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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumamea 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 2: Hey, I'm Taylor Strado. This is Mumma MIA's twice daily

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Speaker 2: news podcast, The Quickie. Did you know that ninety two

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Speaker 2: percent of women who are sexually assaulted never report it

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Speaker 2: to police and for those who do come forward, up

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Speaker 2: to eighty five percent of cases don't make it to

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Speaker 2: a charge. Now, a landmark report is calling for a

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Speaker 2: complete overhaul of how Australia's justice system handles sexual violence.

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Speaker 2: Before we dive into the details, here's Clare Murphy with

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Speaker 2: the latest from the QUICKI newsroom for Monday March.

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Speaker 1: Ten, Thanks Taylor. Ex Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues to cause

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Speaker 1: flooding as heavy rain lashes parts of southeast Queensland and

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Speaker 1: northern New South Wales. More than two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: Bay north of Brisbane have been cut off by the

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Speaker 1: rising floodwater. With almost two hundred and fifty millimeters of

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Speaker 1: the threat of flash flooding. Fire and Rescue New South

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Speaker 1: Wales Deputy Commissioner Cheryl Steers says the community has worked

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Speaker 1: particularly hard to try and stay as safe as they

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Speaker 3: This has probably been the best coordinated effort that we've

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Speaker 1: Cheryl is again warning anyone thinking of driving into floodwater

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Speaker 1: that it can be deadly. The tiny New South Wales

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Speaker 1: mid North Coast community of Megan losing one of their

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Speaker 1: own sixty one year old Tom Cook, drove his ute

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Speaker 1: the raging water. She says they've had to pull several

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Speaker 3: It was only last night actually that one of our

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Speaker 3: he's fine. Now the rivers we're hoping will start to

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Speaker 1: While the rescues continue, the cleanup has also already begun

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Speaker 1: as Alfred's winds tore roofs off homes and sent to

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Speaker 3: There's been a large scale impact across the northern area

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Speaker 1: As the weather event unfolded over the weekend, two Defense

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Speaker 1: Force trucks collider, with one rolling near Lismo in New

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Speaker 1: South Wales. Thirteen soldiers were injured. The Prime Minister Anthony

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Speaker 1: Albernizi flew into Brisbane yesterday meeting with ADF personnel at

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Speaker 1: As the effects of our Fred making landfall continue, there

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Debbie Plant saying they've received more than eleven thousand

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Speaker 1: Debbie says, for those who are able to still power

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Speaker 5: In one hour today we published thirty different warnings and

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Speaker 5: So what we have learned from this is that using

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Speaker 1: Israel has announced that they're cutting the electricity supply to Gaza,

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Speaker 1: Hammas still holds twenty four living hostages and the bodies

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Speaker 1: latest round of ceasefire talks with mediators in Egypt, they're

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Speaker 1: calling for an immediate start to the CeaseFire's second stage,

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Speaker 1: rather than a continuation of Phase one. West Australians headed

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Speaker 1: Gene Hackman was in an advanced state of Alzheimer's and

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Speaker 1: his wife, Betsy Arakawa died of a rare syndrome spread

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Speaker 1: Arakawa is believed to have died from hantavirus, a rare

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Speaker 2: Thanks Clan Next, What can be done to support survivors

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Speaker 2: delivering a confronting picture of a system that can cause

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Speaker 2: Sexual Violence, makes sixty four recommendations for reform, addressing everything

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Speaker 2: despite decades of reform attempts. Victims and survivors still face

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Speaker 2: when engaging with the justice system. In response, the Albanese

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Speaker 2: The centerpiece of this initial response is the expansion of

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Speaker 2: They provide dedicated legal support to survivors, with lawyers and

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Speaker 2: make it to court. Minister for Women Katie Gallaghurst says

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Speaker 2: focusing on the actions of the accused. This can lead

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Speaker 2: They're also putting one point two million dollars towards extending

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Speaker 2: the alarc's Expert Advisory Group over two years. This money

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Speaker 2: GRIT Group advisors on implementation of the Inquiry report, ensuring

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Speaker 2: Standing Council of Attorneys General. But perhaps the most significant

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Speaker 2: The government has established an expert advisory group, including survivors

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Speaker 2: So while the Albanezy government hasn't officially adopted any of

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