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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the update. I'm to Lisa writer.

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Speaker 1: Labor is making an election pitch which could cap the

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Speaker 1: price of a PBS script at twenty five bucks. It's

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Speaker 1: expected to save OSSI's around two hundred million dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: Health Minister Mark Butler says cheaper medicines are good for

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Speaker 1: the hip pocket, but.

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Speaker 2: They're also good for the health of our country because

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Speaker 2: we know cheaper scripts are more likely to be filled

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Speaker 2: by patients when they're dealing with a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: pressures on their household budget.

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Speaker 1: Australia's unemployment rate has remained steady in February at four

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Speaker 1: point one percent. Fifty three thousand jobs were lost last month,

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Speaker 1: with fewer older workers returning to jobs, but eleven thousand

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Speaker 1: new jobs were added, while monthly hours worked also rose

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Speaker 1: by two percent. New research suggests we may see more

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Speaker 1: cyclones in southeastern Australia our forre it was the first

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Speaker 1: tropical cycloned across Queensland Southeast in more than fifty years.

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Speaker 1: Amanda McKenzie from the Climate Council says global warming and

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Speaker 1: climate change is to the.

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Speaker 3: Slow moving nature of the cyclone, which is also influenced

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Speaker 3: by a climate change meant that those that cyclone lingered

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Speaker 3: for longer over different areas, causing higher downpours in rainfall.

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Speaker 3: There was also more destructive ways riding on higher sea levels.

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Speaker 1: The US and Ukraine say a phone call between Presidents

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelenski was positive. It's the first

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Speaker 1: time the leaders have spoken since a public spat at

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Speaker 1: the Oval Office, with a pair of green to continue

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Speaker 1: working together to achieve at lasting peace and astronauts Butch

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Speaker 1: Wilmore and Sunny Williams have been invited to meet Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump at the White House. Their splashdown off Florida yesterday

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Speaker 1: after spending nine months stranded in space. Sport and entertainment

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Speaker 1: annexed in Sport. Round two of the AFL kicks off tonight,

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Speaker 1: with the Blues making just one change for their clash

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Speaker 1: against Hawthorne following their shock loss to Richmond last week.

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Speaker 1: Carlton's staff forward Charlie Kurno the only inclusion. Nick Curios,

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Speaker 1: has picked up his first win on the ATP Tennis

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Speaker 1: Tour in two and a half years, is defeated at

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Speaker 1: American Mackenzie McDonald in the first round in Miami, and

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Speaker 1: the Soccaroos are gearing up to play Indonesia tonight in

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Speaker 1: a Round three World Cup qualifier. In entertainment news, dew

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Speaker 1: Alipa has staged an impromptu photo shoot on the streets

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Speaker 1: of Melbourne, the pop superstar posting the photos to social

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Speaker 1: media after night too of the Radical Optimism Tour, where

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Speaker 1: she performed a surprise rendition of nineties hit Torn. It's

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Speaker 1: been revealed why Lotus star Aubrey Plaza had quietly separated

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Speaker 1: from her husband Jeff Bayna just months before his death.

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Speaker 1: It's believed Byner had been seeing a therapist since a

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Speaker 1: split in September last year before his death. On January third,

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Speaker 1: and pop star Riata Aura has been spotted out in

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Speaker 1: Sydney holding what appeared to be a script as she

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Speaker 1: arrived for rehearsals at a local studio. She hasn't revealed

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Speaker 1: any details about her next project as yet, but posted

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Speaker 1: to socials that exciting things are happening and that's the

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Speaker 1: latest from the Nova Podcast newsroom. Have another episode of

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