Lunchtime News Briefing - 5 September 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Hayden Visera call today
for a thirty eight year old Queenbian man who allegedly
threatened violence on a Canberra to Brisbane flights in July.
Police say he also made aggressive and sexual comments to
other passengers and staff members, and allegedly blue point two
two three on a breath test. He could phase fines

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of up to thirty three thousand dollars. A police funeral
has been held today in Melbourne for the thirty five
year old Victorian police officer killed in the ambush in
Poor Punka last week. Senior Constable thedim Di Vahota farewell
with full police honors. The local Conservation Council has expressed
dismay after the act Government voted down a motion from

(00:44):
the Greens calling for the commitment to a plan to
phase out wood heaters. In twenty twenty three, the government
announced plans to phase out wood heaters by twenty forty five,
but they say it was only agreed in principle.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
And what the vote shows here is it they're leaning
on that kind of those two word of in principle
and they're really showing no actual commitment to do the
work to make that happen, and that's extremely disappointing.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Conservation Council Executive Director Simon Coplan there Albo has had
his fourth phone call with Donald Trump, prompting further questions
about when the pair will meet face to face, the
Prime Minister labeling the talks warm and constructive, discussing trade
and security, Liberal Senator Jane Hume telling seven it's a
long time coming.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, hopefully we're one step further towards a meeting between
the Prime Minister and the President, because it's been three
hundred days now since President Trump has was elected and
still no meeting between our leaders and that's a concern.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
The Independent Member for Murram Bidjie says the government has
conceded a needs analysis regarding the Phillip Pool, which led
to a being downgraded from fifty meters to twenty five
does not exist. Fiona Carrick says it's further proof the
government needs to consider the entire thing.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Waden is going to grow to eighty three thousand people
by twenty sixty five and with Western Creek it's going
to be one hundred and twenty thousand people and there's
definitely enough people to have a fifty meter pull.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
The new Yumber Drive Canberra Hospital Entrance has opened, marking
the end of the six hundred and sixty million dollar
expansion project. The more inclusive entrance includes things like better
public transport access, a new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
courtyard and a veterans lounge. We've got an opening date
for the new Australian Designer Precinct at the Canberra Center.

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It'll include a new Mecha store as well as Rebecca
Valence and Scanlan Theodore, with the official opening happening on
September eighteen. A blood moon or total lunar eclipse will
be on show in Canberra's night sky early Monday morning.
You should be able to see it at around four
am when the moon passes into Earth's shadow, causing it

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to duken and turn red. And pigs will fly. On
Sunday in Googong, with Kitefes getting underway for yet another year,
there'll be kite's galore in the skies above Roccally Oval
from eleven am, including the shape of dragons, rabbits and
you guessed it, a flying pig And that's the letters

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in the Camberan Newsroom so far. We'll have another update
for you right here later on this afternoon