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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the update time. Melanie Scott. Former

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Speaker 1: Ossie test cricketer Damien Martin is in a serious condition

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Speaker 1: in a Brisbane hospital due to an undisclosed illness. The

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Speaker 1: fifty four year old reportedly fell ill on Boxing Day

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Speaker 1: while taking arrest at his Gold Coast home. Martin, who

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Speaker 1: retired suddenly from professional cricket in two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: is being closely monitored by medical staff. Severe tropical cyclone

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Speaker 1: Hailey has been downgraded to a category two system as

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Speaker 1: it moves across WA's Kimberley Coast. Warnings remain from North

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Speaker 1: Derby to South Courriy Bay, with heavy rain and flash

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Speaker 1: flooding possible. The Ie cross the Dampier Peninsula last night,

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Speaker 1: causing fallen trees, roof damage and flooding. North Queensland's flood

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Speaker 1: emergency has claimed its first life, with a man in

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Speaker 1: his seventies found in his submerged car near Normanton. Record

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Speaker 1: breaking rain has cut off communities across thousands of square kilometers,

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Speaker 1: closing almost fifty roads and leaving supermarket shelves empty. Authorities

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Speaker 1: have activated financial assistance in five councils, warning heavy rain

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Speaker 1: and flooding will continue through the week New Year's Eve

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Speaker 1: weather is shaping up nicely across most capital cities. Brisbane,

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Speaker 1: Perth and Darwin will all swelter above thirty degrees, while

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Speaker 1: Sydney hits twenty six with warm conditions for the Harbour,

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Speaker 1: fireworks and just a slim chance of light rain. Melbourne

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Speaker 1: stays mild and partly cloudy as ossies ring in the

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Speaker 1: new year, and health authorities are urging travelers to take

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Speaker 1: precautions after cases of typhoid and leprosy were recorded in Queensland.

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Speaker 1: All infections were acquired overseas, with officials stressing there's no

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Speaker 1: community risk and the threat locally remains extremely low. Experts

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Speaker 1: say vaccinations, good hygiene and planning ahead are key when

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Speaker 1: traveling to high risk countries. Sport and Entertainment news and

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Speaker 1: eggs In Sport, one of Australia's best tennis players is

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Speaker 1: looking forward to a big twenty twenty six, starting with

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Speaker 1: the Brisbane International. Twenty six year old Alexei Poppyrin endured

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Speaker 1: a challenging twenty twenty five, including bowing out in the

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Speaker 1: first round at Wimbledon to a player ranked in the

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Speaker 1: four hundreds. The former world number nineteen, says he's looking

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Speaker 1: forward but not back. Look, I'm feeling really good. I

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Speaker 1: think this will be the last time that I'll talk

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Speaker 1: about last year and from now, and I just want

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Speaker 1: to look forward to forward to the year, forward to

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Speaker 1: what's what's to come. The NRL is proposing four big

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Speaker 1: real changes which could be implemented as early as next season.

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Speaker 1: Among them is changing the kickoff to be done by

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Speaker 1: the scoring team. Matchday squads would also be increased from

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Speaker 1: seventeen to nineteen. In entertainment news, Wicked star Cynthia Arrivo

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Speaker 1: has been named a Member of the Order of the

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Speaker 1: British Empire for services to music and drama. She's currently

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Speaker 1: starring in Wicked for good, earning her fifth Golden Globe

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Speaker 1: nomination and a possible fourth Oscar nod. And that's the

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Speaker 1: latest from the Nova podcast news team. We'll have another

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Speaker 1: episode of the Update tomorrow.