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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Hi I'm Tally Blackman

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Speaker 1: from Momammy's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with your

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Speaker 1: Headlines for Friday, November seven. Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson has

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Speaker 1: refused to endorse opposition leader Susan Lee, saying she is

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Speaker 1: losing support amid worsening polls and internal party in fighting

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Speaker 1: over climate policy. The Victorian backbencher told Sky News she

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Speaker 1: can't support things the way they are, but hoped the

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Speaker 1: party could turn the ship around. Henderson, a critic of

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Speaker 1: Lee's leadership since being dropped from the shadow cabinet, also

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Speaker 1: said many colleagues were worried about the party's direction. Lee

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Speaker 1: faces growing pressure after the coalition's primary vote plunged to

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Speaker 1: twenty four percent in the latest News poll, with her

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Speaker 1: net approval rating at minus thirty three percent, reflecting twenty

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Speaker 1: five percent satisfied and fifty eight percent dissatisfied. The unrest

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Speaker 1: comes ahead of key part meetings next week, where Liberals

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Speaker 1: are expected to decide whether to abandon the net zero

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Speaker 1: emissions target, a move supported by leading conservatives Angus Taylor

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Speaker 1: and Andrew Hasty. This year is on track to be

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Speaker 1: the second or third warmest on record, according to the

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Speaker 1: World Meteorological Organization. The agency's report of COP thirty shows

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Speaker 1: the past eleven years have been the warmest since records

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Speaker 1: began one hundred and seventy six years ago. WMO Secretary

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Speaker 1: General Celeste Soulo said the world is in an unprecedented

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Speaker 1: streak of high temperatures, warning it will be virtually impossible

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Speaker 1: to limit warming to one point five degrees celsius without

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Speaker 1: temporarily exceeding that target. Blair Truan from the Bureau of

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Speaker 1: Meteorology said rising greenhouse gases are driving long term warming,

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Speaker 1: and Sarah Kirkpatrick from the Australian National University said global

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Speaker 1: heating is worsening severe weather, especially heat waves. The report

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Speaker 1: also found ocean heat and sea levels are at record highs,

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Speaker 1: with about four hundred and fifty gigatons of ice melting

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Speaker 1: from glaciers in twenty twenty four, the largest loss since

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Speaker 1: records began. Hollywood actor Angelina Jolly has visited one of

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Speaker 1: Ukraine's most dangerous frontline cities, meeting civilians and aid workers

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Speaker 1: living under constant Russian attack. The Legacy of War Foundation,

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Speaker 1: which supported her trips, said Jolly visited Kerson and nearby

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Speaker 1: Meeko Live, where she met medical staff, volunteers and family

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Speaker 1: sheltering underground. Jolly released a statement saying at a time

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Speaker 1: when governments are turning their backs on protecting civilians, their

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Speaker 1: strength and support for each other is humbling. Photo showed

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Speaker 1: her wearing a flak jacket and visiting underground schools and

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Speaker 1: clinics moved below ground to avoid shelling. Kerson, once home

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Speaker 1: to nearly three hundred thousand people, remains within range of

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Speaker 1: Russian weapons across the Nepro River. Ten years after donning

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Speaker 1: a blue beanie on live television to raise awareness of

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Speaker 1: brain cancer, Carrie Bigmore has been named Victoria's twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six Australian of the Year. The TV and radio presenter

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Speaker 1: launched Carrie's Beanies for Brain Cancer after her husband Greg

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Speaker 1: Bigmore died from the disease in twenty ten. Her campaign

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Speaker 1: has since raised more than twenty seven million dollars for

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Speaker 1: research and helped establish the Brain Cancer Center in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, supporting more than seventy researchers developing new treatments

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Speaker 1: and trials. Other Victorian Award recipients include Brian Lippman, founder

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Speaker 1: of Wintringham, named Senior Australian of the Year for his

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Speaker 1: workhousing elderly homeless people. Abraham Quoll, a Youth mentor and

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Speaker 1: Young Australian of the Year recognized for using sport to

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Speaker 1: engage at risk youth. And Linda Widdup named Local Hero

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Speaker 1: for founding Ozzie Hay Runners, which delivers feed to farmers

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Speaker 1: during drought and disasters. And that's your evening news headlines.

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Speaker 1: On Monday's episode of The Quickie, we're remembering Ozzie comedian

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Speaker 1: Eurydici Dixon on what would have been her thirtieth birthday.

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Speaker 1: Listen to The Quickie wherever you get your podcasts. Momma

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