Lunchtime News Briefing - 1 July 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Alo from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Hayden Viserah we'll be
paying a reduced health levee after the Act Greens negotiations
with the local governments. The two hundred and fifty dollars
levee announced in last week's budget has now been dropped
to one hundred dollars for residential ratepayers in the capitol,
but big businesses will see their payroll tax go up

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to eight point seventy five percent to offset it. Green's
leader Shane Rattenbury says it's a win for everyday can Bearns,
but there's still more to do. Meanwhile, the Commonwealth's health
funding boost for canber is kicking in from today, with
fifty million dollars rolling out to upgrade our hospitals as
part of a previously announced commitments. Also underway is ten

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point five million dollars to deliver three fully bolked build
GP clinics across the city, as well as a boost
for those in Tuggodong.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Clearly a really valued service the Interchange Health co Op
in Tagnong. We saw that when it closed, lot of
patients were displaced and so we've announced that three point
eight million which will flow this financial year to make
sure that that day's open and provides a bult build
service to its patient.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
The Carebra liberals are not impressed the act Chief Minister
is heading off overseas less than a week after a
tough budget was handed down for Camberns Andrew Barr is
leading a delegation to Japan for the Australian Pavilion Expo.
Opposition leader Leanne Cassley says it's not a good look
as locals faced cost of living pressures.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
To find that the Chief Ministers spending thousands of taxpayer
dollars going off on a trade mission right at the
time he's taxing them for things based off their spending spree.
I think is just a slap in the face to Camberens.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Claims out of the US today, Donald Trump isn't a
fan of Kevin Rudd, the senior Polly over in the States,
saying comments made by Rudd have rubbed the President the
wrong way. Calls now for Anthony Abernesi to sack the
Australian ambassador and bring in an Aussie the President likes well.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Jd Vance had some pretty strong comments, it's got to
be said, and he's now the Vice President of the
United States of America.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
The ACT Property Council is calling on the local government
to have a heightened focus on building productivity. The push
comes from one year celebrations today of Australia's national one
point two million new home targets. But Ashley Berry from
the Council says, we can't afford to lose momentum.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
We're backing the ACT government's housing reforms, but things like
rising rates, high levees and no relief to the lease
variation charge in last week's budget simply sends the wrong
signal to investors.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
And the A Triple C is taking makers of Banana
Boats and Hawaiian Tropic to court the Consumer Watchdog accusing
the brand's parent company, Edgeworld Personal Care of greenwashing when
it made claims its sunscreen products were refriendly. The A
Triple C says the products contain ingredients that can harm
coral and marine life. And that's the latest in the

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Camera newsroom so far. We'll have another update for you
right here later on this afternoon.