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Speaker 1: You're listening to I'm on a MIA podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, I'm Tarlly Blackman with the latest from the

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Speaker 2: Quickie newsroom for Thursday, February twelve. Angus Taylor has confirmed

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Speaker 2: he will challenge Opposition leader Susan Lee for the Liberal leadership,

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Speaker 2: announcing his candidacy ahead of the party room meeting on

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Speaker 2: Friday at nine am, where a leadership's bill vote will

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Speaker 2: be held. He announced his candidacy in a social media

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Speaker 2: video today.

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Speaker 3: The Labor government has failed and the Liberal Party has

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Speaker 3: lost its way.

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Speaker 4: I'm running to be.

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Speaker 1: The leader of the Liberal Party because I believe that

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Speaker 1: Australia is worth fighting for.

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Speaker 2: The challenge follows a wave of resignations from six shadow ministers,

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Speaker 2: highlighting significant unrest within the party. Senator James Patterson, who

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Speaker 2: stepped down from the front bench, confirmed he will support Taylor,

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Speaker 2: calling the vote a change or die moment for the Liberals.

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Speaker 2: He cited poor polling and declining public trust, saying he

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Speaker 2: no longer had confidence and Lee's ability to restore the

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Speaker 2: party before the next election. Patterson described Taylor as a

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Speaker 2: policy driven leader with strong convictions, and said the party

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Speaker 2: must act collectively to regain credibility. James Vanderbeek, best known

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Speaker 2: for playing Dawson Leary on Dawson's Creek, has died aged

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Speaker 2: forty eight after a battle with colorectal cancer. Taylor Strano

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Speaker 2: has more.

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Speaker 3: Actor James van Derbeek has died.

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Speaker 1: If you grew up in the late nineties, there was

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Speaker 1: one face that defined teenage, angst messi, love, triangles, and

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Speaker 1: the dream of becoming a filmmaker. That face belonged to

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Speaker 1: James Vanderbeek. Oh forever, Dawson Leary.

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Speaker 3: You're emerging a hormone. Don't develop an a thing for me?

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Speaker 3: Are they a thing?

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Speaker 1: This morning, the news we've all been dreading arrived. James

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Speaker 1: has passed away, aged just forty eight. His wife Kimberly

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Speaker 1: shared the news on Instagram, saying James met his final

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Speaker 1: days with courage and grace. The saddening news comes as

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Speaker 1: James has been fighting stage three colo rectal cancer for

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Speaker 1: about fourteen months. He actually had to go public with

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Speaker 1: his diagnosis earlier than he wanted, back in November twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, because a tabloid was about to scoop him.

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Speaker 1: He'd wanted to tell the story on his own terms

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Speaker 1: to raise awareness, but even when that plan was hijacked,

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Speaker 1: he stayed optimistic. It's a loss that's hitting fans and

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Speaker 1: famous friends hard. Sarah Michelle Geller shared a post of

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Speaker 1: the pair, saying he was one of the good guys.

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Speaker 1: This is a true loss, while Julie Pleck, who worked

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Speaker 1: on Dawson's Creek, simply wrote sleep now Dawson. For most

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Speaker 1: of us, James was the heart of Cape Side For

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Speaker 1: six seasons. We watched him navigate life with Joey and Pacey,

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Speaker 1: and he became a true household name. But away from

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Speaker 1: the cameras, his life was really about his family. After

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Speaker 1: his first marriage ended in twenty ten, James met Kimberly

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Speaker 1: while on a trip Israel. He described it as a

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Speaker 1: total soulmate moment. They were married within a year and

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Speaker 1: went on to have six kids, Olivia, Joshua, Annabel, Emilia, Gwendolen,

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Speaker 1: and Jeremiah. Just last year, there was a huge Dawson's

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Speaker 1: Creek charity reunion. James couldn't make it in person because

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Speaker 1: of a stomach bug, but he appeared virtually, telling his

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Speaker 1: castmates he couldn't believe he wasn't there with them.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm not there. I can't believe it.

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Speaker 3: I'll get to hold my castmates, a beautiful cast in person,

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Speaker 3: and just I wanted to stand at the stage and

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Speaker 3: thank every single person in this thehere for being here today.

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Speaker 1: Kimberly and the kids were there, though, leading the whole

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Speaker 1: theater in a singalong of that iconic Dawson's Creek theme song.

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Speaker 1: James Van Derby was forty eight. He leaves behind Kimberly,

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Speaker 1: six beautiful children and a legacy that would live on

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Speaker 1: every time someone hit play on the iconic Creekside drama.

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Speaker 2: A US lawmaker has accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of

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Speaker 2: concealing the names of powerful associates of Jeffrey Epstein. During

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Speaker 2: a House hearing on the Justice Department's release of investigative files,

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Speaker 2: Republican Representative Thomas Massey alleged a massive failure to comply

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Speaker 2: with transparency laws. Questioning why billionaire Leslie Wexner's name was

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Speaker 2: redacted in an FBI document listing potential co conspirators, Bondi

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Speaker 2: said the name appeared elsewhere in released files and was

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Speaker 2: unredacted within forty minutes. Lawmakers from both parties criticized the

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Speaker 2: scope of redactions, while several Epstein victims watched from the

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Speaker 2: public gallery. Bondi defended the department's review process and rejected

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Speaker 2: calls to apologize for disclosures that revealed some victim's identities,

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Speaker 2: saying any errors were inadvertent and that she has always

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Speaker 2: fought for victim's rights. River levels have surged in Alice

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Speaker 2: Springs after severe thunderstorms, cutting off roads and low level

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Speaker 2: causeways and stranding multiple people. Emergency services have issued the

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Speaker 2: highest level warning, urging residents to seek shelter and avoid travel.

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Speaker 2: At least five people have been rescued, with more operations

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Speaker 2: underway as authorities say the water level peaked at three

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Speaker 2: point five meters and is slowly receding. Homes have been

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Speaker 2: flooded and some residents have moved to higher ground. Officials

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Speaker 2: are urging people to stay home and prioritize safety. Australia

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Speaker 2: has appointed Senior Diplomat Pablo Kane as a Special Envoy

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Speaker 2: to LAOS amid concerns over a lack of transparency in

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Speaker 2: the investigation into the Twins only twenty four methanol poisoning

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Speaker 2: deaths of Melbourne teenagers. Holly Morton Bowls and Bianca Jones.

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Speaker 2: The nineteen year olds died after drinking at a hostel

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Speaker 2: in vang Vang and an accident that killed six foreign nationals.

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Speaker 2: The move follows outrage from the families. After ten people

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Speaker 2: will find the equivalent of one hundred and eighty five

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Speaker 2: dollars for destroying evidence, with no charges laid over the deaths.

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Speaker 2: Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia expects accountability reflecting the

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Speaker 2: seriousness of the tragedy. Zane Malick says he was never

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Speaker 2: truly in love with Gigi Hadid, Reflecting on their six

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Speaker 2: year on and off relationship during an interview on the

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Speaker 2: Call Her Daddy podcast, the former One Direction singer said

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Speaker 2: that while he once believed it was love, he now

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Speaker 2: thinks it may have been something else.

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Speaker 4: I will always love it because she is the reason

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Speaker 4: my child is on this earth and I have the

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Speaker 4: outmost respect for her. I will always love her or

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I was ever in love with her.

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Speaker 2: He added that he is not looking for another public

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Speaker 2: relationship following their twenty twenty one split after an altercation

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Speaker 2: involving Hadied's mother, Yolanda. That's your evening news headlines. On

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