Lunchtime News Briefing - 14 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello for me Amplifying Newsroom. I'm Hayden, Visierra. The number
of cam barons who made a complaint to the ACT
Human Rights Commission increased by twenty five percent in the
last financial year, according to the commission's latest annual reports.
The report shows the Discrimination, Health Services, Disability and Community
Services Commissioner Karen Towey received one thousand, seven hundred and

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six complaints last year, a forty eight percent increase over
the last three years. Human Rights Commissioner Doctor Penelope Matthew
puts that increase down to an expansion of complaint jurisdictions
and the work Commissioner TUI has done to provide cambarons
with an accessible, timely and fair complaint process. Meanwhile, bullying

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and harassment complaints that were assessed within the ACT public
sector more than doubled in the past financial year. That's
according to the latest State of the Service report. It
shows there were one hundred and ten complaints that underwent
a preliminary assessment last year, up from fifty two to
the year prior. Twenty five of those complaints progressed to

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a formal misconduct process, with bullying or harassment found to
be substantiated in three cases, and eleven investigations are still
in progress as of June thirty. The Auditor General says
the Act's Digital Health Record could be the most significant
failure of governance he has seen. The Camera Times reports

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Michael Harris made the comments to an inquiry into a
report from his office examining ACT Healths invoicing and payments
to a company to host the Digital Health Record. Several
investigations and orders have revealed failures with the Health record rollout,
with one audit finding the project had blown out by
more than one hundred and sixty million dollars. The Treasurer

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is today defending changes to the government's superannuation tax proposal.
Jim Chalmers yesterday announced adjustments to make the system more fair,
including increasing the low income super tax offset. He says
it'll raise two billion dollars over the forward estimates, which
is less than what was originally proposed.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
A big reason why we'll raise less over the forward
estimates than the original package is because of the one
year delay. The one year delay is necessary so that
we can bed down these changes and make sure that
we get them right before we legislate them. As soon
as we can in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
The Federal government is raising awareness about its upcoming social
media ban for under sixteen's with a new ad campaign
for the Good of campaign rolls out this week on billboards,
TVs and social media. Communications Minister Anika Wells says the
work won't stop once the band comes into effect on
December ten.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
The next space we're moving into is digital duty of care,
which looks at what obligations platforms who have customers on Australia,
who seek to transact business and make commercial revenue in Australia,
what obligations they have to their customers.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
The last surviving Israeli hostages have finally been released in
exchange for almost two thousand Palestinian prisoners. Some bodies of
the hostages being held in Gaza have also been returned,
as the search continues for the others. Liberal Front bencher
Tim Wilson has told nine it's a massive relief. For
two years I've worn this pin on my lapel for

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the hostages to pre turned home.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's what it symbolizes and it's a beautiful thing to
be able to after two years take it off.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Five hundred new electric delivery vehicles called The rapid Threes
are set to hit the streets of Canberra as part
of oz post's national fleet modernization. Capable of carrying up
to one hundred and fifty small parcels, reaching speeds of
eighty k's an hour and covering up to one hundred
and eighty kilometers in a single charge, they're built to
handle Australian conditions. They're designed to allow local posters to

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deliver more packages in fewer trips. And England has officially
named a Raiders Locke Morgan Smithy's in their twenty four
man squad for the three test series, said to kick
off on the twenty fifth. They'll face the Kangaroos, where
Smithy's will take on fellow Raiders Ethan Strange and Hudson Young.
And that's the latest in news. We'll have another update

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for you right here later this afternoon.