Breakfast News Briefing - 7 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Ashley Nolan. The act's
road toll has risen to five for this year following
the death of a man in a motorbike crash on
Tidbin Biller Road yesterday afternoon. An ACT police officer observed
a group of motorbike riders allegedly speeding on the road
around noon yesterday. Soon after, police say one of those

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riders failed to take a right hand bend in the
road and collided with a tree. The fifty seven year
old man died at the scene. Life Blood Act is
urgently calling for plasma donors this International Plasma Awareness Week.
Plasma is now the most needed type of blood donation
in Australia and a record seventeen thousand, five hundred bags

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are required every week. ACTS spokesperson Rachel Wells on how
many new donors they need per week in the Capitol,
So in.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
The ACT we need an extra fifty donors a day
to come in and donate throughout the months of October
to help keep up with rising demand for pisma.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Almost one in three Canberans had low levels of well
being in the last year. That's according to the University
of Canberra's latest Living Well survey. Despite a decline in
levels of wellbeing, Canberra continues to have some of the
highest rates of wellbeing across the nation due to higher
average incomes and livability of the territory. But you see

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Professor Jackie Shermas, his loneliness is a real challenge for
a lot of Canberans.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
We tend to feel less socially connected than in a
lot of other regions of Australia, and that may reflect
that we've got a lot of people who move into
Canberra and have come from somewhere else and it can
take a while to build those social networks.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
The heads of Optus, Telstra and TPG have been summoned
to Canberra today for please explain. Legislation is likely being
introduced into Parliament this week for a new triple zero
custodian It comes after a series of outages where people
were unable to make calls to emergency services. The Australian
Defense Department is being accused of high details about what

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it supplies to Israel. It's believed that Australia has been
involved in supplying parts for F thirty five fighter jets,
with Israel admitting it's been using the jets to bomb Gaza.
The Greens and human rights advocates want assurances from the
federal government that Australia is not breaching international obligations. And
Canberra cinemas were jam packed over the weekend with thousands

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of Swifties for the pop singer's three day only release
of her feature film for her new album, Hoyt's Dandy.
Limelight Cinemas and Palace Electric put on multiple sessions per day,
some starting from five am. CEO of Limelight Cinemas, Ross
and Twistles says it was an incredible turnout for Camberans.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
There's nothing that even comes close to delivering what Tyler
Swift can deliver. We've never seen anything like it from
a singular artist like that. Quite incredible and.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
That's the latest and news. We'll have another update for
you right here later today.