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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the update. I'mhardi. Tilton's Anthony Albinizi

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Speaker 1: is hitting back at American drug companies who argue Australia's

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Speaker 1: pharmaceutical benefits scheme is unfair. The US Medicine's lobby is

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Speaker 1: calling for tariffs on medical exports, saying it can't compete

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Speaker 1: when the federal government subsidizes critical drugs, but the Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister says it's not up for negotiation.

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Speaker 2: We will defend the prebs. We will not be negotiating

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Speaker 2: over whether we have the right here to put pharmaceuticals

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Speaker 2: onto the PBS. That is what we will do.

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Speaker 1: Doctors say a tax on sugar sweetened drinks would curb

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Speaker 1: the country's escalating obesity rates. The AMA says taxing beverages

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Speaker 1: will reduce sanuel sugar consumption by two kilos per person

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Speaker 1: and raise nearly four billion dollars in government revenue. The

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Speaker 1: federal government isn't too worried about the fifty three thousand

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Speaker 1: jobs lost last month, saying it's mainly down to people retiring.

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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. Workplace Minister Murray Watt says while more

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Speaker 1: baby boomers are calling time on their careers, more jobs

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Speaker 1: have been created for younger Australians.

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Speaker 3: The ABS has said today that most of the jobs

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Speaker 3: lost or people no longer working are older people who've

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Speaker 3: chosen to retire. But this is consistent with the forecast

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Speaker 3: that we released in my EFO.

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Speaker 1: More than a decade after the plane disappeared, Malaysia has

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Speaker 1: approved a new search for missing flight MH three P seventy.

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Speaker 1: Texas based Ocean Infinity as signed a contract to search

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Speaker 1: fifteen thousand square kilometers in the Southern Indian Ocean. Shadow

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Speaker 1: treasurer Angus Taylor has had his news conference disrupted by

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Speaker 1: a climate protest in Sydney, the latest incident coming just

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Speaker 1: two hours after two members of Rising Tide heckled oppositionally

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Speaker 1: to Peter Dutton as he was delivering a speech before

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Speaker 1: they were tackled by security. And there are grave concerns

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Speaker 1: for the health of two NASA astronauts who have returned

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Speaker 1: to Earth after two hundred and sixty eight days in space.

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Speaker 1: Sunny Williams and Butcher Wilmore are suffering muscle atrophy and

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Speaker 1: bone density LOSSI will now into a forty five day

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Speaker 1: rehabilitation program Sport and entertainment are next. In sport, Nick

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Speaker 1: Curiosi has picked up his first win on tour in

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Speaker 1: two and a half years at the Miami Open. He

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Speaker 1: says there are plenty of moments where he questions whether

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Speaker 1: he'll ever recover fully from his wrist injury.

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Speaker 4: In a cast for twelve weeks, could move my wrist,

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Speaker 4: and the surgeons were saying I'd never play again. So

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Speaker 4: I was listening to a lot of the outside noise,

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Speaker 4: you know, whether I'd be able to play at this

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Speaker 4: level and win. You know, playings one thing, but winning

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Speaker 4: matches and executing is another thing.

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Speaker 1: Penery fullback Dan Laurie has been ruled out of tonight's

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Speaker 1: in o Ral Ground final rematch in Melbourne. Thomas Jenkins

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Speaker 1: has been brought into the Panthers squad and the NBL

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Speaker 1: Championship will be decided in Woollongong on Sunday after the

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Speaker 1: Illawora Hooks forced a Game five decider with Melbourne United.

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Speaker 1: In entertainment news, Krne west Is revealed friends have tried

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Speaker 1: to stage an intervention after his latest online tirade where

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Speaker 1: he accused his ex Kim Kardashian of sex trafficking their kids.

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Speaker 1: The controversial rappers says he answered a knock at the

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Speaker 1: door with people urging him to go to a hospital

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Speaker 1: for help. Julipa has staged at impromptu photo shoot on

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Speaker 1: the streets of Melbourne, the pop superstar posting the photos

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Speaker 1: to social media after night two of her Radical Optimism Tour,

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Speaker 1: where she's performed a surprise rendition of nineties hit torn

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Speaker 1: And Ossibourne's singer Sea has filed for divorce after two

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Speaker 1: years of marriage. The documents filed in La revealing the

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Speaker 1: singer secretly welcomed a third child a year ago. She's

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Speaker 1: now seeking legal and physical custody of the eleven month

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Speaker 1: old boy named Somersault. And that's the latest from the

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Speaker 1: Nova Podcast news team will have another episode of the

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Speaker 1: Update for you tomorrow