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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm Ash Gartner. The number

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Speaker 1: of Ossie households struggling to pay their energy bills has

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Speaker 1: climbed as the cost of living crisis continues to take

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Speaker 1: its toll. New data from the regulator has revealed more

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Speaker 1: than two hundred thousand households now on hardship payment plans,

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Speaker 1: up fifty percent over the past three years. The Department

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Speaker 1: of Defenses in for an overhaul. It comes as it

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Speaker 1: grapples with cost blowouts and major project delays. Defense Minister

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Speaker 1: Richard Marles has announced a dedicated independent agency will be established.

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Speaker 1: It was a day of weather extremes across the countries

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Speaker 1: we marked the first day of summer. The mercury saw

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Speaker 1: to thirty nine in Perth, while bushfires burned out of

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Speaker 1: control in the Midwest. It was a wintry start to

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Speaker 1: summer on the east coast. Parts of New South Wales,

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Speaker 1: Victoria and Tasmania shift through their coldest start to summer

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Speaker 1: in decades. A final blow for disgraced former Royal Andrew

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Speaker 1: Mountbatten Windsor. He's been stripped of his last remaining royal titles.

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Speaker 1: King Charles instructing his appointments to the Order of the

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Speaker 1: Garter and Royal Victorian Order be canceled. He comes to

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Speaker 1: mid delays in his eviction from Royal Lodge. Officials in

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Speaker 1: Hong Kong say the netting covering the scaffolding around an

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Speaker 1: apartment complex that went up in flames did not meet

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Speaker 1: fire resistant standards. At least one hundred and fifty people

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Speaker 1: were killed in the high rise inferno, with the search

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Speaker 1: of the buildings expected to take weeks. Sport and to

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Speaker 1: entertainment news are next. Sam Kirk could line up for

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Speaker 1: the Matilda's in tonight's friendly against New Zealand. She missed

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Speaker 1: the first game with a calf complaint. If she takes

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Speaker 1: to the pitch tonight, it'll be her first home Soil

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Speaker 1: gamer in two years. Usman Kuaje has put his injured

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Speaker 1: back to the test after shashling back spasms in the

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Speaker 1: first Ashes. Selectors will now make the call on whether

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Speaker 1: he'll line up for the second Test at the Gabba.

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Speaker 1: In the Women's Big Bash, the Hobart Hurricanes have claimed

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Speaker 1: an eighty one run win over the Melbourne Stars under

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Speaker 1: the DLS method. Today, the Pert Scorches lineup against the

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Speaker 1: Melbourne Renegades. The Boomers have completed a series victory over

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Speaker 1: the Tall Blacks with the come from behind two point

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Speaker 1: win in Wellington. In entertainment news, the Country Music Awards

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Speaker 1: are returning to Las Vegas after three years in Texas.

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Speaker 1: Next US Awards will be held at MGM at Grand

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Speaker 1: Garden Arena on May seventeen. There's a new front runner

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Speaker 1: as speculation continues over who will become the next James Bond.

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Speaker 1: English actor Callum Turner is reportedly being eyed as the

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Speaker 1: next Doub seven and the star of the new Harry

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Speaker 1: Potter series reboot has opened up about receiving a letter

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Speaker 1: from Daniel Radcliffe, who played the young Wizard in the

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Speaker 1: original movie franchise Dominic. McLachlan says it was insane to

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Speaker 1: receive the letter and that's the later from the Nova

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Speaker 1: Podcast news team. We'll have another episode of the Update

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Speaker 1: for you later