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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges

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Speaker 1: is recorded on from Mamma Mia. Hi, I'm Clair Murphy

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Speaker 1: with your evening headlines for Wednesday, June twenty six. Julian

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Speaker 1: Assange has explained his decision to plead guilty in a

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Speaker 1: US court today before walking away a freeman led into

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Speaker 1: the courthouse by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Julian Assange

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Speaker 1: was asked by Judge Ramona Manglna what he believed he'd

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Speaker 1: done to constitute being charged with a crime. He responded

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Speaker 1: saying he was simply working as a journalist and had

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Speaker 1: encouraged his source to provide information that was said to

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Speaker 1: be classified. In order to publish that information. He said

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Speaker 1: he believed that the First Amendment protected that activity, explaining

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Speaker 1: he thinks the Espionage Act and the First Amendment were

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Speaker 1: in contradiction with each other, but accepts that it would

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Speaker 1: be difficult to win his case given the circumstances. The

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Speaker 1: judge told Assange that had he faced court back in

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve and all this started, she wouldn't have been

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Speaker 1: so inclined to accept this deal, but said with the

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Speaker 1: passage of time and the evidence that no one had

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Speaker 1: been physically injured as a result of him publishing the

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Speaker 1: classified information, and having spent five years in one of

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Speaker 1: the UK's toughest prisons, it was time to release him.

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Speaker 1: His lawyers addressed the press outside court, saying Wikileak's work

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Speaker 1: would continue and that mister assigned would continue being a

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Speaker 1: force for freedom of speech and transparency in government. He's

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Speaker 1: now on a plane heading back to Australia, expected to

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Speaker 1: land in Canberra early tomorrow morning. Annual inflation in Australia

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Speaker 1: has jumped to four percent in May, above expectations and

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Speaker 1: higher than the three point six percent recorded in April.

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Speaker 1: This is the third annual rate increase in a row.

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Speaker 1: Housing food, non alcoholic beverages, transport, alcohol and tobacco the

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Speaker 1: biggest contributors to the annual consumer price index rise. The

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Speaker 1: monthly consumer index is not as comprehensive as the quarterly update,

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Speaker 1: which is still considered the principal measure of inflation and

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Speaker 1: what the RBA will be closely monitoring ahead of their

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Speaker 1: next interest rate meeting. If you want to own an

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Speaker 1: Australian iconic piece, of real estate. Get your check book ready.

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Speaker 1: Sydney's Lunar Park is on the market. The amusement park,

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Speaker 1: which has undergone significant upgrades over the past few years,

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Speaker 1: is expected to sell for somewhere around seventy million dollars.

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Speaker 1: The sale also including the long term lease hold of

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Speaker 1: the property on which the park sits in Sydney Harbor,

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Speaker 1: with the famous Bridge and Opera House in the background.

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Speaker 1: Your seventy million dollars will get you seventeen rides, plenty

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Speaker 1: of building floor space, sideshow, Ali Coney Island, an immersive

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Speaker 1: big top, a crystal palace that was built all the

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Speaker 1: way back in nineteen thirty five, and three hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty nine car parks. The late singer Prince, David Beckham

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Speaker 1: and Green Day are amongst the list of celebs getting

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Speaker 1: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Among the other film stars to be honored

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Speaker 1: next year are Jane Fonder and Alan Cumming, with TV

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Speaker 1: stars Fran Dresher and South Park's creators Trey Parker and

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Speaker 1: Matt Stone. Musicians Keith Urban, Depeche Mode, the B fifty twos,

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Speaker 1: and Buster Rhymes also getting their stars on the famous walls.

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Speaker 1: All those celebs now have a two gey window to

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Speaker 1: accept the offer and book in their induction ceremony or

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Speaker 1: it expires. That's your latest news headlines for more from

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Speaker 1: the Quikie, like today where we had a closer look

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Speaker 1: at what led to Juliana Sange ending up in that

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Speaker 1: US court on the Mariana Islands and how he's been

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Speaker 1: allowed to jump on a plane and head home after

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Speaker 1: all those years finding extradition to the US. Listen to

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