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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma mia 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 Nicole Madigan from Mummamea's twice

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Speaker 1: daily news podcast, The Quickie with your Headlines for Thursday,

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Speaker 1: May eighth. As the Prime Minister eyes his new cabinet,

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Speaker 1: the Labour leader faces early headwinds, including US tariffs and

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Speaker 1: a potentially troublesome Green Senate cross bench. Anthony Albanesi and

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Speaker 1: his senior ministers have already sent a shot across the

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Speaker 1: minor party's bow warning them to be cooperative. After a

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Speaker 1: first term marred by blocked legislation and drawn out negotiations,

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Speaker 1: the Greens have retained their balance of power status in

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Speaker 1: the Upper House, but lost Leader Adam Band and three

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Speaker 1: or four Lower House seats amid a Labour resurgence in

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Speaker 1: the federal election on Saturday. The Labour Caucus will meet

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Speaker 1: in Canberra on Friday ahead of the likely unveiling of

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Speaker 1: a new look cabinet on Monday. Trade Minister Don Farrell,

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Speaker 1: a White Faction powerbroker, says he'll leave the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: to determine his cabinet as the labour faction's tussle for

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Speaker 1: ministry representations, spots are decided on a proportional basis. Also

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Speaker 1: on Albanese's early term agenda are the tariffs imposed by

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Speaker 1: US President Donald Trump on imported goods steel and aluminium

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Speaker 1: from Australia. Recipe book writer Nagi Mahashi has beaten cupcake

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Speaker 1: Queen Brook Balamy at the publishing Industry's annual awards after

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Speaker 1: Mahashi and other authors accused Balamy of plagiarism. Mahashi won

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Speaker 1: the Illustrated Book of the Year prize a second time

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Speaker 1: at the Australian Brook Industry Awards in Melbourne on Wednesday

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Speaker 1: for her most recent book, recipe Tin Eats Tonight. In April,

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Speaker 1: the prize winning author accused Balamy, who runs the popular

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Speaker 1: Brookie Bakehouse in Brisbane, of copying her caramel slice and

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Speaker 1: barklover recipes in her best selling book Bake with Brookie.

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Speaker 1: Another author, US based Kalie McKenny from the blog Sally's

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Speaker 1: Base The King Addiction, has alleged Balamy copied her best

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Speaker 1: vanilla cake recipe. Balamy denies the allegations, which she has

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Speaker 1: described online as deeply distressing. She did not attend the

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Speaker 1: awards night, and she's understood to be attending a pop

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Speaker 1: up bakery venture in the United Arab Emirates. A man

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Speaker 1: who was suffering psychotic symptoms when he stabbed sixteen people

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Speaker 1: in a busy shopping center had a fixation for knives,

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Speaker 1: according to a police officer who interacted with him a

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Speaker 1: year earlier. Previously unreleased footage has revealed at the moment

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Speaker 1: in January twenty twenty three when Joel Caucci complained to

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Speaker 1: Queensland Police that his father confiscated his collection of military knives.

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Speaker 1: During the interaction, which was filmed on an officer's body

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Speaker 1: worn camera, he was calm and collected as he told

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Speaker 1: police he couldn't afford to replace the knives. The collection

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Speaker 1: included a knife that was the exact type used in

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Speaker 1: the Bondai Junction mall attack a year later. An inquest

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Speaker 1: into the stabbings was previously told in a transcript of

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Speaker 1: the full interaction. Couchi persistently urged officers to get the

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Speaker 1: knives back from his father, and suggested he would become

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Speaker 1: broke and homeless without them. Couchi's mother told officers her

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Speaker 1: husband had taken the knives out of concern for their son,

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Speaker 1: who she believed was hearing voices after he stopped taking

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Speaker 1: his schizophrenia medication. He had been raging and laid hands

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Speaker 1: on his father and sworn at his mother. After the

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Speaker 1: knives were taken and given to a friend for safe keeping,

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Speaker 1: the officers were told a year after the confrontation with

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Speaker 1: his father over the knife collection, Couchi armed himself with

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Speaker 1: a thirty centimeter pigging knife and launched an unprovoked attack

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Speaker 1: at the Bondi Junction Mall in Sydney. Jay Z has

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Speaker 1: blasted what he describes as the shocking and reckless disregard

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Speaker 1: for the truth that his rape accuser has allegedly shown.

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Speaker 1: The ninety nine Problems hit Maker is suing the anonymous

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Speaker 1: Jane Doe and her lawyers for malicious prosecution and defamation.

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Speaker 1: In an amended complaint filed on Monday, he alleged the

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Speaker 1: woman had not stopped making statements about him despite agreeing

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Speaker 1: in February to voluntarily dismiss her sexual assault lawsuit against him.

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Speaker 1: Jay Z also accused lawyer Tony Busby of tampering with

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Speaker 1: Wikipedia pages. The amended complaint came in response to Jane

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Speaker 1: Doe and her lawyer challenging his lawsuit by arguing he'd

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Speaker 1: failed to show the special injury needed to pursue his case,

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Speaker 1: and insisted his prior claim that Rock Nation lost out

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Speaker 1: on an unspecified thirty one million Australian dollars deal as

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Speaker 1: a result were not sufficient, But in his amendment, Jay Z,

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Speaker 1: whose real name is Sean Carter, claimed the sum represented

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Speaker 1: the minimum fee guarantee for an undisclosed contract and the

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Speaker 1: full figure would have been millions of dollars higher had

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Speaker 1: the contract been performed. The fifty five year old rapper

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Speaker 1: also alleged the rape accusation harmed his ability to pursue

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Speaker 1: new opportunities. That's your latest news headlines on tomorrow's episode

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Speaker 1: of The Quickie, new evidence as emerged in the Madeleine

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Speaker 1: McCann case, with police reportedly sitting on crucial information since

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Speaker 1: twenty and sixteen. Listen to The Quickie wherever you get

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