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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mamma Mia podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges

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

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Speaker 1: is recorded on. Hi. I'm Grace Rufrey from Muma MEA's

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Speaker 1: daily news podcast to the Quickie with your Headlines for Thursday,

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Speaker 1: twenty ninth of August. Kamala Harris's presidential campaign has enlisted

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Speaker 1: Brenda Abdelah, an Egyptian American lawyer and former Homeland Security official,

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Speaker 1: to lead outreach to Arab American voters in key states.

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Speaker 1: This move comes as Harris face as a tight race

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Speaker 1: against Donald Trump, with the Araba Muslim vote potentially pivotal

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Speaker 1: in battleground states like Michigan. Harris has also hired Afghan

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Speaker 1: American lawyer Nazarena Barghsey to engage Muslim Americans as frustration

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Speaker 1: grows within these communities over the US support for Israel's

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Speaker 1: war in Gaza. Quantus's profit dropped twenty eight point three

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Speaker 1: percent to one point twenty five billion dollars as airfares

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Speaker 1: moderated amid increased competition and efforts to woo back customers

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Speaker 1: trust that had eroded in the aftermath of the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: The decline was also influenced by reduced freight revenue in

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Speaker 1: a two hundred and thirty million dollar investment in customer

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Speaker 1: experience upgrades, including one hundred million dollars for airport lounge renovations.

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Speaker 1: Despite the profit for Quantus announced a four hundred million

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Speaker 1: dollar share buyback and plans to resume dividends in the

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Speaker 1: second half of the year. The afl W is striving

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Speaker 1: to build momentum as it enters its ninth season, expanding

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Speaker 1: to eleven regular season rounds with plans for twelve by

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. However, further expansion to fourteen rounds hinges

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Speaker 1: on achieving average attendance of six thousand fans and one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand broadcast viewers. A scheduling conflict between the Western

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Speaker 1: Bulldogs men's and women's team's next Friday could hinder attendance

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Speaker 1: at the AFLW game, a decision criticized by Sydney women's

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Speaker 1: coach Scott Gowan's as a missed opportunity. The league hopes

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Speaker 1: the excitement around the rising talent and a more competitive

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Speaker 1: landscape will boost interest. The season begins Friday with Sydney

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Speaker 1: hosting Collingwood and West coast facing Richmond, Paris has delivered

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Speaker 1: a stunning Paralympic opening ceremony, showcasing French beauty and culture.

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Speaker 1: The weather was bright and warm, in contrast to the

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Speaker 1: rainy Olympic Opening. This was also the first Paralympic ceremony

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Speaker 1: held outside the main stadium. Australia, as the twenty thirty

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Speaker 1: two Games host, was the third last to march, led

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Speaker 1: by flag bearers Brendan Hall and Madison dear Rosario. Only

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Speaker 1: thirty four of the one hundred and fifty two Australian

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Speaker 1: athletes participated, with many choosing to rest before the eleven

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Speaker 1: day event kicks off tonight. The Pulse on Paris. The

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Speaker 1: Pulse on Paris is back and as the first events

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Speaker 1: in the Paralympics kickoff tonight, here's what you can watch.

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Speaker 1: First up, we're diving back into swimming with dozens of

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Speaker 1: OSSI's competing in the heats. The table tennis features ossies

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Speaker 1: in both men's and women's competitions. Jesse ten and Chris

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Speaker 1: Addis take on Japan in the MD eight doubles, and

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Speaker 1: Daniella detro takes on France in the WD ten table

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Speaker 1: tennis Ozzie's Melissa and Tenna, Amir Lee and Tamman Kenton

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Speaker 1: Smith will compete in the Archery Open Ranking round, and finally,

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Speaker 1: Australia will burn Great Britain in the preliminary round Group

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Speaker 1: B Wheelchair Rugby. That's your latest news headlines. On tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: episode of The Quikie, Claire Murphy is looking at the

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Speaker 1: new laws that are further restricting women in Afghanistan. Listen

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Speaker 1: to The Quikie wherever you get your podcasts