Breakfast News Briefing - 14 April 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Darcy. Franklin. Police have
charged two people after a nine year old boy was
accidentally shot in the neck on a rural property near Goulburn.
Emergency services were called to the property in Windela Mah
yesterday morning, but he couldn't be saved. A fourteen year
old boy has been charged and a thirty three year

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old man as well with allowing unauthorized persons to possess
a firearm. Both will appear in court. ACT Police are
asking for our help to find missing boy Levi all
to The fifteen year old hasn't been seen or heard
from since Wednesday night. Police say it's unusual for Levi
not to make contact with family and friends for this

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amount of time and there are concerns for his welfare.
There's a peak of Levi arp on the ACT Police
in Facebook page. Anyone with info is urged to get
in touch. Jim Chalmers has slammed the comments of the
federal government spending recklessly. It follows both parties focus on housing.
In yesterday's official campaign, launchers Labour pledging to spend ten

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billion dollars to build one hundred thousand new homes across
the country. We've got the budget in much better nick
and that's meant that we could make the room for
the sorts of commitments that we have been making in
a really responsible way. We're expected to find out who
will take over Brinda Billa Christian College before the start
of next term. It's after a built to shorten the
public consultation period was passed in the Assembly. It's understood

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three schools have submitted expressions of interest, so we really
welcome it and we think for the staff and the
students we now have some certainty going forward which will
help the school survive into the future. Secretary of the
Act Independent Education Union Carol Matthews there alsy travelers are
turning away from the US in rows, with the falling

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exchange train and Donald Trump's border policies getting the blame.
The country's plummeted to eighth on the least of preferred
destinations for Australian tourists, down from the top three in COVID.
The third week of campaigning is kicking off, with just
nineteen sleeps until the federal election. Both PM and Opposition
leader have efficiently launched their campaigns. Peter Dutton's promise to

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deduct mortgage interest payments for first home buyers taxable income,
while Anthony Alberanezi has pledged an instant one thousand dollars
tax deduction for all households. Camera's young people are being
celebrated over the next week as part of act's Youth Week,
Youth Minister Michael Patterson giving us a rundown on what
events we can expect. Film festivals, theater productions, are activities

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as well as sporting activities, and thousands of keen runners
have pounded the pavement for the Camera Marathon festival over
the weekend, Myles Golf coming in first yesterday, completing the
marathon in two hours and thirty minutes, with Nina Rrilsten
the first female across the line. And that's the leaders
in the news. We'll have another update for you right

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here on later today