July 1, 2025 • 9 mins
Tens of thousands of residents across New South Wales are waking up without power with communities ordered to stay indoors as the wild weather worsens.
Victoria Police are bracing for more families of alleged child victims of crime to come forward after a man was charged with more than 70 offences.
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong is in Washington for high stakes talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
S of thousands of residents across New South Wales are
waking up without power this morning, with communities ordered to
stay indoors as the wild weather worsens. The bomb cyclone
storm system has batted the south coast, delivering rain fall
of up to two hundred millimeters and winds up to
one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour. Twenty six warnings
(00:24):
are right now in place across the state, including evacuation
orders at Wombril and North Entrance due to dangerous erosion
close to homes.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We were warned it was coming, and it arrived, a
complex low pressure system brewing off the coast, bringing with
it destructive winds and driving rain.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
This system is quite dynamic and quite vigorous.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The mammoth system now stretches all the way to New Zealand,
but its cyclone style center is right at our door.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We are worried about the winds. That wind will do
some serious damage.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The rare watch and Act warning for seasides suburbs stretching
from Coleroy to Kernel, where residents are being told to
stay indoors.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The rain will be very rapid, it will be heavy,
it will be short and sharp.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
In Parramatta. It was a battle against the Browlley as
Sydney siders did their best to stay dry. Excavators called
in at Wombarol to help with erosion, while at Bondai
angry seas slammed into the coast. The system by numbers, winds,
gale force up to one hundred and twenty five kilometers
an hour, heavy rain anywhere up to one hundred and
(01:33):
twenty mills, big seas two up to six meters. Expect
erosion along our beaches and flooding along rivers, with warnings
Warrigamba Dam could spill later this week. Please have a
plan should you have to evacuate in an emergency. At
the airport, it was a bumpy ride coming into land.
Really impressed with how the pilot landed the plane so smoothly.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I was really nervous getting on the plight.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
But inside the terminal passengers we're going nowhere fast. Forced
to operate on a single runway this afternoon with dozens
of flights canceled.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
We were going to Melbourne and the airline said that
we could maybe get out of here around four or five.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
With those braving, the office warned they could face a
tough commute.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Check before you travel. If you're using our public transport
and our road system and.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's not over yet, this system will continue to cause
havoc for at least another twenty four hours. Sydney firmly
in its sights before moving south towards the Illawarra later
this week.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
We plan for the worst case scenario, we hope for
the best, and we respond to whatever's in front of us.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Taylor reken seven News.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, if you use the train to get to work,
you're being urged to consider staying home today in areas
impacted by that wild whether. Multiple lines have been damaged already,
with sixty passengers needing to be evacuated from a Newcastle
bound train last night. Trains were also not running last
night between Winyard and town Hall in Sydney due to flooding,
and more flight delays are also expected after Sydney Airport
(03:05):
was forced to close two of its three runways. Meantime,
Southeast Queensland is also filling the sting of the East Coast.
Low damaging winds are whipping through the Southeast, crashing the
school holiday plans of thousands. Guts of a ninety kilometers
an hour are forecast for the Granite Belt Ranges and
around Springbrook. Seventy to eighty kilometers an hour expected for
(03:26):
the remaining exposed parts of the southeast, especially around.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Ipswich and Brisbane. A full weather report is coming up.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Victoria police are bracing for more families of alleged child
victims of crime to come forward after a man was
charged with more than seventy offenses. Joshua Brown is alleged
to have abused eight victims, with the youngest just five
months old.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Police so he worked at.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Twenty different childcare centers between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty
five across Melbourne's West. More than two thousand families have
been notified of the crimes. The missing second gun used
in the Bali killing of a Melbourne father last month
is believed to have been found by police. One handgun
(04:10):
used in the killing of thirty five year old Zeven
Radmanovich and the shooting of another man was found in.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
A local river last week.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Police say they have now found a second gun nearby.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It is still being examined in the forensic laboratory to
determine or find out whether the weapon was really used
by the perpetrator. Later it will be matched with the
perpetrator's DNA.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Three Australians charge over the Ambuls shooting are facing the
death penalty if convicted. The world's eyes are back on
the Victorian town of Morewell this morning, with the jury
in Aaron Patterson's triple murder trial still unable to reach
a verdict in the case. Seven men and five women
yesterday spent their first full day deliberating fifty year old's fate.
