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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumma Mea podcast. Hi, I'm Cassandra

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Speaker 1: Green from Momma MEA's twice daily news podcast. To the

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Speaker 1: Quickie with your headlines for Tuesday, October thirty, A teen

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Speaker 1: cricketer has passed away in hospital after being hit by

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Speaker 1: a ball during practice in Melbourne's East. Seventeen year old

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Speaker 1: Ben Austin was taken to hospital in a critical condition

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Speaker 1: after a ball hit him in the neck during training

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Speaker 1: and Ferntree Gully on Tuesday. The Ferntree Gully Cricket Club

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Speaker 1: confirmed Ben had passed away on Thursday. In a post

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Speaker 1: on Facebook, the club asked for privacy for Ben's family

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Speaker 1: and thanked emergency services who assisted when the teen was injured.

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Speaker 1: Ben was training ahead of a T twenty match. It's

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Speaker 1: understood the injury occurred in front of his teammates. Floral

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Speaker 1: tributes are growing outside the training facility where Ben was injured,

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Speaker 1: as Warner's pay tribute to a young life lost. In

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Speaker 1: bad news for borrowers, Australia's four major banks have cast

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Speaker 1: out on a November cut, there forecasting the RBA will

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Speaker 1: leave the interest rate on hold at three point six percent.

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Speaker 1: It comes after a climb in inflation. The consumer price

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Speaker 1: index rose at an annual pace of three point two

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Speaker 1: percent in the September quarter, up from two point one

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Speaker 1: percent in June. The next interest rate announcement is on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: November four. Dozens of people have died after Hurricane Melissa

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Speaker 1: barreled through the Caribbean. More than thirty people have been

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Speaker 1: confirmed dead, with widespread destruction and flooding reported across Cuba, Haiti,

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Speaker 1: and Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa is one of the most powerful

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Speaker 1: storms ever observed in the Atlantic. It hit Jamaica on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday as a catastrophic Category five hurricane. The record breaking

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Speaker 1: storm has since been downgraded to a Category two with

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Speaker 1: winds up to one hundred and seventy kilometers per hour.

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Speaker 1: Prince Harry has taken aim at social media giants in

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Speaker 1: a new interview. In a podcast interview with US comedian

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Speaker 1: Hassan Minhaj, the former royal claimed social media companies farm

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Speaker 1: our children's mindset and mark at it for themselves. He

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Speaker 1: didn't stop there, though, and added that evil, wicked people

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Speaker 1: are at the heart of them. Harry has long been

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Speaker 1: outspoken against social media and has campaigned against the harm

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Speaker 1: it causes young people. Lily Allen was coy when she

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Speaker 1: was asked if she's seeing anyone new following the release

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Speaker 1: of her latest album, which calls out her ex husband

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Speaker 1: David Harbor for allegedly cheating. When Interview magazine asked the

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Speaker 1: forty year old if she was dating, she laughed and

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Speaker 1: said maybe. The smile singer then spoke about dating struggles,

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Speaker 1: namely the pain of trying to navigate dating apps. She

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Speaker 1: told the magazine she was finding them awful, especially if

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Speaker 1: you're going through heartbreak. That's your evening news headlines. On

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Speaker 1: Friday's episode of The Quikie, It's time to cleanse the

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Speaker 1: news timeline and get a little freaky. From why We're

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Speaker 1: obsessed with all Things Spooky to a very unserious investigation

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Speaker 1: of Muma MEA's office ghost where unpacking some major Halloween vibes.

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