November 16, 2025 • 11 mins
Some Liberal MPs are reportedly losing faith in leader Sussan Ley, and throwing their support behind Andrew Hastie a day after the Coalition finally locked in its new climate policy
Britain has this morning announced its largest overhaul on asylum seekers in modern times.
US President Donald Trump has copped a public lashing from one of his former allies as American politicians prepare to vote on whether to release more files on the case of convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
More than a dozen South Australian classrooms will be cordoned
off this morning as specialist cleaning crews clear asbestos contaminated sand.
Around twenty public education centers identified open packets of children's playsound,
which was found to contain traces of asbestos. Some schools
in the Act will be closed for testing as well.
(00:26):
Some Liberal MPs are reportedly losing faith in leader Susan
Lee and throwing their support behind Andrew Hasty, a day
after the coalition finally locked in its new climate policy.
As glad Nada political reporter Isabel Main, it's all happening
there again and easy this week.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It caps off weeks of drama for the coalition.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It does. Eddie, good morning. It's been a particularly tough
week for Opposition leader Susan Lee, who was forced to
abandon the Liberals net zero by twenty fifty climate policy,
and that came after incredible pressure from members of the
right faction of the Liberal Party and also from the Nationals.
We saw that pretty pointed message from members of the
(01:06):
right all arriving at the party room together in Unison,
as if to send Susan Lee a message saying we
are in charge and we are calling the shots. And
now new reports this morning that moderates are moving towards
Andrew Hasty as a preferred leader, and that's really an
unnatural shift, moderates moving towards the right.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
But it does really go to some of that.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Frustration around Susan Lee's leadership, the criticism being that she
hasn't been strong enough, she hasn't picked a direction and
just stuck with it. There isn't expected to be a
spill before Christmas, but how long she can last into
the new year is hotly contested.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And she'll join us later on Sunri thank you so
much as he Victoria is set to introduce harsh knife
crime penalties. Under the new rules, perpetrators could be hit
with an extra three years in prison on top of
whatever the court hands down to them.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
More than fifteen thousand.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Bladed weapons have been seized by Victorian police this year.
One in ten applicants applying to work on the Orcus
nuclear subs have been rejected on security grounds. Reports this
morning suggest multiple applicants were found to have suspicious links
to India, China and other foreign countries.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Some may even dual citizens.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The Aucus hiring process has watertight security applicants given a
defense security clearance assessment and a nuclear suitability test as well.
An inquiry into Queensland's in battle CFMU has been handed
full access to police records as it investigates allegations of
corruption and misconduct. A specialist team of police and corruption
(02:44):
watchdog workers is looking into reports of violent work sites,
misogynistic attacks on women and abuse of government ministers. Witness
hearings begin tomorrow. Firefighters have gained the upper hand on
a bush fire that's burning south of city and also
west Cruiser battling a twenty eight hectare blaze at Warrowing
Heights dear Shoalhaven, but the threat has been downgraded. Multiple
(03:08):
fires are still burning across to New South Wales, including
a fifty five hectare blaze at glen Allis near at Lithgow.
That fire is currently at advice levels. No emergency warnings
are in place. Perth's police chopper has tracked a wild
high speed getaway. A thirty two year old man is
accused of stealing a total Land Cruiser and leading police
(03:29):
on what became a three hour man hunt, the car
eventually crashing Cotislow. Hero Bucks party guest giving him a
hip and shoulder. Police managed to arrest the man, who's
been charged with assaulting a police officer, aggravated home burglary
and stealing a motor vehicle. Bank executive is a big
gilding camera this week in a major review of the
(03:51):
Big Four recommended by Treasurer Jim Chalmers. It'll examine how
banks are balancing our interest against.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Those of shareholders.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And Westpac are both in the middle of misconduct and
back pace scandals.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Head of the review, Westpac has agreed to hit pause.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
On regional branch branch closures until twenty thirty. The Southeast
Queensland is finally expecting some sunshine after a weekend of
vicious thunderstorms. Heavy rain and hail pummeled some towns. More
than one hundred and thirty millimeters dumped in certain areas.
Rescue crews responded to one hundred and thirty two jobs yesterday.
(04:28):
Some flash flooding is still possible today before the system
moves north towards Cans. A South Australian medical study that
has helped hundreds of Ossie families give birth is about
to go global.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The long term research.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Has found a Mega three fatty acids found in fish
oil can prevent pre term birth, but up to forty
two percent. The findings in our peer reviewed and published
in the Medical Journal of Australia, which means doctors around
the world could soon be following the lead of our
Australian doctors. Britain has this morning and it's largest overhaul
(05:01):
on asylum seekers in modern times.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That's your lie.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Seven years you're a Crossmen at ben Downey have been
what are the changes?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, good morning. So currently in the UK refugee status
lasts five years. That's being halved to two and a
half years. And also after that five year period right now,
if you're a refuge g you can apply to stay
permanently now instead of five years, that will be twenty years.
