New Poll Shows Support for OZ Day Rising

Published Jan 13, 2025, 2:20 AM

A new poll shows a rise in support for keeping OZ DAY on the 26th of January. 

Health insurers are calling for major changes - which would allow them to cover the cost of G-P appointments. 

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Nicole Kidman has banned her teen daughters from seeing her new film! 

Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm to Lisa ryder LA's wildfires, which have claimed sixteen lives and destroyed twelve thousand structures and now being dubbed the most destructive in US history. Buyer is embracing for conditions to worsen. A strong winds threatened to strengthen blazers that of ravag the city. The California Fire Departments Bryce Bennett has told Today they're now experiencing what they call red flag conditions.

High winds, low humidities. The temperature not really a factor at the moment, because wind is the number one factor when it comes into fire spread. It can carry a number one to two kilometers ahead of the fire and then being because it's so dry in the low humidities, it essentially sparks an additional fire.

A new poll shows arise in support for keeping Osday on the twenty sixth of jan Sixty nine percent of those survey did not want to change the date of the holiday. Institute of Public Affairs Deputy executive director Daniel Wilde says the increase was mostly driven by young people.

I think a lot of young Australians are seeing through all of that now and saying well, no, hang on, Australia's actually pretty good country and of course we're not perfect, but we are a country worth celebrating in the twenty sixth of January is the right day to do it.

Health insurers are calling for major changes which would allow them to cover the cost of GP appointments if follows revelations just twenty one percent of general practitioners and now offering free appointments by law, insurers are banned from covering out of pocket GP expenses. The New South Wales government is appealing for anyone with info about a series of anti Semitic attacks to come forward to Synagogues in Sydney have been vandalized over the past week. It comes as a man faces court in Newcastle today accused of painting a Nazi symbol on the front of a store, and there are big calls for a big, bright yellow sticket to be slabbed on the front windows of illegal tobacco shops. Legitimate retailers are behind the calls to use the stickers similar to those used on unroadworthy cars to shame illegal operators. Sport and entertainment are next. In Sport, Mitch Marsh has kept his place in Australia's ODEI squad despite being dropped from the test squad last week. The thirty three year old has been named in a fifteen player squad for the Champions Trophy, which gets underway in Pakistan next month. And fans are floating into Melbourne Park for Day two of the OZ Open, with several big names beginning their campaigns. Today in entertainment news, Jay Z's lawyer claims there are glaring red flags in a civil lawsuit which letges he raped a thirteen year old girl. The rapper's lawyer has found a thirty page motion claiming to unravel inconsistencies in the now thirty eight year old woman's version of events. Kim Kardashian has called on the California governor to increase the pay of fieries battling the La Blazers. It follows the reality TV stars Brand Skims being scrutinized for promoting their winter sale on socials during the natural disaster, and Nicole Kidman's new movie is so sexually charged she's banned her teen daughters from seeing it. The Ossiatrians plays a married executive who has an affair with an intern in Baby Girl and says she's glad her kids also have no interest in seeing it. And that's the latest from the Nova Podcast newsroom. We'll have another episode of the Update for you later on