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Coming up. PM backs US strikes on Iran, a delicate operation to set a whale free and the thunder clinch the NBA Championship. I'm Katie Fuller with this afternoon's nine News podcast. The Prime Minister says he supports American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities but doesn't want to see more war. The US has hit three sites with bombs and missiles,
and Tehran is promising to respond. Australia has been calling for calm and urging countries to avoid escalating the Middle East conflict, but Anthony Albanezi says the attacks on Iran were needed.
The US action was directed at specific site central to Iran's nuclear program. We don't want escalation and a scale war. We continue to call for dialogue and for diplomacy.
Motorists are being urged not to panic about petrol supplies as tensions flare further in the Middle East. The NRMA is still advising drivers to fill up at a cheap rate while they can. Spokesman Peter Kori says it takes a week to ten dates for the conflict to have an effect on petrol prices.
The wholestyale price in Australia has gone up about eight cents a leader since two Fridays ago when the escalation really flared up between Israel and Iran.
It will go up again.
Cut Our Airways is continuing to monitor the situation in the Middle East, while other airlines between Australia and Europe have changed routes. The airline's stopover is in Doha. Singapore Airlines has canceled two flights between Singapore and Dubai and says more cancelations could be on the way. Boosting social housing is being put forward as a way to lift pressure on renters, and new survey shows nearly seventy percent of tenants are worried about asking for repairs in fear
of a rent increase or eviction. National Sheltered chairman John Engela says these people deserve greater security.
Nationally, we struggle to achieve about three percent social housing. We need to get that to at least five percent is of basic safety in it, and indeed closer to ten percent. That would go a long way, and it's one thing that we could do to make sure that the people who are most vulnerable are protected. Yes, they can afford it, but they also have the security of housing long term.
The Corporate Watchdog has reached an agreement with The Good Guys over misleading store credit promotions. The company will pay thirteen and a half million dollars and conductor remediation programs for some customers. Parent company JB hi Fi says it's worked to resolve the matter. Being exposed to high levels of the body's primary stress hormone in the womb can
disrupt a baby's heart development. A University of South Australia study suggests elevated cortisol can influence heart health later in life. Researcher doctor Reza Armana Lali says the hormone can be produced naturally or come from medication.
This highlights that we should have more careful consideration of stress management and medical interventions, including UZAF andntenatal corticos stories during pregnancy.
More visitors of flocking to Queensland is the Southern States Shiver through winter nine reporter MEA Glover.
According to accommodation website what if dot Com, Queensland has come out on top as people into state crave a warmer destination these June July school holidays. Surface Paradise is the most searched destination, followed by other Gold Coast suburbs Broadbeach, Southport and Burley. Then another four Queensland destinations, including our far north in Cans and NUSA on the Sunshine Coast,
rounding out the top eight. It's not only the whales making their way north this winter on the Gold Coast mea glover nine years.
And a whale has been set free after becoming tangled in a rope off Sydney's northern beaches. Three rescuers in a rubber ducky have come very close to the Humpback near Barren Joey Lighthouse, the animal thrashing around at times. They've managed to cut the line away. National Parks and Wildlife Chad Western Who's told two GBS Clinton Maynard they'll now keep a close site on the mammal.
There will be some monitoring as best we can given their freeing out of the open ocean.
We do also consider whether we need to put a track on it.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder have clinched the NBA Championship for the first time in front of their home fans. The Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers one hundred and three to ninety one in this series, deciding Game seven. Shay Gilgis Alexander named Finals MVP. He says the Thunder are worthy winners.
It doesn't feel real.
So many hours, so many moments, so many emotions with this group, what in hours have we deserved? Us minj Lee has become just the fourth Izzi to win at least three golf majors after taking out the women's PGA Championship. The Eels have been hit hard by the NRL Match Review Committee after their thirty six twenty win over the Titans.
Center Will Pencini is facing a four match ban and hooker Riley Smith three matches, both for dangerous throws and in AFL Carlton captain Patrick Cripps in CIS coach Michael Voss isn't to blame for the club's form slump. Blues fans have been calling for Voss to be sacked since Saturday's loss to the rebuilding Kangaroos. I'm Katie Fuller and that's the nine News podcast. For the latest in news, tune in to nine News at six pm.
