Breakfast News Briefing - 19 November 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplify newsroom. I'm Ashley Nolan. Another eight
local public schools are set to reopen today, on top
of the seven announced yesterday as asbestos contractors work to
clear schools following the decorative colored sand recall. Eleven schools
remain closed today as testing and remediation work continues, which
could still take days. The full list of schools is

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up on the ACT Education director At website, and the
Education Minister says there'll be another update at twelve thirty pm.
The CSIRO Staff Association says the latest announcement of job
cuts at the CSIRO is devastating and is calling for
the Albanese government to commit to urgent funding for the organization.
It comes after the CSIRO announced up to three hundred

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and fifty research jobs will be asked from next year.
More than eight hundred research and science support roles have
already been lost across the organization over the past eighteen months.
The staff Association says the cuts come at a time
when Australia should be investing in and building up public science. ACT.
Independent Senator David Pocock, alongside consumer advocacy group Scam Victim Alliance,

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have written an open letter to the Big four banks
asking for more action. A new report found Ossie's lost
nearly two hundred and sixty million dollars to scammers in
the first nine months of this year.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's one of the really worrying things. If you look
at the statistics release, the value of scamming has gone up,
but the number of reports has gone down. So clearly
there's a lot of Australians out there who just go, well,
this is just happening. What's the point in actually reporting it.
We have to find a way to deal with that.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Westpac and Combat faced a Parliamentary committee yesterday of the issue. Today,
A and Zed and Nab in the hot seat. Two
five hundred and twenty nine shoes will be placed outside
Parliament House today to represent every male who took their
own life in the last year. President of Zero Suicide
Community Awareness program AT Paul Whittle says that one male

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dies by Susie site every three hours across Australia, which
all calling for a Minister for Men and Boys Health
and Welfare this International Men's Day.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
In twenty twenty three, we had a rise of one
hundred and five suicides. That rise was ninety seven men
and eight women. This year we've had a reduction of
seventeen women but a rise of one hundred and ten,
which then calling for a Minister for Men and Boys
helping welfare in our country for forty years.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
If you need support, called lifeline. On thirteen eleven fourteen,
as part of the Malonglow River Bridge project, Coppin's crossing
Road between Holborough and Hazelhawk Avenue will close for all
traffic until three pm. It's to allow concrete to be
poured on the recently installed precast deck slabs. Detours will
be in place. An Internet issue has taken down a

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number of services worldwide, including the websites of most Australian airports.
Cloud Flair says its global network was first experiencing issues
just before eleven pm last night, impacting Uber, Dropbox and
chat GBT. It follows a separate outage at some airports,
forcing staff to input flight plans manually. And that's the
latest of news. We'll have another update for you right

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here later to day.