Breakfast News Briefing - 12 September 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplified newsroom. I'm Ashley Nolan. The A
and U Chancellor has refused to say definitively there'll be
no more forced redundancies at the A and U. Those
calls grew louder after Genevieve Bell announced her resignation as
vice chancellor yesterday. Julie Bishop says they're going through all
of the change proposals.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
There are pathways to achieve our goals financial stability, and
we will look at every option. I believe involuntary redundances
should be the last option.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Meanwhile, advocates for the A and U School of Music
say while Professor Bell's departure is welcome, they're concerned the
fight to save the School of Music could still be
lost if job cuts go ahead. Australia's biggest spring Flower
festival kicks off tomorrow, with hundreds of thousands of visitors
expected to pack Commonwealth Park for Floriad over the next

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four weeks. Ross Triffett from Events ac Tis He says
this year's theme is science and nature.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
The garden bed designs this year are drawing inspiration from
scientific fields of physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology and botany.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
There will also be heaps of entertainment, music, cultural celebrations, workshops, food,
and of course night fest over the October Long weekend,
and you may have seen some of Camber's iconic locations
lit up green last night in support of the Raiders'
Finals campaign, while it's happening again tonight and over the weekend,
including the Illuma Cube in the City Light rail stops

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and Malcolm Fraser Bridge, to name a few. It's World
First Aid Day tomorrow, with new stats revealing big gaps
in first aid preparedness across the country. Thirty four percent
of ossies don't have a kid at home, the most
commonplace for injuries, while at seventeen percent don't have access
to one at home, work or in the car. CEO
of Saint John Ambulance Act, Martin Fiske says the message

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is simple.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
We really want people in Canberra to go and get
a first aid kit. If you've got kids, show them
where it is obviously safely, show them how to use
some basic stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
The FBI has released photos of a person of interest
in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the right wing activist
and Trump ally was shot dead at a college campus
event in Utah yesterday. With the gunman still at large.
Police have found the rifle used in the killing and
have released images of a college aged man wanted for questioning,

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as well as one hundred thousand US dollar reward for info.
And we heard this week about the twenty ninth zebra
fole born at the National Zoo and Aquarium. While the
competition has now opened to find a name for her,
there's a few rules you need to like the post
on the Zoo's socials, submit a name in Swahili language
starting with one of the letters in zebra, and share

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the meaning of the name. Submissions are open un till
twe twelve pm Friday next week. And that's the latest
in news. We'll have another update for you right here
later today.