1 00:00:10,614 --> 00:00:15,254 Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges 2 00:00:15,334 --> 00:00:18,134 Speaker 1: the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast 3 00:00:18,214 --> 00:00:24,454 Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Cassandra Green from Mamma MIA's 4 00:00:24,534 --> 00:00:28,134 Speaker 1: twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines for Wednesday, 5 00:00:28,134 --> 00:00:32,494 Speaker 1: September twenty nine. Mother Hak Young Lee, aged forty three, 6 00:00:32,614 --> 00:00:35,294 Speaker 1: has been found guilty of killing her two children, eight 7 00:00:35,374 --> 00:00:38,254 Speaker 1: year old Yunajoe and six year old Minu Joe. It 8 00:00:38,334 --> 00:00:41,014 Speaker 1: was found Lee gave her children an overdose of prescription 9 00:00:41,174 --> 00:00:44,894 Speaker 1: medicine in mid twenty eighteen, mixed in with juice. She 10 00:00:44,934 --> 00:00:47,694 Speaker 1: then bundled their bodies into suitcases and left them in 11 00:00:47,734 --> 00:00:50,734 Speaker 1: a New Zealand storage unit for four years. They were 12 00:00:50,774 --> 00:00:54,174 Speaker 1: found in August twenty twenty two. After hiding them, she 13 00:00:54,214 --> 00:00:57,974 Speaker 1: fled the country to South Korea. Lee admitted to killing 14 00:00:57,974 --> 00:01:00,134 Speaker 1: her children, claiming she gave them a dose of the 15 00:01:00,174 --> 00:01:04,214 Speaker 1: antidepressant drug nor triptoline. However, she pleaded not guilty due 16 00:01:04,254 --> 00:01:07,654 Speaker 1: to insanity. Her legal team said she'd been mentally unwell 17 00:01:07,694 --> 00:01:11,094 Speaker 1: after her husband died from cancer in twenty seventeen, and 18 00:01:11,174 --> 00:01:13,814 Speaker 1: that in her mind she believed killing the children was 19 00:01:13,854 --> 00:01:16,534 Speaker 1: the morally right thing to do. He had been the 20 00:01:16,534 --> 00:01:19,054 Speaker 1: sole provider, with Lee a state at home wife looking 21 00:01:19,094 --> 00:01:22,254 Speaker 1: after the young children. Her legal team said she feared 22 00:01:22,254 --> 00:01:24,334 Speaker 1: she would take her own life and the children would 23 00:01:24,334 --> 00:01:27,414 Speaker 1: find her body. After just two weeks on trial, the 24 00:01:27,494 --> 00:01:30,934 Speaker 1: jury deliberated for around three hours before deeming her guilty 25 00:01:30,974 --> 00:01:34,734 Speaker 1: on two counts of murder. Natalie Walker, the Crown prosecutor, 26 00:01:34,974 --> 00:01:37,094 Speaker 1: said the thought of parenting alone may have been too 27 00:01:37,174 --> 00:01:39,894 Speaker 1: much for Lee. She said the steps Lee took after 28 00:01:39,934 --> 00:01:42,654 Speaker 1: the children died were consistent with wanting a new life. 29 00:01:43,054 --> 00:01:45,854 Speaker 1: The Crown suggested it was not an altruistic killing, but 30 00:01:45,974 --> 00:01:49,374 Speaker 1: rather a selfish act to free herself. West Pack has 31 00:01:49,374 --> 00:01:52,214 Speaker 1: announced it will cut two hundred teller and personal banking 32 00:01:52,294 --> 00:01:55,254 Speaker 1: roles in a reshuffle. They will add the same amount 33 00:01:55,294 --> 00:01:58,814 Speaker 1: of positions in home lending and small business banking. It's 34 00:01:58,814 --> 00:02:01,094 Speaker 1: been an inn stable couple of weeks for those working 35 00:02:01,134 --> 00:02:04,614 Speaker 1: in finance. Australia's major banks have announced thousands of job 36 00:02:04,654 --> 00:02:07,734 Speaker 1: cuts in recent months, with Commonwealth Bank, nab A and 37 00:02:07,854 --> 00:02:11,534 Speaker 1: Z Bendigo Bank and the Bank of Queensland all shedding staff. 38 00:02:11,934 --> 00:02:14,494 Speaker 1: Westpac said it will try to keep as many employees 39 00:02:14,494 --> 00:02:17,774 Speaker 1: on as possible through training and redeployment. In the past 40 00:02:17,774 --> 00:02:20,814 Speaker 1: twelve months, thirty three employees moved from branches to train 41 00:02:20,854 --> 00:02:24,854 Speaker 1: as home finance managers. A spokesperson noted that Westpac employees 42 00:02:24,894 --> 00:02:28,414 Speaker 1: more than thirty thousand staff across the country. Westpac's general 43 00:02:28,454 --> 00:02:30,734 Speaker 1: manager for retail banking said the move was part of 44 00:02:30,734 --> 00:02:34,694 Speaker 1: a digital first strategy. Australia's Health Minister has weighed in 45 00:02:34,774 --> 00:02:38,694 Speaker 1: on the controversial paracetamol warnings issued in the United States. 