Breakfast News Briefing - 21 November 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Ashley Nolan. A heads
up for light rail users. Services will be significantly stripped
back this weekend as work continues on the next stage
of light rail. The only trams that'll be running Tomorrow
and Sunday are from Sandford Street in Mitchell through to Gengaland.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
During this time, buses will replace light rail services between
Elinga Street and Santa Street in Mitchell. Buses will also
continue on to Well Station Drive for those people wanting
to get off and access the.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Park and ride Anthony Harraldton from Infrastructure Canberra. There Parts
of Northbourne Avenue will also be closed from eight pm
Tonight till six am Monday, with some delays expected. The
act Police Minister has apologized on behalf of the government
after an Aboriginal boy was mistakenly apprehended by police on

(00:49):
a Canberra bus last week. Marisa Patterson says she hears
the concerns raised by the family, the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander elected body and other stakeholders. She's offered to
meet with them and hopes to do that early next week.
Another six public schools will fully reopen in Canberra. Today,
one week on from the first school closures after the

(01:11):
decorative colored sandry call, eight schools are partially open, while
Malcara School and Neville Bonner School remain fully closed today
as remediation work continues. The ACT Independent Senator is concerned
by reports the federal government could ditch a recommendation to
introduce a phased in gambling ad ban, David Pocock as

(01:33):
it comes more than two years after a landmark report
was handed down calling for a ban on all gambling advertising.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
That has such strong community support, and yet we've seen
the government kick this down the road for two years
and now it sounds like they're capitulating in the face
of pressure from the gambling industry.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
The ACT government is looking at ways to use AI
to speed up planning processes. According to The Camber Times.
The Chief Minister reportedly told the Property Council's summit yesterday
there's a real opportunity for the Act to accelerate its
planning and assessment capacity through appropriate use of the technology,
and Drew Ba saying the tech could be used to
improve the accuracy of development assessment processes and increase the

(02:15):
number of approvals. The Weather Bureau is keeping a close
eye on tropical Cyclone Fena as it edges closer to
the Northern Territory coastal communities. It's currently a Category one storm,
but is expected to intensify again before making landfall at
the Coburg Peninsula tonight. Meteorologist Angus Hines says it could
pack quite the punch over the coming days.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
We are certainly talking about damaging to destructive wind gusts.
We could certainly see winds as well, and excess of
one hundred kilometers an hour potentially gusting up towards one
hundred and fifty kilometers an hour and some exposed coastal
parts of the Northern Territory.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
And the winners of the annual cbr Sport Awards have
been announced. Men's Athlete of the Year was awarded to
cyclist Jyvine, while the women's award went to aerial skieraw
Appeal and athletics champion James Turner was named Para Athlete
of the Year. The canber Raiders one Team of the Year.
And that's the latest in news. We'll have another update
for you right here later today