Headlines: Google fined $55m for anti-competitive deals

Today's headlines include:

• Google has been ordered to pay a $55 million fine over anti-competitive deals with the nation’s two largest telcos.
• A man and a teenager have been killed in separate workplace incidents in South East Queensland.
• Abusers are increasingly turning to smart cars to perpetrate violence and control over their victims, Australia's online safety boss has warned
• And today’s good news: A study of almost 3,000 dogs has found most carry wolf DNA, challenging what researchers previously thought about the evolutionary history of canines. 

Reporting with AAP.

Hosts: Emma Gillespie and Lucy Tassell
Producer: Rosa Bowden

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
From The Daily Oz. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel.
It's Tuesday, the second of December. Here's what's making headlines
this evening.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Google has been ordered to pay a fifty five million
dollar fine over anti competitive deals with the nation's two
largest telcos. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, or the
a Triple C, launched legal action against the tech giant
in August relating to its agreements with Telstra and Optus.
The deals banned the pre installation of competing search engines

(00:36):
on smartphones between December twenty nineteen and March twenty twenty one.
A penalty proposed by the competition watchdog was approved in
the Federal Court today, just as Mark Mashinski said he
hoped the fifty five million dollar fine would be significant
enough to deter future anti competitive behavior. It's the second
largest penalty issued to Google, after it was fined sixty

(00:58):
million dollars in twenty five, twenty two for secretly collecting
location data from some Android users.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
A man and a teenager have been killed in separate
workplace incidents in southeast Queensland. A forty five year old
man was fatally crushed when a retaining wall collapsed at
a construction site in Brisbane's West End during peak hour
this morning. A nineteen year old also became trapped when
the wall toppled. Firefighters inflated special airbags around the injured

(01:28):
man to raise the concrete to drag him free of
the rubble. He's being treated in hospital. It comes after
a Gold Coast teen was killed in a separate construction
incident on Monday. A fifteen year old was treated for
severe injuries at the scene of a construction site in
Surface Paradise, but he later died in hospital. Workplace Health

(01:49):
and Safety Queensland will investigate both incidents.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Abuses are increasingly turning to smart cars to perpetrate violence
and control over their victims. Australia's online safety boss has
warned frontline service providers say there has been an increase
in reports of coercive control through smart cars linked to
apps and cloud accounts that can start the engine, send
an alert and monitor the vehicle's location. According to an

(02:17):
update from the e Safety Commissioner, the regulator received four
hundred calls for help and twenty thousand requests for information
on smart car abuse in the past year. The Commissioner
has also called on manufacturers to embed more safety features
in their systems.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
And Today's good News. A study of almost three thousand
dogs has found most curry wolf DNA, challenging what researchers
previously thought about the evolutionary history of canines. The research
into modern domestic dog DNA was led by the American
Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural
History in the US. Scientists analyzed more than two thousand,

(02:58):
seven hundred genetic samples from war wolf and domestic dog
breeds to map their evolution. They found that around eighty
percent of breeds still contained recent wolf DNA, despite crossbreeding
that occurred around one thousand generations ago. Bigger dogs and
hunting breeds were more likely to have the most recent
wolf ancestry. However, Saint Bernard's, a large dog breed, had

(03:21):
no traceable wolf ancestry, compared to the Chihuahua, which has
about zero point two percent wolf ancestry. The American Museum
of Natural History said the findings suggest quote that dog
genomes can tolerate wolf DNA up to an unknown level
and still remain the dogs we know and love.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
That's the latest from the Daily Oz newsroom. If you're
looking for something else to listen to, you can check
out today's deep dive about why New South Wales police
arrested one hundred and forty one people at a protest
over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but
until then, have a great night.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda
Bunelung Calcadon woman from Gadigol Country. The Daily Oz acknowledges
that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the
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