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

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Speaker 1: Coalition claims its plans for nuclear power will lead to

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Speaker 1: cheaper energy bills across the nation. Liberal leader Peter Dutton

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Speaker 1: is putting a price tag of three hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: billion dollars on his proposal to build seven nuclear reactors. However,

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Speaker 1: both the CSIRO and IMO are disputing the oppositions modeling,

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Speaker 1: but Peter Dutton says nuclear energy would be good news

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Speaker 1: for Ossie households and businesses.

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Speaker 2: This is a plan which will underpin the economic success

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Speaker 2: of our country for the next century. This will make

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Speaker 2: electricity reliable, it'll make it more consistent, it'll make it

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Speaker 2: cheaper for Australians, and it will help us decarbonize as

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Speaker 2: a trading economy as we must.

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Speaker 1: Appearing on ABC Radio this morning, the Prime Minister Anthony

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Speaker 1: Albanize was laughing off the plan.

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Speaker 2: Happy Friday the thirteenth, an auspicious day, I've got to

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Speaker 2: say for to drop his nuclear nightmare party out there.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Federal government insists its economic policies are to

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Speaker 1: be credited for the latest drop in Australia's unemployment rate.

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Speaker 1: The jobless rate last month came down to three point

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Speaker 1: nine percent. Employment. Minister Murray Watt says it's a remarkable

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Speaker 1: result given the current economic challenges that gives us reason

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Speaker 1: for optimism about the year ahead, with jobs growing, wages rising,

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Speaker 1: and inflation falling. Quanta says more than ninety seven percent

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Speaker 1: of its domestic flights have departed on time this morning.

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Speaker 1: That's despite engineers walking off the job. Workers at airports

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Speaker 1: across the country are on strike pushing for better pay.

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Speaker 1: The airline says it's put a number of contingencies in

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Speaker 1: place to prevent disruptions on what's expected to be one

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Speaker 1: of the busiest days for travel heading overseas. And a

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Speaker 1: number of westerns are accusing Israel of an opportunistic land

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Speaker 1: grab with the idea of sending troops and tanks into

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Speaker 1: a formal buffer zone in Syria and the Israeli occupied

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Speaker 1: Golan Heights. Israel has also carried out hundreds of strikes

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Speaker 1: against Syria this week, only days after the ousting of

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Speaker 1: dictator Basha alas Sad and an eleven year old girl

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Speaker 1: from Sierra Leone has been rescued by a German sail

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Speaker 1: boat after floating into the Mediterranean Sea for three days

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Speaker 1: to Sport Now and rival NRL clubs claim the new

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Speaker 1: P ANDNG team is getting an unfair advantage with the

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Speaker 1: tax free arrangement for players who are joining the franchise. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: ARL chairman Peter Velandies is hinting that a decision on

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Speaker 1: the Perth Bears joining the competition could be just weeks away.

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Speaker 1: Both Josh Hazelwood and Mitch Marsh were firing on all

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Speaker 1: cylinders during a final fitness examination ahead of the third

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Speaker 1: Test against India starting in Brisbane tomorrow, and the Mariners

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Speaker 1: go into Tonight's A League clash with Adelaide United after

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Speaker 1: winning the last six head to head games in Gosford.

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Speaker 1: In entertainment, fresh lawsuits have been launched against p Diddy

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Speaker 1: dating back to twenty nineteen. Three men are accusing the

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Speaker 1: rapper of sexual assault, claiming he laced their drinks and

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Speaker 1: assaulted them while they were unconscious. And that's the lators

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Speaker 1: from the Nova Podcasts team. We'll see you later this

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Speaker 1: afternoon for another episode of the Update