Evening News Briefing - 19 December 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi there from the Amplify newsroom, I'm an abigach co.
A national gun buyback scheme's been announced, the biggest since
the Port Arthur massacre. The aim is to have hundreds
of thousands of firearms taken out of circulation. In the
aftermath of the Bondai terror attack, the Prime Minister has
also announced a national Day of Reflection for the fifteen

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victims killed in Sunday shooting.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
On Sunday, flags on all New South Wales and Australian
government buildings will be flown at half masted as a
mark of respect for the lives lost and the grief
shared across our nation.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
While the Jewish community will host a candlelight memorial outside
Parliament House Hearing, Canberra on Sunday night from six pm
to honor the victims. Everyone is welcome, with locals encouraged
to take a candle. Lifeblood Canberra has had more than
one thousand, three hundred local blunt donations this week after
the call went out following the Bondai attack.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
We would generally do two hundred and fifty donations a
day and this week we're averaging over three hundred, which
is incredible. With the record Hives donation of three hundred
and seventy three on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
That's Sally Devison from Lifeblood sending thanks to the community.
A New South Wales man has been charged after he
allegedly traveled from Sydney to Canberra to have sex with
a fourteen year old girl. Police alleged the twenty nine
year old initiated contact with the girl through social media
in January and had ongoing conversations that became sexualized, despite

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being aware the girl was only fourteen. Police say plans
were made to meet up in Canberra with a girl
making a report to police before the meeting. The man
was arrested at a Canberra hotel yesterday. A and New
students we'll get to learn from an internationally acclaimed finish
folk trio under a new partnership between the School of

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Music and National Folkfest. Professor of Music Chris Sainsbury says
playing in a national festival will give students a real lift.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
It's a bigger deal than playing a recital at the
end of semester in the in house classrooms, and this
is a different approach and another enabling approach to get
them interfacing with industry at a national level.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
The three day intensive kicks off at the end of March.
A and Z has been fined two hundred and fifty
million dollars by the Federal Course over several instances of misconduct.
Public bar in Monica has reopened after it was closed
for serious food safety breaches, and the Act has two

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unclaimed major lottery prizes from the last few years, with
locals urged to double check any old tickets. One from
twenty twenty two worth more than five hundred grand and
get this one from twenty twenty one, worth a whopping
four point eight million dollars. And that's the latest from
the care Ambery news room this Friday. Check back again

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in early January for our next update.