Breakfast News Briefing - 30 June 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Darcy Franklin. Two nurses
charged after allegedly making threats against Israeli patients on video
have now also been banned from working with NDIS participants.
The man and woman were stood down from their jobs
at New South Wales Health back in February after being
caught on camera while at Bankstown Hospital. A win for

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working mums in Canberra and around the country. From tomorrow,
working parents will now be paid super when they take
the government's paid parental leave.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
It would boost a mother of two's retirement savings by
almost fifteen thousand dollars by the time she reaches retirement
on average, and really start to fix the gender retirement.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Gap super members. Council CEO Missa Schubert there, the Act's
actually got the lowest gender super gap in the country
at six percent. That's five thousand, seven hundred dollars difference.
The jury in Erin Patterson's triple murder trial is set
to start deliberations today. The Mammoth trial is now entering
its tenth week after days of the judge handing down

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its final instructions. The mother of two is accused of
murdering her former in laws by allegedly serving them a
beef Wellington laced with deathcap mushrooms. A step forward in
protecting an iconic part of Canberra's skateboarding scene, the curved
brick walls at Erindale Skate Park are closer to being
heritage listed, with the Heritage Council calling for public feedback first.

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Locals are encouraged to have their say on the Tugrinong
Skate Park heritage nomination that has been accepted. Friends will
soon ban smoking on beaches and in parks and gardens.
The movies aimed at protecting children and will also see
the habit barred from schools, swimming pools and libraries with
a fine of around two hundred and forty Australian dollars.

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A thirty one year old deacon man has been changed
after the van he was driving allegedly crashed into a
home in Throsby in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Police alleged it failed to take a ben, left the road,
collected a light pole and collided with the front of
a house at around waive am. No one was hurt,
but the van ended up on its side and the
driver allegedly recorded a result ofero point one seventy one

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after a positive breath test. Another blow for cam Baron's
already struggling with the cost of living. Power prices are
set to jump by over ten percent from tomorrow, adding
around two hundred and fourteen bucks to the average household bill.
CEO of Vinnie's Cambra Golbern, Lucy Honan is worried it'll
push more people into energy.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Poverty, so this rise will hit low income households.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
The harvest and currently the demand for our Vinie's Home
energy efficiency program has been really high and we expect
to see more people forced to turn to us for
help to manage those bills. And Apple Studios has scored
its first box office hit with the Brad Pitt movie
F one. They're racing. Thriller ranked in fifty six million
dollars on its first opening weekend in the US and

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eighty eight million globally, and that's led us in the news.
We'll have another update for you right here later today.