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Chapter 1: What are the latest headlines affecting Australia?
Hey, happy Friday and welcome to The Briefing. I'm Sasha Barbagat. Today is the day of the Socceroos' third and final group stage clash at the World Cup with the hopes it'll secure our spot in the knockouts. So what do you need to know ahead of the match and just how far can our boys in green and gold go?
I think we'll make the quarterfinals. I think it all depends on what happens today. We can beat Paraguay. We're going to beat Paraguay. We can beat Paraguay. Paraguay know we can beat Paraguay.
Chapter 2: How did the recent earthquakes impact Venezuela?
And they know that and we know that.
That chat with football fanatic Ed Cavalli is coming up in the second half of this episode. But first, let's get into the headlines with Chris Spirou on Friday the 26th of June.
Morning Sash, we're starting overseas in Venezuela where at least 188 people have been killed and more than 1,500 injured after two powerful earthquakes rocked the capital Caracas. Buildings collapsed across the city and rescuers are now racing to find survivors trapped beneath the rubble, with the US Geological Survey predicting the death toll could top 10,000 people.
Yeah, the footage is just absolutely heartbreaking and devastating, Chris. The first quake was a magnitude 7.2. It hit around 6pm local time. The next came just seconds later, a 7.5, the strongest to hit the South American country in more than a century. The quakes struck during a national holiday as well, which meant more people were home than on a normal weekday.
Chapter 3: What new laws are being proposed for social media safety?
Yeah, dozens of aftershocks have rattled the country since, with tremors even felt over 1,000 kilometres away in neighbouring Colombia. A state of emergency has been declared. Airports, trains and transport halted and schools closed for the rest of the week. But help is on the way.
The US, Qatar, Mexico, Spain, El Salvador and Ecuador, among the countries who've committed search and rescue teams, equipment and aid... The UN has also fully mobilised and the EU has activated its satellite surveillance systems to help with recovery efforts on the ground.
Yeah, and just touching on the poor people of Venezuela and of the capital there who have been impacted, many of them have spent the night on the street because it's too dangerous to go inside structures that are still standing, but they could collapse in the aftershocks. Also, the airport near Caracas has closed due to damage and that could complicate the delivery of aid.
So it is going to be quite a critical few days and weeks ahead for the people of Venezuela.
Back home now and Labor is preparing to announce details of new digital duty of care laws in a strengthening of the under-16 social media ban.
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Chapter 4: What are the details of the shark attack incident in Sydney?
In Question Time yesterday, Anthony Albanese confirmed more work needs to be done, especially when it comes to addressing algorithms, chatbots and apps like Nudify.
What too many young men are seeing online is normalising behaviour that is anything but normal. And we need to be really conscious as a society about this and We need to be conscious as a parliament about this. We need to be courageous about this.
The Prime Minister also highlighted how algorithms are pushing people to more extreme views online.
They start off in a mainstream position. talking about ethnicity, perhaps, or faith, and they end up, over a period of time, receiving in their inbox Nazi-level propaganda with calls for violence.
Yeah, he gave the answer in response to a question from independent MP Allegra Spender about whether the government would consider an option for Aussies to opt out of algorithms online. Really interesting to see the government talking about this as a potential law.
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Chapter 5: What did the fuel pump audit reveal about Australian retailers?
It makes me think of my last weekend briefing episode with Ed Coper and we talked about how basically the algorithm has been gamed to prey on our base instincts of outrage and anger and it's destroying us as a society. We'll put the link to that in the show notes, a really interesting listen.
Now, look, Anthony Albanese hasn't confirmed whether changes to how we opt in and out of algorithms will be part of these strengthened online safety laws, but he did flag that they would require tech companies to prevent foreseeable harms online for users. So that would essentially mean TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, others would be forced to prevent issues rather than just react to them.
Yeah, and that's the point of a digital duty of care. Like, that's something that when we were having the conversation about the social media ban, people were like, okay, this ban is great, but it doesn't go far enough. And there was that push for that extra layer of legal enforceability.
Now, all this chatter comes after criticism that the social media ban isn't being fully enforced by social media platforms, with the eSafety Commissioner saying she doesn't have adequate powers to prosecute companies like Meta or YouTube.
