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

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Speaker 1: traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is

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Speaker 1: recorded on Hi. I'm Ailish Delaney from Mummamea's twice daily

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Speaker 1: news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Wednesday, March twelve,

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Speaker 1: Sunshine has broken through for the first time in days

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Speaker 1: for those facing a mammoth clean up after widespread destruction

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Speaker 1: from a deluge of rain from ex tropical Cyclone Alfred.

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Speaker 1: Brisbane City Council has set up more than one hundred

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Speaker 1: and ninety temporary waste spin sites across the city where

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Speaker 1: the severe weather has impacted regular curb side waste collections.

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Speaker 1: More than fifty thousand homes and businesses remain without power.

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Speaker 1: Down from a peak of four hundred and twenty thousand.

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Speaker 1: Students at more than one hundred schools across Southeast Queensland

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Speaker 1: State home today as assessments were carried out for damage.

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Speaker 1: The state government's emergency Planning declaration to support food, medicine

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Speaker 1: and essential supplies getting into stores has been expanded as

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Speaker 1: natural disaster recovery efforts continue at both ends of the day.

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Speaker 1: The Bureau of Meteorology says No further significant rainfall is

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Speaker 1: forecast for the remainder of the week, with some light

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Speaker 1: coastal showers possible. Several flooding warnings have been downgraded, but

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Speaker 1: moderate risk remains on the Logan, Richmond, Clarence and Orava

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Speaker 1: rivers spanning Queensland and New South Wales. Many areas are

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Speaker 1: still cut off as the focus shifts to recovery efforts

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Speaker 1: in areas where water has subsided. More young people will

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Speaker 1: be kept behind bars under the toughest bale laws in Australia.

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Speaker 1: After heavy pressure to act on crime, Victoria's bail legislation

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Speaker 1: will undergo reform amid mountain community anger about rising crime,

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Speaker 1: including aggravated burglaries and car thefts. The changes include scrapping

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Speaker 1: remand as a last resort for accused youth offenders, and

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Speaker 1: denying bail to anyone accused of committing a serious offense

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Speaker 1: if they're already on bail for a similar offense. Males

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Speaker 1: in their mid to late teens make up sixty four

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Speaker 1: per cent of alleged aggravated burglary offenders, with the government

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Speaker 1: aiming to target these younger serious offenders premier decent to ours.

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Speaker 1: Allen says it will be a jolt to the system

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Speaker 1: that will see a crackdown on the worst of crimes

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Speaker 1: and the worst of reoffending. Australia's biggest retirement fund, Australian Super,

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Speaker 1: is facing court action after families had to wait years

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Speaker 1: to get their dead relatives money. The corporate regulator is

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Speaker 1: suing the fund for allegedly failing to process the claims efficiently,

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Speaker 1: honestly and fairly. Between July twenty nineteen and October twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleges Australian

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Speaker 1: Super took anywhere between four months and four years to

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Speaker 1: assess almost seven thousand death benefit claims. In one case,

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Speaker 1: Acid claims the fund took more than three years to

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Speaker 1: make a payment despite having all the information required. Australian

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Speaker 1: Super says it's considering Assex's claim and will respond in

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Speaker 1: due course, claiming the pandemic clogged its processing systems. An

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Speaker 1: Australian man with heart failure has become the first person

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Speaker 1: in the world to walk out of a hospital with

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Speaker 1: a total artificial heart implant. The patient, a man in

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Speaker 1: his forties, volunteered to be the first Australian RESCS scipient

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Speaker 1: of a bivercre total artificial heart implant in November as

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Speaker 1: a stop gap until a donor heart became available. The

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Speaker 1: Australian researchers and doctors behind the operation say the implant

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Speaker 1: was an unmitigated clinical success after the man lived with

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Speaker 1: the device for more than one hundred days before receiving

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Speaker 1: a donor heart transplant in early March. Doctors hope the

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Speaker 1: biver Core could one day be a permanent replacement for

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Speaker 1: a failing heart. That's your latest news headlines. On tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: episode of The Quikie, we're exploring our complicated relationship with Time.

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Speaker 1: Plus Emelia Lester joins us for another Trump Day. Listen

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