Evening News Briefing - 5 August 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Tamara Cartwright. Founding Raiders
player Mick Tills has passed away at the age of
sixty seven following a long illness. Tills played nine matches
in the Green machines first ever season in nineteen eighty
two and was the father of Dane Tills, who played
over two hundred matches for the club. Mick and Dane

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are the first ever father son duo to play for
the Raiders. Footage has emerged of a new South Wales
police officer allegedly pushing a woman to the ground during
an incident outside a school in bung Anddor. Police arrested
a fifteen year old boy and a thirty two year
old woman known to him. During the incident, they alleged
the boy through a rock at a passing car, then

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the boy and woman allegedly threatened the driver. Police say
they warned the woman several times as she allegedly became
aggressive towards police and attempted to physically intervene as the
boy was arrested. The act Greens say the approval of
a road at the Canberra Airport, despite concerns about the
critically endangered Camber Grassland's earless dragon is a blow to

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the community. MLA Joe Clay says they're calling on the
Act government to put all compensation funding from the development
towards protecting the remaining grassland habitat of the dragon. Ridiculous.
Fracie gon to he's sending four point five million dollars
to breed dragons in captivity without a really clear plan
to where they're going to release them if that bringing

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program work. Japan has won a ten billion dollar bid
to build Australia's new warships. The first three ships are
said to be made in Japan, while the remaining seven
will be built in Wa. More international students will be
heading to Australia from next year. International student places will
rise to two hundred and ninety five twenty twenty six

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under a new federal government plan. The move has been
welcomed by local unis, A and U and UC. The
canber region has the most amount of potential workers in
the country, with the talent pool score of eighty eight
out of one hundred. A study by Recon found Canberra
and Quimbian together led the way with the highest median
income at just over sixteen hundred dollars a week. Where

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also the most educated according to results, with forty seven
point nine percent of workers holding tertiary qualifications. Ozzie kids
are turning to AI for emotional support. According to a
new study by Norton. It's found forty percent of parents
reckon their kids are friends with artificial intelligence like Chat,
GPT or Snapchat AI. And a new budget airline is

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set to take to the sky in twenty twenty six.
Koala Airlines is due to take off late next year,
saying they want to break up the Quantus and Virgin Duropol.
And that's the latest from the Camber news room this Tuesday.
Check back again tomorrow morning for our next update.