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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumamea podcast. Mamma 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 Alex Nicholson from Mummamea's twice daily

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Speaker 1: news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines for Thursday, December nineteen.

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Speaker 1: The Australian government has repatriated one hundred and forty eight

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Speaker 1: citizens on two air Force planes sent to deliver search

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Speaker 1: and rescue teams and other assistants following a seven point

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Speaker 1: three magnitude earthquake that devastated Port Villa in Vanuatu. The

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Speaker 1: death toll stood at fourteen late on Wednesday, including a

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Speaker 1: young mother fresh off a nine month Queensland work stint.

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Speaker 1: At least two hundred people have been injured, according to

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Speaker 1: the Red Cross. No Australians have been confirmed dead in

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Speaker 1: the quake. With the airport reopening on Wednesday afternoon, personnel

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Speaker 1: from Queensland and New South Wales Fire and Rescue were

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Speaker 1: able to touch down. Australian Federal Police, a Foreign Affairs

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Speaker 1: Department Crisis Response team and a medical assistants team were

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Speaker 1: also deployed. Their first priority was to help people trapped

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Speaker 1: under the rubble of collapsed buildings as there are lives

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Speaker 1: to be saved there right now. Task Force leader Chief

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Speaker 1: Superintendent Douglas May said crime has reached record levels in Victoria,

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Speaker 1: with the number of criminal incidents recorded in the year

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Speaker 1: to September thirty up fifteen percent on the same period

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Speaker 1: last year. It's the highest record of criminal incidents since

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Speaker 1: Victoria's Crime Statistics Agency began reporting twenty years ago. Deputy

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Regional Operations Neil Patterson says the rising crime has

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Speaker 1: been driven by several factors, led by a surge in

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Speaker 1: family violence. Victoria reached the unwonted milestone of more than

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand family violence incidents in that period, meaning

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Speaker 1: police responded to a family violence incident every five minutes.

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Speaker 1: A week before Christmas, mister Patterson warned family violence incidents

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Speaker 1: tend to increase sharply on what is meant to be

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Speaker 1: a celebratory day. He also says officers will be checking

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Speaker 1: in on known offenders in the lead up to Christmas

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Speaker 1: and has urged people to look out for warning signs

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Speaker 1: their friends or family members maybe victims. The man accused

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Speaker 1: of the domestic violence murder of Molly Tyehurst is facing

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Speaker 1: fresh charges including aggravated sexual assault and will be mentally assessed.

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Speaker 1: Miss Tyshurst's body was found in her home at Forbes

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Speaker 1: in central western New South Wales in the early hours

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Speaker 1: of April twenty two. The twenty nine year old accused

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Speaker 1: was freed on bail a fortnight before the alleged murder

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Speaker 1: on charges relating to Miss Tyehurst, including three counts of

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Speaker 1: sexual intercourse without consent and four counts of stalking and

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Speaker 1: intimidating her. He was also charged with destroying property at

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Speaker 1: her house and aggravated animal cruelty between June and December

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. He is accused of breaching an apprehended

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Speaker 1: violence order and failing to comply with bail conditions on

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Speaker 1: the night of April twenty one. Legal documents before the

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Speaker 1: court showed the new charges included aggravated sexual assault in

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Speaker 1: March twenty twenty four, with allegations he threatened to cause

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Speaker 1: her further physical violence during the act. There was also

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Speaker 1: a fresh charge of sexual intercourse without consent and two

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Speaker 1: counts of destroying or damaging property. Ms Tishurst's death intensified

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Speaker 1: a growing movement against gendered violence and sparks new South

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Speaker 1: Wales government changes to bail laws. The case has been

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Speaker 1: adjourned to March twenty one, twenty twenty five. And acclaimed

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Speaker 1: Australian author John Marsden has died age seventy four. Marsden

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Speaker 1: wrote the popular young adult fiction series Tomorrow When the

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Speaker 1: War Began, along with many other young adult novels that

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Speaker 1: resonated with an entire generation of readers. The Alice Miller School,

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Speaker 1: which Marsden founded in twenty sixteen, confirmed his death in

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Speaker 1: a letter to parents, saying he died at his desk

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Speaker 1: in his home, doing what he loves writing. Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: Anthony Albanesi shared a tribute to the beloved author on

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Speaker 1: social media, saying John Marsden wanted young Australians to read

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Speaker 1: more and his writing made that happen. Marsden sold more

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Speaker 1: than five million books and has had his work translated

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Speaker 1: into fifteen languages. And that's your latest news headlines. On

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, we learn just exactly how

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Speaker 1: we should be behaving in twenty twenty five thanks to

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