Speaker 1: This is Stevie Jacobs with your News. Twenty four update.
Speaker 2: Australia's largest rental property manager has confirmed the controversial May
Speaker 2: federal budget could result in a thirty percent cost rise
Speaker 2: for tenants. Real estate agency Ray White has released analysis
Speaker 2: revealing investors stripped of property tax concessions are likely to
Speaker 2: raise rents to cover their losses. The analysis is similar
Speaker 2: to a warning from the National Australia Bank, which claims
Speaker 2: landlords would need a high yield to offset the loss
Speaker 2: of tax concessions. Treasurer at Jim Chalmers dismissed the NAB report.
Speaker 2: Australian reports property prices in Mister Chalmers Brisbane electorate increase
Speaker 2: at a much higher rate than the forecast two dollars
Speaker 2: per week. Online rental prices in the suburban Brisbane area
Speaker 2: revealed double digit rent increases on some properties. The seasonal
Speaker 2: bushfire outlook for spring has been released and Victoria is
Speaker 2: facing an increased high risk of fires this spring.
Speaker 1: Authority say the fire risk is highest.
Speaker 2: In the far southwest of the state, Inner Southwest and
Speaker 2: Central and East Gippsland regions. They're calling on locals to
Speaker 2: begin their five preparations early. More than four hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty thousand hectares of land across Victoria was Bernard Bushfires
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. Anthony Albanezi has intervened and promised
Speaker 2: to meet veterans after Matt Keo initially snubbed the group.
Speaker 2: The Veterans Affairs Minister has faced criticism after not meeting
Speaker 2: advocates over the Allied health services cap until he was
Speaker 2: pressured by the opposition. Mister Keyo admitted his mistake during
Speaker 2: question time yesterday. I acknowledged that I got it wrong
Speaker 2: in not agreeing to meet with them last week when
Speaker 2: that initial request came in.
Speaker 1: I own that, and I met with them and I
Speaker 1: heard them.
Speaker 2: The Coalition is calling for Matt Keo to stand down
Speaker 2: from his portfolio, noting he has lost faith from the veterans.
Speaker 1: There's no sign labelable back down from the.
Speaker 2: Draft legislation, as mister Keo argues, the change simplifies the system.
Speaker 2: Veterans will be capped at five thousand dollars per year
Speaker 2: for allied health expenditure from July twenty twenty seven. Payments
Speaker 2: to health providers will be increased as recommended by the
Speaker 2: Royal Commission and Veterans won't need to return to the
Speaker 2: GP after every twelve Allied.
Speaker 1: Health visits for a referral.
Speaker 2: Former Navy diver John Armfield from Care for Veterans says
Speaker 2: the minister failed him personally, as well as other veterans.
Speaker 2: Confronting details have been revealed regarding the alleged sexual assault
Speaker 2: by three Scott's College students in Sydney's Eastern suburbs. The
Speaker 2: Daily Telegraph reports a source claims the boys surrounded the
Speaker 2: fourteen year old girl and aggressively groped and sexually assaulted her.
Speaker 2: Police alleged the incident took place in an alley last
Speaker 2: month after the teenage boys met up with the girl
Speaker 2: at Bondai Junction and began drinking. The homes of the
Speaker 2: students have been searched and mobile phones and computers seized.
Speaker 2: The boys, one age thirteen, the other two age fourteen,
Speaker 2: have been charged and are on bail. Overseas, Ukraine and
Speaker 2: Russia have traded strikes as Moscow threatens the UK for
Speaker 2: its involvement in the war. Russian missiles struck a village
Speaker 2: in northeastern Ukraine, killing ten people and injuring seventeen others.
Speaker 2: Authorities say the missiles struck a busy shopping center in
Speaker 2: the Kharkiv region. Ukraine has launched eight hundred drones at Russia.
Speaker 2: Six hundred of those fight at Moscow. According to Russian authorities,
Speaker 2: No deaths or major damage was reported. The Kremlin is
Speaker 2: threatening the UK for its support of Ukraine, saying the
Speaker 2: deeper its involvement in the conflict.
Speaker 1: The higher the price it will pay.
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