So if a home country becomes safe in that period
as well, those people often arriving on small boats across
(05:33):
the English Channel, well they'll be sent back to their
home country.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
The Labor government here is doing this whilst under enormous
pressure from Reform Party run by Brexit.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Architect Nigel Ferraj.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's currently leading Labor in the polls despite holding just
five of these six hundred and fifty Lower House seats.
Here the Home Secretary, however, who's making these changes. She says,
it's about trying to make the UK a less desirable
place for assimns seekers arriving on boats across the Channel,
and to stop illegal migration tearing the country apart.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
If you're working and contributing, you will be able to
earn an earlier settlement in this country and the totality
of that package will promote fairness and contribution.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That are just one that.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So this is seen as the largest change to Britain's
asyum seeker policy in modern times. But for such an
intractable problem, it's far from agreeable yet whether this will,
as the Home Secretary says, finally get control of Britain's borders.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Eddie. Yeah, they are huge changes, aren't they, Thank you? Ben.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
US President Donald Trump has copped a public lashing from
one of his former allies as American politicians repaired to
vote whether to release more files in the case of
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein like n a seven years.
US correspondent Marley Hogan, Marley, morning to you. It's just
more pressure on the president, isn't it, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
It is this is someone who you really would never
have expected to speak out against Donald Trump. Marjorie Taylor
Green has been one of his staunchest allies from the beginning.
She's one of the most prominent faces of the MAGA movement.
But now she's having this very public feud with the
US President and she says it's all to do with
the Epstein files. Marjorie Taylor Green is one of the
Republicans that has sided with Democrats to try and force
(07:20):
a vote that would make it law for the Department
of Justice to release all of its investigative files on
the Epstein saga. Donald Trump has now gone on the
attack against Marjorie Taylor Green, calling her wacky and a
traitor to the Republican Party, and ultimately withdrawing his support
for her for her twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Six election bid.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
But Marjorie Taylor Green is not wavering.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Unfortunately, it has all come down to the Epstein files,
and that is sharking. And you know, I stand with
these women. I will not apologize for that. I believe
the country deserves transparency and these files, and I don't
believe that rench powerful people should be protected.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Now, a vote to release the files is expected to
take place in the House this coming week. Republicans A
number of Republicans are expected to side with Democrats, which
means it would would move to the Senate, but it's
not expected to get the numbers there, so it's unlikely
that this law, that this bill will become law.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Eddie, Thank you, Miley.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The moment of volcano in Japan stadded spearing a jet
of lava has been caught on camera. The plume of
smoke and ash was sent four and a half kilometers
into the sky, leading to dozens of flight cancelations. Located
on the western island of Qsu, this is one of
Japan's most active volcanoes. A global trial run by the
(08:47):
drug company behind a zen Pick is testing whether the
blockbuster weight loss jab could treat alcohol addiction and even
prevent deadly liver disease. Doctors say the early signs of promising,
giving hope to millions battling dependency.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Ozembic and the new wave of weight loss injections have
already transformed lives, cutting hunger, shedding kilos, and reshaping modern medicine. Now,
researchers believe these drugs could mark a turning point in
the fight against alcohol addiction and liver damage.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
We believe that it has a multiple effect both on
the appetite for alcohol, the appetite for food, and the
effect of those things on the inflammation within the liver.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
An international trial with hundreds of patients across Europe, America
and seven sites in Australia is testing just that. Doctors
are shocked by the early results.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
In some of our patients. They are showing signs of
reducing their alcol use. As for the liver damage side
of things, I would be incredibly optimistic. It is a
transformative time when we're really starting to see treatments that
not just have some theoretical benefit, but make a material
difference to people's lives.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
But the drugs aren't forever everyone and come with risks.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
You wouldn't recommend taking these medications for someone who is,
you know, two kilos o a weight or something.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Forty eight year old Nigel Harpy battled alcohol addiction for years.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Like a couple of beers and a bottle of wine
four or five times a week.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
He says, a treatment like this could change lives.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I'd be definitely open to like adding that to the
tools that are available to people.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Addiction specialists say the demand is growing.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
One of the biggest challenges in our country right now
is our cohol dependency. It takes people at least twelve
years to first seek help.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Researchers say it's just the beginning, with trials set to
investigate whether these injections can reduce cigarette cravings, a major
breakthrough if it works, but advocates warn it must be
accessible to those who needed most.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
It's really important that any of these pharmaceutical options there's
equity in how it's distributed.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
If the science stacks up, it could be medicine's next
big shot. Jennifer Beschwanti seven News.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
We're checking Monday's weather fear now sunny in Brisbane and
thirty three degrees partly Cladian City in twenty six partly
Cladian canber Is seventeen a shower too for Melbourne seventeen degrees,
a shower too in Hobart fifteen degrees a shower too
also in Adelaide and Sunday in Perth and thirty four
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
More than a dozen South Australian classrooms will be cordoned
off this morning as specialist cleaning crews clear asbestos contaminated sand.
