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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma 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 Isabella Ross from Mumma MEA's

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Speaker 1: daily news podcast, The Quickie. Here's what's happening in the

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Speaker 1: news today, Wednesday, August twenty eighth. Thrill Seekers have been

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Speaker 1: stuck midair on rides at a popular Queensland theme park

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Speaker 1: twice in a week, but the operator, SeaWorld says rides

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Speaker 1: stoppages are standard procedure and quelt concerns about a broader

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Speaker 1: systems issue. People were stuck mid air on the Vortex Attraction,

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Speaker 1: a fifteen meters high spinning ride at SeaWorld on the

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Speaker 1: Gold Coast, for more than ninety minutes on Tuesday. Paramedics

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Speaker 1: assessed twelve people after they were rescued from the ride,

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Speaker 1: but no one required hospitalization. SeaWorld reiterated all rides received daily,

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Speaker 1: weekly and monthly inspections and maintenance to alleviate concerns. Alzheimer's

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Speaker 1: disease could soon be detected by GPS, using a small

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Speaker 1: handheld device developed by Australi and experts. When oursh University

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Speaker 1: engineers have developed the first of a kind fingerprick blood

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Speaker 1: tests to detect the hallmark protein in early Alzheimer's before

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Speaker 1: symptoms progress. Alzheimer's is the second leading cause of death

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Speaker 1: in Australia. The new fingerprick user's world first censor technology

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Speaker 1: to detect ultra low concentrations of disease markers in blood

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Speaker 1: in minutes. It's simple to use, low cost and portable,

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Speaker 1: so it could be made widely accessible to GPS to

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Speaker 1: screen patients. The next stage is to undertake clinical validation

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Speaker 1: and get the funding needed to bring it a step

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Speaker 1: closer to reality. First Nations ancestors will return to their

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Speaker 1: communities and countries after apatriation ceremony. In New Zealand. Five

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Speaker 1: ancestors are returning to Australia from the Auckland War Memorial

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Speaker 1: Museum and one from the University of Auckland. Indigenous Affairs

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Speaker 1: Minister Malanderie McCarthy commended the work of those involved in

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Speaker 1: the repatriation. More than seventeen hundred First Nations ancestors have

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Speaker 1: been returned from overseas collecting institutions and private collectors over

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Speaker 1: the past thirty years. Lle Dolly Parton's Imagination Library book

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Speaker 1: Giveaway program has sent more than two hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: million books to kids in the US and across the world,

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Speaker 1: including Australia. Parton said her father grew up poor and

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Speaker 1: never got the chance to learn to read. Inspired by

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Speaker 1: her upbringing, the seventy eight year old country music legend

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Speaker 1: has made it her mission over the past three decades

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Speaker 1: to improve literacy. Parton is an author herself, whose titles

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Speaker 1: include the nineteen ninety six children's book Coat of Many Colors,

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Speaker 1: which is part of the book giveaway program. That's your

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Speaker 1: evening news headlines. Tomorrow's episode is celebrating the Paralympic opening ceremony,

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Speaker 1: which is underway in Paris. Paralympic athletes from one hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty four nations are getting ready to compete in

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Speaker 1: their sport of choice over the next eleven days, and

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Speaker 1: there are many Aussies hoping to bring home the gold,

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Speaker 1: including two amazing Paralympians who we speak with. Check out

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