1 00:00:10,614 --> 00:00:15,294 Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges 2 00:00:15,334 --> 00:00:18,134 Speaker 1: the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast 3 00:00:18,214 --> 00:00:24,174 Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Ailish Delaney from Mamma MIA's 4 00:00:24,174 --> 00:00:27,814 Speaker 1: twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Monday, 5 00:00:27,854 --> 00:00:33,294 Speaker 1: August twenty five, Aaron Patterson's only surviving victim, has forgiven 6 00:00:33,334 --> 00:00:35,774 Speaker 1: her for trying to kill him, as he urged her 7 00:00:35,814 --> 00:00:38,334 Speaker 1: in court to confess to the murders whilst reading his 8 00:00:38,454 --> 00:00:42,654 Speaker 1: victim impact statement during Patterson's plea hearing on Monday. Ian 9 00:00:42,734 --> 00:00:46,374 Speaker 1: Wilkinson's wife Heather was murdered along with her sister Gail 10 00:00:46,454 --> 00:00:50,174 Speaker 1: Patterson and husband Don by a deathcat mushroom laced beef 11 00:00:50,174 --> 00:00:54,694 Speaker 1: Wellington prepared by Patterson in July twenty twenty three. Wilkinson 12 00:00:54,734 --> 00:00:57,374 Speaker 1: stood in the Supreme Court in Melbourne and described the 13 00:00:57,414 --> 00:01:01,294 Speaker 1: impact of losing his wife and becoming ill while offering 14 00:01:01,294 --> 00:01:04,974 Speaker 1: an olive branch of forgiveness to the convicted killer. A 15 00:01:05,054 --> 00:01:09,374 Speaker 1: statement from Patterson's estranged husband, Simon Patterson, was also read 16 00:01:09,374 --> 00:01:12,334 Speaker 1: to the court, saying she robbed the two children of 17 00:01:12,414 --> 00:01:15,654 Speaker 1: their grandparents and now they must face what she had done. 18 00:01:16,174 --> 00:01:19,294 Speaker 1: Patterson faces life in prison, and a date for her 19 00:01:19,334 --> 00:01:22,294 Speaker 1: sentence could be set at the hearing. All first home 20 00:01:22,334 --> 00:01:24,494 Speaker 1: buyers will have the chance to get on the property 21 00:01:24,534 --> 00:01:27,734 Speaker 1: ladder with a lower deposit sooner as a federal scheme 22 00:01:27,854 --> 00:01:31,654 Speaker 1: kicks in earlier. The federal government initiative, which allows those 23 00:01:31,734 --> 00:01:34,014 Speaker 1: looking to buy their first property to put down a 24 00:01:34,054 --> 00:01:37,414 Speaker 1: deposit of as little as five percent, will begin rolling 25 00:01:37,414 --> 00:01:40,734 Speaker 1: out from October, three months earlier than its initial start 26 00:01:40,774 --> 00:01:44,294 Speaker 1: time of January twenty twenty six. The October start date 27 00:01:44,334 --> 00:01:46,854 Speaker 1: will mark an expansion of the deposit scheme to all 28 00:01:46,974 --> 00:01:50,454 Speaker 1: first home buyers, after previous versions had a yearly cap 29 00:01:50,534 --> 00:01:53,494 Speaker 1: on the number of participants. As part of the scheme, 30 00:01:53,534 --> 00:01:56,894 Speaker 1: the government will act as guaranteur and contribute the remaining 31 00:01:56,974 --> 00:02:00,534 Speaker 1: fifteen percent of a deposit, allowing buyers to avoid taking 32 00:02:00,614 --> 00:02:05,094 Speaker 1: out costly lender's mortgage insurance. New analysis has found women 33 00:02:05,174 --> 00:02:08,014 Speaker 1: are more likely to face harassment and bullying at work 34 00:02:08,054 --> 00:02:10,894 Speaker 1: for blowing the whistle, while those on lower incomes are 35 00:02:10,934 --> 00:02:14,694 Speaker 1: more likely to face reprise or actions. The Human Rights 36 00:02:14,774 --> 00:02:17,734 Speaker 1: Law Center says women are also more likely to speak 37 00:02:17,774 --> 00:02:20,894 Speaker 1: out about people being endangered when blowing the whistle, while 38 00:02:20,974 --> 00:02:24,854 Speaker 1: men report fraud or corruption. The Center says this may 39 00:02:24,894 --> 00:02:28,254 Speaker 1: be because care industries are dominated by women, who would 40 00:02:28,294 --> 00:02:32,254 Speaker 1: then expose wrongdoing against people. The healthcare sector was the 41 00:02:32,374 --> 00:02:35,214 Speaker 1: largest source of complaints from women, and all of those 42 00:02:35,254 --> 00:02:39,294 Speaker 1: who spoke out faced retaliation in some form. A posthumous 43 00:02:39,334 --> 00:02:43,774 Speaker 1: and unsparing memoir of one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, 44 00:02:43,854 --> 00:02:48,214 Speaker 1: Virginia Roberts Geffrey, will be published in coming months. The publisher, 45 00:02:48,414 --> 00:02:52,574 Speaker 1: Alfred A. Knopf, confirmed to the Associated Press Nobody's Girl, 46 00:02:52,694 --> 00:02:56,054 Speaker 1: a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice, is 47 00:02:56,094 --> 00:03:00,294 Speaker 1: scheduled for release this October. Geffrey, who died by suicide 48 00:03:00,294 --> 00:03:03,054 Speaker 1: at her farm in Western Australia in April at age 49 00:03:03,094 --> 00:03:05,934 Speaker 1: forty one, had been working on Nobody's Girl with author 50 00:03:06,014 --> 00:03:10,214 Speaker 1: journalist Amy Wallace. Kinnopf says they had completed the manuscript 51 00:03:10,254 --> 00:03:14,374 Speaker 1: for the four hundred page book. That's your evening news headlines. 52 00:03:14,534 --> 00:03:17,574 Speaker 1: On Tuesday's episode of The Quikie, we unpack what we 53 00:03:17,694 --> 00:03:20,694 Speaker 1: learned from day one of Aaron Patterson's plea hearing and 54 00:03:20,814 --> 00:03:24,014 Speaker 1: what happens next. Listen to The Quickie wherever you get 55 00:03:24,054 --> 00:03:26,654 Speaker 1: your podcasts.