Around twenty public education centers identified open packets of children's playsound,
which was found to contain traces of asbestos. Some schools
in the Act will be closed for testing as well.
(00:26):
Some Liberal MPs are reportedly losing faith in leader Susan
Lee and throwing their support behind Andrew Hasty, a day
after the coalition finally locked in its new climate policy.
As glad Nada political reporter Isabel Main, it's all happening
there again and easy this week.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It caps off weeks of drama for the coalition.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It does. Eddie, good morning. It's been a particularly tough
week for Opposition leader Susan Lee, who was forced to
abandon the Liberals net zero by twenty fifty climate policy,
and that came after incredible pressure from members of the
right faction of the Liberal Party and also from the Nationals.
We saw that pretty pointed message from members of the
(01:06):
right all arriving at the party room together in Unison,
as if to send Susan Lee a message saying we
are in charge and we are calling the shots. And
now new reports this morning that moderates are moving towards
Andrew Hasty as a preferred leader, and that's really an
unnatural shift, moderates moving towards the right.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
But it does really go to some of that.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Frustration around Susan Lee's leadership, the criticism being that she
hasn't been strong enough, she hasn't picked a direction and
just stuck with it. There isn't expected to be a
spill before Christmas, but how long she can last into
the new year is hotly contested.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And she'll join us later on Sunri thank you so
much as he Victoria is set to introduce harsh knife
crime penalties. Under the new rules, perpetrators could be hit
with an extra three years in prison on top of
whatever the court hands down to them.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
More than fifteen thousand.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Bladed weapons have been seized by Victorian police this year.
One in ten applicants applying to work on the Orcus
nuclear subs have been rejected on security grounds. Reports this
morning suggest multiple applicants were found to have suspicious links
to India, China and other foreign countries.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Some may even dual citizens.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The Aucus hiring process has watertight security applicants given a
defense security clearance assessment and a nuclear suitability test as well.
An inquiry into Queensland's in battle CFMU has been handed
full access to police records as it investigates allegations of
corruption and misconduct. A specialist team of police and corruption
(02:44):
watchdog workers is looking into reports of violent work sites,
misogynistic attacks on women and abuse of government ministers. Witness
hearings begin tomorrow. Firefighters have gained the upper hand on
a bush fire that's burning south of city and also
west Cruiser battling a twenty eight hectare blaze at Warrowing
Heights dear Shoalhaven, but the threat has been downgraded. Multiple
(03:08):
fires are still burning across to New South Wales, including
a fifty five hectare blaze at glen Allis near at Lithgow.
That fire is currently at advice levels. No emergency warnings
are in place. Perth's police chopper has tracked a wild
high speed getaway. A thirty two year old man is
accused of stealing a total Land Cruiser and leading police
(03:29):
on what became a three hour man hunt, the car
eventually crashing Cotislow. Hero Bucks party guest giving him a
hip and shoulder. Police managed to arrest the man, who's
been charged with assaulting a police officer, aggravated home burglary
and stealing a motor vehicle. Bank executive is a big
gilding camera this week in a major review of the
(03:51):
Big Four recommended by Treasurer Jim Chalmers. It'll examine how
banks are balancing our interest against.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Those of shareholders.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
And Westpac are both in the middle of misconduct and
back pace scandals.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Head of the review, Westpac has agreed to hit pause.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
On regional branch branch closures until twenty thirty. The Southeast
Queensland is finally expecting some sunshine after a weekend of
vicious thunderstorms. Heavy rain and hail pummeled some towns. More
than one hundred and thirty millimeters dumped in certain areas.
Rescue crews responded to one hundred and thirty two jobs yesterday.
(04:28):
Some flash flooding is still possible today before the system
moves north towards Cans. A South Australian medical study that
has helped hundreds of Ossie families give birth is about
to go global.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
The long term research.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Has found a Mega three fatty acids found in fish
oil can prevent pre term birth, but up to forty
two percent. The findings in our peer reviewed and published
in the Medical Journal of Australia, which means doctors around
the world could soon be following the lead of our
Australian doctors. Britain has this morning and it's largest overhaul
(05:01):
on asylum seekers in modern times.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
That's your lie.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Seven years you're a Crossmen at ben Downey have been
what are the changes?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, good morning. So currently in the UK refugee status
lasts five years. That's being halved to two and a
half years. And also after that five year period right now,
if you're a refuge g you can apply to stay
permanently now instead of five years, that will be twenty years.
