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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the update. I'm Heidi Tilton's. The

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Speaker 1: Federal government admits more work is needed to ease cost

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Speaker 1: of living pressures after a spike in inflation. The Bureau

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Speaker 1: of Statistics is pointing the finger at higher electricity costs

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Speaker 1: after inflation came in at three point two percent for

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Speaker 1: the year to September that Deputy PM Richard Miles has

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Speaker 1: told Parliament the core inflation rate is still within the

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Speaker 1: Reserve Banks target.

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Speaker 2: What today's figures demonstrate is that Australian households are still

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Speaker 2: under pressure and we understand the work is never done,

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Speaker 2: which is why we will continue to pursue cost of

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Speaker 2: living measures.

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Speaker 1: But the Opposition's Ted O'Brien says the figures fly in

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Speaker 1: the face of the government's promise to reduce consumer prices.

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Speaker 3: Now let us not forget this was a government that

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Speaker 3: had promised the Australian people a two hundred and seventy

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Speaker 3: five dollars reduction household power. Bitess, Australia is now paying

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Speaker 3: one of the highest prices in the world for electricity.

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Speaker 3: This hurts every small business, This hurts every family.

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Speaker 1: The federal government has ordered the Bureau of Meteorology to

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Speaker 1: review the role out of its new website. Users have

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Speaker 1: pushed back on the four million dollar ey vamp. The

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Speaker 1: Nationals want the government to launch its own probe into

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Speaker 1: the issue. Australian Federal Police have set up a new

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Speaker 1: body to target criminals using online platforms to target girls.

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Speaker 1: The agency's new chief is urging parents to be on

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Speaker 1: alert for the behavior on platforms like Roadblocks, Discord and Telegram.

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Speaker 1: Queensland's Education Department is investigating how nine schools taught the

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Speaker 1: wrong curriculum to senior students. One hundred and forty ancient

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Speaker 1: history students have been caught up in the era which

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Speaker 1: saw them learn about the wrong subject for an atar

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Speaker 1: graded exam. Sydney police are investigating a man's death at

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Speaker 1: Sutherland Hospital around the same time the gas main was

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Speaker 1: cut in an alleged act of sabotage. A woman charged

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Speaker 1: over the alleged vandalism has been refused bail in court

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Speaker 1: and a major search is underway. In the US so

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Speaker 1: after a truck carrying COVID and STI infected monkeys overturned

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Speaker 1: in Mississippi, just one of the monkeys is still on

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Speaker 1: the loose with authorities warning it is aggressive to humans.

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Speaker 1: Sport and entertainment are next in sport. AFL games will

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Speaker 1: look a little different next season, with seven rule changes

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Speaker 1: to speed up play and simplify umpiring. The biggest tweak,

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Speaker 1: a free kick will now be paid for the last

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Speaker 1: disposal out of bounds between the fifty meter arcs, replacing

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Speaker 1: the traditional throw in. The Sydney Roosters are expected to

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Speaker 1: confirm the NRL's worst kept secret by early next week.

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Speaker 1: Former Seagle skipper Daily Cherry Evans will reportedly sign a

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Speaker 1: one year deal with an option also for twenty twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: and Sam Constance's hopes of batting for Australia during the

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Speaker 1: Ashes have taken another hit. The twenty year old bowld

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Speaker 1: for just ten runs in a shield game for New

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Speaker 1: South Wales against Queensland. Entertainment News. With the countdown on

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Speaker 1: to Christmas, Mariah Carey's informed her fans it's not quite

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Speaker 1: time to deve frost for the festive season. The Queen

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Speaker 1: of Christmas has taken to social media with a tongue

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Speaker 1: in cheek video teasing the upcoming silly season. Megan Markle,

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Speaker 1: Prince Harry and Sidney Sweeney have led the celebrities at

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Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium for Game four of the MLB World Series,

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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays defeating the Dodgers six' two to. Level

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Speaker 1: the series and crime comedy Drama Only murders in The

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Speaker 1: building has been renewed for a sixth, season but the

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Speaker 1: cast will be shifting away from Their New york base

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Speaker 1: with a new series to be set In. London and

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Speaker 1: that's the latest from The Nova podcast news team will

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Speaker 1: have another episode of The update for you tomorrow