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Speaker 1: You're listing team Amoma Meir podcast. Hey I'm Taylor Strano

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Speaker 1: from Muma MEA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with

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Speaker 1: Your Headlines for Friday, November fourteen, The man accused of

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Speaker 1: killing childcare educator Mully Ticehurst has confessed to murder. Daniel

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Speaker 1: Billings appeared via audio video link in Forbes Local Court

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Speaker 1: on Friday morning to enter the plea, confirming to the

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Speaker 1: charge he was in fact guilty of the domestic violence

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Speaker 1: murder of his former girlfriend. The thirty year old, who

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Speaker 1: is in custody in the supermac's wing at Goldburn Jail.

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Speaker 1: Also admitted four other charges, including breaching an apprehended violence order,

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Speaker 1: property damage, and animal cruelty. Another twelve charges, including sexual

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Speaker 1: assault and stalking offenses, were dropped in exchange for the

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Speaker 1: murder plea. The body of then twenty eight year old

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Speaker 1: Miss Tieshurst was found dead from stab wounds in her

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Speaker 1: home in Forbes in April twenty twenty four. Billings was

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Speaker 1: freed on bail by a local court registrar a fortnight

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Speaker 1: before the murder, despite being charged with several counts of

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Speaker 1: raping mis Ticehurst and domestic violence offenses the police come

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Speaker 1: more than eighteen months after Billings was charged with murder.

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Speaker 1: Following a mental health assessment and lengthy legal negotiation, the

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Speaker 1: matter was adjourned for arraignment in the New South Wales

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court on December twelve. If this story has raised

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Speaker 1: any concerns for you, you can contact one eight hundred

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Speaker 1: respect on one eight hundred seven three seven seven three

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Speaker 1: to two or Lifeline. On thirteen eleven, fourteen concertgoers who

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Speaker 1: attended Oasis Sydney show last Friday have been told to

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Speaker 1: monitor themselves after a confirmed case of measles attended the show.

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Speaker 1: New South Wales Health confirmed a Queensland resident attended the

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Speaker 1: November eighth show at Core Stadium as well as other

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Speaker 1: parts of Sydney while infectious. This is the latest in

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Speaker 1: a string of confirmed measles cases in recent weeks, including

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Speaker 1: three individuals who attended a Jelly Roll concert in Brisbane

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Speaker 1: on October twenty four. The confirmed Owasis punter also visited

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Speaker 1: Sydney Airport, the CBD and Inner West locations, and she

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Speaker 1: used trains between Saturday and Monday. A full list of

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Speaker 1: locations is posted on the New South Wales Health website.

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Speaker 1: Opposition leader Susan Lee says her party is still committed

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Speaker 1: She's also dismissed suggestions the Nationals are dictating coalition policy

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Speaker 1: after the Liberals followed their lead in ditch at zero

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Speaker 1: bo twenty fifty. The Liberals on Thursday unveiled new climate policy,

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Speaker 1: scrapping the party's commitment to the twenty fifty targets, with

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Speaker 1: more taxpayer money poured into coal and gas power plants.

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Speaker 1: The party also confirmed to reduce emissions on average year

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Speaker 1: on year while acting legislated targets put in place by

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Speaker 1: the Labour government. Negotiations over the climate policy will continue

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Speaker 1: thank You overcoming days before a joint coalition party room

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Speaker 1: meeting on Sunday to determine the final position. The Liberal

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Speaker 1: policy also reiterates support for removing a moratorium on nuclear

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Speaker 1: energy in Australia. The Coalition took a proposal to May's

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Speaker 1: federal election of building multiple nuclear power plants to expand

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Speaker 1: the mix of the energy grid. Customers who attack or

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Speaker 1: threaten shop and hospitality staff could face jail terms under

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Speaker 1: a state government crackdown on retail crime. The Victorian government

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Speaker 1: has announced jail terms of up to five years for

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Speaker 1: people who threaten, harm or abuse workers in customer facing roles,

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Speaker 1: including ride share and delivery drivers. Under the proposed laws,

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Speaker 1: shop front ram raids will be relisted as aggravated burglary

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Speaker 1: and punishable by up to twenty five years in prison.

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Speaker 1: The Retailers Association and union representing their workers both welcome

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Speaker 1: the steps to make frontline workplaces safer, for which they

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Speaker 1: have campaigned for more than two years. According to research

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Speaker 1: commission by the Retail Association, more than half of Victorian

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Speaker 1: retail staff have witnessed some form of crime in their workplace,

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Speaker 1: as retail crime incidents in Victoria have surged by more

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Speaker 1: than twenty percent in the past year. And Morgan Freeman

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Speaker 1: has been taking legal action against those replicating his voice

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Speaker 1: without his permission. The eighty eight year old actor, known

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Speaker 1: artificial intelligence technology that's been cloning his speech without his permission.

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Speaker 1: He's told The Guardian those responsible are robbing him. The

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Speaker 1: Shawshank Redemption Star suggests his legal representatives have been taking

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Speaker 1: action against many imitators. Freeman also condemned Tilling Norwood an

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Speaker 1: AI generated performer who sparked controversy last month following reports

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Speaker 1: talent agencies were considering signing her up as a client.

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Speaker 1: That's your evening news headlines on Friday's episode of The

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Speaker 1: Quickie What motivates It? Turns out in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: lots of things are putting a peck in people's step,

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Speaker 1: including the fact we're all one day to depart this

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Speaker 1: mortal plane. Listen to The Quickie wherever you get to

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