Lunchtime News Briefing - 5 August 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplified newsroom. I'm Hayden Vissera. The ACT
Greens say the approval of a road at the Canberra Airport,
despite concerns about the critically endangered Camberra grasslands earless Dragon,
is a massive blow to the community. Mlay Joe Clay
says they're calling on the ACT government to put all
compensation funding from the development towards protecting the remaining grassland

(00:26):
habitat of the dragon. Ridiculous, Fracie gaven to. He's sending
four point five million dollars to breed dragons in captivity
without a really clear plan to where they're going.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
To release them if that bringing program work.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
New South Wales police are reviewing footage circulating on social
media that allegedly shows an officer pushing a woman to
the ground outside of school in Bungendore. The footage is
from two weeks ago, when an incident outside the school
on Majara Street saw a fifteen year old boy and
thirty two year old woman known to him arrested. Police

(00:56):
alleged the boy through a rock and a passing vehicle
that the driver was then threatened by the boy and
the woman. Meanwhile, Act Police are looking to contact witnesses
to a graffiti incidents that happened inside a South Point
shopping Center bathroom in June. Police say two people have
already been charged with CCTV footage identifying four groups of

(01:19):
witnesses that they are keen to speak to. Japan has
been selected to build the Australian Navy's new ten billion
dollar fleet of warships. Eleven frigates will be built, some
of them in wa while the others over in Japan.
Defense Minister Richard Miles says this deal will strengthen the
relationship between our two nations.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
There is no country in the world with whom we
have a greater strategic alignment and that is being reflected
in a really blossoming defense relationship. The reciprocal access agreement
between our two countries is now seeing us operate more
and more from each other's bass.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
The Caber region has the most amount of potential workers
in the country, with a talent score of eighty eight
out of one hundred. A study by Reckon found Canberra
and Queenbian together led the way with the highest median
income at just over sixteen hundred dollars a week, where
also the most educated according to results, with forty seven

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point nine percent of workers holding tertiary qualifications. More international
students will be heading to Australia from next year. International
student places will rise to two hundred and ninety five
thousand in twenty twenty six under a new federal government plan.
The move has been welcomed by local unis A YOU
and u SE and the winning one point four million

(02:39):
dollar lotto ticket has been claimed by a Queenbian Man.
The local, who purchased a ticket at Caraba News Agency,
said he was scrolling through Facebook when he realized he
was one of seven Division one winners in Saturday's Loto draw.
The new millionaire says he'll now get to pay off
his mortgage and that's let us in the Caber newsrooms

(02:59):
so far. We'll have another update for you right here
later on this afternoon