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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mummamea 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 Nicole Madigan from Mummamea's twice daily

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Speaker 1: news podcast, The Quickie with your Headlines for Tuesday, April

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Speaker 1: twenty two. The Pope's Australian like informality and love of

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Speaker 1: the people are being remembered as millions of Catholics mourned

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Speaker 1: the Pontiff's passing. The eighty eight year old's death on

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Speaker 1: Monday after a recent serious health battle was marked by

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Speaker 1: tolling church bells and preparations for scores of memorial masses

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Speaker 1: for the Catholic leader. Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher, who

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Speaker 1: met Francis about twenty times, described the Pope as very

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Speaker 1: easy to talk to and almost like an Australian in

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Speaker 1: terms of his informality. Many mourners attended early masses at

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Speaker 1: local cathedrals following the Pope's passing. Prime Minister Anthony Albanzi,

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Speaker 1: who is Catholic, says the major party leaders had agreed

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Speaker 1: to dial back election campaigning today as a sign of respect.

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Speaker 1: National flags on government buildings will fly at half mast

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Speaker 1: today to honour the laid Pope. An open letter from

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Speaker 1: sixty Australian economists has rejected the coalition's nuclear energy plan,

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Speaker 1: promoting instead the subsidizing of household clean energy policies, including

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Speaker 1: incentives for home battery storage. The economists, from a range

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Speaker 1: of Australian universities and other tertiary institutions, say the construction

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Speaker 1: of nuclear power plans would take at least fifteen years

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Speaker 1: at a cost of at least three hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: billion dollars, resulting in higher household energy costs and draining

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Speaker 1: investment away from renewable energy and energy intensive manufacturing. Instead,

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Speaker 1: they say they support a nationwide program to upgrade homes

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Speaker 1: and industry with clean, renewable energy. Those technologies should include

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Speaker 1: large scale home electrification with smart appliances to deliver bill savings,

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Speaker 1: also upgrades to energy efficiency and battery storage which can

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Speaker 1: save surplus solar for nighttime use, and hot water retrofits

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Speaker 1: for more efficient water heating. The economists say their pathway

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Speaker 1: would be anti inflationary due to less resilience on volatile

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Speaker 1: international gas markets, and would benefit Australian manufacturing, which requires

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Speaker 1: low cost, secure electricity. The coalition's nuclear plan proposes to

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Speaker 1: build seven nuclear reactors, with the first of these not

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Speaker 1: operational until twenty thirty five. Investors tormented by weeks of

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Speaker 1: tariff turmoil will hope for a quiet return from Easter

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Speaker 1: as mortgage holders ii a rate cut on the horizon.

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Speaker 1: Stocks in Australia and the US have clawed background in

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Speaker 1: the past fortnight after US President Donald Trump hit pause

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Speaker 1: on most elements of his trade war, but continued uncertainty

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Speaker 1: and the tariff story only half told means it's too

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Speaker 1: early to say the low in U S, Global and

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Speaker 1: Australian shares has been passed, says AMP Capital Chief economist

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Speaker 1: Shane Oliver, who pointed to renewed fears the White House

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Speaker 1: might start to threaten the independence of the Federal Reserve.

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Speaker 1: Underlying inflation figures released last week were lower than expected

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Speaker 1: in Canada, the UK and New Zealand. Eyes will be

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Speaker 1: on Australia's next set of quarterly numbers on April thirty

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Speaker 1: Amid expectations, underlying inflation has fallen back inside the Reserve

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Speaker 1: Bank's target band. The annual rate leapt out of the

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Speaker 1: two to three percent range in early twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: triggering twelve rate rises in thirteen months. Along with amp

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Speaker 1: nab is tipping trimmed, mean inflation has eased to two

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Speaker 1: point eight percent. That will help set the scene for

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Speaker 1: a rate cut at the Reserve Bank's May twenty meeting.

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Speaker 1: A jury of seven women and five men has been

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Speaker 1: picked for Harvey Weinstein's me Too rapeery trial, a more

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Speaker 1: female panel than the five women and seven men who

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Speaker 1: convicted him at his first trial five years ago. Drawn

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Speaker 1: from Manhattan's jury pool, the twelve members of the jury

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Speaker 1: include a psychie's researcher, a photographer, a dietitian, an investment

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Speaker 1: bank software engineer, and a retired city social worker. After

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Speaker 1: nine jurors were picked last week, three others and five

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Speaker 1: alternates were tapped on Monday during a marathon fourth day

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Speaker 1: of jury selection. They and other prospective jurors were quizzed

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Speaker 1: about their backgrounds, life experiences, and various other points that

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Speaker 1: could relate to their ability to be fair and impartial

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Speaker 1: about the highly publicized case. Potential jurors had been questioned

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Speaker 1: privately about their knowledge of the case and opinions about Weinstein.

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Speaker 1: Some people were excused as a result, Weinstein is being

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Speaker 1: tried again on rape and sexual assault charges after New

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Speaker 1: York's highest court last year overturned his twenty twenty conviction

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Speaker 1: and twenty three year prison sentence. The Court of Appeals

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Speaker 1: found his trial had been tainted by improper rulings and

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Speaker 1: prejudicial testimony. The seventy three year old is pleaded not

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Speaker 1: guilty and denies raping or sexual assaulting anyone. That's your

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