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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm Michelle Stevenson. Well The

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Speaker 1: Opposition has seized on a fresh taxpayer funded travel bill

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Speaker 1: racked up by the Communications Minister. It's been revealed Anika

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Speaker 1: Wells spent more than thirty six hundred dollars on a

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Speaker 1: three day trip from Brisbane to Adelaide, attending a friend's

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Speaker 1: birthday while she was there. It follows the one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollar cost of a trip to New York to

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Speaker 1: promote the government's social media ban. Opposition leader Susan Lee

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Speaker 1: says the cost isn't warranted. We've got a.

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Speaker 2: Part time communications minister who's also a full time frequent flyer.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was okay to sting the taxpayers one

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars for flights to New York for a

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Speaker 2: six minute speech on the sidelines of the UN.

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Speaker 1: More than fifty billion dollars will soon be spent each

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Speaker 1: year servicing state and federal government debt. Parliamentary Budget Office

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Speaker 1: figures show total net debt will reach one point one

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Speaker 1: trillion dollars next financial year. Before the pandemic, that figure

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Speaker 1: sat at five hundred and fifty one billion. All the

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Speaker 1: Liberals have been robbed by another leadership scrambled the third

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Speaker 1: and just a month with South Australia's opposition leader standing down,

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Speaker 1: Vincent Tasia, calling it quits just three months out from

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Speaker 1: the next election. It comes just weeks after leadership reshuffles

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Speaker 1: in Victoria and New South Wales. The Health Minister insists

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Speaker 1: all options are on the table to rain in the

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Speaker 1: soaring cost of specialist fees. Mike Butler argues access and

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Speaker 1: affordability for special care is getting out of reach for

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Speaker 1: many people. He says he's been speaking to medical organizations

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Speaker 1: about making changes.

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Speaker 3: I know that the access and affordability for non GP

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Speaker 3: specialist care is getting out of control, and I've made

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Speaker 3: it really clear to dooptors groups that from my point

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Speaker 3: of view, all options to start to get that back

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Speaker 3: under control are on the table.

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Speaker 1: And the Cancer Council has pulled a children's sunscreen from

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Speaker 1: shelves That clearsinc Kids is one of sixteen products called

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Speaker 1: out by Consumer Group Choice for its misleading sbf frating

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Speaker 1: it's port entertainment to next to sporn. The AFL boss

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Speaker 1: as welcome to Tasmanian Parliament, officially voting in favor of

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Speaker 1: a one billion dollar roofed AFL Stadium. The entry of

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Speaker 1: Tasmania's AFL team is contingent on the development of a stadium,

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Speaker 1: and the Diamonds will take on Jamaica in a three

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Speaker 1: match International Netpal series in February, the first standalone series

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Speaker 1: between the two nations since twenty eleven. In Entertainment News

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Speaker 1: Now and Rolling Stone is named Abrikadabra as the number

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Speaker 1: one best song of twenty twenty five. The news comes

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Speaker 1: as Lady Gaga prepares to kick off the Aussie leg

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Speaker 1: of her Mayhem Ball in Melbourne. Katie Perry's accompanied Justin

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Speaker 1: Trudeau on a diplomatic tour of Japan, the pop star

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Speaker 1: joining her former Canadian Prime Minister boyfriend for a visit

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Speaker 1: with the former Japanese PM in her first political trip

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Speaker 1: since the pair were linked together. And Kim kardashi enclaims

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Speaker 1: Kaneer West accused her of faking the Paris robbery for

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Speaker 1: TV Now the Reality Start, admitting she's happy that relationship

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Speaker 1: is over, saying his comments felt like a knife to

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Speaker 1: her heart. That's the latest for the nov Podcast news team.

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Speaker 1: We'll have another episode of the Update for you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I'm a Chelle Stevenson, ob