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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mummameer podcast. Hi, I'm Jemma Donna

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Speaker 1: who from MMA MEAs twice daily news podcast The Quickie

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Speaker 1: with Your Headlines for Wednesday, November twenty six. Authorities have

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Speaker 1: raised bushfire alerts to their highest level in over two years,

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Speaker 1: forecasting soaring temperatures and damaging winds across New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: A catastrophic fire danger warning has been issued for the

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Speaker 1: lower Central West Plains, including Dubbo Parks and Forbes. More

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Speaker 1: than twenty public schools in central New South Wales close

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Speaker 1: today as a precaution. Extreme danger warnings and total firebands

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Speaker 1: are also in effect for millions of residents, including those

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Speaker 1: in Metropolitan Sydney. Officials are urging residents in high risk

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Speaker 1: areas to consider leaving early as homes could be lost

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Speaker 1: if a fire takes hold. Optus is currently probing another

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Speaker 1: major outage, affecting emergency services calls for over forty one

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Speaker 1: hundred customers in Melbourne. The issue, caused by an aerial

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Speaker 1: fiber break, is impacting users in the Frankston and Morning

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Speaker 1: Peninsula areas. The embattled telco confirmed that the outage blocked

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Speaker 1: approximately six hundred Triple zero calls from successfully connecting to

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Speaker 1: emergency services. Optus advised customers that they can only reach

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Speaker 1: emergency services if they are within range of another mobile

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Speaker 1: network or are able to use Wi Fi calling. This

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Speaker 1: failure marks the fourth time in months that a major

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Speaker 1: Optis outage has prevented people from accessing critical emergency services.

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Speaker 1: This incident follows a September eighteen outage which was linked

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Speaker 1: to three deaths and blamed on human error by Optus

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Speaker 1: CEO Stephen rue Joan Templeman, the wife of British billionaire

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Speaker 1: Sir Richard Branson and his partner of almost fifty years,

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Speaker 1: has died at the age of eighty. Sir Richard announced

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Speaker 1: the news on Instagram, writing that he was heartbroken, calling

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Speaker 1: her my best friend, my rock, my guiding light, my world.

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Speaker 1: The down to earth Scottish woman was frequently credited by

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Speaker 1: the Virgin founder as a stabilizing force on his extravagant personality.

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Speaker 1: Miss Templeman preferred to stay out of the public spotlight,

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Speaker 1: focusing instead on philanthropy, particularly supporting premature birth charities. After

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Speaker 1: losing her infant daughter. Her family did not specify a

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Speaker 1: cause of death for Miss Templeman, who was not publicly

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Speaker 1: known to be ill. A new study has revealed voters

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Speaker 1: considered the Labour Party to be better economic managers than

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Speaker 1: the Coalition. The post election survey found the Opposition now

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Speaker 1: trails Labour by four percentage points on the economic management,

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Speaker 1: losing a long held key strength. The study also recorded

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Speaker 1: Peter Dutton as the least popular major party leader in

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Speaker 1: the survey's thirty eight year history, with voters citing a

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Speaker 1: lack of inspiration and compassion. The research also showed a

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Speaker 1: record high to ties twenty five percent of Australians now

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Speaker 1: identify as nonpartisan, exceeding the number of voters who identify

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Speaker 1: as liberal. The AEES found voters preferred Labour's policies in

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Speaker 1: nine out of ten areas surveyed, with the Coalition only

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Speaker 1: leading narrowly on national security. These results highlight significant short

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Speaker 1: and long term challenges for the Coalition in winning back

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Speaker 1: voter confidence and stranger Things fans listen up. Creators of

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Speaker 1: the show have shared ten key points for fans to

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Speaker 1: keep in mind ahead of the final season. Brothers Ross

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Speaker 1: and Matt Duffer confirmed the final season aims to come

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Speaker 1: full circle, tying back and answering mysteries that started back

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Speaker 1: in season one and two. They specifically recommended rewatching four

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Speaker 1: key episodes from season two and four, and said fans

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Speaker 1: should not expect any new monsters. Addressing persistent rumors, the

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Speaker 1: creators stated that fan favor at Eddie Munson will not

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Speaker 1: be returning from the dead. Additionally, they revealed their excitement

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Speaker 1: for the final episodes cinema premiere designed for a communal

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Speaker 1: fan viewing experience. They also confirmed the upcoming animated spinoff

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Speaker 1: is a completely separate story set between seasons two and three.

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Speaker 1: That's your evening news headlines tomorrow on The Quickie. If

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Speaker 1: you were one of those who was going through the

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Speaker 1: process of consciously, financially, emotionally and physically uncoupling from your

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Speaker 1: formally significant other, there are a ton of things you

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Speaker 1: need to consider, but have you checked what you posted

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Speaker 1: on social media? Listen to The Quickie wherever you get

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