Breakfast News Briefing - 9 September 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplified newsroom. I'm Ashley Nolan. Raiders' members
have been fast to snap up tickets to Sunday's qualifying
final against the Broncos and Canberra. It's understood those for
ticketed members were sold out within two and a half hours,
while there were lines outside Songland Records for physical tickets.
There'll be a limited allocation made available to the general

(00:23):
public from ten this morning. The Australian Education Union has
welcomed Education Minister of it Berries confirmation that around seven
hundred temporary positions will be saved next year. ACT Branch
President Angela Burrows says the ACT public school system operates
on a basis of around one thousand temporary staff to

(00:45):
help fill gaps.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
We are in our situation where our schools don't have
enough staff already, so to cut further staff positions would
be devastating to the provision of education in our territory.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Life Blood urgently needs one thousand additional donors and the
ACT across the next two weeks to help keep up
with demand with a spike in cancelations over the winter months.
ACT spokesperson Jemma Falkenmeier says the extra one thousand donors
needed is on top of their current appointments.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
If somebody is in an accident or a trauma situation,
that can take up to one hundred donors to treat them.
And similarly that we've got a lot of cancer patients
who really regularly need those transfusions.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Travelers can have their say on a federal government aviation
protection scheme which would see passengers receive compensation if their
flight gets canceled or delayed. Data released last month showed
cancelations with the highest on the Canberra to Sydney route
at ten percent, compared with the national average of three percent.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
All right, now, there's no national standards that say what
remedies passengers get if their flights are delayed or canceled.
We know that the Sydney leg has the highest rate
of flight cancelations of any in the country.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Assistant Minister for Treasury Andrew Lee. There fifteen Camber landmarks,
including Questcon and the Royal Australian Mint will light up
bread throughout this month for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Christi
Cocotis from the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, says
a new study estimates around one million ausies have the condition,

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but many don't know due to misdiagnosis.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is a lifelong disability caused by
alcohol exposure during pregnancy. It's actually the leading preventable non
genetic developmental disability in Australia.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
And that's the latest in news. We'll have another update
for you right here later today