Lunchtime News Briefing - 28 November 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplify newsroom. I'm Hayden Visserah. An update
from police after a newborn baby was found outside the
kind Of fire station yesterday morning. After getting information from
the public, police now believe a blue SUV type car
was at the fire station prior to seven to twenty am.
Anyone with dash cam footage of the station between five

(00:22):
am and seven thirty am yesterday I urged to come forward.
The mum hasn't been found as yet. Demand for community
services is increasing rapidly, but funding isn't keeping up. That's
a key takeaway from the ACT Council of Social Services
survey examining the state of our community sector. CEO Devin
Bowles is calling for the government to provide funding that

(00:44):
reflects the real cost of service delivery.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Only seven percent of community organizations said their ACT government
funding allowed them to employ enough staff to meet demand,
and only nine percent considered their funding arrangements sustainable.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
The ACT Greens want to see camber's low environment laws
strengthened as well after federal reforms passed. Deputy Leader Joe
Clay says they want to see things like a review
of our offsets policy and moves towards setting up a
biodiversity network.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
And we need to make sure that we are fixing
up some of the loopholes we've got here locally, just
like the Greens did federally for native forest logging.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
The death toll from the Hong Kong apartment complex inferno
continues to rise up to ninety four, with hundreds still
unaccounted for. Dozens have also been injured, including firefighters, as
the mob up continues inside the seven high rise towers.
Called today for a thirty year old man charged with
sexual assault after allegedly refusing to pay a sex worker

(01:42):
he met last month. Police will allege the man arranged
for the services in October but refuse to pay afterwards.
Concerns are being raised about Snapchat's age verification methods ahead
of the upcoming Under sixteen social media ban. The app
says it will give OSSI's three options to verify their age,
including sending a selfie to a third party platform. The

(02:04):
E Safety Commissioner has admitted the implementation of the band
will vary between platforms come December ten. Recent Medicare changes
will have a major impact for people seeking menopause, fertility
and pelvic pain care. According to a women's health expert,
thousands of women can now access long acting reversible contraceptives

(02:24):
like hormonal implants and IUDs for little or no costs.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
That shift means the difference really between delaying care and
getting the care when they need it, because we know
that cost is a barrier for women accessing that care.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Doctor Snayer Wudwiny from Evoker Women's Health speaking there moves
to improve timely access to specialized medicines for Canberans receiving
paliative care at home. Applications are open for a nine
hundred and twenty two thousand dollars grant to design and
deliver an after hour's palliative care medicine service right here
in the Act. And it's now a lot easier to

(03:03):
support local and global charities. Following light the world's iconic
giving machines arriving in Canberra for the first time, Director
Brad Murran says it provides locals the opportunity to donate
essentials for those facing hardship.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
The great thing is, you know it does go from
five dollars up to one hundred and sixty dollars, so
it is they're trying to accommodate for every type of
person that may come to the vending machines.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
And that's the Letters to News. We'll have another update
for you right here later this afternoon.