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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Good afternoon, I'm Claire

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Speaker 1: Murphy with the latest from the Quickie Newsroom. Wednesday, February eighteen,

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Speaker 1: Doctor Randa Abdelfhatar will headline the Sydney Writers' Festival. The

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Speaker 1: author was controversially dumped from the Adelaide event after pressure

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Speaker 1: over comments she'd made about Israel. Essay Premier Peter malanowskis

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Speaker 1: admitting he supported the move. The removal of doctor Abdelphatar

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Speaker 1: led to the festival being canceled after more than one

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Speaker 1: hundred authors pulled themselves from the lineup in protest. The

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Speaker 1: Sydney event has informed their backers and donors that it

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Speaker 1: will not pull its invite to Doctor Abdelphatar, saying a

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Speaker 1: festival like ours, which holds freedom of expression as a

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Speaker 1: core value, is not going to be in the business

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Speaker 1: of canceling or censoring writers. Festival chief executive Brook Web

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Speaker 1: explaining that readers can make up their own minds about

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Speaker 1: what they would like to attend. We know that without writers,

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Speaker 1: there is no festival. Giselle Pelico's memoir has been released

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Speaker 1: in twenty two languages worldwide, sharing details of the horror

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Speaker 1: she went through and sending a powerful message of hope

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Speaker 1: and support to victims of sexual abuse. Pelico told French

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Speaker 1: national channel France five last week, I wanted my story

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Speaker 1: to help others. In December twenty twenty four, Pelico's ex husband,

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Speaker 1: Dominic Pelico, and fifty other men were convicted of sexually

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Speaker 1: assaulting her between twenty eleven and twenty twenty while she

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Speaker 1: was under chemical submission. He was sentenced to twenty years

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Speaker 1: in prison, while the other defendants received sentences ranging from

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Speaker 1: three to fifteen years, and appeals court later increased the

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Speaker 1: sentence handed to Hussmettendogan, a construction worker who was the

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Speaker 1: only defendant who challenged his conviction. In her book A

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Speaker 1: Hymn to Life, Shame Has to Change Sides, Pelico recounted

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Speaker 1: her story of survival after the landmark twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: trial that turned her into a global icon against sexual violence.

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Speaker 1: She said, today I'm doing better, and this book allowed

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Speaker 1: me to engage in self reflection, to take stock of

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Speaker 1: my life. I had to try to rebuild myself on

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Speaker 1: this field of ruins. Today I am a woman standing strong.

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Speaker 1: An unredacted email amongst the latest releases of Epstein files

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Speaker 1: shows a convicted sex offender doesn't dispute that Prince Andrew

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Speaker 1: had sex with then teenager Virginia Geffrey. The emails between

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Speaker 1: the then New York Times journalist Landon Thomas Junior and

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein show Thomas advising Epstein to try and separate

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Speaker 1: himself from Prince Andrew in order to rebuild his reputation.

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Speaker 1: The email refers to Virginia by her initials and maiden

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Speaker 1: named Roberts and Reid's I mean in the end, he

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Speaker 1: had consensual sex with VR, and VR worked for you.

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Speaker 1: The rest is atmospherics. You've moved on. People don't know

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Speaker 1: that and can't accept that unless you say as much.

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Speaker 1: Epstein doesn't challenge or correct Thomas's assertion that the Prince

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Speaker 1: had sexual intercourse with Jeffrey, a point that stands out

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Speaker 1: as Andrew has consistently denied ever having had any sexual

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Speaker 1: contact with her. US President Donald Trump is finally getting

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Speaker 1: his wish to repaint his official executive air fleet after

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Speaker 1: he was told in twenty sixteen that he couldn't. Air

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Speaker 1: Force one has been white with two tones of blue

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Speaker 1: since John F. Kennedy was president, but Trump in twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen wanted a red, white, and dark blue color scheme,

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Speaker 1: a request that was scrapped due to darker colors possibly

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Speaker 1: causing overheating issues. The new colors will now be red, white,

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Speaker 1: dark blue, and gold. Still on the Trump administration and

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Speaker 1: CBS Late Night Show, host Stephen Colbert says the network's

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Speaker 1: lawyers barred him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas

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Speaker 1: state Representative James Tellerico, who's running for the US Senate.

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Speaker 1: The Republican led Federal Communications Commission said last month that

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Speaker 1: daytime and late night TV talk shows are no longer

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Speaker 1: considered bona fide news programs that are exempt from equal

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Speaker 1: time rules that requires them to give airtime to the

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Speaker 1: views of opposing candidates. Colbert criticized FCC Chair Brendan Carr

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Speaker 1: and the network's lawyers, saying they were unilaterally enforcing cars

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Speaker 1: directive for purely financial reasons, saying on Monday's broadcast of

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Speaker 1: The Late Show, Donald Trump's administration wants to silence anyone

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Speaker 1: who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all

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Speaker 1: Trump does is watch TV. That's the latest news headlines.

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Speaker 1: More from the Quickie check out tomorrow when we catch

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Speaker 1: up with the women of the Wedge Toowed Eagles football

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Speaker 1: club who were told they weren't allowed to play when

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Speaker 1: they left a toxic relationship with the men's team. Well

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