Evening News Briefing - 18 November 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplify newsroom. I'm Tamara Cartwright. The Woden School,
a Randa Primary and Evelyn Scott School are three of
seven schools reopening tomorrow from full closure. Today, the ACT
government giving their latest update on school closures following the
decorative colored sand recall. The most up to date information
is available on the ACT Education Director at websites. Up

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to three hundred and fifty research roles of being slashed
from the National Science Agency CSIRO, announcing conversations with staff
will get underway tomorrow as they look at cutting costs.
The job losses will come from across the country. More
than a thousand Cambarans work there. Tel Code TPG has
confirmed a person has died after a customer was unable

(00:43):
to contact Triple zero. The incident happened in Sydney last Thursday.
TPG says the person trying to call emergency services was
using an older Samsung phone with outdated software. Police are
looking for witnesses and dashcam footage after a child was
allegedly struck by a car outside a North Side school
in late October. Police say they were called out to

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Gold Creek High School in Nichols around eight thirty am
on October twenty three. The child was treated by paramedics
before being taken to hospital with minor injuries. The ACTS
Australians of the Year have been named Overnight Professor Rose
McGready took out the top honor, recognized for her work
providing health services to displace people in the border region

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between Thailand and Mamma, while the act's local hero, former
Brumbies player Ben Alexander, says his work in the mental
health space with Running four Resilience is a team effort.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
IM there really proud of everything that we do and
just want every one to know it is a really
big team effort and so many people behind all the
great work that Running Brazilians are doing.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Women's football pioneer The Red is our ACT Senior Australian
of the Year and our Young Australian of the Year
is Historical Tourism Company founder Cedar Sergeant. A review into
the rostering model adopted by the ACT Ambulance Service last
year says the roster was not up to succeed under
current conditions. The review says implementing the new operational staffing

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roster has been undermined by persistent workforce shortages, under resourcing,
increased demand and weaknesses in governance and Change Managementact Commissioner
Wayne Phillips says there is a recruitment plan in place.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
We'll go to recruitment plan in place. Chief officers working
this morning with the TWU, the paramedics and we'll go
out and start recruiting for more paramedics. We've got more
coming in some lateral entries. We've got some new grad
program coming in.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
The Commonwealth Bank boss doesn't think we'll see an interest
rate cut in twenty twenty six. He's told of parliamentary
hearing that inflation is higher than expected, adding its unlikely
rates will move in the near term. And Cambridge Dictionary's
word of the year is parasocial. It's used to describe
the connection people feel with someone they don't know, like
a famous person or a book character. And that's the

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latest from the Cameron newsroom this Tuesday. Check back again
tomorrow morning for our next stop date.