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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplify newsroom. I'm Darcy Franklin. ACT police
are calling for Camberans to work with them when it
comes to keeping everyone safe on our roads. Detective Acting
Inspector Sean Evans says avoiding the fatal five of drinking,
drug driving, speeding, fatigue, distraction and not wearing a seat
belt is essential and we can all play a part.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's up to the enforcement arms, ourselves and transport camera
but honestly, the biggest driver of how we're going to
change this behavior as our community members, and that's what
we're calling out for work with us.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It comes after the ACT recorded as ninth road fatality
for the year, after a twenty six year old man
died following a single vehicle collision in Curtain on early
Sunday morning. Climate experts say twenty twenty four is on
track to be the hottest year on record. In the
first nine months of this year alone, the average global
temperatures increased by more than one point five degrees. WMO
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Secretary General Celest Solo says, if the data is terrifying,
the base.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Of climate change in the space just one generation is alarming.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Research from the Australia Institute he in Canberra reveals the
New South Wales government's EV strategy is failing to boost
sales despite growing public interest. It comes as they found,
even though there's a fifty one percent of New South
Wales residents want to buy an electric vehicle, sixty percent
say the upfront cost is the biggest barrier. With EV
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sales down twenty five percent in the last quarter. They
are renewing calls for a policy rethink to align with
public sentiment. The Act Magistrate's Court has slammed police for
using excessive force during an arrant, calling the repeated taser
shocks gratuitous violence. Video footage showed the man already restrained
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on the ground being shocked five times as he screamed
in pain. Chief Magistrate Lorrain Walker ruled the police's actions
where unlawful, finding they failed to follow proper de escalation protocols.
Traditional owners have discovered four exhausted foreign nationals on Croger
Island in the Northern Territory. The group since been deported.
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Opposition leader Peter Dutton wants this could indicate a revival
of our smuggling people smuggling activities.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
This is now the twenty third boat arrival and it's
another one that's been undetected. Our borders are not secure
under the Urbaneza government. How can a boat make it
to the mainland without any detection whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Some concerning news from cantess as recent samples of what
customers believe is cocaine has been identified as heroine. It
follows a public drug warning from New South Wales Health
that is ongoing where the clinics found the sample to
be fifty percent cocaine and fifty percent heroin. It's prompting
fresh goals to for cam Bearans to test their staff.
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Thirty locals have set off on one hundred and forty
two k trek across Canberra Centenary Trail over the next
five days as part of the Men'slink Walk for twenty
twenty four. Benslink say it's all to raise funds to
support young Canberramen and travelers have now less choice for
domestic flights and effacing priceier tickets after Rex went into
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voluntary administration. The competition watchdogs found the average airfare on
all major city routes jumped by more than thirteen percent.
And that's the latest from the Canberra Newsroom. Check back
again tomorrow morning for our next update.