Speaker 1: I'm Christy Lloyd with your news. Twenty four update. Australia's
Speaker 1: national debt has exceeded one trillion dollars. Treasurer At Jim
Speaker 1: Chalmers had forecast in the May budget that debt would
Speaker 1: hit just over the one trillion dollar mark this financial year,
Speaker 1: the highest in history aside from the pandemic. That equates
Speaker 1: to around thirty four percent of JEDDP, which is expected
Speaker 1: to 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 government spending is
Speaker 1: to blame for the debt.
Speaker 2: Increase and it ultimately means that all Australians are poorer,
Speaker 2: and particularly younger Australians who are going to bear the
Speaker 2: burden of this in the future. It's a direct result
Speaker 2: of Jim Charmer's inability to control spece. The debt is
Speaker 2: also being used to stoke inflation, so they're paying higher
Speaker 2: prices today. Everyone's paying higher prices today, and they'll have
Speaker 2: to repay that debt and continue to finance that debt.
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 the missing bushwalker in the Southern Highlands today
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Last week, police commenced inquiries following reports of
Speaker 1: a missing 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 Thursday, 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. One Nation is
Speaker 1: calling for the release of vision surrounding the Bondai terror attack.
Speaker 1: Pauling hands and claims the Australian Federal Police are in
Speaker 1: possession of a video of Navid Akram and his father
Speaker 1: Sajid reciting the Quran in front of an ISIS flag
Speaker 1: and firearms. She claims the government is trying to avoid
Speaker 1: offending voters in Western Sydney by hiding the truth The
Speaker 1: party attempted to have the video released under the freedom
Speaker 1: of information laws before being blocked by the AFP. Israel's
Speaker 1: military has confirmed it shot at a car carrying five
Speaker 1: year old at Palestinian girl hind Rejib in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: She was killed along with six other relatives when Israeli
Speaker 1: soldiers reportedly opened fire at the group's vehicle in Gaza.
Speaker 1: The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed it will open a
Speaker 1: criminal investigation into the deaths of hind Rejib, her family,
Speaker 1: and two paramedics. The IDEF statement also confirms it will
Speaker 1: open an investigation into the killing of fifteen Palestinians, including
Speaker 1: a UN worker in March twenty twenty five. The five
Speaker 1: year old survived the initial attack, answering a three hour
Speaker 1: long telephone call where she pleaded for help before her
Speaker 1: body was recovered several days later. Donald Trump has vowed
Speaker 1: unprecedented economic action against Iran after it failed to agree
Speaker 1: on a deal with the US. The President made the
Speaker 1: announcement on true Social writing. No one has given the
Speaker 1: Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a
Speaker 1: deal than me. Tragically, for them, they have failed to
Speaker 1: take it. Therefore, today I am announcing the most crushing
Speaker 1: economic operation ever taken against any country. This will be
Speaker 1: economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale. This will
Speaker 1: be an economic d Day, and we need all of
Speaker 1: our allies to stand with the United States of America
Speaker 1: to isolate and defeat the Iran threat and for the
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