Breakfast News Briefing - 4 December 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yuma. Good morning. I'm Ashley Nolan. A twenty two year
old man has died following a two vehicle collision on
Brindabella Road south of Yuriarra Village yesterday afternoon. Police say
the man died at the scene after the motorbike he
was riding collided with a Honda SUV just before five pm.
This is the eighth road death in the Act this year,

(00:21):
and the fourth involving a motorbike. Camberans no longer need
a license disbestos removalists to step in if they're in
possession of recalled colored sand at home. As for workplaces,
removing the sand can now be done by a competent person,
like someone who's done appropriate training under work health and
safety laws, but isn't necessarily a licensed removalist. It follows

(00:44):
the recent school closures where licensed workers had to be
brought in to sort it out. If locals choose to
get rid of the sand themselves, there's advice on the
Work Safe Act website on how to do it safely.
The local Cancer Council has welcomed news laws have been
pass to explicitly ban the sale of illicit tobacco in
the Act. The laws also give officers stronger powers to

(01:07):
inspect licensed tobacco retailers, sees illegal goods and dish out fines.
CEO Verity Hawkins says it's a positive move.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
We're really still losing too many Canberons every year to
smoking related illnesses, so everything that we can do to
prevent smoking and use of vaping to prevent tobacco use
is a step in the right direction.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
A new housing project's been launched to help single women
struggling to break into the housing market. Expressions of interest
are open for the Act's first build to rent to
buy program, with twenty two houses to be built in Strathnan.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
The program works essentially through paying affordable rent for a
period of time, using that period to accumulate savings, and
at the end of the ten years, the tenant would
have the option of purchasing.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
The PROPERTYCHC Australia CEO Nathan Dalbonne there Meanwhile, new laws
have been passed to get more homes built quicker in
the Act. The legislation now applies to both public and
community housing, removing third party appeals that can cause big
hold ups. Since twenty nineteen, there's been twenty appeals on

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public housing projects delaying over one hundred public homes and
the Libs will move emotion in the Assembly today calling
for our Education Minister to ensure all students who want
to study languages at year eleven and twelve next year
are given options to do so. It's after it was
revealed CIT won't be accepting new enrollments into eight our

(02:34):
language courses from twenty twenty six. Shadow Youth and Families
Minister Chaka Barry says while the government says there are options,
they're not realistic.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
For example, our childhood is in Lake ginidera would have
to travel kilometers away from that catchment area to see Dixon,
for example, to study a language of their choice. I
don't think that's a susceptible.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Solution and that's the latest news. Will have another update
for you right here later today