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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mumma mea acknowledges

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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 daily news podcast, The Quickie. The Paris Olympics is

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Speaker 1: full prepmode to welcome millions of visitors and thousands of

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Speaker 1: athletes gathering to witness the best of the best in

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Speaker 1: their chosen sport. But there's some things happening behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes of this games, and it's all coming to a

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Speaker 1: head this Sunday, when the citizens of Paris are planning

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Speaker 1: to drop their trousers and do the unthinkable in the river.

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Speaker 1: Seen before, we break down the prep for Paris. Here's

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Speaker 1: the latest from the Quikie Newsroom. Friday, June twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Iconic cinema villain Donald Sutherland has died aged eighty eight,

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Speaker 1: his son Keifer posting a sweet message about his dad

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Speaker 1: on social media. Sutherland has been acting in roles from

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Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties, starring in shows like Mash and Invasion

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Speaker 1: of the Body Snatches. It is best known to his

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Speaker 1: younger fans as President snow in the Hunger Game series.

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Speaker 1: Sutherland's son Kiefer, who is also an actor, posted a

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Speaker 1: message about his dad on social media, saying he personally

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Speaker 1: thinks his father is one of the most important actors

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Speaker 1: bad or ugly, saying he loved what he did and

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Speaker 1: did what he loved and one can never ask more

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Speaker 1: than that. He signed it off a life well lived.

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Speaker 1: Police are still trying to piece together what seems to

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Speaker 1: be a random shooting attack that took the life of

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Speaker 1: a woman in Mackay and seriously injured a man who

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Speaker 1: came to her aid. Thirty one year old Natalie Framm

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Speaker 1: man in his sixties who came to help Natalie, was

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Speaker 1: also shot, but he survived and is being treated in

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Speaker 1: hospital for his injuries. The man who allegedly shot the

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Speaker 1: pair was known to police, but they say that had

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Speaker 1: no recent interactions with him. Previously been licensed for weapons,

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Speaker 1: It's belief Natalie did not know this man other than

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Speaker 1: he lived on the same street as her. Indigenous elders

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Speaker 1: build seven new nuclear plants at the sites of coal

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Speaker 1: providing no costing for the plan, but promising more details

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Speaker 1: before Australians go to the polls. Experts have cast out

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Speaker 1: on Opposition leader Peter Dutton's timeline to build the facilities,

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Speaker 1: whether the land proposed is geologically stable enough for nuclear power,

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Speaker 1: The Queensland Conservation Councils Paul Spearhum says White Australia has

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Speaker 1: Australia which are now poisoned due to British nuclear tests

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Speaker 1: proposals to force the nuclear facilities upon them. The man

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Speaker 1: Ian McKellan, has thanked the public for their messages of

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Speaker 1: scene earlier this week. The eighty five year old thanked

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Speaker 1: his injuries. That's your latest news headlines. Next, why are

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Speaker 1: Parisians threatening to pooh in the River Seine? We untangle

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Speaker 1: the controversy around the Paris Olympics and find out exactly

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Speaker 1: what it takes to make the whole event happen. Paris

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. It promises to be an Olympics with

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Speaker 1: There will be beach volleyball right in front of the

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Speaker 1: Andrew Laveries is the president of the Brisbane twenty thirty

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Speaker 1: two Organizing Committee. Andrew, where do you even start when

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Speaker 1: Does someone hand you a blueprint of games pass and

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Speaker 2: That would be a really good thing, Claire, But no,

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Speaker 2: not in this particular instance, and a lot to do

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Speaker 3: That was our blueprint.

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Speaker 2: But within the host contract there are commitments we've made

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Speaker 2: of course the actual project, which is in essence two

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Speaker 2: everything from you know, where's the meat pie is going

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Speaker 1: Planning when you're building some of these things that are

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Speaker 2: So no, it's not about the events and just delivery

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Speaker 3: It's all about the needs of the regions. The games

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Speaker 2: Not the other way around. And so without particular bid,

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Speaker 1: Andrew, it takes a heck of a lot of people

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Speaker 2: The leadership model that I'm very used to is as

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Speaker 2: But one very important leadership skill is horizontal collaboration, which

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Speaker 2: So what we do is form teams that crossover, collaborating

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Speaker 1: Talent you mentioned mascots there. I feel like mascots might

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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously that's a very visible sign of the fiber

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Speaker 2: A very very very important process, one that will be

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Speaker 2: because that's what the mascot does. Right, call it fun,

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Speaker 2: And of course we're putting a lot of work on

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Speaker 2: the branding side on exactly that. We just launched our

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Speaker 2: Deep trouble if I was giving it instat However, you

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Speaker 2: there are people throwing all sorts of hints that you

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Speaker 1: Bluey Oh God, if there was a bin chicken mascot, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: I think we would all just die on the spot.

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Speaker 3: That would be you think I would. I didn't even

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Speaker 3: know what that was. Bill. Someone told me that said,

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Speaker 3: oh okay, that's interesting. No will get there.

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Speaker 2: Believe me, this is one of the things that we

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Speaker 1: Just finally, we can see sometimes that when an event

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Speaker 2: You know, we've really gone from that let's call a

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Speaker 2: I think there's so much excitement about what can be done.

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Speaker 2: They put us in ship for four years, so now

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Speaker 2: they have to swim.

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Speaker 1: Yes, zushi de la sen lavengoig one translates into I'm

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Speaker 1: for listening today, friends, taking some time to feed your mind.

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Speaker 1: The quickie is produced by me Claire Murphy and I'll

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Speaker 1: Senior producer Taylor Strano, with audio production by Tom Lyon.