October 26, 2025 • 10 mins
The daughter of former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating has spoken about a dinner she attended with the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
French police have two suspects in custody in connection to the heist at the world-famous Louvre museum.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan remains adamant the state's machete ban is working despite three separate attacks in four days.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We begin with breaking news this morning, and two suspects
have been arrested over the highest of the Louver Museum
in Paris that shocked the world. The men in their
thirties are believed to have been involved in the high
stakes theft of one hundred and fifty seven million dollars worth.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Of Crown jewels.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Now, according to the Paris Prosecutor's office, one of the
suspects was boarding a flight to Algeria when he was detained.
No charges have been brought as yet, and police can
question the men for up ninety six hours.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We'll have a live report from Paris for you.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Shortly from Ministra Athany Abernezi has held talks of Japan's
new prime minister. The two meeting is Southeast Asia's main
leader's summit begins in Kuala Lumpa.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Let's bring in political reporter Tim Lester.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Tim, it's an important summit and Donald Trump is there
with him for.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
World leaders its peak summit season. Malaysia hosting the Asian
Forum this year, right in the middle of a region
that relies on America for hundreds of bits millions of
dollars of annual trade, and now they're having to deal
with Donald Trump's tariffs. Prime Minister Alberanizi arrives in Kuala Lumpur,
(01:10):
talking up Australia's economic links.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Here we are now.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
In the fastest growing region of the world in human history.
What that represents as opportunities for economic growth in Australia,
creation of jobs in Australia, as well as a more
peaceful and secure region.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Host Prime Minister Anwa Ibrahim recognized mister Albernizi with an
official welcome. The PM also holding an early meeting with
Japan's new Prime Minister Sinai Takeichi, apologetic apparently she arrived late.
Prime Minister Takeichi is also scheduled to meet Donald Trump
this week. The US President is on his first Asian
(01:52):
trip since returning to the White House in January. The
key meeting for mister Trump is Thursday in South kore
talks with Shi Jinping, China's president, the world's two largest
economies with a chance to settle their differences over trade
and tariffs.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Thanky tim All Tens of thousands of homes without power
in Southeast queens Are and now to severe storms rolled
through large parts of the state. Five centimeters of hail fell,
heavy rain sparked flush flooding, and wind gusts close to
one hundred kilometers an hour brought down trees. There are
some storms predicted for today and it's likely to be
hot and muggy. Brisbane expecting temperatures in the high thirties.
(02:36):
Parts of Victoria are also battered by wild weather. There
were hundreds of calls for help as storms brought torrential
rain and lightning to Melbourne, gale force winds causing some
destruction there.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Conditions are set to ease from today.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
In breaking news, a home has been destroyed by fire
and Cities West crews were called to Freeman Street at
Colton just before one thirty this morning. A single story
house was gutted within minutes, but thankfully no one was
home at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The cause isn't yet known.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
The daughter of former Labour Prime Minister Paul Keating has
spoken about a dinner she attended with the late pedophile
financier Jeffrey Epstein. An investigation by the US Congress into
the Epstein files revealed Catherine Keating was invited to dine
with the sex offender in twenty eleven at an event
organized by Prince Andrew. In an email, Epstein asked Prince
(03:27):
Andrew if miss Keating would like to have dinner with
himself and Woody Allen in New York. Miss Keating said
she'd only lived in the city for about ten weeks
and was happy to accept social invitations. Donald Trump and
Chinese President Shijing Ping have reportedly finalized a deal to
transfer the American version of TikTok to new owners.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
The US Treasury Secretary says all.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The details have been ironed out and the two leaders
will make things official when they meet in Korea on
Thursday this week.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's unclear who the new owners are.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Trump had been pushing TikTok's parent company, Byte Dance, to divest,
threatening to ban the app from stores in the US
if it didn't. The hunt continues this morning for a
gunman who left a young family fearing for their lives
after a drive by shooting on the New South Wales
central coast. Daniel Carden was at home with his partner
and their two young children when the home was peppered
(04:22):
with bullets.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
If I'll standing up overlay shot, I grabbed the baseball
batman come outside and they'd taken off up the raid.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Was really upset that song could do that to me,
to my family.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
They weren't hurt, but they were badly shaken.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Indian police have charged a man accused of inappropriately touching
members of the Australian women's cricket team. Two players in
Australia's World Cup squad were allegedly harassed and assaulted while
walking to a cafe the morning after they beat England.
It's understood the players have been offered support and will
continue playing in the tournament. Back now to our top store.
