From The Daily Os. I'm Zara Seidler, I'm Emma Gillespie. It's Monday, the thirty first of March. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
Floodwaters are continuing to rise in parts of outback Queensland, where farming communities remain cut off following intense rainfall in the state's west. The Bureau of Meteorology has issued dozens of severe weather warnings, including five major flood warnings around the southwest Queensland towns of Thagaminda, Yulo and Winderer. More than six hundred and fifty mills of rain has fallen on parts of the state in the last week, prompting
around one hundred evacuations and forty rescues. While rain has mostly eased, Queensland Premier David chris a Fully has warned many river catchments across the state are yet to see the worst of the flooding event. He also warned the impacts to agricultural communities would be significant, with fears that up to two million sheep and cattle could be lost in the floods.
A Sydney mother has been arrested in relation to the stabbing of her three children at a home in the city's northwest. Officers were called to Balkham Hills this morning, where they found a ten year old boy, a thirteen year old girl and a sixteen year old girl and their mother with stab wounds. All four were taken to hospital in a stable condition. Detective Superintendent Naomi Moore said the children's father discovered the children injured in their rooms
before he contacted police. Moore described the family as quote relatively normal. This is the first time police have responded to this house for any type of domestic situation. She said. A forty seven year old woman was placed under arrest as she receives ongoing treatment in hospital.
Recovery efforts are continuing after a seven point seven magnitude earthquake struck me and Mar and Thailand on Friday. The death toll in me and Mar has reached seventeen hundred, while thousands are injured. Severe aftershocks have continued as rescue crews and volunteers work to find survivors and bodies buried beneath rubble in forty degree heat. Meanwhile, a disaster zone has been declared in Bangkok, more than one thousand kilometers
from the earthquake's epicenter. At least eighteen people have been confirmed dead in the Thai capital after the earthquake destroyed a high rise city building. The US, China, Russia, and India have pledged international aid to support recovery efforts.
And today's good news. Scientists in the US have launched the world's largest feline genetics study. It's aimed at shedding light on the mysteries of cats. A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard, and UMass have already collected the DNA of five thousand cats for the Darwin's Cats Community Science Initiative and are calling on more pet owners to participate.
Unlike traditional DNA collection, which involves taking saliva or blood samples, they're using breakthrough sequel to analyzed cat fur by decoding feline DNA. This way, the Darwin's Cats team is hoping to learn more about the ancestry, behavior, and health of one of the least studied companion animals in genomic.
Well, if they're looking for some cat fur, it's all over my house.
Look no further than Emma Gillespie's Holly.
I've got it in spades that here's the latest from the Daily oz newsroom for today, but if you're looking for something else to listen to, make sure you check out this morning's deep Dive, where Zara and Harry explore everything you need to know about the upcoming federal election and what to expect over the next.
Four and a half weeks of campaigning.
We will of course be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but until then, enjoy the rest of your Monday. My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bungelung Calcottin woman from Gadigol Country. The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the Gadigel people and pays respect to all a Bridge and torrest Rate island and nations. We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both past and present.