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Speaker 1: So you're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea

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Speaker 1: acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters that this

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Taylor Straano. This is Mumma Mer's twice daily

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Speaker 2: news podcast, The Quikie. The federal government has just announced

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Speaker 2: a major expansion of Medicare urgent care clinics across the country.

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Speaker 2: So what do we need to know about this pre

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Speaker 1: Plus?

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Speaker 2: Are you one to trust your gut? Turns out that

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Speaker 2: most of us have lost our way with intuition, But

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Speaker 2: don't fret. There's hope for us yet. Before all of that,

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Speaker 2: here's Clare Murphy with the latest from the Quickie newsroom

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Speaker 2: for Friday, March seventh.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Taylor. The wind is starting to pick up along

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Speaker 1: the coast of southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales

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Speaker 1: as Cyclone Alfred slows before it's expected landfall. Cape Byron

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Speaker 1: has recorded a wind gust of one hundred and eleven

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Speaker 1: kilometers an hour at three seventeen am, calling gatter one

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Speaker 1: hundred kilometers an hour just before two am. The storm

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Speaker 1: is still a category to the Bureau of Meteorology, saying

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Speaker 1: it will stay at that level until the center of

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Speaker 1: the cyclone starts to hit the coast. Momma me As

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Speaker 1: Nicole Madigan is in Brisbane and says where she is

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Speaker 1: is still relatively quiet, but her family has started to

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Speaker 1: see just how strong those wind gusts are getting.

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Speaker 3: It's raining lightly and there's some light wind where I am,

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Speaker 1: The cole says the delay in Alfred's arrival has allowed

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Speaker 3: We've been told the cyclone won't peak until possibly even

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Speaker 1: The strong wind gusts have already knocked out power to

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Speaker 1: tens of thousands of homes along the coast, from just

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Speaker 1: alert and prepared to respond. Schools and stores remain closed

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Speaker 1: across the region, with the skies above Brisbane and the

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Speaker 1: Island in Queensland down to but not including Grafton in

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Speaker 1: Sunshine Coast, Byron Bay and Ballana. Because Alfred is a

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Speaker 1: over the region in coming days. The Women's Tennis Tour

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Speaker 1: by the tour's global partner, Saudi Arabia's public Investment Fund,

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Speaker 2: Thanks Claan next, why access to urgent care could be

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Speaker 2: getting easier. If you've ever spend hours in an emergency

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Speaker 2: Labor government went to the last election promising to open

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Speaker 2: fifty medicare urgent care clinics. So far they've delivered eighty

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Speaker 2: Mark Butler told mmamea new clinics popping up in regional

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Speaker 4: About one in three of the existing clinics who already

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Speaker 4: we've been able to do better than that, and right

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Speaker 4: finding that doctors and nurses in particular are really keen

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Speaker 2: The government says the existing clinics have already treated more

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Speaker 2: four and five Australians will live within a twenty minute

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Speaker 4: They are making a difference. So I mean we get

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Speaker 4: patchy data from hospitals, but where hospitals are reporting their

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Speaker 4: focus on the life threatening emergencies that really hospitals were

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Speaker 4: built for. That's a terrific outcome. But just as importantly

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Speaker 4: what it means for patients and particularly families with kids,

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Speaker 4: is they're getting seen much more quickly, completely free of

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Speaker 4: instead of spending hours and hours in crowded emergency departments,

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Speaker 4: the one in three patients who are going through these

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Speaker 2: And what about the impact, The minister says, data from

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Speaker 4: We've been really careful to ensure there's as much of

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Speaker 2: When something goes wrong in your life, what's your first instinct?

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Speaker 2: to the group chat crowd, the perfect voice note to

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Speaker 2: and are staggering. Eighty three percent actively look for shortcuts

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Speaker 2: We might be losing touch with our intuition. Eilish Delaney

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Speaker 5: Welcome to the advice era, where any questioned out or

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Speaker 5: tiny anxiety can be answered with a quick search. Self

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Speaker 5: proclaimed experts are everywhere on TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, teaching us

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Speaker 5: how to navigate relationships, identify our attachment styles, and optimize

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Speaker 5: literally every aspect of our lives. Clinical psychologist Rachel Harker

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Speaker 5: explains that intuition isn't as mystical as it sounds. She says,

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Speaker 5: it's essentially our brain processing things really quickly, almost before

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Speaker 5: our conscious or rational mind catches up. It's formed from

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Speaker 5: our past, lived experience, memories, and learned behavior. You've probably

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Speaker 5: experienced it yourself, that relationship that just didn't feel right

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Speaker 5: despite everything looking good on paper, or that work decision

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Speaker 5: When we constantly seek external validation, we're actually weakening this

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Speaker 5: vital internal compass. As we continue to second guess ourselves,

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Speaker 5: down to two key factors, information overload and the fear

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Speaker 5: us away from it? Rachel suggests starting with a simple

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Speaker 5: brain dump, Grab a notepad or open your notes app,

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Speaker 5: how I'm feeling right now? What am I hoping will happen?

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Speaker 5: And what am I worried about? Once it's all down

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Speaker 5: on paper and you can actually see it rather than

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Speaker 5: the noise in your head just bouncing around, things might

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Speaker 5: valid concern versus what could just be noise. The next

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Speaker 5: yourself from googling every decision or pulling your entire contact

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Speaker 5: lists before making a choice. Mindfulness also plays a crucial role,

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Speaker 5: and no, you don't need to become a meditation guru.

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Speaker 5: It's simply about tuning into those subtle physical cues your

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Speaker 5: to our bodies and those subtle cues we might get

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Speaker 5: you know that gut feeling or tension, or those red flags.

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Speaker 5: Being more aware of how we're feeling inside will make

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Speaker 5: it easier to tell if something does or doesn't quite

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Speaker 5: meet the vibe check. So as we navigate through twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty five. Perhaps the best life hack isn't another TikTok,

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Speaker 5: trend or Reddit thread. It's simply learning to trust ourselves again.

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Speaker 5: So pause your intense research, deep dive on Instagram reels,

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Speaker 5: and crack open the notebook. Brain dump your thoughts, and

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Speaker 5: take a beat to feel, yes, actually feel what your

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Speaker 5: body is telling you about the decision and that laser ahead.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for taking the time to feed your mind with

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Speaker 2: us today. The quickie is produced by me Taylor Strano

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Speaker 2: and Claire Murphy, with audio production by Lou Hill.