(04:56):
Under Victorian law, there's no time limit for juries to
con a verdict. Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong is in
Washington for high stakes talks with US Secretary of State
Marco Rubio. Let's going live to Isabel Mullen and Canberra.
Is he mourning to you? What's on the agenda for today?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
You?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Good morning, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Look, Penny Wong will be defending Australia's defense spending. Is
she builds a case for the Prime Minister who's trying
to get that one on one meeting with Donald Trump. Now,
she's already had a series of meeting with other Quad
leaders the United States, India and also Japan. But as
we go to air, the most critical meeting is one
with Marco Rubio, her US counterpart. We understand she's in
(05:36):
talks with him right now. She'll be defending Australia's decision
not to lift defense spending to three point five percent
of GDP and outlining what the federal government can offer instead.
Here's something she said a little earlier.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It has never been more important for us to harness
our collective strength for peace, for stability, for prosperity in
the Indo Pacific.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It's also important within this forum to turn it into
one where we begin to focus on specific issues that
we want to work together on and begin to deliver action.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
The Pentagon called that snap thirty day review of the
Orcus Agreement. The federal government still insisting that its reluctance
to lift defense spending won't impact that agreement.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Eddie, thank you as here.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
A Muslim preacher from Cities, Southwest, has been ordered to
remove a series of lectures from social media after they
were found to be racist and anti Semitic. A federal
court judge ruled Wissam hadad breached racial hatred laws for
comments he made in a series of sermons posted online.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
A dad can be seen in them describing Jewish people
as treacherously.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He's been ordered to take them down and pay court costs.
Beaches across the Gold Coasts are now not expected to
be fully restored until at least twenty twenty eight. Beaches
across the city were battered, of course, during Cyclone Alfred,
creating scalping along the coastline. A new system will be
set up to pump fresh sound to surface Paradise, Narrowneck
and Main Beach at night time. A new social housing
(07:09):
development in Western Australia is on track to be completed
by the end of next year. The apartment building in
pers North Cooji will offer twenty eight units. The project
will achieve a twenty twenty one goal set by the
McGowan government of three thousand, three hundred social homes being built.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
We are dealing with people, often seniors, women, who are
fleeing domestic violence. Every social home gives someone the opportunity
to reset their life or get the security that they've
never had.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The twenty three million dollar project will be funded by
the federal government. Queens and hospitals will brace for thousands
of nurses and midwives to walk off the job next
week if the state government does not meet demands. In
a bitter wage fight, the Nurses and Midwives Union is
calling for a thirteen percent pay rise, but the government
hasn't budged on their initial offer, making nurses very upset.
(08:06):
It's actually eleven percent over three years, and it includes
an election commitment uplift at the final part of the
three year program of the enterprise Bargaining Agreement. The government
needs to strike a deal today before industrial action ramps
up on Monday. Tens of thousands of Ford owners are
set to share in hundreds of millions of dollars in
compensation after winning a decade long class action lawsuit. More
(08:29):
than seventy thousand will share two hundred million dollars after
their duel clutch transmissions are found to be faulty in
the Ford Focus, Fiesta and Ecosport models. The Federal Court
will assess damages later this year, bringing an end to
multiple court rulings and appeals in the case. Queens and
music teacher Astrue Jorgenson has taken her talents overseas to
(08:49):
America's Got Talent. With her amazing pub choir leading skills,
She's donned the crowd by getting them to harmonize within seconds.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Have a listen to what happened next the middle. You're
going to sing green. We have to hear that we
do this and voices that are low. You are going
to sing bread, be brave. You are the act you
Tray do.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Oh exactly who.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
She made it through after severe Vigara voted yes on
her act and judges will decide on the live show
acts later this month.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Love that we're checking Wednesdays.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
We're there now becoming windy in Brisbane and nineteen that
rain easing, actually in windy in city in eighteen rain
in canber and thirteen rain in Melbourne and fourteen a
shower or two in Hobart and twelve partner card in Adelaide.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And fourteen twenty two in personal
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Showers increasing in the west and sunny in Darwin and
thirty degrees
S of thousands of residents across New South Wales are
waking up without power this morning, with communities ordered to
