1 00:00:10,574 --> 00:00:15,414 Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumamea podcast. Mumma Meer acknowledges the 2 00:00:15,414 --> 00:00:18,294 Speaker 1: traditional lowners of land and waters that this podcast is 3 00:00:18,334 --> 00:00:25,014 Speaker 1: recorded on Hi. I'm Alex Nicholson from Mummamea's twice daily 4 00:00:25,054 --> 00:00:28,934 Speaker 1: news podcast, The Quickie. Here's your headlines for Thursday, January 5 00:00:28,934 --> 00:00:33,214 Speaker 1: twenty three. Former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehman has requested 6 00:00:33,254 --> 00:00:35,934 Speaker 1: a judge only trial when he fronts court on charges 7 00:00:35,934 --> 00:00:39,414 Speaker 1: of allegedly raping a woman in twenty twenty one. Lherman 8 00:00:39,534 --> 00:00:42,094 Speaker 1: was not required to appear in person into Woman District 9 00:00:42,174 --> 00:00:44,814 Speaker 1: Court on Thursday for the cases first mentioned. Since the 10 00:00:44,854 --> 00:00:47,974 Speaker 1: indictment on two rape charges was handed down in December. 11 00:00:48,654 --> 00:00:50,654 Speaker 1: He has yet to enter a plea, but his legal 12 00:00:50,694 --> 00:00:55,254 Speaker 1: representatives have previously said he denies the charges. Defense solicitor 13 00:00:55,334 --> 00:00:59,014 Speaker 1: Rowan King told Judge Dennis Lynch that Barrister Patrick Wilson 14 00:00:59,214 --> 00:01:02,734 Speaker 1: would make three pre trial applications for Lehman, one for 15 00:01:02,774 --> 00:01:05,854 Speaker 1: a judge alone trial, one in respect to potential protection 16 00:01:05,934 --> 00:01:09,374 Speaker 1: of records at a joint application in regards to uncharged 17 00:01:09,414 --> 00:01:13,494 Speaker 1: sexual contact to womba. Magistrate's Court was previously told there 18 00:01:13,534 --> 00:01:16,774 Speaker 1: was consensual sexual activity between Lherman and the defendant in 19 00:01:16,854 --> 00:01:20,254 Speaker 1: the hours prior to the alleged offenses. Lherman is accused 20 00:01:20,254 --> 00:01:22,934 Speaker 1: of raping the woman twice during the morning of October ten, 21 00:01:23,094 --> 00:01:25,494 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, after they met at a strip club 22 00:01:25,534 --> 00:01:29,374 Speaker 1: the previous night into Woomba, west of Brisbane. Just days 23 00:01:29,374 --> 00:01:32,774 Speaker 1: into Donald Trump's second presidency, the Pentagon says it's begun 24 00:01:32,814 --> 00:01:35,974 Speaker 1: deploying fifteen hundred active duty troops to help secure the 25 00:01:36,014 --> 00:01:39,294 Speaker 1: southern border. The plans were laid out in executive orders 26 00:01:39,334 --> 00:01:42,534 Speaker 1: President Trump signed shortly after taking office to crack down 27 00:01:42,534 --> 00:01:46,974 Speaker 1: on immigration. Acting Defense Secretary Robert Celsus says troops will 28 00:01:47,014 --> 00:01:50,174 Speaker 1: fly helicopters to assist border patrol agents and help in 29 00:01:50,214 --> 00:01:54,294 Speaker 1: the construction of barriers. The Pentagon will also provide military 30 00:01:54,334 --> 00:01:57,934 Speaker 1: aircraft for Department of Homeland Security deportation flights of more 31 00:01:57,974 --> 00:02:02,374 Speaker 1: than five thousand detained migrants. Defense officials say the department 32 00:02:02,414 --> 00:02:05,294 Speaker 1: is prepared to provide more troops if asked, including up 33 00:02:05,294 --> 00:02:08,734 Speaker 1: to two thousand more marines. The active duty forces will 34 00:02:08,814 --> 00:02:11,814 Speaker 1: join the roughly two thousand, five hundred US National Guard 35 00:02:11,974 --> 00:02:15,574 Speaker 1: and Reserve forces already there. Until this deployment, there were 36 00:02:15,614 --> 00:02:18,814 Speaker 1: no active duty troops working along the roughly three thousand, 37 00:02:18,854 --> 00:02:23,654 Speaker 1: two hundred kilometer border. A worsening psychiatrist's shortage in Australia's 38 