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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to the Quickie. I'm Claire Murphy. Australia

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Speaker 2: isn't well known for its abundance of snow. We are,

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Speaker 2: in fact quite famously well known for the exact opposite.

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Speaker 2: But despite that, we as a country have steadily grown

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Speaker 2: over the years to become more successful at an event

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Speaker 2: we didn't think would be one for us, the Winter Olympics.

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Speaker 2: From that speeds getting win to aerial gold and now

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Speaker 2: with nineteen medals in hand, six of them gold, We're

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Speaker 2: getting stronger on the slopes and in the half pipe

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Speaker 2: and on the ice. But could this be our biggest

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Speaker 2: year yet? We head to Italy to speak to teenage

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Speaker 2: snowboard cross star Abby Wilson, who from Ginderbyne to Mulano

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Speaker 2: Cortina is hoping to add to our medal collection this year.

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Speaker 2: But first let's get the latest from the Quickie newsroom. Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: February four, the Federal Opposition has blamed the Labour government

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Speaker 2: for yesterday's interest rate increase, accusing them of being addicted

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Speaker 2: to spending. The Reserve Bank's decision to lift the benchmark

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Speaker 2: borrowing rate to three point eight five percent has brought

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Speaker 2: an end to the shortest easing cycle in the inflation

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Speaker 2: targeting era, a dramatic u turn from cuts to hikes

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Speaker 2: in the space of just six months. Susan Lee and

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Speaker 2: Shadow Treasurer Ted O'Brien released a joint statement saying this

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Speaker 2: rate rise is not an accident. It is the direct

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Speaker 2: consequence of labour's addiction to spending, which has kept inflation

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Speaker 2: higher for longer and left the RBA with no choice

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Speaker 2: but to keep tightening. Treasurer Jim Chalmer's media budget update

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Speaker 2: rise to twenty six point nine percent of GDP this

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Speaker 2: financial year, the highest level in decades excluding the pandemic.

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Speaker 2: But RBA boss Michelle Bullock placed the blame on private demand,

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Speaker 2: or the total spending on goods and services by households

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Speaker 2: and businesses, saying it has been growing strongly and that

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Speaker 2: explains the additional pressure on inflation. People are being urged

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Speaker 2: not to speculate on a suspected double murder suicide of

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Speaker 2: a family with high needs children while police investigate their debts.

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Speaker 2: Fifty year old Jared Klune, forty nine year old Mowenna

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Speaker 2: home in the Perth suburb of Mossman Park on Friday.

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Speaker 2: Their debts have sparked commentary around the family and the

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Speaker 2: need for more support for children living with disabilities, amid

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Speaker 2: claims their NDIS funding had recently been cut. Western Australia

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Speaker 2: Premier Roger Cook urged community calm, understanding that people wanted

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Speaker 2: to discuss the issue and find answers, but called for

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Speaker 2: Federal Health Minister Mark Butler declined to comment on the

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Speaker 2: family's NDIS support, saying disability support authorities were cooperating with

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Speaker 2: on the packages the children were on. According to media reports,

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Speaker 2: both teens were autistic and nonverbal. The potentially deadly targeting

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Speaker 2: of an Invasion Day rally has been widely condemned in

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Speaker 2: Parliament as an attack on all Australians. Independent sen Sator

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Speaker 2: Lydia Thorpe introduced a motion on Tuesday to condemn the

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Speaker 2: twenty six, an explosive device which did not detonate, was

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Speaker 2: the two thousand, five hundred strong crowd of Indigenous people,

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Speaker 2: man with hate in his heart and the intention to

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Speaker 2: the crowd. She explained that the bomb smoldered, smoke rising

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Speaker 2: tainted by this poisoned plume of racism and hate. The

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Speaker 2: thirty one year old alleged bomber, who remains in custody,

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Speaker 2: A Perth magistrate granted a suppression order on the man's

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Speaker 2: raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media network X.

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Speaker 2: Prosecutors have ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in

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Speaker 2: abuse in a close relationship against a former partner, acts

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Speaker 2: Director Steven Spielberg has officially achieved Egot's status. Egott is

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Speaker 2: multiple Academy Awards for movies like Shindler's List and Emmy's

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Speaker 2: for shows like Band of Brothers, Well as a Tony.

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Speaker 2: The filmmaker celebrated his egot status on Instagram with a

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Speaker 2: that's what's happening in the world today.

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Speaker 1: Next, we speak to.

