Lunchtime News Briefing - 4 August 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The lord from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Hayden viserah Quibian
has a new millionaire, but they might not know it yet.
The Division one winner from Saturday's Lotto draw will take
home one point four million dollars, so check your tickets
if you bought it a Caraban News Agency. ACT Police
are encouraging locals to reach out with any information they

(00:22):
might have as part of National Missing Persons Week. Detective
Inspector Matt Innes says there are fourteen long term missing
persons in Canberra and any information could be the piece
of the puzzle that helps.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Whether it's proof of life or someone who thought they
might have seen something or heard something way back in
the day. I mean there's some of these day back
to the seventies, so we will seek any information from
anybody in relation to these people.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Australia has pledged an extra twenty million dollars in aid
for war torn Gaza after protests across the country. Labour
MP at Husick telling the Today Show the rally sent
a powerful message.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I think the red line for a lot of peoples
seeing kids being starved, they want that to stop and
they want to be able to send a signal that
this is not on that they don't They're totally opposed
to it. They want something done about it.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Meanwhile, the New South Wales premiere says he respects people's
right to protest, but has added that it's not open
season on the Sydney Harbor Bridge. It's after tens of
thousands of people march on the bridge yesterday as part
of the pro Palestinian rally. Chris Minn says he doesn't
want the event to set a precedent.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
We're not going to have a situation where the anti
vaccin group has it one Saturday and then the weekend
after that critical mass takes over, and then the weekend
after that we have an environmental cause, and then the
weekend after that because of an industrial dispute. I mean,
I think you'd accept that that's a situation that a
big city like Sydney couldn't cope with.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
The Athlon drive upgrade is meant to speed up times,
but there are concerns it will do the opposite. Preliminary
designs show there will be five sets of traffic lights
across two point four kilometers at the southern end of
the duplication. Green's MLA Laura says road duplications don't ease
congestion in the long term as they incentivize more people

(02:05):
onto the roads.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
If we actually want to tackle congestion and make our
city greener and how people actually get around without relying
on a car, let's spend that money on public transport
that people actually want to use, not on more roads
in congestion.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
A brand new police officer for Combian starts today. The
officer is one of twenty one experienced officers officially joining
New South Wales from other states and territories. The Professional
Mobility Program allows officers to transfer from interstate and New
Zealand while retaining their rank. To address the shortage of
police officers, tributes are pouring in for late Morons and

(02:41):
Raiders legend Sambacco, who has passed away at the age
of sixty four. The State of Origin veteran has died
in hospital following a three month health battle. To pay tribute,
the Raiders will take a moment of silence and wear
black armbands when they take on the seagulls at Goo
on Friday nights. And it's a few actually platypus month

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with locals who see one encouraged to report the sighting online.
A group of volunteers and scientists are compiling data on
the species to learn more about local platypus populations. And
that's the letters in the canber newsroom so far. We'll
have another update for you right here later on this afternoon.