Breakfast News Briefing - 6 May 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Darcy Franklin. ACT Police
is looking for public's assistance in locating twenty one year
old Jamie Barry and twenty nine year old Elliott Smith Benzi,
who are both wanted in connection to separate family violence incidents.
There's a photo of both up on the ACT Police's website.
The public is advised not to approach either individual. Anyone

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with information should immediately contact ACT Police on one three
one triple four. Despite a dip in her Senate vote,
Katie Gallaher has successfully retained her seat as an ACT
elected member and is eager to continue delivering for Canberrans
in the next term. While some of her votes shifted
to Independent opponent David Pocock, Gallaher picked up zero point

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nine percent of the quota needed to secure one of
the two available seats before preferences. Penny Wong says Australia
will fight against any new tariffs being imposed by Donald
Trump on the film industry. The US president has announced
he wants a one hundred percent tariff on all all
movies made outside of the States. The Foreign Fairs Minister

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telling nine ossies do a lot of work within American film,
Australian actors and American films, Australian cruise working on US films. Please,
tariffs really don't reflect the reality of the cooperation and
collaboration between our country. The luxury contacts could be abolished
as Anthony Alberanzi works to secure a trade deal with Europe.
The diversification push is a bid to write out the

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chaos course by Donald Trump's tariffs, which have decimated Europe's
car industry. The tax makes Australians around one point two
billion dollars a year. The mcgala has kicked off in
the rain in New York City. Lewis Hamilton, Sydney Sweeny,
j Low and Coleman Domingo have already walked to the carpet.
Two young boys have been found dead at a home

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in Country New South Wales. Police found the six and
seven year old during a welfare check in Kuonibarra Brand
yesterday after receiving reports of concern. A sixty six year
old woman was arrested at the scene and taken to hospital.
It's still too close to call in the act seat
of being following the weekends federal election. In the latest

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count Labour's David Smith is just ahead on fifty one
percent two candidate preferred to Independent Jesse Price's forty nine percent,
according to data from the AEC. Meanwhile, in the Senate,
Labour's Katie Gallaher has been re elected. An act government
push to exempt public housing approvals from appeals has been

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knocked back by a Legislative Assembly committee inquiry. It's found
proposal laws to ban appeals against public housing approvals shouldn't
get the go ahead, finding there were better ways to
speed up public housing. Andrew Hastey has ruled himself out
of the Liberal leadership race after their election wipeout. Angus
Taylor is now the front runner over Susan Lee and

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Dan Tayan, and jury's election for musician Sean Diddy Coombe
sex traffic contrial has begun in New York. Potential jurors
being asked if they had any history with sexual assaults
or other trauma and if they could be impartial in
the trial. And that's the letters in the news. We'll
have another update for you right here later today.