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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mere podcast. Hey, I'm Taylor Strano

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Speaker 1: from Mamma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with

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Speaker 1: Your Headlines for Friday, January nine, A major heat wave

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Speaker 1: is still sweeping across Australia's southeast, with forecasted temperatures to

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Speaker 1: reach forty three degrees in Melbourne and up to forty

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Speaker 1: seven in parts of Inland, Victoria and South Australia on Friday.

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Speaker 1: The Bureau of Meteorology seeds damaging northwesterly winds after ninety

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Speaker 1: kilometers per hour are combining with extreme heat to break

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Speaker 1: temperature records and bring catastrophic bushfire conditions. The sweltering Aghastia

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Speaker 1: conditions in Victoria have fuelled massive bushfires in the northeast

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Speaker 1: of the state, with properties confirmed lost in the town

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Speaker 1: of Roufi, about one hundred and fifty kilometers from Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: South Australia bore the brunt of the high temperatures on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: with the town of wood Dinner on the Air Peninsula

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Speaker 1: reaching four s eight point two degrees, just zero point

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Speaker 1: two degree shy of its all time record. Temperatures are

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Speaker 1: expected to remain high on Friday. In South Australia, as

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Speaker 1: well as Country Victoria and New South Wales. Most of

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Speaker 1: New South Wales won't feel the full force of the

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Speaker 1: heat until the weekend, with maximum temperatures in the mid

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Speaker 1: thirties along the coast and reaching the low forties in

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Speaker 1: the southwest predicted on Friday. Meantime, search is underway for

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Speaker 1: a family after a bushfire ripped through their home in

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Speaker 1: Longwood East, one hundred and fifty kilometers north of Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: Police say they're searching for a man, a woman and

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Speaker 1: a child who were advised by fire services on Thursday

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Speaker 1: to take shelter, citing it was too late to leave

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Speaker 1: the area safely. A Palestinian Australian academic and author has

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Speaker 1: been removed from a major Australian writers' festival over cultural

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Speaker 1: sensitivity in the aftermath of a mass shooting. Doctor Randa

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Speaker 1: Abdelfhatta was the only Palestinian writer scheduled to appear at

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Speaker 1: the adels Late Writers Week in February as part of

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Speaker 1: the Adelaide Festival, but on Thursday, the festival's board publicly

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Speaker 1: announced it did not wish to proceed with her appearance,

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Speaker 1: noting the national grief and community tensions triggered by the

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Speaker 1: Bondai massacre. On December fourteenth, in a statement, the board said,

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Speaker 1: given miss Abdelphana's past statements, it would not be culturally

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Speaker 1: sensitive to continue to program her at this unprecedented time

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Speaker 1: so soon after Bondai. It still remains unclear which past

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Speaker 1: statements the festival is referring to, but she has been

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Speaker 1: accused by conservative Jewish groups of sharing posts criticizing Israel.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Abdolphanta condemned the cancelation, calling the board egregiously racist,

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Speaker 1: saying it had attempted to strip her of her humanity.

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Speaker 1: Many other writers and academics slated to attend the event

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Speaker 1: have since pulled out, including Jane Carrow, former political prisoner

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Speaker 1: and journalist, Peter Gresta, and two time Miles Franklin winner

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Speaker 1: Michelle de CRESTA public policy think tank, The Australian Institute,

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Speaker 1: has also withdrawn its support and sponsored events from the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six festival. The situation has been compared to

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Bendigo Writers' Festival, when more than

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Speaker 1: fifty writers and moderators boycotted the event overconcerns its code

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Speaker 1: of conduct would suppressed discussion of Israel's bombardment and starvation

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Speaker 1: of Palestinians in Gaza. In the US, federal immigration officers

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Speaker 1: have shot and wounded two people outside a hospital in Oregon,

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Speaker 1: a day after an officer's shot and killed a driver

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota. The FBI's Portland office said it was investigating

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Speaker 1: an agent involved shooting. Local police say officers were responding

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Speaker 1: when they found two people with apparent gunshot wounds, determining

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Speaker 1: they were injured in the shooting with federal agents. The

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Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security said Border patrol agents were conducting

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Speaker 1: a vehicle stop when the driver weaponites the vehicle before

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Speaker 1: an officer fired a defensive shot. The shooting comes a

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Speaker 1: day after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Thirty seven year old Minneapolis woman Rene Nicole

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Speaker 1: Good was shot by an ICE officer as she trying

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Speaker 1: to drive away on a snowy Minneapolis street on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: The killing has inflamed tensions in the community and is

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Speaker 1: causing friction between state and federal authorities over its investigation.

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Speaker 1: US President Donald Trump has made a wide ranging crackdown

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Speaker 1: on crime and immigration in democratic cities a centerpiece of

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Speaker 1: his second term in office, and members of Ashley Tisdale's

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Speaker 1: allegedly toxic mum group have entered the chat. Days after

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Speaker 1: an ESA penned by Tisdale detailed her having to leave

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Speaker 1: the toxic group was published. Both Meghan Trainer and Mandy

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Speaker 1: Moore have responded. The former Disney star described the group

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Speaker 1: of high profile mums she once belonged to as to

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Speaker 1: high school. Now singer Meghan Trainer has taken to TikTok,

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Speaker 1: posting a mean style video about finding out about the

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Speaker 1: mum group drama, while Mandy Moore took a slightly more

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Speaker 1: subtle approach. The actor has been found singing the praises

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Speaker 1: of Hillary Duff's husband, Matthew Comer. Duff also allegedly part

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Speaker 1: of the group in question, coma who mocked Tisdale's essay

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Speaker 1: online earlier this week. It's left us all pondering the question,

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Speaker 1: can mom talk survive this? That's your evening news headlines.

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Speaker 1: our experts about what to expect in politics, the economy,

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