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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to a Mamma Mia podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Hi, I'm Ailish Delaney with the latest from the Quickie Newsroom.

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<v Speaker 2>Australia's under-16 social media ban is set to face tougher

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<v Speaker 2>enforcement with the Senate backing Labor's changes to the Online

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<v Speaker 2>Safety Act. The changes give the East Safety Commissioner greater

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<v Speaker 2>powers to make tech companies provide information needed to enforce

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<v Speaker 2>the age restrictions. Maximum penalties for companies that breach the

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<v Speaker 2>minimum age rules will also be doubled. Prime Minister Anthony

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<v Speaker 2>Albanese has accused big tech companies of not doing enough

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<v Speaker 2>to comply with the ban. The bill will now return

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<v Speaker 2>to the House of Representatives, which must approve the Senate's

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<v Speaker 2>changes before they become law. Independent Senator Jackie Lambie has

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<v Speaker 2>called Pauline Hanson a bloody coward, demanding she leave our

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<v Speaker 2>veterans alone and remove a One Nation cartoon labelling Liberal

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<v Speaker 2>frontbencher Andrew Hastie a traitor. Hastie, a former Special Air

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<v Speaker 2>Service soldier, says the cartoon is a massive slur on

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<v Speaker 2>veterans after he was subpoenaed to give evidence against former

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<v Speaker 2>SAS Corporal Ben Robert Smith in a defamation case. Speaking

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<v Speaker 2>to ABC Radio, Lambie, a fellow veteran, called the attack

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<v Speaker 2>absolutely disgusting.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, how people can watch that rubbish is beyond me.

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<v Speaker 1>But attacking Andrew Hastie, a veteran that has served in

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<v Speaker 1>our Afghanistan war, or any other veteran, is the lowest

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<v Speaker 1>ebb you can possibly do.

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<v Speaker 2>Leave our veterans alone, Hanson. Hastie says the attack isn't

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<v Speaker 2>just directed at him, but more than 20 other SAS

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<v Speaker 2>veterans who were called to give evidence, as well as

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<v Speaker 2>the broader veteran community. Liberal frontbencher Angus Taylor has also

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<v Speaker 2>called on Hansen to take the cartoon down. Hansen has

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<v Speaker 2>denied personally calling Hastie a traitor, describing the video as satire,

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<v Speaker 2>but has not said whether she'll remove it. US President

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<v Speaker 2>Donald Trump has promised every American a US $ 5, 000 dividend

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<v Speaker 2>if Republicans retain control of Congress in November. Trump announced

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<v Speaker 2>the payments during a speech to Republican voters in Dallas,

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<v Speaker 2>but has not explained how they would work or whether

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<v Speaker 2>he would need Congress to approve them. Business owners selling

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<v Speaker 2>illicit tobacco products will face tougher laws, with cheap prices

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<v Speaker 2>now potentially used as evidence of illicit trading. Laws being

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<v Speaker 2>introduced to federal parliament today will overhaul customs rules, making

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<v Speaker 2>it easier for authorities to seize and prosecute people selling

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<v Speaker 2>illegal tobacco. Under previous customs rules, authorities had to prove

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<v Speaker 2>illicit tobacco was being knowingly imported illegally. The reforms will

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<v Speaker 2>mean cigarettes sold for less than the amount of excise

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<v Speaker 2>and GST, disguised in different packaging or being concealed, would

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<v Speaker 2>be enough for authorities to charge. Assistant Customs Minister Julian

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<v Speaker 2>Hill told ABC Radio the changes will give authorities more

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<v Speaker 2>power to tackle organised crime.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a major global problem and Australia is not immune.

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<v Speaker 1>It's this massive surplus of cheap production of the stuff

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<v Speaker 1>for less than a dollar a pack that's been weaponised

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<v Speaker 1>by serious and organised criminal syndicates flooding national borders.

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<v Speaker 2>Australia has made major progress keeping young children safe around water,

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<v Speaker 2>but new figures show our parents and grandparents are increasingly

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<v Speaker 2>at risk. Eleven children under five drowned in the past year, 39%

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<v Speaker 2>below the 10-year average, according to today's National Drowning Report.

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<v Speaker 2>But 95 people aged 65 and over lost their lives

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<v Speaker 2>to drowning, with a rate above the 10-year average for

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<v Speaker 2>every age group over 45. Those aged 65 to 74

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<v Speaker 2>recorded the highest drowning rate of any cohort. Royal Life

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<v Speaker 2>Saving Australia chief executive Justin Scar says Australia has done

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<v Speaker 2>great work in reducing child drowning, but the latest figures

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<v Speaker 2>were a wake-up call with more awareness needed of how

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<v Speaker 2>medications and health conditions can affect safety in the water.

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<v Speaker 2>And the Spice Girls have issued a cryptic call-out for

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<v Speaker 2>fans who can sing and dance, sparking speculation about what

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<v Speaker 2>the pop group has planned. A video posted to their

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<v Speaker 2>Instagram page features a newspaper ad from The Stage, the

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<v Speaker 2>same paper that advertised for an all-female group in 1994

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<v Speaker 2>that became the Spice Girls. The newspaper was placed on

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<v Speaker 2>the stairs featured in their wannabe music video, with the

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<v Speaker 2>ad calling for fans who can sing and dance, as

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<v Speaker 2>well as superfans and collectors. It gives a date and time,

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<v Speaker 2>Thursday at 11pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, and says fans

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<v Speaker 2>will need a vinyl or CD player, but offers no

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<v Speaker 2>explanation about what they're being asked to do. That's all

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<v Speaker 2>for now. If you have a topic you'd like us

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