Breakfast News Briefing - 5 January 2026

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Ashley Nolan. A severe
heat wave warning is in place for the ACT, with
a prolonged period of heat forecast to build over the
territory this week. The Weather Bureau says the severe to
extreme heat wave will peak mid to late this week,
with maximum temperatures reaching the high thirties. The heat wave
is expected to ease, with milder temperatures possible from later

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next weekend or early the following week. ACT police are
seeking witnesses to an alleged road rage incident in Dixon
on Friday night. Police alleged there was an altercation between
two groups of men outside the Dixon KFC around ten
thirty pm. They say one group left in the Toyota
Camri sedan while the other group pursued them in a

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white Toyota Corolla. The vehicles soon came to a halt
on Moat Street, where it's alleged a man in the
Corolla threw a hammer at the Camri, breaking the back window.
Anyone with info about the incident should contact crime stoppers.
Cet Rural Fire Service have continued to monitor three bush
fires burning an Imagine National Park overnight and advice stay

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informed warning remains in place for the fires near Cotta
Hut and Bandora Dam. Work to contain the fires will
continue today with favorable weather conditions expected. There's no immediate
threat to life or property. Nicholas Maduro has spent the
night in a New York prison cell following his capture
by US special forces. The austed Venezuelan leader was taken

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part of an operation to bring him to the United States.
U S President Donald Trump, adding he would now run
the South American nation. The federal government continues to face
pressure to call a royal commission into the Bondai terror attack.
Nine newspapers reports the coalition is looking to force Labour's
hand by employing similar tactics used back in twenty seventeen

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that led to a Royal commission into banking. The Albanesi
government will conduct a review into intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
A new Year's boost for OSSIE parents with kids now
guaranteed three days of subsidized early education and childcare each week.
The federal government's new three day guarantee kicks in today.
It replaces the old activity tests, so families don't have

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to prove their working or studying to qualify. Seven people
have been rescued in floodwaters north of Townsville. Authorities are
deploying additional SES crews as heavy rain and floods continue
to cut off communities in the region. And King Charles
has now overtaken Princess Anne as the hardest working royal

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and analysis of engagements finding the monarch conducted more last
year than his younger sister. Despite undergoing weekly cancer treatment.
Charles attended five hundred and thirty three engagements and conducted
four hundred and seventy eight. And that's the latest to news.
We'll have another update for you write here later today