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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good morning from gadigal Land.

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Speaker 1: I'm Taylor Strano. Hey, what's happening in Iran? You've probably

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Speaker 1: seen across your social feeds the deadly protests erupting in

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Speaker 1: the streets at the capital of Tehran.

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Speaker 3: But why?

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Speaker 1: Middle East expert rash Is Ezzi will join us to

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Speaker 1: explain the unfolding situation in Iran. Plus, Award season has

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Speaker 1: kicked off in Hollywood with the Golden Globes. Entertainment reporter

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Speaker 1: Tara Watson has all the dramas, speeches, wins and missus,

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Speaker 1: plus the latest on our very own Aussie Golden Girl

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Speaker 1: Rose Byrn, who scooped up her first Globe. Before we

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Speaker 1: get there, Clare Murphy's here with the news headlines for Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: January thirteenth.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Taylor. Parliament's powerful Intelligence and Security Committee will today

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Speaker 4: scrutinize the new hate speech laws motivated by the Bondai

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Speaker 4: terror attack. The Home Affairs and Attorney General's Departments, as

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Speaker 4: well as the Australian Federal Police and ASIO will also

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Speaker 4: be involved in looking at the legislation, which will be

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Speaker 4: introduced to Parliament on Monday, where MPs will also be

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Speaker 4: given time to speak on a condolence motion. Following the

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Speaker 4: anti Semitic attack at Bondai Beach that claimed fifteen innocent lives.

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Speaker 4: The new laws will create offenses for publicly promoting or

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Speaker 4: inciting racial hatred. A person deemed to have disseminated ideas

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Speaker 4: of superiority over or promoted or incited hatred against another

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Speaker 4: person or group because of race, color, or national or

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Speaker 4: ethnic origin faces five years behind bars. According to the

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Speaker 4: draft legislation, it would be an offense if the conduct would,

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Speaker 4: in all the circumstances, cause a reasonable person who is

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Speaker 4: the target or a member of the target group, to

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Speaker 4: be intimidated to fear harassment or violence, or to fear

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Speaker 4: for their safety. The coalition already has some concerns over

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Speaker 4: the text, including a passage that exempts directly quoting from,

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Speaker 4: or otherwise referencing a religious text for the purpose of

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Speaker 4: religious teaching or discussion. The coalition is concerned that this

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Speaker 4: may fail to tackle some radical Islamic preachers who would

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Speaker 4: be able to fall back on that defense. There's also

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Speaker 4: some pushback on proposed gun reforms. The small Highland community

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Speaker 4: of Jungella, west of Mackay and Queensland is expected to

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Speaker 4: be cut off up to three months as floodwaters continue

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Speaker 4: to rise. Aerial footage posted on social media shows the

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Speaker 4: steep mountain road blocked by huge landslips, with the bitumen

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Speaker 4: buckled and large sections falling away. The Bureau of Meteorology

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Speaker 4: has issued a severe weather warning for much of the

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Speaker 4: Central Coast and Capricornia districts, extending inland into the Central

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Speaker 4: Highlands and the coal fields of the Bow and Basin,

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Speaker 4: and while rain was extending into southeast Queensland, it's the

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Speaker 4: northwest that's again most under threat, with widespread rain and

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Speaker 4: storms returning to the area today and tomorrow. Meanwhile, easing

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Speaker 4: weather conditions I helping firefighters in Victoria contain blazers that

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Speaker 4: have been burning since late last week. Authorities have described

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Speaker 4: the emergency as the worst of its kind since the

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Speaker 4: twenty nineteen twenty twenty Black Summer, which killed thirty three people.

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Speaker 4: The body of cattle farmer Max Hobson was identified yesterday

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Speaker 4: as a single victim of this bushfire event. Some residents

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Speaker 4: returned to Nattermark in the state's northwest to assess the

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Speaker 4: damage yesterday. Around thirty homes have been completely destroyed in

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Speaker 4: the town. Authorities said the threat from the massive Longwood

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Speaker 4: fire in central Victoria has eased with cooler temperatures and

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Speaker 4: lighter winds, aiding efforts to bring it under control. Another

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Speaker 4: major fire close to the Otways in the state's southwest

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Speaker 4: was also downgraded. Britain's media regulator has launched an investigation

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Speaker 4: into Elon Musk's X to determine whether allowing its groc

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Speaker 4: Ai chatbot to produce sexually intimate deep fakes violates its

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Speaker 4: duty to protect the people in the UK from content

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Speaker 4: that could be illegal. In a statement, the regulator said

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Speaker 4: that there have been deeply concerning reports of the Grocai

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Speaker 4: chatbot account on X being used to create and share

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Speaker 4: undressed images of people which may amount to intimate image

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Speaker 4: abuse or pornography, and sexualized images of children may amount

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Speaker 4: to child sexual abuse material. X has faced condemnation in

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Speaker 4: other countries over the feature, which can produce images of

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Speaker 4: X to prosecutors and regulators, calling the content manifestly illegal,

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Speaker 4: while Indian authorities have also demanded an explanation. X has

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Speaker 4: now restricted the feature to paying users only. Mattel is

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Speaker 4: Intended to celebrate diversity. The newest Barbie will join a

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Speaker 4: partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a nonprofit organization

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Speaker 4: vary widely in degree, and many of the traits associated

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Speaker 4: how some people with autism sometimes avoid direct eye contact.

