Evening News Briefing - 3 December 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi there from the Amplify newsroom. I'm an abygat Coo.
From today, Canberans no longer need a licensed asbestos removalers
to step in if they're in possession of recalled colored
sand at home. As for workplaces, removing the sand can
now be done by a competent person, like someone who's
done appropriate training under work health and safety laws, but

(00:23):
isn't necessarily a licensed removalist. It follows the recent widespread
school closures where licensed workers had to be brought in
to sort it out. New laws have been passed to
explicitly ban the sale of elicit tobacco in the Act.
The laws also give officers stronger powers to inspect licensed
tobacco retailers, sees illegal goods and dish out fines. Those

(00:48):
court selling elicit tobacco and vapes risk a sixteen hundred
dollar fine. Australia's upcoming social media band will bring power
back to Ossie families. That's according to the Communications Minister,
who's addressed the National Press Club one week out from
the under sixteens ban coming into effect, But Anika Wells

(01:08):
admits the rollout won't be entirely smooth.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
There will still be kids with accounts on ten December
and probably for some time after that, because this law
is a world first. If a child has a social
media account on ten December, then that platform is breaking
the law.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
A twenty seven year old Duffy Man's copped several charges
after he allegedly stole about twenty grand worth of fuel
in a recent stealing spree. Over the past three months.
He allegedly targeted thirteen retail stores, stealing an inflatable spa, TV's,
a tent, portable fridge, freezer, a barbecue outside heater, and

(01:46):
a range of electrical items. Police are calling for dash
cam footage of a crash in Parks last Friday after
a Black Master crashed into a concrete wall. Police say
the twenty six year old driver returned turn positive drug
and alcohol tests. He's lost his license for three months.
The Act government will be required to publish quarterly reports

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on ambulance stations that have closed due to staffing pressures.
It's after emotion by Shadow Emergency Services Minister Deborah Morris
passed the Assembly and very pleased that was passed and
I think this will improve transparency and hasten the government's
efforts to resolve the ambulance staffing crisis that we are seeing.
It's after it was revealed staff shortages forced ambulance stations

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in the Act to close on six occasions in October.
Bruce Lherman is facing a possible seven figure legal bill
after losing his defamation appeal the Bench upholding the original
verdict that on the balance of probabilities, Lehmann raped Britney
Higgins in Parliament Back in twenty nineteen he tried to

(02:54):
sue Network ten and Lisa Wilkinson. A new deep sea
search will get under way for flight MH three P seventy,
more than a decade after the plane vanished. Two hundred
and twenty seven passengers, including six Aussies and twelve crew members,
were on board the Malaysia Airlines flight to Beijing, and

(03:15):
new Queer nightclub Chi Chies will open in the city
from the nineteenth, following the news of Cube closing its
doors for good. And that's the latest from the Camera
news room this Wednesday. Check back again tomorrow morning for
our next update.