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

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

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Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Grace Ruverrey from Mumma MEA's

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Speaker 1: twice daily news podcast, The Quikie with Your Headlines for Friday,

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Speaker 1: October twenty five, a further update to the Menendez case,

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Speaker 1: Prosecutors will recommend Eric and Lyle Menendez be re sentenced

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Speaker 1: for the nineteen eighty nine killings of their parents in

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Speaker 1: the family Beverly Hills home, providing the brothers with a

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Speaker 1: chance at freedom after thirty four years behind bars. An

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Speaker 1: official with knowledge of the decision who was not authorized

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Speaker 1: to speak on the record ahead of a planned press conference,

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Speaker 1: confirmed that the Los Angeles County District Attorney would recommend

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Speaker 1: re sentencing for the brothers. The case will be heard

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Speaker 1: by a Los Angeles judge who will decide whether the

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Speaker 1: brother's sentencing will be downgraded from life without parole. Delays

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Speaker 1: for Quantus flights are expected across the country this weekend,

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Speaker 1: with staff protesting ahead of the first shareholder meeting since

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Speaker 1: its board faced backlash over executive pay. Quantus has been

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Speaker 1: criticized for outsourcing jobs, selling tickets for canceled flights, and

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Speaker 1: unlawfully standing down a worker. Last year, eighty three percent

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Speaker 1: of shareholders voted against the executive pay report, citing concerns

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Speaker 1: over former CEO Alan Joyce's twenty one point four million

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Speaker 1: dollar package. Now, with the threat of a board's bill,

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Speaker 1: the board hopes to convince shareholders it has improved. However,

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Speaker 1: union workers seeking a pay rise of five percent per year,

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Speaker 1: including a fifteen percent initial increase for past wage freezers,

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Speaker 1: plan to disrupt airports ahead of the AGM, though Quantus

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Speaker 1: insists it will not affect customers. As the company seeks

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Speaker 1: to repair relations with staff, Quantus have promised to give

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Speaker 1: non executive employees one thousand dollars to say thank you.

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Speaker 1: Argentina's police have raided the hotel room where former One

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Speaker 1: Direction singer Liam Payne stayed before dying last week after

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Speaker 1: falling from a third floor balcony. A police special investigations

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Speaker 1: unit went to the hotel on Wednesday night on alla

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Speaker 1: from the Public Prosecutor's office. A government official told the

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Speaker 1: Associated Press on Thursday, speaking on the condition of anonymity,

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Speaker 1: that officers seized items, including computer hard drives, and footage

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Speaker 1: from hotel cameras. According to the autopsy, pain dyed from

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Speaker 1: multiple injuries as well as both internal and external bleeding

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Speaker 1: caused by the fall. Definitive results aren't expected to be

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Speaker 1: made public for several weeks. Former Labour Minister Kim Carr

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Speaker 1: has criticized Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government for abandoning its

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Speaker 1: blue collar base and lacking ambition, calling for a return

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Speaker 1: to call left wing causes. Carr joins other veteran Labour figures,

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Speaker 1: including Paul Keating and Bill Kelty, in condemning the government's

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Speaker 1: mediocrity with labour slipping and opinion polls. Car warned the

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Speaker 1: party can't rely on identity politics to secure working class votes.

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Speaker 1: He also criticized the government's support for the nuclear submarine project,

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Speaker 1: calling it unaffordable, uncruable, undeliverable and a threat to national sovereignty.

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Speaker 1: Aiming to break down beauty stereotypes and make the digital

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Speaker 1: world more inclusive, a group of young students and professionals

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Speaker 1: from London have designed what they hope will become the

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Speaker 1: first emojis of black and mixed race hairstyles. The project

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Speaker 1: a partnership between youth led organization Rise three six five

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Speaker 1: and PR Agency Good Relations aims to tackle texturism, a

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Speaker 1: form of discrimination where afro hair is often perceived as unprofessional, unattractive,

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Speaker 1: or unclean. There are almost four thousand emojis, but none

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Speaker 1: feature black or mixed race hairstyles. The group have sketched

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Speaker 1: what the emojis should look like and then designers came

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Speaker 1: up with the final product. Four emojis were created featuring afros, braids, cornrows,

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Speaker 1: and locks. They will be submitted to Unicode, the California

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Speaker 1: based group responsible for emojis in April twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: for consideration. That's your latest news headlines. On Monday's episode

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Speaker 1: of The Quickie, we look into the reasons the triangle

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Speaker 1: family dynamic, which is having just one child is becoming

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Speaker 1: the norm, and if the only child stigma still exists

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. Listen to The Quickie where whever

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