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

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Speaker 1: Guitar Airways has been given the green light to secure

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Speaker 1: a twenty five percent stake Invergent Airlines. The Treasurer has

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Speaker 1: approved the deal, which will add twenty eight weekly return

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Speaker 1: services between Doha and our major airports. Flight Centered Chief

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Speaker 1: executive Graham Turner says it'll strengthen competition in the aviation sector.

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Speaker 2: It will certainly make a difference in terms of competitiveness

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Speaker 2: and capacity because as we know, airfares generally have been

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Speaker 2: pretty reasonally high, they've come off a bit recently, and

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Speaker 2: also the capacity. It's not that easy to get a

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Speaker 2: spear seat these days.

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Speaker 1: The private health industry says the latest increase in insurance

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Speaker 1: premiums is as low as it can be. Health insurance

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Speaker 1: premiums will rise almost four percent from April following negotiations

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Speaker 1: between the federal GOV and insurers out of private healthcare Australia.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Rachel David says it was a tough decision.

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Speaker 3: They went through the data with a sign toothed comb

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Speaker 3: making sure that they had done everything they could to

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Speaker 3: make that the final number as low as possible, and

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Speaker 3: that included reviewing funds, operating expenses and reviewing their profits

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 1: Six and a half tons of a date rape drug

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Speaker 1: known as butt has been uncovered in a storage unit

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Speaker 1: at Homebush in Sydney's Inner West. A husband and wife

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Speaker 1: are believed to be behind the one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: two million dollar hall. They're now in custody. Police alleged

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Speaker 1: they distributed this substance across Sydney and interstate through various means,

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Speaker 1: including Australia Post. A Gold Coast Beach has had to

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Speaker 1: be placed into lockdown this morning after a torpedo washed

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Speaker 1: up on the sand. A one hundred meter exclusion zone

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Speaker 1: was initially set up around main Beach while the suspicious

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Speaker 1: device was removed by the ADF and the Vatican says

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Speaker 1: Pope Francis has shown a further slight improvement and see

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Speaker 1: battles double pneumonia in hospital. In its latest health update,

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Speaker 1: it says a previously reported kidney problem has been resolved.

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Speaker 1: The eighty eight year old pontiff is spending his thirteenth

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Speaker 1: in a Rome hospital. Sport and Entertainment annexed in Sport.

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Speaker 1: Mary Fowler and Caitlin Ford have been left out of

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Speaker 1: the starting eleven for the Matildas in their final match

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Speaker 1: of the She Believes Cup. The Aussie's and their Columbian

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Speaker 1: opponents yet to secure a win in the tournament. Ossie

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Speaker 1: bowler Matthew Cuneman won't have to change his bowling form

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Speaker 1: after being cleared by the ICC of an illegal action.

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Speaker 1: He was signed during Australia's second Test against Sri Lanka,

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Speaker 1: but an investigation has ruled he has no case to answer,

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Speaker 1: and Australian Chris O'Connell has been defeated in the round

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Speaker 1: of sixteen at the Dubai Tennis Championships. In entertainment news,

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Speaker 1: tributes of poured in following the death of Gossip Girl

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Speaker 1: star Michelle Trackenberg. The thirty nine year old was found

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Speaker 1: in a New York apartment. She'd recently undergone a liver transplant,

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Speaker 1: but the cause of death has not yet been revealed.

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Speaker 1: The Oscars have released the latest update on presenters for

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Speaker 1: next week's big Event. Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson and

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Speaker 1: Gal Gadot among a host of big names to hand

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Speaker 1: out awards at Hollywood's Night of Knights and Harry Potter

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Speaker 1: actor Jason Isaacs has made a candid confession about filming

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Speaker 1: the hit franchise, the British actor who played Lucius Malfoy

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Speaker 1: revealing the films were quite boring to make because of

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Speaker 1: all the special effects. And that's the latest from the

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Speaker 1: Nova Podcast news room. We'll have another episode of the

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