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.
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,
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.
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 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 patients safe, that keeps our doctors in place.
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 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 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, 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
We will be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but until then, have a wonderful night.
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