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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 Mumma MEA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie

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Speaker 1: with your Headlines for Monday, December one. Smart cars with

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Speaker 1: Internet access are becoming advanced weaponry used by perpetrators in

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Speaker 1: domestic and family violence situations. There have been four hundred

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Speaker 1: calls to the e Safety Commission's Technology Facilitated Abuse Service

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Speaker 1: about the issue. A further twenty thousand people, including frontline workers,

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Speaker 1: sought information about it from an online hub this year.

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Speaker 1: The report's concern coercive control through smart cars linked to

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Speaker 1: apps and cloud accounts that can show the vehicle's location,

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Speaker 1: start the engine, lock or unlock the doors, and send alerts.

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Speaker 1: Responding to the emerging threat, a new online Safety advisory

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Speaker 1: has been issued. It provides guidance outlining patterns of abuse

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Speaker 1: and warning signs regarding smart devices. This includes phones, watch

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Speaker 1: and home security, but also cars, fridge's watering system and

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Speaker 1: even automated cat feeders. A satanic child abuse material ring

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Speaker 1: has been busted by police who have charged four Australians

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Speaker 1: for their involvement. Detectives uncovered a Sydney based pedophile network

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Speaker 1: actively involved in distributing and facilitating child sexual abuse involving

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Speaker 1: ritualistic or satanic themes. New South Wales police executed six

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Speaker 1: search warrants across Sydney late last week, including in Waterloo,

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Speaker 1: where they arrested twenty six year old Landon German Nott

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Speaker 1: and Mills. German Nott and Mills, who police allege played

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Speaker 1: a leading role in the group, was charged with numerous

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Speaker 1: offenses including making available child abuse, possession of child abuse,

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Speaker 1: and disseminating and possessing vistiality material. He did not apply

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Speaker 1: for bail. At a unit block in Malabar, detectives arrested

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Speaker 1: three men who all faced court on Friday, with none

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Speaker 1: applying for bail. Benjamin Raymond Drysdale, forty six, was charged

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Speaker 1: with using a carriage service to make child abuse material,

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Speaker 1: along with failing to comply with reporting obligations and a

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Speaker 1: drug possession charge. Andrew Sendeki forty two was charged with

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Speaker 1: both possessing and accessing child abuse material, and Stuart Woods

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Speaker 1: Riches thirty nine was charged with possessing besld material and

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Speaker 1: accessing child abuse material, along with failing to comply with

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Speaker 1: reporting obligations and drug possession A truck driver has been

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Speaker 1: jailed for more than twelve years after crashing into a

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Speaker 1: school bus and seriously injuring many students. Brett Michael Russell,

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Speaker 1: sixty three, collided with the back of a bus carrying

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Speaker 1: thirty two people, including twenty seven Loretto College, Ballarat students,

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Speaker 1: in September twenty twenty two. The students and teachers had

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Speaker 1: been on their way to Melbourne Airport to travel to

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Speaker 1: the United States for a NASA camp. No one died

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Speaker 1: in the crash, but most of the passengers were taken

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Speaker 1: to hospital and ten of them suffered serious injuries, including

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Speaker 1: spinal fractures. Russell in October pleaded guilty in the Victorian

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Speaker 1: County Court to twe offenses, including ten counts of negligently

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Speaker 1: causing serious injury. He admitted he knew the breaks of

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Speaker 1: his sixty two ton vehicle had been fouldy before he

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Speaker 1: got behind the wheel on September twenty first. New research

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Speaker 1: has revealed younger Australians are more likely to report suicidal thoughts,

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Speaker 1: self harm and suicide attempts than older generations. This was

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Speaker 1: particularly the case in the sixteen to twenty five h

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Speaker 1: Cohort Australians for Mental Health's executive director, Chris Gambian, said

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Speaker 1: that despite efforts to reduce rates of distress, the problem

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Speaker 1: is getting worse in young people. They've called for a

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Speaker 1: radical overhaul of how we tackle mental health. Their recommendation

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Speaker 1: is for the federal government to appoint a dedicated Minister

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Speaker 1: for Mental Health and well Being, someone who can pull

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Speaker 1: serious levers that sit outside the health system, including employment, housing, education,

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Speaker 1: community and connection. More than half of Australians believe the

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Speaker 1: nation is facing a mental health crisis that needs urgent

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Speaker 1: attention ed. Cheran's latest album Play has drawn attention due

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Speaker 1: to certain lyrics fans believe are about his wife. In

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Speaker 1: the song's Problems and Wargame, Sharon sings of constant fighting

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Speaker 1: with the same issues and tearing our hair out again.

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Speaker 1: In the latter song, he also mentions being inches from

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Speaker 1: moving out and moving on, prompting fans to question what

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Speaker 1: might be going on in this singer's personal life. Sheron

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Speaker 1: has been seemingly happily married to his wife, Cherry Seaborne

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Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen, with the pair sharing two daughters together,

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Speaker 1: Lyra and Jupiter. They were actually childhood friends first having

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Speaker 1: met at age eleven. They came back together in twenty

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Speaker 1: fifteen at a Fourth of July party hosted by Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, while pregnant with Jupiter, Seaborne was

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Speaker 1: diagnosed with cancer. She decided to carry the baby to

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Speaker 1: The pair are very quiet online, rarely revealing much about

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Speaker 1: their private life, making this album a particularly revealing one.

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Speaker 1: And that's your evening news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of

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Speaker 1: The Quickie, we unpack how teens are hoping to get

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Speaker 1: around the upcoming social media ban, plus the apps not

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Speaker 1: on the van list they're all jumping on. Listen to

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