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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumma 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 Cassandra Green from Mumma MEA's

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Speaker 1: twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: September three, Chief Commissioner Mike Bush and Detective Superintendent Jason

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Speaker 1: Kelly have given a press conference on the missing sovereign

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Speaker 1: citizen Dessi Freeman. Bush announced that the Australian Defense Force

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Speaker 1: has joined the search for the alleged police killer. The

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Speaker 1: Commissioner used it as an opportunity to send a message

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Speaker 1: to Freeman, telling him his destiny is in his hands. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Kelly said the police have searched over a hundred properties

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Speaker 1: in the last week in relation to their ongoing search

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Speaker 1: for Freeman. Victoria Police have been pleased with the community's assistance,

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Speaker 1: fielding hundreds of calls to assist in helping locate him.

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Speaker 1: They have also confirmed the suspects associates are providing information

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Speaker 1: to police. The police say they're open to a safe

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Speaker 1: for rest if Freeman hands himself in. For now, they

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Speaker 1: say there's a real possibility he's being harbored and every

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Speaker 1: course of action is being considered. This person is armed

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Speaker 1: and is extremely dangerous. That ed's whole new complexity to

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Speaker 1: this investigation. The United States House of Rep's Oversight Committee

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Speaker 1: has released thirty three thousand pages of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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Speaker 1: The records are from the Department of Justice and relate

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Speaker 1: to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, who took

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Speaker 1: his own life in twenty nineteen while in jail awaiting trial.

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Speaker 1: According to the Guardian, the release includes old filings related

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Speaker 1: to Epstein and his former girlfriend Gillen Maxwell, in addition

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Speaker 1: to bodycam footage of police searchers and interviews. However, there

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Speaker 1: are already questions about the bombshell release, with many saying

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Speaker 1: its contents was already common knowledge. The Washington Post reports

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Speaker 1: that around two thirds of what was released is already

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Speaker 1: publicly available. The release of the documents comes after months

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Speaker 1: of scrutiny of the Trump administration's stifle the decision not

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Speaker 1: to release any additional files. Donald Trump knew Epstein as

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Speaker 1: both moved in wealthy social circles. Earlier in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: Trump sued the Wall Street Journal for publishing a letter

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Speaker 1: they alleged Trump sent Epstein which talked of a wonderful secret.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has called those questioning the transparency around the

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Speaker 1: Epstein files weaklings, calling any allegations that his administration is

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Speaker 1: hiding details are hoax. It's not yet clear if the

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Speaker 1: release will stall, appending discharge petition to release all of

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Speaker 1: the files within thirty days. A discharge petition is a

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Speaker 1: path to bring a bill out of a committee and

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Speaker 1: onto the floor by discharging the committee. Both Democratic and

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Speaker 1: Republican representatives have been behind the groundswell of support for

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Speaker 1: such a move. The chair of the committee that released

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Speaker 1: the files, James Comer, said there was no need for

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Speaker 1: a petition because they had already subpoened the records. It's

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Speaker 1: not known how many of the files the committee intends

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Speaker 1: to release. Californian Congressman Robert Garcia, a top Democratic representative

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Speaker 1: on the committee, was critical of the release. He had

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Speaker 1: a message for the American people, saying, don't let this

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Speaker 1: fool you. A female ride shair driver is in a

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Speaker 1: critical condition after she was stabbed multiple times in a

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Speaker 1: Gold Coast shopping centre's car park. The ABC report she

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Speaker 1: was stabbed multiple times in the neck and face on

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Speaker 1: Foxwell Road just before one thirty am on Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 1: It's understood it took place at a drop off point

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Speaker 1: at the centre's entrance. Police were called to Westfield Coumra

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Speaker 1: and are investigating the circumstances leading to the incident. The

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Speaker 1: woman was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital. Police have

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Speaker 1: cordoned off the entrance to Westfield and officers were seen

