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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumamea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges the

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Speaker 1: traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is

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Speaker 1: recorded on Hi. I'm Jemma Donna Who from Mumma MEA's

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

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Speaker 1: Thursday April three, Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi has slammed a

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Speaker 1: new round of blanket US tariffs on Australia as totally

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Speaker 1: unwarranted and not the act of a friend. President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump accused Australia of banning American beef in a long

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Speaker 1: list of complaints about America's trading partners ahead of announcing

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Speaker 1: ten percent tariffs on all Australian goods sent to the US.

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Speaker 1: The Herd and McDonald Islands, barren and uninhabited Australian territory

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Speaker 1: in the Indian Ocean, have also been slapped with ten

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Speaker 1: percent tariffs. However, Norfolk Island has been hit with a

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Speaker 1: twenty nine percent tariff. Mister Albanese said buying Australian is

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Speaker 1: one way to respond and that we can't control what

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Speaker 1: the us SA administration determines, but we can engage. He

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Speaker 1: urged Australians to respond in a careful, calibrated and mature way.

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Speaker 1: Although the tariffs have been unwelcomed, the ten per cent

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Speaker 1: slapped on Australia is arguably a better outcome than expected,

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Speaker 1: and many countries got hit with far higher rates. Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Anthony Albanesi is responding to Donald Trump's tariffs by

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Speaker 1: seeking to strengthen Australian made products. While Australia has ruled

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Speaker 1: out reciprocal tariffs, the Albanese government plans to provide fifty

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Speaker 1: million dollars in support to affected sectors, strengthen anti dumping

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Speaker 1: protections for domestic steel, end manufacturing, focus on the twenty

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Speaker 1: million dollar By Australia campaign, and diversified trade relationships with

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Speaker 1: other partners. Mister Albanzi flagged Australia would not compromise on

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Speaker 1: its biosecurity arrangements or pharmaceutical deals in exchange for reduced tariffs.

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Speaker 1: Opposition leader Peter Dutton said while there was a bipartisan view,

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Speaker 1: the tariffs were unacceptable and mister Albanzi was not the

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Speaker 1: right person to be at the negotiating table. The tariffs

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Speaker 1: are set to dominate discussions in the lead up to

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Speaker 1: the federal election. Northwest New South Wales communities are bracing

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Speaker 1: for up to ten weeks in isolation as Queensland floodwaters

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Speaker 1: head south. Widespread rain is set to finally ease in

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Speaker 1: the Sunshine State, but the threat of floodwaters persists as

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Speaker 1: those affected face years of recovery. Homes and properties have

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Speaker 1: been inundated and about one hundred and fifty thousand sheep,

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Speaker 1: cattle and goats have been lost, but the full extent

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Speaker 1: of the damage won't be known until water levels go down.

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Speaker 1: Flooding the size of New South Wales has impacted western Queensland,

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Speaker 1: with water levels exceeding records set more than fifty years

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Speaker 1: ago in some areas. The waters are expected to move

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Speaker 1: into parts of northern West New South Wales next week

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Speaker 1: and we might be seeing more bright yellow fields in

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Speaker 1: regional Australia with the discovery of a new method to

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Speaker 1: make sunflowers grow faster. The new discovery, published in Nature,

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Speaker 1: involves chemically emasculated the sunflower crop. After research has found

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Speaker 1: nutrient rich endosperm that nourishes the embryo of the flower

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Speaker 1: may not be necessary. The experts behind the research suggest

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Speaker 1: the important nutrients may be stored elsewhere in the seed.

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Speaker 1: The single parent seeds flowered as usual, but the research

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Speaker 1: is found they weren't generating any pollen. It could cut

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Speaker 1: the time it takes to produce viable inbred sunflower crops

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Speaker 1: from about six years of self pollination to ten months.

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Speaker 1: That's your latest news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie,

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Speaker 1: there's a surprising side effect of ozepic that's disproportionately affecting

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Speaker 1: women and it's not what you might expect. Plus from

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Speaker 1: Riz to Giggle. The Oxford English Dictionary has just added

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Speaker 1: forty one new words, and some of them might surprise you.

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