Lunchtime News Briefing - 4 December 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Hayden. Visera. Domain's end
of yew wrap for the local property market is out,
showing Canberra's median house price rose by about forty eight
thousand dollars across twenty twenty five, while unit price is
dropped by nine thousand dollars. Domains doctor Nikola Powell says
we sit in the middle of the road when it
comes to affordability.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Canberra is the capital city that is actually the furthest
away from its price peak. So I think the perception
of value could be there in Camera because what we've
seen in other capital cities is much stronger rates of
price growth.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
The Act's Peak Hospitality Body has welcomed the announcement of
an inquiry into Canberra's nighttime economy by an Act Assembly committee.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
We've been asking for it for quite some time. It's
a fantastic opportunity to have a look at the regulatory
settings across the nightlife in Camera, which generates four point
seven billion dollars in sales turner every year. It is
incredibly important.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Australian Hotels Association ACTS Chris Gatfield there He says it
provides a chance to remove barriers that make doing business
here in the Act harder than it should be. There's
concerns for teens as personal data as Meta starts deactivating
accounts for under sixteen's Instagram and Facebook accounts will go
dark from today, six days ahead of the official start

(01:15):
of Australia's social media ban. But ACU cybersecurity experts new
Shah Shaffia Badi says personal details could still be exposed
to hackers.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
When the companies delete the accounts for their compliance purposes,
they might still store the minimal identifiers you know, like
the email addressers, phone numbers.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Quantus chief Vanessa Hudson concedes some corporate jobs will go
at the airline as it embarks on another restructure. Pilots
and cabin crew aren't expected to be impacted by the changers.
New responsibilities for ACT nurse practitioners have been proposed. In
what would be an Australian first. New legislation has been
introduced to give them the legal practice authority to huge

(02:00):
cause of death certificates. Trish Carling has been named the
ACTS Volunteer of the Year, recognizing her more than twenty
six years of volunteering in palliative care. Here in the Act.
Trish has volunteered at Claire Holland House on Sunday mornings
since nineteen ninety six, helping out with meals, companionship and

(02:20):
other supports. Cheaters over at the National Zoo and Aquarium
are getting early Christmas presents as part of celebrations for
International Cheater Day Today. Visitors to the Zoo can watch
the cheaters open their presence this weekend and listen to
special keeper talks. The zoo will be raising funds for
the Cheater Conservation Fund and raising awareness for their rapidly
shrinking population.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Cheaters are one of the fastest disappearing big cats in Africa,
so there is only about six and a half thousand
of them left in the world.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's kitten season right miow in the Capitol with the
local RSPCA asking for our help. After caring for more
than six hundred cats and kittens last year, we're being
encouraged to desex our cats, keep them inside, and become
a foster car for kittens if we can. The shelters
also set up a web page with info on what
to do if you come across a litter of kittens

(03:10):
and Taylor Swift has been knocked off the top spot
as the most streamed artist of the Year Spotify revealing
that Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny has taken the top
spot with close two twenty billion streams. Tayte came in second.
Then it was the Weekend Drake and Billie Eilish. And
that's the latest in the carabin newsroom so far. We'll

(03:31):
have another update for you right here later on this afternoon.