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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges

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

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Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Claire Murphy from Mumma MEA's

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Speaker 1: twice daily news podcast, The Quikie with Your Evening Headline.

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Speaker 1: So Friday September nineteen, dawn raids have led to the

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Speaker 1: arrest of seven young men and teenagers over the high

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Speaker 1: profile stabbing deaths of two children in Melbourne. Twelve year

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Speaker 1: old chol Hk and fifteen year old dal Akeng died

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Speaker 1: after being attacked while walking home at Cobblebank in Melbourne's

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Speaker 1: out Northwest on September sixth The pair were ambushed by

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Speaker 1: masked males armed with machetes and other bladed weapons. Another

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Speaker 1: boy walking with the victims after the group watched a

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Speaker 1: basketball game together, managed to escape. Police raided properties in Melton,

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Speaker 1: South Thornhill Park, Caroline Springs, Sunbury Wallet, Hillside and Sidnum

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Speaker 1: on Thursday morning, arresting seven males aged between fifteen and nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Assistant Commissioner Martin O'Brien said the arrests followed almost two

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Speaker 1: weeks of diligent and thorough police work. All seven will

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Speaker 1: now be interviewed by Victoria police detectives. Queensland has become

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Speaker 1: the first Australian state to ban pill testing, with medical

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Speaker 1: experts warning the move could cost lives. The legal crackdown

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Speaker 1: follows state government moves to scrap one point five million

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Speaker 1: dollars in public funding for pill testing services run by

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Speaker 1: Checkpoint pill testing sites, one in Brisbane, the other on

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Speaker 1: the Gold Coast, forcing services to close back in April.

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Speaker 1: The ban passed in state Parliament late Thursday night, making

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Speaker 1: any pill testing operations illegal. Health Minister Tim Nichols said

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Speaker 1: they wanted to make it clear that the Chrysophilly government

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Speaker 1: has a zero tolerance approach to illicit drugs, saying there's

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Speaker 1: no safe way to take illegal drugs and that this

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Speaker 1: government does not support publicly or privately funded pill testing.

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Speaker 1: He claims drug checking services send the wrong message to Queenslanders.

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Speaker 1: Opposition Health spokesperson Sharon Frendman counted the Health Minister's comments

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Speaker 1: saying the benefits of pill testing are life saving, saying

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Speaker 1: that's not me, saying that as a politician it is

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Speaker 1: Queensland's peak medical body. Israeli tanks have advanced along two

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Speaker 1: gateways to the center of Gaza City, while internet and

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Speaker 1: phone lines were cut off for several hours, signaling a

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Speaker 1: potential escalation in ground operations. Israeli forces controlled Gaza City's

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Speaker 1: eastern suburbs and in recent days have been pounding the

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Speaker 1: shag Rudwan and Tel Alhawa areas, from where they would

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Speaker 1: be positioned to advance on central and western areas, where

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Speaker 1: most of the population is sheltering. According to the Territories

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Speaker 1: Health Ministry, at least eighty five Palestinians have been killed

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Speaker 1: by Israeli strikes or gunfire across the Gaza Strip in

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Speaker 1: the past twenty four hours, most in Gaza City. The

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Speaker 1: Israeli military said four of its own personnel had been

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Speaker 1: killed during combat in the south of the Strip. The

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Speaker 1: reactions to Jimmy Kimmel's broadcast suspension have varied from celebration

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Speaker 1: to calls to stand for freedom of speech. While President

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump posted it was great news for America, former

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Speaker 1: President Barack Obama pointed out that the current administration had

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Speaker 1: spent years complaining about cancel culture and that they've now

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Speaker 1: taken it to a new and dangerous level. Kimmel was

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Speaker 1: indefinitely suspended from his late night shih after remarks about

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Speaker 1: the assassination of right wing activists Charlie Kirk. The Maga

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Speaker 1: gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie

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Speaker 1: Kirk as anything other than one of them. Former late

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Speaker 1: night host David Letterman says he feels bad because he

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Speaker 1: says we can all see where this is going, saying

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Speaker 1: it's managed media, it's no good, and that actually it's

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Speaker 1: silly and ridiculous. Brandon Carr, the federal Communications Minister, said

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Speaker 1: local broadcasters have an obligation to serve the public interest

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Speaker 1: and while this may be an unprecedented decision, it's important

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Speaker 1: for broadcasters to push back on programming they determine full

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Speaker 1: short of community values. Conservative podcaster Megan Kelly said that

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Speaker 1: Kimmel got on the air and falsely claimed Charlie Kirk's

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Speaker 1: killer was Maga, essentially smearing an entire movement. Comedian Mike

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Speaker 1: Boiglia called on fellow comedians to support their own and

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Speaker 1: said he'd spend time defending comedians he doesn't agree with,

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Speaker 1: but if they don't call out the insanity of pulling

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Speaker 1: Kimmel off the air, then don't bother spouting off about

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Speaker 1: free speech anymore. Stephen Colbert, whose own talk show will

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Speaker 1: end in twenty twenty six, told The New York Post

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Speaker 1: that with an autocrash referring to US President Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: you cannot give an inch, saying Jimmy, I stand with

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Speaker 1: you and your staff one hundred percent. Kimmel has reportedly

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Speaker 1: been given a list of demands he'll need to meet

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Speaker 1: in order to be allowed to return to hosting the show,

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Speaker 1: including that the ABC hold formal discussions about their commitment

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Speaker 1: to professionalism and accountability, asking for Kimmel to deliver an

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Speaker 1: apology to the Kirk family and to make a meaningful

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Speaker 1: personal donation to the Kirk family and Charlie Kirk's nonprofit,

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Speaker 1: Turning Point USA. That's your latest news headlines. For more

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Speaker 1: from the Quikie, like on Monday, where we'll be looking

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Speaker 1: into the US's long history of its politics, intercepting with

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Speaker 1: its entertainers from McCarthyism to Rosanne and Kimmel. Listen to

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