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Speaker 1: You're listing to a Mumamea podcast. Mummameer acknowledges the traditional

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Speaker 1: owners of land and waters that this podcast is recorded on. Hi.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nicole Madigan from Mamea's twice daily news podcast, The

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Speaker 1: Quickie with Your Headlines. For Tuesday, April eight, thousands of

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Speaker 1: public hospital doctors have begun a three day strike, pleading

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Speaker 1: for better pay and conditions to stop colleagues fleeing to

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Speaker 1: other states. Doctors from more than thirty New South Wales

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Speaker 1: public hospitals have walked off the job, seeking on one

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Speaker 1: off thirty percent salary increase and guaranteed breaks. Outside the

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Speaker 1: nine hundred and seventy five bed Westmead Hospital in Sydney's West,

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Speaker 1: hundreds of doctors chanted that only safe working conditions could

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Speaker 1: provide patients with safe care. First year doctors earn about

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Speaker 1: thirty eight dollars an hour, but can collect forty five

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Speaker 1: dollars per hour in Queensland before considering penalty rates and

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Speaker 1: extra leave. The strike, theirs by New South Wales doctors

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Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety eight, sparked fears that an already stretched

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Speaker 1: health system would plunge into chaos, although union officials insisted

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Speaker 1: urgent care would be administered the New South Wales. Doctors

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Speaker 1: also want better work conditions, such as a guaranteed ten

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Speaker 1: hour break between shifts. Health Minister Ryan Park urged union

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Speaker 1: officials to negotiate without the threat of industrial action over

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Speaker 1: the community's head. More than one hundred thousand people are

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Speaker 1: on the elective surgery waiting list in New South Wales,

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Speaker 1: where patients are waiting up to three days to see

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Speaker 1: a doctor in emergency departments with a workforce unable to

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Speaker 1: cope with the demand. The union representing doctors, the Australian

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Speaker 1: Salaried Medical Officers Federation, says the action was necessary to

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Speaker 1: address critical doctor shortages. Australia's unemployment rate risks shooting up

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Speaker 1: as an escalating trade war slams the brakes on the

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Speaker 1: world economy. Global markets entered free fall on Monday, as

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Speaker 1: the year impact of US President Donald Trump's tariffs announced

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Speaker 1: last week sunk in for traders. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says

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Speaker 1: there's a real risk of a global recession. In its

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Speaker 1: pre election economic and fiscal outlook released on Monday, Treasury's

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Speaker 1: economic forecasts were unchanged from the budget on March twenty five,

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Speaker 1: but it noted greater than usual uncertainty around the outlook,

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Speaker 1: with the Australian economy set to suffer direct and indirect impacts.

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Speaker 1: Treasury still forecasts Australia's economic growth to accelerate to two

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Speaker 1: point twenty five percent in twenty twenty five twenty six

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Speaker 1: and unemployment to remain low around the four point two

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Speaker 1: five percent mark. While AMP chief economist Shane Oliver doesn't

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Speaker 1: expect Australia to enter a recession, he predicts a slower

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Speaker 1: pickup in growth than forecast by Treasury that could prompt

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Speaker 1: the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut interest rates sooner

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Speaker 1: and harder. The market now expects up to another one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five basis points of rate huts in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, potentially front loaded with a mega fifty

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Speaker 1: bases points cut in the RBA's May meeting. A great

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Speaker 1: deal of uncertainty remains about the impact in the economy,

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Speaker 1: and much depends on whether Trump doubles down on tariffs. Overnight,

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Speaker 1: the President threatened an extra fifty percent tariff on imports

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Speaker 1: from China unless China withdrew the thirty four percent duty

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Speaker 1: its set on US goods last week for Australia. Another

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Speaker 1: big factor will be how much stimulus China announces as

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Speaker 1: it seeks to hit its five percent annual growth rate target.

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Speaker 1: The Israeli military says an initial investigation into the killing

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Speaker 1: of fifteen emergency workers in the south of the Gaza

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Speaker 1: Strip last month shows that the incident occurred due to

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Speaker 1: a sense of threat. It says it had identified six

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Speaker 1: Hamas militants as being in the vicinity during the incident

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Speaker 1: in the city of Rafa. The military says it was

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Speaker 1: conducting a more in depth investigation, but the preliminary inquiry

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Speaker 1: indicated that the troops opened fire due to a perceived

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Speaker 1: threat following a previous encounter in the area, and that

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Speaker 1: six of the individuals killed were identified as Hamas militants.

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Speaker 1: The emergency workers were shot dead on March twenty three

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Speaker 1: and buried in shallow graves. The Israeli military initially said

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Speaker 1: it opened fire after unmarked vehicles approached in the dark,

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Speaker 1: but changed its account after video emerged showing clearly marked

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Speaker 1: ambulances and fire trucks with their lights on coming under fire.

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Speaker 1: A deeper investigation will be conducted in the coming days,

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Speaker 1: and its findings will be presented to the public. The

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Speaker 1: King and Queen have released three official twentieth wedding anniversary photographs.

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Speaker 1: Before their big day, Charles and Camilla were pictured smiling

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Speaker 1: soon after arriving in Rome for the start of a

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Speaker 1: four day state visit which will celebrate ties between the

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Speaker 1: UK and Italy. The couple were photographed at the Villa Wolkonski,

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Speaker 1: the official Rome residence of Edward Luln, the UK's ambassador

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Speaker 1: to Italy, and San Marino. In one image, the couple

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Speaker 1: are in the grounds of the home, while the remaining

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Speaker 1: photographs are pictured near the Nearroonian Archers, a branch of

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Speaker 1: the Aqua Claudia, a Roman aqueduct supplying Rome. The King

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Speaker 1: and Queen will spend their twentieth wedding anniversary evening as

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Speaker 1: guests of honor at a state banquet held in Rome.

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Speaker 1: The Head of State and his consort we'd in a

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Speaker 1: civil ceremony at Winsor Gild Hall on April nine, two

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Speaker 1: thousand and five, following a romance that began when they

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Speaker 1: were in their early twenties. That's your latest news headlines

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Speaker 1: on tomorrow's episode of The Quickie. With just over three

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Speaker 1: weeks until the federal election, We break down how both

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Speaker 1: leaders are laying it all on the line to secure

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Speaker 1: a victory, while it seems more voters than ever are

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Speaker 1: still making up their minds. Listen to The Quickie wherever

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