Headlines: New hate speech laws pass in Victoria

Today's headlines include:

New hate speech laws have passed Victoria’s Parliament, after the Labor Government reached a deal with the Greens.

Thousands of doctors across NSW will proceed with planned strikes next week, after negotiations with the State Government broke down. 

Democratic Senator Corey Booker, a one-time U.S. presidential candidate, has spoken in the Senate for over 25 hours, breaking the record for the longest speech on the Senate floor in history. 

And today’s good news: A group of around 20 elderly women who worked in U.S. factories on the home front during WWII have been honoured with national service medals. 

Hosts: Emma Gillespie and Billi FitzSimons
Producer: Emma Gillespie

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
From the Daily Os I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Billy forit,
Simon's It's Wednesday, the second of April. Here's what's making headlines.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Suceeding new hate speech laws have passed Victoria's parliament after
the Labor government reached a deal with the Greens. The
new legislation will introduce new criminal offenses for serious vilification
and strengthen existing protections against vilification. The law will include gender, identity,
sexual orientation and disability protections. The opposition voted against the legislation,

(00:36):
saying it will create issues clogging up the courts. They
also said that it will see people pursue each other
rather than working together to educate each other to actually
create the society we want going forward.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Thousands of doctors across New South Wales will proceed with
planned strikes next week after negotiations broke down with the
state government. Doctors will take industrial action from the eighth
of April to the tenth of April, that's Tuesday to
Thursday next week, with public hospital staffing to be reduced
to public holiday levels. According to union organizers, the action

(01:12):
means that elective surgeries will be postponed outpatient clinics and
non urgent consultations will be canceled and non urgent medical
procedures will be rescheduled. New South Wales Health Minister Ryan
Parks said he will take the most senior health officials
offline for a two week period to quote, try and
see if we can get a better outcome that keeps

(01:32):
patients safe, that keeps our doctors in place.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Democratic Senator Cory Booker, a one time presidential candidate, has
spoken on the Senate floor in the US for over
twenty five hours, breaking the record for the longest speech
on the Senate floor in history. Booker said he would
speak until physically unable to continue in protests of the
Trump administrations two months in power, and to call on

(01:58):
quote the people to stay up against it. To avoid
seating the floor, Booker had to talk continuously and was
only allowed to break when asked questions by Democratic colleagues. Booker,
who didn't leave the floor for the full twenty five hours, said, quote,
my strategy was to stop eating. I think I stopped
eating on Friday, and then to stop drinking the night

(02:19):
before I started on Monday. And that had its benefits
and it had its really downsides. Now, if you're wondering
if he went to the bathroom, I did just do
a quick google, and no, he wasn't allowed to leave
the Senate to go to the bathroom. But he did
avoid a question about whether he was wearing a nappy. Interesting,

(02:40):
which I think is a pretty smart strategy. But we
won't be asking too many more details for that because
it will probably be too much information.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Moving swiftly along to today's good news to get us
out of here, A group of around twenty elderly women
who worked in US factories on the home front during
World War Two have been honored with National Service medals.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
The women were among five million workers known as Rosy
the Riveters, who worked in industries like welding and weapons
manufacturing to aid America's war efforts. They performed jobs traditionally
reserved for men at the time and were considered women's
rights trailblazers. The National World War II Museum in New
Orleans hosted a ceremony this week where eighteen surviving Roses

(03:24):
received the Congressional Gold Medal. One hundred year old Mary
Maski and Jello was among the honorees. She said, I
feel proud at what I did. The museum said the
real life wartime rosies helped pave the way for future generations.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's the latest from the daly Ovs newsroom. If you're
looking for something else, you can listen to today's Deep Dive,
where we discuss cigarette reforms and the government's new smoking crackdown.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
We will be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive,
but until then, have a wonderful night.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I feel like I need to go do a wee
on behalf of Cory Booker. My name is Lily Maddon
and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Calkatin woman from Gadighl Country.
The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on
the lands of the Gadighl people and pays respect to
all Aboriginal and torrest Rate island and nations. We pay

(04:18):
our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both
past and present,