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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma mia podcast. Mumma 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 Hi. I'm Grace Rufrey Fromumamea's daily news podcast,

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Speaker 1: The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Friday, thirteenth of September,

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Speaker 1: children as young as one will learn about respectful relationships

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Speaker 1: under a new new South Wales government strategy to combat

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Speaker 1: domestic violence, launching Friday. The plan aims to prevent violence

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Speaker 1: by changing community attitudes in childcare centers, workplaces and sports clubs.

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Speaker 1: Schools will receive support to deliver age appropriate education, while

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Speaker 1: an eight point eight million dollar project expands a pilot

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Speaker 1: program to help childcare professionals and families challenge gender stereotypes

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Speaker 1: which drive gender based violence. Premier Chris Minn said the

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Speaker 1: state's first primary prevention strategy is essential to prevent further violence.

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Speaker 1: Developed with input from over two hundred individuals and organizations,

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Speaker 1: Twelve current and former public servants breached the Code of

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Speaker 1: Conduct ninety seven times during the design and delivery of

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Speaker 1: the unlawful Robodet scheme. According to the Australian Public Service Commission,

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Speaker 1: for current employees face sanctions including fines, demotions and salary reductions. However,

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Speaker 1: there is no framework to penalize former employees. Despite claiming

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Speaker 1: they followed the rules. The report found officials failed to

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Speaker 1: question the fairness of the policy, particularly for vulnerable individuals.

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Speaker 1: The Commission also highlighted a workplace culture where criticism was stifled,

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Speaker 1: preventing employees from raising concerns about the program. Banks, tailcos

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Speaker 1: and social media companies could face fines of up to

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars for failing to protect Australians from scammers.

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Speaker 1: Under proposed laws, companies would be penalized for not stopping

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Speaker 1: fraudsters and would be required to offer clear redress for victims.

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Speaker 1: The laws target high risk sectors, obliging them to combat

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Speaker 1: scams and implement dispute resolution mechanisms. The aim is to

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Speaker 1: use platforms to prevent scams at the source, such as

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Speaker 1: blocking fraudulent ads. This move follows the government's one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty four million dollar investment to combat scams from

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Speaker 1: people using new technologies like AI surf. Life Saving Australia's

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Speaker 1: annual report has found a twenty nine percent spike in

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Speaker 1: preventative actions needed by its volunteers. The study, which focuses

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Speaker 1: on the last Surf Life Saving season, found that men

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Speaker 1: were more likely to drown than women, with males making

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Speaker 1: up a whopping eighty six percent of drownings. There were

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty eight coastal deaths, with one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty of these due to drowning, but the organization

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Speaker 1: found the statistics could have been closer to seventeen hundred

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Speaker 1: without life savers. Life Savers performed nearly eighty nine hundred

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Speaker 1: rescues across the season, with two point four million preventative

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Speaker 1: actions taken by volunteers. That's your latest news headlines. On

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Speaker 1: Monday's episode of The Quickie, Claire Murphy is talking about

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Speaker 1: weight loss drugs and how they're shaking up award season

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Speaker 1: in the US. Listen to The Quickie wherever you get

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