Lunchtime News Briefing - 30 April 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the abb the Fine News room. I'm Hayden Visera.
The Prime Minister is challenging Ozzie's to vote for the
future they want. On Saturday, Anthony Aberzi, telling the National
Press Club, says this election is not about two different
parties with the same goal, but two different visions for
the country.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Liberals are urging Australians to go back to the past,
back to a darker and nastier and more extreme version
of the cuts in conflict and culture wars that poople
rejected less than three years ago.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's the end of an era for one of Canberra's
iconic nightclubs, Cube has announced their close at the end
of the year after twenty years of service. We're told
a bunch of favorite events will make a comeback before
they shut up shop. The latest inflation data is out
with hopes it could result in an interest rate cut

(00:58):
next month. The annual inflation rate remained steady at two
point four percent for the month of March, within the
RBA's target band of two to three percent, the stats
coming in slightly ahead of economists' expectations. Meanwhile, business confidence
in Canberra is sliding. According to the later survey from

(01:20):
Canberra Business Chamber, more than fifty percent of local firms
failed to meet their Q one goals and forty percent
now have a negative outlook. Greg Harford from the Chamber
says small businesses need urgent support to stay afloats.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
We really want to see a lot more focus on
small business as we move into the next term of government.
Small business is ultimately the lifeblood of the economy, and
by spreeing the economy up, cutting red tape and compliance
requirements and helping businesses get on with what they do.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Beer Canberra's very own Winter Solstice Nude Swim returns on
June twenty first, as Brave Low calls bear all and
plunge into the freezing waters of Lake Burley Griffin at sunrise.
Now in its ninth year, the cheeky event raises critical
funds for Lifeline Canberra, supporting their twenty four to seven

(02:14):
crisis line. CEO Carrie Leeson says it's all about standing
up for mental health.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
It's an opportunity to cleanse at the winter solstice, to
walk into Lake Burley Griffin in the icy cold water
at the coldest part of the year.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Unclothed, Anglicare are calling on election candidates to address the
grim state of rental affordability in Canberra. They say their
later stats show the ACT as one of the worst
in the country. Just one percent of rentals are affordable
for a full time worker on the minimum wage. May

(02:52):
as easy from Anglicare Australia says people who are on
job seeker and Youth allowance have no op options.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Step up and boost social housing. We've got a short
ball across the country of six hundred and forty thousand
social homes in the Act. That's thousands of rentals short
and we need an increase to these job payments, like
job seeker payments, like youth alloweds. They're way too low.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Meanwhile, Peter Dutton has addressed the media today in Melbourne,
saying his policies are about bringing down inflation and easing
cost of living. He's accused Labor of overspending.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
The government here has spent more than any government in
forty years and that's what's kept up inflation. So a
liberal government will be better for the economy, better for
inflation and better to help you with the cost of
living pressures that you're under.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
The prosecution and defense will deliver their opening arguments today
in the trial of alleged mushroom killer cook Aaron Patterson
in Victoria. The fifty year old has pleaded not guilty
to three counts of murder and one of attempted murder
over serving a meal allegedly laced with poisonous mushrooms in

(03:58):
twenty twenty three. Three charges of attempted murder were dropped
yesterday and the Brumbies are keen to see federal election
updates at their match against the Warrortars on Saturday night
at Gio Stadium. In a bid to make sure plenty
of people get out to the game.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
We're just working with the fact that it is federal
election night and rather than just avoiding it, we're trying
to embrace it as part of our game day.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
We'll have a constant feed of the federal election up
on the Southern Bar area called the Slab during the
period of the night to give people an update on
the election.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Brumby's manager of Commercial and Business Operations Gavin Hunt there
and that's the latest in news so far. We'll have
another update for you right here later on this afternoon.