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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amama Mia podcast. Hi, I'm Grace Roufrey

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Speaker 1: with the latest from the Quickie Newsroom for Wednesday, March four.

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Speaker 1: Australians stranded in the Middle East are being urged to

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Speaker 1: wait for airlines to issue tickets before heading to airports,

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Speaker 1: as a possible flight from Dubai to Sydney may depart.

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Speaker 1: About twenty four thousand Australians are stuck in the United

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Speaker 1: Arab Emirates, with roughly one hundred and fifteen thousand stranded

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Speaker 1: across the broader region as conflict disrupts air travel. Foreign

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Speaker 1: Minister Penny Wong has warned the situation remains perilous and

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Speaker 1: the flight could be canceled. Limited flights are resuming from

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Speaker 1: the UAE, but most services remain grounded. Wong said commercial

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Speaker 1: flights remain the best option for large scale evacuations, though

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Speaker 1: all alternatives are being considered. The crisis follows US in

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Speaker 1: Israeli strikes in Iran, which Australia backed. Early. Iran has

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Speaker 1: retaliated with drones and missiles targeting regional infrastructure, further DEAs

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Speaker 1: stabilizing the region. Australians in parts of Saudi Arabia have

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Speaker 1: been told to shelter in place, and an Australian defense

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Speaker 1: base in the UAE was reportedly hit in an Iranian attack.

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Speaker 1: Israel has sent troops into southern Lebanon an ordered residents

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Speaker 1: of more than eighty villages to evacuate, as Iran backed

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Speaker 1: Hesbela declared it was ready for an open war. The

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Speaker 1: escalation followed HESBELA rocket and drone attacks on northern Israel.

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Speaker 1: Israel responded with airstrikes that killed fifty people in Lebanon,

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Speaker 1: including seven children and a HESBELA intelligence official, and wounded

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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty five, displacing tens of thousands. Around

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand people are sheltering and collective centers, with many

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Speaker 1: others sleeping in cars or by the side of the road. Further,

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Speaker 1: Israeli strikes hit Bay Route's southern suburbs, targeting HESBLA officials

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Speaker 1: and damaging the group's media offices. Israel says its troops

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Speaker 1: movements aimed to strengthen border security, while Lebanon's army has

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Speaker 1: repositioned forces along the border. Hesbela says it has no

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Speaker 1: option but to fight. Meanwhile, more than ten thousand people

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Speaker 1: crossed from Lebanon inter Syria in a single day, fleeing

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Speaker 1: the violence here, Afternoon host Kent Smolsey Small has stamped

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Speaker 1: in to host the Breakfast radio Show, telling listeners the

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Speaker 1: show must go on. After the shock collapse of the

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Speaker 1: Kyle and Jackie oh Show. Jackie Jackie O Henderson has

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Speaker 1: quit the pair's two hundred million dollar ten year contract

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Speaker 1: following an on air clash with Kyle Sandaland's telling aarn

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Speaker 1: she could no longer work with him. Sandalands has been

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Speaker 1: issued a fourteen day breach notice for serious misconduct and

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Speaker 1: has been taken off air, with his contract to be

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Speaker 1: terminated if the breach isn't remedied. Smallsey confirmed he is

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Speaker 1: not permanently replacing either host, but speculation is mounting over

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Speaker 1: who will anchor a new Breakfast lineup. Dark skies are

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Speaker 1: rapidly disappearing, with artificial light pollution now so widespread that

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Speaker 1: more than a third of the world's population, which is

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Speaker 1: two point eight billion people, can no longer see the

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Speaker 1: Milky Way from where they live. In much of Europe

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Speaker 1: and North America, truly dark skies have almost vanished as

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Speaker 1: expanding cities and the surge in blue rich led lighting

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Speaker 1: brighten the night at an accelerating rate. Researchers say sky

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Speaker 1: brightness has been increasing by nearly ten percent a year

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Speaker 1: in some regions, meaning each generation sees significantly fewer stars

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Speaker 1: than the last, a shift that not only eraises a

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Speaker 1: shared human experience, but also disrupts ecosystems and human health.

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Speaker 1: That's your evening news headlines. On Thursday's episode of The Quickie,

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Speaker 1: the Victorian labor government wants to give workers a legal

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Speaker 1: right to work from home for two days a week

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Speaker 1: if their job can reasonably be done remotely. We sit

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Speaker 1: down with premieeres sin to Alan to talk through the

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Speaker 1: pros and cons of the move. Listen to The Quickie

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