Evening News Briefing - 11 November 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifyed newsroom. I'm Hayden, VISERAH. A minute
silence has been held at services across the country today
for Remembrance Day. John King from the ACT branch of
the RSL says it's important to pause and remember.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Everyone pauses for a minute of silent reflection for those
who died while in military service in wars, conflicts, and
these days we also commemorate those peacekeepers that have died
trying to maintain peace.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Ossie's are also being encouraged to buy a poppy to
support veterans and their families. The head of the RSL
has criticized Australia's low defense spending. While delivering a speech
at the National War Memorial, Greg Mellick claims we are
not ready for war. He says Australia is not spending
enough to bolster defense and increase our reserves of ammunition
and fuel. The ACD has come in forth on a

(00:51):
list of the best and worst states for business in Australia.
A report from the Business Council of Australia puts US
in top spot when it comes to property tax and
retail trading hours. But the ACT is dead last on
payroll taxes. South Australia top their list overall as the
best place to do business. New research has found properties

(01:11):
eligible under the federal government's five percent deposit scheme are
blowing out in price. A study Biicotality has found properties
under eight hundred and fifty thousand have gone up by
two point one percent, or around seventeen thousand dollars in
the last month. Treasury modeling suggested the national property price
would only go up by point six percent over six years.

(01:34):
The number of poisonings from ADHD medication have quadrupled in
the past decade. A new study by the University of
Sydney has found more than three thousand Aussies were poisoned
in twenty twenty three, up from seven hundred and ninety
five back in twenty fourteen. Seventy two percent of unintentional
poisonings are among children under fifteen. A new statue will

(01:55):
be installed in Canberra to honor former Prime Minister Goff
Whitlam Anthony Abneasy and now that's the Commission. While speaking
in the Capitol last night to mark fifty years since
the dismissal, Member for Fenner Andrew Lee, says Whitlam was
a remarkable figure in Australian politics.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Really a towering figure and literally and figuratively who helped
to reshape Australia for the better. And having a statue
of goth I think will be as welcome as the
other statues around the place for Robert Menzie's, John Curtin
and others.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Troubling new data from Royal Life Saving Australia. It's found
that in the past ten years, one hundred and eighty
three kids aged four and under have drowned. Royal Life
Saving research and policy officer Lauren Miller says sixty five
percent of those weren't swimming pools.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
The majority occurred actually in a backyard swimming pool where
children often access the pool while on supervised through a
gate that had been propped open or not properly closed.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
A new report has found forty percent of Aussie athletes
aren't calling out racism and bullying Sport Integrity Australia finding
of the twelve hundred athletes and coaches surveyed believe their
reports wouldn't be taken seriously, and the Wiggles are promising
to raise awareness of button battery safety. It comes as
the consumer watchdog found the Emma Bo headbands were sold

(03:11):
without required safety warnings for nearly two years. A Triple
CED Deputy chair Katrina Lowe says the toys have now
been recalled, but parents.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Who have purchased these headbands should search their homes to
check if they have one, and they can check on
the a Triple C website.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
And that's the letters from the cabin newsroom this Tuesday.
Check back again tomorrow morning for our next updates.