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

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

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Speaker 1: is recorded on. Hi. I'm Alex Nicholson from mmamea's twice

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

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Speaker 1: February thirteen, one of the two public hospital nurses under

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Speaker 1: investigation over a video in which they allegedly make anti

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Speaker 1: Semitic comments and appear to boast they would kill Israeli

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Speaker 1: patients has apologized through his lawyer. Solicitor Mohammed Saka, representing

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Speaker 1: the male nurse, said his client is trying to make

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Speaker 1: amends for what has happened. The nurses comments, which emerged

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Speaker 1: in a video on social media, have been condemned by political,

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Speaker 1: medical and community leaders and have sparked urgent audits of

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Speaker 1: patient care at the nurse's workplace in Sydney's Southwest. New

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Speaker 1: South Wales police have examined CCTV footage from Bankstown Hospital

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Speaker 1: as part of their investigation, as well as interviewing staff.

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Speaker 1: While the two nurses have been stood down and initially

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Speaker 1: examination by New Southwell's Health found no sign any Israeli

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Speaker 1: patients had been effected. According to US researchers, diabetes drug

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Speaker 1: ozempic has led to improvements in some measures of alcohol

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Speaker 1: use disorder in a small trial. The forty eight participants

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Speaker 1: in the nine week trial all had moderately severe alcohol

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Speaker 1: use disorder and were given either once weekly ozempic or

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Speaker 1: a placebo Ahead of the trial. They were invited to

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Speaker 1: drink their preferred alcoholic beverages over a two hour period

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Speaker 1: in a comfortable setting in a second session. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the trial, participants who receive treatment with ozempic

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Speaker 1: consumed significantly less alcohol than at the first session, which

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Speaker 1: was not the case for the placebo group. According to

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Speaker 1: results published in JAMA Psychiatry, Azempic also significantly reduced participants

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Speaker 1: weekly alcohol cravings over time. There was also a greater

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Speaker 1: reduction in heavy drinking days in the ozempic group. According

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Speaker 1: to the study, The results suggests the potential of semiglutide,

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Speaker 1: the main ingredient in ozempic and similar drugs, to fill

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Speaker 1: an unmet need for the treatment of alcohol use disorder.

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Speaker 1: The popular newer diabetes and weight loss drugs are being

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Speaker 1: tested for several additional health issues, such as cardiovascular protection

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Speaker 1: and sleep apnea. The anniversary of the National Apology to

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Speaker 1: Stolen Generations is a yearly reminder of a deep and

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Speaker 1: distressing reality, says First Nations Organization Children's Ground. On February thirteen,

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Speaker 1: two thousand eight, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the

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Speaker 1: apology in Federal Parliament, acknowledging the trauma and grief suffered

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Speaker 1: by Aboriginal and Torres Strate Islander people by past government policies.

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Speaker 1: As many as one in three Indigenous children were taken

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Speaker 1: from their families and communities, according to the Healing Foundation.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, in a speech marking the anniversary of Kevin

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Speaker 1: Rudd's apology, Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi said it was a

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Speaker 1: day that mattered in the life of our nation. Mister

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Speaker 1: Albanesi used his address to announce extending the Territory's Stolen

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Speaker 1: Generation's Redress Scheme to June thirty, twenty twenty eight, giving

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Speaker 1: survivors from the Northern Territory Act and Javis Bay Territory

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Speaker 1: and additional eighteen months to apply for compensation. However, seventeen

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Speaker 1: years on from the apology, Children's Ground Chair William Tillmoth

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Speaker 1: says the situation remains dire for Indigenous children. A report

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Speaker 1: from the Healing Foundation released on Wednesday found only six

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Speaker 1: percent of the recommendations of the nineteen ninety seven Bringing

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Speaker 1: Them Home Report, which investigated the forced removal of children

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Speaker 1: from their families, have been implemented and Oscar winning US

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Speaker 1: actor Kevin Spacey is facing another British lawsuit alleging sexual abuse,

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Speaker 1: just over eighteen months after he was cleared of all

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Speaker 1: charges in a high profile criminal trial. According to court records,

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Speaker 1: the sixty five year old actor was soon in a

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Speaker 1: civil suit at London's High Court on Wednesday. No details

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Speaker 1: of the lawsuit were available. The case is also being

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Speaker 1: brought against London's Old Vic Theatre, where Spacey worked as

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Speaker 1: artistic director from around two thousand and three. Spacey, who

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Speaker 1: is facing a separate lawsuit in London for alleged sexual abuse,

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Speaker 1: was not immediately available for comment. Spacey was one of

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Speaker 1: Hollywood's biggest stars before he was first accused of sexual

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Speaker 1: assault in twenty seventeen. After the allegations emerged, he was

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Speaker 1: dropped from the tv D my House of Cards. He

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Speaker 1: has always denied the accusations. Spacey stood trial at London's

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Speaker 1: Southwark Crown Court in twenty twenty three, charged with sexually

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Speaker 1: assaulting four men in Britain between two thousand and four

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Speaker 1: and twenty thirteen, and was acquitted on his sixty fourth birthday.

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Speaker 1: That's your News headlines on tomorrow's episode of The Quickie.

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Speaker 1: How much better off would we be if we just

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Speaker 1: hastily quit our jobs after being fed up in the workplace.

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