stay indoors as the wild weather worsens. The bomb cyclone
storm system has batted the south coast, delivering rain fall
of up to two hundred millimeters and winds up to
one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour. Twenty six warnings
(00:24):
are right now in place across the state, including evacuation
orders at Wombril and North Entrance due to dangerous erosion
close to homes.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We were warned it was coming, and it arrived, a
complex low pressure system brewing off the coast, bringing with
it destructive winds and driving rain.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
This system is quite dynamic and quite vigorous.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The mammoth system now stretches all the way to New Zealand,
but its cyclone style center is right at our door.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We are worried about the winds. That wind will do
some serious damage.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The rare watch and Act warning for seasides suburbs stretching
from Coleroy to Kernel, where residents are being told to
stay indoors.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The rain will be very rapid, it will be heavy,
it will be short and sharp.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
In Parramatta. It was a battle against the Browlley as
Sydney siders did their best to stay dry. Excavators called
in at Wombarol to help with erosion, while at Bondai
angry seas slammed into the coast. The system by numbers, winds,
gale force up to one hundred and twenty five kilometers
an hour, heavy rain anywhere up to one hundred and
(01:33):
twenty mills, big seas two up to six meters. Expect
erosion along our beaches and flooding along rivers, with warnings
Warrigamba Dam could spill later this week. Please have a
plan should you have to evacuate in an emergency. At
the airport, it was a bumpy ride coming into land.
Really impressed with how the pilot landed the plane so smoothly.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I was really nervous getting on the plight.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
But inside the terminal passengers we're going nowhere fast. Forced
to operate on a single runway this afternoon with dozens
of flights canceled.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
We were going to Melbourne and the airline said that
we could maybe get out of here around four or five.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
With those braving, the office warned they could face a
tough commute.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Check before you travel. If you're using our public transport
and our road system and.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's not over yet, this system will continue to cause
havoc for at least another twenty four hours. Sydney firmly
in its sights before moving south towards the Illawarra later
this week.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
We plan for the worst case scenario, we hope for
the best, and we respond to whatever's in front of us.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Taylor reken seven News.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Well, if you use the train to get to work,
you're being urged to consider staying home today in areas
impacted by that wild whether. Multiple lines have been damaged already,
with sixty passengers needing to be evacuated from a Newcastle
bound train last night. Trains were also not running last
night between Winyard and town Hall in Sydney due to flooding,
and more flight delays are also expected after Sydney Airport
(03:05):
was forced to close two of its three runways. Meantime,
Southeast Queensland is also filling the sting of the East Coast.
Low damaging winds are whipping through the Southeast, crashing the
school holiday plans of thousands. Guts of a ninety kilometers
an hour are forecast for the Granite Belt Ranges and
around Springbrook. Seventy to eighty kilometers an hour expected for
(03:26):
the remaining exposed parts of the southeast, especially around.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Ipswich and Brisbane. A full weather report is coming up.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Victoria police are bracing for more families of alleged child
victims of crime to come forward after a man was
charged with more than seventy offenses. Joshua Brown is alleged
to have abused eight victims, with the youngest just five
months old.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Police so he worked at.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Twenty different childcare centers between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty
five across Melbourne's West. More than two thousand families have
been notified of the crimes. The missing second gun used
in the Bali killing of a Melbourne father last month
is believed to have been found by police. One handgun
(04:10):
used in the killing of thirty five year old Zeven
Radmanovich and the shooting of another man was found in.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
A local river last week.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Police say they have now found a second gun nearby.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It is still being examined in the forensic laboratory to
determine or find out whether the weapon was really used
by the perpetrator. Later it will be matched with the
perpetrator's DNA.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Three Australians charge over the Ambuls shooting are facing the
death penalty if convicted. The world's eyes are back on
the Victorian town of Morewell this morning, with the jury
in Aaron Patterson's triple murder trial still unable to reach
a verdict in the case. Seven men and five women
yesterday spent their first full day deliberating fifty year old's fate.
