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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia 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 Claire Murphy. This is Mumma

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Speaker 1: MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie. On this day,

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Speaker 1: exactly one year ago, fifty one year old Samantha Murphy.

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Speaker 1: Now, twelve months.

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Speaker 2: Later, we still don't know where she is.

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Speaker 1: Today we find out how the Ballarat community is feeling

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Speaker 1: a year on from Samantha Murphy's disappearance. But first here's

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Speaker 1: the letters from the Quickie Newsroom. Tuesday, February four. The

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Speaker 1: Australian Parliament returns to work this week, with the countdown

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Speaker 1: to the federal election now under way. Both Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: Anthony Albernizi and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have already been

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Speaker 1: on unofficial election trials during January, traveling across the country

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Speaker 1: to pitch their election promises. The election must be called

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Speaker 1: by May seventeen, but another date is emerging as a

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Speaker 1: potential favorite, with April twelve shaping up as a potential

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Speaker 1: poll date. Polls that had been swinging in favor of

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Speaker 1: meaning the election could end in a hung parliament, requiring

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Speaker 1: support from the minor parties and independents to form government.

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump has decided to pause the new tariffs

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Speaker 1: he imposed on Mexico after they agreed to reinforce their

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Speaker 1: border with the US. Mexican President Claudia Schinbaum says the

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Speaker 1: agreement also includes a US commitment to try and stop

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Speaker 1: the US. The two leaders spoke on the phone on Monday,

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Speaker 1: just hours before the new tariffs, which also include Canada

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Speaker 1: triggered by his tariff announcement, writing on social media, will

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Speaker 1: there be some pain? Yes, maybe maybe not, but we

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Speaker 1: will make America great again and it will be all

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Speaker 1: charge of Donald Trump's Government Efficiency Department, has announced plans

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Speaker 1: Donor of financial aid to other countries, dispersing seventy two

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Speaker 1: anti corruption work. Spanish World Cup winner Jenny Homoso has

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Speaker 1: Samoantha Murphy has been missing for a full twelve months today,

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Speaker 2: Who one day just went out for a run.

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Speaker 1: On the morning of February four, twenty twenty four, mum

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Speaker 1: The initial response from police was swift and comprehensive. Multiple

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Speaker 1: They would be joined by local residents who pulled together

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Speaker 1: tracks that Samantha would regularly run. GPS data from her

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking words at a press conference captured the family's anguish.

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Speaker 1: We home with us?

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Speaker 3: People just don't vanish in its in air. Someone's got

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Speaker 1: The Ballarat community came together to show their support for

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Speaker 1: twelve days after Samantha went missing, Ballarat local Rebecca Young,

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Speaker 1: days after that, twenty three year old Hannah Maguire was

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Speaker 1: Investigators believe Samantha was killed the same day she disappeared

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Speaker 1: how does the Ballarat community feel a year on from

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Speaker 1: her disappearance. Tracy Hargraves is the mayor of Ballarat. Tracy,

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Speaker 1: I understand you don't speak on behalf of the entire

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's no doubt that twelve months ago Ballarat

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Speaker 4: twelvemonth anniversary of Samantha Murphy, you know, her devastating disappearance,

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Speaker 4: definitely brings up those feelings again for people. But it's

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Speaker 4: also been an opportunity to try and keep these kind

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Speaker 4: They're always in our thoughts and our hearts. There has

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Speaker 4: been some great work done, but it's just very difficult.

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Speaker 4: Valarat's a pretty close knit community and it's definitely just

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Speaker 1: I think, do you feel like it changed people, Tracy.

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Speaker 1: I've been reading quite a few stories of women who

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Speaker 1: in fact are talking about even men changing their approach

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Speaker 2: Do you feel like it changed some people?

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Speaker 4: I think when things like this happen, there's probably going

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Speaker 4: to be a change, Yes, is the answer to that,

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Speaker 4: to probably how people feel and maybe that heightened sense

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Speaker 5: There's been a lasting impact.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of running, there's been some really beautiful things to

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Speaker 4: Baleratte every year, there were hundreds of runners in April

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty four wearing yellow in honor of Samantha and

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Speaker 4: I think there's probably a lasting change that we'll stay

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Speaker 5: It's a hard one.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like that solidarity continues now? Because sometimes

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Speaker 1: we see this in the aftermath of tragedy and Ballerade

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Speaker 1: Samantha Murphy's disappearance, with the deaths of Rebecca Young and

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Speaker 1: Hannah Maguire. Do you feel like that solidarity that happens

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Speaker 4: It's such a shame, isn't it That we need these

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I think Ballarat really.

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Speaker 4: Did come together and get involved in a way that

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Speaker 4: for those tragic cases of those three women. We participated

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Speaker 4: I was there and the feeling was just palpable. We've

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Speaker 5: Programs that we've rolled out here.

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Speaker 4: There is a Free from Violence local government program, and

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Speaker 4: I think people more than ever are really seeing the

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Speaker 4: importance and the relevance and wanting to help and wanting

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Speaker 4: to make the change. Because enough is enough. That's actually

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Speaker 4: the name of the rally that I just spoke about

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Speaker 4: a second ago. We've had enough of violence against women.

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Speaker 4: We should all be able to be safe.

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Speaker 1: I'm interested to know how you personally feel, Tracy, especially

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Speaker 1: when something like happens happened to Samantha Murphy, but also

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Speaker 1: the fact that we still don't know where she is.

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Speaker 1: do you feel it's difficult for the community to move

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Speaker 4: I think it's really difficult. That obviously stays with people,

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Speaker 1: Just finally, as you mentioned, there are going to be

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Speaker 1: some more difficult times to come as we see this

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 5: So our message is just that everyone in the community keeps.

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Speaker 4: Supporting each other the way that you have been, keep

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Speaker 1: for similar offenses. He pleaded guilty and was fined two thousand,

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Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. The case of Samantha Murphy's disappearance, which

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Speaker 1: is unrelated to the motorcycle crash incident, is still before

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Speaker 1: Stevenson pleaded not guilty and is due in court again

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Speaker 1: on August eight. Thanks for taking the time to feed

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Speaker 1: your mind with us today. The quickie is produced by

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