Evening News Briefing - 1 May 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi there from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Rene bigat COO.
The Shadow Treasurer is defending the coalition's costings despite it
showing bigger deficits than labor for the first two years.
Angus Taylor, saying there is a fourteen billion dollar improvement,
is also promising they'll provide a forty billion dollar reduction
in gross debt.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You will not see a permanent cost of living crisis
under a Dutton government. Fix the household budgets fast, get
them moving back on track and then focus on making
sure we've got strengthening government budgets. And that's exactly what
you see in these numbers.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Meanwhile, Anthony Alberzi doesn't think there's anything wrong with taking
the election campaign into a school. He's been in Perth
today spooking the government's education policies, the PM saying where
else would he go to announce the funding?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
How do you tell people that we're giving schools better
funding without going into a school. And one of the
great privileges that I've had as Prime Minister is going
into schools and going into early education.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Since one of our big events is returning with spilt milk,
coming back to Canberra in December after it was axed
last year. The event has secured ACT government funding with
a big headline ACT to be revealed next week. A
twenty four year old Kayleen man faces animal cruelty charges
after he allegedly killed two kangaroos by deliberately crashing into

(01:26):
them with his four wheel drive. Police say the man
recorded himself doing it in April last year, sparking an investigation.
The hunts on for three men over a violent robbery
in nune A. Wall Police say the trio, armed with
a gun and baseball bats, broke into a house last month,
assaulted a resident and stole several items. Their CCTV images

(01:49):
on the ACT Policing website. The estranged husband of the
woman accused of serving a toxic mushroom lunch to her
in laws has taken the stand at her murder trial today,
Simon Patterson, testifying that it was rare for the fifty
year old to invite people to their home. Aaron Pattison
on trial for the murder of Simon's parents and his

(02:10):
aunt Ossie. Researchers have found a link between endometriosis and
early menopause. According to experts from the University of Queensland.
Women suffering with the condition have a higher risk of
starting menopause before forty and Vinnis has kicked off its
twenty twenty five winter appeal, aiming to raise four hundred

(02:32):
and fifty thousand dollars to help locals in Neat, particularly
those at risk of homelessness and poverty. And that's the
latest from the Camber news room this Thursday. Check back
again tomorrow morning for our next update.