Headlines: Unemployment rate falls to 4.3%

Today's headlines include:

• The unemployment rate fell to 4.3% in October, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
• The Liberal Party has announced it will abandon net zero emissions by 2050. 
• U.S. Congress has voted to end the country’s longest government shutdown after 43 days. 
• And today’s good news: A Queensland police officer has set the Guinness World Record for the most pull-ups by a woman in an hour.

Hosts: Lucy Tassell and Billi FitzSimons
Producer: Rosa Bowden

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
From The Daily Oz.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm Sam Kauzlowski, I'm Billy fitz Simons.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's Thursday, the thirteenth of November. Here's what's making headlines
this evening.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
The unemployment rate fell to four point three percent in October,
according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Seasonally adjusted unemployment dropped zero point two percent last month,
down from four point five percent in September. This figure
measures the percentage of people who were looking for work
but could not find any, excluding any seasonal patterns or

(00:35):
periodic fluctuations like Christmas casual work. ABS Head of Labor
Statistics Sean Crick said there were forty two thousand more
employed people in October, and the number of unemployed people
fell by seventeen thousand. In the same period, there was
a rise in full time employment, with women's participation up
by twenty nine thousand people and men by twenty six thousand.

(00:57):
This contrasted with a drop in part time employment, which
was down by thirteen thousand people.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
The Liberal Party has announced it will abandon net zero
emissions by twenty fifty. Net zero refers to balancing the
amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced and taken out of
the atmosphere. On Thursday, Opposition leader Susan Lee said the
party had decided quote affordable energy must come first, citing
rising power prices as a key reason to ditch the

(01:26):
twenty fifty target. Lee announced a re elected Liberal government
would also repeal the government's sixty two to seventy percent
emissions reduction target by twenty thirty, which was introduced by
Labour in September. The Liberal Party will, however, stay in
the Paris Agreement, which is the world's leading climate treaty.
Shadow Energy Minister Dantean said the Liberals would submit five

(01:46):
yearly emissions reduction targets and ensure the party is quote
throwing all technologies at emissions reluction. It comes weeks after
the Liberals coalition partner, the Nationals, also abandoned net zero.
On Sunday, the Liberals and Nationals will hold a joint
meeting to determine the coalition's final climate policy position. The
changes to the opposition's policy have no effect on the

(02:07):
current government's net zero commitment, but the Prime Minister has
warned the shifts could negatively impact investment in renewables.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
US Congress has voted to end the country's longest government
shutdown after forty three days. A bill to resolve the
shutdown passed the Senate earlier this week and required a
majority of votes in the House of Representatives. On Wednesday
night local time, it passed with two hundred and twenty
two votes four and two hundred and nine votes against.
All but three Republicans in the House voted in favor

(02:40):
of the bill, while all but six Democrats voted against it.
Two representatives, one from each party, abstained from voting. The
bill resumes government funding until the thirtieth of January next year.
It will also reverse firings carried out by the Trump
administration at the start of the shutdown on the first
of October and prevent the firings before January. President Donald

(03:02):
Trump signed off on the bill just before ten thirty
pm Local time and said quote, the country has never
been in better shape after what he called a short
term disaster.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
And today's good news. A Queensland police officer has set
the Goodness World record for the most pull ups by
a woman in an hour. Senior Constable Jade Henderson achieved
seven hundred and thirty three pull ups in sixty minutes
my gosh, that's impressive. Henderson was inspired by a conversation
between her colleagues and trained at the gym, which she
calls her happy place, with the initial goal of breaking

(03:36):
the record for the most pull ups in twenty four
hours by a woman. A week before the planned attempt,
Henderson suffered a biceptare and took five weeks away from
her training. She shifted her focus instead to the one
hour feet and beat the previous record of seven hundred
and twenty five, which was set back in twenty sixteen
by a whole eight pull ups. Henderson broke the record

(03:56):
back in August, but only recently received her official confirmation
from the authorities. The policewoman said, I wanted to attempt
a record of some sort to see how far I
could push my body and mind.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's sorry, just got more and more.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oppressive, incredible, torn by sex.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
That is 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, which is all about the
coalition's net zero policy and the big decision that they
made today.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
We'll be back again in the morning with another deep dive,
but until then, have a beautiful evening. My name is
Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Caalcuttin woman
from Gadigol Country.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on
the lands of the Gadighl people and pays respect to
all Aboriginal and Torres s right island and nations. We
pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,
both past and present.