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Speaker 1: Well and welcome to the updates. I'm Mischelle Stephenson, the Treasurer.

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Speaker 1: It bens the RBA's decision to keep interest rates on

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Speaker 1: hold was not the outcome millions of homeowners would have wanted.

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Speaker 1: After two days of deliberations, Australia's Central Bank has decided

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Speaker 1: to hold the official cash rate at three point six percent.

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Speaker 1: Jim Chalmers says the government is doing all it can

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Speaker 1: to keep cost of living pressures down.

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Speaker 2: People are still under pressure. They're getting some welcome relief

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Speaker 2: from those three rate cuts earlier this year. They're getting

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Speaker 2: relief from the government in the form of tax cuts

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Speaker 2: and responsible cost of living help, but we know that

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Speaker 2: there's almost always more work.

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Speaker 1: To do well. The RBA governor says today's decision to

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Speaker 1: keep rates on hold was data driven, but doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: inflation has run away. Governor Michelle Buluk says the BARD

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Speaker 1: has taken a cautious approach.

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Speaker 3: Market services and housing inflation. We're a little more a

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Speaker 3: little higher than we're expecting, so we're just being a

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Speaker 3: little bit cautious about that. It doesn't I don't think

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Speaker 3: suggests that inflation is running away, but we just need

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Speaker 3: to be a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Cautious Optics bosses insists they're committed to doing whatever is

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Speaker 1: needed to restore public trust in the telcos. Services Communications

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Speaker 1: Minister Anika Wells has requested Optus and its pair and

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Speaker 1: company Sintel, employ external advisors to independently assess its systems.

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Speaker 1: Optus Board at chair John Arthur says they're committed to

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Speaker 1: working with the government to do whatever needs to be done.

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Speaker 3: We are always welcome to external perspectives and external views

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Speaker 3: and that remains the case here.

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Speaker 1: Australia has welcomed Donald Trump's plan to bring peace to

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Speaker 1: Gaza two years after the conflict began. As part of

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Speaker 1: the arrangement, a terrorist group of US would have to

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Speaker 1: release all Israeli hostages and disarm. Israel and Arab countries

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Speaker 1: are supporting the President's plan, but Hamas is yet to

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Speaker 1: agree and cetamps off. Sidnere up to three degrees warmer

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Speaker 1: than what's considered normal for this time of year. Scientists

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Speaker 1: at New South Wales UNI believe the temperature spike could

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Speaker 1: be a symptom of a marine heat wave. It's put

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Speaker 1: entertainment to next just bort in. Thousands of NURL fans

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Speaker 1: have missed out on Grand Final tickets after they sold

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Speaker 1: out in minutes. Twelve. One thousand people entered the ticket

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Speaker 1: tech Q at ten but were told ticket allocation was

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Speaker 1: exhausted by ten twenty Fans expressing outrage after Monday's exclusive

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Speaker 1: prestyle for Broncos and Storm members allowed them to buy

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Speaker 1: up to eight each in Your Entertainment News Now and

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Speaker 1: a string of stars were on hand to help Sidney

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Speaker 1: Sweeney celebrate her twenty eighth birthday, Glenn Powell, Lauren Bezos, Diplo,

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Speaker 1: and with Khalifa, to name a few. Leonardo DiCaprio had

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Speaker 1: plenty to celebrate as he was spotted on a night

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Speaker 1: out with Mick Jagger in La It's after the actor's

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Speaker 1: latest flick scored a twenty two million dollar opening weekend

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Speaker 1: at the box office. And George Michael, who is credited

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Speaker 1: as a songwriter on Taylor Swift's upcoming album The Life

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Speaker 1: of a Showgirl. Fans speculating that Taite has covered the

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Speaker 1: late Stars hit Father Figure. That's the latest from the

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Speaker 1: Over podcast News daym I'll have another episode of the

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Speaker 1: Update for you tomorrow. I'm Michelle Stevenson, Bubb