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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the update. I'm Mary Anne Harris

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Speaker 1: with morning. Cooler conditions were welcomed by firefighters in Victoria overnight,

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Speaker 1: but the intensity of the blazers remains concerning. More emergency

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Speaker 1: evacuation orders have been issued as blazers continue to burn

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Speaker 1: in the Great Otway National Park southwest of Melbourne, Harcourt

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Speaker 1: in central Victoria, and Longwood in the north and near

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Speaker 1: Walwa in the northeast. Hundreds of buildings and thousands of

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Speaker 1: hectes of bushland have been destroyed. The full impact of

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Speaker 1: the devastation remains to be seen. A total fireban remains

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Speaker 1: in place for the state. This comes as members of

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Speaker 1: the ADF have been deployed to assist with accommodation in

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Speaker 1: affected areas. Many residents evacuated from their homes face an

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Speaker 1: anxious weight. This comes as more than one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty buildings have already been lost, with the tally expected

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Speaker 1: to dramatically rise as Impact assessment rus are permitted to

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Speaker 1: enter the fire grounds. Cee IFA Chief Officer Jason Heffnan

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Speaker 1: is calling for patients.

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Speaker 2: We have teams of people getting in there as soon

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Speaker 2: as it is safe to do so. That's firefighters to

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Speaker 2: do those impact assessments so we can get that data

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Speaker 2: validated and to the relief centers and the communities as

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Speaker 2: soon as we can. So yeah, I would ask those

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Speaker 2: people to please be patient.

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Speaker 1: North Queensland is bracing for cyclone Koji to make landfall,

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Speaker 1: with residents warned to expect damaging winds, heavy rain and

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Speaker 1: possible flooding. The area between Port Douglas and Saint Lawrence

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Speaker 1: is on high alert. Premier Dasa chruscif Folly says his

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Speaker 1: community are a resilient lot.

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Speaker 3: I believe I lead the most disaster resilient state, but

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Speaker 3: North and Far North Queensland is They're well practiced, they're

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Speaker 3: well versed in it. They know how to do the

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Speaker 3: preparation and they know how to do those things. So

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Speaker 3: I've got every faith that people will be able to

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Speaker 3: handle what Mother Nature throws at them.

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Speaker 1: Overseas and as search and rescue mission continues in the

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Speaker 1: fields for people trapped under an avalanche of garbage after

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Speaker 1: a landfill slip, four people have been killed and thirty

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Speaker 1: others remain missing. Sport and Entertainment news are next in

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Speaker 1: the BBL. The Melbourne Stars won by eight wickets. In

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Speaker 1: their game against the Melbourne Renegades, while the Brisbane Heat

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Speaker 1: beat the Sydney Thunder by seven wickets that left David

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Speaker 1: Warner with a knee injury. In the NBL, the Perth

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Speaker 1: Wildcats beat Southeast Melbourne Phoenix one hundred and seven to

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Speaker 1: ninety seven. The earlier game between the Cans taip Hans

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Speaker 1: and the Brisbane Bullets was postponed due to the cyclone.

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Speaker 1: In entertainment news, Ozzie F one star Oscar Piastre has

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Speaker 1: been spotted having some downtime soaking up the Rays in

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Speaker 1: Noosa with his girlfriend. And that's the letters from the

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Speaker 1: Nova podcast news team. We have another episode of the

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Speaker 1: Update four