Breakfast News Briefing - 4 July 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Darcy Franklinton. Russian President
Vladimir Putin is refusing to budge on the war in
Ukraine despite an hour long phone call with Donald Trump.
The Kremlin says Russia's goals in Ukraine remain the same.
Putin says there will be no backing down. Civic will
come alive with the daily Fire performance at Circus as

(00:21):
musical theater and comedy shows for fifteen days from tomorrow
for Winter in the City. Event manager Christy Clark explains
why there's no ice drink this year.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
You've pivoted to offering free, family friendly entertainment so that
it's more accessible for everybody in Canberra to come and
see some fabulous free shows people like Circus OZ.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
A member of this year's Premier League winning Liverpool football site,
has died in a car crash. Diogo Jota and his
brother have been killed while driving a Lamborghini through Spain.
Investigators think a tire blew out, sending the car off
the road and burst into flames. Jodah had only married
his childhood sweet ten days earlier. Australian TV Royalty has

(01:04):
arrived in Canberra. With the Mister Squiggle exhibition open at
the National Museum today. It includes all the favorites from
the much loved TV show, as well as lots of
other objects from Northern Heatherington, The Creative Genius behind The
creative Genius behind Mister Squiggle. New powers will be given
to federal offices to conduct random spot checks on childcare centers.

(01:25):
They would normally require a warrant and comes as a
Melbourne childcare worker has been charged with more than seventy
child sexual abuse offences. Independent MP and doctor Sophie Scams
telling Nine she supports it.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
There need to be spot checks where there's no preempting
what the result's going to be. We need to see
this happen and we need to have really happen very soon.
So looking forward to getting that through in Parliament when
we return in a.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Those affected by the Quantus cyber attack are being urged
to switch from SMSMFA to authentication apps for better protection.
Experts say hackers with act System mobile numbers have the
potential to crack into online banking. The National Cybersecurity Center
urging anyone who gets unsolicited emails, tanks or phone calls
not to respond. There's fresh calls for a change of

(02:12):
leadership at the a and U after another round of
job carts were announced. This time nearly sixty positions are
expected to go from Research and Innovation, the College of
Science and Medicine and the College of Arts and Social Sciences.
Union Rep Doctor Lachlan Colossi says the Vice Chancellor knows
the cost of staff, but not the value of them.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
This is something we need to change at the Australian University.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
We have this terrible situation where the university itself needs
to be protected from its own leadership.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
The search continues for survivors after a ferry sank off
Indonesia's tourist island of Balley. At least six people have
died and dozens are still missing. And the sale of
electric vehicles have dropped despite over one hundred models on
the market. It's been blamed on the cost of living
and a lack of charging points. The amount of ev
passenger and sports utility cars sold fell four and a

(03:00):
half percent. However, there's been an increase in the purchase
of hybrid