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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma mia 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 Hey, I'm Taylor Strano from Muma MEA's

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Speaker 1: twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines for Thursday,

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Speaker 1: November fourteen, The man accused of killing missing mother Samantha

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Speaker 1: Murphy has pleaded not guilty to murder as he elected

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Speaker 1: to fast track his criminal trial. The fifty one year

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Speaker 1: old mother of three disappeared on February four and despite

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Speaker 1: several police searchers, her body has never been found. Patrick

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Speaker 1: Orn Stephenson faced Ballaride Magistrate's Court on Thursday via video

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Speaker 1: link from prison, the twenty three year old charged with

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Speaker 1: miss Murphy's murder. The victim's husband, Mirck, attended the brief hearing,

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Speaker 1: marking the first time he's attended court in person since

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Speaker 1: his wife's alleged killing. Prosecutor Raymond Gibson Casey informed the

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Speaker 1: court that Stephenson had elected to stand trial in the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court over the murder. It'll mean the accused does

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Speaker 1: not face a committal hearing to test the evidence in

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Speaker 1: the lower court. He'll be reminded in custody to next

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Speaker 1: face the Supreme Court for directions hearing on November twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Stevenson is the son of former AFL player or On Stephenson,

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Speaker 1: who played fifteen games for Geelong and Ridgeman between twenty

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Speaker 1: twelve and twenty fourteen. Miss Murphy was last seen leaving

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Speaker 1: her home on Eureka Street in Ballarat to go for

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Speaker 1: a run on the morning of February four. Police have

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Speaker 1: launched multiple searches in different areas of Bushland to find

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Speaker 1: miss Murphy, a recent search wrapping up in September this year,

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Speaker 1: more than two hundred and fifty kilograms of pink cocaine

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Speaker 1: has been seized in Australia's largest drug bust, involving the

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Speaker 1: potentially deadly cocktail of illicit substances. Police say pink cocaine

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Speaker 1: usually contains a mixture of ketamine MDMA and other substances,

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Speaker 1: rarely actually containing any cocaine. A Sydney man has been

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Speaker 1: charged over the massive hole. The Australian Federal Police estimate

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Speaker 1: it had a potential street value of almost thirty eight

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Speaker 1: million dollars. As the AFP says, an investigation was launched

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Speaker 1: into a transnational drug syndicate in October. A twenty one

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Speaker 1: year old Sydney man has now been arrested and charged

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Speaker 1: with attempting to possess a commercial quantity of an unlawfully

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Speaker 1: imported border controlled drug. It carries a maximum penalty of

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Speaker 1: life imprisonment. AFP Acting Superintendent Stuart Millan said the dangerous

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Speaker 1: illicit drug cocktail endangered the lives of users. He said

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Speaker 1: it's hard to detect the presence of pink cocaine in

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Speaker 1: wastewater as it's usually made up of other drugs and

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Speaker 1: would show results as MDMA and ketamine. Former Neighbours actor

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Speaker 1: Damien Richardson is being investigated by police for allegedly performing

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Speaker 1: a Nazi salute at an event in Melbourne. Richardson, who

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Speaker 1: also appeared in television shows like McLeod's Daughters and Blue Healers,

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Speaker 1: allegedly performed the gesture while addressing a crowd and a

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Speaker 1: National Worker's Alliance in September. Earlier this year. Its reported

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Speaker 1: Neo Nazis were present at the event, Richardson distancing himself

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Speaker 1: from the group, saying he's not a member of their movement.

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Speaker 1: Victoria Police confirm their investigation is ongoing. In a statement

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Speaker 1: to ABC's seven thirty program. It's understood the actor was

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Speaker 1: giving a speech on racial identity and societal change, claiming

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Speaker 1: there was a war on men. Under new laws introduced

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Speaker 1: in October twenty twenty three, the Nazi salute and other

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Speaker 1: hateful gestures are banned from being performed in public and

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Speaker 1: Lady Gaga is set to join the cast of Netflix

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Speaker 1: Smash Hit Wednesday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar

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Speaker 1: and Grammy winner will link up with the team for

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Speaker 1: season two of the show. It's currently in production in Ireland.

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Speaker 1: While details of Gaga's role are being kept under wraps

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Speaker 1: for now, we do know she won't be the only

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Speaker 1: new face in the upcoming season. Steve Buscemi, Billy Pie,

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Speaker 1: Bavy Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor are all noted

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Speaker 1: as new series regulars. Gaga is no stranger to the screen,

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Speaker 1: recently wrapping up press for her new sequel in The

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Speaker 1: Joker franchise. She also has credits across film and television,

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Speaker 1: including for A Star Is Born and American Horror Story.

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Speaker 1: That's Your Latest News. Headlines on tomorrow's episode of The Quikie,

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Speaker 1: The Bloc may have wrapped up. We're just as obsessed

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Speaker 1: as ever we famous homes. What is it about these

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Speaker 1: high profile properties that have us intrigued. We'll find out.

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