Lunchtime News Briefing - 8 October 2025

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Alo from the Amplifying news Room. I'm Hayden Vissera. The
National Work Health and Safety Authority is looking into WHS
concerns raised by workers at the A and U. The
UNI's Chief Operating Officer, Jonathan Churchill, says the concerns related
to psychosocial hazards associated with the renew A and U
change management process. He says the university is working with

(00:23):
CommCare on the monitoring and compliance activity which is taking
place within the College of Arts and Social Sciences. Non
disclosure agreements continue to be used by federal government agencies
to settle workplace sexual harassment allegations, according to The Canberra Times.
That's despite the government having an official policy not to

(00:43):
use NDAs to settle such allegations unless a claimant requests them,
except if it's deemed to be in the Commonwealth's interests.
The Camera Times reports Commonwealth agencies have consulted with the
APS Commissioner on the use of confidentiality agreements in cases
of alleged workplace sexual harassment since twenty twenty two. Optus

(01:05):
has been accused of failing to inform officials of its
seriousness of last month's triple zero outage. It's been revealed
an email about the failure was sent to the wrong
email address, which meant the government didn't know until twenty
four hours later. Assistant Secretary of the Communications Department, Sam
Grunard has told Senate Estimates that Telco didn't follow procedure.

(01:27):
The critical failure here by optors was to grasp the
significance of the outage that they had had and to
inform us. Had they done so, we would have acted immediately.
Ideas for the names and boundaries of our electorates can
be submitted from today as part of the Australian Electoral
Commission's process of redistributing electorate boundaries in the territory. The

(01:47):
AEC says every Australian has a right to have their
say on their electorates, and ideas do not need to
be submitted informal documents. The AEC has a guide on
making suggestions on its website. The Singaporean Prime Minister is
marking sixty years of close ties with Australia, saying he's
grateful for our friendship. Lawrence Wong has met with Anthony

(02:09):
Abenezi here in the Act to strengthen our two nations
Defense and economic ties, saying the relationship is important.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Australia was one of the very first countries to recognize
Singapore's independents and establish diplomatic ties with us. We are
grateful for your friendship and stepfast support over the decades.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
A warning two dog owners to keep their dogs away
from lakes after a healthy kelpie died hours after swimming
in Lake ginnindera Scout. The dog is alleged to have
died from blue green algae poisoning. Cambrapet Rescues Amanda Doweli
says there were no warning signs about the algae contamination
on the day the owner took her dog to Nangiebamir

(02:49):
Beach in Belconnen.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Scout's owner had taken him down for a swim. A
responsible dog owner had checked the signage it said open
for swimming. She looked around, she let her dog go
for a swim. Coming back, the dog started showing severe
neurological symptoms.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
The Act has been recognized as Australia's most sun safe
state according to Isole's later study, with a score of
sixty three out of one hundred. Camber currently leads the
charge in sun protection measures using the most SBF thirty sunscreen,
with only six percent of us getting sunburnts now. Racing
legend Craig Loans has heaped praise on camberon Zach Bates

(03:28):
ahead of driving with him in the Bathurst one thousands.
He drives incredible, like the feedback and the information you
get from him when he drives the car is just
is absolutely unbelievable. Bates makes his Bathurst debut when racing
gets underway on Sunday, and new data from NetWorld Sports
has revealed the most common barriers for Camber kids not

(03:48):
getting involved in organized sports. Forty eight percent of local
parents claim their child is either too old or too young,
whereas one in seven local kids claim they don't enjoy
taking part in physical activities. For those kids who do
participate in organized sports, swimming leads in popularity with a
participation rate of twenty four point seven percent, soccer coming

(04:10):
in second at fifteen percent. And that's led us in
the Camber newsroom so far. We'll have another update for
you right here. Let run this afternoon