Evening News Briefing - 25 November 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplified newsroom. I'm Tamarack Cartwright. A new
aged care facility is on its way for the Act,
with the University of Canberra announcing the development of an
intergenerational retirement community on its campus.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
It'll be one hundred and eighty bit residential age care home,
two hundred and thirty retirement living units.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Home Care Service is.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
A retail center and it'll provide a marvelous opportunities for collaboration,
teaching and research students at UC.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Vice Chancellor Bill Shorten. There he says Canberra will also
benefit from the hundreds of new construction jobs created by
the Development Housing Act. Will not be extending the contracts
of twenty workers after the Community and Public Sector Union
claim the organization has exceeded the allocated number of workers.
Regional Secretary Maddie Northam says job cuts will heavily affect

(00:50):
the ACT community.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
These job cuts will mean applications will not be processed
as quickly. We're talking applications from people who are experience
family louistic violence. It means that they won't see someone
as quickly when they walk into the shopfront.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
In bel common housing affordability in Australia has hit a
new low. Totality's latest report finds the price to income
ratio and deposits saving time are at record levels this year.
A twenty percent deposit now takes around twelve years to save,
and the average home is priced at eight point nine
times the average wage. The Senate has been given addressing

(01:23):
down by Pauline Hansen today after she was censored for
wearing a burker, the One Nation leader saying senators should
have been allowed to introduce her bill to prevent the
burker being worn in public.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
I was denied the right by the Senate to move
my bill to actually debate it on the floor of Parliament.
You denied me and the people of Australia to have
that voice.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
More than three hundred and seventy Radford College parents voted
that they have no confidence in the school board at
a town hall meeting last night. According to the Cambridge Times,
the meeting was organized by a group of parents to
discuss fee increases at the school. Shortly before the meeting,
the school proposed a fee restructure, but it would still
reportedly see parents pay as much in twenty twenty six

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as the original fee increase. Proposed earlier this month. Concerns
about a Duopoli with menu log planning on redirecting customers
to Uber Aids when it shuts down in Australiga at midnight.
The two companies putting pen to paper on a commercial agreement.
Experts fear it will lead to high prices for food
delivery services and some new questions on the twenty twenty

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six Census. For the first time, Ossie's over the age
of sixteen will be asked to identify their sexual orientation
and gender at birth. And that's the latest from the
Camber news room this Tuesday. Check back again tomorrow morning
for our next update.