September 1, 2025 • 5 mins
Indigenous leaders are calling for a neo-Nazi attack on an Indigenous camp in Melbourne to be deemed a hate crime.
The prices of prescription medicines will slashed to some of their lowest levels in more than 20 years.
A man who smashed his car into the Russian consulate in Sydney's eastern suburbs will face court this morning.
7NEWS Headlines with Edwina Bartholomew September 02, 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We begin with breaking news out of Melbourne this morning.
A man and woman are fighting for life after a
shooting and a major car crash on the Hume Freeway
at Epping. A car collided with a truck around nine
point thirty. When emergency crews arrived, they found one of
the people inside the car, a twenty two year old man,
had gunshot wounds. An eighteen year old woman suffered life
(00:24):
threatening injuries in the crash, and another car was found
torch nearby. An urgent investigation is underway this morning. Some
more breaking news and a woman has been charged with
attempted murder after allegedly stabbing two men believed to be
her sons in the Blue Mountains. It happened last week,
Emergency crews fighting the men unconscious inside a home at Lura.
(00:46):
They're still recovering in Sydney's Westmead Hospital and have undergone surgery.
The woman also remains in hospital and will face at
bedside court hearing today. There's been a fresh twist in
the man hunt for Victorian fugitive Desi Freeman. Police believe
members of the public know where the alleged cop killer
is hiding and actively helping him evade capture. People know
(01:10):
the whereabouts of a person who's killed two cops. Freeman's
wife now claims to be working with the police force
to help find him. Officers using flash bangs in bushland
to try and draw him out. The search is moving
into its ninth day. Indigenous leaders are calling for a
neo Nazi attack on an Indigenous camp in Melbourne to
(01:33):
be deemed a hate crime.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Two women were injured in the ugly confrontation.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And the camp's founder has branded those responsible terrorists and cowards.
From Minister around than Albernizi says there were good people
in the crowd at the anti immigration marches across the
country over the weekend, but that the movement is being
exploited by extremists.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
WHI there's always good people will turn up to demonstrate,
but what we have here is neo Nazi's been given
a platform.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The Prime Minister is also facing pressure to criminalize burning
the Australian flag, one federal MP calling it abhorrent. Eighteen
pro Palaesinian activists have been arrested over a blockade.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
At the Port of Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Several of the protesters handcuffed themselves to the entrance gate
of the terminal, stopping container trucks and.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Causing significant disruption.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Shipping companies supplying materials to Israel were the target. They've
all been granted bail to appear in court at a
later date. The prices of prescription medicines will be slashed
to some of the lowest levels in more than twenty years.
Lived political reporter Josh Martin in Canberra, Josh, the Abeneze
government is delivering on election promise morning, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, the changes to the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme past the
Senate late last night. Labor you might remember, focused heavily
on the cost of living at the May election and
is now delivering on those promises in these early sitting weeks.
The changes mean the prices of medicines on the peace
will be capped and dropped next January. Currently at thirty
one dollars, they'll drop down to twenty five dollars, so
(03:06):
significant savings for anyone who buys their drugs through the PBS.
A cloud remains so over the future of cheaper medicines
in Australia, Eddie. Big farmer companies have been lobbying President
Trump to end the PBS through his trade war. The
Albanzi government insists it's not up for negotiation. Eddie will
have Health Minister Mark Butler on Sunrise a little later.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Thank you, Josh.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Melbourne drug kingpin Tony Mockbell will front court this morning
in a bid to have his convictions overturn. Mockbell's team
is arguing he would not have agreed to a plea
deal if he had known his former lawyer Nicol Logobo
was providing evidence against him to police. The four day
hearing will be live streamed. The sixty year old was
released on bail in April pending the appeal. The Brisbane
(03:52):
Broncos are in damage control this morning after star full
bank Reese Walsh posted a video of himself and there's
no easy way to say this, drinking water from a toilet.
Do they reckon?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
There's a new form of recovery now to recover the muscles.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
In a statement, the club revealed Walsh's renovating his house
and the toilet has never been used, calling it a
poor attempt at humor. There's been another shocking IVF bungle
in Queensland. It's been revealed a Caucasian couple gave birth
to a biracial baby because.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Of a labeling error.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Queensland Fertility Group, which is owned by Vertus Health, is
being slammed for keeping the mix up a secret for
more than a decade. A US sperm bank delivered the
wrong donor sperm. A man who smashed his car into
the Russian consulate in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs will face.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Court this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The thirty nine year old from Victoria raump his tota
through the steel front gates and was quickly surrounded by
heavily armed police. It's not yet known what motivated him.
Dream World could soon be bigger and better if the
Queen ns and Government green lights expansion plans.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The proposed development.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Would feature a resort style hotel, homes and restaurants. The
Acting Premier wants to see special call in powers taking
over the approval process to see that the deal is
actually done. This is about driving the Queensland economy.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
People want things done.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We see some really significant opportunities to add to the
residential crisis that is going on here in Southeast Queensland
and to help as system fixing it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Imagine living at Dreamworld.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Dreamworld officials want to have the expansion finalized in time
for the twenty thirty two Olympics. We're checking tuesday's weather
now shower too in Brisbane in twenty three early showers
in city in twenty partner cloudy in Canberra and sixteen
a possible shah in Melbourne and eighteen showers increasing in Hobant,
seventeen degrees mostly sunny in Adelaida and nineteen twenty one
(05:48):
in Perth, mostly sunny and sunny in Darwin and thirty
four
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We begin with breaking news out of Melbourne this morning.
