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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumma Mia podcast. Hi, I'm Claire

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Speaker 1: Murphy from mmamea's twice daily news podcast. For Quickie with

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Speaker 1: your evening Headlines for Tuesday, December sixteenth. The man being

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Speaker 1: held as Australia's hero after tackling a gunman who opened

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Speaker 1: fire at a Jewish festival at Bondai on Sunday, has

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Speaker 1: had a visit from the Prime Minister and spoken to

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Speaker 1: the media for the first time. Fifteen people, including a

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Speaker 1: ten year old girl, a rabbi, and two Holocaust survivors,

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Speaker 1: were killed in Sunday night's attack at Bondai Beach, where

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Speaker 1: the local Jewish community had gathered for the first night

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Speaker 1: of Hanukah. The two alleged shooters, identified by police as

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Speaker 1: a father and son, were reportedly radicalized by Islamic extremists.

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Speaker 1: The father was killed, the son remains in hospital in

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Speaker 1: a critical condition. Forty three year old Ahmed al Ahmed,

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Speaker 1: a father of two daughters aged six and seven, tackled

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Speaker 1: one of the gunmen, managing to take his gun before

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Speaker 1: pointing it at him but not firing. He then put

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Speaker 1: the gun aside to ensure police didn't mistake him for

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Speaker 1: one of the shooters. He was visited by the Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister today, mister Alberinezi, thanking him for his efforts to

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Speaker 1: stop the attack. Very strong, Thank you strong, believe you

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Speaker 1: will get courage is inspiring. Mister Alhmed also spoke to

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Speaker 1: TRT World, saying he appreciated the efforts of everyone, saying

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Speaker 1: in Arabic, may Allah reward you and grunt you well being.

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Speaker 1: He was taken in for more surgery today, his former

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Speaker 1: immigration lawyer, explaining that he was shot five times and

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Speaker 1: that the injuries were worse than first thought, so will

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Speaker 1: require multiple surgeries. He says, mister Alahamed currently doesn't have

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Speaker 1: feeling in his arm and that there are concerns the

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Speaker 1: bullets have damaged nerves. He's in a lot of pain

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Speaker 1: and struggling. Mister Alahamed said, through Allah he went through

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Speaker 1: a very difficult phase. Only Allah knows it. Asking for

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Speaker 1: his mother, who called the apple of his eye to

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Speaker 1: pray for him. Pray for me, he said, my mother,

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Speaker 1: God willing it will be a minor injury. Pray for me,

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Speaker 1: that Allah eases our situation and delivers us from this hardship.

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Speaker 1: A GoFundMe has been set up for mister Alhmed, quickly

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Speaker 1: surpassing its initial target of three hundred thirs thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: A prominent Jewish American hedge fund manager, William Ackman, putting

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Speaker 1: up just shy of one hundred thousand dollars of his

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Speaker 1: own money for the cause. As of this podcast being recorded,

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Speaker 1: nearly two million dollars has been raised to help mister

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Speaker 1: Alhamed's recovery. Australians have come out in droves after the

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Speaker 1: call for blood donations in the wake of the Bondai attack,

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Speaker 1: breaking Lifeblood records. Photos captured long queues at donation centers

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Speaker 1: around the country yesterday after Lifeblood advised this is a

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Speaker 1: direct way you can help those impacted by Sunday's terror attack,

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Speaker 1: advising that nearly fifty thousand people have now made appointments,

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Speaker 1: more than doubling the previous record. They also recorded a

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Speaker 1: total of seven eight hundred and ten donations of blood,

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Speaker 1: plasma and platelets yesterday. Another way Ossies are showing their

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Speaker 1: support for the victims and survivors of Bondai is by

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Speaker 1: signing a condolence book set up by the New South

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Speaker 1: Wales government. The online book contains a message that says

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Speaker 1: the New South Wales Government and people of New South

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Speaker 1: Wales honor all those affected by the Bondai Beach attack

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Speaker 1: on the fourteenth of December twenty twenty five five, including

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Speaker 1: the families and friends of loved ones who lost their lives,

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Speaker 1: those who were injured, and the first responders including New

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Speaker 1: South Wales police and emergency services personnel, saying we stand

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Speaker 1: united at this time. If you would like to add

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Speaker 1: your message of support to those who've been impacted by this,

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Speaker 1: you can find the link in our show notes. A

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Speaker 1: senior counter terrorism official has told the ABC that the

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Speaker 1: two men accused of the terror attack at Bondai recently

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Speaker 1: traveled to the Philippines for military style training. Navid and

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Speaker 1: Sajid Akram flew to Manila last month before traveling down

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Speaker 1: to southern parts of the country to undergo the militant training.

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Speaker 1: They then returned to Australia just a few weeks before

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Speaker 1: the attack on Sunday. Their exact locations and movements in

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Speaker 1: the region have yet to be confirmed, but the Philippines

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Speaker 1: has been a draw card for those seeking the military

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Speaker 1: style training since the early nineties. Twenty four year old

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Speaker 1: Navid Akram had been investigated four potential links to a

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Speaker 1: Sydney based is terrorist cell when he was eighteen, but

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Speaker 1: he wasn't on any watch list at the time of

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Speaker 1: the attack. Neither was his father, who legally owned six

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Speaker 1: guns reportedly used in the attack. Islamic state flags were

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Speaker 1: found in a vehicle believed to belong to the father

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Speaker 1: and son, which also contained explosive devices. People who attended

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Speaker 1: a Christmas party hosted by Conan O'Brien on the weekends

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Speaker 1: say that Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his son Nick

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Speaker 1: had gotten into a heated argument at the event, held

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Speaker 1: the day before Rhiner and his wife, Michelle were found

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Speaker 1: dead in their home. Nick Reiner is currently being held

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Speaker 1: without bail after he was arrested on suspicion of the

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Speaker 1: the Rhiner's home outside the University of Southern California campus.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday night, local time, the bodies of Rob and

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Speaker 1: Michelle Hiner were discovered by their daughter, romy who called

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Speaker 1: emergency services. It's belief the pair had been stabbed. People

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Speaker 1: at Conan O'Brien's party, said Nick, who's been open about

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Speaker 1: his issues with drug addiction, had been freaking people out,

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Speaker 1: asking everyone if they were famous, before he got into

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Speaker 1: an argument with his father. They left the party soon after.

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Speaker 1: That's the latest news headlines. For more from The Quickie,

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Speaker 1: like Tomorrow, where Taylor speaks with Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi

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Speaker 1: about gun Lane, how the Jewish community can feel safe

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Speaker 1: in Australia, and what he says in response to questions

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Speaker 1: that his government's policy mentioned attack lug Bondi was inevitable

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