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Coming up, Police double reward in out Back killer cold case, Susan Lee's first major speech since becoming opposition leader, and why adults Hommy time is helping with tech NEK. I'm Katie Fuller with this afternoon's nine News podcast. A fresh half a million dollar reward is being offered for anyone with information which leads to Peter Falconio's remains. The twenty eight year old British backpacker was shot in the head
in the Northern Territory in two thousand and one. His killer, Bradley John Murdoch, is in palliative care with terminal cancer, but refusing to reveal where Peter's body is and to Acting Commander Mark Greeb says they don't want the knowledge of the location to die with Murdoch.
Murdoc hasn't engaged with us, so look, there may be someone out there that he's confided in. Whether or not that's family or friends, we.
Just don't know.
The US President is blasting reports Around's nuclear sites have not been totally destroyed by American attacks over the weekend, US planes dropped bunker buster bombs on three key facilities. Leaked intelligence assessments suggest the strikes may only have set Around's nuclear program back by a matter of months. Donald Trump says the reports are wrong and has taken aim at the networks who publish them.
Good gutless losers. I say that, the CNN says, I watch it. I have no choice. I gotta watch it. Garbage, It's all garbage. It's all factors.
The Liberals will hold a broad investigation into their long term direction and purpose in the wake of their election defeat. Labour's land side win reduced the Coalition to its lowest airb in Parliament in decades. The Liberals have already announced a review into their loss on the third of May, but leaders Through and League has told the National Press Club there are broader issues which need to be investigated.
Let's be honest and upfront about last month's election. We didn't just lose.
We got smashed, totally smashed.
What we as the Liberal Party presented to the Australian people was comprehensively rejected.
The Prime Minister will travel to China later this year, where he's expected to meet senior officials, including President Shijing Ping. It'll be Anthony Albanesi's fourth face to face meeting with the Chinese President. Mister Albanezi has sought a stabilization of ties with Beijing as military tensions escalate in the Pacific. The federal government is celebrating new data's showing headline inflation has dropped to two point one percent over the year
to May. That's down on the previous reading of two point four Bureau of Statistics figures show underlying inflation has also dropped. Treasury Jim Chum says the data is still volatile, but it's welcome progress.
I'm reluctant to say it's mission accomplished, but we are certainly making more progress than was expected. These numbers today are much better than what economists expected for the monthly inflation data.
Antoinette Latuffe has been awarded seventy thousand dollars in her high profile unfair dismissal battle with the ABC. A court has ruled her political opinions on the conflict in Gaza were part of the reason she was taken off fair part way through a five day casual contract. A decision on the penalty for the broadcaster for breaching the Fair Work Act will be held at a later date. Supporters of the journalist rallied outside court. She welcomed the decision.
Today, the court has found that punishing someone for sharing facts about these.
War crimes is also illegal. I was punished for my political opinion on Diddy. Combs won't be testifying at his sex trafficking trial. Combs praise the judge for his excellent work while confirming he would not get in the stand.
The prosecution has rested its case after more than six weeks of evidence, and adult tummy time is being hailed as a potential solution for what's described as technic The position previously reserved for an infant's muscle development, has gained traction on social media with claims that can improve posture and alleviate neck pain. Occupational physiotherapist Dave Haul says working on laptops is pushing people to look for solutions.
The screen being pretty wow can really draw us into that slump position. So I say, really, anything that helps us to get out of that position, to use the opposite muscles, use the opposite posture is helpful.
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Pat Cummins inis Sam Constance has been given no instruction to tone it down as the nineteen year old prepares to open the batting in the first Test against the West Indies. The teenager hit as scintillating sixty on debut on Boxing Day before being dropped in Sri Lanka. The Australian captain says they have patients with the young opener.
I know he's spoken about, you know sometimes in that Indian series or even a couple of Shill matches where everything got a little bit fast on him. So he's been chatting about that and open with that. He's shown a sheild cricket. He scored plenty of runs at times, so it's just more of his more of his best, but no specific message.
Canterbury coach Cameron Seraldo believes it's obvious Penruther favorites for tomorrow night's NRL blockbuster. That's despite the Bulldogs leading the competition all season, while the Panthers have only just climbed into the top eight. Gold Coast coach Damian Hardwick has been fined two thousand dollars by the AFL flipping the bird during the loss to GWS, and Matilda's midfielder Claire Wheeler has withdrawn for upcoming matches against Slovenia and Panama
for personal reasons. Australia takes on Slovenia tomorrow night in Perth. I'm Katie Fuller and That's the nine News podcast. For the latest in news, tune into nine News at six pm.