Speaker 1: This is Gabriella Power with your News. Twenty four update.
Speaker 1: Four Sydney Swan's players have been named relating to the
Speaker 1: ongoing investigation into an alleged incident at a Melbourne hotel
Speaker 1: yesterday morning. Isaac Haney, Chad Warner, Riley Weiss and James
Speaker 1: Jordan are reportedly voluntarily assisting police with their inquiries. A
Speaker 1: manager for a fifth player has denied their client has
Speaker 1: spoken to authorities. No arrests have been made, but the
Speaker 1: club is allegedly considering standing the four players down. According
Speaker 1: to The Herald's son, two women approached hotel staff demanding
Speaker 1: to be let back into one of the guest rooms,
Speaker 1: one woman claiming she had been touched and felt overwhelmed
Speaker 1: about being surrounded by multiple men in the room. One
Speaker 1: source claim she heard one woman tellstaff we have everything
Speaker 1: recorded of what the AFL players did to our friend
Speaker 1: in that room. The Opposition has joined veterans in ramping
Speaker 1: up calls for a cap on Allied health funding for
Speaker 1: veterans to be scrapped. Veterans and advocates say Veterans Affairs
Speaker 1: Minister mat Keo was reluctant to meet over the five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars cap until he was pressured by the Opposition
Speaker 1: in question time yesterday, Minister Keyo was forced to have
Speaker 1: a meeting with us at five point thirty. It was
Speaker 1: obvious he did not want to be there. Here there's
Speaker 1: no sign at this stage of a back down. The
Speaker 1: Minister argues this change simplifies the system. Payments to health
Speaker 1: providers will be increased as recommended by the Royal Commission
Speaker 1: and veterans won't need to return to a GP after
Speaker 1: every twelve Allied health visits for a referral. The group
Speaker 1: is requesting to speak with Anthony Albanesi following yesterday's meeting
Speaker 1: with Minister Keo. They met the Prime Minister's senior staff
Speaker 1: after this morning's press conference and if you need support,
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Speaker 1: one one zero four six One. Nation is planning to
Speaker 1: cut tobacco excise by seventy five percent in a bid
Speaker 1: to crack down on the illicit market. The party is
Speaker 1: expected to unveil a tobacco policy to bring to the
Speaker 1: next federal election after Labour stored on the excise cut.
Speaker 1: Pauline Hansen has previously backed a fifty percent excise but
Speaker 1: the party has since reconsidered the modeling. Under the new proposal,
Speaker 1: a forty six dollars legal packet of cigarettes will be
Speaker 1: brought down to between twenty one and twenty two dollars,
Speaker 1: with a three year pause on bi annual indexation. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is threatening to bomb O'man after the US ally
Speaker 1: is reportedly closing in on a deal with Iran to
Speaker 1: control the Strait of Hormuz. The US President has maintained
Speaker 1: the waterway must be free and fully open. Speaking in
Speaker 1: the Oval Office this morning, mister Trump doubled down on
Speaker 1: the idea of America, claiming the strait as its own territory.
Speaker 1: We control it with the blockade. We have a blockade.
Speaker 1: We control it with the blockade, and I like the
Speaker 1: idea of declare. He also reiterated the main objective is
Speaker 1: stopping Iran from having nuclear capabilities. An opioid reversal medication
Speaker 1: has been found at the scene of American actress Hayden
Speaker 1: Pantie's death. Narcan was discovered in the apartment where the
Speaker 1: thirty six year old died, while a dispensing device was
Speaker 1: found on a mattress. No cause of death has been released,
Speaker 1: but emergency crews referenced in overdose while responding. The actress
Speaker 1: was best known for her roles in TV shows such
Speaker 1: as Nashville and Heroes. For the latest on what's driving
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