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Speaker 1: You're listening to another Mere podcast. Good afternoon. I'm Alish

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Speaker 1: Delaney with the latest from the Quickie news room. For Friday,

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Speaker 1: March six, Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi says three Australian defense

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Speaker 1: members were on board a US nuclear submarine that sank

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Speaker 1: an Iranian ship this week. Albanesi insists they sat out

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Speaker 1: the operation, saying the military personnel did not participate in

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Speaker 1: any offensive action against Iran. The submarine struck an Iranian

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Speaker 1: frigate with a torpedo near Sri Lanka as part of

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Speaker 1: the US attacks, which killed eighty seven people. The Australian

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Speaker 1: Defense personnel were on board the submarine as part of

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Speaker 1: a training rotation for the Orchest Security Pact, which will

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Speaker 1: provide Australia with nuclear vessels. A coroner has found a

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Speaker 1: young Canadian backpacker drowned when she was attacked by a

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Speaker 1: pack of dingoes on Queensland's Gari Island. Nineteen year old

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Speaker 1: Piper James told friend she was going for an early

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Speaker 1: morning swim on January nineteen, but never returned. The Coroner's

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Speaker 1: Court of Queensland today confirming her cause of death has

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Speaker 1: been ruled drowning in the setting of multiple injuries due

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Speaker 1: to or as a consequence of a dingo attack. Piper's

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Speaker 1: body was surrounded by a group of about ten dingoes

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Speaker 1: when she died. Eight have since been euthanized. US President

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Christie Nome,

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Speaker 1: two days after she faced a parliamentary inquiry. A former

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Speaker 1: governor of South Dakota, Nome became one of Trump's most

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Speaker 1: high profile cabinet secretaries, overseeing the president's aggressive immigration crackdown.

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Speaker 1: Her social media posts portrayed immigrants in harsh terms, highlighting

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Speaker 1: cases of alleged criminal offenders and using vitriolic language. Nome

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Speaker 1: faced bipartisan criticism and hearings this week over her approach

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Speaker 1: to the immigration crackdown and a multimillion dollar ad campaign.

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Speaker 1: She will leave her role as Homeland Security chief at

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Speaker 1: the end of the month. And it seems actress Emma

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Speaker 1: Watson has a new man in her life. The star

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Speaker 1: was recently spotted kissing billionaire Mexican entrepreneur Gonzalo Heavier Bierres.

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Speaker 1: People reports the pair were first seen together in the

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Speaker 1: French Alps late last year. Watson famously claimed she was

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Speaker 1: self partnered back in twenty nineteen, but later clarified to

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Speaker 1: British Vogue the statement wasn't necessarily about celebrating being single,

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Speaker 1: but taking pride and caring for herself. That's your evening

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Speaker 1: news headlines. On Monday's episode of The Quigie, we look

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Speaker 1: at how safe and how smart is it to travel

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Speaker 1: overseas In twenty twenty six, listen to the Quigi Revery

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Speaker 1: Year your Podcasts, Momma Mea acknowledges the traditional owners of

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