Breakfast News Briefing - 21 July 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying Newsroom. I'm Hayden Visarah. Local businesses,
industry groups, NGOs and unions are set to come together
for a camera focused economic reform roundtable next month. It's
been put on by the Act's Federal Labor pollies ahead
of the Federal Treasurer's National Roundtable. ACT Senator Katie Gallahers

(00:22):
says it's vital camera voices are heard in the national
conversation on productivity and economic resilience. Support for the Coalition
has dropped to its lowest level in forty years. Today's
News poll has Labor racing ahead in the primary vote
thirty six percent to twenty nine percent, while Albo has
seen a twenty percent leg up on Susan Lee. Nationals

(00:45):
MP Barnaby Joyce on seven saying the numbers are brutal.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think the first thing you do is you'd be
honest about them. Let's be frank, any person in a
Lower House seat, in your House representative seat, if you
had a three in front of your number on your
primary vote, you'd be very, very worried.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Parliament returns tomorrow. Meanwhile, the forty eighth Parliament will sit
this week back for the first time since Anthony Aberese's
May election win. The federal governments planning to hit the
ground running and deliver on its promise to a one
off twenty percent cut on hex debt. Urgent child care
reform will also be on the cards. The Act Greens

(01:21):
have welcomed the Act Government's decision to not go ahead
with a new eleven dollar fee for volunteers to get
a working with Vulnerable People card Green's MLA Laura Nuddles
says it's good news for the local volunteering community.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
We are absolutely we were really worried about this eleven
dollar fee and what it meant for volunteers. We know
how valuable volunteers are in our community and the hard
work that they do, so we were very very pleased
to acc Labor government through discrapt the fee.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is sending a team up
from Canberra to investigate that deadly plane crash near to Woomba.
Two men were killed when the Cessna crashed into a
paddock close to Oakley yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
We're only obviously really less than a day into this
will arrive on site. I've got a team coming up
from Canberra. We believe it was conducting, most likely an
instrument landing system approach into oak Now what has gone wrong,
we don't.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Know, Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell on nine. There forensic testing
is now under way. ACT students are heading back to
the classroom for term three from this week, with local
drivers being reminded to slow down around school zones. Forty
k speed limits will be back and forth in school
zones from this week between eight am and four pm.

(02:38):
The new coiit Woden campus is set to open today.
The purpose built campus features modern teaching facilities and technology
and will welcome more than six and a half thousand
students each year.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
The new campus is really a purpose designed facility so
that students can get real world experiences in a whole
range of industry areas. In fact, there's about twenty four
different industries included on this one vertical campus.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
C CEO Margot McNeil there and Donald Trump is marking
his six month anniversary back in the White House. The
US President was sworn in on January twenty his second
term back in the Oval office. He's taken to truths
social claiming it's been one of the most consequential periods
of any presidents. And that's the letters in the Camber

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news room so far. We'll have another update for you
right here later on today