Evening News Briefing - 15 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplified newsroom. I'm Hayden Visera. You See's
vice chancellor has apologized after admitting over fourteen one hundred
professional casual staff have been underpaid more than one and
a half million dollars since twenty nineteen. It's after a
review found professional casual overtime and minimum shift entitlements weren't
automatically applied. Vice Chancellor Bill Shorten says while fair work

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has been notified, there's still questions to be answered.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
How can some of these gaps be not observed for
six years? And that's what I want to understand. How
something could go for six years and not be identified
and I want to make sure that doesn't happen again.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
A special payroll compliance group has been set up and
there'll also be an investigation into potential casual academic underpayments.
The act Greens are calling for the Assembly to include
an extra ten politicians to help boost diversity and representation.
It's part of their submission to uninquiry looking into the
twenty twenty four The Greens say a thirty five member

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Assembly would mean more voices at the table and better
outcomes for our community. The Australian Medical Association says a
decision by the Farewell Commission to reject the union's proposed
wage increases for ACT public hospital doctors is deeply disappointing.
The Commission instead opted to grant the pay increase originally

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offered by the ACT government following years of negotiations. AMAACT
president doctor Kerry Ost says, it's particularly disappointing for junior doctors.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Speaking to our members last night, that was probably the
thing that they expressed the most disappointment about was our
capacity to attract and retain our future generation of doctors
in training.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Three Aussies currently face the death penalty formally charged with
premeditative murder in Indonesia. The trio, aged in their twenties,
are accused of fatally shooting a Melbourne man at his
Barley villa in June. If found guilty, the men could
face execution by the firing squad. Donald Trump is warning
her Master to return the bodies of all hostages and
hand over their weapons. The President warning if they don't disarm,

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the US will do it for them violently. Four out
of twenty eight bodies have now been returned. Israel now
closing the Raffa border restricting aid until the remaining bodies
are handed over. Election officials say it's getting harder to
monitor social media around elections, the AEC finding thirty eight
percent of influences breached electoral rules in the lead up

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to this year's poll. It's worried deep fake material will
become more prevalent if there isn't a crackdown. More support
for Canberra's careers with a new rest buy cottage opening today.
It has six overnight beds and ten flexible rest by
places for services during the day so cares can have
a break while their loved ones are cared for.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's really critical, really important. There is a shortage across
Canbra of this service and we've been working really closely
with the government to try and address that need.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
CEO of Cares, Caine Beckett. There a new A and
U study of Australians suffering from long COVID found fifty
nine percent still had symptoms six months after their initial infection.
In most cases, symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath and coughing.
Of those with persistent long COVID, around the third were
not fully back at work or study since six months

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after becoming infected. And the median age Australian's upbecoming parents
has risen once again. The latest figures from the Bureau
of Statistics show the average age for mothers is now
thirty two, while for fathers is just under thirty four.
And that's the letters from the Cambin news room this Wednesday.
Check back again tomorrow morning for our next updates.