Evening News Briefing - 14 July 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm tomorrow. Cartwright moves to
lift restrictions allowing gay and bisexual men, including transgender women,
to donate blood and plasma has been welcomed by the
Act Government. From today, donors will no longer be asked
most sexual based deferrals, Recognized as a milestone moment for
equality within the nation's healthcare system. Plasma receiver Hailey Teasdale

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shares how excited she is for the change.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is a really important moment for this community to
have more people able to donate bloody plasma. It's just
such a huge moment for a community that's been just
wanting to donate for so long, and I'm so excited
for all our new donors.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Questions about gender and sexual orientation for over sixteens will
be sent out in a practice census next month. The
Bureau of Stats says more than sixty thousand homes will
take part in the trial to make sure the official
survey next year runs smoothly. It's the first time the
census will include the questions after the PM backflipped over

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his earlier decision to leave it out. Canberra urgently needs
supervised injecting services to help keep people safe. That's the
core from Uniting New South Wales and ACT. They're calling
on the government to implement the service following a recent
report that revealed nearly four times as many people died
from unintentional drug induced deaths in twenty twenty one then

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in road accidents.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
What we do when we say a stay with us
is we say we're going to be with you and
we're going to make sure that you're safe. And that's
a huge benefit because these are people that are loved
and we want to make sure that people stay alive.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Alice Salomon, head of advocacy at Uniting ACT. There internal
treasury notes reveal the federal government has been worn to
cut spending and raise taxes if it wants to fix
the budget. The documents accidentally shared to the ABC also
reveal Labour's signature housing target is unachievable, has pledged to

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build one point two million new homes within five years.
We're being urged to sign up for a free diabetes
health check, with figures showing more than five hundred thousand
ossies are living with undiagnosed type two diabetes. It's National
Diabetes Week with another two million of US at risk
of developing the illness. Three hundred and sixty six junior

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soccer teams have descended on the nation's capital for the
annual Kanga Cub kicking off today. It's the largest youth
tournament in the Southern Hemisphere for under nine to eighteen
year olds, and schools are being encouraged to introduce lunchtime
trivia to help boost teacher morale. It's one of forty
one recommendations made by Ossie researchers in a bid to

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retain staff at Ossie schools amid a teacher shortage crisis.
And that's the latest from the Camberur newsroom this Monday.
Check back again tomorrow morning for our next update.