Heroic Teen 31/05/24

A teenage boy who made the call for emergency services to help an unresponsive young girl in Adelaide who later died has recalled the incident in harrowing detail. 
Queensland monthly building approvals have dropped to 25 per cent below their 10-year average, with struggling families turning to measures such as “instant” homes to cope with the housing crisis. 
Councils and the construction industry have slammed the NSW Government’s new housing targets as “numbers on a piece of paper”, raising fears a building industry on its knees will be unable to hit the state’s goals. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is the latest from your news fee. It's Friday,
the thirty first of May. A teenage boy who made
the call for emergency services to help an unresponsive girl
at Adelaide who later died, has recalled the incident in
harrowing detail. The Advertiser spoke with thirteen year old Jabbat Stanikzai,

(00:26):
who called Triple zero about the distressing details before the
young girl's death of a suspected asthma attack on Wednesday evening.
It comes as the five year old's uncle said he
believed the girl's mother was out buying an inhaler for
her daughter at the time of the attack. Queensland monthly
building approvals have dropped to twenty five percent below their

(00:48):
tenure average, with struggling families turning to measures such as
instant homes to cope with the housing crisis. Australian Bureau
of Statistics seasonally adjusted figures on Thursday show two four
hundred and seventy total dwellings were approved in April across Queensland,
twenty percent below the monthly forty year average and twenty

(01:11):
five percent below the ten year average. We'll be back
after this. Councils and the construction industry of slammed the
New South Wales government's new housing targets as numbers on
a piece of paper, raising fears of building industry on
its knees will be unable to hit the state's goals.

(01:32):
Industry figures say skyrocketing material costs, labor shortages and soaring
interest rates have made building new homes unviable, with more
than two thousand construction companies collapsing in nine months. We'll
have an update to your newsfeed tomorrow