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

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is Mamma MIA's twice daily

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Speaker 2: news podcast, The Quickie. July one means more than just

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Speaker 2: a new financial year. It also brings a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of new laws, changes to your wallet, and some surprises

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Speaker 2: that might just impact your day to day. Plus why

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Speaker 2: does it always feel like your adult friendships aren't.

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Speaker 3: What they used to be? Before we get there?

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Speaker 2: Hugh's clam Murphy with the latest from the Quickie News

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Speaker 2: room for Tuesday, July one.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Taylor. Hundreds of emergency services personnel are on standby

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Speaker 1: as a huge storm tracks towards regions still recovering from

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Speaker 1: deadly floods. Millions of residents are in the path of

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Speaker 1: a severe low pressure system which is intensifying off the

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Speaker 1: New South Wales north coast. The complex system, also known

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Speaker 1: as a psyclogenesis, is for cast to strengthen today, bringing

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Speaker 1: heavy rain, strong winds and hazardous surf. It's predicted to

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Speaker 1: peak tomorrow from Coff's Harbor all the way south to

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Speaker 1: Beaga and includes a thread of flash flooding for Wallace

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Speaker 1: Lake near Taree, one of the towns hit hard by

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Speaker 1: floods back in May that killed five people. As of

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Speaker 1: this news going to air, there are current warnings in

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Speaker 1: place for tare Newcastle, Gosford, Sydney, Wollongong and Port Macquarie

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Speaker 1: to prepare now for damaging and destructive winds. Anyone in

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Speaker 1: The Israeli military has acknowledged that civilians have been harmed

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Speaker 1: at a distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, saying instructions

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Speaker 1: lifted an eleven week blockade on the region back on

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Speaker 1: May nineteen, allowing limited UN deliveries to resume. More than

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Speaker 1: four hundred Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid. The

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Speaker 1: majority of those were trying to reach sites run by

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Speaker 1: the US backed Gaza Hill Humanitarian Fund or GHF, an

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Speaker 1: which is inherently unsafe. The UN also accused the OPERATION

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Speaker 1: with Hamas. The jury in Sean Diddy Coombs's sex trafficking

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Speaker 1: Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering, conspiracy, and two

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Speaker 1: The former billionaire could be sentenced to life behind bars

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Speaker 1: if convicted on all five counts. Prince William's charity Polo

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Speaker 1: Prince William's charity team said they were not aware of

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Speaker 1: be welcome to this prestigious occasion hosted in the presence

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Speaker 3: Thanks Claire.

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Speaker 2: Next, all the changes you need to know about kicking

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Speaker 3: Maybe like me, July one.

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Speaker 2: To you signals the time to start getting your affairs

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Speaker 2: So let's run through the biggest changes you need to

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Speaker 2: Awards are also being bumped up, so if you're on

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Speaker 2: Superanuation contributions are going up as well. Employers are now

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Speaker 3: Tax cuts are here, but not for everyone.

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Speaker 2: Stage three tax cuts will see most Australians paying less tax,

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Speaker 2: The bulk billing incentive for GPS is increasing, which means

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Speaker 2: This is a big one. Paid parental leave is getting

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Speaker 2: a boost too. From today, parents of children born or

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Speaker 2: twenty four weeks. Even better, that'll increase again next year

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Speaker 2: the first time ever, superannuation will be paid on government

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Speaker 2: funded parental leave. Now, if you'll cast your mind back

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Speaker 2: to the federal election time earlier this year, ALBO promise

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Speaker 4: Indeed, it'll be the very first thing we do if

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Speaker 4: we're re elected next year. It means cutting five and

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Speaker 2: Well, the Prime Minister is making good on that promise.

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Speaker 2: to see the change. From today, new technology will be

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Speaker 2: Using AI powered surveillance cams, authorities will be able to

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Speaker 2: tell if you're using, holding, or even touching your phone

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Speaker 2: bisexual men will be able to donate blood and plasma

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Speaker 2: From July fourteen, Lifeblood is ditching the rule that stops

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Speaker 2: the price of our power bills is likely to go up.

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Speaker 2: In parts of New South Wales, it's bumping up to

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Speaker 2: expect rises up to three point two percent. All in all,

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Speaker 2: some wins and losses across the board to kick off

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Speaker 2: a new financial year. If you've ever found yourself scrolling

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Speaker 2: friends as an adult is hard. Research shows that adult

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Speaker 2: friendships tend to fall apart for a few reasons.

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Speaker 3: We move for work, we.

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Speaker 2: Get busy with kids or partners, or we just don't

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Speaker 2: Social media makes it feel like everyone else is surrounded

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Speaker 2: make new ones. So where are we going wrong? And

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Speaker 2: more importantly, how the hell do we fix it? Mumum

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Speaker 2: me and newswriter Ailish Delaney is on the case, Aileish,

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Speaker 2: what are some of the biggest roadblocks to friendship as

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Speaker 5: The main one is that we're just so busy, So

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Speaker 5: get older because we just don't have enough time, like

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Speaker 5: We get stuck in this catch up trap where when

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Speaker 5: like you're rattling through a list of life updates rather

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Speaker 2: Okay, so there are two different situations going on here,

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Speaker 2: because yes, we're all time poor, and that applies to

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Speaker 2: all friendships, regardless of if they're new or old. But

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Speaker 2: there are two different types. And we are talking about

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Speaker 2: those friends that you've had, maybe since childhood or school,

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Speaker 2: But then there's also the other side of that, which

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Speaker 2: And we know that they are harder to make and

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Speaker 2: even harder to maintain. Is there a reason for that?

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Speaker 5: When you have those friendships through childhood through schooling, you've

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Speaker 5: been through so much together that it's essentially almost like family.

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Speaker 5: You know that they will always be there, whereas with

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Speaker 5: your partner, it can be hard to find situations where

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Speaker 2: Okay, so like beyond trauma bonding at work with your

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Speaker 5: It takes a lot of effort. You really have to

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Speaker 5: be willing to put yourself out there and saying yes.

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Speaker 5: But there are a lot of avenues that people can

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Speaker 5: go down to meet new people. There are so many

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Speaker 5: It is really all about saying yes and kind of

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Speaker 5: To phone calls? Phone calls embraced voice notes. We did

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