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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amoma mea podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Tully Blackman from MoMA MIA's twice early news podcast,

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Speaker 2: The Quickie with your Headlines for Thursday November twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Barnaby Joyce has announced he is resigning from the National

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Speaker 2: Party after more than thirty years as a member, and

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Speaker 2: says he's certainly considering contesting the Senate for One Nation.

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Speaker 2: Joyce says he won't stand for his seat of New

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Speaker 2: England again as he feels he's been pushed into the

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Speaker 2: ejection seat and has had no communication with the party

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Speaker 2: leaders to resolve the issue. He says leaving the party

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Speaker 2: is with a heavy heart and apologizes for the hurt

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Speaker 2: his resignation may cause others.

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Speaker 1: What is really important is the Chinese Communist government of

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Speaker 1: breathing down our next and each day become more provocative.

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Speaker 1: What is really important. We have regional hospitals with our

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Speaker 1: doctors in them. And what I have to do if

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Speaker 1: I'm going to continue on that fight is get myself

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Speaker 1: into a better position than the ejection chair at the

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Speaker 1: back bench of the coalition in opposition.

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Speaker 2: Joyce's departure comes amid ongoing political debate over energy and

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Speaker 2: climate policies, with shadow Energy Minister Dan Tahan criticizing the

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Speaker 2: government's approach as costly and disruptive. The National Party has

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Speaker 2: not yet responded to his resignation. Two West Virginia National

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Speaker 2: Guard members were shot in the US today, just blocks

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Speaker 2: from the White House, in what authorities are calling a

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Speaker 2: targeted attack. Both were hospitalized in critical condition. Officials identified

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Speaker 2: the suspected shooter as Ramanala Lakanwa, who entered the US

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one and was living in Washington State.

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Speaker 2: Investigators say he ambushed the troops, opening fire as he

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Speaker 2: rounded a corner. At least one Guard member returned fire,

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Speaker 2: and other soldiers helped to restrain the suspect, who was

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Speaker 2: also shot and remains in stable condition. The shooting prompted

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Speaker 2: President Trump to order five hundred additional National Guard members

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Speaker 2: to Washington, meeting nearly two thousand and two. One hundred

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Speaker 2: troops are now assigned to the city. Authorities have not

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Speaker 2: confirmed a motive, but law enforcement and federal agencies, including

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Speaker 2: the FBI and Secret Service, are investigating. The incident occurred

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Speaker 2: near a metro station, where witnesses reported chaos and first

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Speaker 2: responders performing emergency care on the troops. A large fire

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Speaker 2: at Hong Kong's Wanyingo Court in Typo has killed at

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Speaker 2: least forty four people, including a firefighter, and left two

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy nine residents missing. Firefighters have brought flames

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Speaker 2: under control in four of the estate's eight residential blocks,

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Speaker 2: while three buildings continued to burn. The eight towers had

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Speaker 2: been undergoing renovations since July twenty twenty four with bamboo

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Speaker 2: scaffolding and green mesh. Authorities say highly flammable styrofoam contributed

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Speaker 2: to the fire's rapid spread. Three people linked to the renovation,

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Speaker 2: a contractor's two directors and a consultant, have been arrested

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Speaker 2: for gross negligence. More than nine hundred people are taking

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Speaker 2: refuge in temporary shelters, with city leader John Lee calling

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Speaker 2: the blaze a massive catastrophe and promising a full investigation,

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Speaker 2: including criminal probes. President Shi Jing Ping extended condolences and

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Speaker 2: called for all our efforts to limit casualties. Police are

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Speaker 2: seeking the mother of a newborn baby found outside a

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Speaker 2: fire station in Canberra's South. The infant, estimated to be

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Speaker 2: less than twenty four hours old, was discovered just after

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Speaker 2: seven a m. Outside the South Tuggeranong Fire and Rescue

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Speaker 2: Station in Conda. The baby was taken to Canberra Hospital

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Speaker 2: and is reported to have no obvious injuries. ACT Policing

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Speaker 2: said their main concern is the health and welfare of

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Speaker 2: the baby's mother. Authorities urged anyone who knows the mother

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Speaker 2: to encourage her to seek medical help immediately by going

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Speaker 2: to a hospital, calling an ambulance or contacting police. Police

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Speaker 2: are also asking anyone who saw activity near the station

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Speaker 2: overnight or early Wednesday to contact Crime Stoppers ACT. A

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Speaker 2: woman in her twenties has been killed and a man

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Speaker 2: seriously injured in a shark attack near Kylie's Beach in

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Speaker 2: Crodi Bay National Park, south of Port mcquarie on New

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Speaker 2: South Wales Mid North Coast. Emergency services were called shortly

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Speaker 2: after six thirty am this morning. The man, also in

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Speaker 2: his twenties, suffered a severe leg injury and was flown

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Speaker 2: to Newcastle's John Hunter Hospital in critical condition. New South

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Speaker 2: Wales Ambulance officials praised a witness who applied a tourniquet

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Speaker 2: at the scene, potentially saving his life. Kylie's Beach and

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Speaker 2: surrounding areas have been closed for at least twenty four

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Speaker 2: hours while authorities deploy drones and drum lines to locate

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Speaker 2: the shark. The species involved has not yet been identified.

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Speaker 2: Robert Owen is celebrating his win on Dancing with the Stars,

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Speaker 2: but says his body needs time to recover after a

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Speaker 2: rib injury during the competition. The twenty one year old,

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Speaker 2: who won the Mirror Bowl trophy with dance partner Whitney Carson,

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Speaker 2: like a true Ossie said it's painful, but you know,

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Speaker 2: no pain, no gain. Owen praised Carson for adjusting their

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Speaker 2: routines after the injury and described their freestyle performance as

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Speaker 2: a thank you to fans. Despite the challenges, he stayed positive.

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Speaker 2: I'll heal up, mate, I catch crocs. I'm used to it.

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Speaker 2: It's all good. And that's your evening news headlines. On

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