Speaker 1: I'm Christy Lloyd with your News. Twenty four update, a
Speaker 1: week after Jacinter Allen was ousted as Victoria's premier and
Speaker 1: new polling shows support for the government declining. Two separate
Speaker 1: polls show the Coalition edging ahead and Labor on track
Speaker 1: to lose the upcoming election. The latest Redbridge pole shows
Speaker 1: the coalition's primary vote at thirty percent, while Labour fell
Speaker 1: to twenty three percent and One Nation dropped to twenty
Speaker 1: two percent, While the Freshwater Strategy poll commissioned by The
Speaker 1: Herald Sun shows a similar trend. The Coalition's primary support
Speaker 1: is up to thirty percent, Labor recorded a two percent
Speaker 1: lift in support, while One Nation lost ground, down three
Speaker 1: points to twenty two Jess Wilson is the preferred premier,
Speaker 1: leading Ben Carroll forty eight to twenty seven percent. Federal
Speaker 1: ministers have begun to condemn the ABC for letting a
Speaker 1: video depicting violence against Gina rein Hart go to air.
Speaker 1: An internal obardsman is questioning the race around the World
Speaker 1: satirical video, but there is no timeline for the review's outcome.
Speaker 1: The Acting Prime Minister says he's surprised the video has
Speaker 1: not been removed from online.
Speaker 2: The ABC has its editorial independence. We respect that, but
Speaker 2: we do think that it is appropriate that the ABC
Speaker 2: has referred this to the Ombardsman. And I'm surprised that
Speaker 2: this video is still on its site.
Speaker 1: Are you calling for it to be removed?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm surprised that it's there. This is as the
Speaker 2: video has been described to me. It is utterly unacceptable.
Speaker 3: No matter what your political persuasion.
Speaker 2: We need to have more respect and I would encourage
Speaker 2: everyone to abide by that.
Speaker 1: A former NRL star and gambling addict has told a
Speaker 1: parliamentary inquiry of the inducements in wagering and that Better
Speaker 1: Company promoters even allegedly supplied him with drugs. Former canber
Speaker 1: Raiders player Luke Bateman told a parliamentary inquiry he was
Speaker 1: only twenty three years old when gambling promoters allegedly offered
Speaker 1: to supply him with illegal drugs.
Speaker 4: There were times who I would be flown into state
Speaker 4: and taken two race days, put in marquees with alcohol
Speaker 4: and food, provide all day, things like that. But also
Speaker 4: before getting there, VP manager would offer you go, hey, mate,
Speaker 4: what drugs do you want? Do you want a couple
Speaker 4: of bags for this weekend. We'll organize that for you,
Speaker 4: will have that ready for you when you get you.
Speaker 1: Europe, a wildfire crisis is deepening as new blazers emerge
Speaker 1: during a widespread heat wave across the continent. More than
Speaker 1: four hundred firefighters are battling the fires in Greece as
Speaker 1: strong and erratic winds whip up flames. Authorities are conducting
Speaker 1: emergency evacuations of villages and settlements in Attica, northwest of Athens.
Speaker 1: Firefighters have died combating blazers in the country. Residents evacuated
Speaker 1: from the towns near the French city of Bordeaux are
Speaker 1: being allowed to return. More than two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: thousand people were evacuated by a fire which scorched through
Speaker 1: forty two thousand hectares of land. Donald Trump claims the
Speaker 1: Straight of hor Moves could be open by tomorrow. The
Speaker 1: US president claims talks between Washington and Tehran are ongoing,
Speaker 1: despite a Run's Foreign Ministry spokesperson saying it's not currently
Speaker 1: holding any talks with the US.
Speaker 3: Aran did not want to be hit and they said
Speaker 3: we want to talk. We want to talk about the Strait.
Speaker 3: But more importantly, from my standpoint, we want to talk
Speaker 3: about the denuclearization of Iran. This is the last chance
Speaker 3: for them to sign a good document.
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