Breakfast News Briefing - 6 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying Newsroom. I'm Hayden. VISERAH caught today
freud twenty three year old Chisholm men after an alleged
aggravator burgery where a mother and son were threatened with
a taser over the weekend. ACT Police alleged the man
threatened a woman and her son in their Duffy home,
demanding prescription drugs and cash. After speaking to the alleged
victims and a witness, police later located the vehicle the

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man fled in in a different Duffy residence. The man
was later arrested and now faces multiple charges. The bosses
of Optus, Telstra and TPG have been ordered to Canberra
for crisis talks after last month's fatal triple zero outage.
Communications Minister Anika Wells says she wants assurances Australians can
trust the emergency network ahead of disaster season. New rules

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from November one WILF force telcos to share real time
outage data with emergency services less than a week and
two bushfire season and new AI powered cameras could be
a game changer in stop fires before they spread. The
system can detect smoke and heat and alert emergency services
within minutes. Cameras across New South Wales and Victoria will

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scan one point two million hectares of bushland. The Quembian
Power Rain Council are calling for nominations for the region's
Citizen of the Year. It's part of the twenty twenty
six Australia Day Awards for awards presented on the public holiday.
There will also be two new categories, Senior Citizen of
the Year and Community Organization of the Year. Hundreds of

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Aussie women are dying from heart attacks each year because
their treatment is not equal to men. According to new research,
a University of Sydney studies found sixteen percent fewer women
undergo life saving treatment after heart attacks compared to men.
Part of the issue is that male symptoms are more
well known than females. Aldi is still Australia's cheapest supermarket chain,

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but the gap is closing. New data reveals Aldi and
Costco took more than seventeen and a half a billion
dollars from the big Aussie players last financial year, according
to the Australian Coles and woolies responding by increasing their
own home brand offerings. New figures from the Royal Australian
College of GPS show almost a third of doctors have

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seen racism towards patients. In the past year. Around two
in ten GPS personally experienced racism from a patient within
their practice, and doctors are calling for a national task
force to tackle racism across the healthcare system. New polling
out this morning puts Anthony Aberzi a whopping twenty two
percent ahead of Opposition leader Susan Lee as preferred Prime

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minister fifty two percent to thirty newspoll in Today's Australian
also puts the government fourteen points in front of the
coalition after preferences and cam Berns flocked the cinemas over
the weekend for the three day only release of Taylor
Swift's film about her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl.
Cambra cinemas like Hoyts, Dandy, Limelight and Palace Electric have

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been showing the movie, which finalizes tonight, Dandy hosting around
fifteen sessions per day, whilst Limelight Cinemas in Tagronong started
showing the official release party of a Show Goal from
five am on Saturday. And that's the letters to News.
We'll have another update for you right here, at around lunchtime,