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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma mea podcast. Hi, I'm Tarlie Blackman

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Speaker 1: from Momma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with

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Speaker 1: Your Headlines for Wednesday, October twenty two. Survivors of domestic

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Speaker 1: violence in New South Wales can now end a lease

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Speaker 1: without notifying other tenants under new laws passed by Parliament.

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Speaker 1: The responsibility for notifying other tenants when someone leaves will

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Speaker 1: now fall to the landlord or agent, allowing survivors to

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Speaker 1: exit the home safely and privately. The reforms also let

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Speaker 1: victim survivors change locks without the landlord's permission and make

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Speaker 1: it easier to recover their bond. New protections will also

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Speaker 1: reduce financial burdens like damaged course by violence and limit

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Speaker 1: liability tied to financial abuse. Domestic Violence Prevention Minister Jody

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Speaker 1: Harrison says the laws remove the impossible choice between staying

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Speaker 1: safe and keeping a home, and New South Wales Rental

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Trina Jones says the laws help survivors act quickly

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Speaker 1: without unfair costs or privacy risks. If you or someone

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Speaker 1: you know is experiencing domestic or family violence, you can

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Speaker 1: call one eight hundred respect for free confidential twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven support on one eight hundred seven three seven

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Speaker 1: seven three two. Australian regional airline REX has been bought

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Speaker 1: by US company AIRT, with the sale coming more than

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Speaker 1: a year after REX entered voluntary administration in July twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four following a failed push into capital city routes. AIRT,

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Speaker 1: which runs several aviation businesses in the US, has signed

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Speaker 1: a sale and implementation deep with administrators Ernst and Young,

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Speaker 1: which still needs regulatory and creditor approval. The federal government,

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Speaker 1: which stepped in with over one hundred and thirty million

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Speaker 1: dollars in support, has welcomed the move. Meanwhile, no return

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Speaker 1: is expected for shareholders, and REX is no longer listed

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Speaker 1: on the Australian Securities Exchange. Transport Minister Catherine King says

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Speaker 1: the sale is a positive step towards securing rex's future

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Speaker 1: and keeping air links open for regional communities. A man

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Speaker 1: has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of thirteen year old

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Speaker 1: Arthur Haynes, who died after a house fire in Waterloo

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Speaker 1: more than twenty seven years ago. Gregory John Walker, now

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Speaker 1: fifty eight, admitted to unlawfully killing Arthur who was badly

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Speaker 1: burnt in the deliberately lit fire during a sleepover in

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Speaker 1: April nineteen ninety eight and died in hospital eleven weeks later.

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Speaker 1: Police said he was an innocent victim caught in a

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Speaker 1: neighborhood dispute. Walker was extradited from Queensland in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two and was due to stand trial this month. Instead,

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Speaker 1: he pleaded guilty during a court appearance today, with sentencing

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Speaker 1: expected to begin next month. Arthur's mother, Julie Sabo, says

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Speaker 1: she's grateful justice has finally been served after nearly three decades.

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Speaker 1: A man has been arrested and around nine thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: worth of rare Lbuobu dolls seized after a police raid

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Speaker 1: in Airport West. Officers found forty three dolls, including lim

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Speaker 1: limited editions worth about five hundred dollars each, believed stolen

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Speaker 1: during four burglaries at a Melbourne shopping center since July.

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Speaker 1: The forty year old faces multiple burglary and theft charges

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Speaker 1: and is due in court in May twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift has made a quiet donation to the parents

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Speaker 1: of a two year old girl named Lilah, who was

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Speaker 1: diagnosed with stage four cancer after suffering a seizure at

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Speaker 1: eighteen months old. On Friday, October seventeen, Swift donated one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars via GoFundMe to Lila's family. The donation

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Speaker 1: came after Lila's mother, Caitlyn Smooth, shared a TikTok video

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Speaker 1: showing the toddler calling Swift her friend while watching her

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Speaker 1: on an iPad. Caitlyn says she listened to Taylor throughout

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Speaker 1: her pregnancy and raised her daughter on Swift's music. Lila's

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Speaker 1: cancer is a rare, aggressive form of brain cancer, and

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Speaker 1: she faces months of chemotherapy, stem cell treatment, and radiation.

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Speaker 1: Her family has been fund raising since March to cover

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Speaker 1: treatment costs, hoping Lilah will one day attend and a

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift concert in person. That's your evening news headlines.

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Speaker 1: On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, we unpack Caroline Lebbett's

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Speaker 1: strange response to a journalist's question about the meeting between

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Listen to

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