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Speaker 1: You're listing to a Mumamea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges the

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Speaker 1: traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is

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Speaker 1: recorded on Hi. I'm Nicole Madigan from Mamma MEA's twice

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Speaker 1: daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines For Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: April one, A looming call on interest rates is set

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Speaker 1: to cast a shadow on the election campaign as major

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Speaker 1: party leaders sharpen their pictures on the cost of living.

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Speaker 1: Economists say a rate cut is unlikely, but the Central

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Speaker 1: Bank's decision will have an impact on the election. It's

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Speaker 1: the only time the Reserve Bank will make an interest

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Speaker 1: rate decision during the election campaign, the first since it

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Speaker 1: cut for the first time in almost five years in February.

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Speaker 1: It comes as Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi shifts his campaign

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Speaker 1: to Adelaide, announcing one hundred and fifty million dollars to

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Speaker 1: expand a healthcare center in the city, as Opposition leader

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Speaker 1: Peter Dutton campaigns in Melbourne. The coalition has also unveiled

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Speaker 1: plans to lower entry barriers for first home by buyers

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Speaker 1: to enter the market. The Coalition has pledged to lower

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Speaker 1: the serviceability buffer and increased interest rate banks apply to

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Speaker 1: new loan applications to check where the buyers can repay

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Speaker 1: a mortgage. The rate currently sits at three percent, but

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Speaker 1: the opposition says the rate has been inflexible. Flood hit

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Speaker 1: areas of Queensland are preparing for further rainfall as renmants

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Speaker 1: of an X cyclone move across the state. Widespread rain

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Speaker 1: across central and southern parts of the Sunshine State has

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Speaker 1: been forecast as ex tropical Cyclone Diane moves across the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory on Tuesday. The Bureau of Meteorologies forecasting rainfall

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Speaker 1: and damaging wind gusts across the already flood soaked areas

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Speaker 1: that's triggered evacuations in rural communities. Flooding in the region

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Speaker 1: is considered the worst in more than fifty years and

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Speaker 1: could last weeks, sparking fears of mass livestock losses. The

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Speaker 1: rainfall is expected to ease over these areas by Wednesday evening.

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Speaker 1: Remote communities near the Northern territories Pallas Springs and Ularoo,

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Speaker 1: were expected to be impacted by X Cyclone Diane's remnants

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Speaker 1: after the system crossed WA's northwest coast days ago. The

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Speaker 1: wet weather is now pushing into central Queensland and down

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Speaker 1: to northern New South Wales. The full extent of the

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Speaker 1: damage won't be known until the flooding eases, a process

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Speaker 1: that could take weeks. A fire at a Tesla dealership

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Speaker 1: in Rome that destroyed seventeen cars was an act of terrorism,

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Speaker 1: says the company's billionaire owner, Elon Musk. A special police

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Speaker 1: unit is leading an investigation looking into the possibility that

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Speaker 1: anarchists set fire to the cars on the eastern outskirts

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Speaker 1: of the Italian capital in the early hours of Monday.

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Speaker 1: Tesla cars have become targets for vandalism across several countries

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Speaker 1: in response to Musk's right wing activism. The tech tycoon,

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Speaker 1: who also owned social media platform X, joined US President

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's administration and has come out in support of

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Speaker 1: far right parties in Europe. Commenting in a post on

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Speaker 1: X that made reference to the Rome fire, Musk used

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Speaker 1: the word terrorism. Drone images of the fire showed the

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Speaker 1: burnt out remains of cars lined up in a parking lot.

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Speaker 1: The dealership was partially damaged, but no one was injured.

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Speaker 1: Two Tesla stores and some cars were also vandalized. In

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Speaker 1: Sweden's capital Stockholm and coastal city Malmo on Monday. According

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Speaker 1: to several Swedish media outlets, a US court has blocked

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Speaker 1: the release of any public records that show the bodies

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Speaker 1: of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, but say

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Speaker 1: other images and documents can be disclosed. A representative for

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Speaker 1: the Hackman family estate had urged a New Mexico judge

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Speaker 1: to seal photos, video and documents to protect the family's privacy,

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Speaker 1: but Judge Matthew Wilson says anything that doesn't include images

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Speaker 1: of the couple's bodies can be released. The partially mummified

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Speaker 1: remains of Hackman and Arakawa were found in their Santa

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Speaker 1: Fe home on February twenty six, when maintenance and security

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Speaker 1: workers showed up at the home and alerted police. New

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Speaker 1: Mexico's open records law blocks public access to sensitive images,

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Speaker 1: including depictions of dead bodies. A lawyer for the estate

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Speaker 1: says the couple took great pains to stay out of

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Speaker 1: the limelight during their lifetimes and that the right to

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Speaker 1: control the use of their names and likenesses should extend

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Speaker 1: to their estate in death. That's your latest news headlines

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Speaker 1: on tomorrow's episode of the Quickie. The Netflix hit Adolescence

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Speaker 1: shows just how early young boys are being exposed to

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Speaker 1: dangerous online ideologies. But what's the solution. We talk to

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Speaker 1: a human connection specialist to find out. Listen to The

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