Evening News Briefing - 27 June 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi there from the Amplify newsroom, I'm ren abigat co.
It's being described as the biggest basketball event camera has
ever seen. The NBL Preseason Blitz is coming to the AIS,
with all ten teams battling it out over five days
in August. Local MP Tamos Werner Gibbings says it's a
game changer for sport.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
In the Act, the host the NBL Blitz here to
give Camberon fans an opportunity to come and see some
brilliant talents in well. The best talent in Australia is
a wonderful Operguny and it's not just camera fans as
well is going to be visitors the ACT.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Greens have slammed Labour's two hundred and fifty dollars health levy,
labeling it unfair and regressive. Leader Shane Rattenbury says they
won't support it, saying a higher tax threshold should be
introduced instead for big corporations to lend more of a hand.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
The Greens prefer and approach where we see a small
increase in payroll tacks from big companies like Cools and
will Leaves, the big banks airlines, those companies are generating
significant profits in the eighty seats, and we should see
them making a greater contribution than everyday can barons.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
The two men convicted of murdering Perth teenager Cassius Turvey
have been sentenced to life. Twenty four year old Jack
Brierley and thirty year old Brody Palmer killed the fifteen
year old by bashing him with a medal poll while
Indonesian police now claim to have enough evidence to charge
three Ossie men with the premeditated murder of a Melbourne

(01:29):
father of six at a Balley villa a couple of
weeks back. The charges, if found guilty, come with a
life sentence or death penalty. The opposition leader is standing
firm by her pledge to recruit more women into the
Liberal Party. It comes as the L and P begins
its rebuild following the crushing defeat of the federal election,

(01:49):
Susan Lee telling nine if things don't change, the party
will only continue its decline.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
This is incredibly important. When I came into the Parliament
in two thousand and one, more women voted Liberal than
for any other party. Now that number has been declining
ever since. We've got to arrest that decline.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Another of the big four banks appears confident the Reserve
Bank will cut interest rates within weeks. Where's pack joining
the Commonwealth in predicting a reduction in July instead of August.
That's off the back of this week's better than expected
inflation data. Work starts on Canberra's first light rail bridge tonight,
which will see Parksway closed in both directions from Glenlock

(02:30):
Interchange to Cornderk Street over the weekend. Anthony Haroldson from
Infrastructure Canberra acknowledges it will cause some traffic disruption.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Having those diversions in place will be disruptive to those
people traveling over the weekend. However, this work is essential
to make sure that those foundations can be constructed safely
within the medium of Paksway and.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Messages of devastation have been flooding in online following the news.
Another camera icon is shutting up shop. The g Spot
food truck is closing for now after more than twenty
three years. And that's the latest from the Camber news
room this Friday. Check back again Monday morning for our
next update.