(04:57):
In French, police have two suspects in custody and connection
to the highest at the world famous Louver Museum. Let's
get straight to your correspondent, Annie Puller, who's there in
Paris and he breakthrough in the case that has fascinated
the world.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
In the end, it certainly wasn't brilliance that brought these
two thieves down. It was their mistakes. This so called
Hollywood heist was anything but flawless or discreet, the gang
leaving behind a very long trail of clues, up to
one hundred and fifty DNA samples and a diamond and
emerald studded crown that was dropped during that audacious getaway,
(05:33):
which also happened to be filmed on camera. Now, it
was that trail of evidence that led specialist police to
two men who were right now in custody after an
international manhunt spanning just one week. We understand detectives had
been monitoring their every move trying to locate them, and
then they decided to swoop when they received intelligence that
(05:54):
the pair were attempting to leave France. One was stopped
at Charles Degaul Airport with a ticket to Algeria. The
other well, he was intercepted in the northern suburbs of Paris,
a French national trying to head to Mali in West Africa. Now,
both men are said to be in their thirties. They're
also said to have a very long criminal rap sheet,
(06:15):
but certainly nothing as daring as this. It was last
Sunday local time that gang stormed their way into the Louver,
using a mechanical ladder to hoist themselves into the window
of the Apollo Room, which is of course home to
those Crown jewels. It was inside they allegedly smashed their
way through those glass cabinets, taking off with eight precious
(06:36):
artifacts worth more than one hundred and fifty million dollars.
Now right now, those two men, as I said, behind bars,
they are facing a marathon ninety six hour interview by
those specialist police Eddie. Their associates remain on the run.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's truly fascinating.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
We'll come back to you live in Paris very soon.
Thank you any puller there. A family of four have
escaped serious injury to their TURDA suv was t bone
during a police pursued in City Southwest. A forty six
year old man was allegedly behind the wheel of a
stolen ut when he plowed into their car and then
struck a powerpole in Liverpool yesterday. Energy crews have worked
(07:14):
through the night to restore power to three blocks left
in the dark after the crash. Its expected charges will
be laid shortly. Victorian Premiers into Alan remains adamant the
state's machete ban is working despite three separate attacks in
four days. A nineteen year old man suffered serious injuries
when he was stabbed in the torso outside an NROL
(07:34):
Harmony tournament in broad Meadows on Saturday. Those responsible are
still on the rung. Police are probing whether that stabbing
is linked to an attack at the same event just
twenty four hours earlier.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
New campaign is.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Kicking off, encouraging us to buy Australian to help local
business in manufacturing and give our economy a big boost.
New research shows one hundred dollars a week household spend
on Ossie made PRODUCTOX would add billions to the country's
bottom line.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Priestley's is Australian to the molten core.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You would have tasted us if you'd had one of
the Lava's from Domino's.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That's a Priestleys product.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Layer by layer. The Swedes company started small.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We started off with just seven There are.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Now two hundred employees using all Australian ingredients. But businesses
like this are delicacies. Australian manufacturing peaked in nineteen sixty
when it contributed almost a third to our GDP. Last
month that was just shy of six percent. Enter the
Back Australia campaign.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We need to be able to make stuff here, not
just for the sake of our economy, but for the
sake of our national security and our sovereignty as well.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
The government is investing billions in its future made in
Australia policy, But new Westpac research tells us that if
every household redirected one hundred dollars a week in your
existing budget towards Australian owned goods and services, our economy
would grow sixteen billion dollars in a single year. I
always look if there's a choice or choose Australian made.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
When it comes to other things like television's clothes, you
know we don't.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Necessarily I don't necessarily look for Australian made there because
it's usually about budget.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Here's what you can do. Look for the Australian made logo,
hire local tradees and technicians, and support local startups. The
final piece of the puzzle is right under our very noses.
You can quite literally get more bang for your buck
holidaying right here in Australia.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This is not just to make us all feel good
and feel more patriotic and get a warm, fuzzy feeling
in our stomachs.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
We have to make.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Sure that we're prepared for a volatile world.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Tom Saker, seven years.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
A prominent city university is investigating whether one of its
staff members used AI to mark assignments after a postgraduate
students social.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Media complaint went viral.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
University of New South Wales says it's aware of reports
that a member of its Business school teaching staff for
on chat GPT to Great Assessment tasks. A spokesperson says
the incident is being dealt with internally. We're checking Monday's
weather now mostly Sunday for Brisbane, heading for top of
thirty seven today sitting a late shower in twenty six
rain in Camber and twenty degrees showers easing in Melbourne
(10:17):
and fourteen Hobart windy with showers at top of thirteen,
mostly cloud in Adelaide and twenty one perth clearing showers
and twenty three in most of Sunday in Dawan thirty
five
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We begin with breaking news this morning, and two suspects
have been arrested over the highest of the Louver Museum
in Paris that shocked the world. The men in their
thirties are believed to have been involved in the high
stakes theft of one hundred and fifty seven million dollars worth.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Of Crown jewels.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Now, according to the Paris Prosecutor's office, one of the
suspects was boarding a flight to Algeria when he was detained.
