Evening News Briefing - 19 November 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi there from the Amplify newsroom. Iborn Aby gatco another
update on the school closure saga. Following the decorty of
colored Sand recall, the Education Ministers announced seven more Canberra
schools are set to be fully open from tomorrow. Independent
Senator David Pocock has slammed the CSI Rose decision to

(00:21):
acts up to three hundred and fifty research jobs from
next year, including ACT jobs.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I don't think many Australians would have expected job cuts
under the Albanezy Labor government that now exceed those under
the Tony Abbott government like this is a tragedy for
the CSIRO.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Meanwhile, University's Australia has also weighed in calling for more
investment in our research sector. A seventeen year old boy
has been charged after allegedly striking a woman with a
machete at a Tagrinong shopping center on Monday night. Police
alleged the team struck the woman on the arm, causing
bruising after threatening to kill her following an argument. The

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Treasurer has refused to comment on whether the latest wages
data could impact interest rates. Data from the ABS shows
wages grew three point four percent over the year to September.
Jim Chalmers has told the ABC his happy paypackets have
increased and isn't sure how the Reserve Bank will respond.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Real wages growth under this Labor government is now a
feature of our economy and that's a good thing now.
One of Labour's reasons for being is to make sure
that people are earning more, are working more, keeping more
of what they earn, more people in jobs.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Russell Crowe and John Williamson have been at the center
of the state funeral for John Laws in Sydney today,
the actor delivering a eulogy and the singer performing True Blue.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Py True Blue, Don't You You're Gone?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Laws died at the age of ninety after seven decades
in radio. The Independent Member for courageong Is back King
calls for the Act Government to keep a basketball hoop
on a nature strip at a street in O'Connor to
encourage community connection and physical activity. A former pe teacher
installed the whop back in twenty eighteen, but has since

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been ordered by the government to take it down. Emla
Thomas Emerson says he's calling for Finn Street to be
turned into a designated active street so the hoop can stay.
The Epstein files are a step closer to becoming public
after an almost unanimous Congress vote, and Mark Seymour of
Hunters and Collectors says he can't wait to join the

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Canberra Symphony Orchestra for Symphony in the Park next year.
It's part of the jam Packed Enlightened program, with a
festival returning to Canberra from feb twenty seven. Mark describing
some of what the audience can expect.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
A lot of dramatic power, a lot of storytelling, pretty
much a journey through about forty years of music.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
So there's plenty of bells and whistles to play with.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
And that's the latest from the Camber news room this Wednesday.
Check back again tomorrow morning for our next update.