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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm Michelle Stevenson. The crew

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Speaker 1: of the International Space Station has shared a half felt

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Speaker 1: farewell with the two astronauts returning home after a nine

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Speaker 1: month stint in space. Now Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore

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Speaker 1: were only supposed to spend eight days at the ISS,

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Speaker 1: but have now begun the seventeen hour journey back to Earth.

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Speaker 1: The Ranning crew wishing them the best.

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Speaker 2: I wish we could spend more time with you, guys,

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Speaker 2: but many people who love you and whom you love

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Speaker 2: are waiting for you, so speed.

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Speaker 1: The Treasurer is playing down expectations for next week's at

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Speaker 1: federal budget, saying there'll be fewer surprises than usual. Jim

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Speaker 1: Chalmers has given a key speech outlining his budget priorities.

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Speaker 1: He says a government has already unvowed election commitments on healthcare, childcare,

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Speaker 1: and student debt, and people shouldn't expect too much more.

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Speaker 3: This is more than we typically unveiled before the budget,

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Speaker 3: and there'll be provisions in the budget for policies that

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Speaker 3: we will announce in the campaign, not next week. All

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Speaker 3: of this means that there will be fewer surprises this

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Speaker 3: time around. On budget night.

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Speaker 1: He's also warned a global trade war prompted by US

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Speaker 1: tariffs could strip billions out of the Australian economy. Israel

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Speaker 1: says it's launched air strikes on Gaza following repeated refusals

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Speaker 1: by Hamas to release more hostages. There's reports as many

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Speaker 1: as two hundred people have been killed in the strikes,

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Speaker 1: which the IDF says we're targeting the terrorist group. The

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Speaker 1: country's defense minister says the gates of help will open

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Speaker 1: if hostages are not released. Security guards at Westfield shopping

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Speaker 1: centers nationwide are now wearing body worn cameras. Cinder Group

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Speaker 1: has been reviewing safety initiatives since the Bondi Junction attack

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Speaker 1: just last year, and experts want swimming mandated in schools

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Speaker 1: right around the country amid a declining carnival participation rates

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Speaker 1: as well as swimming skills. Just over half of the

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Speaker 1: year six students can swim fifty meters and float for

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Speaker 1: two minutes. Sport entertainment are next to sport in the

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Speaker 1: Soccaroos insists they won't be playing it safe in their

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Speaker 1: World Cup qualify against Indonesia, which are on Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: Would keep Australia in the all important second position in

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Speaker 1: Group C and so for Molly Picklam has eliminated fellow

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Speaker 1: Assie Tyler Wright from the Ripe Curl Pro Portugal. The

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Speaker 1: twenty two year old will take on American Caroline Marx

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Speaker 1: in the semifinals. In Entertainment News Now, and there's been

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Speaker 1: another twist in the Justin Baldoni Blank Lively legal saga,

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Speaker 1: the director's lawyer admitting they may be willing to consider

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Speaker 1: a settlement in the long running sexual harassment and defamation lawsuit.

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Speaker 1: At Sheer End, a shopped fans in a Boston pub,

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Speaker 1: the singer celebrating Saint Patrick's Day with a surprise performance

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Speaker 1: of Gorway Girl. And ticket sales for Beyonce's Cowboy Carter

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Speaker 1: Tour are apparently off to a galloping start. The singer

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Speaker 1: has sold out ninety four percent capacity across all thirty

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Speaker 1: one dates, grow seeing three hundred and twenty five million

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Speaker 1: dollars in ticket sales. That's the labes from the Nerva

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Speaker 1: podcast news team. I have another episode off the Update

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Speaker 1: for you tomorrow. I'm Michelle Stevenson, m