A man and woman are fighting for life after a
shooting and a major car crash on the Hume Freeway
at Epping. A car collided with a truck around nine
point thirty. When emergency crews arrived, they found one of
the people inside the car, a twenty two year old man,
had gunshot wounds. An eighteen year old woman suffered life
(00:24):
threatening injuries in the crash, and another car was found
torch nearby. An urgent investigation is underway this morning. Some
more breaking news and a woman has been charged with
attempted murder after allegedly stabbing two men believed to be
her sons in the Blue Mountains. It happened last week,
Emergency crews fighting the men unconscious inside a home at Lura.
(00:46):
They're still recovering in Sydney's Westmead Hospital and have undergone surgery.
The woman also remains in hospital and will face at
bedside court hearing today. There's been a fresh twist in
the man hunt for Victorian fugitive Desi Freeman. Police believe
members of the public know where the alleged cop killer
is hiding and actively helping him evade capture. People know
(01:10):
the whereabouts of a person who's killed two cops. Freeman's
wife now claims to be working with the police force
to help find him. Officers using flash bangs in bushland
to try and draw him out. The search is moving
into its ninth day. Indigenous leaders are calling for a
neo Nazi attack on an Indigenous camp in Melbourne to
(01:33):
be deemed a hate crime.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Two women were injured in the ugly confrontation.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And the camp's founder has branded those responsible terrorists and cowards.
From Minister around than Albernizi says there were good people
in the crowd at the anti immigration marches across the
country over the weekend, but that the movement is being
exploited by extremists.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
WHI there's always good people will turn up to demonstrate,
but what we have here is neo Nazi's been given
a platform.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The Prime Minister is also facing pressure to criminalize burning
the Australian flag, one federal MP calling it abhorrent. Eighteen
pro Palaesinian activists have been arrested over a blockade.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
At the Port of Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Several of the protesters handcuffed themselves to the entrance gate
of the terminal, stopping container trucks and.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Causing significant disruption.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Shipping companies supplying materials to Israel were the target. They've
all been granted bail to appear in court at a
later date. The prices of prescription medicines will be slashed
to some of the lowest levels in more than twenty years.
Lived political reporter Josh Martin in Canberra, Josh, the Abeneze
government is delivering on election promise morning, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, the changes to the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme past the
Senate late last night. Labor you might remember, focused heavily
on the cost of living at the May election and
is now delivering on those promises in these early sitting weeks.
The changes mean the prices of medicines on the peace
will be capped and dropped next January. Currently at thirty
one dollars, they'll drop down to twenty five dollars, so
(03:06):
significant savings for anyone who buys their drugs through the PBS.
A cloud remains so over the future of cheaper medicines
in Australia, Eddie. Big farmer companies have been lobbying President
Trump to end the PBS through his trade war. The
Albanzi government insists it's not up for negotiation. Eddie will
have Health Minister Mark Butler on Sunrise a little later.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Thank you, Josh.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Melbourne drug kingpin Tony Mockbell will front court this morning
in a bid to have his convictions overturn. Mockbell's team
is arguing he would not have agreed to a plea
deal if he had known his former lawyer Nicol Logobo
was providing evidence against him to police. The four day
hearing will be live streamed. The sixty year old was
released on bail in April pending the appeal. The Brisbane
(03:52):
Broncos are in damage control this morning after star full
bank Reese Walsh posted a video of himself and there's
no easy way to say this, drinking water from a toilet.
Do they reckon?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
There's a new form of recovery now to recover the muscles.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
In a statement, the club revealed Walsh's renovating his house
and the toilet has never been used, calling it a
poor attempt at humor. There's been another shocking IVF bungle
in Queensland. It's been revealed a Caucasian couple gave birth
to a biracial baby because.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Of a labeling error.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Queensland Fertility Group, which is owned by Vertus Health, is
being slammed for keeping the mix up a secret for
more than a decade. A US sperm bank delivered the
wrong donor sperm. A man who smashed his car into
the Russian consulate in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs will face.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Court this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The thirty nine year old from Victoria raump his tota
through the steel front gates and was quickly surrounded by
heavily armed police. It's not yet known what motivated him.
Dream World could soon be bigger and better if the
Queen ns and Government green lights expansion plans.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The proposed development.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Would feature a resort style hotel, homes and restaurants. The
Acting Premier wants to see special call in powers taking
over the approval process to see that the deal is
actually done. This is about driving the Queensland economy.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
People want things done.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We see some really significant opportunities to add to the
residential crisis that is going on here in Southeast Queensland
and to help as system fixing it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Imagine living at Dreamworld.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Dreamworld officials want to have the expansion finalized in time
for the twenty thirty two Olympics. We're checking tuesday's weather
now shower too in Brisbane in twenty three early showers
in city in twenty partner cloudy in Canberra and sixteen
a possible shah in Melbourne and eighteen showers increasing in Hobant,
seventeen degrees mostly sunny in Adelaida and nineteen twenty one
(05:48):
in Perth, mostly sunny and sunny in Darwin and thirty
four
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