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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the Morning Update. I'm Tina Quinn.

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Speaker 1: More than two hundred and thirty thousand homes and businesses

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Speaker 1: are without power across Queensland and New South Wales in

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Speaker 1: the wake of ex cyclone Alfred. Multiple flood warnings are

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Speaker 1: in place as the storm continues to bring heavy rain,

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Speaker 1: strong winds and flash flooding. The situation has worsened overnight

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Speaker 1: on the Gold Coast, where residents have been told to

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Speaker 1: leave now due to major flooding, and more than one

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Speaker 1: hundred SS warnings are in place along the New South

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Speaker 1: Wales coast. The state Premier Chris men saying that river

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Speaker 1: systems are still being closely monitored.

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Speaker 2: There's still a lot of rain out there. There's still

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Speaker 2: a lot of full rivers, swollen rivers, although there are

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Speaker 2: obviously some encouraging signs and the latest information out of

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Speaker 2: the Wilson is obviously encouraging.

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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister is expected to visit two to eighty

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Speaker 1: f personnel who are injured when two military trunks crashed

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Speaker 1: and rolled while assisting flood zones near Lismore. A number

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Speaker 1: of other soldiers are also being treated in hospital. One

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Speaker 1: vehicle left the road and rolled several times into a paddock,

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Speaker 1: a second tipped onto its side. The WA Electoral Commission

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Speaker 1: says it will investigate the issues that arose on election

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Speaker 1: day once votes accounted. Voters at several polling boots across

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Speaker 1: Perth and in Bunbury reported problems with a shortage of

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Speaker 1: both ballot papers and staff. Premier Roger Cook has expressed

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Speaker 1: his disappointment, but stopped short of calling for the Commissioner,

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Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy, to resign. Mister Kennedy admits it's been frustrating

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Speaker 1: for voters.

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Speaker 2: I acknowledge the premiers comments. No elector likes to experience

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Speaker 2: this fine of experience, and so we do a lot

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Speaker 2: of planning and preparation with an aim to avoid this.

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Speaker 1: A nationwide audit of security at regional airports will be undertaken.

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Speaker 1: It comes after a teenager made it through the perimeter

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Speaker 1: fence at an airport in Victoria and then attempted to

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Speaker 1: board a plane allegedly armed with a shotgun. Overseas and

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Speaker 1: Israel says it will cut off power to Gaza to

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Speaker 1: increase pressure on her mass to free hostages. It comes

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Speaker 1: a week after it cut off all supplies of aid

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Speaker 1: to the territory. Har mass is accusing Israel of trying

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Speaker 1: to avoid negotiations on lasting peace in the Strip. More

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Speaker 1: than twenty people have been killed and dozens injured in

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Speaker 1: Russian air strikes on Ukraine. The attack marks one of

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Speaker 1: the deadliest days for civilians in Ukraine this year. Protesters, meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: have taken to the streets in Washington, d C. And

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Speaker 1: Kiev calling on the United States not to abandon Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: The death toll from intense fighting in Syria has risen

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Speaker 1: to at least one thousand. The violence began after loyalists

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Speaker 1: of Oulsted President Bashah al Assad ambush government forces last week,

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Speaker 1: and an investigation is underway after a man was shot

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Speaker 1: by Secret Service personnel outside the White House. Updating, Sport

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Speaker 1: and India has survived a New Zealand fight back to

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Speaker 1: win Crickets Champions Trophy with a four wicket victory in Dubai.

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Speaker 1: GWS has begun its twenty twenty five AFL season with

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Speaker 1: a punishing fifty two point win over Collingwood, and in NRL,

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Speaker 1: the Melbourne Storm has started its season with a thumping

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Speaker 1: win over Paramatta fifty six to eighteen to Entertainment and

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Speaker 1: Jessica Simpson has hinted at the course of her marriage

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Speaker 1: breakdown in her new song Leave. The singer and reality

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Speaker 1: star suggests that the former NFL player cheated on her,

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Speaker 1: calling out his unholy matrimony. And that's the latest from

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Speaker 1: the Nova podcast team. We'll see you this afternoon for

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Speaker 1: another episode of The Update