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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges the

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Speaker 1: traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is

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Speaker 1: recorded on Hi. I'm Grace Reofrey from Mumma MEA's twice

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Speaker 1: daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines for Monday

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Speaker 1: March ten. Residents in southeast Queensland, including Brisbane, Logan, Gold

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Speaker 1: Coast and Ipswich are urged to move to higher ground

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Speaker 1: as floodwaters rise after x Tropical Cyclone Alfred. Major flooding

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Speaker 1: is affecting multiple rivers, with some areas receiving over four

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Speaker 1: hundred miles of rain. Schools are closed and power outages

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Speaker 1: have impacted two hundred thousand homes and seventeen swift water

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Speaker 1: rescues have occurred. While rainfall is expected to ease, flooding

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Speaker 1: will continue throughout the week. Prime Minister Anthony Alberanezi is

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Speaker 1: in Lismore urging insurance companies to process claims quickly. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Opposition leader Peter Dutton has defended attending a Sydney fundraiser

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Speaker 1: as the cyclone approached, stating he had prior commitments and

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Speaker 1: return earned early the next morning. He called the criticism

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Speaker 1: of his trip politically motivated. When back in his electorate

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Speaker 1: of Dixon, Peter Dutton told Sky News he was stuck

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Speaker 1: at home with floodwaters reaching his front gate. Acknowledging the

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Speaker 1: widespread impact, he said many residents woke up to flood

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Speaker 1: at homes and hoped waters would recede quickly. Millions of

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Speaker 1: Australians on welfare will see small boosts to their fortnightly

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Speaker 1: payments starting March twenty under indexation changes over five million recipients,

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Speaker 1: including pensioners, renters, job seekers, as well as those on

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Speaker 1: disability support and care of payments. Social Services Minister Amanda

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Speaker 1: Rishworth said the government is easing cost of living pressures

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Speaker 1: and strengthening the social security system, with eleven point five

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Speaker 1: billion dollars committed to social security in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three to twenty twenty four and twenty twenty four to

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five federal budgets. Donald Trump announced that his

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Speaker 1: administration is in contact with four different groups about purchasing

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Speaker 1: the Chinese owned social media platform TikTok, with all options

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Speaker 1: being favorable. TikTok's future has been uncertain since a law

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Speaker 1: requiring its owner Byte Dance to sell or face a

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Speaker 1: ban took effect on January nineteen, Trump signed an executive

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Speaker 1: ordered delaying enforcement by seventy five days. He mentioned that

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Speaker 1: a deal could be imminent, with several potential buyers, including

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Speaker 1: former Los Angeles Dodgers' owner Frank McCourt, showing interest in

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Speaker 1: the company, which could be worth up to fifty billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: A survey of twenty two hundred and fifty Australians found

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Speaker 1: that women are less confident about their retirement than men,

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Speaker 1: with less than half feeling prepared for life after work.

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Speaker 1: Sixty two percent of women felt they wouldn't achieve a

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Speaker 1: comfortable retirement, compared to forty seven percent of men. The

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Speaker 1: survey also revealed that only forty five percent of women

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Speaker 1: knew what assets their superannuation was invested in, compared to

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Speaker 1: sixty percent of men. CFS Chief executive Kelly Power highlighted

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Speaker 1: the need for tailored financial advice to improve women's retirement confidence.

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Speaker 1: Women who received financial advice were twice as long to

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Speaker 1: feel prepared for retirement. Power encouraged women to actively manage

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Speaker 1: their super noting that small, regular contributions can grow over time. Additionally,

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Speaker 1: women can use catch up contributions to make up for

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Speaker 1: past shortfalls, especially if they took career breaks or worked

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Speaker 1: part time due to caregiving. That's your latest news headlines

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Speaker 1: On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, Alfred has left a

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Speaker 1: trail of destruction, but who has benefited from it politically?

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Speaker 1: As ossies now wait longer to find out when they'll

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Speaker 1: get their chance to vote. Listen to The Quickie wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.