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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Mumma Mea podcast. Hi, I'm Jerma

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Speaker 1: Donna Who With the latest from the Quickie Newsroom for Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: February twenty four. Detectives searching for abductor grandfather Chris Bagsarian

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Speaker 1: have discovered suspected human remains near a golf club in

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Speaker 1: Pittown in Sydney's northwest. The eighty five year old was

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Speaker 1: abducted from his north Ride home on February thirteen in

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Speaker 1: what investigators believe was a case of mistaken identity involving

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Speaker 1: a local crime family. The find follows a massive search

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Speaker 1: effort under Strike Force Chabbat, which previously uncovered a bloodstained

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Speaker 1: carpet in a burnt out car linked to the kidnappers.

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Speaker 1: Police had repeatedly appealed for the safe return of the

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Speaker 1: gentle grandfather, who required daily medication and had no ties

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Speaker 1: to the criminal underworld. While a formal identification is yet

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Speaker 1: to be completed, the discovery marks a grim turn in

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Speaker 1: the investigation as the hunt for mister Bugsarian's captors continues.

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Speaker 1: Nick Rayner, the thirty two year old son of Hollywood

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Speaker 1: legend Rob Rainer and Michelle Singer. Rayner, has pleaded not

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Speaker 1: guilty to two counts of first degree murder. Appearing in

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Speaker 1: an la court room more than two months after his

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Speaker 1: parents were found fatally stabbed in their Brentwood home. Rayner

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Speaker 1: denied the charges. Through a public defender, Nathan Hotchman, said

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Speaker 1: his office had not yet decided whether to seek the

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Speaker 1: death penalty, noting the decision involves a rigorous review of

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Speaker 1: all mitigating circumstances. The case is scheduled to return to

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Speaker 1: court on April twenty nine to set a date for

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Speaker 1: a preliminary evidentiary hearing. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen has referred

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Speaker 1: allegations against Melbourne gynecologist doctor Simon Gordon to police following

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Speaker 1: a four Corners investigation. The report revealed Gordon, who branded

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Speaker 1: himself an endometriosis guru, allegedly performed numerous unnecessary surgeries, including

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Speaker 1: the removal of all Ruggan's, despite pathology results showing little

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Speaker 1: to no disease. Premier Allen emphasized that performing surgery without

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Speaker 1: clinical need is a crime, stating that Victoria demands answers

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Speaker 1: for the impacted women. While the state has stopped short

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Speaker 1: of a separate inquiry safer care, Victoria will join a

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Speaker 1: review panel at the at Worth Private Hospital to investigate

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Speaker 1: clinical governance. Health Minister Mary Anne Thomas also criticized the

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Speaker 1: Medical Regulator APRA for being too slow to act on

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Speaker 1: years of prior complaints. In response, Doctor Gordon, who has

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Speaker 1: since retired, maintained that he only operated when he believed

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Speaker 1: it was in his patient's best interests. Prime Minister Anthony

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Speaker 1: Albanesi has condemned coalition proposal to jail anyone helping Islamic

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Speaker 1: state linked families return to Australia, labeling the plan unconstitutional

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Speaker 1: and a bid for headlines. The federal Opposition intends to

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Speaker 1: introduce legislation in March that would impose up to ten

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Speaker 1: year prison sentences on those facilitating the repreation of isis

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Speaker 1: bride's and their children currently held in Syrian refugee camps.

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Speaker 1: While Opposition leader Angus Taylor argued the move is necessary

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Speaker 1: to shut the door on potential violence, aid agencies like

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Speaker 1: Save the Children warned the policy sets a reckless and

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Speaker 1: dangerous precedent. Mister Albanesi reiterated that while he feels sympathy

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Speaker 1: for the children involved, the government already utilizes temporary exclusion

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Speaker 1: laws and has no immediate plans for further repatriations. The

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Speaker 1: debate has sparked a sharp political divide, with the Greens

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Speaker 1: accusing the coalition of reaching a remarkable low by potentially

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Speaker 1: criminalizing humanitarian assistance. The Australian LGBTQIA plus community is mourning

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Speaker 1: the loss of legendary drag performer Maxi Shield, who has

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Speaker 1: died at age fifty one following a battle with cancer.

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Speaker 1: A veteran of the Sydney s for over twenty five years,

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Speaker 1: Shield gained international fame as a contestant on the first

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Speaker 1: season of RuPaul's Drag Race down Under. Tributes have poured

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Speaker 1: in from figures like Michelle Visage and Sydney MP Alex Greenwich,

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Speaker 1: who remembered her for her immense joy and heart of

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Speaker 1: gold she brought to the stage. Her passing comes at

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Speaker 1: a poignant time for the community, just days before the

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Speaker 1: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Marty Grass Parade. That's your Evening

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Speaker 1: News headlines on Wednesday's episode of The Quickie, where stepping

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Speaker 1: back from the Epstein Files, headlines asking what it all

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Speaker 1: means for the women at the center of the case.

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Speaker 1: With the help of the lawyer who's been fighting for

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Speaker 1: many of them. Listen to the Quickie wherever you get

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