Midday Edition: 30 August 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talks Heavy newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is NEWSFACS.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
In this update, a US appeals court has ruled most
of President Donald Trump's global tariffs are illegal. The BBC
reports the federal courts found the lord Trump used when
he granted the tariffs doesn't give him the power to
impose the tariffs, levies and taxes. BBC North America correspondent
Peter bows says this disagreement between the court and the

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President over his powers isn't over.

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It's a blow for the president, but the court has
particularly said that he can appeal to the US Supreme
Court and in the meantime, these tariffs against foreign nations
will stay in place.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
The search continues today in Victoria's Alpine region for gunman
Deisi Freeman, with Federal police and officers from New South Wales,
South Australia and act A joining crews on the ground.
The fifty six year old is accused of shooting two
police officers jed during an ambush on Tuesday and hasn't
been seen since. Victoria's top cop Commissioner Mike Bush urging

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the gunman to lay down his arms.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
If third person is listening, it really is time to
lay down your firearms and give yourself up so that
we can all bring this to a safe conclusion and
this community can get back to what they love to do.

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Freeman's wife and a fifteen year old boy have been
questioned and released concerns about the possibility fugitive Tom Phillips
is involving his children in alleged criminal activity. Police have
released CCT footage of a retail burglary in the Waikato
town of Peel Peel on Wednesday, involving two people they
believe to be the Maricopa father and one of his children.

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They were in the area for thirteen minutes, having traveled
in and out on a quad bike. Clinical psychologist Dourgle
Sutherland says his three children are at a formative age
and there are questions about the sort of worldview they
are growing up with. He says, potentially they've got some
view about the world that would make them think it's
okay to engage in this sort of behavior. That's news.

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In sport, the Black Ferans have rallied around loose forwards
kaipor Olsen Baker ahead of their second Rugby World Cup
match against Japan in Exeter. The reigning Black Ferns player
of the Year, was stretched off during the opening win
against Spain, but received positive news after being cleared of
an ankle fracture. Co captain Arua hay DeMont says the
team have supported olsen Baker following the injury scare.

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We spend a lot of time together and everyone's grown
quite close. For jun Quipos, She's also got some really
close friends here as well that have been able to
uplift her spirits.

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Olsen Baker will miss the Japan game, but the Black
Ferns welcome the return of flanker Kennedy tuku Afu. Warrior's
coach Andrew Webster is unfazed by the possibility of his
side falling out of the NRL's top four after his
side's twenty six twenty two loss to the Eels. Webster
has focused on his team's performance rather than where they

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finished on the letter That's Sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For
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