00:02:23,734 --> 00:02:26,654 Speaker 1: largest health system has prompted calls to lift restrictions on 39 00:02:26,694 --> 00:02:31,254 Speaker 1: overseas trained doctors. Almost two thirds of public hospital psychiatrists 40 00:02:31,294 --> 00:02:33,734 Speaker 1: are poised to resign from New South Wales Health over 41 00:02:33,774 --> 00:02:38,774 Speaker 1: a pay dispute, worsening existing vacancies. Contingencies being utilized by 42 00:02:38,814 --> 00:02:41,734 Speaker 1: the State Labour government include directing public patients to the 43 00:02:41,774 --> 00:02:45,854 Speaker 1: private health system. The Peak industry body representing private hospitals 44 00:02:45,894 --> 00:02:48,094 Speaker 1: says the situation in New South Wales should be a 45 00:02:48,134 --> 00:02:51,974 Speaker 1: catalyst for action at a national level. Brett Heffernan, chief 46 00:02:51,974 --> 00:02:55,814 Speaker 1: executive at the Australian Private Hospitals Association, says the entire 47 00:02:55,814 --> 00:02:59,094 Speaker 1: system will crumble if government doesn't act swiftly. He says 48 00:02:59,134 --> 00:03:02,894 Speaker 1: public psychiatrists are overwhelmed with a massive blacklog of patients, 49 00:03:03,254 --> 00:03:06,254 Speaker 1: while private hospitals with spare capacity can't step in because 50 00:03:06,254 --> 00:03:10,494 Speaker 1: there aren't enough psychiatrists available. The associations the federal government 51 00:03:10,534 --> 00:03:13,894 Speaker 1: to remove a requirement for overseas trained psychiatrists to work 52 00:03:13,934 --> 00:03:16,774 Speaker 1: in rural or regional areas for a decade before gaining 53 00:03:16,814 --> 00:03:21,254 Speaker 1: access to Medicare rebates and the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni 54 00:03:21,374 --> 00:03:25,254 Speaker 1: saga just keeps rolling on after Baldoni's lawyers released raw 55 00:03:25,254 --> 00:03:27,294 Speaker 1: footage from the set of It Ends with Us on 56 00:03:27,374 --> 00:03:30,454 Speaker 1: January twenty one, claiming it proves there was no sexual 57 00:03:30,494 --> 00:03:33,854 Speaker 1: harassment in a scene mentioned in the Lively's lawsuit. Lively 58 00:03:33,894 --> 00:03:37,054 Speaker 1: and her team have responded in a statement to Page six. 59 00:03:37,254 --> 00:03:40,694 Speaker 1: The actors legal team has labeled the video damning. Lively's 60 00:03:40,694 --> 00:03:44,694 Speaker 1: attorneys claim the released footage not only doesn't support Baldoni's claims, 61 00:03:44,734 --> 00:03:48,854 Speaker 1: but also corroborates their client's sexual harassment allegations detailed in 62 00:03:48,894 --> 00:03:51,974 Speaker 1: her December thirty one lawsuit. On the same day as 63 00:03:51,974 --> 00:03:55,454 Speaker 1: Baldoni's team released the unedited footage, Lively and her actor 64 00:03:55,534 --> 00:03:58,934 Speaker 1: husband Ryan Reynolds filed for a gag order against Baldoni's lawyer, 65 00:03:59,014 --> 00:04:02,374 Speaker 1: Brian Friedman. The couple's lawyers issued a letter to Judge 66 00:04:02,454 --> 00:04:06,214 Speaker 1: Lewis J. Lyman claiming that many of Friedman's public statements 67 00:04:06,334 --> 00:04:09,534 Speaker 1: not only continue an alleged campaign of retaliation against Lane 68 00:04:09,974 --> 00:04:13,734 Speaker 1: after she first called out Baldoni's behavior upset, but also 69 00:04:13,814 --> 00:04:17,174 Speaker 1: contained numerous new false statements about the actor and others, 70 00:04:17,854 --> 00:04:20,934 Speaker 1: and that's your news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, 71 00:04:21,014 --> 00:04:23,694 Speaker 1: we find out just what the magic number is for retirement. 72 00:04:24,054 --> 00:04:26,414 Speaker 1: Plus you might have missed it, but there's a new 73 00:04:26,494 --> 00:04:29,614 Speaker 1: vaccine for the pesky Uti. Listen to The Quickie wherever 74 00:04:29,654 --> 00:04:30,694 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.