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

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Speaker 1: Blackman from Mamma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie

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Speaker 1: with Your Headlines for Wednesday, December tenth. A woman found

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Speaker 1: dead in a car outside of New South Wales police

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Speaker 1: station has been identified as former Queensland counselor and journalist

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Speaker 1: Kirston Moriarty. Police discovered the forty eight year old's body

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Speaker 1: in the back of a blue Toyota Yaris parked outside

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Speaker 1: the Lake Illawarra police station on Friday afternoon. Paramedics say

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Speaker 1: she had been dead for days, with the car exposed

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Speaker 1: to extreme heat. New South Wales Police say it appears

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Speaker 1: Moriarty had been living in the vehicle, returning to her

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Speaker 1: car on Tuesday night after speaking with police officers. A

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Speaker 1: critical incident investigation is now under way. Moriarty was well

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Speaker 1: known in Queensland as a journalist, author and former Somerset

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Speaker 1: Regional counselor. She survived a serious skydiving accident and two

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Speaker 1: ten and later wrote about her recovery. Tributes describe her

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Speaker 1: as courageous, kind and deeply committed to her community. Nine

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Speaker 1: women were killed and at least ten others injured when

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Speaker 1: Nigerian soldiers reportedly opened fire on a protest in Attawama State.

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Speaker 1: The women were demonstrating on Monday in La Mourday, upset

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Speaker 1: that security forces weren't enforcing a curfew after clashes between

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Speaker 1: local communities. Witnesses say soldiers fired into the crowd after

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Speaker 1: trying to pass through the protest, Though the army denies

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Speaker 1: responsibility and blames a local militia, Families and Amnesty Internationals

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Speaker 1: say the soldiers were the ones who fired. The father

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Speaker 1: of one victim said soldiers first fired into the air

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Speaker 1: before shooting at people, but an official investigation has not

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Speaker 1: yet confirmed what actually happened. A new UN Women report

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Speaker 1: shows that over two thirds of female journalists, activists, and

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Speaker 1: human rights defenders have experienced to online abuse. More than

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Speaker 1: forty percent also faced attacks in real life because of

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Speaker 1: online harassment. The report, based on feedback from nearly seven

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Speaker 1: thousand women in one hundred and nineteen countries, says social

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Speaker 1: media and AI tools are making it easier to target women.

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Speaker 1: Real world attacks also include physical assaults, sexual assault, stalking,

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Speaker 1: verbal harassment, and fake emergency calls. Women who cover human

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Speaker 1: rights issues or are active online are most at risk,

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Speaker 1: sometimes facing fake or manipulated content. The reports warned that

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Speaker 1: online abuse has more than doubled in five years and

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Speaker 1: often leads to real world harm. You and women urges

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Speaker 1: stronger laws, better monitoring of tech platforms, and holding abuses

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Speaker 1: accountable to protect women's safety and voices. Communication Minister Anika

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Speaker 1: Wells has accepted that her taxpayer funded travel claims have

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Speaker 1: prompted a gut reaction from the public after a week

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Speaker 1: of scrutiny. Questions have been raised about flights for her

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Speaker 1: husband to attend sports events, long waits for government cars,

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Speaker 1: and a more than one hundred thousand dollars trip to

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Speaker 1: New York for a six minute speech on the government's

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Speaker 1: social media ban. Wells has referred her claims to the

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Speaker 1: Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority, but has refused calls from the

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Speaker 1: Coalition to step aside during the audit. She says she

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Speaker 1: followed the rules and is confident her expenses meet parliamentary guidelines,

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Speaker 1: but welcome to the review to remove any doubt. The

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Speaker 1: controversy has sparked debate on whether current rules meet community expectations,

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Speaker 1: with critics urging a review of the Ministerial Travel and expenses.

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Speaker 1: Australian comedian Julian Woods has been named as one of

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Speaker 1: four main suspects in a Bali police investigation into alleged

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Speaker 1: pornographic activity. Woods from Brisbane, was taken into custody last

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Speaker 1: week along with British sex worker Bonnie Blue and two

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Speaker 1: other British men. Police say the group was filming content

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Speaker 1: for a sex game involving seventeen men where the winner

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Speaker 1: would sleep with Bonnie Blue. Fourteen other Australians arrested at

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Speaker 1: the same time were released without charge, but Woods and

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Speaker 1: three others remain in Bali while the investigation continues. Blue

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Speaker 1: has been released and is cooperating with police, and no

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Speaker 1: one has been formally charged yet. That's your evening news headlines.

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Speaker 1: On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, there's an alarming decline

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Speaker 1: in the number of letters being written to Santa, and

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Speaker 1: we're getting to the bottom of it. Listen to The

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