1 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the update. I'm Heidi tilt Ends. 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: The result Bank says inflation needs to come down further 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: before it will consider cutting interest rates. The official cash 4 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: rate has been left on hold at four point three 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: five percent, with the RBA admitting consumer prices are still 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: increasing too quickly. Governor Michelle Bullock says a rate can't 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: remains some time away. 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 2: The Board needs to be confident that inflation is moving 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: sustainably towards the target for any decisions made about a 10 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 2: reduction and interst rates. 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor says today's decision will be of 12 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: little comfort to mortgage holders. 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: And that paint is made all the worse by the 14 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 2: virtue of the fact that we're seeing interest rates coming 15 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 2: down in countries across the world, but not here. We 16 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: are clearly at the back of the pack in the 17 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: United States, Canada, in the UK and Europe and New Zealand, 18 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: we're seeing interest rates coming down. 19 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: Australia is drawing up contingency plans for citizens in Lebanon, 20 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: with the Prime Minister pleading with Ozsis to leave on 21 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: a commercial flight while they still can. Hundreds have been 22 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,559 Speaker 1: killed and thousands more have had to flee their homes 23 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: after Israeli air strikes across the country. Anthony Albanizi says 24 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: the situation has been volatile for months. 25 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 3: The fact that some people have continued to go from 26 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 3: Australia to Lebanon in recent months is not a common 27 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 3: sense thing to do. The government issues these warnings for 28 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 3: a reason. 29 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: The United States is looking to ban electric vehicle imports 30 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: from China due to national security concerns. The US Commerce 31 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: Department fearce companies in Beijing will access and track the 32 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: data of drivers or manipulate their vehicles communication systems. Victorian 33 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: paramedics are set to be among the highest paid in 34 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: the country under a new pay deal after eighteen months 35 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: of negotiations and in principal agreement has been reached which 36 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: we'll see pay packets jump nearly seventeen percent for all 37 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: Victorian paramedics. It's has thousands of nurses and midwives in 38 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: bark on strike action in New South Wales as they 39 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: push for a fifteen percent pay rise, and one in 40 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: three after pay users has been found to miss personal 41 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: bills to afford outstanding repayment, so to the buy now, 42 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 1: pay later scheme. The Companies announced its plans to introduce 43 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: a self regulated spending cap for Ossie's using the product 44 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: Sport and Entertainment to next in sport, Injured Swan's captain 45 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: Callum Mills will be subjected to an all or nothing 46 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: fitness test at training tomorrow. The AFL ground final against 47 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: the Lions on Saturday will mark twenty one days since 48 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: Mills injured his hamstring. The Panthers have nominated Braden Trindle 49 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: as the Shark's danger manhead their preliminary final on Saturday night, 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: and a permanent bronze tribute has been unveiled at Sun 51 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: Corpse Stadium in honor of the Matilda's The Pluck depicts 52 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: the moment the team won It's Caught, a final against 53 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 1: France at the Fee for Women's World Cup in twenty 54 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: twenty three. In entertainment news, Sabrina Carpenter has teamed up 55 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: with Christina Aguilera as the nineties star celebrates twenty five 56 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: years since the release of her debut album, The pair 57 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: putting a fresh spin on What a Girl Wants, What 58 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: a Cold? What Girls? 59 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 3: Whatever? 60 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 2: Duesday? 61 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: Your are baking fun to me? Leonardo DiCaprio has broken 62 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: his silence after several photos emerged of the star partying 63 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: with Sean Diddy Colmes, the Hollywood star is distancing himself 64 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: from the jailed rappers, saying he hasn't had anything to 65 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: do with Diddy for years. And Margo, Robbie and Jacob A. 66 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: Laudi is set to star in a new film adaptation 67 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: of Wuthering Heights. The thirty four year old Ossie and 68 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: Saltburn's star named to play gothic lovers in a reimagining 69 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: of the Emily Bronte classic. And that's the latest from 70 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: the Nova Podcast news team. We'll have another episode of 71 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: the Update for you tomorrow