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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia acknowledges

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Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Ailish Delaney from Mamma MIA's

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

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Speaker 1: January twenty nine. The parents and twelve members of a

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Speaker 1: religious group accused of killing an eight year old girl

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Speaker 1: by withholding her diabetes medication have been found guilty of manslaughter.

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Struce died on January seven, twenty twenty two, at

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Speaker 1: her family's home and to Woomba after six days without

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Speaker 1: her prescribed insulance shots for type one diabetes. The girl's father,

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Speaker 1: Jason Struce, and the group's leader, Brendan Stevens, were acquitted

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Speaker 1: of murder but found guilty of manslaughter. The remaining twelve

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Speaker 1: members on trial have also been found guilty of manslaughter.

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Speaker 1: The group faced a lengthy judge only trial in Brisbane

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Speaker 1: last year. They all represented themselves and refused to enter please,

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Speaker 1: which was accepted as pleading not guilty. All fourteen defendants

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Speaker 1: will be sentenced on February eleven. Federal Minister as urgent

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Speaker 1: caution before handing over personal details to Chinese artificial intelligence

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Speaker 1: model deep Seek. The AI assistant, which launched last week,

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Speaker 1: rocketed to the top of app stores and up ended

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Speaker 1: financial markets. Deep Seek claims it uses less data at

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Speaker 1: a fraction of the cost of its competitors. The new

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Speaker 1: AI wiped nine hundred and forty three billion Australian dollars

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Speaker 1: off Wall Street this week, in the biggest one day

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Speaker 1: loss by a company in US share market history. Housing

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Speaker 1: Minister Claire O'Neil says while there are opportunities for AI

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Speaker 1: users need to be cautious about the information they pass on.

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Speaker 1: She told Sunrise Today that national security agencies are investigating

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Speaker 1: the app settings before issuing formal guidance to Australians. A

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Speaker 1: Queensland social media influencer accused of drugging and torturing her

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Speaker 1: baby girl to gain online fame and fortune, has been

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Speaker 1: granted bail. The thirty four year old woman, who cannot

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Speaker 1: be named for legal reasons, appeared via video link in

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Speaker 1: Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Police alleged the woman gave

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Speaker 1: her one year old child unauthorized medication between between August

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Speaker 1: and October to grow her social media profile and gain

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Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars in donations. The baby suffered significant medical episodes,

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Speaker 1: including seizures, unconsciousness like being in a coma, and a

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Speaker 1: cardiac arrest. The woman is facing several charges, including multiple

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Speaker 1: counts of administering poison with intent to harm and one

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Speaker 1: count each of torture, making child exploitation material and fraud.

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Speaker 1: She has been granted bail with strict conditions, including having

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Speaker 1: no contact with the child. The case will return to

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Speaker 1: court next month. Families struggling with rising costs are getting

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Speaker 1: some relief with the federal government extending its Free Internet initiative.

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Speaker 1: The program, which provides free NBN to households with school

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Speaker 1: aged children, was due to end this year, but has

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Speaker 1: now been extended until June twenty twenty eight. More than

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Speaker 1: twenty three thousand families are already benefiting and saving about

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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a year on Internet costs. Under the extension,

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Speaker 1: up to thirty thousand places will be available for eligible families.

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Speaker 1: To be eligible, families must have a child enrolled in school,

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Speaker 1: no active NBN service in the last two weeks, and

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Speaker 1: live in an area where NBN is available, and Blake

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Speaker 1: Lively and Justin Baldoni are heading to trial. A New

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Speaker 1: York judge told the Events with us CO Stars to

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Speaker 1: prepare for a March nine, twenty twenty six, trial date

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Speaker 1: as their tense legal battle continues. The judge also moved

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Speaker 1: an initial conference from mid February to next week, telling

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Speaker 1: the stars lawyers to be prepared to address complaints about

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Speaker 1: pre trial publicity and attorney conduct. That's your latest news headlines.

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Speaker 1: On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, we dive into the

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Speaker 1: dangerous new beauty trend putting Australians in hospital, and unpack

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Speaker 1: a new anti feminist movement that's taking over social media.

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