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