Evening News Briefing - 22 October 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Alo from the Amplifying news Room. I'm Hayden Visera. There's
a push for digital driver's licenses to be brought in
for Camberans who want them. It comes from the Camber
Liberals with the proposal debated in the Act Assembly today.
Shadow Minister Ed Cox says locals are keen to have
the option.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
It really is the sort of practical idea that makes
life easier every day, and the technology already exists. The
systems are already there and they're being used just over
the border.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Moves to beef up elicit tobacco and vape laws in
the Act the Act Governments put forward changes that would
boost powers to inspect licensed tobacco retailers, sees illicit goods,
and hand out fines. Health Minister Rachel Stephen Smith says
the bill is about making sure authorities have the right
powers to tackle the elicit tobacco any cigarette trade. The

(00:48):
Acts Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Association have welcomed the
government's plan to regulate home alcohol deliveries. CEO Anita Mills
says they have been advocating for reform for years.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
We are really pleased to see the government listening and
the government response on what we and other public health
advocates have been asking for for a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
The proposed new laws would ban alcohol deliveries past ten
PM and put a limit on the amount of alcohol
that can be delivered within a twenty four hour period.
More than one hundred thousand Aussies with Samsung Mobile could
have trouble call in triple zero. Telstra has done some
testing and found that seventy models need a system update
and another eleven older phones need to be replaced. Telco's

(01:32):
will their customers know if they're affected. There won't be
climate trigger in our reformed environmental laws which could block
coal and gas projects. Instead, companies will have to be
upfront about their expected emissions and how they plan to
reduce them. Environment Minister Murray what's saying it will force
companies to take their greenhouse gas emissions seriously. An inquiry

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has recommended that the Act Assembly past Thomas Emerson's Public
Sector Closing the Gap Bill. The bill seeks greater accountability
from the public service when it comes to improving outcomes
for Indigenous people here in the Act. A committee recommended
the bill be passed with some amendments, including making it
applied to senior public servants, only, delaying the start of

(02:14):
the legislation until mid next year and for it to
be reviewed after a year. Almost sixty percent of the
Act suburbs now have a median house value of a
million dollars. That's according to the latest data from Coatality.
It's found fifty five of ninety two Canberra suburbs had
a seven figure median price for houses. More criticism from

(02:35):
China over the plane incidents over the South China Sea
at the weekend. While the ADF claims we were in
international airspace, Beijing claims we had intruded into theirs, the
Chinese military accusing the ADF of using twisted propaganda. For
the next five days, the ACT will be celebrating all
things books and authors as the Camber Writers' Festival returns,

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bringing together over two hundred nouned authors, hundreds of free
and ticketed events, and the festival's first ever Kids and
Young Adults Day at the National Museum on Sunday. The
festival is being held at venues all over the ACT
and Open AI, the maker of chat GPT, is launching
its own web browser. As more Internet users use AI

(03:18):
to ask questions Atlas is designed to compete with Google Chrome.
While it's only available on Apple laptops at the moment,
it will be expanded to include iPhone and Android devices.
And that's the latest from the Camban newsroom this Wednesday.
Check back again tomorrow morning for our next updates.