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Speaker 4: The doll was also given articulated elbows and wrists to

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Speaker 4: people use to process sensory information or express excitement. Each

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Speaker 4: some autistic people who struggle to speak used to communicate.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Claire Next.

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Speaker 1: Unpacking Iran's deadly protests. For weeks now, Iran has been

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Speaker 1: the cost of living has quickly turned into people openly

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Speaker 1: what pushed an already tightly controlled country to this breaking point?

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Speaker 1: What started as demonstrations on the streets of Iran's capital, Tehran,

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Speaker 1: the same government, who, in response, has turned off internet

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Speaker 1: The spark for these displays was money. Iran's currency, the

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Speaker 1: For locals, that's made basics like food, rent and medicine

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Speaker 1: suddenly unaffordable for many families. Inflation is running at more

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Speaker 1: Iranians are furious that their government spends money and attention

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Speaker 1: That's why a lot of the chance go way beyond

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Speaker 1: fix the economy. Protesters are shouting things like death to

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Speaker 1: the dictator and neither Gaza nor Lebanon my life for Iran,

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Speaker 1: which is a direct wife at the ruling system and

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Speaker 1: its priorities. To understand who protesters are taken to the

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Speaker 1: On paper, It's an Islamic republic with a president and

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Speaker 1: Supreme Leader, Ayatola Ali Hamani. He's an unelected religious figure

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Speaker 1: what the elected government does. Human rights groups say authorities

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Speaker 1: have used live ammunition, tear gas, and brutal beatings. Advocacy

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Speaker 1: agencies scrambling to provide an accurate death toll. So far,

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Speaker 1: Iranian historian and academic at Yale University. He's also the

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Speaker 1: author of What Iranians Want a Rash. These displays started

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Speaker 1: as cost of living protests?

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Speaker 2: How did they turn so deadly?

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Speaker 3: They turned deadly because the Islamic Republic has no answer

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Speaker 3: should also say that, yes, they were cost of living protests,

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Speaker 3: but they were also from the very outset political protests

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Speaker 3: rejecting the entirety of the regime. That's because in Iran

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Speaker 3: we have an unaccountable regime. One man called Auto Lakhamani,

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Speaker 3: who is turning eighty seven in April, has ruled the

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Speaker 3: and I'm not that younger guy anymore. I was born

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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty eight. Slogan's look death to dictator were shouted

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Speaker 3: A very large number of people, including even some horse

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Speaker 3: having inside the regime in Vombay or the other. This

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Speaker 1: Some of the other things that we've seen coming out

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Speaker 1: of a run in recent days criticism of the Iranian

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Speaker 1: authority getting involved in other conflicts. So there's been criticism

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Speaker 1: amongst things like wanting to topple the regime. And then

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Speaker 1: of course those cost of living protests that you've mentioned

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Speaker 1: as well. Is that all valid criticism and concern for

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Speaker 1: Iranians currently living there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're all linked to each other. Where are the

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 3: What are some of its main routes? So there is

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Speaker 3: mismanagement by unaccountable clique. Effectively, the Iranian estate has turned

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Speaker 3: one of the policies that they you know, that allows

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Speaker 3: this is Irans. For the last twenty years, Iran did

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Speaker 3: much to support these different Arab militias in the region,

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Speaker 3: So it's not just the money I spent on the

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Speaker 3: overseas adventures, but the overseas adventure helped internationally isolate Iran,

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Speaker 3: And an example I would give you by the way

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Speaker 3: There is the slogan neither Gaza nor Lebanon, I give

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Speaker 3: my life for Iran. You know, you can compare it

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Speaker 3: to anti Vietnam War protests in US and Australia back

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Speaker 1: We've heard that the government there is turning off the

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Speaker 1: internet and phone service, effectively blocking information from getting in

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Speaker 1: or out of the country. Can you explain the significance

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Speaker 1: of why we should be concerned about that, and also

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Speaker 1: what have we managed to say come out of a

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Speaker 3: On a personal level, I can tell you, you know,

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Speaker 3: Phones don't work, the internet doesn't work, and of course

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Speaker 3: the government does that in order to commit atrustities, and

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Speaker 3: by all accounts it's committing crazy atrocities as to what

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Speaker 3: we can get out. So there are people who have

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Speaker 3: access to starlink and others, activists and others, and who

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Speaker 3: send films here and there, so we do have an

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Speaker 3: image of what is happening, and what is happening is

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Speaker 3: massive process are still going on all over the country,

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Speaker 3: and you know, we have to see each day what happens.

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Speaker 3: The course of protests are unpredictable in many ways, but

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Speaker 3: they do seem to have faced more brutal repression than

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Speaker 1: What's the end goal here, Arash, I mean, is it

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Speaker 1: a matter of that the regime needs to be top all?

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Speaker 1: The eighteen third Golden Globes have kick started another award season.

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Speaker 1: Baby Entertainment reported Tara Watson was glued to the telly

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Speaker 5: Okay, by far, Jennifer Lawrence is number one. She wore

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Speaker 1: But a few other Aussies were nominated, unfortunately not able

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Speaker 5: Sweet Baby Jacob. He had double the chance as well.

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