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Speaker 1: Oh, welcome to the update. I'm sure Stephenson Well. Inflation

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Speaker 1: is remaining steady as both sides of politics campaign hard

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Speaker 1: on the cost of living. Underlying CPA has dropped to

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Speaker 1: two point nine percent for the year to March, giving

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Speaker 1: Ryan's to the chance of a rate cut. Treasured. Jim

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Speaker 1: Chalmers says progress has been made under Labour's watch.

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Speaker 2: We've got that inflation down, we've got the real wages

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Speaker 2: up low, unemployment growth rebounding, interest rates have started to

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Speaker 2: come down. We've been repairing the budget, getting the Liberal

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Speaker 2: debt down. But we're upfront with Australians and say that

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Speaker 2: we know that there's more work to do. We know

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Speaker 2: people are still under pressure.

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Speaker 1: Liberal Senator James Patterson those says it's too little, too late.

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Speaker 3: Living standards are down eight percent on this Prime Minister's watch.

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Speaker 3: That's the highest in the developed world and the worst

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Speaker 3: fall in living standards in Australia's history. So while there

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Speaker 3: might be a slight moderation in inflation figures recently, it

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Speaker 3: doesn't undo the pain that's happened over the last years.

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Speaker 1: All The US President says Australia has been calling him

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Speaker 1: about trade and he'll talk with the PM soon. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump has imposed a blanket ten percent tariff on all

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Speaker 1: our products, but has signaled there may be room to negotiate.

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Speaker 1: Trade has been a major issue over the federal election campaign.

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Speaker 1: A Victorian court has heard accus mushroom killer Aaron Patterson

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Speaker 1: deliberately made a false claim she had cancer to organize

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Speaker 1: a deadly lunch. The prosecutor says there's no record of

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Speaker 1: a diagnosis and miss Patterson was advised of her negative

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Speaker 1: result when it tested. A paramedic with more than forty

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Speaker 1: years experience says he was left wondering if there were

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Speaker 1: dying patients he simply couldn't get to when responding to

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Speaker 1: the Bondo junction stabbing. Now an inquest is looking into issues,

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Speaker 1: including confusion about a possible second offender. Well less than

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Speaker 1: one percent of rental properties now affordable for a full

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Speaker 1: time worker on the minimum wage. Figures from Anglicare Australia

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Speaker 1: also show out of fifty one thousand listings right across

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Speaker 1: the country, just three of them were affordable for a

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Speaker 1: person on job. Secup and Cole's has revealed as shoppers

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Speaker 1: are cutting back on confectionery, meat, alcohol and bottled water

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Speaker 1: spending remained strong over the Easter period, though with shoppers

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Speaker 1: forking out more for special occasions. It's what entertainment next

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Speaker 1: to sport and Titans coach does Hasla ears rejecting the

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Speaker 1: NRL's claim that there's been no crackdown on high tackles.

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Speaker 1: Eighteen players were synviynned in Round eight, but there are

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Speaker 1: plans to scale back the Bunker's involvement this week at

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Speaker 1: Magic Round, and North Melbourne is weighing up appealing the

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Speaker 1: AFL Tribunal's decision after Paul Curtis's three game ban was upheld.

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Speaker 1: In entertainment news, now, there's set to be a new

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Speaker 1: Taylor's Swift doc o, The indth Look is reportedly set

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Speaker 1: to focus on her incredible rise to fame as well

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Speaker 1: as her billionaire status. Now, Prince William and Kate Middleton

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Speaker 1: have sared new photographs to celebrate their fourteenth wedding anniversary.

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Speaker 1: The romantic picture posted to the couple's official Kensington Royal

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Speaker 1: social media pages, and Katy Perry has hit back the

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Speaker 1: haters now after copying some pretty brutal online heat for

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Speaker 1: her latest tour as well as that Blue Origin spaceflight.

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Speaker 1: The singer says she knows that many people are hurting

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Speaker 1: in many ways and that the Internet is very much

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Speaker 1: a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed. That's the latest

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Speaker 1: from the Nether Podcast News TEP. We'll have another episode

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Speaker 1: of the Update for you tomorrow. I'm Michelle Stevenson.