Speaker 1: From the Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie.
Speaker 2: I'm dam Kazlowski.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the twenty eighth of May. Here's what's making
Speaker 1: headlines this evening.
Speaker 2: Prices rose by two point four percent in the year
Speaker 2: to April. That's according to the latest starter from the
Speaker 2: Australian Bureau of Statistics. It comes after inflation held steady
Speaker 2: at two point four percent for the previous three months.
Speaker 2: The biggest price increases were recorded in food, up three
Speaker 2: point one percent, house prices up two point two percent,
Speaker 2: and recreation and culture, which was up three point six percent.
Speaker 2: The annual trimmed mean, which is the race of inflation
Speaker 2: once you remove extreme price changes on either side, increase
Speaker 2: slightly from two point seven to two point eight percent
Speaker 2: in the year to April. The RBA's target inflation range
Speaker 2: is between two and three percent.
Speaker 1: Independent Senator Fatima Payment has filed an official complaint alleging
Speaker 1: inappropriate conduct by a parliamentarian. Speaking to Triple j's Hack program,
Speaker 1: Payment described an older male parliamentary colleague who she said
Speaker 1: made offensive, sexual and racial comments towards her at a
Speaker 1: social function. The senator has lodged a complaint with Parliament's
Speaker 1: workplace support service. She claims the unnamed colleague told her
Speaker 1: to quote, drink some wine and dance on a table.
Speaker 1: Payment said she found the comments particularly insensitive as a
Speaker 1: Muslam woman who doesn't drink alcohol. The complaint body dealt
Speaker 1: with the grievance in a swift way, she said. The
Speaker 1: identity of the parliamentarian remains anonymous.
Speaker 2: The US State Department has reportedly instructed embassies and consulates
Speaker 2: to temporarily halt interviews for student visas to the US
Speaker 2: amid plans to expand social media vetting. US outlet Politico
Speaker 2: reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the pause
Speaker 2: on foreign student visa interviews until further guidance is issued.
Speaker 2: It comes as the Trump administration moved this week to
Speaker 2: make further funding cuts to Harvard University, to canceling more
Speaker 2: than two point six billion US dollars in federal research
Speaker 2: last month.
Speaker 1: And today's good news, researchers in the US have developed
Speaker 1: a new dental floss that can detect stress. The floss
Speaker 1: pic system, created by a team at Tufts University in Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: contains built in sensors that can easily and accurately measure cortisol,
Speaker 1: a stress hormone. In real time, Cortisol can be detected
Speaker 1: in saliva, and it's hope the technology can be used
Speaker 1: to identify the hormone to prevent long term health implications
Speaker 1: of chronic stress, like high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.
Speaker 1: One of the professors on the team behind the floss
Speaker 1: said he didn't want the measurement to create an additional
Speaker 1: source of stress, so quote we thought, can we make
Speaker 1: a sensing device that becomes part of your day to
Speaker 1: day routine. Flossing seemed like a natural fit. Its hopes
Speaker 1: the floss biosensor technology will be versatile enough to test
Speaker 1: for other markers such as estrogen for fertility, trucking glucose
Speaker 1: for diabetes monitoring, and mark for cancer.
Speaker 2: A pretty amazing use of floss there. And that's the
Speaker 2: latest from The Daily O's newsroom. If you're looking for
Speaker 2: something else to listen to this evening, have listened to
Speaker 2: today's deep dive. It's on the latest on the aid
Speaker 2: situation in Gaza.
Speaker 1: We will be back tomorrow with another deep dive, but
Speaker 1: until then, have a wonderful night.
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