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Speaker 1: You're listing to a Muma Mea 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 Taylor Strano from Mummamea's twice

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Speaker 1: daily news podcast, The Quickie. Here's what's happening in the

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Speaker 1: news today, Monday, August twelve. Investigations are underway following a

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Speaker 1: fatal helicopter crash in far North Queensland. The Australian Transport

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Speaker 1: Safety Bureau has deployed a team to Cans after a

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Speaker 1: twin engine chopper hit the Double Tree by Hilton hotel

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Speaker 1: in Cans just before two o'clock on Monday morning. Police

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Speaker 1: have confirmed the pilot, who was the sole occupant of

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Speaker 1: the aircraft, died on impact, while hundreds of guests were

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Speaker 1: evacuated from the hotel. Two hotel guests, a man in

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Speaker 1: his eighties and a woman in her seventies, were taken

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Speaker 1: to Can's Hospital in a stable condition. US President Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden's as he was pushed out of the rates for

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Speaker 1: the top job in US politics. In his first interview

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Speaker 1: since announcing he wouldn't contest the next election, Biden has

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Speaker 1: told CBS Morning Key Democrats urged him to not continue

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Speaker 1: his campaign, calling out former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by name.

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Speaker 1: During the same interview, Biden voice concerns about a disruptive

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Speaker 1: transfer of power at the next election, claiming Trump to

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Speaker 1: be a genuine danger to American security. Last month, Biden

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Speaker 1: took to social media platform x to confirm he would

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Speaker 1: not be seeking reelection for a second term in the

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Speaker 1: White House, instead endorsing his vice President, Kamala Harris to

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Speaker 1: assume the role of the key Democratic presidential candidate. Administrators

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Speaker 1: from battled regional airline REX are urging wary customers to

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Speaker 1: keep flying with the heavily indebted carrier despite concerns about

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Speaker 1: its future viability. Professional services firm EY Australia is working

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Speaker 1: to rescue the five companies in the Rex group. Since

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Speaker 1: the airline grounded its Boeing seven three seven fleet on

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Speaker 1: major metropolitan routes in July, rex's regional flights have continued

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Speaker 1: due to ongoing funding from private equity firm pag Asia Capital,

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Speaker 1: but the carrier's long term future remains unco amid calls

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Speaker 1: for a federal government bailout. It's understood the airline is

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Speaker 1: about five hundred million dollars in debt, launching an asset

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Speaker 1: sale and buy a search in efforts to stay in operation,

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Speaker 1: and changes to the pharmaceutical benefit scheme will see the

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Speaker 1: hip pocket of parents of cancer stricken children eased as

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Speaker 1: new cancer medications and treatments are made cheaper. Health Minister

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Speaker 1: Mark Butler announced on Monday new medicines have been listed

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Speaker 1: on the PBS, Amongst those a medication which treats inoperable

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Speaker 1: benign nerve tumors in children two years and older. The

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Speaker 1: changes mean parents will pay a maximum of just under

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Speaker 1: thirty two dollars per script or just under eight dollars

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Speaker 1: with a concession card. Around one hundred and seventy children

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Speaker 1: are expected to benefit from the change, with families previously

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Speaker 1: forking out up to and around one hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: six thousand dollars per year of treatment. That's your evening

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Speaker 1: news headlines. On tomorrow's episode, we're checking back in on

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Speaker 1: what's happening across the Middle East, with more strikes on schools,

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Speaker 1: rising tensions with Hesbela, and a change in tone of

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Speaker 1: the US leadership with Israel. Where to from here? Check

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