No charges have been brought as yet, and police can
question the men for up ninety six hours.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We'll have a live report from Paris for you.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Shortly from Ministra Athany Abernezi has held talks of Japan's
new prime minister. The two meeting is Southeast Asia's main
leader's summit begins in Kuala Lumpa.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Let's bring in political reporter Tim Lester.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Tim, it's an important summit and Donald Trump is there
with him for.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
World leaders its peak summit season. Malaysia hosting the Asian
Forum this year, right in the middle of a region
that relies on America for hundreds of bits millions of
dollars of annual trade, and now they're having to deal
with Donald Trump's tariffs. Prime Minister Alberanizi arrives in Kuala Lumpur,
(01:10):
talking up Australia's economic links.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Here we are now.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
In the fastest growing region of the world in human history.
What that represents as opportunities for economic growth in Australia,
creation of jobs in Australia, as well as a more
peaceful and secure region.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Host Prime Minister Anwa Ibrahim recognized mister Albernizi with an
official welcome. The PM also holding an early meeting with
Japan's new Prime Minister Sinai Takeichi, apologetic apparently she arrived late.
Prime Minister Takeichi is also scheduled to meet Donald Trump
this week. The US President is on his first Asian
(01:52):
trip since returning to the White House in January. The
key meeting for mister Trump is Thursday in South kore
talks with Shi Jinping, China's president, the world's two largest
economies with a chance to settle their differences over trade
and tariffs.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Thanky tim All Tens of thousands of homes without power
in Southeast queens Are and now to severe storms rolled
through large parts of the state. Five centimeters of hail fell,
heavy rain sparked flush flooding, and wind gusts close to
one hundred kilometers an hour brought down trees. There are
some storms predicted for today and it's likely to be
hot and muggy. Brisbane expecting temperatures in the high thirties.
(02:36):
Parts of Victoria are also battered by wild weather. There
were hundreds of calls for help as storms brought torrential
rain and lightning to Melbourne, gale force winds causing some
destruction there.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Conditions are set to ease from today.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
In breaking news, a home has been destroyed by fire
and Cities West crews were called to Freeman Street at
Colton just before one thirty this morning. A single story
house was gutted within minutes, but thankfully no one was
home at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
The cause isn't yet known.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
The daughter of former Labour Prime Minister Paul Keating has
spoken about a dinner she attended with the late pedophile
financier Jeffrey Epstein. An investigation by the US Congress into
the Epstein files revealed Catherine Keating was invited to dine
with the sex offender in twenty eleven at an event
organized by Prince Andrew. In an email, Epstein asked Prince
(03:27):
Andrew if miss Keating would like to have dinner with
himself and Woody Allen in New York. Miss Keating said
she'd only lived in the city for about ten weeks
and was happy to accept social invitations. Donald Trump and
Chinese President Shijing Ping have reportedly finalized a deal to
transfer the American version of TikTok to new owners.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
The US Treasury Secretary says all.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The details have been ironed out and the two leaders
will make things official when they meet in Korea on
Thursday this week.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's unclear who the new owners are.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Trump had been pushing TikTok's parent company, Byte Dance, to divest,
threatening to ban the app from stores in the US
if it didn't. The hunt continues this morning for a
gunman who left a young family fearing for their lives
after a drive by shooting on the New South Wales
central coast. Daniel Carden was at home with his partner
and their two young children when the home was peppered
(04:22):
with bullets.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
If I'll standing up overlay shot, I grabbed the baseball
batman come outside and they'd taken off up the raid.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Was really upset that song could do that to me,
to my family.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
They weren't hurt, but they were badly shaken.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Indian police have charged a man accused of inappropriately touching
members of the Australian women's cricket team. Two players in
Australia's World Cup squad were allegedly harassed and assaulted while
walking to a cafe the morning after they beat England.
It's understood the players have been offered support and will
continue playing in the tournament. Back now to our top store.
