Evening News Briefing - 13 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Tamara Cartwright. A major
step but in the Middle East peace plan, as Hama's
hands over the first seven Israeli hostages. The hostages are
now being reunited with their families at a nearby military
base and receiving medical checks. Coalition Senator Dave Sharma says
he expects all twenty living hostages to be returned.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
The pressure that's been brought to bear on her masks
diplomatic and military, and especially from Qatar and Turkey in
Egypt will make sure that they implement this phase today
and that will be rightly of tremendous joy to people
in Israel and their families, but of course it should
be for everyone around the world too.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Some major changes to superannuation are being rolled out. Federal
cabinet has agreed to six changes to make the system
stronger and fairer. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says it'll include an
increase to the low income super tax offset.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
This means a better deal for low income workers and
also better targeted concessions for the biggest balances. This will
make the superannuation system fairer from top to bottom.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Federal police have confirmed they are investigating whether Lydia thought
broke any laws when she threatened to burn down Parliament House.
The Independent Senator made the comments at a pro Palestinian
rally in Melbourne. The senator claims the marks were just
a figure of speech. The Home Affairs Minister is urging
Quantus customers not to go looking for their data on

(01:25):
the dark web. It comes as the data of millions
of customers, including names, emails, birthdays and some phone numbers,
was leaked by hackers in a breach of software giant Salesforce.
CARES Act is encouraging Canberrans to recognize all the carers
around them. This National Care Is Week. In the Act,
approximately fifty nine thousand careers provide unpaid care to family

(01:48):
members and friends.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
CARES Week is about supporting the health and wellbeing of
our careers and ensuring that they have the chance to
connect and feel valued. The work that CARES do is
really vital and Kere's Week is all about the community
recognizing and valuing.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
That CEO Cane Beckett there Australians and not having enough
babies to replace the population. According to new research, fertility
has been falling since the sixties, but now sits at
one point five berths per female, well below the two
point one needed to keep the population steady. People having
fewer kids is to blame, usually due to cost career

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goals and access to child's care, and to blow for
colorful pencil cases everywhere. Smiggle has closed fifty six stores
globally due to tight online competition with companies like Amazon
and Tamu. The stationary brand's sales fell ten point seven
percent in twenty twenty five year on year to two
hundred and sixty four million dollars. And that's the latest

(02:50):
from the Camperur news room this Monday. Check back again
tomorrow morning for our next update.