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Speaker 1: You're listening to I'm Ama Mia podcast. Good afternoon from

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Speaker 1: wann Arua Land. I'm Claire Murphy from the Quickie Newsroom

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Speaker 1: with your latest headlines. Tom Sylvanni, who was convicted of

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Speaker 1: rape late last year, has foiled an application for leave

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Speaker 1: to appeal the conviction. Sylvanni, the son of former AFL

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Speaker 1: player Steve Silvanni and TV personality Joe Sylvanni, were sentenced

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Speaker 1: to six years and two months behind bars after he

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Speaker 1: was found guilty of twice digitally raping a young woman

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Speaker 1: who'd had consensual sex with his friend earlier in the night.

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Speaker 1: After his friend left, he entered the darkened room, and

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Speaker 1: despite the young woman telling him she knew it was

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Speaker 1: him and to stop, he sexually assaulted her. At the trial,

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Speaker 1: the court heard how the twenty three year old then

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Speaker 1: falsified an uber receipt in an attempt to make it

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Speaker 1: seem like his friend had left Sylvanni's home later. The

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Speaker 1: Victorian Supreme Court has confirmed that Sylvanni's lawyers have now

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Speaker 1: lodged the paperwork requesting leave to appeal. The one hundred

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Speaker 1: year old Bondai Beach Footbridge two gunman used in December's

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Speaker 1: terror attack may be removed for a permanent memorial commemorating

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Speaker 1: the victims. Some residents want the bridge to stay, but

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Speaker 1: a local council report has found that the structure is

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Speaker 1: coming to the end of its life and will need

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Speaker 1: to be taken down regardless of memorial plans. Waverley councilors

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Speaker 1: are set to determine the immediate future of the north

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Speaker 1: pedestrian footbridge, where the gunman killed fifteen people at a

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Speaker 1: Harneker celebration on December fourteenth, as well as its sister

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Speaker 1: bridge at the south end of the beach, at a

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Speaker 1: general council meeting on Thursday night. Waverley Council says any

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Speaker 1: replacement or restoration plans will only occur after consultation with

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Speaker 1: both the Jewish community and local residents. Former West Wing

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Speaker 1: actor Timothy Busfield has surrendered to police in the US

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Speaker 1: after being accused of child sex abuse. Busfield turned himself

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Speaker 1: in on January thirteen after Albuquerque police issued a warrant

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Speaker 1: for his arrest on January nine, facing two counts of

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Speaker 1: criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of

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Speaker 1: child abuse. Busfield, in a video obtained by TMZ, says

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Speaker 1: he didn't do anything wrong and that he got the

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Speaker 1: call on Friday night, had to get a lawyer before

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Speaker 1: on Saturday driving the two thousand miles to Albuquerque to

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Speaker 1: hand himself in to the local police. They're all lies

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Speaker 1: and I did not do anything to those little boys.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to fight it. The warrant claims the actor

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Speaker 1: engaged in unlawful sexual conduct with eleven year old twins.

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Speaker 1: The parents of the children reportedly explaining that they'd met

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Speaker 1: Busfield on the set of the Fox series The Cleaning

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Speaker 1: Lady and had raised concerns about his behavior back in October,

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Speaker 1: but were told because there'd been no physical abuse, nothing

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Speaker 1: could be done. The children had reportedly told their parents

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Speaker 1: at Busfield, known as Uncle Tim, to them, tickled them

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Speaker 1: on their stomach and legs. Busfield said he may have

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Speaker 1: picked them up and tickled them to make the environment

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Speaker 1: more playful. The investigation then officially launched back in November

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Speaker 1: after a doctor that the parents had been told by

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Speaker 1: a law firm to go and see alerted police to

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Speaker 1: the alleged abuse. The parents said that one of the

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Speaker 1: children had told a counselor that Busfield had touched him

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Speaker 1: in appropriately, but both boys had been too scared to

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Speaker 1: tell anyone in case they got into trouble or Busfield,

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Speaker 1: who directed the TV show, got mad at them. According

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Speaker 1: to the warrant, Busfield told police the parents were upset

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Speaker 1: that their sons had been replaced with a younger actor

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Speaker 1: on the show, alleging he'd been told by another actress

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Speaker 1: that they wanted revenge. The show was produced by Warner Brothers, which,

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Speaker 1: according to the complaint, conducted its own investigation into the

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Speaker 1: abuse allegations but was unable to corroborate them. K pop

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Speaker 1: stars BTS have announced a twenty twenty six twenty seven

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Speaker 1: world tour, kicking off in South Korea in April, with

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Speaker 1: more than seventy dates across Australia, Asia, North America, South

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Speaker 1: America and Europe. The tour marks the group's first headline

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Speaker 1: performances since their twenty twenty one, twenty two permission to

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Speaker 1: dance on stage tour. The news coming just a few

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Speaker 1: weeks after the entertainment company Big Hit Music revealed that

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Speaker 1: BTS will make their return to music on March twenty,

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Speaker 1: following a nearly four year hiatus due to all seven

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Speaker 1: members having to complete South Korea's mandatory military service. Ozzie

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Speaker 1: fans will be able to see the group in Melbourne

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Speaker 1: on February twelve and thirteen, twenty twenty seven, while the

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Speaker 1: Boys will hit Sydney on February twenty and twenty one.

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Speaker 1: That's your latest news headlines tomorrow on the Quikie will

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Speaker 1: keep you updated on the situation in Iran after US

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump posted on social media, Iranian patriots keep protesting,

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Speaker 1: take over your institutions. Help is on its way. Listen

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