Speaker 1: From The Daily Oz.
Speaker 2: I'm Sam Becauselowski, I'm billiefit Simon's.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, the fifth of December. Here's what's making
Speaker 1: headlines this evening.
Speaker 2: Several heat wave warnings and firebands are in place as
Speaker 2: extreme weather continues to impact large parts of Eastern Australia.
Speaker 2: Homes and properties in Victoria and Tasmania have been damaged
Speaker 2: after high temperatures and strong winds swept through both states
Speaker 2: on Thursday. Firefighters in northwest Victoria are working to contain
Speaker 2: a three hundred and seventy hectare bushfire, while conditions have
Speaker 2: eased slightly in Tasmania, where nineteen homes were damaged in
Speaker 2: fires this week. Communities across New South Wales are also
Speaker 2: facing extreme heat, with an emergency warning issued for a
Speaker 2: fire near Dubbo. Severe conditions are expected to continue in
Speaker 2: New South Wales tomorrow as temperatures saw into the low
Speaker 2: forties in some parts of the state. A strong cold
Speaker 2: front is forecast to cross Victoria and New South Wales
Speaker 2: on Sunday morning. Meanwhile, Southeast Queensland is bracing for severe
Speaker 2: storms this weekend.
Speaker 1: Victoria police have shifted focus in their search for Desi
Speaker 1: Freeman with investigators now working to locate the alleged police
Speaker 1: killer's body. Freeman has been on the runs since the
Speaker 1: twentieth of August after he allegedly shot dead two police
Speaker 1: officers in Porpunker, about three hundred kilometers northeast of Melbourne.
Speaker 1: The officers were executing a search warrant at the fifty
Speaker 1: six year old's home at the time of the shooting.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of police have been involved in the manhunt, with
Speaker 1: more than four hundred officers deployed in the hours and
Speaker 1: days after the killings. Police confirmed on Friday that specialist resources,
Speaker 1: including dogs and drones have now been deployed for a
Speaker 1: targeted search of Mount Buffalo National Park. The area was
Speaker 1: previously searched with the aim to locate Freeman. However, teams
Speaker 1: have since focused their search on identifying and locating his body.
Speaker 1: No trace of Freeman has been located as yet. That's
Speaker 1: according to Victoria Police.
Speaker 2: The death toll from catastrophic flooding in parts of Asia
Speaker 2: last week has surged past fifteen hundred, with hundreds of
Speaker 2: people still unaccounted for. Rescue teams are racing to reach
Speaker 2: survivors isolated by the disaster. The updated death toll came
Speaker 2: as meteorologists warned of renewed rainfall across areas of Indonesia
Speaker 2: already reeling from deadly floods. Authorities said eight hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty six people were confirmed dead in Indonesia, four hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy nine in Tri Lanka, and one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty five in Thailand, as well as three in Malaysia.
Speaker 2: Many villages in Indonesia and Tri Lanka remained buried under
Speaker 2: mud and debris, with eight hundred and fifty nine people
Speaker 2: still unaccounted for in both countries.
Speaker 1: And today's good news for your Friday afternoon. A university
Speaker 1: in the US will spend an anonymous donation valued at
Speaker 1: seventy five million Australian dollars on student fees. The gifts
Speaker 1: will cover the tuition of senior year students enrolled in
Speaker 1: the University of Washington's Medical Lab Science program. The UNI
Speaker 1: said the donation is big enough to support students over
Speaker 1: the next fifty years. Professor and Department chair doctor Jeffrey Baird,
Speaker 1: said it has been a long standing dream to provide
Speaker 1: more financial support to students. We are deeply grateful to
Speaker 1: the donor whose transformative generosity is making this and our
Speaker 1: program's growth possible.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the dally Os newsroom. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for something else to listen to, check out today's
Speaker 2: Deep Dive, where we take a closer look at the
Speaker 2: local music missing from your Spotify rap this year.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday morning with another deep dive.
Speaker 1: We've got Billy's interview with National's leader David Little Proud,
Speaker 1: But until then, have a stellar weekend. My name is
Speaker 1: Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Calcuttin woman
Speaker 1: from Gadigal Country.
Speaker 2: The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on
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Speaker 2: all Aboriginal and torrest Rate island and nations.
Speaker 1: We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,
Speaker 1: both past and present.