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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Momma 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 Hey there, I'm Taylor Strano fromma MEA's

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Speaker 1: twice daily news podcast, The Quikie with Your Headlines For Monday,

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Speaker 1: November twenty five, the heartbroken families of Bianca Jones and

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Speaker 1: Holly Bowls are calling on the public to help cover

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Speaker 1: mounting costs to bring their daughter's bodies home after their

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Speaker 1: deaths from methanol poisoning in Lao. The nineteen year olds

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Speaker 1: are among six foreign tourists who died in a mass

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Speaker 1: drink spiking event in the Southeast Asian nation. Their families

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Speaker 1: want to raise awareness about methanol poisoning and have started

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Speaker 1: to go fund me in their daughter's memory. The page

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Speaker 1: has raised more than one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: The fundraising page description detailed three main objectives to relieve

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Speaker 1: financial burdens for the families, support existing initiatives, and fund

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Speaker 1: awareness campaigns to stop this from happening to other travelers.

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Speaker 1: Ends had been on holiday in Lao, where they became ill,

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Speaker 1: along with a dozen other tourists in the popular town

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Speaker 1: of Van Biang. They failed to check out of the

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Speaker 1: hostel where they were staying on November thirteen, after going

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Speaker 1: to the JD Bar, Miss Jones and Miss Bowls were

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Speaker 1: evacuated to Thailand and died in separate Bangkok hospitals after

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Speaker 1: their parents raised to be by their bedsides. Miss Jones'

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Speaker 1: father said his daughter was on the trip of a

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Speaker 1: lifetime and wanted to explore the world to meet new friends.

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Speaker 1: Thai authorities have confirmed she died of brain swelling due

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Speaker 1: to high levels of methanol found in her system. Back

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Speaker 1: Hombianca and Holly's friends have adorned their suburb with tributes

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Speaker 1: in memory of the Melbourne teens as loved ones call

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Speaker 1: for funds to bring their remains back to Australia. A

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Speaker 1: supporter of one of the Balley nine drug smugglers says

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Speaker 1: returning the group to Australia to be with loved ones

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Speaker 1: will make a difference in their rehabilitation. The Australians were

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Speaker 1: arrested in two thousand and five for attempting to smuggle

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Speaker 1: heroin out of the Indonesian resort Island. Five remaining members

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Speaker 1: got rush. Matthew Norman siege. Chen Martin Stevens and Michael

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Speaker 1: Zuzajaj have been serving life sentences in Bali for their involvement.

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Speaker 1: Bishop of Townsville Tim Harris has been in contact with

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Speaker 1: Russia's family for the past nineteen years, revealing they are

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Speaker 1: cautiously optimistic their son may be returned to Australia. He

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Speaker 1: told ABC Radio the remaining Bali Nine members have served

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Speaker 1: more than enough time in prison, but reiterated that he

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Speaker 1: did not condone their actions two decades ago. The federal

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Speaker 1: government is having ongoing discussions with Indonesian counterparts to negotiate

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Speaker 1: the repatriation of the five to serve the remainder of

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Speaker 1: their sentences in Australia. Trade Minister Don Farrell confirmed on

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Speaker 1: Sunday the discussions were ongoing, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi

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Speaker 1: advocating for the group during a meeting with the Indonesian

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Speaker 1: President at the APEX summit in Peru. Under the deal,

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Speaker 1: Jakarta would seek the repatriation of Indonesian prisoners held in Australia.

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Speaker 1: The country's Law Minister supratman andy Atgas told Ruters on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Jakarta has no set procedures regarding international prisoner transfers, but

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Speaker 1: would work on the matter as soon as possible. Mental

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Speaker 1: health experts are divided on the federal government's proposed changes

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Speaker 1: to barring under sixteens from accessing social media in Australia.

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Speaker 1: The World First band, supported by both Australia's major parties,

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Speaker 1: would see under sixteens barred from using Facebook, x, Instagram

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Speaker 1: and TikTok, but despite the scale of the proposed laws,

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Speaker 1: parties were given just twenty four hours to make written

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Speaker 1: submissions to the inquiry before three hours of hearings on Monday,

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Speaker 1: after which the government aims to pass the ban later

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Speaker 1: this week. Many senators noted the single day time frame

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Speaker 1: was causing the legislation to be rushed and not given

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Speaker 1: appropriate scrutiny, including Green Senator Sarah Hanson Young, who labeled

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Speaker 1: the process inadequate. Human rights groups have also argued the

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Speaker 1: one day window for submission was not a true consultation period.

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Speaker 1: A panel of experts disagreed on the effectiveness of the ban,

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Speaker 1: with Murdoch Children's Research Institute Susan Sawyer suggesting hom caused

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Speaker 1: online had been exaggerated and by consistent and sustain underfunding

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Speaker 1: of other resources where kids might access support mechanisms Headspace.

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Speaker 1: Nicolo Helfrey, who acknowledged the Internet contained much distressing material,

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Speaker 1: said her organization was concerned by the ban because it

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Speaker 1: would stop young people from learning how to access mental

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Speaker 1: health support. Meantime, clinical psychologist Danielle Einstein said she saw

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Speaker 1: no positives to social media use by children whatsoever, and

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Speaker 1: said research that indicated it could be used as suicide

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Speaker 1: prevention tools was wrong. Social media companies would be fined

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Speaker 1: up to fifty million dollars for breaches of the law

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Speaker 1: if they do not take responsible steps to prevent young

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Speaker 1: people from having an account. The laws will come into

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Speaker 1: effect a year from when they pass Parliament. And Australia's

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Speaker 1: most decorated Olympian is retiring. Emma mckeirn is hanging up

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Speaker 1: the goggles and swimming camp, announcing her retirement from competitive

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Speaker 1: swimming on her Instagram page after previously stating Paris would

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Speaker 1: be her last Olympics. The thirty year old thanked her supporters,

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Speaker 1: saying she was proud of her career and gave it everything,

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Speaker 1: both mentally and physically. Mckeirn has won fourteen medals for

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Speaker 1: Australia across three Olympic Games, including six gold. That's your

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Speaker 1: latest news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, we

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Speaker 1: look deeper into the cakes of methanol poisoning that took

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Speaker 1: the lives of two Australian teenagers, plus the signs to

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Speaker 1: look out for to keep yourself safe while traveling abroad.

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