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Speaker 2: A young Aussie Winter Olympian who's getting ready to hit

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Speaker 2: the slopes in Milano, Kurtina. For Australia, there was a

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Speaker 2: Australia broke its nearly seventy year Winter Games hoodoo to

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Speaker 2: win our first ever gold medal. That moment has become

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Speaker 2: so iconic that it's even become part of the Aussie language.

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Speaker 2: Whenever anyone comes from behind to steal a win, to win,

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Speaker 2: even when all hopes for you to take the flagger

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Speaker 2: against you, of course, this is now called doing a Bradbury.

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Speaker 3: See the crack Australia cross the line, four skaters go down.

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Speaker 2: In February two thousand and two, Stephen Bradbury won our

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Speaker 2: the Salt Lake City Games when the entire field ahead

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Speaker 2: his events. We missed the nineteen forty eight Games, but

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Speaker 2: have competed in everyone since nineteen fifty two. We won

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Speaker 2: Two thousand and two, when doing a Bridbury was born,

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Speaker 2: was our most successful Games. We took home four medals

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Speaker 2: Alissa Kamplin. Since then, we've won gold in the freestyle moguls,

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Speaker 2: the snowboard halfpipe. Australia's image is one with almost no

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Speaker 2: winter pedigree is starting to change, but let's not get

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Speaker 2: ahead of ourselves. The Netherlands have won one hundred and

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Speaker 2: So what can we expect from the latest crop of

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Speaker 2: OSSI's rugging up and exchanging heat waves for ski slope.

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Speaker 2: At just nineteen, Abby Wilson is making her Olympic Winter

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Speaker 2: competing in the moguls at her first Games too. Abby,

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Speaker 2: welcome to the quickie.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited,

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 2: First up, what's it like being in Italy and preparing

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling?

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Speaker 3: It's quite surreal and exciting now. I think even two

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Speaker 3: we drove into Levigno this morning and I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: which has always been a dream. So I'm very very

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Speaker 3: see how the week goes. I think the nice run

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Speaker 3: village is a good way to start.

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Speaker 2: I'll get your take on because you've only just arrived.

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Speaker 2: I'll get your take on the village at a second.

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Speaker 2: But let's go back to the beginning for you, because

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Speaker 2: as I understand, you started skiing when you were two.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you start skiing when you're two, but you're

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Speaker 2: in Italy. And I was ready in your bio that

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Speaker 2: for you when you first did this, it was like

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me a.

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Speaker 2: Little bit about the event that you do, because for

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Speaker 2: I guess the majority of us, especially those of us

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Speaker 3: Snowboard cross, I think the best way that any of

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Speaker 3: US athletes try to describe it is like motocross or BMX,

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Speaker 3: straight away I was like, Yeah, I'm pretty excited to

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Speaker 3: on the regular every season. But yeah, pretty much high speed.

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Speaker 3: We have a start section, lots of banks and different

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Speaker 3: to create as much speed as possible and get down

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Speaker 3: the hill first is the aim of the game.

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Speaker 2: Okay, basically point yourself downhill and try not to crash

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Speaker 3: Yeah, get down in one piece. And for us in heats,

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Speaker 3: it's the first and the second person go through.

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Speaker 1: All right, Abby, take us into the village. What's it like.

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Speaker 1: I know you haven't been there for very long, but

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Speaker 1: what have you seen so far.

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Speaker 2: It's a really interesting makeup of the Australian Winter Olympic

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Speaker 1: That's really interesting makeup this year.

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Speaker 2: What's it like for you guys to be under Alissa

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Speaker 3: She's amazing, She's so incredibly nice. The best touch was

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Speaker 3: She's super nice. She kind of has planned everything to

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Speaker 2: Ouzi's are becoming more successful in winter sports, but I

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Speaker 1: What's life been like for you in the lead up

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Speaker 2: I mean you must have been so much time away

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been quite a lot, I would say, especially

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Speaker 2: All right, three quick questions for you before I let

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Speaker 2: First of all, I know you might be a bit

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Speaker 3: I would say slope style is really cool, or halfpipe

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Speaker 2: Third and final question for you is do it Does

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Speaker 3: Not that I have heard, but I have heard it

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Speaker 1: Please report back if somebody use that, because that would

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Speaker 2: Abby, thank you so much for joining us from the

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Speaker 1: Good luck.

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Speaker 2: Please extend our best wishes to everyone on the team,

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Speaker 2: and I mean we hope you come home with a

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Speaker 2: swag of metals, babe. If you don't, we're really proud

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Speaker 2: of all of you. So thank you so much for

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: We'll keep you updated on how the Aussie Winter Olympic

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