Breakfast News Briefing - 17 July 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi there from the Amplifying newsroom, I'm an abigatco. Hundreds
of Camberans shivered through a chilly morning without their heaters.
It's after a power outage impact in more than two
thousand customers in parts of bel Connan, Krase, Giulang, Gungalan, Madura,
Nichols and Simon Steen. Russia has been called on to

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admit its shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH seventeen over
Ukraine eleven years ago today. The crash killed two hundred
ninety eight people, including thirty eight Australians. Europe's top human
rights court laid the blame squarely at Russia last week.
Our Attorney General, Michelle Rowland says it must confess. We

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call on Russia to face up to its responsibility for
this horrific act of violence and to make full reparations
as required under international law. Victorian police have identified another
childcare center where accused pedophile Joshua Brown worked. The total
number listed now twenty four. The now twenty six year
old is facing more than seventy offenses and worked just

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one day at some centers. Meantime, two childcare workers have
been charged with assaulting a toddler in Sydney. The parents
of murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio say they feel relief
following the death of his killer, Bradley John Murdock, dying
from throat cancer without revealing the location of the twenty
eight year old's body. Peter's parents have released a statement

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saying they still hold out hope his remains will be found.
Concerns it's getting even harder to deliver homes across Canberra.
It's as new abs Starter shows just seven hundred and
fourteen homes were completed during the March quarter, well below
the one thousand and forty seven target, while building started
on just four hundred and twenty seven homes, down from

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seven hundred and seventeen. Ashley Bury from the Local Property
Council says the government needs to step up.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
We've welcomed the creation of the New City and Environment
Directorate by the Act Government. Now it's time to get
on and deliver fast approvals, clear rules and projects getting
off the ground. That's what it needs to look like.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
The new Wolden c It is finally ready to open,
welcoming students from next week. Minister for Skills and training.
Michael Petterson says there's sixty six learning spaces across a
range of industries.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
There are classrooms that cover over twenty four different industries,
whether it be for hairdressing, cooking, fashion, it, cybersecurity or business.
There are bits for purpose facilities that will provide world
class trading spaces.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Up to six and a half thousand students are expected
to attend each year. A wombat Reporting portal's been set
up to help wildlife groups and the Act government document
where wombat populations are and if they're healthy. Locals are
encouraged to report sick and healthy wombat sidings online or
by calling Access Canbra and Harry Potter star Emma Watson

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has been banned from getting behind the wheel for six
months after being caught speeding. And that's the latest in news.
We'll have another update for you right here later today.