Housing crisis deepens; two Australians found alive in Nepal; remembering Steve Irwin

0:00Good afternoon. There's more federal money for crisis housing this lunchtime as the government agrees with economists, the housing crisis will take years, even a generation to fix. Live to political reporter Jasmine Turling's in Canberra jazz, the rewardings the falling property values we're seeing right now aren't the solution. Yes, that's right. Good afternoon, Hugh. And that's certainly not what young first-home buyers across the country want to hear. The major banks all agree that the only way out of this crisis is a sustained increase in supply. Something we know the government is struggling with. The RBA says the current market downturn will make margins on residential properties less attractive for developers. Now, that in turn will lead to fewer projects getting off the ground, which will also impact the rental market. The housing minister is in Melbourne today announcing a $145 million investment for more crisis housing in Victoria. Now, that's a small piece and a huge supply

1:04puzzle, but Clareon Hill says it's taken more than a generation to build this problem in the first place. We've got a housing crisis that's been cooking in our country for 40 years now, and I don't think any Australian reasonably believes that that can be completely resolved in a short space of time. Under the housing accord, they agreed with the states to build something like 1.2 million homes over five years. We're now more than two years into that agreement, and yet we're running it way below target. Now many property forecasts are expecting the market to make a gradual recovery in 2027, but that's no consolation for borrowers who first may have to brace for another rate rise before the end of the year. Thank you. OK, Jasmine Turlings. Thank you. Two more Australians have been confirmed safe in Nepal overnight with 36 still missing in the flood disaster. More Australian rescue crews are joining the search with 15 specialist drone operators heading over from New South Wales and Queensland. The federal government

2:08pledging another $3 million in aid, taking Australia's total contribution to $11 million. More than 1,200 people have died in the disaster. Thousands are still missing. Queensland Police have confronted two teenagers carrying huge machetes in disturbing vision released today. Live to Declan Milton on the Gold Coast. Declan, this is part of Jack's Law. Yes, I'm pretty confrontic footage released today by Queensland Police. You're just showing exactly what they're finding on our streets. Now there's two separate incidences and Brisbane involving two teenagers. One boy is just 15 years old. The other 17 years old, allegedly carrying enormous machetes. Now the younger teenager, Police say, was picked up at a shopping complex. Now these fines have all come about because of a law here in Queensland called Jackslaw, which was made permanent about 18 months ago. It's in honour of Jack Beasley, a Gold Coast teenager who was fatally stabbed on the streets of surface paradise in 2019. Now in an update, by Police today, we've since discovered that 200,000

3:12people have been proactively wandered and scanned. More than 1,400 weapons have been seized. We've also seen footage today of police carrying those illegal weapons by the box-slow to a scrapyard where they've since been crushed and destroyed the state government is also claiming a major win today with victims of crime data just out showing a dip in the numbers by about 4.1% in David Christopher's first year as Premier but Hugh Queensland still holds the unenviable title as the crime capital of the country. Okay, Declan Milton on the Gold Coast. Thank you. The man who murdered young mum Molly Tyson, in her country New South Wales home, is facing the second day of his sentencing hearing. It will focus on Daniel Billings' mental state in the lead up to the deadly stabbing attack on his ex-partner while he was on bail in 2024. Family, friends and supporters of Molly have arrived at the court in Orange, including Donna Thunnell, whose daughter Christie was killed by her ex-husband in a domestic violence

4:15attack in 2023. There just seems to be accountability. You know, no more bail. AVOs, they obviously don't work. Yeah, they don't work at all. I hope he gets life because he took a life. It's as simple as that. Yesterday the court heard emotional victim impact statements from Molly's parents. The MCG will come alive with a full house expected for tonight's do or die elimination final between Jolong and Carlton. The Oderopoulos joins us live this afternoon. Theo, it's a high-stakes clash, three decades in the making. The Kats are arrested after a week off. Welcome back, star Speedster Max Holmes and Mark