Part of the social media ban is that tech companies can be fined up to $49.5 million if they don't comply with kicking off kids under the age of 16 from their sites.
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Chapter 6: How are the Socceroos preparing for their match against Paraguay?
But so far, no fines have been issued.
Yeah, and there has been an early report as well And it was released by the eSafety Commission in March. It revealed significant concerns had been raised about how the tech giants were enforcing the ban. And while more than four and a half million accounts belonging to under-16s were removed at the time of the ban, Many children still have their accounts or can create new ones.
And so that's the whole point of enforcement. And the duty of care laws, while that's not just going to apply to under-16s either, that'll be for adults as well. So interesting to see when those actually come to Parliament and we get to hear about them and have them debated.
To Sydney now, where a woman who was mauled by a shark almost two weeks ago is now out of her induced coma and has been reunited with her daughter.
Chapter 7: What are Ed Kavalee's insights on Australia's chances in the World Cup?
Leah Stewart's family has issued a statement saying she's no longer in a critical condition and has been speaking with her loved ones, including her 18-month-old August.
The 34-year-old has also thanked her medical team along with the public for its messages of support. Now, Leah had to have her left arm amputated following the attack by a suspected Great White off Coogee Beach on June 13, and she is preparing for further surgeries and an extensive rehab journey.
Her family says she remembers the entire attack in detail and plans to share more of her story in time. Last week, a thousand people participated in a swim out at Coogee to honour Leah and encourage locals to reclaim the water.
Like filling up the car isn't expensive enough. A national audit of our country's fuel pumps has found nearly one in 20 of them are short, changing us. The National Measurement Institute has tested around 3,000 pumps at more than 400 retailers across Australia as part of the probe.
Around 4.5% of Bowsers looked at were found to have dispensed less fuel than the amount displayed on the screen, with investigators handing out 199 non-compliance notices to businesses. They've been forced to take those pumps offline until they're fixed, while retailers could also face fines of up to $222,000.
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Chapter 8: What records are being set during this World Cup?
Now, this audit also found a third of petrol stations aren't complying with measurement regulations, Chris. And also, these results are a drop in compliance from last year, which had 3% of Bowsers doing dodgy pours. So going up to 4.5%, that's a pretty significant jump in just a year. Interestingly, this audit was carried out in the days after the war in Iran broke out. But
It happens every year. It's just a coincidence that it happened right after, you know, one of the biggest impacts to fuel in our country seen in decades, since the 70s really. It's worth noting as well, just while we're on the topic of fuel and, you know, mentioned at the top there, it's expensive, but the excise cut will continue at half the amount, so 16 cents a litre until the end of July.
That was announced recently by Anthony Albanese. And petrol is actually cheaper on average at the moment now than it was before the war broke out. I filled up the other day. I was like, oh, dang.
Yeah, I know. $1.49 at one of the petrol stations around the corner from home. And I was like, okay.
So enjoy it while it lasts.
And prepare for a sea of green and gold at your local today. The Socceroos are taking on Paraguay in the World Cup. A win or draw will send our boys out of the group stages and into the knockouts. But even a loss leaves the door open because of the whole wildcard system.
Yes, so it's not all over, but still, it'd be great to get that win and just sail through to the next stage. Now, this is only the third time the boys have chased qualification for the knockouts, and SBS reckons today could smash viewing records for any Socceroos or World Cup broadcast. Now, for context, their qualifier against Uruguay back in 2005 pulled in 3.4 million viewers.
Two weeks ago, the win over Turkey drew just over 3 million, while that early morning clash with the USA managed almost 2.2 million. Kickoff, if you're wondering, is at 12pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. It's 11.30 on the South Australian clock and 10am for our friends in WA. Can the boys.
Oh, come on. And it's such a good time to watch as well. Like midday, a midday for us, the other time for people there. It's so convenient. And that's why I do think maybe that record will be broken because a lot of us are going to be like, you know, chill. hanging around close to a TV. We actually asked you earlier in the week what you are going to be doing, how you're going to be watching.
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