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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Claire Murphy. This is Mumma MIA's twice daily

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Speaker 1: news podcast, The Quickie. You might have heard this week

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Speaker 1: that US President Donald Trump has started a trade war

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Speaker 1: about DEI initiatives being scrapped, foreign aid being shut down,

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Speaker 1: has happened in the first two weeks of the Trump

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Speaker 1: our US correspondent, Amelia Lester try and make some sense

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Speaker 1: of it all. But first, here's the letters from the

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Speaker 1: Quikie newsroom. Wednesday, February five, A woman in Western Sydney

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Speaker 1: has taken out the one hundred million dollar lottery drawer overnight.

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Speaker 1: A late night phone call delivered the news as she

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Speaker 1: of Maths. The winner, who's chosen to remain anonymous, reportedly

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Speaker 1: asking who is this Why are you calling this late?

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Speaker 1: Thinking something was wrong. When she was told why she'd

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Speaker 1: been interrupted, she responded by one them they'd better not

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Speaker 1: be pranking her, and that she didn't know whether to

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Speaker 1: believe them or not. She explained that internally she was

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Speaker 1: sweating bullets. The woman who bought her entry online was

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Speaker 1: the only Division one winner, meaning she walks away with

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Speaker 1: the entire one hundred million dollar prize herself. It makes

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Speaker 1: her the largest single Osloto winner since the draw began

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Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety four. She plans to buy herself

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Speaker 1: The Australian government has banned the Chinese AI model deep

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Speaker 1: when their agencies identify national security risk. The Department has

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Speaker 1: also suspended access to chat, GPT and Google's AI Assistant

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Speaker 1: from its systems over concerns they could incorporate sensitive information

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Speaker 1: Seeks AI chatbot provides a similar experience to existing competitors,

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Speaker 1: If Australia finds itself with a hung Parliament after this

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Speaker 1: year's federal election, the Till independents say they'll use the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to ban gambling ads. Labour has been slow to

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Speaker 1: from a landmark parliamentary inquiry. Goldstein MP Zoe Daniels says

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Speaker 1: the Murphy Report unequivocally found partial gambling bands don't work.

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Speaker 1: Member for MCKELA Sophie Scamp says gambling has a major

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Speaker 1: public health impact, with people losing their homes, increasing risk

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Speaker 1: need to act now. Elake to Labour policy would have

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Speaker 1: banned gambling ads during and after sports and during children's programming,

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Speaker 1: back to the drawing board. Controversial pick for Health secret

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Speaker 1: Tree in the US, Robert F. Kennedy Junior has moved

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Speaker 1: under fire during the confirmation hearings. Asked to explain his

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Speaker 1: your latest news headlines. Next two weeks of Trump, and

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Speaker 1: break down the first fortnight of the second Coming of Trump.

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Speaker 1: On President Donald Trump's first day in office, he signed

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Speaker 1: twenty six executive orders, twelve memoranda, and four proclamations. So

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Speaker 1: So here's just a few of the things that have

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, he established the Department of Government

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Speaker 1: billionaire Elon Musk. Mosk this week announced that he would

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Speaker 1: diversity Equity in Inclusion or DEI programs, including Chief Diversity

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Speaker 1: granted clemency to around fifteen hundred individuals charged in connection

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Speaker 1: He has since signed off on tariffs on imports from China, Mexico,

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Speaker 1: Canadian politicians heat back with boycotts on US imports.

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Speaker 2: For our first of many steps, effective today, I have

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Speaker 2: And today we're announcing that we're pulling eighty million dollars

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Speaker 2: So I'm asking you to buy a Canadian beer and

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Speaker 3: You say that Americans don't have a problem with Canadians,

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Speaker 4: Premiere.

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Speaker 1: A sweeping executive order titled Ending the Weaponization of the

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Speaker 1: Federal Government directs the Attorney General to investigate and correct

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Speaker 1: supposedly politically motivated activities at the department. Several employees in

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Speaker 1: has also directed the US Attorney General to pursue capital

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Speaker 1: We caught up with Emelia Lester Mumamere's US correspondent and

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Speaker 1: the deputy editor of Foreign Policy Magazine Yesterday, Amelia, There's

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Speaker 1: a theory being discussed in some circles that the reason

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Speaker 1: is something called overwhelmed theory, that if you throw too

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about something that Steve

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Speaker 4: Bannon said back in twenty eighteen. Now, Steve Bannon is

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Speaker 4: actually not a part of Trump's second administration. He was

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Speaker 4: kind of Trump's Bengali in his first campaign for president,

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Speaker 4: of course, there's another element here, which is Trump says

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Speaker 4: One good example is just today, real reality TV principles

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Speaker 4: He was due to have a phone call with Canadian

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Speaker 4: That phone call happened a couple of hours ago, as

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Speaker 4: we're speaking now. There was no announcement about what happened

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Speaker 4: on the call. Instead, he was asked by the press

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Speaker 4: He simply said the call went very well. Asked if

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Speaker 4: So I think there's two elements here. There's the ban

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Speaker 1: Can we talk about those cultural decisions? Because the dei

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Speaker 1: Can we talk about this trade war. You've already mentioned

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Speaker 4: Wish I knew to step back a little bit on tariffs.

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Speaker 4: No economists think tariffs of this kind are a good idea. Now,

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Speaker 4: It seems like Trump actually thinks that Canada would become

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Speaker 4: As to why, I don't think there's an easy answer.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think you might be right because Trump did

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Speaker 1: So interesting to see China threaten to take the US

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Speaker 1: After we spoke to Amelia, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

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Speaker 1: Trump is getting results. Thanks for taking the time to

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Speaker 1: feed your mind with us today. The quickie is produced

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