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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm ash Gartner. Parts of

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Speaker 1: the country have sweltered through the hottest day years, as

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Speaker 1: firefighters in Victoria battle and number of bushfires. Two bushfires

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Speaker 1: continue to burn at an emergency level near Seymour, north

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Speaker 1: of Melbourne. The state bracing for another day of catastrophic

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Speaker 1: fire conditions tomorrow, while parts of New South Wales are

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Speaker 1: preparing for heat wave conditions so over the next three days.

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Speaker 1: It's set to sort forty in Penrith today. A stretch

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Speaker 1: of the Queensland coast is under a severe weather warning

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Speaker 1: as tropical lows track towards the coast. The system expected

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Speaker 1: to hit the northeast coast from Friday, bringing heavy rainfall

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Speaker 1: and risk of flash flooding. The families of those killed

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Speaker 1: in the Bondai terror attack will travel to Camber in

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Speaker 1: the first full sitting week, pushing for a national inquiry.

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Speaker 1: It comes as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi

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Speaker 1: for a oil commission. Inflation figures have slowed to three

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Speaker 1: point four percent, easing fears of a February interest rate hike,

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Speaker 1: a significant drop in electricity price growth helping to drive

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Speaker 1: the overall calling on the economy. A search is underway

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Speaker 1: for a man believed to be armed with a gun

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Speaker 1: in WA's midwest. It's understood fifty eight year old Kenneth

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Speaker 1: John Giles was involved in an altercation with a woman

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Speaker 1: when a shot was fired last night. The son of

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Speaker 1: Hollywood director Rob Rhiner has fronted court charged with the

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Speaker 1: murder of his parents. In a dramatic twist, Nick Rehner's

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Speaker 1: high profile lawyer, Alan Jackson, has withdrawn from the case

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Speaker 1: this morning. I had to withdraw as Nick Reiner's council

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Speaker 1: circumstances beyond our control, but more importantly, circumstances beyond next control.

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Speaker 1: His arraignment has now been pushed back to the end

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Speaker 1: of February. The US has seized a Russian flagged oil

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Speaker 1: tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean, with officials saying it

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Speaker 1: was carrying sanctioned oil from Venezuela. This was a Venezuela

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Speaker 1: shadow fleet vessel that has transported sanctioned oil and the

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Speaker 1: United States of America under this president is not going

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Speaker 1: to tolerate that. White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt there

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Speaker 1: Warner Brothers has rejected the latest paramount takeover beer to

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Speaker 1: urging shareholders to stick with the rival offer from Netflix.

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Speaker 1: Warner's leadership says Paramount's offer is not in the best

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Speaker 1: interest of the company. Sport and entertainment news are next.

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Speaker 1: The Aussies are closing in on a final Test victory

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Speaker 1: in Sydney. Is the home side looks to wrap up

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Speaker 1: the Ashes series for one. That's despite England's Jacob be

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Speaker 1: Ethel notching up his maiden Test century, cementing his place

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Speaker 1: in the side. Not really son ken yet. I haven't

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Speaker 1: really had time to kind of reflect on it or

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Speaker 1: anything like that, but yeah, to do that and have

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Speaker 1: the family there was very special. Still in cricket, the

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Speaker 1: Renegades have claimed a four wicket win over the per

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Speaker 1: Scorches in yesterday's Big Bash Action. Today the Melbourne Stars

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Speaker 1: face the Sydney Sixers, and in tennas Cocoa golf has

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Speaker 1: led Team USA to two one victory over Greece to

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Speaker 1: secure their spot in the United Cup semi finals. They

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Speaker 1: were a greed team. It wasn't easy. I felt like

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Speaker 1: I was playing really good today and Christian was playing

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Speaker 1: well as well, so I just knew once we got

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Speaker 1: some opportunities that will eventually swing our way In entertainment

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Speaker 1: news city piece David Harbor is taking a short break

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Speaker 1: from Hollywood after backing out of an upcoming film. He's

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Speaker 1: reportedly stepped back from the new flick behemoth. Foo Fighters

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Speaker 1: guitarist Pats Me will miss a number of dates on

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Speaker 1: the band's tour after breaking his foot in a gardening accident.

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Speaker 1: And that's latest from the No for podcast news team.

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Speaker 1: We'll have another episode of the Update for you later