Morning News Briefing - May 1 2023

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello from the Amplifying newsroom. I'm Anthony Lucien to the
US first and authorities in Texas are offering a one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars reward for a government accused
of killing his neighbors. The search for the thirty eight
year old has entered a second day, with officers going
door to door. County Sheriff Greg Capers says his thoughts

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are with the five victims, including an eight year old child.
That is where my heart is in my county, protecting
my people to the best of our ability back home
now and twelve months of uncertainty in the AFL has
finally come to an end, with the new CEO confirmed
this morning. Legal and football boss Andrew Dillon will replace

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Gilan McLaughlin in October, who has been in the roles
since twenty fourteen. Dylan says he's incredibly humbled to be appointed.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Every touch pointing forty should be positive and memorable, from
a parent signing a kid up to oski for the
first time, to a I have been drafted again. Connects
with so many and I'm going to be driven to
ensure we continue to make all of these moments unforgettable.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Mcglachlin will stay on Owah longer to oversee several issues,
including the Hawthorne First Nation's investigation. Canberra was one of
just three capital cities to see a housing price decline
according to prop Track's latest report. The report found that
home prices in Canberra fells zero point seventeen percent in

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April when compared to the previous month. However, health prices
are still up thirty four percent on pre pandemic levels
from March twenty twenty. OSSI researchers are leading the way
when it comes to lifting the survival rate for pancreatic cancer.
It's one of the deadliest cancers out there, with just
a five year survival rates sitting at just eleven percent.

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Scientists at the Garvan Institute have developed a tool which
can help detect whether or not treatment is working, helping
to speed up the process. Professor Paul Timpson says the
cancer is one of the hardest to detect.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
It does not present very well and often it presents
for highly metastatic disease, which is why we need this
new imaging tool to actually watch the process not only
in the pankcasts, also in the lever and other organs
as a disease spreads.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
A teenager has been charged with killing three people in
a multi vehicle crash in Queensland. The thirteen year old
is accused of crushing a stolen Mercedes into a hold
and at Maryborough overnight. The holding collided with a Masda.
The driver and passenger died at the scene, as well
as the driver of the Masdar. Cam Barons are being

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encouraged to look after our heart and book a health
check with our GPS as part of National Heartweak kicking
off today. The Heart Foundations National Healthcare Programs Manager Natalie
Raffle says heart disease takes lives so unexpectedly.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
This year, we're recognizing that every thirty minutes, one Australian
booze their life to heart disease. And yet it takes
less than thirty minutes to know your risk and to
do something about your potential risk of developing heart disease.
And so this year we're encouraging all Australians to take
simple steps to keep your heart health.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
The search continues for a man believed to have been
taken by a crocodile. The sixty five year old was
fishing with a friend in far North Queensland and hasn't
been seen since Saturday afternoon. His friend reported hearing a
splashing sound at the time of his disappearance. And a
quarter of jobs are set to change in the next
five years due to AI. The World Economic Forum predicts

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by twenty twenty seven, sixty nine million jobs will be created,
but eighty three million will be eliminated, causing more people
to become unemployed. And that's the latest in news. We'll
have another update for you right here around lunchtime.