Speaker 1: This is Gabriellla Power with your News. Twenty four update.
Speaker 1: New South Wales Police have released a statement in relation
Speaker 1: to the search for missing hiker Lily Hooper. The body
Speaker 1: of a woman has been located in bushland following the
Speaker 1: search for a missing bushwalker in the Southern Highlands today.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday. Last week, police commenced inquiries following reports for
Speaker 1: missing a bushwalker in the Natai National Park. A week
Speaker 1: long multi agency search was conducted in search of the hiker.
Speaker 1: Following an extensive search, about eleven thirty am today, the
Speaker 1: body of a woman was located in bushland. While yet
Speaker 1: to be formally identified, the body is believed to be
Speaker 1: that of the eighteen year old woman. A report will
Speaker 1: be prepared for the information of the coroner. Earlier reports
Speaker 1: she had been found alive were incorrect. Australia's national debt
Speaker 1: exceeded one trillion dollars this morning. Treasure Jim Chalmers had
Speaker 1: forecast in the mad budget that debt would hit just
Speaker 1: over the one trillion dollar mark this financial year, the
Speaker 1: highest in history aside from the pandemic. That equates to
Speaker 1: around thirty four percent of GDP, which is expected to
Speaker 1: rise to thirty five point eight. In twenty twenty nine,
Speaker 1: Treasury forecast the annual interest bill to reach over twenty
Speaker 1: nine billion dollars this year, climbing to over forty two
Speaker 1: billion before twenty thirty. The opposition claims the government spending
Speaker 1: is to blame for the debt increase. The Ralph Williamtown
Speaker 1: Base has been struck by another drone security breach. According
Speaker 1: to The Daily Telegraph, New South Wales police confirm officers
Speaker 1: assisted the base after reports of more unauthorized unmanned drone
Speaker 1: security breaches in August. There's now a call for Deputy
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Richard Miles to bring in new legislation designed
Speaker 1: to protect military bases from drone attacks.
Speaker 2: We will approach that on a bipartisan basis, as we
Speaker 2: all always to do in the national interest in this portfolio.
Speaker 2: But laws don't bring drones out of the sky. Capability does,
Speaker 2: and we need counter drone capability on our most sensitive
Speaker 2: basis and we need it now.
Speaker 1: Representatives from the Department of Defense have yet to answer
Speaker 1: questions relating to these additional breaches. Two people have been
Speaker 1: charged after Task Force Falcon detectives uncovered firearms, cash and
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of drugs in
Speaker 1: Sydney's West. The arrests are part of an investigation launched
Speaker 1: in June into the alleged organized supply of prohibited drugs
Speaker 1: and firearms. Around six o'clock yesterday morning, a search warrant
Speaker 1: was executed in the suburb of Granville. A thirty eight
Speaker 1: year old man and thirty seven year old woman were arrested.
Speaker 1: The woman was taken to Parramatta Police Station and charged
Speaker 1: with three offenses. She's been refused bail. The man was
Speaker 1: taken to Granville Police Station and charged with fifteen offenses. Overseas,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has vowed unprecedented economic action against Iran after
Speaker 1: it failed to agree on a deal with the US.
Speaker 1: The President made the announcement on truth Social writing, no
Speaker 1: one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater
Speaker 1: opportunity to make a deal than me. Tragically, for them,
Speaker 1: they have failed to take it. Therefore, today I am
Speaker 1: announcing the most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country.
Speaker 1: This will be economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.
Speaker 1: This will be an economic d Day, and we need
Speaker 1: all of our allies to stand with the United States
Speaker 1: of America to isolate and defeat the Iran threat. Mister
Speaker 1: Trump has promised similar penalties for countries allowing its financial institutions, businesses, airports,
Speaker 1: or government entities to support Iran. He has renewed his
Speaker 1: pledge to never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
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