of Barnum. The fragments were found on a four hundred 51 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: thousand year old site, pre dating the previously thought known 52 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: controlled use of fire by more than three hundred and 53 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 1: fifty thousand years. The pyrite was not common to the area, 54 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: suggesting that it was brought on purpose to light fire. 55 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: The fire couldn't have been made by our species, Homo sapiens, 56 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: because it was still evolving in Africa at the time. 57 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: Scientists say this suggests the fire could have been the 58 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: work of the Neanderthals, a species that some people are 59 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: descended from. 60 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Dallyi OOS newsroom. If you're 61 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 2: looking for something else to listen to, check out today's 62 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: deep Dive, where we discussed the suppression order that has 63 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: kept media from naming a man convicted of rape. My 64 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 2: name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung 65 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 2: Calcuttin woman from Gadigal country. The Daily oz acknowledges that 66 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: this podcast is recorded on the lands of the Gadigal 67 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and torrest Rate 68 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 2: island and nations. We pay our respects to the first 69 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 2: peoples of these countries, both past and present.