Breakfast News Briefing - 26 November 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Ashley Nolan. There's a
severe weather warning for damaging winds in the ACT and
surrounding areas. The Weather Bureau says damaging wind gusts around
ninety k's an hour are expected to develop this morning
and continue through to the AVO before easing up tonight.
The act SS is encouraging us to get our homes
ready by putting away loose items in our yards and

(00:24):
moving cars undercover and away from trees. Former A and
U Vice Chancellor Genevieve Bell was paid more than four
hundred thousand dollars in severance after she resigned in September.
According to the ABC, the payout includes more than three
hundred and sixty thousand dollars in taxable income and more
than sixty thousand dollars in superannuation. Act Independent Senator David

(00:49):
Pocock has slammed the government's public service efficiency drive. Yesterday,
Finance Minister Katie Gallaher confirmed reports that departments need to
shave up to five percent off their budgets to curb
government spending. Pocock telling the ABC he's concerned about the
impact this will have on smaller agencies.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
You look at the AFP, CSIRO, the National Cultural Institutions,
there's not five percent of fat to trim there. They
are so lean they are often understaffed.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Fourteen million dollars is coming online to help support vocation
education students to complete their training in the ACT. The
joint funding from the Federal and Act governments will go
towards setting up a career hub and a grants program
to support services for students and apprentices who may be
at risk of not finishing their course. ACT Shelter is

(01:39):
celebrating fifty years helping Camberans with housing stress and homelessness.
CEO Current Dobson says, while it's important to stop and
reflect on the good work they've achieved, more needs to
be done.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
We certainly need to say increased investment in social housing.
That's always the backbone of supporting people on low incomes
who simply don't have options in the pre at market.
But we do also need to see more affordable housing.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Peter Dutton has been voted Australia's least popular major party
leader since nineteen eighty seven. A new poll by A
and U finding Dutton that lacked inspiration and compassion he.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Was seen to be not a strong leader, not very inspiring,
and people weren't trusting of them. And these are the
sorts of things that voters are looking for in terms
of leaders, and they simply didn't see that in Peter Dutton.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Professor Ian McAllister. There meanwhile, voters backed Labor as the
party better at managing the economy, four percent higher than
the coalition. And there's a step forward for peace in
Ukraine this morning. The United States says Ukraine has agreed
to its peace plan, with just minor details still to
be sorted. There's talk Voladimir Zelensky could visit Donald Trump

(02:50):
and Washington soon to finalize it. The Secretary of the
US Army is also meeting Russian officials in Abu Dhabi.
And that's the latest in news. We'll have an another
update for you right here later today