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Speaker 1: searching the area on Wednesday. At this stage, they believe

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Speaker 1: the offender fled on foot. Police are appealing to witnesses

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Speaker 1: or anyone with information to contact them. More than half

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Speaker 1: of federal politicians own investment properties or multiple homes, with

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Speaker 1: at least fifty being landlords receiving rental income. The Guardian

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Speaker 1: analyzed a Federal parliament register, unmasking some of the nation's

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Speaker 1: most powerful parliamentarian's property portfolios. These include holiday homes, beat shacks,

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Speaker 1: interstate investments and overseas real estate, with some politicians owning

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Speaker 1: as many as six homes. It comes as the federal

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Speaker 1: government attempts to fix Australia's housing crisis, for which many

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Speaker 1: critics blame laws that benefit owners of multiple homes. The

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Speaker 1: report follows a spate of backlash against Prime Minister Anthony Albernizi,

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Speaker 1: who recently bought a home in Copacabana on the Central

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Speaker 1: Coast as an investment, alongside owning his former home in Marrickville.

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Speaker 1: Opposition leader Susan Lay declared four properties, including one residential

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Speaker 1: and three investment properties in Aubrey and on the Gold Coast.

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Speaker 1: Senator for Victoria Michele Andander Raja had the largest portfolio,

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Speaker 1: with six properties, all listed as residential or investment. A

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Speaker 1: woman who accelerated through a school fence and killed eleven

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Speaker 1: year old Jack Davy will walk free, did a two

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Speaker 1: thousand dollar fine and a canceled license. Miss Suhara, forty one,

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Speaker 1: was convicted of a single offense of careless driving. She

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Speaker 1: was pulling out of a parallel park outside the school

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Speaker 1: when she lost control of the suv, driving into the

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Speaker 1: school fence and over a picnic table where Jack and

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Speaker 1: the other children were enjoying their afternoon break. Zuhara could

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Speaker 1: not provide an explanation, but claimed she was traumatized by

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Speaker 1: a meeting with the school principle prior to the crash.

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Speaker 1: The judge rejected that this could have impaired her driving,

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Speaker 1: and ruled that the only explanation is that she pressed

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Speaker 1: down on the accelerator instead of the break. Jack's grieving

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Speaker 1: parents told the court the sentence only compounded their grief.

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Speaker 1: They said their son had been robbed from spreading his

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Speaker 1: kindness and open heartedness with the world. His father said

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Speaker 1: he still drives to be with his son, even now,

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Speaker 1: sitting in the dirt near his grave. He said that

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Speaker 1: losing his son has left him broken. Rapper Cardi B

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Speaker 1: has been unanimously cleared of civil assault allegations brought by

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Speaker 1: a security guard over an encounter in a Beverly Hills

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Speaker 1: obgyn office in twenty eighteen. The la jury deliberated for

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Speaker 1: less than an hour before reaching a verdict. The plaintiff,

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Speaker 1: a former security officer, Emmanie Ellis, claimed that Cardi B

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Speaker 1: physically attacked her, spat on her, and shouted Rachel slurs

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Speaker 1: at her. She was suing for the equivalent of thirty

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Speaker 1: seven million Aussie dollars. Cardi B testified that she never

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Speaker 1: touched the plaintiff, but did curse at her when the

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Speaker 1: security guard allegedly tried to take a video of her

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Speaker 1: on her phone. Cardi was pregnant at the time visiting

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Speaker 1: the obgyn, but had not publicly announced her pregnancy yet.

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Speaker 1: It was to be her first child with ex partner Offset,

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Speaker 1: with whom she now shares three children. After the verdict,

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Speaker 1: Cardi b called it a frivolous lawsuit. That's your evening

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Speaker 1: news headlines. On Thursday's episode of The Quickie, we break

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Speaker 1: down the rise of extremist movements in our communities. Plus,

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Speaker 1: Hey Fever season is upon us. We unpack white will

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