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Speaker 1: I'm Rafaela Chicarelli. If from MoMA MEA's twice daily news podcast,

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Speaker 1: The Quickie with Your Headlines for Thursday, October sixteen. Australian

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Speaker 1: swimming champ Arianne Titmus has announced she is retiring from

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Speaker 1: the sport that made her a household name at the

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Speaker 1: age of twenty five. The announcement was made by the

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Speaker 1: four time Olympic gold medalist earlier today, leaving the sporting

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Speaker 1: world in shock. She announced the news on Instagram by

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Speaker 1: posting a letter and video to her seven year old self.

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Speaker 1: In the video, Titmas admitted it was a tough decision.

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Speaker 2: I love swimming. I've always loved swimming. It's been my

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Speaker 2: passion since I was a little girl. I guess I've

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Speaker 2: taken this time away from the sport and realized some

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Speaker 2: things in my life that have always been important to

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Speaker 2: me are just a little bit more important to me

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Speaker 2: now than swimming, and that's okay.

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Speaker 1: In the caption, she hinted at an exciting chapter ahead

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, a year before the Paris Olympics,

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Speaker 1: Tipmas underwent surgery to remove benign ovarian tumors. She said

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Speaker 1: this played a role in her decision to retire, but

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Speaker 1: admitted that she never planned for Paris to be her

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Speaker 1: last Olympics. The twenty five year old finishes her career

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Speaker 1: with thirty three international medals. Of these eighter Olympic medals,

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Speaker 1: four gold, three silver, and one bronze. She still holds

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Speaker 1: the two hundred meters freestyle world record. Australia's unemployment rate

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Speaker 1: has hit a four year high, according to new data

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Speaker 1: released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The rate has

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Speaker 1: risen from four point two percent to four point five percent,

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Speaker 1: with the number of people out of work climbing from

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Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty thousand in August to six hundred

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Speaker 1: eighty four thousand in September, making it the highest unemployment

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Speaker 1: rate since November twenty twenty one. The increase has defied

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Speaker 1: many economists' expectations the rate would remain steady and has

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Speaker 1: put renewed pressure on the Reserve Bank of Australia to

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Speaker 1: consider a rate cut when it meets next month. The

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Speaker 1: Bank had forecast unemployment to hit four point three per

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Speaker 1: cent by the end of the year. New South Wales

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Speaker 1: is introducing tougher sentences for intimate partner murders. The Min's

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Speaker 1: government will introduce new laws setting a standard non parole

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Speaker 1: period of twenty five years in jail. According to the

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Speaker 1: Daily Telegraph, this period is twenty five per cent longer

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Speaker 1: than the twenty year standard non parole period for murder.

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Speaker 1: The change is sparked by Mackenzie Anderson's case. The twenty

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Speaker 1: one year old was stabbed at least seventy eight times

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Speaker 1: by her ex partner Tyrone Thompson in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: In May, Thompson was jailed for twenty two years and

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Speaker 1: six months, with the non parole period of fifteen years

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Speaker 1: and six months. Mackenzie's mum, Tabitha Acret, has fought hard

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Speaker 1: against the decision. Akret told Daily Telegraph she welcomes the changes,

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Speaker 1: commending New South Wales Premier Chris Mins for ensuring her

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Speaker 1: daughter's case will not become legal precedent. In turn, Premier

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Speaker 1: Mins thanked Acret for her advocacy. Aid trucks are finally

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Speaker 1: moving into Gaza and israel Is getting ready to reopen

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Speaker 1: the Rafa crossing after Hamas handed over more bodies of hostages.

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Speaker 1: Israeli authorities had previously threatened to keep Rafa shut and

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Speaker 1: reduce AID supplies because Hamas was returning bodies too slowly. However,

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Speaker 1: Hamas did return more bodies overnight, and Israeli officials set

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday than now preparing to open Rafa for Gaza

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Speaker 1: residents to cross, with six hundred AID trucks set to

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Speaker 1: go in. The Israeli military said it received two more

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Speaker 1: coffins from the Red Cross at a meeting point in

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Speaker 1: northern Gaza Strip late on Wednesday, and the bodies were

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Speaker 1: being taken for forensic identification. It comes after Hamas returned

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Speaker 1: four bodies confirmed as dead hostages on Monday and another

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Speaker 1: four bodies late on Tuesday, although Israeli authority said one

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Speaker 1: of those bodies was not that of a hostage. The

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Speaker 1: arguments over the bodies illustrate how fragile peace in the

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Speaker 1: region still is. Israel wants the next stage of the

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Speaker 1: truce to see Hamas give up their weapons and hand

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Speaker 1: over control, something Hamas has flat out refused to do

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Speaker 1: so far. Jennifer Lopez has been very honest on her

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Speaker 1: past relationships and how she handles break up. Speaking to

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Speaker 1: Howard Stern, the star shared she's not the type of

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Speaker 1: person who looks back with longing. Once I'm done, You're

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Speaker 1: dead to me, she joked, laughing, I'm going to get

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Speaker 1: in trouble. But there were some more serious admissions amongst

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Speaker 1: the jokes. Stern asked Lopez whether she thought she'd been

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Speaker 1: truly loved, and the singapause before responding with no, reflecting

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Speaker 1: that part of the issue was she didn't love herself.

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Speaker 1: Lopez was, of course, most recently tied to Ben Affleck,

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Speaker 1: whom she filed for divorce from in August twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four after two years of marriage. That's your evening news headlines.

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Speaker 1: On Friday's episode of The Quickie, It's time to cleanse

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Speaker 1: the news timeline and get some good news in your feed.

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Speaker 1: From revelations about hair down there to a reunion ten

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Speaker 1: years in the making, we have a rap of the

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Speaker 1: good news stories that came across our desk this week.

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