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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges the

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Speaker 1: traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is

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Speaker 1: recorded on Hi. I'm Grace Ruvervey from Mumma MEA's twice

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Speaker 1: daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines for Friday,

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Speaker 1: April eighteen, Regional Australia is set to benefit from back

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Speaker 1: to back Easter and ans AC day long weekends and

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Speaker 1: towns are seeing strong bookings across accommodation cafes and restaurants

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Speaker 1: for those staying close at to home. In Australia's biggest city,

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Speaker 1: Sydney's Fish Market expects over fifty thousand shoppers on Good

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Speaker 1: Friday with six hundred and fifty tons of seafood sold.

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Speaker 1: With warm weather forecast, beach goers are expected to stay

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Speaker 1: safe while Victoria hosts surfing competition the Rip Girl pro

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Speaker 1: Bells Beach. Meanwhile, tropical Cyclone Errol is bringing wind and

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Speaker 1: rain to Wa and flooding continues in parts of Queensland,

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Speaker 1: South Australia and New South Wales. With so many people

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Speaker 1: out on the roads this long weekend, police urging caution

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Speaker 1: for drivers to be vigilant. The Coalition is heading for

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Speaker 1: its worst federal elections since the Liberal Parties founding in

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty four, with its primary vote dropping to thirty

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Speaker 1: three percent in the latest Yuko of poll. With the

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Speaker 1: election just two weeks away, Experts say Peter Dutton needs

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Speaker 1: a miracle to recover as early voting begins soon. Labour

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Speaker 1: leads the two party preferred vote fifty three to forty

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Speaker 1: seven percent, its strongest showing in eighteen months, and Anthony

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Speaker 1: Albanezi remains the preferred prime minister over Peter Dutton at

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Speaker 1: forty eight to thirty eight percent. Dutton is particularly struggling

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Speaker 1: with mail and outer suburban voters, key demographics for the

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Speaker 1: coalition's path to victory. The poll of fifteen hundred voters

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Speaker 1: was conducted from April eleven to April fifteen, as both

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Speaker 1: parties pause campaigning for the easter break. British researchers have

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Speaker 1: found the strongest evidence yet of alien life While studying

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Speaker 1: an exoplanet one hundred and twenty four light years away

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Speaker 1: using the James Webb Space Telescope. They detected chemicals dms

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Speaker 1: and dmds, typically produced on Earth by marine microbes. Researchers

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Speaker 1: have said the discovery could mean the planet is teeming

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Speaker 1: with life, bringing us closer to confirming when not alone.

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Speaker 1: The exoplanet, already known to host water, vapor, and carbon

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Speaker 1: based molecules, is in the habitable zone, which may have

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Speaker 1: a hydrogen rich atmosphere and ocean covered surface. Researchers aim

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Speaker 1: to confirm whether the detected gases could be produced without life,

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Speaker 1: with hopes of a breakthrough within a year or two.

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Speaker 1: The controversial Fire Festival is once again postponed. Originally planned

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Speaker 1: from May thirty to June two in Mexico, ticket holders

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Speaker 1: were told via email the event is delayed and they

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Speaker 1: will be refunded with new dates to come. Tickets for

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Speaker 1: Fire Festival two, marketed with the slogan fire Festival two

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Speaker 1: is Real, started at approximately twenty two hundred dollars Australian.

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Speaker 1: The original twenty seven teen Bahama's based Fire Festival became

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Speaker 1: infamous after attendees who paid between two thousand dollars and

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars were met with disaster

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Speaker 1: tenths instead of luxury villas and minimal food or security.

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Speaker 1: The fiasco led to the Fire documentary and co founder

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Speaker 1: Billy McFarland's criminal conviction. He pled guilty to defrauding investors

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Speaker 1: over forty two million dollars and served four years in prison.

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Speaker 1: McFarlan announced the reboot earlier this year, claiming a thoughtfully

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Speaker 1: planned comeback with amazing plans despite public skepticism. Ben Affleck

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Speaker 1: has praised his ex wife Jennifer Lopez for her ongoing

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Speaker 1: bond with his children, despite their twenty twenty four split

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Speaker 1: after two years of marriage. At the Accountant To premiere

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Speaker 1: in La Affleck, who shares three children with Jennifer Ghana,

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Speaker 1: said Lopez is spectacular with his kids and called her

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Speaker 1: a tremendous person whom he's grateful to. He also expressed

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Speaker 1: love for Lopez's seventeen year old twins Mat and Emmy.

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Speaker 1: Affleck said having all their kids at the premiere made

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Speaker 1: the night extra special and called their relationships the joy

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Speaker 1: of his life. He added that he avoids online negativity

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Speaker 1: about his personal life, saying there's no scandal around the breakup.

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Speaker 1: That's your latest news headlines. For more daily news, listen

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