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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amama Mia podcast. Hi, I'm Jommon donno

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Speaker 1: Who from mommameir's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with

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Speaker 1: your Headlines for Wednesday, October twenty nine. Hurricane Melissa has

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Speaker 1: devastated Jamaica after making landfall as a Category five storm,

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Speaker 1: one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded. The catastrophic

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Speaker 1: storm hit the island's southwestern coast, tearing roofs off buildings,

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Speaker 1: causing widespread flooding and triggering landslides. With winds reaching up

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Speaker 1: to two hundred and ninety five kilometers per hour, Officials

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Speaker 1: say the parish of Saint Elizabeth is underwater, as Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Andrew Wholeness warns no infrastructure could withstand such a force.

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Speaker 1: Across the country, five hundred and forty thousand residents are

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Speaker 1: without power, fifteen thousand people have fled to shelters, and

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Speaker 1: several hospitals have been damaged. The storm is already blamed

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Speaker 1: for seven deaths in the car including three in Jamaica.

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Speaker 1: After battering the island, Melissa weakened slightly to a Category

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Speaker 1: four system and is now moving north. The hurricane is

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Speaker 1: currently on a path toward Cuba. Where it is expected

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Speaker 1: to make landfall as a major storm on Wednesday, prompting

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Speaker 1: mass evacuations. Australia's new Federal Police Commissioner, Chrissy Barrett has

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Speaker 1: warned that online gangs of young men are hunting vulnerable

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Speaker 1: young girls and coercing them into committing twisted acts of violence.

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Speaker 1: In her first address to the National Press Club, Miss

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Speaker 1: Barrett described a disturbing gamification of crime, where perpetrators gained

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Speaker 1: status in online groups by providing content showing more extreme

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Speaker 1: acts of depravity and sadism. She noted these crimes are

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Speaker 1: spilling into the real world, with victims often being girls

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Speaker 1: with low self esteem or mental health issues who were

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Speaker 1: reached on platforms like roadblocks and telegram. The Commissioner announced

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Speaker 1: that fifty nine alleged offenders have been identified as members

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Speaker 1: of these networks, resulting in three arrests. In Australia. A

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Speaker 1: new task force will be established to crack down on

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Speaker 1: these crime influence of perpetrators. This marks the first major

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Speaker 1: speech for Miss Barrett, who recently made history as the

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Speaker 1: first woman to lead the Australian Federal Police. A forty

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Speaker 1: two year old woman has face court after allegedly sabotaging

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Speaker 1: gas supplies at two Sydney hospitals as it emerged a

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Speaker 1: seventy two year old man died shortly after the incidents.

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Speaker 1: Vanessa Moulton appeared in Sutherland Court today charged with sabotage,

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Speaker 1: property damage and other offenses. She is accused of turning

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Speaker 1: off medical gas at Sutherland Hospital early Tuesday morning, forcing

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Speaker 1: the facility onto portable supplies for two hours. Authorities confirmed

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Speaker 1: a seventy two year old man died at the hospital

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Speaker 1: about an hour after the alleged tampering. Moulton also allegedly

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Speaker 1: cut gas and water mains and set off fire hoses

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Speaker 1: at the nearby Karna Private Hospital. The New South Wales government,

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Speaker 1: which initially stated the outage caused no impact, has now

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Speaker 1: launched a major investigation and a security audit of hospital infrastructure.

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Speaker 1: Health Minister Rhyan Park extended his deepest condolences to the

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Speaker 1: man's family, though it is not yet clear if the

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Speaker 1: death is directly linked to the sabotage. In court, Molton

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Speaker 1: declined legal representation denying the sabotage charge. She was remanded

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Speaker 1: in custody in a significant curriculum bungle Year twelve. Ancient

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Speaker 1: History students at eight Queensland schools were taught the wrong

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Speaker 1: Roman emperor for their final exams. The affected students spent

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Speaker 1: the year studying Augustus Caesar, only to discover days before

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Speaker 1: the test that the exam was actually on his uncle

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Speaker 1: Julius Caesar. According to the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority,

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Speaker 1: Augustus was the twenty twenty four topic, but schools were

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Speaker 1: notified over twelve months ago of the change. The QCAA

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Speaker 1: is now urgently checking all one hundred and seventy two

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Speaker 1: schools offering the subject to determine and if the error

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Speaker 1: is more widespread, the final exam accounts for twenty five

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Speaker 1: percent of the student's overall grade. To ensure fairness, the

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Speaker 1: impacted schools will submit illness and misadventure applications so the

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Speaker 1: pupils receive special consideration during marking. The Education Department has

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Speaker 1: apologized for the mistake, which was first identified at Brisbane

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Speaker 1: State High School. A nurse who became a shearer, Carol Mudford,

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Speaker 1: has won the prestigious National Rural Woman's Award for her

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Speaker 1: work in proving mental health and tackling stigma within the

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Speaker 1: agriculture industry. The Dobo woman founded the charity shed Way

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Speaker 1: after noticing reluctance to hold vulnerable conversations in the Maldominated

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Speaker 1: shearing sheds. Her mission was galvanized in late twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: Combining her healthcare background with her new trade, Miss Mudford

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Speaker 1: farm sheds across Australia. Her Shedway charity has since hosted

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Speaker 1: more than seventy workshops, helping to break down the she'll

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Speaker 1: be right attitude. Miss Mudford was recognized for her leadership

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Speaker 1: at a ceremony at Parliament House on Tuesday night. That's

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