Breakfast News Briefing - 23 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Ashley Nolan. Capital Football
has announced changes to next season's National Premier League's competitions
after the collapse of Bengalen United. A bunch of clubs
have been invited to join the competitions after they were
reportedly previously relegated to other leagues by Capitol Football. NPL
Men will increase from ten to eleven teams and NPL

(00:24):
Boys will increase from ten to twelve teams. NPL Girls
will remain at eight, while an expression of interest will
be released for a possible seventh team for NPL women.
In twenty twenty seven, their support for moves to beef
up illicit tobacco and vape laws in the Act. The
Act Governments put forward changes that would boost powers to
inspect licensed tobacco retailers, seize illicit goods, and hand out fines.

(00:49):
Anita Mills from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Association
says it's a welcome step.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
From a community public health perspective. We continue to ask
for investment in to smoking harm reduction services and we
can see that that's a part of the bill that's
been brought before the Act. I just for have assembly Today.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
A second pet dog has reportedly died in as many
weeks after suspected contact with blue green algae. The Camber
Times reports Dax and Lily May went rapidly downhill after
playing on the banks of Lake Ginnindera, even though she
did not swim in the water. It comes after a
kelpie died just weeks earlier after swimming in the lake.

(01:28):
The lake remains open for swimming, although the City Services
website includes a warning for dog owners. The median house
price in the Act has jumped by over twenty five
thousand dollars in the September quarter, sitting at one point
one million dollars according to domain's latest report. Doctor Nicola
Powell says it's the strongest quarterly gain in a year

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and a half. While unit prices have seen a nine
thousand dollar drop to a median of almost six hundred
thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Demand is being fueled by lower interest rate. We've also
seen a rise in real incomes, but most importantly we've
seen consumer sentiment ride. And I think what we've seen
in Canberra is value has built up over time and
I think buyers out there for starting to realize.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
That Relationships Australia, Canberra and Regions is celebrating fifty years
of service in our community with a public gathering at
Civic Square this morning. CEO doctor Stephanie Hodson says it'll
feature a connection tree with locals invited to add a
written leaf about what connection means to them.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
We know that at the moment it can be hard
to be as connected as we used to be, and
this is about bringing community together to remind everyone let's
connect in person. Let's have a cup of coffees, and
we're inviting anyone from the community to drop in and
say hi.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
The service has supported more than eleven thousand people in
the last financial year alone, with things like personal crisis
and relationship breakdown, and some Samsung mobile phone devices have
been unable to connect to Triple zero according to testing
from Telstra the Talco revealing more than seventy models were
found not to be connecting correctly. It's understood affected customers

(03:08):
will be notified and that's the latest in news. We'll
have another update for you right here later today.