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Speaker 2: Coming up, embassy staff told to leave Iran, bus crashes
Speaker 2: into a pub and a second day of union protests.
Speaker 2: I'm Katie Fuller with your lunchhime nine News podcast. Australian
Speaker 2: diplomats who have been told to leave Iran as the
Speaker 2: security situation deteriorates. Nine Federal Politics reporter Zach de Silva.
Speaker 1: As Iran and Israel trade rocket fire, it's becoming increasingly
Speaker 1: difficult to contact people inside the Islamic Republic. Australian woman
Speaker 1: MJ has family in Iran, but hasn't heard from them
Speaker 1: for three days.
Speaker 3: We don't know where they are, what condition they're in.
Speaker 4: We don't know if their house is still standing.
Speaker 1: The Federal government has closed its Iranian embassy, telling diplomats
Speaker 1: and their families to leave the country. Officials are being
Speaker 1: stationed in neighboring Asbaijan to help people who want to escape.
Speaker 1: The Foreign Minister has also spoken with her US counterpart.
Speaker 1: The pair agreed to continue working on a path to
Speaker 1: peace while making sure Iran never develops a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: In Canberra, Zakasilva nine years.
Speaker 2: President Donald Trump says he will decide within two weeks
Speaker 2: what course of action the United States may take on Iran.
Speaker 2: Nine US correspondent Jonathan Kursley.
Speaker 5: America's commander in chief believes there is a substantial chance
Speaker 5: of negotiations with the Iranian regime on a nuclear deal,
Speaker 5: so he has decided to wait until deciding whether or
Speaker 5: not the US will enter the war between Israel and Iran.
Speaker 5: White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says the administration is
Speaker 5: firmly if the view Iran is close to having a
Speaker 5: nuclear weapon.
Speaker 6: All they need is a decision from the Supreme Leader
Speaker 6: to do that, and it would take a couple of
Speaker 6: weeks to complete the production of that weapon.
Speaker 5: Senior Israeli officials calling for the death of Ayatola Kamani
Speaker 5: after Iran breach Israel's iron dome, striking a hospital in
Speaker 5: the United States. Jonathan Cursley nine News.
Speaker 2: An independent evaluation has found the federal government's social media
Speaker 2: age restrictions can be introduced in a private, robust, and
Speaker 2: effective way. The Age Assurance Technology Trial has spent recent
Speaker 2: months investigating ways to enforce the under sixteens ban. It
Speaker 2: found there's a plethora of options the government could use,
Speaker 2: but no single solution that works in every scenario. Five
Speaker 2: senior New South Wales government staffers have failed to appear
Speaker 2: before a parliamentary inquiry into the Dural caravan plot, which
Speaker 2: was later revealed to be a criminal conjob. The inquiry
Speaker 2: is looking at what the state government knew and when
Speaker 2: before hate speech and protest laws passed Parliament. Value to
Speaker 2: appear without reasonable excuse can lead to an arrest warrant
Speaker 2: being issued. Inquiry Chairman Rod Roberts says the committee will
Speaker 2: now consider further action.
Speaker 6: For any witness not a member of Parliament, to decline
Speaker 6: to appear before a committee having been properly summoned to
Speaker 6: do so is an extremely serious matter. I am disappointed
Speaker 6: in the government's continued efforts to hinder and frustrate the
Speaker 6: work of this committee.
Speaker 2: Eleven people have been assessed by paramedics after a bus
Speaker 2: crashed into a pub in Melbourne's southeast. People were trapped
Speaker 2: inside the venue at Malvin for a short time. No
Speaker 2: one required emergency treatment. Hundreds of CFMU members have spilled
Speaker 2: onto Brisbane streets through second Day nine News reporter Andrea Cruthers.
Speaker 3: Cambell Street, Bowen Hills brought to a standstill once again
Speaker 3: after protest is issued an ultimatum meet with us and
Speaker 3: reinstate our dumped leaders, or will keep striking for forty
Speaker 3: eight hours, but it's understood no formal request has been
Speaker 3: made to either the union's administrator or the federal Minister
Speaker 3: in charge. It's the second day construction workers have walked
Speaker 3: off the job. It comes after the High Court unanimously
Speaker 3: rejected an appeal to a force takeover of the construction
Speaker 3: arm of the CFMAU, clearing the way for it to continue.
Speaker 3: The union was plunged into administration last August after allegations
Speaker 3: outlaw motorcycle gangs had infiltrated its ranks. The Office of
Speaker 3: the Administrator standing by comments this action is likely unlawful
Speaker 3: and protesters should go back to work. Andrea Cruther's nine use.
Speaker 2: A former Victorian Opposition leader, has been given a lifeline
Speaker 2: from bankruptcy. Liberal MP John Pursuto would have had to
Speaker 2: give up his seat in Parliament if he was unable
Speaker 2: to pay colleague Moi redeeming the one and a half
Speaker 2: million dollars ode after she won a defamation case. The
Speaker 2: party's executive committee agreed to loan him the money to
Speaker 2: settle the debt. There are concerns a pest spreading through
Speaker 2: Perth could pose a threat to the nation's horticulture industry.
Speaker 2: Thousands of trees have been cleared due to the damage
Speaker 2: from the shotthole borer, which can no longer be eradicated.
Speaker 2: The Invasive Species Council's Carol Booth says it cannot be
Speaker 2: allowed to spread further, but it.
Speaker 3: Could also be terrible for native trees to cities and
Speaker 3: the horticultural industry elsewhere if it spreads across the country.
Speaker 2: And Australia's best netball players will now have an audience
Speaker 2: in more than sixty five countries. Netball Australia has signed
Speaker 2: a deal which we'll see Whoopee Goldberg's All Women's Sports
Speaker 2: Network broadcast super netball matches. Goldberg says she's looking forward
Speaker 2: to bringing the game to the world.
Speaker 6: I just think it's terrific, and I think y'all are terrific.
Speaker 1: I just watched you play.
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Speaker 2: In finance, the Australian dollar is buying sixty four usn Sports.
Speaker 2: The West Tigers are feeling positive ahead of their NRL
Speaker 2: showdown with the Raiders tonight. Five eighths Jerome Luai will
Speaker 2: return to the squad from Wednesday's origin duties. Coach Benji
Speaker 2: Marshall says the team's being gaining major momentum in.
Speaker 4: Tenth the way we played the type before we played,
Speaker 4: you know, obviously we've changed away. We played a little
Speaker 4: bit with Lucky Gon and Jerome the way he's played
Speaker 4: so takes a bit of time to adapt. We didn't
Speaker 4: get the result, but the way we wanted to play
Speaker 4: was there built off that.
Speaker 2: In AFL, Carlton expects Charlie Kerno to play against North
Speaker 2: Melbourne at the MCG tomorrow afternoon despite fitness concerns. Sam
Speaker 2: Constace will step in to replace an underperforming Manus Lubbershane
Speaker 2: in Australia's first Test against the West Indies. Steve Smith
Speaker 2: has also been ruled out with a hand injury from
Speaker 2: last week's loss against South Africa, and Alexander Bublik has
Speaker 2: taken the biggest win of his career at the Hail
Speaker 2: Tennis Open, coming back from a set down to clinch
Speaker 2: the final against world number one Jannick Sinner. I'm Katie Fuller,
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