Breakfast News Briefing - 1 July 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying Newsroom. I'm Darcy Franklin. Donald Trump
will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya, who for talks
at the wine House next Monday. The US President stepping
up to push for a ceasefire and hostage agreement in Gaza.
The minimum age of criminal responsibility has been raised today
from twelve to fourteen here in the Act. For those

(00:23):
below the age of fourteen, if they're partaking in harmful
or destructive behavior in the community, they will now be
referred to a new therapeutic support panel.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
We appreciate that for most young people that brain has
not developed in such a way that they're capable of
forming criminal intent. We want to make it easier and
quicker to get them the therapeutic support they need.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Minister for Children, Youth and Families Michael Petterson. There keeps
a new government policies kicking in today with the start
of the new financial year. The minimum wage now bumping
to twenty four ninety five an hour. Also, there's an
Aussie first super will now be paid to new parents
on the government funded parental leave that's also been increased

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to twenty four weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
So Tony of Canberra and is earning either the national
minimum wage or award wages, they'll see wages increase by
three point five percent.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Member for Fenner Andrew Lee. There the two hundred and
fifty dollars health levee announced in last week's Act Budget
has been lowered after negotiations between the Act Greens and
the local government. Residential rate payers will now pay a
one hundred dollar levee, while commercial properties will still face
the two hundred and fifty dollars charge, but the deal

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means the Act Government will bring in a higher payroll
tax rate of eight point seventy five percent for businesses
with the national payrolls exceeding one hundred and fifty million dollars.
It's expected to come in from the start of next year.
Set to foster international partnerships and investment opportunities, the Act
Government are set to be front and center this week

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in Japan's twenty twenty five Australian Pavilion Expo. A projected
ty eight million worldwide visitors are set to visit the expo,
with the local government using the opportunity to deliver a
range of events and promotions. The price of your Home
has risen slightly in Canberra, but the market is still flat.

(02:15):
That's according to new stats from core Logic. Property prices
in the Act rose by zero point five percent in
June compared to twelve months prior, marking an annual growth
rate of fifteen thouy two hundred houses, where the driver
of the price growth rising zero point four percent. But
it's not good news for unit owners. The unit market
is a little different, with the unit prices actually falling

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point one four percent in June and the unit prices down.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
To one point one percent over the past year.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Eleanor Or Kray, senior economists there Ozzie's with a high
risk of developing lung cancer can now be screened for free.
The National Lung Cancer Screening Program will offer scans to
fifty to seven year olds who smoke or have a
history of smoking and do not have symptoms of lung cancer.
Its estimated nine thousand Aussies died from lung cancer last

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year alone. And the Canberra Liberals leader Lean Casley has
claimed the critical planning portfolio in her revamped shadow cabinet
after Peter Kaine's dramatic exit, Deputy Jeremy Hansen steps in
as shadow Attorney General while first term at Chiaka Bari
takes on the housing and homelessness. And that's the letters

(03:27):
in the news. We'll have another update for you right
here later today