Breakfast News Briefing - 15 April 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Darcy Franklin. The Prime
Minister has rejected concerns about Labour's extension to the First
home Buyers scheme. If re elected, the Labour government will
allow first home buyers to purchase a home with just
a five percent deposit, but some economists have described the
move as a dumpster fire. Anthony Albinizi telling the ABC

(00:22):
Labor will make a difference.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
We support increased supply of housing. Former government didn't even
bother to have a housing minister. Half the time they
are in office. They didn't support investment in public housing.
They still don't.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
We're being urged to roll up our sleeves and give
blood this Easter. Lifeblood is calling for donations, warning blood
supplies could be impacted as over a third of Australian's
planter travel over the break. Here in the act, they're
looking for an extra three hundred donors over the next
two weeks. As darstarded, all female crew has returned from
space with a new view of the world. Popstar Katie

(00:59):
Perry and five other women can now call themselves astronauts
after reaching more than one hundred kilometers above Earth on
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Rocket. Perry says it's like nothing else.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
It is the highest high and it is surrender to
the unknown.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Trust. Trump's tariffs might be having a bit of an
impact on gamers too, with Sony hiking the cost of
a PlayStation five by twenty five percent, it'll mean the
console will now cost eight hundred and twenty nine dollars
here in Australia. Sony citing a challenging economic environment for
the hike over to our property market, and the Act
has recorded its lowest auction clearance rates since twenty nineteen.

(01:39):
One hundred and ten auctions were held last weekend and
only forty one percent of properties sold, the lowest preliminary
result since June six years ago. The Act Greens have
teamed up with the Dying with Dignity Act to push
the Government to realign the current Voluntary Assist a Dying
Act to a more modern standard. Member for Ye Andrew

(02:00):
Braddock telling us changes need to be made to prevent
any more Canberans from suffering. The current scope of our
volunteerist dying scheme is too narrow, which means that many
Camberans who are suffering, who may be unable to access
volunteerissists to Die. Hungary has passed an amendment to their
constitution to ban public pride events, the latest move by
the populist government to restrict the rights of LGBT plus community,

(02:24):
sparking mass protests and some good news at the Bowser
ahead of easter. Pedrol prices across most of the capital
cities are set to fall as global oil markets react
to different effects of Donald Trump's tariff war. The cost
of crude oil has fallen nearly fifteen percent in two
weeks to its lowest levels since COVID times in twenty
twenty one. And that's the latest in the news. We'll

(02:46):
have another update for you right here later today.