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Speaker 1: You're listing too. Amma Mea 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 Mumamea's twice daily

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Speaker 1: news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Thursday November

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Speaker 1: twenty eight, one of Australia's worst pedophiles is due to

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Speaker 1: begin two days of sentencing for more than three hundred

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Speaker 1: sexual offenses committed while he was employed at childcare centers.

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Speaker 1: In September, Ashley Paul Griffith pleaded guilty in Brisbane District

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Speaker 1: Court to twenty eight counts of rape against young girls,

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Speaker 1: as well as ongoing sexual abuse and making child exploitation material.

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Speaker 1: The forty six year old is due to return to

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Speaker 1: court following an adjournment to obtain pre sentence and psychiatric reports.

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Speaker 1: He also pleaded guilty to one hundred and ninety counts

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Speaker 1: of indecent treatment of children under twelve while a kerra,

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Speaker 1: sixty seven counts of taking indecent photos and videos of

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Speaker 1: children and fifteen counts of repeated sexual abuse of a child.

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Speaker 1: Crown Prosecutor Stephanie Gallagher requested a two day sentencing to

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Speaker 1: conclude on Friday. Griffith committed the crimes at childcare centers

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Speaker 1: in multiple Brisbane suburbs over a span of almost twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Who was arrested in August twenty twenty two by Australian

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Speaker 1: Federal Police. He was originally charged with more than one

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Speaker 1: thousand defenses against ninety one young girls, but hundreds of

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Speaker 1: charges were later dropped. Julian Assarmed support as a confident

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Speaker 1: Australia can place political pressure on US President Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: to grant the Wikileak's founder a pardon before he leaves office.

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Speaker 1: Assanga's wife Stella and his brother Gabriel Shipton were lobbying

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Speaker 1: MPs in Canberra on Wednesday to put diplomatic pressure on

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Speaker 1: America for a pardon to be granted during the final

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Speaker 1: days of the Biden administration. Shipton says time is running

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Speaker 1: out for a pardon to be secured before Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: is sworn in as president in January. The bid in

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Speaker 1: Federal Parliament for Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi to call on

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Speaker 1: President Biden for a pardon comes alongside bipartisan push from

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Speaker 1: US lawmakers to the president. Assage landed in Australia in June,

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Speaker 1: having pleaded guilty to spying charges after leaking troves of

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Speaker 1: secret state information. He spent almost seven years in Ecuador's

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Speaker 1: London embassy before being detained at a maximum security prison

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Speaker 1: in the UK, where he fought his extradition to the US.

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Speaker 1: Suspended Senator Lydia Thorpe has refused to back down following

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Speaker 1: her suspension from Parliament. Barging into the chamber a day

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Speaker 1: after she was ousted. The independent senator screamed the word

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Speaker 1: genocide outside the Senate doors this morning and later turned

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Speaker 1: up at the press gallery where she shouted free Palestine

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Speaker 1: from the River to the Sea before leaving. The Senate

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Speaker 1: voted to suspend the outspoken, victorious senator on Wednesday night

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Speaker 1: after she threw pieces of paper at her One Nation

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Speaker 1: colleague Pauline Hanson, calling her a convicted racist. Senator Thorpe

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Speaker 1: will not be able to officially attend the Chamber or

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Speaker 1: vote on any legislation on the final sitting day of

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Speaker 1: the year, but says she has no regrets. Musician Marilyn

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Speaker 1: Manson has agreed to drop a lawsuit against his former fiancee,

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Speaker 1: actor Evan rachel Wood and to pay her lawyer's fees.

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Speaker 1: The move comes eighteen months after a Los Angeles County

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Speaker 1: judge throughout much of the twenty twenty two suit in

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Speaker 1: which Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, claimed Wood

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Speaker 1: had fabricated public allegations that he sexually and physically abused

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Speaker 1: her during their relationship, and encouraged other women to fabricate

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Speaker 1: their own allegations. Manson had been appealing the judge's decision,

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Speaker 1: but his lawyers reached out to Wood seeking a settlement.

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Speaker 1: Wood's lawyers say the actor rejected requests for the terms

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Speaker 1: to be kept confidential, alleging the suit was a publicity

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Speaker 1: stunt to undermine the credibility of his accusers and revive

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Speaker 1: his faltering career. Manson agreed to pay more than five

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand in lawyer fees for Wood. The settlement comes

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Speaker 1: nearly four years into a criminal investigation of the fifty

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Speaker 1: five year old involving multiple women, including Game of Thrones

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Speaker 1: actor as May Bianco, that remains unresolved. Bianco settled her

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Speaker 1: own lawsuit against Manson in twenty twenty three. That's Your

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Speaker 1: Evening News headlines on tomorrow's episode of The Quickie its

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Speaker 1: Adoption Awareness Month. We talked to Seize the AA host

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Speaker 1: Sarah Davidson about what it's like to grow up adopted

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Speaker 1: in Australia. Listen to The Quickie wherever you get your podcasts.