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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm Mahunkashani. The federal government

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Speaker 1: is set to spend four hundred and forty million dollars

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Speaker 1: to help older Australian state home for longer. The money

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Speaker 1: will be used to target regional and remote areas and

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Speaker 1: First Nations communities with services including domestic assistance, transport and

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Speaker 1: home maintenance. The funding boost adds to the four point

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Speaker 1: three billion dollar Support at Home package announced back in September.

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Speaker 1: Large parts of New South Wales are under a total

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Speaker 1: fire band today, with extreme fire conditions declared in four

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Speaker 1: major regions. The bands in place across Greater Sydney, the

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Speaker 1: Hunter Region, the Northwest and Northern Slopes until midnight tonight.

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Speaker 1: New South Wales Rural Fire Service Inspector Ben Shephard.

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Speaker 2: What we have got is some very warm and windy

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Speaker 2: weather across New South Wales and that's seeing a hot

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Speaker 2: level of fire risk. For that reason, there are a

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Speaker 2: number of areas that we're expecting some extreme fire banger.

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Speaker 1: Communities in Victoria's worst of being urged to evacuate as

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Speaker 1: multiple bush fires rage across the state. The biggest blaze

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Speaker 1: is tearing through the Grampians, where three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: firefighters are battling worsening conditions. Temperatures are expected to rise

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Speaker 1: throughout the week, hitting thirty six degrees on Thursday. A

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Speaker 1: young boy has died and two others have been injured

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Speaker 1: in a house fire south of Perth. The four year

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Speaker 1: old was found unresponsive inside the home and Mandura yesterday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: He was taken to hospital but couldn't be revived. Two

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Speaker 1: other children were treated for smoke inhalation and are belief

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Speaker 1: to be in a stable condition. The blaze is not

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Speaker 1: being treated as suspicious. The New South Wales Rail Union

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Speaker 1: has issued an ultimatum to the state government, offering to

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Speaker 1: drop all indust real action threatening to disrupt New Year's celebrations.

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Speaker 1: It's offering to stop indust reaction only if the government

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Speaker 1: drops its legal case against them and offers freefares to commuters.

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Speaker 1: It's understood the government and has rejected the offer and

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Speaker 1: wants to have the case heard in the Fair Work

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Speaker 1: Commission tomorrow. And the suspect in a deadly Christmas market

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Speaker 1: attack in Germany is facing murder charges. The fifty year

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Speaker 1: old Saudi doctor drove through crowds in Magdeburg last week,

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Speaker 1: killing five people and injuring more than two hundred. German

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Speaker 1: police say he had a history of anti Islamic rhetoric.

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Speaker 1: They're continuing to investigate a motor for the attack. Sport

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Speaker 1: and entertainment are next. In sport, discarded test opener Nathan

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Speaker 1: McSweeney has guided the Brisbane Heat to a thrilling win

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Speaker 1: over the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash. The defending

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Speaker 1: champions won by three wickets from the last ball, McSweeney

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Speaker 1: finishing seventy eight not out from just forty nine balls,

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Speaker 1: only two days after being axed from the Boxing Day Test.

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Speaker 1: And in Men's A League, the Western Sydney Wanderers have

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Speaker 1: moved up to sixth on the ladder after a four

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Speaker 1: to one win over Wellington Phoenix. In entertainment news, old

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Speaker 1: friends Demi Moore and Rob Lowe have caught up, the

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Speaker 1: two reminiscing on how they met back in the eighties

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Speaker 1: at a special screening of Demi's latest film, The Substance.

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Speaker 1: They famously starred in the nineteen eighty six rom com

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Speaker 1: About Last Night, and Demi posted throwback photos of them

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Speaker 1: back in the day