5:18Blitzarves back into a team which did finish the regular season 5th. Carlton has the wood over Jolong. They've won four of the last five. Those games have been at the MCG, the record crowd for these two teams. 87,775. We can't expect that number to be smashed this evening. Okay, last night, Walfi Time. That became Hawkeye Time, Hawthorne roared into a prelim final after suffocating Fremantle in Perth. It was an emotion charged night for Will Day, his first final. After two years of injury was, it's been tough. Nick Watson, Jack Gunston, both kicked two goals in the 32-point win. It'll be the Hawks on the road against the odds and the home final at the MCG in the prelim awaits the travellers. I don't even know what to say. It's been a pretty raw two years in to come in and everyone wrote us off and to come over and get it done here. It's

6:22just so much fun. I've dreamt of this as a kid. It was an incredible performance indeed. Now the Hawks will play either the swans, dogs or crows as a blockbuster month, the footy really does start to ramp up you. Yeah, it's a big weekend coming up, right? Theo, thank you. Rabado star Jay Aroh will take to the field for a final time tonight for his milestone in 100th game for the club. He'll pull on the jersey one last time when he leads South Sydney out to take on the roosters at Aliant Stadium. And he made a surprise appearance on Sunrise this morning. We just grabbed John and shoved him into the shot right there too for this interview. I mean, everything else. All I've been on real. I'm really looking forward to tonight. Jay was diagnosed with motor neurone disease earlier this year, the progressive neurological condition forcing him into retirement. The Sydney Humberbridge was lit up overnight to

7:26honour the life of teenage Haike Lilly Hooper, the southern Pylon glowing from sunset until midnight on the same day. The 18 year old was farewelled in a private funeral service. The tribute fitting for Lilly who worked as a tour guide for bridge climb Sydney. She died while hiking in the Natto National Park south of Sydney last month. The San Francisco 49ers have touched down in Melbourne ahead of their NFL showdown with the LA Rams as Blake Johnson reports their arrival has sparked quite the fanfare with a week to go. The NFL week is upon us and what a wildly different approach that two teams are taking to their trip to Melbourne. The San Francisco 49ers have arrived here. They're staying at the park high at in the city. They arrived early this morning on a charted quantest jet. The A380, which was only about half full, just 220 odd people on board, flew from San Francisco direct to Melbourne. Much of the equipment for the two teams arrived on a cargo ship a couple of weeks ago.

8:28Is greeting the 49ers at the airport? I don't got words. It's ecstatic. It's so much fun. I can't wait to see the city, see meet the people and just enjoy some good NFL football. The flight was loaded with 49er fans and just two Rams fans. We said we'd be friends until the 11th at 1035 and then it's game over. Also greeting the 49ers, the park high at hotel dog Charlie at 8. He's seen a few things. Didn't seem too fast by some of the world's highest paid sportsman, although he was dressed up for the occasion. George Kittle stepped off the bus and he turned right and he's like, who is this fellow? And immediately he started to cuddle him and then Nick Bussett was right behind him. He's like Nick, look at this, there's Charlie. The LA Rams don't arrive until just before next Friday's game, basically running their own time zone, not wanting to acclimatise. But the 49ers are going the opposite way and really leaning into Melbourne time. And we are ready to paint the town at Red Angle. They're having a crack at our city and suburb names too.

9:42And tonight some of the players are expected to be at the MCG for the Jolong V Carlton elimination final, a crowd of 90,000 expected tonight. Next week 100,000. Blake Johnson reporting there. Well today we mark 20 years since we lost one of Australia's greatest icons, Steve Irwin. The wildlife warrior known around the world as the crocodile hunter was his daring as he was kind, wrestling reptiles while rescuing, studying and protecting them. Oh, correct. If there's one thing that I, Steve Irwin would want to be remembered for, it's be remembered for passion and enthusiasm. Conservation is my job, my life, my whole persona. I'm on top of the world, I get to do the wildest things in the world and I like it. Is there anything in this world that would want to make me give away what I'm doing now?

