Evening News Briefing - 8 July 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplify newsroom. I'm Tamara Cartwright. The Treasurer
seems to be just as surprised as we are with
the Reserve Bank's decision to leave interest rates on hold
the LBA defying expectations, leaving rates at three point eight
five percent.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Obviously, it will be a source of some interest that
the Reserve Bank Board was not unanimous on this occasion,
that there were different views expressed around the boardroom table.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
ACT Public transport advocates say strong bus connections should be
a key focus in planning the Woden light rail route.
The territory government is seeking feedback on two options, one
via State Circle and Canberra Avenue, the other through Barton
and Sydney Avenue. Association member Ryan Hemsley says stop locations
need careful consideration.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Improving those connections, making them safe, making them comfortable, ensuring
that we'll lit so that we're best able to leverage
the light rail project to provide better access to our
bus network.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
A new housing project in Curtain will bring eighty three
affordable rental homes and fifteen supported units for people with
long term mental illness. Backed by the Act and Federal
government's Construction is set to start in twenty twenty six
and finish in twenty twenty eight. Minister yavette Berry says
the project will help more cam Berons find safe, secure

(01:18):
housing close to jobs and transport. Camber Hospital is celebrating
thirty years of bone marrow transplants, a treatment that helps
people with blood cancer get healthy again. The hospital has
a special storage facility that keeps over a thousand stem
cell samples frozen and ready for use. A woman's recovering
in a Brisbane hospital after losing her arm in a

(01:39):
lion as attack at the Dialing Down Zoo. She's a
relative of the owners, who say the incident was all
over in a split second. The zoo's co owner, Steve Robinson,
believes the animal was just playing.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
There's no aggression and there's no masters anything like that
at all. The best we can come up with at
this stage is the line was just playing. Now house
she was playing with a human in that circumstance has
yet to be determined.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
A disruption for holidaymakers heading to Bali of Volcano in
eastern Indonesia has caused dozens of flight cancelations. Queensland are
short fifty four thousand construction workers to help build venues
for the twenty thirty two Olympics, and from today, Canberans
can now ship their Aldi groceries to their door for
the first time ever. Aldi is partnering with door Dash

(02:26):
as part of a trial starting here in the act.
And that's the latest from the Camber newsroom this Tuesday.
Check back again tomorrow morning for our next update.