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

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Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Jerma Donna who from Mma

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Speaker 1: MEA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with your Headlines

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Speaker 1: for Wednesday, June four. The Australian Greens have unveiled a

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Speaker 1: portfolio reshuffle aimed at a fresh start after Senator Derinda

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Speaker 1: Cox quit the Greens to join Labour. Green's leader Larissa

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Speaker 1: Waters announced she will now take on the First Nation's portfolio,

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Speaker 1: previously held by Senator Cox, who was the party's last

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Speaker 1: Indigenous member. Despite the defection, the Greens maintain the balance

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Speaker 1: of power in the Senate, meaning the federal government will

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Speaker 1: still require their support to pass legislation. Senator Waters stated

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Speaker 1: women's safety and equality will become a priority under her leadership,

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Speaker 1: alongside continued focus on the environment, housing and cost of living.

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Speaker 1: This move comes after Senator Cox's departure, which followed reports

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Speaker 1: of India Eternal Party tensions and previous bullying allegations against her.

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk has launched a scathing attack on US President

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's major tax and spending bill calling it a

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Speaker 1: disgusting abomination that will massively increase the federal deficit. In

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Speaker 1: social media posts, the billionaire entrepreneur, who recently ended a

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Speaker 1: government cost cutting roll, urged lawmakers to reject the pork

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Speaker 1: filled measure. The bill, which extends Trump's twenty seventeen tax

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Speaker 1: cuts and is dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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Speaker 1: by proponents, has passed the House and now heads to

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Speaker 1: the Senate. While some fiscally conservative Republicans have embraced Musk's critique,

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Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson said Musk is terribly wrong, and

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Speaker 1: the White House dismissed his concerns, stating President Trump remains

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Speaker 1: committed to the bill. Trump appointed Musk, the world's richest person,

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Speaker 1: to lead a government cost cutting and efficiency drive, during

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Speaker 1: which he upended several federal agencies but ultimately failed to

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Speaker 1: deliver the massive savings he had sought. It's been eighteen

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Speaker 1: years since Madeleine McCann vanished from her family's hotel room

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Speaker 1: at a Portugal resort when they were on vacation. The

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Speaker 1: search for the British girl resumed this week as teams

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Speaker 1: drained a well and cleared areas of dense vegetation near

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Speaker 1: abandoned buildings in the countryside a few kilometers away from

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Speaker 1: Prayer Deluche. Three year old Madeleine vanished while on holiday

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Speaker 1: with her family in the Algave resort on May three

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, after her parents went out

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Speaker 1: to dinner and left her sleeping in a room with

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Speaker 1: her siblings. The search is being carried out at the

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Speaker 1: request of the German Federal Police as they look for

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Speaker 1: evidence that could implicate prime suspect Christian Bruckner, who was

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Speaker 1: in prison for raping a seventy two year old woman

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Speaker 1: in Prayer Deluche in two thousand and five. He is

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Speaker 1: due to be released from jail in September if no

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Speaker 1: further charges are brought. Britney Higgins is returning to the workforce,

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Speaker 1: joining public relations agency Third Hemisphere as public Affairs Director,

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Speaker 1: four years after she left Parliament. The Australian Financial Review

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Speaker 1: reports Miss Higgins will work alongside her husband, David Sharaz,

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Speaker 1: who joined the Sydney agency in April. In her role,

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Speaker 1: Miss Higgins will reportedly head to strategic advocacy and reputation management,

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Speaker 1: focusing on female focused clients and women's advocacy groups. Extending

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Speaker 1: her previous work in workplace safety and cultural reform. She

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Speaker 1: told the AFR she was keen to reclaim her identity

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Speaker 1: outside of being this story and getting back to being

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Speaker 1: a working person. Miss Higgins and mister Charaz recently welcomed

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Speaker 1: their first child and will work from home. That's your

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Speaker 1: evening news headlines on tomorrow's episode of The Quickie. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever been told to let go of a grudge? Well,

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Speaker 1: what if all that advice about forgiveness isn't actually the

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