So if a home country becomes safe in that period
as well, those people often arriving on small boats across
(05:33):
the English Channel, well they'll be sent back to their
home country.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Now.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
The Labor government here is doing this whilst under enormous
pressure from Reform Party run by Brexit.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Architect Nigel Ferraj.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's currently leading Labor in the polls despite holding just
five of these six hundred and fifty Lower House seats.
Here the Home Secretary, however, who's making these changes. She says,
it's about trying to make the UK a less desirable
place for assimns seekers arriving on boats across the Channel,
and to stop illegal migration tearing the country apart.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
If you're working and contributing, you will be able to
earn an earlier settlement in this country and the totality
of that package will promote fairness and contribution.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That are just one that.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So this is seen as the largest change to Britain's
asyum seeker policy in modern times. But for such an
intractable problem, it's far from agreeable yet whether this will,
as the Home Secretary says, finally get control of Britain's borders.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Eddie. Yeah, they are huge changes, aren't they, Thank you? Ben.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
US President Donald Trump has copped a public lashing from
one of his former allies as American politicians repaired to
vote whether to release more files in the case of
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein like n a seven years.
US correspondent Marley Hogan, Marley, morning to you. It's just
more pressure on the president, isn't it, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
It is this is someone who you really would never
have expected to speak out against Donald Trump. Marjorie Taylor
Green has been one of his staunchest allies from the beginning.
She's one of the most prominent faces of the MAGA movement.
But now she's having this very public feud with the
US President and she says it's all to do with
the Epstein files. Marjorie Taylor Green is one of the
Republicans that has sided with Democrats to try and force
(07:20):
a vote that would make it law for the Department
of Justice to release all of its investigative files on
the Epstein saga. Donald Trump has now gone on the
attack against Marjorie Taylor Green, calling her wacky and a
traitor to the Republican Party, and ultimately withdrawing his support
for her for her twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Six election bid.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
But Marjorie Taylor Green is not wavering.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Unfortunately, it has all come down to the Epstein files,
and that is sharking. And you know, I stand with
these women. I will not apologize for that. I believe
the country deserves transparency and these files, and I don't
believe that rench powerful people should be protected.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Now, a vote to release the files is expected to
take place in the House this coming week. Republicans A
number of Republicans are expected to side with Democrats, which
means it would would move to the Senate, but it's
not expected to get the numbers there, so it's unlikely
that this law, that this bill will become law.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Eddie, Thank you, Miley.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The moment of volcano in Japan stadded spearing a jet
of lava has been caught on camera. The plume of
smoke and ash was sent four and a half kilometers
into the sky, leading to dozens of flight cancelations. Located
on the western island of Qsu, this is one of
Japan's most active volcanoes. A global trial run by the
(08:47):
drug company behind a zen Pick is testing whether the
blockbuster weight loss jab could treat alcohol addiction and even
prevent deadly liver disease. Doctors say the early signs of promising,
giving hope to millions battling dependency.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Ozembic and the new wave of weight loss injections have
already transformed lives, cutting hunger, shedding kilos, and reshaping modern medicine. Now,
researchers believe these drugs could mark a turning point in
the fight against alcohol addiction and liver damage.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
We believe that it has a multiple effect both on
the appetite for alcohol, the appetite for food, and the
effect of those things on the inflammation within the liver.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
An international trial with hundreds of patients across Europe, America
and seven sites in Australia is testing just that. Doctors
are shocked by the early results.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
In some of our patients. They are showing signs of
reducing their alcol use. As for the liver damage side
of things, I would be incredibly optimistic. It is a
transformative time when we're really starting to see treatments that
not just have some theoretical benefit, but make a material
difference to people's lives.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
But the drugs aren't forever everyone and come with risks.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
You wouldn't recommend taking these medications for someone who is,
you know, two kilos o a weight or something.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Forty eight year old Nigel Harpy battled alcohol addiction for years.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Like a couple of beers and a bottle of wine
four or five times a week.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
He says, a treatment like this could change lives.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I'd be definitely open to like adding that to the
tools that are available to people.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Addiction specialists say the demand is growing.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
One of the biggest challenges in our country right now
is our cohol dependency. It takes people at least twelve
years to first seek help.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Researchers say it's just the beginning, with trials set to
investigate whether these injections can reduce cigarette cravings, a major
breakthrough if it works, but advocates warn it must be
accessible to those who needed most.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
It's really important that any of these pharmaceutical options there's
equity in how it's distributed.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
If the science stacks up, it could be medicine's next
big shot. Jennifer Beschwanti seven News.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
We're checking Monday's weather fear now sunny in Brisbane and
thirty three degrees partly Cladian City in twenty six partly
Cladian canber Is seventeen a shower too for Melbourne seventeen degrees,
a shower too in Hobart fifteen degrees a shower too
also in Adelaide and Sunday in Perth and thirty four
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