Evening News Briefing - 2 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplify newsroom. I'm Tomaraw Cartwright. The Transport Workers'
Union has slammed Quantas over its decision to close their
Canberra base. The closure will effect up to thirty five
pilots and cabin crew who've been told they need to
relocate elsewhere. National Assistant Secretary Emily McMillan says QUANTZ is
leaving regional communities behind.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
I think the traveling public, our politicians and certainly the
Quantus workforce are pretty shocked by Quantis's decision. This is
a key airport to connect people around the country in
good and getting our politicians into Parliament, and so we
really don't have answers why they've made this decision.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Australia has acquired a third official ally after PNG signed
a landmark defense treaty. Under the treaty, the two nations
will come to each other's defense against a common danger.
The agreement puts Australia's relationship with Papua New Guinea on
the same level as the US and New Zealand. A
blueprint has been drawn up to introduce a triple zero

(00:59):
guard in the wake of the OPTIS outages. It would
force telcos to alert authorities immediately of any system failures,
though Cabinet Minister Murray Watt says it wouldn't have helped
in the recent outages.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
That is more of an oversight role rather than fixing
a particular incident. They're the kind of matters that AKMA investigates,
and the Minister immediately directed AKMA to investigate that.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Meanwhile, the parent company of OPTAs is among a string
of companies not paying any corporate tax. An annual report
from the ATOS show Singtel declaring eight point two billion
dollars of income from Australian customers, none of which was
paid in tax. Singtel is among the top six biggest
earners not paying tax, with AGL, Australia, Posts and Santos

(01:43):
in the top five. More than twelve thousand Australians went
bankrupt in the last year, up more than five percent
in a year. South Australia, the Northern Territory and the
Act the only jurisdictions where bankruptcies fell. The Act government
has an bounced a new Ministerial direction for Act policing,

(02:03):
a new agreement between the two parties on shared priorities.
Minister for Police doctor Maurica Patterson on what key initiatives
the new direction will include.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
The long standing issue of domestic family and sexual violence
and the shared priority in terms of addressing this really
critical issue in our community. There's a lot of work
going on in terms of firearms safety, particularly developing the
National Firearms Register.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
And pioneering conservationists. Jane Goodall has died. Her groundbreaking work
with chimpanzees transformed sciences understanding of their behaviors and emotions.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
When I got to Cambridge finally, they were totally horrified
I'd name the chimps instead of numbering them. I talked
about them having personalities.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
She was ninety one years old. And that's the latest
from the Camper news room this Thursday. Check back again
tomorrow morning for our next update.