10:42Yes, yes there is. When my children can take the football that I call ball life conservation and run it up. When they're ready to run up our mission, I will gladly step aside. Alarican with a love for the outdoors and the very epitome of the Australian spirit. Well for more this afternoon, his good mate Wes Manion joins us live. Wes, 20 years on since we lost Steve, what's today like for you? I'll get at you. I look at you. I try and forget this time of the year to be perfectly honest, but he's memory is such an amazing thing. So I'm happy to talk about it of course, but I kind of think about him every day. I have my mobile phone and there will be a pitch comes up and so on. So I'm feeling this kind of every day, but at the same time it's a positive feeling. You know, like he was such an amazing guy. I was one of the lucky ones that got spent a heap of time with him. So I just listen to his voice and just makes my heart dip,

11:47but at the same time it makes me smile. So it's great. He had such an amazing legacy, so I'm happy to talk to him about him any time. We seem to know Steve so well when he was on the TV or the time and he seemed to pop up everywhere there for a while, but when the cameras weren't on and he was just being Steve, what was he like? Well, look, here's the thing. Steve's just a good old Aussie bloke. He grew up, went to Clown, Dr. High and then his dad goes, I know he got to have something behind you of course. So he became a diesel mechanic. He grew up at the Queensland Reptile in Forna Park, originally the beer wire Reptile Park as a kid of four. So he animals and wildlife for his passion, but he's just like any normal person and I was lucky enough to meet him when I was a kid and he was in the crocodile hunter. I was 14 when I met him and he's just a bloke in a pair of footy shorts jumping on an alligator when I met him. So he's such an exciting guy to be around, but he's not jumping around going, wow, I have a look at this one, but I tell you what,

12:48it's like if you talk to someone who's a fisherman and they're boring, boring, boring and then you go, hey, you know, I fish and they're like, oh, he's like that. As soon as you talk about wildlife, as soon as you talk about the zoo, conservation or especially his kids, that's what you got. And you know, it was like instant. So he was awesome to be around like a hundred mile an hour flat out, but he wasn't like that all the time, but he was such a good mate. You know, when you talk about that quintessential mate, he would do anything for, a friend is a friend for life with Steve, you know, he saved my life a few times. He would do anything for his friends and, you know, that's probably when people asked me, you know, what do you love about Steve? It was he's just like the best mate you could ever meet. Whereas some of the things that he did, some of the things you did together were pretty dangerous. You've previously said you did have a bad feeling. I mean, or him, him, I look, Steve lived on the edge, you know, it's like, you know, this, what we do and what we did is, you know, you can't really just pick up a book and learn about it.

13:48So you're just constantly in there, but at the end of the day, life is dangerous. You know, people pass all the time, we all know that. And the reality is it was just, you know, a horrible accident. And that's all it was. And you know, I try not to dwell on it because, you know, could have happened to so many people like we deal with venomous snakes and crocodiles and so on. So yeah, you know, sometimes you are rolling the dice, but you know, remember, we've all been doing it for years and years and years. And it was just a, you know, just an accident to be perfectly honest. So I try not to dwell on that because, you know, we'll all eventually go that way. But, you know, it's a tragedy and it shocks the living daylights out of you. And I think a lot of people understand the way I feel because most people have lost someone close to them. And you know, I lost my best mate. I lost my mentor. I lost, you know, my brother. And so that's, that's difficult for everybody. The most hardest thing I think is the fact that Stevie is just everywhere, you know, so you have to come to terms with just seeing him and I can see pictures and say that's fine, but hearing him

14:50it can be difficult sometimes because, you know, he's just, you'll pick up your phone and there'll be a feed. But I look at the positive side of it because I just, he's just done so much for wildlife conservation and I just go, what, you know, what a legend. And he is a true mate. So, you know, you just got to go with it, I guess. What else can you do? And just quickly, where's his legacy? You were a director of Australia Zoo and now you're a part of hollow log homes providing habitats for wildlife. That legacy continues, Steve, doesn't it? It certainly does, mate. And as Steve said on that clip just before, you know, once the, once he's kids are old enough to run with it, he was happy to step down and I'm the same. They're wonderful children and they're, you know, smart as anything and, you know, they're forging his conservation and they're the next level. So, it's pretty exciting. Well, it's hard to believe it's 20 years, but his legacy and his memory does live on. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts as well. Mate no worries, it's lovely to talk about Steve.