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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Taylorstrano from Mamma MEA's twice daily news podcast,

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Speaker 2: The Quickie with your Headlines for Friday, August fifteen. Major

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Speaker 2: changes are coming to how we protect our children. Federal

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Speaker 2: Attorney General Michelle Roland today met with her state and

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Speaker 2: territory counterparts to consider a national scheme signaling major changes

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Speaker 2: to working with children checks. She's now confirmed all states

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Speaker 2: and territories have agreed to ambitious reform to protect children,

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Speaker 2: with all attendees agreeing to pass a band in one

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Speaker 2: band in all legislation. The new laws will prevent an

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Speaker 2: individual who is banned from working with children in one

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Speaker 2: state or territory from working in other states and territories.

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Speaker 2: Miss Roland confirmed all jurisdictions agreed to rush the reforms

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Speaker 2: through before the end of the year. Calls for a

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Speaker 2: unified system have been growing following multiple reports of abuse

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Speaker 2: in childcare centers. In one instance, a Victorian childcare worker

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Speaker 2: was still allowed to retain his check and work in

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Speaker 2: the industry despite a major provider substantiating grooming allegations. Recommendations

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Speaker 2: for a national Working with Children CHECH scheme are not

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Speaker 2: a recent thing. Findings from the twenty seventeen Royal Commission

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Speaker 2: into Child Sexual Abuse also called for standardizing the process,

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Speaker 2: with MSS Roland conceding the reform had not happened quickly enough.

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Speaker 2: She says a lack of a national scheme puts young

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Speaker 2: people at risk, with hopes it would be in place

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Speaker 2: within twelve months. Meantime, Education ministers will also meet next

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Speaker 2: week to consider further child safety laws for childcare centers,

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Speaker 2: including the use of CCTV and mandatory child safety training.

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Speaker 2: More Aussies than ever before are taking certain illicit drugs.

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Speaker 2: Analysis of Wastewater by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission in

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Speaker 2: partnership with the universities detected a growth in consumption of

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Speaker 2: major illicit drugs around the nation. Ice, cocaine, and heroin

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Speaker 2: were all found at record highs in the latest analysis.

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Speaker 2: According to Wastewater figures, more than twenty two tons of

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Speaker 2: those three drugs, as well as MDMA also known as ecstasy,

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Speaker 2: was consumed in Australia in the last year to August

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Increased usage rates has boosted the illicit

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Speaker 2: drug trade and the profits for organized criminals, with an

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Speaker 2: estimated eleven point five billion dollars being spent. Ice consumption

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Speaker 2: rose to an estimated twelve point eight tons, while cocaine

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Speaker 2: use increased almost seventy percent, MDMA almost fifty percent, and

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Speaker 2: heroin up almost fifteen percent. The Commission's drug specialist, Shane Nilsen,

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Speaker 2: says the market was rebounding after consumption dropped amid tighter

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Speaker 2: border controls and lockdowns during the COVID nineteen pandemic. The

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Speaker 2: latest National Drug Strategy household survey suggests nearly one into

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Speaker 2: Ossie's age fourteen and over had illicitly used drugs at

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Speaker 2: some point in their life time, and estimated one in

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Speaker 2: five used in the past twelve months. The Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: has defended Australia's move to recognize a Palestinian state amid

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Speaker 2: criticism from the US. Earlier this week, Anthony Albanesi confirmed

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Speaker 2: Australia will join Western nations including the UK, France and

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Speaker 2: Canada in recognizing a state of Palestine at the UN

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Speaker 2: General Assembly in September, but that move has now been

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Speaker 2: publicly criticized by America's Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. Appearing

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Speaker 2: on ABC's seven thirty program, Harkabe said the US was

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Speaker 2: taken aback by the move and stress there was an

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Speaker 2: enormous level of disappointment and some disgust over the announcement,

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Speaker 2: but the PM backed Australia's decision, using the diplomat's words

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Speaker 2: against him, saying the continued human suffering in Gaza has

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Speaker 2: discussed the nation. Mister Harkabe also sees the US god

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Speaker 2: no heads up about Australia's move, but Foreign Minister Pennywong

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Speaker 2: did inform you a Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead

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Speaker 2: of it being made public, while the PM also spoke

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Speaker 2: in advance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo.

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Speaker 1: If you could be.

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Speaker 2: Laid to eternal rest with your four legged friend, would you.

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Speaker 2: There's been a recent push to revise Victoria's burial laws

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Speaker 2: to allow.

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Speaker 1: Owners to be laid to rest with their pets.

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Speaker 2: Currently, it's illegal to bury animals in a Victorian public cemetery,

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Speaker 2: even in and Urn. Similar laws were revised and changed

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Speaker 2: in New South Wales earlier this year, with members of

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Speaker 2: the Animal Justice Party in both States, pushing for reform

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Speaker 2: and relief for Tom Cruise and Top Gun fans. After

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Speaker 2: Skydance acquired Paramount earlier this month, the fate of the

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Speaker 2: third Top Gun movie and a new Star Trek project

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Speaker 2: were questioned by fans, but Skydance CEO David Ellison has

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Speaker 2: stressed both projects.

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Speaker 1: Remain a top priority for the company.

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Speaker 2: That's your evening news headlines on Monday's episode of The Quiki,

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Speaker 2: our investigation.

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Speaker 1: Into the recent boom of homeschooling.

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