(04:56):
Under Victorian law, there's no time limit for juries to
con a verdict. Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong is in
Washington for high stakes talks with US Secretary of State
Marco Rubio. Let's going live to Isabel Mullen and Canberra.
Is he mourning to you? What's on the agenda for today?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
You?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Good morning, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Look, Penny Wong will be defending Australia's defense spending. Is
she builds a case for the Prime Minister who's trying
to get that one on one meeting with Donald Trump. Now,
she's already had a series of meeting with other Quad
leaders the United States, India and also Japan. But as
we go to air, the most critical meeting is one
with Marco Rubio, her US counterpart. We understand she's in
(05:36):
talks with him right now. She'll be defending Australia's decision
not to lift defense spending to three point five percent
of GDP and outlining what the federal government can offer instead.
Here's something she said a little earlier.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It has never been more important for us to harness
our collective strength for peace, for stability, for prosperity in
the Indo Pacific.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It's also important within this forum to turn it into
one where we begin to focus on specific issues that
we want to work together on and begin to deliver action.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
The Pentagon called that snap thirty day review of the
Orcus Agreement. The federal government still insisting that its reluctance
to lift defense spending won't impact that agreement.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Eddie, thank you as here.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
A Muslim preacher from Cities, Southwest, has been ordered to
remove a series of lectures from social media after they
were found to be racist and anti Semitic. A federal
court judge ruled Wissam hadad breached racial hatred laws for
comments he made in a series of sermons posted online.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
A dad can be seen in them describing Jewish people
as treacherously.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He's been ordered to take them down and pay court costs.
Beaches across the Gold Coasts are now not expected to
be fully restored until at least twenty twenty eight. Beaches
across the city were battered, of course, during Cyclone Alfred,
creating scalping along the coastline. A new system will be
set up to pump fresh sound to surface Paradise, Narrowneck
and Main Beach at night time. A new social housing
(07:09):
development in Western Australia is on track to be completed
by the end of next year. The apartment building in
pers North Cooji will offer twenty eight units. The project
will achieve a twenty twenty one goal set by the
McGowan government of three thousand, three hundred social homes being built.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
We are dealing with people, often seniors, women, who are
fleeing domestic violence. Every social home gives someone the opportunity
to reset their life or get the security that they've
never had.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The twenty three million dollar project will be funded by
the federal government. Queens and hospitals will brace for thousands
of nurses and midwives to walk off the job next
week if the state government does not meet demands. In
a bitter wage fight, the Nurses and Midwives Union is
calling for a thirteen percent pay rise, but the government
hasn't budged on their initial offer, making nurses very upset.
(08:06):
It's actually eleven percent over three years, and it includes
an election commitment uplift at the final part of the
three year program of the enterprise Bargaining Agreement. The government
needs to strike a deal today before industrial action ramps
up on Monday. Tens of thousands of Ford owners are
set to share in hundreds of millions of dollars in
compensation after winning a decade long class action lawsuit. More
(08:29):
than seventy thousand will share two hundred million dollars after
their duel clutch transmissions are found to be faulty in
the Ford Focus, Fiesta and Ecosport models. The Federal Court
will assess damages later this year, bringing an end to
multiple court rulings and appeals in the case. Queens and
music teacher Astrue Jorgenson has taken her talents overseas to
(08:49):
America's Got Talent. With her amazing pub choir leading skills,
She's donned the crowd by getting them to harmonize within seconds.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Have a listen to what happened next the middle. You're
going to sing green. We have to hear that we
do this and voices that are low. You are going
to sing bread, be brave. You are the act you
Tray do.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Oh exactly who.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
She made it through after severe Vigara voted yes on
her act and judges will decide on the live show
acts later this month.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Love that we're checking Wednesdays.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
We're there now becoming windy in Brisbane and nineteen that
rain easing, actually in windy in city in eighteen rain
in canber and thirteen rain in Melbourne and fourteen a
shower or two in Hobart and twelve partner card in Adelaide.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And fourteen twenty two in personal
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Showers increasing in the west and sunny in Darwin and
thirty degrees
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