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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm to Lisa Ryder. A

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Speaker 1: six hundred million dollar plan has been unveiled in a

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Speaker 1: bit to recruit and retain defense personnel. It includes an

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Speaker 1: expansion of the bonus pay to ADF members who agree

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Speaker 1: to extend their service Veterans. Affairs Minister Matt Keoh says

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Speaker 1: they need to increase numbers by about nine thousand per year.

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Speaker 2: The work that we are doing to increase applications for

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Speaker 2: people applying to defense, improving the process for applicants coming

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Speaker 2: through into the ADF workforce, as well as retention initiatives.

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Speaker 1: Interest rates are up for review today. Economics UP predicting

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Speaker 1: the cash rate will be kept on hold at four

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Speaker 1: point three five percent when the Reserve Bank hands down

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Speaker 1: its decision. A and Z, Commonwealth NAB and Westpac up

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Speaker 1: predicting a cut is possible in February twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: but they're divided on how low rates will go over

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Speaker 1: In the US and presidential candidate, it's Kamala Harris and

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump but making their final pitch to voters in

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Speaker 1: key battleground Statesvania is the biggest prize of the seven

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Speaker 1: swing states. The vice president making five stops there today.

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Speaker 1: These camelists support it, say they can feel the momentum building.

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Speaker 2: It's really important the three show Sport final stretch.

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Speaker 1: I've been seeing a lot of support for Kamo Harris here,

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Speaker 1: a lat of the hype, a lat of the energy

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Speaker 1: back home. In the search for a little boy swept

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Speaker 1: out in waters off the New South Wales Central Coast

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Speaker 1: has entered a third day. Police recovered his camping chair,

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Speaker 1: fishing rod and towel at the entrance yesterday, but there's

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Speaker 1: still no sign of the eleven year old and tourists

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Speaker 1: who can visit Lake Como in northern Italy can now

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Speaker 1: take some of its air. The Italian company it started

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Speaker 1: bottling the air there. There's four hundred meals of it inside.

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Speaker 1: Everyone up the cans. They're selling for about sixteen Ousie

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Speaker 1: dollars each. Sport and Entertainment are next. In sport, excitement

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Speaker 1: is building ahead of a huge day of horse racing

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Speaker 1: for the Melbourne car Buccaroo is tipped to win the event.

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Speaker 1: One Smooth Operator and Seeking are also favorites, and Mitchell

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Speaker 1: Start believes Pat Commons should overtake him in the batting order.

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Speaker 1: In Australia's remaining One Day clash its with Pakistan. The

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Speaker 1: Skipper saved Australia from an embarrassing defeat by guiding them

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Speaker 1: to a two wicket win in their first ODI at

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Speaker 1: the MCG last night. In entertainment news, American Music Time

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Speaker 1: and Quincy Jones has died at the age of ninety one.

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Speaker 1: Jones worked with the world's biggest artists, including Michael Jackson,

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Speaker 1: Ray Charles and Frank Sinacher. He also won twenty eight

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Speaker 1: Grammys and composed the soundtracks to more than thirty films.

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Speaker 1: The Queen of Christmas has dropped a holiday range, Mariah

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Speaker 1: Carey making the most of the silly season, unveiling a

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Speaker 1: range of branded Christmas decorations, candles, and robe and slippers.

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Speaker 1: And Jennifer Lopes has received some unexpected praise from an

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Speaker 1: ex hubby amid their ongoing divorce, Ben Affleck, calling Jalo's

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Speaker 1: performance in a film they both worked on spectacular. And

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Speaker 1: that's the latest from the Nova podcast newsroom. We'll have

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Speaker 1: another episode of the Update Fee later on