46 00:02:39,054 --> 00:02:42,214 Speaker 1: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior and the US President 47 00:02:42,294 --> 00:02:46,014 Speaker 1: baselessly linked autism to the use of paracetamol by pregnant women, 48 00:02:46,334 --> 00:02:50,254 Speaker 1: along with childhood vaccines. Health Minister Mark Butler said he 49 00:02:50,334 --> 00:02:52,214 Speaker 1: was really worried to the comments would leave more than 50 00:02:52,214 --> 00:02:55,654 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand Australian pregnant women unsure or afraid of 51 00:02:55,694 --> 00:02:58,374 Speaker 1: what to do when they become sick, particularly with fever. 52 00:02:59,334 --> 00:03:01,654 Speaker 1: He also didn't want mothers to feel guilty for having 53 00:03:01,694 --> 00:03:04,934 Speaker 1: taken the treatment that was advised to them in past pregnancies. 54 00:03:05,454 --> 00:03:09,494 Speaker 1: The Therapeutic Goods Administration joined other medicines regulators, leading Clara 55 00:03:09,574 --> 00:03:13,374 Speaker 1: initians and scientists in declaring Robust's scientific evidence showing no 56 00:03:13,534 --> 00:03:16,614 Speaker 1: causal link between the use of paracetamol in pregnancy and 57 00:03:16,734 --> 00:03:21,174 Speaker 1: autism or ADHD. It said paracetamol remains the recommended treatment 58 00:03:21,254 --> 00:03:24,134 Speaker 1: for pain and fever in pregnant women as directed, and 59 00:03:24,174 --> 00:03:27,454 Speaker 1: that there are no current safety investigations about paracetamol and 60 00:03:27,534 --> 00:03:32,294 Speaker 1: autism or neurodevelopmental disorders. More broadly, mister Butler said President 61 00:03:32,294 --> 00:03:35,374 Speaker 1: Trump's other remarks about combination jobs like measles, mums and 62 00:03:35,414 --> 00:03:38,094 Speaker 1: rubella were the most worrying. He said he does not 63 00:03:38,214 --> 00:03:43,414 Speaker 1: want further uncertainty about the importance of Australia's childhood immunization program. 64 00:03:43,654 --> 00:03:47,414 Speaker 1: Clinical psychologists and parenting expert Tanya Foster criticized the U 65 00:03:47,454 --> 00:03:51,094 Speaker 1: S Government's announcement, saying parents of children with autism already 66 00:03:51,094 --> 00:03:54,734 Speaker 1: struggle enough with self criticism and blame. A man was 67 00:03:54,814 --> 00:03:58,494 Speaker 1: arrested on September fifteen for allegedly attempting to serve Taylor 68 00:03:58,534 --> 00:04:02,174 Speaker 1: Swift deposition papers on behalf of Justin Baldoni's legal team. 69 00:04:02,974 --> 00:04:06,574 Speaker 1: The man, Justin Lee Fisher, an ex cop turned private eye, 70 00:04:06,694 --> 00:04:10,334 Speaker 1: was arrested outside Travis Kelsey's gated Leewoard Care, ANSAs estate 71 00:04:10,654 --> 00:04:13,214 Speaker 1: in the early hours of the morning He's since been 72 00:04:13,294 --> 00:04:16,014 Speaker 1: charged with jumping the fence onto a private residence in 73 00:04:16,094 --> 00:04:19,214 Speaker 1: a private neighborhood. Swift and Kelsey are believed to have 74 00:04:19,254 --> 00:04:22,894 Speaker 1: been in residence at the time. Swift became embroiled in 75 00:04:22,974 --> 00:04:25,734 Speaker 1: Lively and Baldoni's legal fight after her song featured in 76 00:04:25,774 --> 00:04:28,014 Speaker 1: their film It Ends with Us, and her name was 77 00:04:28,014 --> 00:04:31,054 Speaker 1: listed in a countersuit discussing a particular meeting she was 78 00:04:31,094 --> 00:04:34,854 Speaker 1: allegedly at. Baldoni's team said she agreed to a deposition, 79 00:04:34,894 --> 00:04:37,254 Speaker 1: but her team responded that she did not agree, but 80 00:04:37,294 --> 00:04:40,534 Speaker 1: would make the time after October twenty if forced. On 81 00:04:40,574 --> 00:04:44,254 Speaker 1: September thirteen, Judge Lehman declined a request from Baldoni's attorneys 82 00:04:44,254 --> 00:04:47,534 Speaker 1: for an extension of the discovery cutoff date, possibly ending 83 00:04:47,574 --> 00:04:51,294 Speaker 1: their quest to depose Swift. The cutoff date is September thirty, 84 00:04:51,294 --> 00:04:54,534 Speaker 1: but Swift was not available until October twenty. The move 85 00:04:54,614 --> 00:04:57,414 Speaker 1: appears to block Swift from being deposed in the court case. 86 00:04:58,054 --> 00:05:01,534 Speaker 1: That's your evening News Headlines. On Thursday's episode of The Quikie, 87 00:05:01,574 --> 00:05:04,054 Speaker 1: we discuss why everyone is so obsessed with what the 88 00:05:04,174 --> 00:05:07,054 Speaker 1: US has to say. Listen to The Quickie wherever you 89 00:05:07,094 --> 00:05:11,214 Speaker 1: get your podcasts.