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Speaker 1: Welcome to the update. I'm eleanor Quirk. A teenage boy

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Speaker 1: has been charged with allegedly planning a terror attack in Queensland.

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Speaker 1: The sixteen year old boy with autism has appeared in

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Speaker 1: court on charges related to preparing all planning terrorist acts.

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Speaker 1: He was charged as part of a broader investigation by

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Speaker 1: Queensland's Joint counter Terrorism Team and Federal Police. New data

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Speaker 1: shows small businesses are increasingly doing it tough as they

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Speaker 1: struggle under high interest rates and soaring costs. Nearly half

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Speaker 1: of all small operators have increased their prices over the

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Speaker 1: last year to help make ends. Mate Council of Small

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Speaker 1: Business Chief executive Luke Akistrantz says many are struggling.

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Speaker 2: What we know at the moment is that it's arguably

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Speaker 2: the toughest operating environment in recent memory for small businesses.

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Speaker 2: There's two and a half million small businesses in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Almost half of them are not even breaking even.

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Speaker 1: A new initiative is being launched to encourage more Australian

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Speaker 1: households to go grain. The federal government will offer one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million dollars worth of cut price loans

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Speaker 1: through Westpac customers can use the money to make upgrades

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Speaker 1: like installing solar panels and eva charges. A leading charity

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Speaker 1: has revealed they're experiencing a surgeon request to provide free

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Speaker 1: school lunches to kids as the cost of living crunch

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Speaker 1: continues to bite. In the past financial year, Eat Up

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Speaker 1: Australia has delivered nearly one thousand free lunches, that's almost

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Speaker 1: double the previous year. Founder Lyndon Galia says it's important

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Speaker 1: kids aren't going to school hungry.

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Speaker 3: Teachers explain it to us best. They say, when kids

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Speaker 3: are hungry, it makes it very difficult for them to concentrate,

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Speaker 3: and when kids can't concentrate, it makes it nearly impossible.

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Speaker 4: For them to learn.

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Speaker 3: So to have a full stomach and to have a

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Speaker 3: fully sort of engaged class just allows the pieces to

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Speaker 3: do what they do best, which which is really important.

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Speaker 1: Sport and entertainment and next to sport and the boxing

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Speaker 1: Day Test will remain in Melbourne with a new deal

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Speaker 1: being signed to keep it at the MCG until at

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Speaker 1: least twenty thirty one. Cricket Australia and the Victorian government

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Speaker 1: coming to an agreement which will include Australia and England

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Speaker 1: playing a show piece match to celebrate the one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fiftieth anniversary of the Ashes. Victorian sports Minister Steve

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Speaker 1: Demopolos says the Test belongs in Melbourne, an iconic ground.

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Speaker 4: It's the best ground of the country, one of the

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Speaker 4: best in the world. And the fact that with security,

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Speaker 4: not just the Test for the future, but the iconic

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Speaker 4: Ashes replay match effectively one hundred and fifty years on.

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Speaker 1: To entertainment and Paris Hilton's trailer stopped with hundreds of

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Speaker 1: thousands of dollars worth of designer clothes and accessories, has

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Speaker 1: gone up in flames on the set of her new

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Speaker 1: music video. Paris was shooting the video for her new

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Speaker 1: song in La when the flames ripped through the trailer.

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Speaker 1: Heidi Klomb and Megan Trainer among the celebs making a

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Speaker 1: cameo in the video. And former neighbor star Olimpia Valance

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Speaker 1: has announced he's expecting a baby boy with her former

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Speaker 1: footy star husband Tom Bell Chambers. And that's the latest

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Speaker 1: from the Nova podcast team. We'll see you again soon

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Speaker 1: for another episode of the Updates