(04:57):
In French, police have two suspects in custody and connection
to the highest at the world famous Louver Museum. Let's
get straight to your correspondent, Annie Puller, who's there in
Paris and he breakthrough in the case that has fascinated
the world.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
In the end, it certainly wasn't brilliance that brought these
two thieves down. It was their mistakes. This so called
Hollywood heist was anything but flawless or discreet, the gang
leaving behind a very long trail of clues, up to
one hundred and fifty DNA samples and a diamond and
emerald studded crown that was dropped during that audacious getaway,
(05:33):
which also happened to be filmed on camera. Now, it
was that trail of evidence that led specialist police to
two men who were right now in custody after an
international manhunt spanning just one week. We understand detectives had
been monitoring their every move trying to locate them, and
then they decided to swoop when they received intelligence that
(05:54):
the pair were attempting to leave France. One was stopped
at Charles Degaul Airport with a ticket to Algeria. The
other well, he was intercepted in the northern suburbs of Paris,
a French national trying to head to Mali in West Africa. Now,
both men are said to be in their thirties. They're
also said to have a very long criminal rap sheet,
(06:15):
but certainly nothing as daring as this. It was last
Sunday local time that gang stormed their way into the Louver,
using a mechanical ladder to hoist themselves into the window
of the Apollo Room, which is of course home to
those Crown jewels. It was inside they allegedly smashed their
way through those glass cabinets, taking off with eight precious
(06:36):
artifacts worth more than one hundred and fifty million dollars.
Now right now, those two men, as I said, behind bars,
they are facing a marathon ninety six hour interview by
those specialist police Eddie. Their associates remain on the run.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's truly fascinating.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
We'll come back to you live in Paris very soon.
Thank you any puller there. A family of four have
escaped serious injury to their TURDA suv was t bone
during a police pursued in City Southwest. A forty six
year old man was allegedly behind the wheel of a
stolen ut when he plowed into their car and then
struck a powerpole in Liverpool yesterday. Energy crews have worked
(07:14):
through the night to restore power to three blocks left
in the dark after the crash. Its expected charges will
be laid shortly. Victorian Premiers into Alan remains adamant the
state's machete ban is working despite three separate attacks in
four days. A nineteen year old man suffered serious injuries
when he was stabbed in the torso outside an NROL
(07:34):
Harmony tournament in broad Meadows on Saturday. Those responsible are
still on the rung. Police are probing whether that stabbing
is linked to an attack at the same event just
twenty four hours earlier.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
New campaign is.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Kicking off, encouraging us to buy Australian to help local
business in manufacturing and give our economy a big boost.
New research shows one hundred dollars a week household spend
on Ossie made PRODUCTOX would add billions to the country's
bottom line.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Priestley's is Australian to the molten core.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You would have tasted us if you'd had one of
the Lava's from Domino's.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That's a Priestleys product.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Layer by layer. The Swedes company started small.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
We started off with just seven There are.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Now two hundred employees using all Australian ingredients. But businesses
like this are delicacies. Australian manufacturing peaked in nineteen sixty
when it contributed almost a third to our GDP. Last
month that was just shy of six percent. Enter the
Back Australia campaign.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We need to be able to make stuff here, not
just for the sake of our economy, but for the
sake of our national security and our sovereignty as well.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
The government is investing billions in its future made in
Australia policy, But new Westpac research tells us that if
every household redirected one hundred dollars a week in your
existing budget towards Australian owned goods and services, our economy
would grow sixteen billion dollars in a single year. I
always look if there's a choice or choose Australian made.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
When it comes to other things like television's clothes, you
know we don't.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Necessarily I don't necessarily look for Australian made there because
it's usually about budget.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Here's what you can do. Look for the Australian made logo,
hire local tradees and technicians, and support local startups. The
final piece of the puzzle is right under our very noses.
You can quite literally get more bang for your buck
holidaying right here in Australia.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This is not just to make us all feel good
and feel more patriotic and get a warm, fuzzy feeling
in our stomachs.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
We have to make.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Sure that we're prepared for a volatile world.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Tom Saker, seven years.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
A prominent city university is investigating whether one of its
staff members used AI to mark assignments after a postgraduate
students social.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Media complaint went viral.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
University of New South Wales says it's aware of reports
that a member of its Business school teaching staff for
on chat GPT to Great Assessment tasks. A spokesperson says
the incident is being dealt with internally. We're checking Monday's
weather now mostly Sunday for Brisbane, heading for top of
thirty seven today sitting a late shower in twenty six
rain in Camber and twenty degrees showers easing in Melbourne
(10:17):
and fourteen Hobart windy with showers at top of thirteen,
mostly cloud in Adelaide and twenty one perth clearing showers
and twenty three in most of Sunday in Dawan thirty
five
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