Speaker 1: This is Wendy John with your News. Twenty four update.
Speaker 1: Federal Police have confirmed a dual Russian Australian citizen has
Speaker 1: been charged by the Counter Foreign Interference Task Force. The
Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Victorian resident was arrested in Sumner,
Speaker 1: Queensland yesterday and charged with attempting to engage in intentional
Speaker 1: foreign interference. Is scheduled to appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court today.
Speaker 1: AFP Commissioner chrisy Barrett will provide a public update this
Speaker 1: afternoon at two pm Canberra time. Australia's Federal Police reportedly
Speaker 1: spends one tenth of its budget on counter terrorism, less
Speaker 1: than what is outlaid on political protection. In an interim
Speaker 1: report in April, Royal Commissioner Virginia Bell found the AFP
Speaker 1: spent one hundred and fifty one point eight million dollars
Speaker 1: on counter terrorism in twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Twenty three million dollars of the budget went towards protection
Speaker 1: costs for politicians and government buildings. It says the cost
Speaker 1: included security during the federal election, the Aucus Nuclear Submarine
Speaker 1: Partnership and Western Sydney Airport. A record number of participants
Speaker 1: in the National Disability Insurance Scheme are expected to have
Speaker 1: their funding cut. It's part of the federal government's plan
Speaker 1: to rain in the program's increasing costs. About forty percent
Speaker 1: of NDIS participants are expected to have their budgets reduced,
Speaker 1: according to figures released by Health Minister Mark Butler. Labour's
Speaker 1: new NDIS package aims to reduce the annual growth rate
Speaker 1: from ten percent to two percent over the next four years.
Speaker 1: Former Victorian Premiers Dan Andrews and Jacinta Allen could both
Speaker 1: be called before a Royal Commission into the state's construction sector.
Speaker 1: Newly appointed Premier Ben Carrell says nobody is off libtmits
Speaker 1: in terms of who can potentially be summoned to give evidence.
Speaker 1: The Royal Commission will look into the extent of corruption,
Speaker 1: criminal conduct or serious misconduct occurred on or in relation
Speaker 1: to any major public and civil infrastructure projects overseas. Iran
Speaker 1: has commented on America's financial woes. President Donald Trump declared
Speaker 1: economic d Day against Tehran after it failed to agree
Speaker 1: to a deal. He posted on truth Social 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. These maniacs are
Speaker 1: on the ropes and these historic measures will cripple them
Speaker 1: and their ability to project terror worldwide. Since then, America's
Speaker 1: debt has reached a record forty trillion US dollars, which
Speaker 1: is more than fifty six trillion Australian dollars. Iran's foreign
Speaker 1: minister responded on x the so called economic d Day
Speaker 1: is a diversion from America's own crisis, unprecedented debt and
Speaker 1: surging interest costs. Doubling down on failed policies will only
Speaker 1: bring further defeat an enmity of Iranians. US economic terrorism
Speaker 1: threatens global economy and sovereignty worldwide. And two fishermen have
Speaker 1: been rescued after spending five days adrift in the Pacific
Speaker 1: Ocean inside and Eski. Mexican naval authorities say the operation
Speaker 1: was launched when a fishing cooperative requested assistance in locating
Speaker 1: the fishermen. The men, aged thirty two and fifty three,
Speaker 1: were located around one hundred and thirty nautical miles off
Speaker 1: the coast of the Mexican state of Sappers. The fishermen
Speaker 1: were brought to safety and evaluated by naval medical personnel.
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