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Speaker 2: I'm Lucy Tussel, I'm Emma Gillespie.
Speaker 1: It's Monday, the third of November. Here's what's waking headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: Parliament has passed legislation to protect employer funded paid leave
Speaker 2: for parents experiencing the stillbirth or death of a child.
Speaker 2: It follows a push from a mother whose employer canceled
Speaker 2: her paid parental leave after the death of her six
Speaker 2: week old daughter. Tabled by the federal government last month,
Speaker 2: Baby Priya's Bill will make it illegal for an employer
Speaker 2: to withhold paid parental leave because a child is stillborn
Speaker 2: or dies. Last week, a small group of Coalition MPs
Speaker 2: raised concerns that the Fair Work Amendment would encompass late
Speaker 2: term abortions. Labor criticized what it called a very small
Speaker 2: minority who tried to hijack the bill and pretend it's
Speaker 2: about something that it's not. According to Employment Minister Amanda Rishworth,
Speaker 2: the bill doesn't create any new entitlement to parental leave.
Speaker 2: The legislation has now passed both houses of Parliament thanks
Speaker 2: to what Rishworth described as quote members from many sides
Speaker 2: of politics who recognize the importance of providing clear and
Speaker 2: compassionate arrangements for families facing the heartbreaking loss of a baby.
Speaker 1: National property prices have risen at their fastest pace in
Speaker 1: more than two years. According to the latest Cotality data.
Speaker 1: Values increased by an average one point one percent in
Speaker 1: October quote, marking the strongest monthly gain since June twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, and pushing the annual growth rate to six
Speaker 1: point one percent. The research firm said the figures are
Speaker 1: the first monthly snapshot of property prices since the government's
Speaker 1: new First Home by a scheme was rolled out on
Speaker 1: the first of October, allowing first time purchases to secure
Speaker 1: a property with a five percent deposit. Codality Research director
Speaker 1: Tim Lawless said there was quote stronger housing demand at
Speaker 1: the lower price points during October, which he attributed in
Speaker 1: part to intensified competition from the expanded deposit guarantee scheme.
Speaker 1: The Real Estate Biers Agents Association said quote by a
Speaker 1: panic about the impact of the scheme on the wider
Speaker 1: market led to higher prices and demand in September before
Speaker 1: the initiative came into effect.
Speaker 2: At least ten people are dead and hundreds feared injured
Speaker 2: after a six point three magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan.
Speaker 2: The quake hit near meza Is sha Reef, an area
Speaker 2: with a population of around five hundred and twenty thousand,
Speaker 2: early on Monday morning local time. The US Geological Survey
Speaker 2: warned significant casualties are likely from the earthquake, which had
Speaker 2: a depth of twenty eight kilometers. Authorities are expecting the
Speaker 2: death toll to rise with a high chance of several
Speaker 2: after shocks over the coming days. It comes after more
Speaker 2: than two thousand people were killed by a magnitude six
Speaker 2: quake in eastern Afghanistan in August.
Speaker 1: And today's good news. Two messages in a bottle by
Speaker 1: World War One soldiers have washed up in Western Australia
Speaker 1: more than a century after they were written. The chance
Speaker 1: discovery of an old schwep's bottle came during a recent
Speaker 1: beach clean up near Esperance. According to the Associated Press,
Speaker 1: Inside the glass bottle were two hand written notes, dated
Speaker 1: the fifteenth of August nineteen sixteen and signed by Australian
Speaker 1: soldiers Privates Malcolm Neville twenty seven and William Harley thirty seven.
Speaker 1: The bottle was thrown into the ocean off the coast
Speaker 1: of South Australia during their journey to France. Neville's note,
Speaker 1: addressed to his mum said the food on the ship
Speaker 1: was quote really good and that he was happy as
Speaker 1: Larry despite the choppy conditions at sea. Harley's note said,
Speaker 1: quote may the finder of this letter be as well
Speaker 1: as we are. The letters have been passed on to
Speaker 1: the soldiers' families.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Dallyos newsroom for today, But
Speaker 2: if you are looking for something else to listen to,
Speaker 2: check out this morning's deep on why politicians are talking
Speaker 2: about abortion again. For a full explainer on Priya's bill.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but
Speaker 1: until then, have a good one. My name is Lily
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