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It's Friday, the thirty first of January. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
The Australian Electoral Commission is calling for a healthy degree of skepticism from voters ahead of this year's federal election. The independent body is responsible for managing the national electoral system. It warned the use of AI in elections is a rapidly evolving environment. In response, the AAC has launched several new resources and guides aimed at boosting digital literacy and helping voters identify false or misleading information about the election process,
including AI generated content. A disinformation register on electoral processes is also now live, after the tool was first launched during the twenty twenty two federal election. An election is due by May seventeenth.
US authorities have recovered two black box flight recorders from the site of yesterday's deadly craft near Washington, DC. A black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet plummeted into a river after colliding mid air on approach to Reagan Airport. There were sixty four people on the plane and three soldiers on board the helicopter. No survivors are expected.
Investigators will now analyze the plane's cockpit, voice recorder and flight data recorder to understand the moments leading up to the incident. Crews have been diving the icy waters of the Potomac River as efforts continue to recover all sixty seven bodies. Several figure skaters and their families, as well as two Chinese nationals, are believed to be among the dead.
The federal government has released new data showing vaping rates are falling among young Australians. Speaking in Adelaide today, Health Minister Mark Butler cited research by the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute which found vaping rates amongst fifteen to twenty nine year olds dropped by around a third between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four. Vaping rates are thirty to fifty nine year olds fell by nearly
fifty percent during that time. The percentage of young people who have never smoked has risen to ninety four percent according to the Department of Health. Butler said the results show Australia is a world leader when it comes to vaping reforms. He said the government will continue to investigate and penalize those who are not complying with vaping laws.
And today's Good News, Surgeons in Germany have successfully used lab grown muscle patches to treat heart failure. Scientists were able to grow the patches from stem cells, which were then used in an operation on a forty six year old woman who had suffered a heart attack. The patches implanted four hundred million cells, which formed blood vessels to
stabilize and strengthen her heart muscle. Researchers with the University Medical Center getting in hope the treatment will be used to prolong the lives of people with advanced heart failure who are awaiting a heart transplant.
And that's all we've got for you today from the DHLIOS newsroom. If you're looking for something else to listen to on your way home, make sure you catch up on today's deep dive on what we know about the foiled anti Semitic attack in Sydney.
We'll be back tomorrow with the Good News Podcast. Until then, have a great night.
My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bungelung Calcuttin 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 Torres Strait island and nations. We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both past and present.