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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm Susy Thompson. More private

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Speaker 1: hospital services are on the chopping block as insurance premiums rise.

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Speaker 1: They're said to increase by an average of almost four

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Speaker 1: percent from the first of April, higher than the rate

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Speaker 1: of inflation. Brett Heffernan from the Australian at Private Hospitals

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Speaker 1: Association says services are being sacrificed due to greed and

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Speaker 1: government indifference. A man hunt is underway after a young

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Speaker 1: woman was gunned down near a primary school west of Brisbane.

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Speaker 1: The twenty seven year old was found lying on a

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Speaker 1: footpath with multiple gunshot wounds and she was rushed to

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Speaker 1: hospital but couldn't be saved. Paramedics also looked after two

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Speaker 1: other patients who were not seriously hurt in the incident.

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Speaker 1: Sydney police have discovered a six ton hall of the

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Speaker 1: date rape drug known as butte. It's alleged the substance,

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Speaker 1: worth an estimated one hundred and thirty two million dollars,

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Speaker 1: has been discovered in a Homebush storage unit. Officers have

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Speaker 1: told news Corps the drug was being distributed around Australia,

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Speaker 1: warning about its links to sexual assaults. The head of

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Speaker 1: the AFP is warning that public sector job cuts in

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Speaker 1: his department would mean federal police would be unable to

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Speaker 1: investigate child sexual abuse. He wants an increase in the

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Speaker 1: number of staff working for police forces. The coalition is

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Speaker 1: promising to act thousands of public service jobs if it

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Speaker 1: wins the next election, and the planets will align this

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Speaker 1: week literally in a rare spectacle. It won't be seen

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Speaker 1: again until twenty forty Mars. Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Saturn

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Speaker 1: and Mercury will all form in an arc shape on

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Speaker 1: the twenty eighth of February. Stargazers will need to head

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Speaker 1: out about thirty minutes after sunset tomorrow to catch the display.

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Speaker 1: Sport and entertainment. Next. In sport, two NRL clubs are

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Speaker 1: offering big barks to lure Dylan Brown away from the

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Speaker 1: Parameter Eels. News Corps says there's a race to sign

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Speaker 1: the twenty four year olds through till twenty thirty five,

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Speaker 1: and if he signed a reported thirteen million dollar deal,

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Speaker 1: it will be of the richest contract in NRL history.

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Speaker 1: Collingwood has smashed Richmond in a preseason AFL match by

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Speaker 1: eighty three points, and Afghanistan has beat in England by

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Speaker 1: eight runs in their ICC Championship Trophy match in Lahore.

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Speaker 1: The Aussies face the Afghanis tomorrow. In entertainment news, Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas tourism officials are reportedly so impressed by the game's

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Speaker 1: economic impact of the season opener they're wanting to discuss

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Speaker 1: an extension of their deal with the NRL. And that

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Speaker 1: is the latest from the Nova Podcast team. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you later on for another update. I'm Sussy Thompson.