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Speaker 1: I'm welcome to the update, Michel Stevenson. Well fedul, state

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Speaker 1: and local governments have increased spending on public service jobs

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Speaker 1: over the year to June. The latest data for the

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Speaker 1: Bureau Statistics shows the commind bill has blown out to

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty billion dollars. Two point six million

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Speaker 1: Australians now work in the public sector. The Oppositions Tim

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Speaker 1: Wilson says the growth in the federal bureaucracy is most

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Speaker 1: concerning so.

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Speaker 2: Long as we have a massive expansion the public service.

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Speaker 2: It's been fueled by debt spending that's pushing up inflation

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Speaker 2: and pushing up interest rates. So we're all paying the

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Speaker 2: price for the measures that are being taken in Canberra

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Speaker 2: through the increased size of the public service.

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Speaker 1: Well claims today that Labour's five percent deposit scheme has

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Speaker 1: pushed up house prices right across at the country. Early

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Speaker 1: this year, the Almbernezy government opened the program to all

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Speaker 1: first home buyers, prompting an inquiry into the policy. Shadow

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Speaker 1: Housing Minister Andrew Bragg leeves easing the rules around the

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Speaker 1: deposit scheme has impacted the prices.

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Speaker 3: Prime Minister says there will be zero point five percent

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Speaker 3: increasing price. But what we've seen so far is a

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Speaker 3: one percent increase in prices in one month. So it's

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Speaker 3: very important that we see what exactly the Treasury warned about.

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Speaker 1: It's some experts believed denser cities are the key to

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Speaker 1: solving our housing crisis. A Grant Institute report recommends residential

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Speaker 1: land be rezoned to build hundreds of thousands of three

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Speaker 1: story townhouses in our capital cities. Lead author brend And

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Speaker 1: Coats says Australia has some of the lowest population densities

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Speaker 1: compared to cities overseas.

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Speaker 2: So Sydney was as dence as Toronto, right, which is

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Speaker 2: in Canada. Similar city within the first fifteen case, you'd

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Speaker 2: already have another two hundred and fifty thousand heights.

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Speaker 1: Microsoft Australia says it regrets not making clear to its

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Speaker 1: customers details about lower price subscription options. The actual see

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Speaker 1: is seeking penalties in the Federal Court, accusing the tech

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Speaker 1: giant of misleading nearly three million Australians. Microsoft is now

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Speaker 1: offering to repay those affected. Melbourne Underworld figure Tony Mockbell

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Speaker 1: has walked free from Corn after having a major drug

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Speaker 1: sentence slashed on appeal. The sixty year old has already

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Speaker 1: spent about seventeen years behind bars, and there's been an

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Speaker 1: increase in hybrid and electric vehicle sails over the past month.

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Speaker 1: The EV Council says four hundred and ten thousand cars

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Speaker 1: had joined Australian roads. It spout in ertainment to next

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Speaker 1: to sport Pack, Cummins has declared himself on track to

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Speaker 1: play for Australia in the second Ashes Test against England.

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Speaker 1: The skipper will miss the first Test in Perth as

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Speaker 1: he recovers from a back injury, and Nick Curiosity is

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Speaker 1: eyeing a shock Australian Open comeback, saying his knee is

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Speaker 1: in good shape and he hopes to play in January.

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Speaker 1: In Entertainment News Now when good news for K pop

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Speaker 1: Demon Hunter fans, a sequel is officially in the works,

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Speaker 1: but those eager to catch the second installment we'll have

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Speaker 1: to wait, Netflix revealing it won't hit our screens until

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine. Karlamnogu's team Died with Prince Williams celebrate

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Earth Shot Prize in Rio. The

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Speaker 1: Aussi Prince zipop treating the audience to a medley of

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Speaker 1: her iconic songs, and it appears fans just can't get

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Speaker 1: enough of Tallis Swift's latest album. The music video for

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Speaker 1: Fate of Ophelia has now surpassed one hundred million views

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. It's a SuperStar's fifty third video to achieve

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Speaker 1: that milestone. That's the lates from the nov podcast News

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Speaker 1: Tam I'll have another episode of the Update for you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I'm Michelle Stephson,